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WASHINGTON Ths Instructions to Admiral Hoff in Cuba. Filibustering Expeditions to be Intercepted. The Sale of Peruvian Monitors to the Insurgents Not Allowed. GRANT’S RECEPTION. MR&. Interview Between President Grant and Casa- nova’s Daughters, Nominations and Confirma- tions to Office. THREE COLORED MEN CONSIRMED The Union Pacific Railroad Bill in the Senate. Passage of the Census Bill in the House. WASHINGTON, April 6, 1569. Tho Sale of the Peruvian Monitors to Cubans Not Permitted by the United States—Bellige- rent Rights to be Extended to the Cubans. ‘The rumor that the two Peruvian tron-clads Would probably be transferred to the Cuban pro- visional government is not credited in government circles here. There is good authority for the belief that this government would not countenance an act of the kind, The representatives of the Cuban revolution have beeu given to understand that this administration would not regerd with favor any act likely to affect the commercial interests of any power friendly to the United States, in other words, this country wiil mot be guilty of the duplicity that characterizea the action of England during our civil war, At the same time, the representatives of the Cuban move- ment have been assured of the sympathy and to some extent the substantial ald of our government. There 1s reason to believe that at no distant day belligerent rights will be extended to the struggling Cubans, thus guaranteeing them all the facilities for procuring the munitions of war which the Spaniards now enjoy in the cities of thus country, Delegation of Cnbau Ladies at the Capitol— Sensation Among the Fashionables at Mre. Grants Reception—The Case of Mr. Casa- nova. Mrs. Emilia C. De Villaverde and Miss Manuela Yuquierdo, of the Cuban Ladies’ Relief Association, ‘were at the Capitol to-day in company with General Banks, who showed them around the House and Senate and introduced them to a good many distin- guished members of Congress. Later in the day they catled on General Sherman and General Rawlins, Secretary of War, in company with Mr. Leopold Yzquierdo. At two o’clock they visited Mrs. Grant, who was holding her first re- ception at the Wiaite House, which was largely attended. The Cuban ladies were conspicu- ous in the brilliant throng that flied the Blue and Red rooms. Miss Yzquierdo was dressed in cuir colored silk trimmed with white lace, and wore con- spicuously on her breast, suspended by a piece of ribbon, a miniature model of the Cuban fag, con sisting of red, white and blue bars, with a rea trian- gular fleld, in the centre of which was a white star. Miss. Yzquierdo made friends very fast among the ladies assembled in the East room, She isa young and beautifal Cuban, with a wonderful wealth of jet Diack tresses, “all her own,” and eyes of very bril- Mant lustre. Mrs. Villaverde was dressed in blue silk, and wore the national colors of Cuba, as already described. Mrs. Grant was very cordial to her Cuban visitors. She requested Major W. W. Leland to take them around the mansion and * conservatory and show them everything of mterest in the place, which mission the Major very gallantly performed. On returning Mrs, Villaverde intimated to Mrs, Grant that she desired to see the President in reference to her father, Mr. Casanova, now 1m- prisoned by the Spanish authorities in Cuba, Mrs, Grant very kindly went up stairs and desired Gene- ra] Dent to conduct the Cuban ladies to the library, and then inform President Grant that an interview with him was requested in reference to the case of Mr. Casinova. The President made bis appegrance promptly and = entered freely into conVergation “with thé ladies, He assured Mra. Villaverde that he had given his personal at- tention to her father's case, and no later than this morning he had an interview with the Secretary of State in relation to it. Mrs. Villaverde was so overcome by the degree of interest manifested by the President that she burst into tears, batsLaoel onl i - ont —— Seal A Ribly atfecied nis hifveiency, who tial assured her