Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-25
End of & Famous Will Case.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

An Indian Clerk in the Interior Depart
 ment-NIails for British Columbia-A Remonstrance Presented to Secretary
 kirkwood-Other Matters.
 WASHINGTON, June 24.-Secretary Kirk
 wood has appointed a brother of Bright
 Eyes, to clerkship in the Interior depart
 ment to familiarize him with Indian affairs
 so that after he has become acquainted he can be utilized as an Indian agent.
 In the Supreme Court here to-day the ap- peal case of Samuel A. Perry, negro who was the principal agent in inducing negroes of North Carolina to emigrate to Indiana prior to the late Presidential election, was called up for hearing. The facts are these The Governor of North Carolina made a re- quisition upon the proper authorities of the District for the rendition of Samuel A. Perry, negro indicted in North Carolina for the crime of forgery. The accused was surren- dered upon the acquisition, but before his removal by the agent of the State hn6e0s corpus was served out before Judge Wylie, who discharged him. Thereupon R. T. Mer- rick, counsel for the State of North Carolina, brought the case to the general term on ap- peal. The case is expected to develop an in teresting history of the negro exodus.
 The superintendent of foreign mails gives 1 notice that on and after July 1st next corre- spondence from the United States for the On1GeQ states or COiOmD1a, WHICH QaS O0- clared it's adhesion to the Paris convention of the Universal Postal Union, will be subject to the postal charges and treatment applica- ble to correspondence exchanged by mail with other postal union countries. Mails for the United States of Colombia are made up and dispatched from New York and San Fran cisco postofices and correspondence for Co.,
 lombia posted at other United States post offices should be forwarded either to New
 York or San Francisco as may be most expe-
 ditious.
 The investigation into the organization of
 the Postoffice department by the Postmaster Generals special committee shows that not
 withstanding only fourteen thousand dollars were appropriated during the current year for temporary clerks, appointments were
 made under the late administration against that appropriation to the amount of eighteen thousand dollars, plain violation of the law. Secretary Kirkwood has received copy of the resolutions adopted by mass meeting of citizens at Fort Smith, Ark, in regard to the recent attempt of the Choctaw nation to en- force the law assessing very high tax upon all white persons without Indian rights resld- ing carrying on trade renting lands with in the territorial limits of the nation and containing provisions virtually amounting to expulsion of white people now in the terri tory who are interlopers or intruders. They l implore the Secretary to take such steps in behalf of these people as in his judgment he
 may deem proper and necessary to postpone 1 the enforcement of the law in question until
 the present growing crop is gathered. The Secretary pressed on one side by the Indian 1 authorities to expel the alleged intruders, and on the other solicited by whites to prevent
 such expulsion, in view of the uncertainty of | inc law in the premises, has referred the matter to the Attorney General for his opin- l ion Until such opinion is received, Secre- ! tary Kirkwood telegraphed Agent Tufts to 1 request Governor McCurtain to suspend &C., | tion in reference to the permit laws.