Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-10
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
FOLGER AND HIS DEPUTY AT
OUTS.
Mackey's Cream ColOred WIfe-The
Georgia Judgeship-FIOFfda EadIan
War CIaims-The Star Route Jury.

War CIatms-The Star Route Jury.
WASHINGTON, June e.-There is an anomaly
in the Treasury Department. 1t is in the per
son Of John c. New. the First Assistant Secre-
tary. None of the more important offices of
any OF the departments have a very great
amount Of work ent lied upon the occupants
thereof. The Office now held by New has been
an exception to this general rule in the past.
The Secretary has generally thrown much of
the executive work of the department upon
his First Assistant; that official has conse-
quently generally been a pretty busy man.
Not so with New He would like to be a busy
man, but is not given the opportunity by Sec
retary Folger. Foiger did not want New to be
given the place. His first choice was a Demo-
crat of Geneva, New York, a fellow -townsm an
Of Folgers He could not be given the
place. Folger then advocated another man,
who did not have much politics in him. Ar
thur had to give the place to New, the most un-
acceptable to Folger of all the men who had
been urged for 1t. The consequence shows
itself in that Folger does not trust any work to
New, or contde in him in the least. New SIM
ply sits on his chair from a m. until D. M ,
and draws his salary. He does nothing more
He does not influence the appointment of even
laborer In the department The circum-
stances which led to News appointment show
how the civil service is run. New helped to
steal Indiana last fall He thought his con-
'picuous efforts in that direction entitled him
to seat in Garfeld's Cabinet. He did not get
it. When Arthur came in he made a break to
be Minister to Austria which he also failed
to get He then took a tumble, and
pushed for the Assistant Secretaryship of the
Treasury, which he got solely because he
helped to carry Indiana by the use of much
big money. 1t is no wonder that Secretary
Folger ignores an official appointed as New
was and against his expressed protest
THE INDIAN WAR CLAIM OF FLORIDA.
Secretary Of War Linco'n has just sent to the
House OF Representatives a report in regard to
the claim of Florida for the suppression of
Indian hostilitieS between the years 1855 and
1880 The report says:
"From data afforded by the records of the
War Department aud executive pub ications of
the State OF Florida. the history of the aft sirs
that caused the expenditures set forth in the
claim now under consideration appears as
follows:
Military operations in Florida during the
years 1855. 1856 and 1857 extended over an area
OF q, 400 square miles. and were against ninety
eight hostile warriors The forces engaged
were as follows:
81. Regulsr troops numbered e4n in 1855: e66
for first nine months of 1856; 1,756 from Octo
the remaining four months of 1857.
'2. Volunteers called ou& and mustered into
the service of the United States (none in 1885,
32l in 1856; 1,164 in 1857
''3 Militia forces called out by the State au-
thorities for short periods of service between
December 1, 1855 and January, 1857.
'December z, 1855. Lieutenant Hartsuff. of
the Second Artillery, with two non-commis-
stoned officers and eight privateS, left Fort
Myers. Florida, to reconnoiter the Big Cypress
swamp and its neighborhood. During the pre-
vious winter he had repeatedly passed alone
or with an escort OF one man, over the very
same ground. and the Indians had given no ev-
idence Of hostile disposition. Between the
date of its departure from Fort Myers and the
Goth OF the same month Lieutenant Hartsuff's
party visited manv places which had been oc-
cupied by Indians in previous years, and from
signs of abandonment discovered came to the
conclusion that the Indians had left the coun-
try. with the exception of a few stragglers.
and had gone probably to the seaboard On
the last named date, when encamped about
three miles north of Billy's Town, on an island
covered with dwarf palmettos. and before
breakfast, whilst preparing for a march. was
attacked by party OF indians whose number
was estimated to be from twenty five to fifty
The Lieutenant and three of his men were
four men were killed and three men
escaped.
Indian hostilties prior to and at the time
above specified were anticipated by the State
authorities.
Immediately succeeding the surprise and
defeat OF Lieut.. Hartsuff. much uneasiness
was exhibited among the frontier settlements
officials connected with the Indian
service, and the United States PoStmasterS, as
well as the citizens whose lives and property
were in danger. seem to have unitedly suggest
ed the employment of volunteer troops and
the forcible removal or destruction of the
Indians These facts are shown in the voum-
nous correspondence then had upon the sub
ject, some Of which accompanies this report
ION January 3, 1856, the Secretary Of War
wrote to Captain Casey, of the army, then on
Indian service in Florida
1.-THE occurrence of actual hostilities COM
menced by the Seminole Indians suspends all
instructions heretofore given with view to
effect the peaceable removal of those l. ndians'
ION the 18th, following, he authorized the
employment in United States service of five
companies of volunteers. Under this authority
four companies were received into the United
States service-two on February 18th, one on
MSrch list, and one on March 10th, 1856; and
from the time last mentioned until May, 1885,
some four or five companies of volunteers were
continued in the said service. and we're paid
and supplied as were regular troops
Before the organizations were received into
the United States service, however, they, with
o'her bodies of men, had been accepted bv the
Governor, and had been actively employed as
militia companies in the service of the State.
"Of some Of these organizations the depart
meDt commander, Colonel Munroe, wrote to
the Governor, January 12 1856. that
&" The State volunteers, under Captains Ken
drick and Johnston and Lieutenant Kendrick
performed their thirty days service south of
the CalooSahatchee and in the Everglades,
with much credit to themselves; and thew have
been spoken off by the United States officers
with whom they we're associated on their tour
in the most favorable manner
''Tf1ls communication of January -, 1855,
seems to be first recognition had through any
United States official of services rendered by
the militia after the surprise in December
1885 The companies above mentioned as those
OF Captains Kendrick and Johnston and Lieut.
Kendrick were in the militia service Of the
State st the time, and did not become United
States Volunteers until later period -
Taking all matters into consideration the re-
port finds that Florida should be paid S224,-
64s O9 for her aid in suppressing the Indian
outbreaks. This amount is less by S54 985 58
than that of the claims submitted by the
state. or the amount recommended $11 ,316 81
is for payment of troops for service lS49,
and S6,270 "a for the payment of two compa-
MES in cases where both muster and pay rolls
are missing.
THE STAR ROUTE JURY.
The officers under the Attorney General are
an inquiry into the organization of
the present jury. There is one man on the Jury
named Murray, who, it is charged was gotten
On it by carelessness or bribery. He seems to
have been in with the star route thieves in the
past The way he got on the jury was thus: