Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1869, Page 1

THE EVENING STAk Che Evening Star. At the Star Buliding, -W. Corner Pennaylvanis Av.and Lith Street, / vaB BY EVENING STAB NEWSPAPER COMPANY. | ‘The STAR ™ served by the carriers to their | abecrs the City And Discrict at Tun | cuore om Lael SS See SS ‘wo OErTs each. | Prict pon | 1LIN@:—Three mosths, One Poller and Cents; six months, Three Dol. jars; one year, Five Dollars. No are. rect from the office longer than for. The WEEKLY STAR—published on Friday morning—One Dollar and a Half s Year. | EVENING STAR. | Washington News and Gossip. McCror® bas been beard from! See Phila- | Gein bia @epatches. | O8 DIT, 3 p. m. to-day, that Galusha Grow is tbe coming Cabinet min from Pennsylvania Ove Bret gives two crand ¢ incerts at Met- zeruw’s Hall next weer. “Hempty DUMpty” evens destinet for a Jong and profi'able run at the Nauional Theater ALL THE CABtyver will seud in their resigua- tows on the dof March, except Gem. Scboideld | sod peasibly Mr. Evarie How. Franayne Woop will cive « dinner orto w evening to the Democratic members of the present and next Congress Jusez GRANT, the father of (Fenrral Grant, | and Miss Jenaie Grant, sister of the General, arrived in Washington by the noon train cay, from Govington, Ky Koo mR's colossal statue of Lincoln at Rome ts said to beso effe uve (© C&RSe Visitors to Shed tears. Some people feel little like crying over Lincoln statues this side of Kome. Is Tux U. S. SurRew® Court yesterday | the case ex par.e of Samuel Arnold and Ed- ward Spangler wereargacd py Philip Phillips, | of coanse! on benalf of the petitione-s. SevaTom Fowcma and Attorney Genera! } varts wev@ among the persons of note who called at the White House this morning and cbtaiaed interviews with the President. SECRETARY McOULtocu has purchased a foe farm im Moutgomery county. Maryland, from Mr Uwens. The property is known as the Old Jackson farm. SmwaToR Haxmirat HAMLIN, of Maine, arrived here last night, and was received and welcomed at the depot by a large number of | trends. Teceipts to-day from this source were $63.926.12, and for the | mont? erding this date, $10,276,8°.31. Aggre- gate for the fisoal year to date, $21,9°6,058. 14. Tee PEWNSYLVANIA POLITICIANS are all | Waking ba.te to deny that they ever sened any letter recommeading any person .or posi- ion i Grant's Cubinet. Waat says McCiure to this? GESERAL GRANT has undoubtedly informed St Jeast two persons within the Isst forty-eight fours that the coming Cabinet Pennsylvanian js not George H. Stuart. How about this Mr. Me Cure! Watt's Ormea Hovuse.—The Gregorys take iT Boal leave ot Washington tnis evening. Leura Keene opens the Opera House oa Mon- dey evening with “Hunted Down, or the Fwo Lives of Mary Leigh Bowe, of Maryland, called upon Pres- t Jobmon yesierday, and strongly urged ‘on of Spangler and Arnold. The Pres- again promised to give the cases his <eri- ove consideration MASSACHUSETTS MEN to-day are inclined ‘0 believe thet Mr. Eoatwell is xo! to go ino the bine: from Mt: hu.etts. Some of them Dink Mr Semner s'andsa good chan-e of an Byite, 9nd they think be will accept if ‘1 vited. Tee cterxs inthe Loan Branch ard other Dareaus of the Tressury Depariment who are pan out ofthe “foam iand * w.:l not, it fs sa‘d, eceive their pay for the moath of February, in omsequence of that fund hav.ng been ex- ausxd. Tue Rumors of the dancerous illaccs of Hon. E. M. Stanton are exageerated. He is euffering under a cevere bronchitis, out cherwise im good health. With the retuca of warm weaiver he expects to be restored to bis sual strengib. Mm. Connass in‘rodaced in the Senate this morning & resolutov, which was adopted, directing the Secreisry of the Interior to trans- mit to the Senate a copy ot the report of the Commissroners sppoint-d to examine the Cen- tral Pacific Railroad. and to determine what amount of morey “s pecessary to make the same a first class rai. oad, MR. PowERoy, from the Commitwe on Pub- Lands. y.terday reporied b.ck to the Sen- ate a large number of bills aud petuons. and asked that the committce be discharged trom forther considrraiiom of the same, which was so ordered. Among them was a bill granting reres of public lands for the ben- ¢ of public schools im the District of Co- lambs. | ADDITIONAL INFORMATION received bere top ay states thar the Califoraia Overland Mails | snd about two hundred passengers are still suowed up im the Beach Hills, as announced | abe STAR of Wodne.day. They manage to get enough to eat. bat suffer greatly trom the old. There is an accumutation of overtwo weeks mail at that pow Pensonxat.—Mr. Nordhoff, editor New York Feering Lost Mr. Henry C. Bowen, editor New York Indeprnden’, Mr. Hassaurack, editor Cine ienati Veltsblett, and Jou 1). Stockton, editor Voiladelpbia Mornin Jost, are in the cuty. - Geverno: Page, of Vermont, and Hon. JB Henderson, of Missouri, are at Willsrds Ex-Goveruor Jenkins. of Grorgia, and Hon. D. (DeJarnette, of Va. ar the Epbitt House Mr. Brckatew introduced in the Senate, ast evening, a resolution, which was passed, Tequesting the President to furnish tothe Senate & statement, ff any bas brea filed. of the account of Internal Revenge stamps issued by the Government since the passage of the act of Joly Ist, 156%, with the amounts received there. for, and & statement of the adjusiment of s ount by the Comptroller, if any bas been wade, with sny explanation of suck account as may be necessary to a proper understanding of its prezent condition. PARDON ED.