The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1869, Page 6

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The Marquis of Hartington, Postmaster General, has been elected to a seat in the British House of Commons, ‘The Turkish government has addressed a circular of thauks to the great Powers for gthe attitude they mauitained in the late Turko-Greek diMculty. Cuba. ‘The volunteer regiments are preparing to take the Seid against the insurgents. The brig J. D. Lincola, of Brunswick, Me., has been refused @ clearance at Havana because she came from a port declared to be closed. A fight had taken place tn the Cienfuegos district, in which the Spaniards captured @ Mexican General, whim they instantly shot. The insurgents about Santiago have been ordered to destroy ail the states belonging to Spaniards. Congress. In the Senate yesterday the resolution to pay Southern senators from the commencement of the Fortieth Congress was called up, and pending dis- cussion upon ft the morning hour expired. Mr. Kellogg, of Louisiana, said tuat if the resolution ‘were to pass he Would not avail himse.f of it, as be had been a federal oMicer up vo the tine of his eieo- tion, and did not desire pay as a Senator for the sane time. The report of the conference committer oa the suffrage amendment came up and was the sub- Ject of general debate wniil the recess, In the even- ing seasion several pension bills were called up. The debate on agreeing to the conference report on the constitutional amendment was resumed, and ine re- port being finally accepted by the requisite majority the President declared the amendment passed. ln the House Mr. Garfeid preseated a report from the consolidation of uievary and Pay Depart , artdlery, engineer and tion of all the brevets at lation sytem of pay- propriation bill was the Whole, Severai then cons: dered of the appro in the expenses the a Jer opposed them, states Was amere fiction or farce, troops enough on the piaine to dier general's command, Black Kettie was a piece of treachery. thereupon made a, ferce onslaught upon Mr. Chanter, and for @ time consiterable confusion prevatied. One item im the Wil was for the payment of a salary to Mr. Harvey, the Mio ster resident of Portugal. Mr. Spalding moved also to inclade the salary withheld from him two years before and the interest on it, and stated that he (Mr. Spalding) Was instrumental in stopping Mr. Harvey's salary two years before and now he ‘wished to confess that he had not acted as a states. man. A long and interesting debate ensued and ar. Spalding’s amendment was adopted, but the eaure Paragraph was then stricken out, The committee rose and proceeded to vote on amendments to the Legisiative Appropriation till, One withholding Spectal Commissioner Wells salary was withdrawn vy Mr. Moorhead, who stated that he betieved the incoming administration would not Keep Wells in the position. Another increasi ‘the pay of cortain department clerks ten per cent ‘was agreed to, bat on reconsideration was rejected. Jn the evening session the Harvey matter came up Mr. Maths | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. S A number of bills of minor importance were Te- Ported in the Sfate Senate yesterday. Bills were introduced making appropriations to meet existing deficiencies, incorporating a savings bank and in- surance indemnity company in this city, and several others, The resolution requesting our representa- tives in Congress to vote for the repeal of the Tenure of Office bill was passed. Mr, Ma!toon’s resolution, recommending Horace Greeley for Minister to Eng- land, was returned to the author, after which the Senate adjourned. In the Assembly two local bills were passed and several reported. For the consideration of the House, bills were reported fixing the saiary of City Judge of Brooklyn; relating to purchases of land from aliens, and for the better protection of aliens, The Commit- tee on Federal Relations reported @ series of resotu- tions on the subject of the Tenure of OMce law, in which President Johnson is severely censured. After considerable discussion Mr. Jacobs moved a division on the first resolution, recommending simply the repeal of the Jaw, which was adopted by 77 to 6. He then moved a division of the preamble, which the Speaker decided not divisable. Pending an appeal from the decision, a call of the roll showed that there was not # quorum present. The Speaker an- nounced the names of the members composing the committee to investigate the affairs of the Merchants’ Union Express Company. The Assembly then ad- journed until March 8, Miscellaneous. ~ General Grant, in a conversation relative to pro- Posed legislation for Georgia, stated that ne thought the Georgia delegation ought to be admitted in Congress. He did not approve of the action of the Georgia Legislature in expelling the negro members, but he thought the courts could remedy the matter. General Banks is now understood to be a candl- date for the Speakership of the House and has de- veloped considerable strength. ‘The report of the committee investigating the al- leged bribery relative to the Alaska