Show BY 1 4 AMERICAN amerl AMERI AM CAN 27 the is Boyn tons reply to Sher shermans mans letter to tile tiie hon alexander hainsey llam Hain say SV secretary of war sir I 1 have the honor to acknowledge the courtesy of your note of yesterday copies of various official endorsements upon the tile charge and specifications preferred against gen W F sherman for 1 conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman and also of your note of the dinst informing me of tile the final action ot of the president in the matt matar r I 1 notice that general sherman admits tile tiie right of a catiz citizen on to prefer these charges cli cil arges in which his liis opinion lon bon agrees with the thip rulings of the judge judg ge ad advocate vo gene Genc generals rals rais office 1 notice further that general sherman instead of availing himself of the opportunity ex extended tended to him of exercising his right to ask for a military court in in which the gross charges which he publicly made against my character should bo be tested and where the advantages would be altogether on ili his side lie he sets forth various reasons why proceedings should be had instead before a civil tribunal as the only trial which is right and proper general sherman also declines when this opportunity is offered ered him to ask that the character of his ills me over which lie forced the pending controversy be submitted ed to a m military fl tary tany court in which alone they can be effectively teste dand takes the tho some somewhat novel ground that thu tho rightful tribunal to try specifications relating to this uin branch of the subject is an army reunion on the other land hand the president who has authority to order a court under such circumstances as atten attend d this case caso whether an accused officer does or does not desire it has decided that ci civil elvil 19 1 l remedies are ample that the civil courts are open for the trial ot tho the th 0 crime of slander and libel is pat a matter of doubt as to need a high official decision but my attempted proceeding recognized by both the judge advocate general and by general sherman shelman himself as legal for the military offense of conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman ll 11 an offense not known to the civil courts by the presidents decision no military officers will hete hereafter injure his army standing at least during kheterin the tho terin term of this administration by denouncing any nuy citizen through the public press in lan lau language guage of the foulest abuse even ollough he repeat tin this s language to the president in official form against a decision which justifies this construe tiou I 1 as a citizen most respectfully protest while this decision in its terms is as broad as the army the high sense of honor which always actuates the great body of its officers render it certain that the presidents indulgence will be rarely if ever needed by any officer below its I 1 I 1 general thanking the secretary of war var for his courtesy from first to last of this business I 1 1 am very res respectfully your obedient servant signed H V bovis tos toy ithe treasury department has revoked the arder of november 30 1879 prohibiting the ibe importation tat lan of meat cattle from canada the war department is informed that wat douglass douglas the ute recently dc do livere dup has been taken to the military prison at Leavenworth Fort to be kept until the cases of the prisoners are decided two other prisoners jim johnston and thomas thomass together with general adams and tho those ae of the utes who went from here liere to secure the delivery of tho the prisoners are en on route for this city united states consul bradford writes that there seems no hope for the tile english farmer except in a large reduction of rents while wheat can be carried from chicago to LI liverpool I 1 for almut 45 one c ii hundred pounds the senate committee on territories today to day gave an audience representatives of tile tiie cherokee Cne afi nation in in opposition to the bill providing for the establishment of a united states court in the indian terri T tory and for other purposes the move to abolish the two third rule in the democratic convention is char charged g ed by the demo brats here liere to have havo a v e or originated with tilden they claim h he has been at work in tile the states where the democrats cannot hope to obtain an electoral vote and if he can get rid of or the two third rule he can secure secure votes enough from such states to insure his nomination no one here union among the democrats doubt that lie he la Is now busy devising means to force his nomination SAN FRANCISCO 27 the unemployed held another meeting on the sand lots this afternoon and were addressed by kalloch who told them while their grievance was waa real and their talk for the most part sensible yet the continuation of such gatherings only afforded an opportunity lort fort port hugitz unity for the utterance erance arance of ill timed expressions likely to retard rather lather than advance the objects hi in view he suggested that a judicious committee be appointed appoint hd with whom ho he would freely confer and report progress if any made in the way of relief meantime the tile meetings had better be dispensed with subject to the