—To-day. President JoBason par. | doxed Lewis Means, sentenced a few days ago © te pay & fine of $100 and to ten days’ imprison. ment in jail for an assault and battery on ‘TBomas Lansdale. The tacts of the case, as developed on the trial, were that Lansdale, an aged colored man, was caught in the act of taBing wood from the premises of Means, who sa farmer,anc the latter cave Lansdale te Boice of prosecution for theft or thirty-mim ashes, and he accepted the whipping, when me punishment was duly administered, lea ng the marks of the lash on the old man’s per- oa Means resides near Tennallytown, D.C. | GESBRAL GRAXT PAID A VISIT to the Capito woeday. U; entering the lial: of the Hon-e ne sal ta aad of the closk rooms and sent for Governor Boutwell, of Massac setts, with whom he bad a log conversa. “em upon the condition of affairs in Georgia, Musissippi, Virginta, and Tezas, 21 is said that Genera! Grant is opposed to tne | proposiuon before the Reconstruction mittee to unseat the Georgia delegation in the — House, and promised Mr. Young, from that | State that he would see Gov. Boutwell to. | day, and endeavor to dissuade bum from of. | fering bis resclut:on unseating the delegation. (Feneral Grant also bad 8 cop versation of some jepgwh with Judce Bingham, of (Buc, and Mr. Griswold, of New York. 4 isrge cumber of members 20% oc -asiog to pay ‘Deir respecte to tBe General, and for s Daif so Bocr be beld quite s levee in he clos room. —~ , heavy reducuons in the appropr.ation bill Seti ate a eee V= XXXII. WASHINGTON, D. C.. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1269 fled before this committee that he was inter- ested im the matter. Q. lasked you a whil+ 2g0 Why you wanted to know whether there ‘Was mooey in 1! A. For the pu of tear- ine it all to pieces. 1 was we uainted with Mr. Butter and Mr. O. C. Washbarze, who were assailing the measure, and when- ever I got any points I would give them to those genttemea. I heard tat there was being Tinted at the Government Printing Office a ory of Greealand. I s1id to Mr. Wash- burne, “ There is one of Seward’s jobs that will crop cut by and by.” He did not seem to be- lieve it, bar I mrged him toserd down to Mr. Dr trees to- some of the proof sheets, which he id. and foun. that it was 80.” The fottowing is the testimony of Mr. Robert W. Latham, the purport of which has heretofore beeu in dispute: Holeri W. Latham sworn and examined. By the Chairman:—Q. State your residence and occupetion! A.1 reside in New Brous- wick, New Jersey, and am eonuect-d with railroad business. Q. 1 want to ask you what knowledge, if any, you buve im reference to the Alaska matter, and the payment of money or the distributien of money growing out of it! A I never had the slightest interest in the Alaska matter direct'y or indirectly. Mr Painter some time ago—I think it was last summer—remarked to me that he understood that Governor Walker was counsel tor the Alaska peeple. Mr. Painter said to me, “Have Sreaken Corvax gave a dinner party last evening, at bis residence, opposite Lafayette Square. Among the gnesis were Scnators Sherman, Mortom. Morriit. of Vermont, Sen- Stor-eect Pratt, Henry C. Bow'n, of the New York Independent, Mrs. Seaator Morton, the Misses Bowen, of Brooklyn, Mrs. Samue} Sin- clair, of New York, and others. _ FORTIETH CONGRESS. This Afternoen’s Proceedings. Satvapay, Febraary 27. Sexate.—Mr. Fessenden presented the cre- dentials ot Hannibal Hamlio, Senator elect from Msiue, which were read and placed on the file. Mr. Stewart offered a concurrent resolution. in the usual form, requesting the Executive to trapemit to the various State Executuves tne THE ALASKA PURCHASE. The Great Question, “Who Was In It?” TESTIMONY OF ROBERT J. WALKER. THERE Was QUITE A SENSATION in the House to-day, over the spectacle of a colored man making & speech from & member's seat. J. Willis Meaavd, the colored claimant for a seat om Loaistana, acdreseed the House in 2 com- pact, telling Little speee’ im behalf of his ciaim His white opponeat, Hant, declined to avail bimeelf of the opporium'ty to reply. Menard is & rather intelligeat looking negro, smiling all over and all the time. A simart debaie p-nDe Up tollow.ng bis -peech— Messrs. Gar- field Pa ne, Schenck, xnd others taking ground for bis admission, im opposition to the reportof we committee. ‘rom present sppearances Men.rd will be sworn im and allowed to take bis seat. a Walker ca the jon—He Cites the Cnee Yazoo two Houses, with a view to presenting the same to the Legislatures for their action. ‘The resolution went over under the objection ot Mr Davis. Mr. Sberman called oj strengthen the public cre Mr. Davis moved to recommit the bill to Commitee on Finance, with instructions to Teport a bill to the effect that geld and silver are the national currency of the United States; that the bonds, as ¢om| with goid and sil- Yer, were sold to the holders at a — ciation, and therefore they should ve paid at the came rate,and the interest on the bonds shall be immediately reduced to 445 per cent. Mr. Davis made some remarks in favor of bis motion, contending that the boad holders bad already received far more thau they were TESTIMONY OF F. P. STANTON. What Mr. Stanton says Mr. Painter § What Mr. Walther Sa.d About what aid Mr. Painter Said— - Painter Said when Mr. Said what Mr. Walker Said about what Mr. Stamtom Said Me Painter Sa‘d. Re) House bill to TESTIMONY OF MR. U. NH. PAINTER. Mr. Painter Says He Sald—W: ‘THe AVENDMEYT TO THE ConsTireTion.— Mr. Stewart introduced im the Senate this i rest ™ Said 1. “Not a bi ‘titled to. the United States to transmit forthwith to the ested in it. He is yeur frienc. Had you not ut it developed nothing new or of importance. Executives of the several States of the United better see bim and see how the matter stands? I saw Governor Stanton, and told him that Mr. Painter had called my attenton to the TESTIMONY OF ROBT W. LATHAM. What He Says Mr. Pa Hovse.