appropriation is Published. A considerable amount of testimony Was taken, but the substance of the whole thing seems to indicate that no one was paid anything out- side the actual amount of the purchase money, $7,200,000, $26,000 of that, however, being given to Robert J. Walker for his services as counsel in help- ing the appropriation through, and $3,000 to Mr. D. C. Forney, of the Washington Chronicle, for setting forth the merits of the purchase in his paper.» General Sheridan, since the close of the Indian war, is bending his energies to weeding out desper- ate and lawless white men from the Indian Territory. In the latter part of January he issued an order send- ing beyond the limits of the territory Dr. Holmes, Don Carlos and 8S. T. Wakeley, formerly Indian agents, for inducing Indians to steal cattle. Samuel Pierson is also ordered out of the territory, the Gen- eral believinfx him to be an improper person to re- main in proximity to the Indians. The body of Wirz, the Andersonville jailer, was exhumed on Thursday, when it was discovered tiat ithad been partially dissected. The skull was re- moved and the flesh sewed up; an arm was also gone. The remains were much decomposed. The capital of West Virginia is to be located at Charleston, on the Kanawha river, after April, 1870. OfMicial proclamation has been made in Washing- ton of the new naturalization treaty with Mexico. ‘The Metropolitan Police bill for Philadelphia has been defeated in the Pennsylvania State Senate. Governor Geary denies having telegraphed advice to General Grant relative to his Cabinet. Simmons and Sharpe, who were supposed to be connected with the recent horror, known as the Coxsackie murder, have been discharged, the Grand Jury having no evidence against them. The trial of Robert D. Pyke, the alleged wife pol- soner, is in progress in Worcester, Mass. It is expected that the trial will not be concluded for several days. The City. The “GriMith Gaunt” case came up before Judge Clerke again yesterday. Charies Reade, the English novelist, sues Charles Sweetzer, formerly editor of the Round Zable, for libel in some strictures he passed upon the work, calling it immoral. " The de- fence rawed the question that Reade was not the author of the work, and after hearing argument on the question the Court reserved its decision. The alleged drawback fraud case was continued before Commissioner Jones in Brooklyn yesterday. The testimony taken was of much interest, the con- federate who betrayed the prisoners giving a de- tailed statement of how the alleged frauds were perpetrated. The case was fimaily adjourned until Magaldo’s wounds have nearly healed, and he now talks about his recent attempt at suicide very rationally. He says he committed the deed with a narrow, bladed knife that had been furnished him for his meals and that he was in despair at the mo- ment. Another railway war has just been instituted in the courts, this time between the Atlantic and Great Western and the Erie companies. It is instituted by the Great Western parties to compel Erie to ap- Propriate certain moneys togpaying mortgages on the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. The Archer line new steamship India, Captain Munroe, will leave pier 20 North river at twelve M. to-day for Glasgow, calling at Londonderry to land passengers. The steamship Ariadne, Captain Eldridge, will leave pier 21 East river this afternoon for Galveston, Texas, ‘The sidewhee! steamer Quaker City, Captain Ellis, ‘will sail at three P.M. to-day from pier 36 North river for Havana and New Orleans, The steamship San Salvador, Captain Nickerson, ‘wiil leave pier No, § North river at three P, M. to-day for Savaunah, The steamship George Washington, Captain Gager, will sail at three P. M. to-day from pier No. 9 North river, for New Orleans. The O'4 Dominion line steamship Isaac Bell, Cap- tain Bourne, will leave pier 87 North river at three P. M. to-day for Norfolk, City Point and Richmond. ‘The steamer Flag, Captain Hofman, for Mobile vie Fernandma route, will sall from pier 20 North river at three P. M, to-day. ‘The steamer Empire, Captain Price, will leave pier 15 Bast river at four P. M. to-day for Washington fnd Georgetown, D. C., and Alexandria, Va. ‘The stock market yesterday was without important feature, ¢xeept for the express swocka, which de- clined feverai percent. Governments advanced on ‘he Teceypt of The news that the London price had roped ‘0 TL. Gold settled to 131%, closing finally at 131%. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Captain J. N. Abbey, of the Cnited states Army; Generel H. Cogsuaie, of Vita ©, W. Ander. truce, of New Lieutenant Governor Wm. Bross, of Chicago; C. H. Sherrill, of Washington, and J. M. Hoxie, of Bosion, fare at the St, Nicholas Lotet, B. T. Tayloe, of Alabama, te at the New York Hotel, Judge Sherman, of Washington; Robert Hamilton, of the West Indies; James B. McKean, of Saratoga; David Lyman, of Connecticut; John B. Alley, of Massachusetta, and Oscar Keiver, of St. Louis, are at the Astor Howse, Dr. Pred. Meary, of New York; Dr. Beit, of Paris, France; W. Kidd, of Rochester, and 1D. C. Lituejohn, of ButM\o. are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Dy. Wm. Dawes, of Cambridge, Mass; W. J. Clark, of Southampton, amd Captain Robert Sit- groves, of Madison, Ohio, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Dr. Henry R. Rieter, of Norfolk, Va.; James Foster, James EXiott and Frank Scott, of Pittsburg, are at tee Malluy House. Captain B. & Mamphries, of the United States Army, and Alonzo Hastings, of Leavenworth, are at the St. Charles Hotei, Borrs.