that the Qified states government would do agi iy ita power to protect its citizens everywiere, The interview then terminated. Nominations Seat to tho Satute. The following nominations were sent to the Senate to-day:— Deputy nnmissioner of Interna’ Recenv e—Joun W. Douglass, bn L. Haynes for the district of district of Salusia, ontiard, for the district of Minnesota; Rob: for Fernandina, Fla.; Wm. ©. Vanco, at Key ‘orpus Christt, Texas; Hie cola, Fin: L. A. Armistead, at Apa- Pin.; Frederick A. Dockers, nt St. Johns, la. 0 Custone--Reviber Stephenson, at Cincinnati, 6 Fisher, at Cairo, Il, ‘baries Dillingham, at New Orleans. Owen Ay Eel ia; O. J. * MeClarg, Foxas; Jn ert M. Smith, West, Fla, ; Thomas Kearney, nt © am Potter, jachicola, ’e ec enth district of Pennsyl U » wh; Frank We G First district a Calli, Fourth disteret of Tilinote; Thomas A. Duke, First district of Kentucky; J. R. Stebbins, Twentieth district of New York; E. D. Wood, Fourth district of Augessors 0 Urternal Revenue Ae By As don, Second distri rs t Towa }. Bags John K. Bowen, Kighteenth’ district of Pennsylvan ©. Babcock, finch district of Iidnols; Thomas Powers, goud district of North Qxrolinay “a atmaaters—W. He Penns at Cirelevitie, Ohio; Thomas Blossom, at jinflalo, N. Benjamin Wrne, at Platteville, js, ; Seth Howe, at Monroe, Wik.; Mra. Harriet Spencer, at Ubarion Butinger, nt Manttowne, Wis.; John _ Okolona, Mina, F, Wilken, at Lynchburg, Va.; Wiliam R, Stetson, at Bruns: wick, Me. William N. sei «Vincennes, Ind.; Thomas B. Maury, at Macon, 1.; Issac B. Gara, at Erie, Pa, J. As + at Getty C! Fell, at N gon A. Se! 1, * hy ny. &, Amy, N Brown, Agent for Chap f the Mi H. Rockaway, Agent for Michigan, Hoplsters. op Lam piers Waleon Stewart, at Humboldt, Wwiinm J. Seed, at Springield, Miseourl; Morgan | t Traverse cy ichigan, George W. Martin, at ydKaneas; E. M. Bartlett, at Rauclair, Wise "Public Sones James M, Whikenson, at. Mar John KW. Ti Wabash, Oliver Edwards, at War rg, Pa.; Joseph H. w Mexico; Chas, 7. ouri aud others; W. ree stars cite Michigan? fuben Goodrich, at Traverse City, Michi. ay; Wm, J, Odenhammer, at, Springfeld, Missourl ©. H. ‘sughiin, at Denver City, Colorado; H: M. Btoe Knxueclaire, Wisconsin. Agents.J. Fe Rusting, at Jersey City; Wm, J. Broken, at Nashville, Tenn. ; B. M. Prentice, at Quiney, Tl, Win, T. Sapp, to be nited Slates Attorney for the Disurict of Town. ‘Thomas G, Young, Marshal for the District of Oregon, Nominations Withdrawn from the Senate. ‘vhe President has withdrawn from the Senate the followlig nominations: — Daniel W. Chicherter, Postmaster at Placerville, Cat; jeon Underrwood, wor of Internal Revenue for the First District of Louisiana; Kdward V. Kin Res & Madrid; W. H. Narnes, jaternal Revenue for the First Distriot of Pennsylvania, Nominations Confirmed by the Senate, ‘The Senate this afternoon confirmed the following nominations: — Emti Hoechster, of tlinote, Consul at Bremen; Ly 1, Litehiel shal of Dacotah; Geo, W. French, Chief Jostice of the Supreme Court of Dacotah ; Jeferson'P. Kide der, Ansociate J H. Howe, Chief Justice, Wyoming; John wen and William T. Jones, Ae Ww naar of rial fo Jenkins, Jr. for the a, Seventh rn K 2 NEW YORK HERALD. vada; Franklin vel voamasters—James W, Speed, Loulaville, Ky, ; A.J. reamed ‘Rondout, N. ¥.; ‘The following is @ list of the naval officers con- firmed by the Senate within the past few daya:— Cuptaine—T. HL. T. H, Patterson and E. '. Nichols tobe restored to thelr fortaee iH. positions on the navy register. Vo be Captains—James F, Arinstrong, Aaron K. fiu; and E. R. Calhoun, a) be Commanders—Charles C. Carpenter and Wm. A, Kirk- Tohe eile Paymadert—L. A. Frailey, J. H. Stevenson and George . Hen To be Passed Aavistant Paymasters—J. P. Loomis, H. T. B, Harris and C. H, Lockwood, To be Assistant Surqeons—Wm. H. Corwin and ©. L. Cassin. To be Second Lieutenants in the Marine Corpe—Wm. K, Me- Sherry and Allan C. Kelton. To be Lheutenant Commanders when they pass the necesanry ex anination—C, T, Goodrich, A. G. Chedwell, C. M. Kennedy, Ht. H, McCalla, F, E, Chadwick, 