call of such committee this was satisfactory to the crowd and no more meetings will be held at it present the boelen bulletin this afternoon publishes a card from the mayor of the city which gives ires ives an account odthe of the present excitement the tile grounds of misrepresentations aud misunderstanding of parties panties and says that when the board of health declared chinatown a nuisance nu lancea a cry was as raised that there would be slaughter and bloodshed As a matter ot of fact the workingmen Vor kingmen were satisfied with the action of the board of health and would wait to see it properly improperly carried out but the cry of a vigilance committee had been raised and sand lot anger the city had been thrown into a needless agitation he ue held the six six companies and the chronicle mainly res response ble he hd closed by y saying til at neither his own utterances nor kearneas Kear nor the speakers of the tile sand lots are to be understood as the voice of tho the working mens party which only may be heard through clubs speaking in union and enilio emphasized 1 n by tile the ward board of presidents pre si ST LOUIS 27 the bost post dispatch publishes an interview with albert carlin a leading socialist and editor editon of the volk lemme an organ of the workingmen in which he says he will start next week on a three months trip to all the principal cities in the kast east aas and west to agitate the labor question before the trade unions and assist in more thoroughly organizing the workingmen of the country this action he says gays is not to bring about a general strike of workingmen at present but to prepare prepare for the future the opinion he says is general amon among the intelligent workingmen 0 that the he excessive speculation at present resent so rife will produce a general crash in from one to two tivo yearb years when an attempt will be made to force wages down again to the lowest possible point and to meet this condition of things the workingmen by py organizing now will be united throughout the die country and able ablia to th successfully resist rest all such on the part of the employers he further says saya the national working mens convention is to bo be held in in une unc and will probably nominate J jno no S swinton of the new now york sun for president and dennis kearney for vice president NEW YORK 27 herbert herbort burrell I 1 and lind andrew B coombs who leff lefe e ft boston on the ath of july in a small decked boat for melbourne proceeded no further on their voyage than a small fishing village twenty miles north of bahal when they were compelled to land in distress they reached here today to day in the steamer city jo f paris the secretary of the tiie navy has ordered a survey of the tile united state states ship constellation at the 13 brooklyn rooklyn navy yard preparatory to putting the he vessel into commission for carrying supplies to ireland san antonio texas 27 the indians de predating the mexican border are merciless apaches they undoubtedly belong to the reservations in new mexico san francisco 27 dr H H toland one of the most prominent mell men of the stame state died di M today to day of apoplexy 7 Litt little lellock nock pock 27 governor miller late last night res cited tile the sentence of ideath of bf thos edwards edwardg to await awalt tw e appeal to mothe kilp supreme court james howard was hung at ozark araa lin county today to day st imis rouis 2 27 editors lide hyde and mccullagh had a street encounter today to day over the loss of the national convention hyde said ISI iki mccullagh CCUllagh was a dirty little dog and would stab his brother in the back friends interfered NEW YORK yom 28 A panama steamer brings the following intelligence the peruvian admiral ISI lyl Monte ontero rohns has hns officially notified the foreign consuls and naval commanders 1 that the chilian blockade kofl of arice ahnee is ineffective and that it cannot be maintained in accordance with the principles of international law i the chilian cl mifflan squadron has destroyed the guano launches and platforms of island in independencia cia ba bay the tho strength of tho the chilian Chilia army narmy is estimated at from to including the reserve in chili chill tile the small pox is reported as making havoc among the invading forces A dispatch dated calla callao cailao feb 4 says we ve are without improvement to toW port in airs articles of daily consumption have increased creak qed sed considerably in price MEADVILLE david pearson aged died suddenly greenville miss Aliss 28 A defective boiler in gills saw mill blair ville colony exploded killing two whites and one negro and wounding several others whitewater vis vla wis via 28 A remarkable mar kabler matrimonial event was 8 the marriage last evening of tho triplet daugh daughters teis of william marshall all the six have gone on a tour war NM NEW V On ORLEANS LEANS 18 there are apprehensions regarding C the rapid rise of the river A portion of the levee below red eed river landing lias has gone into the water the commissioners sio ners witha large force have gone to the point of danger belleville ill ili 28 e dr john B patrick has been b ce na arrested ted for bas tardy jon on complaint of a coal miners dati daughter gl ite ter s neb NA 28 A terrible night fight occurred