Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1883 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

question of assisted immigration was considered by the Cabinet, resulting In an order to the Collector of Customs at New York to co-operate with the CommissionerK of Immigration and prevent the landing of paupers, or have them sent back to foreign almshouse*. The Solicitor of the Treasury, says a Washington dispatch, has still under consideration the offer of compromise in the case of Thomas Ochiltree, formerly United States Marshal in Texas. The amount of judgment in the case is >IO,OOO and the amount offered in compromise is >SOO. The Solicitor has received a letter from a gentleman not a party to the case offering tb buy the Government's claim against Ochiltree for >S,COOL Army officers have at Last received a wholesome lesson against the violations of the regulations as to gambling. The President has approved the finding of the courtmartial and the recommendation of the Secretary of War that Maj. Wasson be dismissed from the army, to be imprisoned eighteen months at hard labor, and to have the cause of his punishment published at length in the newspapers of lowa, the State from which he was appointed. Bonds to the face value of' $100,000,000 were canceled at the Treasury Department last week, by fifteen persons and five machines, and are now ready to be ground up. None of them had been issued to the public. One bond of each denomination was saved for the treasury specimen book. Nearly one-third o| the amount was in 4 per cents. David B. Parker has declined the appointment of Postmaster at Washington, and will retain his position as Chief of Postal Inspectors. Gen. Pope has notified Secretary Lincoln that Oklahoma Payne has applied to the Circuit Court at Topeka for an injunction against interfering with his occupation of Indian Territory, and that the papers have beed handed to the District Attorney for Kansas