8. H. Baker, T. J, Jewell, ‘T, Schmitz, G. W. Armentrout, D, C, Woodrow, H> C. White, C.M. Stedinan and J. C. Kennett. To be Lieutenants after they pase the neceeat George A. Converse, Fremont M. ford, Cyris W. Breed, Francis M. Charles H. Black, George W. DeLan; Timothy A. Lyons, John 8. Newel seph E. Craig, Arthur H. Fletcher, M. Thomas, samuel Baird, Ai SI Reiter, Wallace Graham, Roswell D. Hitchcock, Willard Brownson, Henry F, Nichols, Henry W. Gwinner, W: liam W. ‘Mead, Thomas P.” Wilkon,=Williain H, EWi- ott, Richard C, Hooker, Edwin 8, Houston, Benjamin Long Eder, Francis M. Gorte, George M. Book, Eugene B. Thomas, Kdwin Longnecker, Join A. Vaughn, ’ Marcus B. Buford, Robert Impey, George K. Ide, Abraham H, Vail, Josiah M. Wilson, Thomas Perry, Charles H. Stockton, Louis A. Kings- ley, James K. Pagsdale and Isaac Has'ett. : Ti be Masters when (iey have pissedthe neceasary examination— Alvert L. Sprague, Washburn Maynard, Richard M. Cutts, Henry W. ise lames H. Dayton, Asa Walker, M. It. 8. Mackenzie, meee M. Totten, Charles 8. Sperry, Frant Courtis, Willian Watts, William’ W. Ko Willi Burwell, Jobu J. Hunks Cc. Wisi Within C, Franklin Hanfdrd, Douglas Roben, Geor, Frederick W. Grocker, Robert’ M. drew A. Lair, Samuel W. Very, Davie, Theodore Willlams, Charles H. Judd, Ransome B. Peck, Thomas C. Terrell, ( ore A Bicknell, John M. Taft, Samuel slarkson, Murray 8. Day, Henry 8. Manney, Ho- ratio R. Wilson, Jerome E. ‘apman C, Todd, Rufus Waterman, George A. Norris, ohn R. Wm. H. Parker, Jr. Benjamin 8, Richards Frank Turnbull, John «. Talbot, Joseph N. helan, Wm, A, Moore, Hugh W. McKee, Hemphill, Abr am B. H, Liliié, William ‘1, Swinburne, Edward Woodman, Abiel B. Carter, Henry Whelan, Louis V. Housel, Emmet M Win. H. Emory, ea T. Hutchins, Seth M. Ackley, R.'Masoa Lisie, Bloomteld Mellvaine, Clifford 8 Gill, George W. Coster, Wm, W. Gillpasrick, Isacc T. Yates and Charles T. Ar.nold. To de Second Aasistint Engineers when they have passed the ne coseary exumination--Charies H. Manntng, James A. Deaver, 8. Calvin McLanahan, Harrison Spear, Nicholas H. Lawden, Francis M. Ashton, Henry H. Kimball, John K, Stevenson, John J. Ryan, Jasper H. Diamond,’ Thomas W. Francis C. Burchard, Julius A. Kaiser, George Harrie Webster, Wiliam, G. McEwen, George 8. Gates, hel Main, Francis N. Trevor, Theron Skeel, Holland Stevenson,’ Frank J. Symmes, John Q. A. Ford, Charles Purdie, Jutien S. Ogden, Charles W. Rae, George H. Kea ney, Jones Godfrey, William 8, Moore, Cyrus D. ‘Foss, John ec Negro Officers for South Carolina and Lou- isiana Confirmed. Among the confirmations of postmasters yester- day was that of Charles M. Wilder, at Columbia, S. C. This is tue first confirmation by the Senate of a colored man, Wilder was formerly a siave. F. Jou- bert, colored, was confirmed as assessor of the First district of Louisiana, and 0. T. Hall, colored, was confirmed as justice of the peace for the district of Columbia. The Baltimore Collectorship. A delegation from Baltimore called at the Execu- tive Mansion this morning and had an interview with the President, the object being to urge the ap- pointment of ex-Mayor Chapman, of that city, for Collector of the Port. ‘fhe Census Bill—A Horde of Expectants Dise appointed. The Census bill reported by the House committee, which provided for taking the census in Aprii and the appointment of a horde of new oficers was knocked into pi to-day in the House of Represen- tatives. Nothing but the five first sections, making some general arrangements preliminary to the work, were retained. The remainder of the sections, some twenty odd, were ignored. As the bill now stands the census will be made to apply as heretofore, to the first day of June, and a plan for the details of the work will be arranged by the Secretary of the interior, the Superintendent of Census and a jomt committee of the two houses, which must be sub- mitted to Congress at its next session. Should the Senate not concur, it is probable the ninth census will be taken in accordance with the law of 1850, under which we have nad the best tWo censuses of the country ever taken. The law of 