—The Speaker presented the petition of Thomas Allen, of Atlanta. Ga.. asking to be States copies of the article of amendment pro- posed by Congress to the State Legislatures to ae there were any | Telieved trom poiltical disabilities incurred by amend the Constitation of the United States, WEE UEae Bethe KGlaerice: e | nen oe aero parucipation in che rebellion. Referred to the passed February 16, 1969, respecting the exercise Finds There 18 Nothing --In tt—HMe | Walker and see. He saw Governor Walker | Ogminiy ov fteco ee a pliner of the elective franebise, to the end that the Sraps ts; Sen, ees aod copped Ohester Snow and citizens of Ma.ca- said Stites may proceed to act upon the said —a it, When the money ‘was paid and | chusetts, praying for removal of ob=truc'ions article of ameadment, and that he request | The Committee on Public Expenditure: are | Governor Walker lost some checks in New | &tHell Gate. Referred t the Qomunitwe o1 the Executive of each State that may ratify | prepared to make their repori upou the Ala York. 1 happened to be ia town, and Mr. | Commerce. Also. certain resolves of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in behalf of Senate bill for the establishment of a line of American steam- ships. Same reference r. Boutwell, (Mass.) trom the Committee om Reconstruction, reported bill in addition to an act entitled ar act to relieve trom politi- cal disabilities certain persons named therein, approved July 27, Inés. Mr. Boutwell ex plained that the bill was simply a correction of some mistakes made in engrossing the act, to which this was additional. The bill prised. The House resumed the consideration of the ssid amendment to transmit to the Secre:ary of State a certificd copy of such ratification. Objection bemg made by Mr. Davis, of Ken- tacky, the resolution went over. iwyestigation. The report will state the tes:i- mony developed, and show that there is ne evidence of any money haying been used to corruptly procure the passage of the measare through Congress. In the testimony presented the tollowing ts of interest Mr. Robert J. Walker, m his testimony, stated the following im regard to the man Martin. Pl “1 think a few days before the meeting of Peinter aid to me, + You see Walker has lost hus checks, and this thing 1s coing to be inves- tigated, and you will find that your friend Stanton is init.” And he expressed himself that 1 was in italso. Said 1:—+ Mr. Paiater, 1 bave told vou that I had nothing at all to do ‘With it.” Well,” said he, “it is going to be in- vestigated.” 1 told Mr. Stanton that the mat- ter was guing to be investigated, and I took no further notice of it. 1 was in New York at the tume when Mr, Stanton gavéhis evidence be- fore this committee, stating that he had re- PRErARATIONS For THE INAUGURATION.— Mr. Brown, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, with Senators Yates, Craigen, and McCreery, are engaged in making preparations tor the Inaugural ceremonies, but bave not yet com- eted the programme. To-day, Mr. Brown | Congress, a whom I believe I had never | ceived $5,000; and when 1 heard it 1 was sur- wat is Gancuuion wenicanea Eateau, of | sre before, and who told me bis name was | Prised. | because Mr. § Sinton had stated to’ me ce ee en cate of Somes General Grant's staff, General Webb, of the Martia, met me on 1th street, opposite Wil- | ®! 13 4 Mr. Upeon (Mich.) was entitled to the floor. He argued against giving Mr. Jones the seat on the ground of his not having received « suffi- cient number of votes. He said at this Inte day of the session, he did not to take up the time of the House discussing this question. He would yield. however. to such gentiemen as wished to be heard on the sudject. He yielded first to Mr. Blackburn (La.) favored giving the seat jards’, as I was going to the Uourt House to argue & case, with a law book under my arm, and told me that he had certain important Staiements to mage to me I said to nim I could not stop tnen—that 1 had no time; but he said it would not take him five minules, and tbat it was very important. I said I would give bim five minutes, and walked with anto Willards’ Hotel. He stated that he believed there was going to be an investigation ordered terwards explained to me why he said so: that be was in such 8 condition with his superior counsel that he could not divulge it. This was entirely satisfactory tome. 1 cared noth- ipg about it. After this investigation com- menced { met Mr. Pai and be said, « La- tham, don't you think there is an affidavit here in reference to a slip of paper which was foundon Robert J iker’s table with a list Commitiee of Arrangements, and Maj Richards, Chiet of Police, pertecting the arrangements: ‘The Senate wing of the Capitol will be closed op Thursday, the 4th, io all except members and Sevators, and those having tickets; six ticke.s will be issued to each Senator and two t each member. Fall arrangements will be made for the Dipiomatic Corps, Judiciary, & L, to Mr. Jones on the general principles of right and the entire programme published early next | DY Congress in relation bl eetyopredpeaprongs x the reporters all | Sud justice. Me did not intend bedi Seg fener 4 week aunicate to me. 1 told hive that, eo far as the | ay tbat they ae Sante in a deceased, Col. Mana was his frinud, wad be —- invests ny cern d, ree "He Gumerat Grant's HRADQUARTERS.