—The Philadelphia Age recommends A. Borie tor a place in Grant's Cabinet. No, no! Grant has bores enough already—first class bores, professional bores, treble and bass bores and borers—perfect Max Bohrers. A Wanrntro.—The way to destroy any man’s ebance fora place in the Cabinet is to go at Grant with his name, as McClure did with Cartin's. “The man on hoteehack"—the coming man—has evidently a plan and a will of his own. As the President of the republican party, and the elected servant of its managing politicians in the division of the spoils, he was pretty thoroughly sounded on Thursday last by Colonel A. K. McClure, of Philadelphia, but all in vain. Colonel MeClure, it appears, first urged it as a matter of the utmost impor- tance that the Cabinet member from Peansyl!- vania should be ex-Govetnor Curtin, because he had the entire confidence of the party, and was recommended, among othera, by Governor Geary, who would be a candidate for re-elec- tion next fall; and by Judge Williams, who would be the administration candidate next fall for the place which he holds on the Su- preme Bench of the State. Goneral Grant replied, in substance, that Governor Cartin was not his man, and that while he desired the suc- cess of the administration candidates in Peun- sylvania he did not see why they should appoint his Cabinet. Baffled upon Curtin McClure next appealed against the appoint- ment of any man of the type of George H. Stuart, who belonged to a class that were unknown to the active politicians, and would give the party no strength if appointed. . In short, any man of that set, in distributing the patronage of the State, would be the ruin of the party. General Grant answered that he did not see what objection there could be to Mr. Stuart, for instance, who had done so much to sustain the loyal cause during the war. McClure insisted that Stuart, though a worthy gentleman, was not the man in a Cabi- net position to vitalize a party. General Grant’s answer was, “I am not the repre- sentative of a party myself, though a party voted for me.” This ended the argument. McClure had nothing further to say, except that he had mis- taken the standpoint from which to discuss the question of the Cabinet of Grant, and so the matter stands. The head managers of the republican party of Pennsylvania have been informed, through their deputy, by General Grant that the appointment of his Cabinet is a task upon which he intends to exercise his own judgment, which makes him master of the situation. It is the old Jackson policy revived. The amiable Lincoln tricd the McClure policy of conciliating his leading party politicians in his Cabinet by making it up mainly from his rivals in the Chicago Nominat- ing Convention, from Seward down to Bates, and it was a great mistake. But for the pres- sure of the war, which enforced a sort of har- mony, the clashing Cabinet intrigues, to go no further, of Seward and Chase to supplant each other in the line for the succession would have broken up Lincoln’s Cabinet in a month. As it was, those clashing intrigues were too much for Cameron and too much for Chase, and: would have been too much even for Seward had he not wisely in season adopted the saving alier- native of sinking his own pretensions in the superior claims of the President. This saved him to Lincoln and has. kept him with Johnson. It is enough, however, that Lincoln’s Cabinet experiment of conciliating the different cliques of his party politicians was a signal failure, and Grant is wise in resolving upon a different course, As the main result upon the main topic of his conversation with General Grant the perti- nacious-Colonel McClure is satisfied that Mr. George H. Stuart is the chosen Pennsylvanian for the new Cabinet. He is represented as a native of Ireland, an original abolitionist, an old line republican, President of the Christian Commission of the war, a prosperous ‘Phila- delphia merchant and a Scotch Presbyterian. With this admirable record Greeley is de- lighted, and dwells with especial satisfaction upon Stuart’s active church services as a Cove- nanter, and in view of the faithful work of this Church in the thirty years’ war against Southern slavery. But the latest rumors from Washington say that McClure is mistaken and that Stuart is not the man. The Pennsylvania politicians, therefore, of the Curtin-Forney faction will have to exercise the virtue of patience for a few days, as our New York Cabinet-makers are trying to do. A batch of them waited upon General Grant shortly after McClure and suggested Judge Pierrepont as a good man for New York. The General replied that he liked him very much, but of