1850 was pre- pared by aboard composed of Join M. Ciayton, Jacob Collamer and Reverdy Johnson, with Jos. ). G. Kennedy as secretary, who superinteaded the taking of the censuses of 1850 and1s60 The Reception at the White House. Mrs. Grant’s reception this afternoon was largely attended. A number of gentiemen accompanied ladies, who paid their respects, Mrs, Grant was assisted in receiving her callers by Mrs. General Babcock and Mrs, Senator Williams, Business at the Navy Department. Secretary Borie has made public a notice request- ing visitors to confine their Interviews with the Sec- retary to the special business for which they are ad- mitted. Applications for positions in the Navy Yard must be referred to the chief clerk, who will give proper attention to them, and see that they are forwarded to the commandants of the yards, This course has been adopted since the Secretary desires not to m- terfere with such appointments, which properly come under the supervision of the commandants, The Question of Rauk in the Navy. The House Commitee on Naval Affairs has agreed to report a bill legalizing the navy regulations relative to the staff and line officers established by the late Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Wells. The present regulations are to continue in force for one year according to this bill, and in the meantime Con- gress will prescribe new ones, The committee has authorized their chairman to report the bill to the House and endeavor to pass it. This ts in direct con- flict with the recent order issued by the Secretary of the Navy relative to the line and stafomcers. On this point the committee is at variance with the Secretary. The bill, should it even pass the Hone, which is doubtful, for want of time, does tot stand any show in the Seve, ine Kaval Coinmiitee of that oly veing int favor of the Secretary's order, _» ‘fhe Annexation of St. Doiningo. ‘The House Committee on Foreign Affairs, after a careful consideration of the whole subject, has at last agreed upon a resolution relative to the annexn- tion of St. Domingo, and authorized General Ranks to report it to the House, It provides that the President of the United States shall be authorized to open negotiations with the government of St. Domingo, either by the appointment of a commis- sion, or in whatever manner he may deem best cai- culated to promote the success of the projected an- nexation. General Banks Will report the resolu- uion as soon as possible and endeavor to get it through the House. He has prepared an claborate speech on the subject, Which, should time permi,t he will deliver. : The Treaty with Haws! The Senate Commitice on Foreign Reiations agreed to-day to report favorably to the next executive session of the Senate the treaty some time ago en- tered into betwoen this country and the Sandwich Islands tn retation to commerce, and which gives to the United States certam privileges not enjoyed by other Powers, ‘The Miami Indian Reservation in Kansans. The Commissioner of the General Land Onice has prepared forty-three patents, embracing about 8,600 acres of land in Kansas, allotted from the Miami national reserve for members of the Miami tribe of Indians, under provisions of the treaty with those Indians of June 6, 1854, which allotments were ap- proved by the Secretary of the Interior February 1, 1869, The Texas Election to be Postponed. ‘The Reconstruction Committee to-day adopted & resolution to be reported to the House postponing the Texas vote on the constitution until further ac- tion by Congress. Fall Session of the Supreme Court. It {g now the intention of the Supreme Court to hold a session during the months of October, Novem- ber and December, then to adjoura over the holidays to the Ist of February, when the Court will hold another session of three mouths. If the bill to reor- ganize the Court now pending becomes a law the periods and time above mentioned will become a permanent arrangement. The Mutilated Currency Question Decided. Joseph K, Tyler, the Collector of Customs and A sistant United States Treasurer at Buffalo, N. Y., had an