—Poli- | [niende of at, at oped wound take eee thing somewher: “Well,” said I, Would say an honorable gentleman. He had been eleciéd, however, by the men whose hands Uetams and others desiring to citechise Gen’! were red with the blood of patriots, ana he, the reporters never got a cent, it is very Grant abeut bis Cabinet or other eppoint- He then stated that he was say Bat, ewrare the’ Remco ae a | seomee tae ines should be down that Mr, Seward, the Secretary of State, had ss oars “ (Mann,) after fighting the enemies of bis coun- ments, made s miss of it this moraing, as | Basie “qeoutet; that Grace entree at | Walker bas collected itiroes the Alaste pany, | SY. had afterwards tratermized wiih them. Avent. General Sherman was closeted with | House, had received a large sum, and also that | #ud bas not paid it out to the reporters.” Said Jk ee ue | General Grant all of the forenoon, and of | Mr. Randall (of Philadviphia) "had received | 1, “1 know nothing at all about it” I went | Jones bad failed committee understood the son- | course but little conversation on axe-grinding | seme of it. I told him that bis statemeng were | \'P and told Goiasea Stanton what Mr. Pair- dition of affairs at the Soutn they dap. ficulties Of making out a case in ty ter had said. Sai ‘Will you come down to Governor W: with me!” Said I, Yes.” We walked down, and I repeated the same thirg to Governor Walker. The Governor Was exceedingly violent, exceedingly so, aud pitched into a Mr. Martin, to whom. it appears, perfectly absurd; tha: there was no tru.h in them at all: that 1 did not myself know that Mr. Randall had even voted tor the appropri- Aton, and that certainly I had never spoken to bim om the subject, ind that as to General Butler. be had been the most able, active and afrangements could be held m the presence of third party. Among the visitors there were quite & number «videutly very much bent 01 g:ving General Grant the benefit of their views as to what he ought to do and ought not to do. 3 (Tenn.) hoped to be able ia the ten minutes allowed bim to show tbe" all the principles of justice were on the side of giving Mr. Jones the seat he claimed. The question 3, Feistent op tof t aS ad | Mr. Painter alluded as the maker of the affi ia- *y rs . General Grant renches his headquarcers gen- | Some very wear defeating in apen Gacitees | vit: I think be told me that he aliuded to Mr was whether Mr. Jones was oF was not elec'e srally about halt-pact mine clock, and from | arising out of the difference of opinion between | Martin. We had some considerable conversa- tbe ees rte : that time until tem is engaged in perusing bis mar! and attending to the morning business, no visitors being admitied before tea o clock During bis interview wid Geaeral Sher- man this moruing he referred to Indian mut- ters, and expreseed Bimself im favor of making the Senate and the House as to the power of the House to withhold the appropriation necessary to carry out the treaty. I then told bim that I undersiood the bnsinees perfectly Was only a continuation of the blac! oper: tion on the subject. amounting to nothing ex- cept listenmg to Governor Walker's very excessive abuse of reporters and everybody of that sort, and pitching in generally. He was exceedingly eloquent. I like eloquence, and listened to him with a good deal of attention; but I cannot repeat his remark® ro%: and taere 1 cropped the maver. 1 never mix with these matiers. Q. State the last couversation you bad with Mr. Painter about this matter! saw Mr. Painter gain on the sunject after I had thas conversation with Governor Walker, and jast told bim what bad occurred ) You say that Mr. Painter suggested er de- sired you to call on Governor Walker! A. No, sit;on Mr. Stanton. Q. What obj-ct or motive did he uame in wishiog you to call on Mr. Stanion! A. I understood him to mean that be wanted me to look into the matter, and see how it stood. I dropped it as soon as report- ed that there was mothing im it. «2. Did he suggest to you that he wished to be employed in the matier! A. No, sir; he did not say that he wished to be employed. (2. Do you know whatattitude Mr. Painter had siood in towards that measure previous to that tune, whether for it or ugamst it? A. No, sir; 1 knew nothing of it at all until my attention was called to it. By Mr. Plants :—Q. Was he at that time op- pored tothe Alaska matter! A. I dont know. 1 did’nt make any inquiry about it. By the Chairman —Q. Did he state that he ‘was advocating or opposing it or that he would do so? A. 1 do not recollect that he said how he stood towards it. I may have surmised, but I don’t think that would amount to anything, because 1 might be wrong. By Mr. Piants:—Qy. For what purpose did by Messrs. Hunt and Menard, two gentlemen Who also opposed each other.” It was to their imterest thar Mr. Jones should not bave the scat, Mr. Mavnard read trom the testimony of one of the election judges to show that the whole number of votes cast in the Second Con- gressional District of Loui-iana at the election in April, 1867, was 12,51 wi Mr. Jones received 613, and Mr. Mann aving Mr. Jones @ clear majority of all the votes cast. Mr. Cook, (Lil.,) a member of the Committee on Elections, said that the judge of eleciioi § 1 whom Mr. Maynard reterred bad no meins of knowing what the result was at the different poling places at the time he -ays be couated the vores. Mr. Dawes. (Mass.,) Chairman of the Com- mittee on Elections, p ted against the establishing of a precedent which would allow t setagide a man’s j mat k-maiting © which had been commenced before we bill was passed. He replied that he was nota black miiler, that he was a Georgian. I toid bim that my experience bad satisfied me that black mailing was not a sectional affair, and ibe. 1 believed that one of the worst in- stances of lezisiative corruption, that had ever occurred in’ the country, was the celebrated Yazoo act, which one legislature of Georgi boa passed with great unanimity and the next ature of that State Bad considered so in- inmons tha’ they erased it from their laws and caused it to be burned. He then proposed to show mea poper, 1 asked him what it was. He said that General Bauks had written aletter | to the Secretary of Sta'e, trom which the iafer- ence was irresistible that he had been paid a part ofthis Aiaska money. I told him that it Was A Most imtimous isleehood, and @pid 1, “show me the paper.” He had a bundle of pa. Pers in bis hand, and he fumbled among them, as if he w 1 this paper out, but Iy be Mr. F. P. Stantoa stated the following in ty course of bis testimony “While the bill for the appropriation for we money under the Alaska treaty was pending in the House of Representatives, Mr. Painter, a