course could not say just yet anything more, except that no State, as New York now has, shall have two members of the Cabinet. It seems to be understood, however, that New York will get one, and the New Yorkers, thus com- forted, gracefully stepped out. The office-seekers and office-holders, en ‘masse, cannot be patient ; bat the plan re- solved upon by General Grant of burning their office-begging letters and of withholding any positive information concerning his Cabinet has made them somewhat cautious. They keep at respectful distance from the new fountain of power, but they are busy among the managing politicians, The lesson given to McClure will doubtless have a wholesome effect upon all these self-important politicians. It may derange all their calculations of the dis- tribution of the plunder in this State or that State, but it willdo them good. It will ope- rate to reduce the hordes expected in Wash- ington from and after the 4th of March. It is evident that General Grant will make short work of them and their trains of office-beggars. His hint to McClure covers a broader margin than his Cabinet. It means that as President Grant will not be like poor Pierce or Buchanan, the slave of a clique of politicians; nor lke Lincoln, the head of a wrangling Cabinet; nor like Johnson, victimized by flunkies and un- scrupulous office-heggars. It means, too, that the dominant party in Congress are to have in this soldier President something much more like Jackson than Johnson. Axoriter Stock Boarp, in the shape of as! Free Exchange, is proposed by certain sore- heads who cannot gain admission to the pre-. sent Wall street boards, This move is made, not in the interest of the public—for the boards already in existence are more than sufficient to transact all the legitimate business of the city—but to gratify the stock gambling mania of those who #0 are excluded. ‘Tre Curtain Raisey.—It is stated that the curtain has been partially raised on Grant's Cabinet, 80 far as Pennsylvania is concerned, but it isn’t the kind of Curtin tho radicals want, ‘The Mofrépelitan Exolse Law. ; The disoussion of the Metropolitan Excise law before the Committee on Internal Affairs on Wednesday and Thuraday does not seem likely to lead to a speedy repeal or even modi- fication of the present law by the New York Legislature. Nevertheless the arguments which several democratic representatives and German republican delegates .fgom New York city have presented to the committee in favor of essential modifications are undeniably strong. General Sigel, who headed the German depu- tation from this city, introduced a bill of Mr. Hodges, of Brooklyn, which, he said, was not intended to repeal this law, but to amend such portions of it as were, in the opinion of a large number of citizens of New York, oppres- sive and immoral. He objected to arbitrary arrests by the police, and denounced as unnatural the section which compels a child to become the accuser of its parent. He asked that Hquor stores should be closed only during certain specified hours on Sunday. He proposed, not unreasonably, that violations of the law should be punished by fine and imprisonment like other misdemeanors, and not by a revocation of the license, and that the violator should be reported to a magistrate, and not arrested and imprisoned by a police- man. Other delegates opposed the law as unconstitutional; as converting the police and the Excise Commissioners into a judiciary; as placing upon a particular. trade restrictions from which other trades are free; as distin- guishing in favor of a class, the rich versus the poor—in fine, as being at once a despotism and a failure, It was shown that there is more liquor sold in New York without than with a license. The increased Sunday con- sumption of liquor and Sunday drunkenness illustrate the old Scriptural statement that “where the law is there doth sin much more abound.” General Sigel earnestly defended the rights of his countrymen to enjoy the habits to which they are accustomed, whether on Sunday or any other day, and Colonel Murphy was shocked at hearing Rev. Mr. Taylor call upon God to palsy the arm of any- body who disagreed with his own Sabbatarian opinions. In replying to General Sigel Rev. Mr. Taylor had made this pious invocation, after declaring that “the Sabbath was an American right, and no foreigner should be permitted to bring a European Sabbath here.” He also made the mild declaration that ‘‘he was not only in favor of the law, but if he had his will he would sweep the whole liquor interest and trade into the deepest pit.” If the Germans persist in going to the opposite extreme and demanding the removal of all restrictions upon the Sunday traffic—against which the feeling in the Legislature is still too strong—‘‘they may,” says our Albany cor- respondent, ‘‘spoil all the efforts of the friends of modification. It will be some time, how- ever,” he adds, ‘before the bill comes out of the hands of the committee.” Meanwhile public opinion in favor of rational and just modification of the Metropolitan Excise law is steadily gaining ground. More of the Ocean Yacht Race. The