interesting tnterview with Secretary Boutwell and Treasurer Spinner this morning upon the mutt ted currency question, The Collector exhibited Fitch, mer at once declared that such currency had lost nothing of its current value and it, both depositaries. Secretary Boutwell coinciding in this of money as found for services Reretotore ‘actually rendered, promised it shall be that said: Wea Galy taken itor or ° ith the account’the by the act of August 6, 1861; but in oath prescri fore the enacument of this bill such opinion it was determined that such instructions | oath or aMrmation may be waived. and orders should be issued as would prevent the | CLERICAL FORCM OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. refusal of similar notes by the departmeut im the | , MF. future and also provide for their destruction and re- placement by new bills, The latter is the real dim- culty to be overcome, but it is of suMicient import ance, both to the national banks and the public, to | marks, The paper read in his command the attention of the Currency Bureau, ‘The desirable object to be attained 1s tw cancel the mutilated notes and replace them with others, with- outso reducing the volume of circulation as to disturb or embarrass the commercial transactions of the country. Perso: Senator Grimes and family will leave New York on the 24th of April for Europe. THE REVOLUTION IN THE NAVY. The Staff Officers Set Back—Work in the Dockyards—The Old Arks of the Navy, to be Taraed Into Fiying Clippers. WASHINGTON, April, 6 1869, The bill of Senator Grimes reorganizing the rank Goo of staff officers in the navy possesses an interest for the naval service which outsiders entirely fail to ap- preciate. It is easy to understand the necessity PATTERSON, {rep.) of N. H,, introduced a bill Teorganize the clerical force of the Interlor De- ent and for other pamposee, ‘which was ref the Joint Committee on Retrenchment, THE UNION PACIFIC RASLROAD. Mr. Stewart, (rep.) of Nev., continued his re- speech yesterday, he sald, was an agreement between the Credit Mobilier and Oliver Ames, Johu B, Alley and other trustees of the Union Pacific Kaitroad that they will vote for the directors of the Union Pacifle Railroad who shall be nominated by the present board of directors, or, in defauit of such nomination, wiil vote to continue the direction unchanged, and that if they fail to ful- fll this agreement they shall forfeit their share m_ the profits of the Crédit Movilier, He was enabled to throw some additional light bw the organization and profits of the Credit ‘obilier, by the complaint of H, 8. McComb, one of the signers of the agreement and a director of the Union Pacific Railroad, who had commenced a suit in Pennsylvania against the Oredit Mobilier. Mr, Stewart read portivus of this complaint giving the hames of the manazers of the Credit Mobilier and descriping their mode of management, and said that the Credit Mobilier, since it got control of the Union Pacific Kailroad Company, had obtained control of enough of the stock of the road to control the jons of the company, and had done by violating at least the intent of the ‘law. The law had provided — that the stock should be open to all the world for sub- eription; but tiese ery had defeated that provi- sion by first subscribing a littie and then closing the for an officer in command of a ship to possess | pooks, organizing the Crédit Mobiler, and, with the absolute and unquestioned authority in every- thing pertaining to his vessel. In fact, to be a thorough and successful commander he must wield his power like an autocrat, and few will complain when the reflection occurs to them mee that im the war of elements, when the sea rolls | as mountain high and disaster becomes imminent, nothing under heaven but the untraimmelied au- enormous dividends realized from it, buying up the stock and putting it out of the reach of everybody else. They bad bought up these fifteen millions of stock, not with ther own money but with the bounty of the governmeut, In view of this state of things retence of an election would be a shame, and