correspondent of the Philadelphia /njwirer, met me in the rotunda of the Capitol und asked what were my relations with Gov. Walker. I told him we were not partners, as we had therefor. (General Butler had a short interview fos the purpo-e of ta'king over the India a »- Propriatioes and maiers connected with the manage nent of the Indian Among the oiner visitors were Senators Mo-- rill, of Vt, Waraer. of Ala., Nye Howard, Wilson, ard Stewar.. Kepreeatatives Grio- nell, Eggieston, of Ohio, Van Hore Paymaster Gerera! Brice, Ge eral Hie | Hiram Walbridge, Messrs. George Small Washington Looth S. W. Saoenaker. and J: R. Partridge, of Baltimore, and Oyhers. Afr further discussion, the substitute offered oy Mr. Blackburn reciting that Mr Jones is entitled to bis seat, was rejected, aud the resolution reperied .rom the Committee on elections, setting forth that Mr. Jones 1s not WOMAN'S SUPPRAGE IN THE TERRITOR 38. Prot.J. K. H. Willcox appeared this morning before Mesers. Asbley. of Ohio. Cuilom, of Ii- how, and Ho.chkiss. of Comnect'cut, of the House Gommiitee oa Territories, oa behalf @ the Universal Franchise As oc at‘on, .0 urge the passage of Mr. Julian’s bill tor the eafran- chisement of the women of the Territor.es. A bumber of invited guest=, ma‘nly ladies, also avended. The prmc:pa! points in the address were :—The unequal distribution of the sexes District of Louisiana, were adopted . Mr.> Eckley, (Ohio) from the Committee on Public Lends, reported a bill to perfect the tle of Franklin Oliver, a soldier of the war ot 1812, to certain lands which he has covered by military warrants. Mr. Gook (ill.) objected to its consideration Mr. Upson (Mich.) called up the contested election cace of Memard vs. Hunt from the Second District of Louisiana, Mr. Maynard Teno.) asked unanimous von- sent tbat Mr. J. W ‘ 5 allis Alenard,( w! RTO, im this county, with its atvendant evils of low | been in the practice of Iaw, but that we were | be want you to+ee Mr. Stanton about the mat- | Poli thet ir. 3. Willie Menard.(who.s a neg wages aud Lives of ill-iame. These, it was | itiend we bed always been. He then | (er! A. To see how it stood, and weet wae | ao thesitting member. Pending the comsaen, claimed, would be much lessened by enfran- ed Gov. Walker was managing tne | Deing done. pi ee Mj at_on of the case— wanting to know how itstood? A. I suppose the reason would have followed after | ascer- tained. By the Chairman :—(. Did be ever suggest to you that that conversation was eonfidential, 8 Alaska bill. and that he supposed he had a good deal of money to distribute. He said that he could render some service by influencing the votes of some members of Congress who were then opposing the bill, and asked me if 1 would Mr. Wood (N. ¥.) and Kerr (Ind ) objected Mr. Upson (Mich.) moved to suspend t rules for the purpose of allowing each of th: chisiug women in the Territeries, aud thus af- fording them a greater security in person avd property than exists elsewhere, which would imduce the emigration of womea from the h opposing th m and desire you tovo regard i A. Ido net | im ther own behalf. The rules were suspended, overcrowded East. The condition of Utab | TPE Yate counsel with Gov, Wathen einai | recollect that be did: because I keep everything | and Mr. Menard made nis appearance about the was the next pout. All measures yet tried | out making known that fact to Mr’ Painter, i | ©! thatsort confidential with almostevery body Mr. Woodward (Pa.) suggested that Menard spcak from the Clerk’s desk. ;Laug ter rmoag the Democrats. } Mr Van Horn (N. Y ) objected to this, ‘The Speaker said the gentleman having no seat of bis om the floor, could speak from any seat he pleased. Mr. Menard then addressea the House elerring to the tact that Mr. Hunt had faile! (Q. Did he ever indicate to you in sny shape tat if this conversation with you was revealed Le would take steps in the public press in rels- tion to it? A. OL! no, sir; he never said a word to me on that subject. ‘He did say to me that if Governor Stanton revealed a private conversation which had passed between him and Mr. Stanton, (about which I knew noth- ing,) Mr. Stanton would be sorry for it. and that be would assail him or attack him. (. In the papers? A. 1 don’t know. Q. In that sllusion to the affidavit as to the paper jound on Governor Walker's table, did Mr. Painter carry the idea to you that sach a paper bad been seen or found, or thatitexisted! A. He certainly did carry the idea to me that there ‘was uch a paper iu the shape ofan affidavit in Teiation to & Memorandum found on ‘iover- (Q. Did he carry the idea, one who should haye Governor Walger had Cistributed it according to the expectation? A. He dia no'; because whether he said it or Paving failed to desttoy polygamy. It was claimed that potygemy oaly existed where Women were degraded: that the way to elevate them was to give them political power, and that thus polygamy would be destroyed. This ~uggestion seemed te meet with decided favor, avd it Was stated thai a bell to enfranchise the women of Utah would probably be introduced next montb,and very likely pass. In a con- versational diseussioa which fol!owed, Mr, Asbley stated that he had ever. dur.ng o's public life, put the word “nate” into a Dill ot Constitutional amendment, stated to bim that 1 would mention his propo- sition to the Governor. Before 1 saw Gov. Walker another gentleman came to me stating that Air. Pater had requested him to make a ermilar suggestion. 