cu re atair bates schoolhouse near seward it was the result of an old feud win bates was killed and simon bates wounded two awo wounded alia aliw AIrA 28 this afternoon a special e train arrived ir rived here from san ban francisco encisco having nv oit board emigrants bound east cast they having taken advantage of the 35 rate to new yew york among them were about 50 chinese occupying about one car more emigrants will pass through tomorrow to morrow afternoon nates bates schoolhouse schoolhouse four and a half miles north of esward was last night the scene of a vindictive and bloody quarrel in which one man lost his life and several others were seriously wounded there had been preaching g in the schoolhouse school house and at the conclusion of the meeting two of the participants on engaged garred jn in a scuffle which soon developed frito into a general fighter figh fight tei tea some 15 laor or 20 pistol shots were f fired one of which mortally wounded wm bates in the I 1 Z wh ollas since died four others were seriously injured by pistol shots clubs dother ad an weapons were also freely used by those engaged in the fight tiie the only cause for this fatal and lamentable occurrence is a neighborhood feud growing out of the tee district school directorship mr washington 28 the tho senate committee on indian affairs at a long special meeting today to day agreed to report for passage of the original bill designed to cover the entire range of the indian question by the enactment of various new provisions based upon the general principle that the united states should in a great measure abandon the policy of treating indians as children and place them as speedily as possible upon the footing of citizens the main features of the plan outlined by the committee are first permanent localization of indians by allotting homes homesteads feas teas to 0 them in severalty severally with the provision that the lands bands so allotted allot ted shall shail be absolutely inalienable during a period of 25 pears second extension over the indiana of general civil and criminal laws laa of the united united states and of the respective states and territories within whose border they are located third continuance of a certain degree of assistance to them by th the e government in the line of progress toward citizenship until they become ome rel eel s f by means of abric agric agricultural tind and P pastoral occupations it is not proposed by the tile committee to control of the indiana thea thet war department but the aill arill largely divest the interior department of discretionary power in regard to indians by placing them individually under the control of the ike country general laws the provis provisions ons of the bill are to apply to the nive five civilized tribes of the indian territory its details will be subjects for consideration at future meetings col brooks acting commissioner of indian affairs si said sald all wll the tribes e except lile tho llie the utes and lemkis are p on reservations and cap eap capable ablia of supporting themselves by means of agriculture 0 and stock raising the special committee inquiring into the matter of the removal of tho the doncas to the indian territory and into the tho declarations of the tiie ponease find that they hover hoxer signed a paper asking to be removed Int into atilo the tho indian territory and were informed by bright eyes that tho the doneas know in ing nothing of white mens geography pi were at the time of signing the document utterly ignorant of the location or even the existence of the indian territory that morgan the tiie interpreter was an omaha indian equally ignorant upon that subject that neither he or the doneas had any word in their language corresponding to the word territory and could only peak speak of it in their language as the indian country or reservation that when morgan asked them as to their willingness to remove to the tile indians indiana country or reservation they understood him to liean mean reservation of if indians indiana with whom for years they had been talk taik ing of uniting their fortunes tile the they therefore signed the document which they supposed to be a petition for removal to tile the omaha reservation but which was wa really a petition for removal to tile tiie indian territory afterwards th they ey made a treaty of peace with the sioux and reconsidered that action netlon deciding to remain on their own re serve and did so 0 until they were forcibly removed the washington creditor creditors of jay cooke co received through 1 I 1 I 1 d ay 1 s mail a large printed pamphlet containing a descriptive catalogue of th the e s stocks tink 8 bonds western lands bands town lots ot etc eta belonging to the estate of the bankrupts under the terms and provisions of the plan for closing the estate approved last latt september A sale of all these assets will begin in philadelphia on the of march and continue continuo daily dalls until th the ond und oc ula uia catalogue the list of stocks and bonds alone fills over seven pages there are seven seveno several d valuable pieces of landed property in pennsylvania and ohio including the celebrated ogontz estate and and und tha island of gibraltar in put in bay day the description of township lands in iowa kansas missouri sin and minnesota |