r, Stewart) would have President Gran. appoint ireciors men not interested in the road, and let them take charge of it. The nilemen who sought to get out of the ands of Fisk and Durant could get relief in this thority of the commander can save the vessel from | way aud confidence in the road would be restored. destruction. Divided command in such an hour or in the perilous period of a fight would work sure and decided overthrow. The sense of this belief impressed itself forcibly on the mind of the chair- man of the Senate Naval Committee and mduced him to set about adjusting the ill advised arrange- ments put in force by Grandfather Welles, of giving stat officers who attain a certain grade of seniority equal rank with the commanders of vessels. Welles’ | say plan has done a great deal to sow the seeds of ill feeling between the line and staif officers of the navy, and has without doubt been detrimental to the best interests, the discipline, the ediciency and the general morale of “the service. The line oificers in the navy hold the same relaitve rank to the staif as line officers m_ the army; yet who would gravely propose to put the surgeon of a regiment on the same level of command as the colonel. Yet this was exactly the status of the hitherto existing regulations in the navy. After acertain term of service a surgeon, In regard to the proceedings in New York Mr. Stew- art said that a great many bad things had been said about Judge Baruard, but in lls judgment the jurisdic- tion in this case had not been hurried and turnished no grounds tor reproach. As to the dispute about the oiut of junction this seemed very clear. The Cen- Paciilc Railroad Company liad worked from the first as a line located and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and that oficial acuon could not be annuiled or set aside by the affidavit of General Dodge or any amount of offictal or hear- evidence, | He criticised severely the management of the Duion Pacific Company, which, he said, did not take near so much pains as the Central Company to keep its road open or to accommodate the public; aud tie Secretary, at his request, read a letter froma passenger setting fort a series of delays, aunoyances, hardships, over charges, and other impositions and outrages, suf- fered by himself and his fellow passengers on the Union Pacific Company’s road. Ke (Mr. Stewart) tad had no mail from the Pacific coast for eigiat or ten days past, owing to the delays on the Union Company's road, and he had known the mails to be Paymaster or engineer took assimilated rank with | “elayed ilfty or sixty days at a time by the same coinmanders, and thus it could happen that four commanders wight be on board the one vessel at the same time, The sensible way of settling the matter ts that which Senator Grimes proposes of giving staff officers rank in their own corps as inspectors, sur- ns, staff surgeons, €c. The other plan can alone reed dissension and demoralization. The recent cause. It was not true, as had been represented, that these delays were caused by snow blockades, Snow, undoubtedly had something to do with them, but no such delays lad occurred ou tie Central road, although the snow fell there in much larger quantity than on the Union read. uf Mr. Davis, (dem.) of Ky., had read by the Secre- tar) an amendinent, whicu he said he wouid ojfer order of Secretary Borie has of course carried dis- when it should be in order, directing the Attorney may into the ranks of the staff officers, and they fill the air with lamentations over their inexorable fate, for those surgeons, paymasters and chief enginee! who ranked as captains, are put back to the rank ol commanders; those who ranked as commanders and lieutenant commanders are put back to lieutenants; passed assistant surgeons, passed assistant paymas- ters and first assistaat engineers, who ranked as lieutenants, go back to the rank of masters, while assistant surgeons, assistant masters and second Ponies engineers, who ranked as masters, are feduced to the rank of ensigns, or next above midshipmen; and the stair shall always be junior