1 did mention the subject to Gov. Walker, and he stated to me that be bad no authority to employ Mr. Painter, and no money to pity Mim, and that if be bad he would not be inclived to engage in that kind of business” Mr. U. H. Pater, in bis testimony, said “During the time that the bill was pending in the House, 1 beard trom soarce or other that Mr. Walker was editmy the Paily Chronicle in ibe intervet of the Alaska mauer. Not beljev- ing he-was doing so from patriotic or disinter- ested motives, 1 concluded that he had charge Of tbe matter, ed Was trying to rum the thing through. I did not pay much attention to it, however, until ome time afterwards, when | met Mr. Stanton, and I asked bim if he was engezed im working up the +Alaska job.’ always spoke of it in my dispatches, ffom the time it came to the Senate, an the ‘Alaska job.’ He told me that he was not: that he was attend- ing to some cotton cases before the Court of Cisims, and Bad not had time to look into the matter. 1 said: aie by law, hesaid if Mr. Hunt wasnotacqan ated ber to send here (a bit which was received with much amusement by the members.) Mr. Menard then went on to state the number of yotes he had received, and to urge bis claim to the seat. Mr. Hunt did not address the Hous*; Mr. Kerr (Ind.) stating that at the proper time eomne boron would sprak for bim. Mr. Maynard (Tenn.) suggested thai as th- action of the Houre im the case of Mann and Jones showed that there was a vacancy in the dis'rict, and as the-gentleman who had ja3t addressed tne House (Menard) beld the cerufi- cate, and had theretore a prima facie right to the seat, be be swora in and allowed io hold the seat pending the litization. He asked = consent to offer a resolution to that lect. Some of the politicians are great'y exercised over General Grant's announcement that he 1s Lota party man. Why should they be! He never bas been party man. He was not taken up ssa party map. He was elected because he Was uot a party man. He will probably not attach the same importance to merely partizan legislation that some would like, but for all that, he will not Tylerize himself or Johngonize Rimself by dictating policies autagonistic to the not I was satisiled that his uame was not on the er. pay He said that the names of several re- P aper and he mentioned the reporters of the Werld and of the Acrald. (2. Have you had any conversation with Mr. you not still artner of Mr. Walker.” out in the 1 A. Ob! yes, T meet him Principles of the great party that elected him. | Was in some things. T'then asked aim if Mr, | nearly every: dep: when T aaa town. Tjust | Mr, Upson Mich.) He may noi select Cabinet officers with a view | Well He said be did noi | returned trom New York the day before yes. | clined 10 yield for that eept e - | kno 1 said I g1 he was and told him frequent on: eee kee Hee certs te the cate ree eae conweee: | tag prvi ane bo wat Mr. Walter ogni Tight to tet Mr. Maynard iug cliques in the party, but we are quite sure | 1O9.r and eee if he wouldnotackupwledselt, meen pga that every appointee will be 2 sound Union | Lipought it wana big swindle and that suey that if be did Kepublicen, entirely acceptable to the great weer pping so Seen ee i bose: oted: be met bim subsequently an thin ¢ told me wees et ese Nes eee ee that he bad asked Mr. Walker, Dut he totally | any epecific conversetion, eS Be a ‘Tue BALTIMORE aND Pofomac RatLRoap. | *#abuced my mind of the tact that Mr. Walker jy Mr. Broomall:—Q. 5 inter Bad anythidg to do with ft; he letely dis. armed me of my icion by his ‘apparent <xpichiness, Q.—What was rter ofone or two ishe? A. Tan- he ts, becauce he hassent me freque: repo derstand so. 1 know for one . | a reporter there is in town. Q. State there sb was tance tj | ‘riteness toee momeabeiamiont “Ae Tee: wi we was u rivances 1e _ ad tell iron-clads, and I think I said so in some of lieve he does. ite whether or not be is my dispatches. I told several members of anler (N.Y) replied that be had ap. ‘was not going to earliest should <4 Rusia, and I thought iff coula get st those | sey be was equal (0 any How | Pealed who were at the botiom of ineamfurrit would | lose have youknown Bim? A. I have ibn Repuiiicas eather ban Doatocmeten, fosge good. Q. age i oe at ee ee eee a Tati: | while the Democratic mambere were pun- 10 know who were ? mately’ Cy tpve iton to Hasover ner gome ommer | nes: «Mr. "Stanton ‘and Walker were | Congsess ts {a scesion, sad then fem here tom the Fredericksburg road, should it be ‘working the ting up and Itheugat I. would | bout three iuribs of my Umer but T here ies Spent id he geaceman eg nape an oa 5 | fostaak them point Whether they were | Known bim quite intimately. Q If he had | York was not respecttal to she Vuair, ‘The country also upon the aeons Meet * | im it or mot. Q. And og denied it point | suspected corrupt in the a of the same character of that in conaty. | piank! A. Stanton did. Do know | business, from whst you Know of his setae eae Wnrotrsatp KILLr iH AlLsnama.—In Huntsville, Alabama, last week, & collision could be constructed through e a cost.— Prince ott 7a im it or S7°A New-Hampshire Baptist clergyman named Lowell, has accepted a«cail” at a less salary than bis present one. S7"In one window of Trinity Church, in thousand a between Sbout twee javem, there are ten pieces of solders, reealtaog in the sagene r M4 beak nal each prepared and cut separ- of thi ‘soldiers, ‘said to have eon drank The ‘Sttacked & botel at Right, dee —— and fifty carpet manded whiskey, which when es ladelphia, employing they commenced to break doors and nearly five thousand hands. windows. A uember of ‘at omee col. owner of Beliadrum, a horse entered lected. and a fight ensued, ng 8s stated. on bis animal. SF The London papers give a long account the Veil, by a lady, in the church of land ly—and the ceremonies condacted by some of the High churoh elerzy. a Cube has e7The for the ‘bing Derby in Englanc, has eee ‘wagered $250,000 S7'Ubicago is to Rave another femsle suf. Tage OrgaB, ‘o be called the «New Era.” SF Divorce bil! are the order of the day im the Delaware Legislature. SP Square-tord boos aed shoes appear 0 Og coming im vorur - SF Rev. Heury Ward Brecker as pertecdy} wree. ine made +150,000 om sugar within thirty dsys i dina Constitutional amendment just passed by the | entitled to a seat in the House from the Second | contestants fifteen minutes to address the House | Ri to take testimony with the time prescribed | With the laws ot Congress he was.