Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1883 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Grand Jury of the District of Colombia has found another indictment against Gen. Thomas J. Brady, formerly Second Assistant Postmaster General, for frauds in connection with the star mail route between Socorro, New Mexico, and Silver City. The indictment was fonnd upon the evidence of John A Walsh, J. B. Price, and others The last scene of the star-route farce has been completed. Rerdell, who had pleaded guilty and tamed State’s evidence, came into court the other day, accompanied by Messrs Merrick and Ker, of counsel for the prosecution, and asked permission to withdraw his original plea Judge Wylie allowed it to be done, and stated that, as the other star-route operators had been acquitted, one man could not be held guilty of conspiracy. A nolle pros was accordingly entered, and Rerdell retired The Court of Alabama Claims has decided that British subjects living in the United States and sailing on the high seas under the American flag during the rebellion are entitled to compensation for losses suffered from Confederate privateers Washington telegram: The fate of the Republican party and the destiny of the country, according to Some of Dorsey’s friends, seems to depend upon his action or forbearance with respect to a lot of dynamite correspondence which he cla'ms to have received as, Secretary of the Republican National Committee, and to have retained as his personal property, and that correspondence is to be published in chapters, as his purpose or his malice will be served by it 8 Thomas H. Tullock, Postmaster at Washington, and Gen. Charles Ewing, of Ohio, a brother-in-law of Gen. Sherman, have passed from earth.