to the assimilated rank of the line. Over this-cruel order there is great wailing and weeping, because. as you know, rank, like power, is a ting to be relinquished oniy with regret. Admirai Porter, however, who ought to know something about the navy, considering that he has || passed his lifetime im it, yielded the wisdom of his experience and believes very firmly that it will do a great deal of good. It will put things in their natu- ral order and restore that discipline and subordina- tion of parts to the whoie without which the navy of any country cannot be said to be properly or- anized. . In the short time that has elapsed since the advent of the new Secretary the amount of real work ac- complished 1s something marvelious, Let us ran over a few promment items in the long list to show What a heap in that legacy of rust and rottenness left by old Daddy Welles has been swept away. Aboard of ike & has been estaolished to ex- amine into all the navy yards for the eee of bringing about an eificient and econom! establisnwent, to remove have been drawing pay back nothing in reiurn, to seil all use- less Jumber and machinery, which can be found in all the navy country and to turn the mouey into the 1're: to establish a system which we never bad before aud which will be useful to us in time of war, This board will not couteat itself with looking after tue sale of this lumber and machinery, but will make strict inquiry into the cause of the accumulation against the provisions of law. Another board has been cstabiished to examine into the etticiency of our steam navy, to recommend the sate of old and useless vessels and to let us know what we have to we had dar- lag (he War—a set of old tubs that every sharp con- tractor ana swindler managed to palm oi on the government for fast sallers, but none of which ever got within @ hundred miles of the all destroymge rebel cruisers. Still another board lias been put in operation for the purpose of examining f and re- commending a change in the rig of our c sels. Steam 18 hereafter to be economized, aud those vessels that have heretofore groped along under steam merely will now consiitute @ fect of Alabamas im their speed, aud like the flying Dutchfaan, will be here, there aud ¢. erywhere at the same tinié, “*"" A plan has been sent to all our naval stations by which the hybrid rigs are to be transmuted, and th place of the lubberiy old arks that fly the ofticial Stars and Stripes of America we are to have vessels presenting an appearance as perfect and peau. | tifal in the outline as the famous Fidel Henrietia, Already in tue dock yyrds mas's are being hoisted out and altered, gaiis enlarged, bowsprits run out over the naked looking bows, handsome cutwaters added to tue vessels, heavy guns mounted in place of popguns, and in a few months we may Neyerd have some vessels at least that can K2ep the ocean without the use of coal. Tuere 18 solne hope also thatour oiMcers may recover that reputation for seamanship witich they have so long enjoyed, and which 1t seemed to be Mr, isher- wood's desire to destroy. One of the best things done by the department is the consigning of Mr. Isherwood to that oblivion which his acts iierit. ee Orders have been issued, breaking up the abuses that have existed Jor years, reorgauizing the navy, abolishing regulations in violation of iaw, reorgan- izing the Navy Department, re-establishing authority of commanders of navy yards and placing the author ity where it belongs, making critical examinations into all the different departments, giving orders with regard to equal distribution of service among oMicers of the navy, estavlishing a system of account- ability in all pay departments. Boards have also been established in the several navy yards for the purpose of redressing grievances and repairing acts of injustice committed by a former administration, ‘The navy for the first time in the last eight years seems to have a little life in it, Our navy yards are filed with old hulks, none of which can be sent to sea or used for any Purpose, rat traps will have to be sold or knocked to