@ poor mem. | What he say PeiLapsirnia, any particular ma: | was informed that j intenced to write a nia. Maopnip, Feb. Constituent Cort ernment, member: still retain seats further that th TELEGRAMS TO T This Afternoon's Dispatches, COLONEL McCLURE HEARD FROM. about the but I did not assure ister Marshal Serrano ang the retirement of the late Provimonal Gov- who composed it would N®. £933. Feb. m for Gov. ¢ letter Dari * last in tne Cort Poley of roment Would b= to (ollow the pragramme rch the revolution established, every effort HE STAR. Col. MeCtare pu. lisbes a card in rv lation o his interview with General Graat, im watch he says man for a position 1 the Cabtpe:” 1 bad a pTeference, and bad expressed 1 on a former Occasion, but bad never assumed that the par- ty or any individual had a right to sist upon Cabinet position. ary bad written or 0 Grant, to which be replied that he had not heard from Gesry, eral (¢raut thateuch a letter would be received, as there was nothing but Gov. Geary’. promise to warrant the be- liet that he would recommend a particular gen- Ueman for @ Cabinet position from Peansyiva- EUROPEAN NEWS BY CABLE. the session of the ening, Pewme Min- id that notwithstand- He the ‘L urged no stated Gov- ‘Would be made to disarm the attacks of the Re- publicans byreducing expenditures in allgaar- ters and pursuing & liberal policy generally. He regretied that the liberal reforms which bad been contemplated for Cuba bad been necessarily delayed by reassm of insurrection in shat Isiand. AtHens, Fi has officially sano. —The Grecian Governm anced the re-establishineat of fmendly relatons with Turke: THE CABISET GLESTION, Denials by Governor Geary aad Jadges Agnew aud Williams Purapgrrnia Fen. 27.—Governor Geary and Judges Ane and Williams deny having Sgned any letter recommendiuz any persou for position in the Cabive: of Geaerat Grant. PICKPOCKETS C ely iG TO WAS 4ING- ov BALTIMORE, Feb. pickpockets are reported passing timore, en their way to Washington, to pueent st the imauguration. Sever ve been tation, this city. Tes Hice Par mdew —A large number of ch Arrests ‘009 —At a proc Seesion of the Social Sceace A-soctation 1a Poston on Thursday last, Edward Atkinson, of that city, read an essay uppon the high price of food. He claimed that the advance in the high price of tood since I-ty was over “0 per cent. while Iabor bad advanced less than 6) per ceat., and the same relation would be found when reckoned on a gold bas'=, Uae ot the immediate causes of this uajast proportion Was the issue of irred-emable money by *he government. No nation is really prasperiag whose increace in wealth does not benefit the lower clas: only decreased the the costs of produ The: mi ufacturer, as increase of wages. ron withdrawing Laxp S. injurious ef’¢ct upon articles, aud indirectly on duties wmynred b legislative duty on wool, hides, irou, steel, & Usury laws, or bounty or pro- tective laws, do uot bemefic the masses, but im- | pede the prosperity of any nation now, all the improvements in ma As itts very have Price of labor and increased ets tothe cousumers. The + hada very he p monutactared we coun Tb ue price of tood be inborn supply them by home production. The price of goods depends om the coet ofthe article, adding the duty. And itis the laborer who must pay this additional price, whtcB is b'gher in proporiion thin the peaker then proceed- ed to argue that the price of everytaig, incla- ding labor and food being raie-d by the duly no benefit could ensue to the cou: article upon which duty was assesse: 8 duty on one article created at once an antag onism with otbers and led to hurtiul legis He claimed (bat all protective taritts were .njurious, snd advocated tree trade with ) fyery country. The remedy for the bigh price | Of food was, im his opimion, to be found in interterence the exportation or importtion of mere Rardi-e er and ersof the whi with LBs iN Prin. ® Grorcgs County, Mv... We are gratified to hear of several recent phiv: to the old ante. | ts that of the | | lars cash. be pr acre. atiol east sive ot Washi | discernment tor most te sa'esof Iand im our county at prices verging closely upon, if not actual. tom rates. The rs of the late Daniel Carroll, of auaining recent Duddington, to George W. Riggs, j» Of | Washington City, of about thirty acres of the id “Sligo Tact, at three thousand doi land is vastly interior to that to iound im many sections of our county, sts simuty to Washington alone accounts for | the bau deome price—one hundred dollars per hich it brought. Taking into consider- ¢ already enormous possessions of Mr. Ricgs, and the tact that they lie mostly im the direction of this last purchase, ; <., to the north- it Tequires but little that the sagacity of that finencier points to this as the direction towards which the growth of the metropolis is already | tending and will so continue. Mr. Edward Simms, eres of lan some if year or two ago, sold 2 part of the Cram- phia esiaie, to the Saint Vincent's Orphan about twenty Asylum at fifty doliars per acre, has recently subdivided another portion imto homesteads of @ acres, and bas already dis- Porrd of eight or tem of these to citizens of Washinzton. General Michler, Messrs. Puilip and Solomons, Wilkam G. others are the purchasers, and wr Jearn that they contemplate the erection of fine residences, sud are already engaged in cattmg an avenue towards the city, repairimg the roads, and Mrtzerott | otherwise improving the appearances | place. Ku hard 5. , Esg., near this village. cently dispo-rd of forty acres of iand | ce Georgi und if the eastet the ‘lueen Anne road to Mr. Ohales Ridgeley, at one hundred dollars per acre — | p i 1g Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Railroad, in Jumping off bis engine about eight o'clock this morning at sas Station, and cars passing over him. Mineral Specimens.