letter of Commodore Douglas to Mr. Ashbury is admirable jn tone and in its points. In a former letter, it will be remem- bered, the Commodore challenged the owner of the Cambria, indicating rather than declaring the kind of race he would like. Mr. Ash- bury’s misapprehension of that letter having made it necessary to write more explicitly, the challenger now says:—‘‘My desire is to sail over a course entirely outside of the Eng- lish Channel, such as to the coast of Spain or to the Azores and back.” He further says that if this is not approved he will be content with a race out and in fifty miles to seaward from the west coast of Ireland. It should be observed that this last is a proposition for an out and out ocean race of the first order, as the Irish coast is the worst in the world to head from, since the vessel has the westerly sweep of three thousand miles of the Atlantic against her. We do not see how Mr. Ashbury can misunderstand this, nor how he can re- fuse it. He is willing to make a race to test the seagoing qualities of the boats, and he surely cannot shy @ little additional test of the pluck and capability of the navigators. Hav- ing so readily accepted the Sappho for a race in the English Channel can he refuse to try her in the open sea, when it is the claim of English yachtmen that their boats alone are fit for the ocean and ours fit only for rivers? Commodore Douglas’ letter must also cer- tainly call the attention of English yachtmen to the evident unfairness of what is designated “Thames measurement.” Ho presents the single fact that while by one measurement the Sappho is made twice as large as the Cambria, by another the two boats are within a trifle of the same size. Such a fact as this, if there is any fair play among English yachtmen, must surely prevent them insisting on their measure- ment as a standard for international matches, A Bap Exampre Bapry Fotrowep.—The republican Senators in the Legislature appear to be apt scholars and are not likely to be out- done by their teachers in Congress in elegance ot diction and purity of lingual expression. During the discussion in the Albany Senate on Thursday upon the resolution to recommend the repeal of the Tenure of Office law Senator Kennedy used this language:—‘‘When the tocsin sounds the death knell of the disgraced administration about to retire it would be time enough to repeal the law.” Senator Parker also said that President Johnson ‘would go forth as Cain went forth from the presence of his Maker!” That smacks a good deal of the old impeachment style of language, only on a small scale. Surely this is following a bad example very badly. Tre Constitutional, AMENDMENT Passep,.— It will be seen by the news from Washington that the Senate has accepted the constitutional amendment agreed upon by the committee of conference of the two houses, It is shorn of the extreme radical features and therefore did not suit some of the ultra Senators. It isa harmless amendment, and, in fact, only amounts to a declaration of the right of all men, of whatever race or color, to the suffrage. Nothing is said about the right to hold office. The mountain has been in labor a long time and has now brought forth » mouse. Tax Great UnKxowns.—McClure tells General Grant that Stuart is unknown in Penn- syivania, Who knows McClure? eS ee John Bright on Oceana Penny Postage. Ata et of the Associated Cha wbers 4 Commerce held the other evening in Londo! Jobn Bright made characteristic speech, and urged, we are told, the importance and neces- sity of adopting the system of ocean penny postage. There is no public man living now ‘in England whose mame is so extensively and honorably associated with reform as John Bright. Since 1832 up until the present time there has been no reform movement in Great Britain to the success of which he has not largely contributed. Mr. Bright is the very man to take up the question of cheap ocean postage. It is one of those improvements which to prove successful requires only'the advocacy of such a man, The times are ripe for a change, There is but one argument that can be used* against ocean penny post- age—that it will not pay. This, however, is an argument that has no solid foundation to rest upon, All the facts are against it. It is @ trath which cannot be gainsald, that in pro- portion as national and international postage has been cheapemed so has it become ser- viceable and sp has it proved remnnerative. The ties which now bind Great Britain to the United States are so numerous and go strong that facilities for the communication of thought and feeling, not to speak of more substantial interchanges, for the present cannot be suffi- ciently multiplied. A two cent postage be-~ tween this country and Great Britain would be immediately followed by a similar arrange- ment between this country and Germany. The arrangement would be a gain to all con- cerned. It would be a special gain to the United States, for which reason we hope, not merely that Mr. Bright will keep up the fire, but that it will be warmly responded to on this side. The thing has but to be started te prove a success, Recovety ef the Second Cuba Cable. It will be remembengd by our readers that the attempt of the International Ocean Tele- graph Company to lay a second cable between Key West and Havana failed last year from the drifting too far to the eastward of the steamer Narva while laying it, and the conse- quent necessity of dropping some miles from the shore the end that was to have been landed in Cuba. The end was buoyed, but the buoy rope broke one hundred and twenty-five fathoms below the surface, and hence the necessity of grappling for the cable in the same manner that the Great Eastern grappled for the first Atlantic cable. The work to recover the Cuba cable was performed under very different circumstances from that of re- covering the Atlantic cable. ‘The latter lay at @ depth of one thousand nine hundred and eighty fathoms, on a level bottom, under still water; while the Cuba cable was lost at a depth of eight hundred fathoms, on an uneven bottom, and with a vast volume of water driving over it at an average rate of four miles an hour, Preparations for the work were made by placing on the steamer New England, machinery similar to that used. for recovering the lost Atlantic cable on board the Great Eastern. Owing to the strength of the current the grap- pling ropes were required to be unusually strong. They consisted of sixteen steel wires, each encased in Manila hemp, and laid up in strands of four each; This rope was divided into lengths of two hundred fathoms, with shackles and swivels between each. The point where the cable was found was passed over with the grapples six times, and thrice the cable was caught. On the first occasion the cable parted, through some fault in the machinery, and the second time it parted at a splice, a heavy sea running. On the 15th of February it was caught again and successfully raised and landed, and now we have a double cable to Cuba, as we have to Europe. The operations were performed under the personal supervision of General William F. Smith, President of the Interna- tional Telegraph Company, and Sir Charles Bright, engineer-in-chief of the company. This event is another assurance of the practi- cability of handling ocean cables and laying them, and will conduce to strengthen the science of ocean telegraphy. A New Theatre for Headings. The multitude of “readers” who followed in the wake of Hon. Mrs. Yelverton, Mr. Charles Dickens, Mrs. Kemble, the Countess de la Morlitre and Mrs. Scott-Siddons have gradu- ally disappeared. But an altogether new thea- tre for “‘readings” was opened yesterday in the Supreme Court, where, in the course of the “Griffith Gaunt” and Hound Table libel suit, Charles Reade vs. Charles H. Sweetzet et al., Mr. George Vandenhoff, the well known actor and elocutionist, was invited, on behalf of the plaintiffs, to read “Griffith Gaunt,” in order to enable the jurors to determine upon its alleged impurity as a literary work. A novel scene in court was thus presented. Mr. Vandenhoff, who at first seemed to be reading against time at a velocipede rate, became in- terested himself, as he rapidly turned over page after page, and his interest was commu- nicated to the jurors, whose faces, intently fixed upon him and expressing the different emotions excited by the story, reminded the spectators of one of Hogarth’s famous pictures, It must have been a relief to the jurors to enjoy so unusual an entertainment as that given by Mr. Vandenhoff—an entertainment which might have been still more interesting had Mr. Charles Reade himself been the reader. As it. was, the counsel for the de- fendants became impatient, and, seeming to be apprehensive that too favorable an impression would be produced by the “‘reading,” abruptly interrupted it by a motion for the exclusion of the book from being offered in evidence, and for judgment on the pleading, upon the assumption that the plaintiff had not proved that he wagthe author of the book. The ques- tion was argued at length, after the jury had been dismissed until Monday, when Judge Clerke will probably decide the questions which were raised yesterday. The case is fully reported in another column. _ An Impudent Politician. Mr. McClure wants General Grant to appoint to his Cabinet from Pennsylvania some man who will keep the republican party in that State together—who will vitalize it, and make it “‘pulsate.” This is the true political argument, ‘and what these words as used by politicians mean can be understood when people understand McClure. McClure some months ago went out to the Indian country and there saw how things could be done in the way of a big job. His eyes were opened—he was excited. He must get that thing in his hands somehow. Curtin is McClure’s man. McClure pulls the wires that move Curtin in the eyes of the public, just as Thurlow Weed has pulled the wires for many political puppets from this State. McClure’s plin, then, was to make Curtin Sec- retary of the Interior, and through him as such Secretary to get possession of the Indians. This is the whole of it! This is what his con- cern for the “republican party” means, and this is the beginning, the middle and the end of all that he had in view in his, indecorous as- sault on the President elect. Srock GAMBLING AND THE CABLE TELE- GraMs.