—Mr. Mckenzie. president ofthe Alexandria, Loudoun and Railroad ion gh from Moorefield, tion, some the country throug! sion of the ficiently Point to which Ting bere either Philadel; travelers, Oapt. bas adopted su at that point as will, it Sccomplisb suck a Sun, y, , bron itaray'e bh which the i road over whose destinies he so many, { i iF PF | | it back with him ly county, where be lately attended the railroad ‘specimens of the mineral prodacts of FINANCIAL ANP COMMERCIAL. |} During the week, ending to-day, there has deen received at the Treasury Departmen’ ™ the Printing Division, #96,00 in Frac- ant Carre ocy. The amougt sbippea durme nod was as follows: To Nav Otbers, S259, SiLew. The amount of seceriues held by the Treas Bret of the United State in trust for Nauonal Teported *e-day. were as follows For ‘ K Hotes, SHIM, for deposits of Punic Moneys, €iMG1 dH The amount of National } che game pe- at Broke & notes of insolvent banks redeemed States Treasurer, circalanon wi Theamocn’ a Gove mt Securitios, Wasnine? >. So, int’. —Jay Cooke & Co. furnish the following quoimuens of Go: ernment securiues: U. 8.6%, meu... tive Twenties, 1802 Five Twenties, IS64, (By Bankers’ anc roxers’ Temgrape.) Lewis Johnson & Uo. quotesvooks and Bonds 10 Rome and foreign markets as follows New You Feb. 27.—First Board. S 6, ISDA, COMPOR, 116, 5.20"s, ISG, coupons, 11s “64, coupon, 114 50s : oa] 10.40°8, coupons, 115; Pactfic Mail, ti. ©. & Miss. Gertiflontes, 3), : Mariposa, tl atin Mail, pone, Oauton, none; Oumberiand. Western Union Telegraph 24: Bostor Wawer Power, Oentral, 164%; leveiand and Toledo. 1 ,; Rock Is Fert Wayne, 12! \,; Alton & Terra a Toledo & Wabash, 6°\, Adams — ny Ti 01315. {By Cable.) Loxpox, Feb. 27, 11 a. m —Qonsols. Bonds, © |. firm; Ilinows, 9 Erie. Atlantic and (reat Western K. Sty —Honds, “Sans. 1 8. m.—Cotton market ons firm. Sales will resch 1,00 bales. Middiung Uplands, 11 °,. Middling Orleans, 12), —_e Baltimore Maruets, To-day. BaLtimorge, Feb. 27.otton, quiet and steady; Middling Uplands, 29. Flour fairl active Bt previous quotations. Wheat @uil, Valley red $2,082.15. Corn dull, white, 92 to “4; yellow firm, at 90a9?. Cats’ dull st >), Kye doll st $1.50a81.45. Pork firm at $13.258 5 Bacon more active, Rib Sides, 1D 4, Lard quiet ® Ing. Hams 20a2t ——_-—_ Finaacial Matters im Baltimore To-day. Battixore, Feb. mia Sixes, scribed, old, 50% bid; olma Sixes, old, 63, bid; do. - Wall Street Te-day New Yous. Feb. jock market is very strong with the exception of gold, whton weak and declining. Moaey easy at 6 cent. Exchange, ~,. Gold, 31. 5- Kon, Es) North Onrolina sixes, 63; ne EMMA SIXES, €X-coupon, 5 Tennessee sixes, ex coupon, 65 w Vork Markrt To-day. New York, Feb. Flour dull aud de c. Wheat very dull and nomiually lower 0 Leent better +2+0- Prive Fight wear Baltim: A prise tight took p evenmg wear Herring Kun, between Pet Joyce, an Irishman, and Newton Montgomery. A Bative of this city. The whole arrangements were made and Kept so quietly that but few Persons Were present to wicness the bratal en - counter. Joyce is 24 years of ace and weighs i) pounds, While Montgomery is % years oi He age and weighs I~! pounds. has en gaged ww two fights before this one on beth of which he was the victor. Joyce is sad te Daye engaged in two fights before, though nothing was known of bis powers or endurance. Tbe contest was for $20) @ side. 4 reaching the ground selected, Obaries Eggleston and Michael Kielhoitz as seconds for Mon"gomery, and John Conaway | and Peter Farrell as seconds for Joyce. The | Position was won by Joyer. Themen both ap- | peared im excellent coma: It was atver 5 o'clock before all the preliminaries were ar- rapged, and the contest continued so long that it was conclud d by torchligtt In the first round, after some sby sparring, Montgomery simea a blow at the nose of Joyce. but fell short and received & severe blow an the Jeft ribs. When they clinched and went Montgomery on top. Ia the second row Joyce led off, but Montgomery parned hy and delivered a left-hander on bis right ya’ Ai'er some severe fighting they again closed and went Pye some severe fighting they again closed and went down, Mculgomery again on top, but the first blood was given to Joyce. In the third round Joyce showed superior skill, and Dy | Several wel rected blows in the face aad on the lips ot tgomery caused Bis counte- nance to swell considerably all the suc- ceeding rounds to the fourteenth, when a foul was claimed by Montgomery, the fighting was close and heavy. Montgomery got to the rios of Joyce, while the latter delivered a number of Montgomery, and ed until the cwenty- second round, when Montgomery e: . desire to withdraw trom the contest but was prohibited by They continued up to the twenty-ninth round, Montgomery sil the time receiving (he greatcr panishment. In that round Montgomery pressed Joyce to Bis corner, when the latter fll over & water pail | and fractured his right arm, but he declined to be withdrawn. Fitteen rounds were subse- quently fought, and on the close of the toriy- fourth the fight was awarded to Joyce. who had fought the entire fifteen rounds with his ieftarm Ajter the close of the fight the con- } testamts sRook Bauds and the party returned to the city. | Moulgomery was terribly pauished, and his face was seversly cut aud swollen Jo;ce showed but marks of panishm: | twenty persons present during the figh | BRUTAL Mogg is Mostoomeny county MD.—Oa nesday morning of la=t weex Mr. Thomas Pennfield. residing with bix brother Levi, aboutseven inules somthwest | this town, went into the woods to chop wood. | Before be left home, Be took from his trunk about one bundred and | i ili Hi if F g! | ii i : } : ; fi He if ' |