—On Thursday, when our bonds took @ sudden leap of one or two per cont in London, the despatches to the Associated Press were curiously silent, The blame cannot be attributed to the wires or cable this time; for the foreign bankers and private speculators on Wall street knew it, and made use of their knowledge very advantageously, several hours before the information reached the press. As Artemus Ward would inquire, ‘Why is this thing so thusly” every timo there is a chance to speculate by suppressing the telegrams? The Western Union Company ought to insti- tute an inquiry as to the cause of the delay. A Ratroap Was of large proportions is threatened between the English bondholders of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway on the one hand and the directors of that road and the Erie Railway on the other. The cause of the dispute is the alleged failure of the latter or their agents to pay the interest, due and past due, on the mortgages of the Atlantig and Great Western Railway, as agreed to in the lease accepted by the Erie Company. As several railway kings and an English baronet are among the disputants it promises to be an important piece of litigation. More Rymors From WasHINGTON ABOUT tae New Capinet.—We have more rumors from Washington about General Grant’s Cabi- net, but nothing definite; no, not even as to that Pennsylvanian. The politicians are in o great muddle and General Grant quietly smiles, It is not certain as to Mr. Stuart, though the President elect continues to speak very highly of him and expresses great regard for him whenever his name is mentioned. The pre- vailing impression is that Mr. Stuart is the Pennsylvania man. It is now reported that General Grant has gone a little further and said that New York is to have one Cabinet appointment and also Ohio, Illinois and the South, and that New England is to have one. It is further stated that all the Cabinet ap- pointees will be in Washington by the time of the inauguration, Still these are only rumors. The sphinx at Washington around whom all are buzzing and anxiously watching has not yet epoken plainly. He only smiles, The Alaska Investigation a Fizzic. We publish to-day the report of the Com- mittee of Congress relative to the bribery in- vestigation concerning the Alaska purchase money. There is nothing new in the report beyond what has appeared from time to time in the Heratn, except the conclusions of the committee, and in these it is stated there is no evidence to show that members of Congress or the press had been bribed. But it is clear from the evidence that some of the Bohemians in Washington did make desperate efforts to get hold of ® portion of the Alaska purchase money. The committee exonerates, however, the respectable portion of the press and the press generally. The only lobby fund used, as far as was proved, was that paid to Mr. R. J. Walker in the shape of a fee. According to the statement of the committee seven millions Grant Justiriep.—We see by what has just happened in regard to one Cabinet appoint- ment what would have happened in regard to all if Grant had made only as much known in reference to them as he made known of that one. He let it slip in a peculiarly communi- cative moment that he intended to have a man from Pennsylvania, and see what a rampus is made about it. What a time we should have had if he had declared his whole programme! A First Rats Noriozg mw a Western Pa- PER.—The Lafayette (Ind.) Courier announces that a patent for making brick is offered for sale in Tippecanoe county, and adds:—“‘A first rate notice will be found in the telegraphic column—the fall of a church steeple built of that kind of material.” Terrie Repoist or THz Exemy.—The first organized assault of the politicians on Grant was made under McClure and was beaten off very handsomely, and for this victory and what ithas shown the defence is immensely stronger even than it was. Rara Avis—The Albany legislator who neither drinks nor smokes and boards in a modest parlor at the public expense and pays his own carriage hire. Who is he? The chairman of the House Committee on Elec- tions says that he is that identical bird. ‘THE YACHT WENAIETTA SAILS FROM CHARLESTON. ‘The yacht Henrietta sailed last evening from this port, bound to New York. She was in fine trim, aud of that city:— ‘The beautifal and fast sailing yacht Henrietta, so well known everywhere for her success on the water, aged vend atiernoon, She tsiast from Key West, drawn for only millions, The balance of | fe’ Previously from Havana, having left a two million one hundred and sixty-five thon- of naving wo ty at Pe erekee sand dollars appears to have been swallowed | Preczo trom southcant trates nO eer up in commissions, fees and costs. The com- 206 tons, measurement, and was built ot mittee plains it could at Greenpoint, fom itn, about tne itr aed o> tht there alr he inthe properay of Mrs James Uordon | oe remains a cloud over the Alaska purchase | Jr., of the ‘ORK Her most tennnciiens, an on onoe eee 1808, when.