pieces and the wood piled in the yuras in the hope out of the debris to build a few small vessels. Iu a suort time new regulations will be issued in which the re- bo apn of oMcers will be fixed and deter - mine iHE FORTY-FIRSI CONGRESS First Session. SENATE. Wasuineton, Apri 6, 1800 TEN DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL. Mr. Fessenves, (rep.) of Me., from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the Deficiency Appro- priation bill, with amendments, COMPENSATION OF EMPLOYES OF THE SENATE. Mr. Craoty, (rep.) of N, H., from the special com- mittee, made a report in regard to the mode of ap- ment chiefly by the non-empioyment of extra officers and assistants, and suggesting that Senators should aid in the work by retraining from urging the Ser- geant-at-Arms to employ their triends when he had no need of their services, ‘The report shows that the official expenses of the Senators per capita are avout three Limes as much ag those of the members Tn all probability these | General, first, to investigate whether or not the cliar- ter and all the franchises of the Union Pacific Rail- road and its branches have not been forfeited, and to institute all necessary legal proceedings if they were; second, to inves:igate whether the said com- pany has not made iliega: dividends upon its stock, and if 60, to Institute the necessary legal proceedings to have the same reimbursed, and third, to mves- tigate whether any of the directors or ageuts or employés of the company have or have not violated any penal law, and if so to institute the proper Pan proceedings against all of them who have jone so. Air. Srewart said he would be in favor of the amendinent, because it seemed to him a proposition in the interest of tne United States which the origi nal bili certainly was not. Mr. THAYER, (rep.) of Neb., asked the Senators from Nevada (Mr. Stewart) and Kentucky (Mr. Davis) whether they would object to including the Centra! Pacific Company in the amendment offered by the lat Mr, STEWART said he had no objection, Mr. Davis said he lad none, either. He was in pratt of the discovery of all thieves aud puutsiung nem. Mr. THAYER asked Mr. Stewart whether he had heard that the Central road had been blockaded by snow for ten days in succession this winter and thirty daysin succession last whater. Mr. STEWAnT said that the largest stoppage of the mails that had occurred on that road this winter was four days. ‘The amendment offered by Mr Sherman (published in the proceedings of yesterday) was jmoditied at the Suggestion of Mr. Willaims, 80 as to direct the Presi- dent to Hx the point of junction according to the legal rights of the respective roads, and was then adopted by a vote of—ye. to nays 6. The latter Were Messrs. Davis, Lo’ Mcvouald, Morton, Nye and Osborn. ‘The ainendment of Mr. Davis, as above, was then offered and agreed to. Mr. Howanp, (rep.) of Mich., then moved to strike out a portion of the amendment and insert his amendment orfered yesterday, naming the oficers who shali constitute the Board of Commissioners, the same list iu yesterday's report, with the addition of General Canby, and directing them to fix the point of junction on the line approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Nv&, (rep.) of Nevada, opposed the amend- it, and deciared himself opposed to any legisia- tion taking this matter out of the hands of the of certo whom the law originally committed 1, the Secretary of the Interlor. Nobody except the Union Pacific Company complained of that action in the matter, aud the seeret of the whole struggle on their part was that they wanted to get possession of Ogden the meeting point or janction of the two roads, and keep thé Ceatral company from enjoyin: any of, the #tvantages that it weuld derive irom having Its eastera feriaidas at that point. Mr. CONKLING, (rep.) Of N. Y., said le would not vote for the secoud section of the bill in any of the proposed foruis, nor would he allow such legis lation for or agamst any corporation or tadividual, to puss without earnestly protesting against it, ANPP EXECriIvE RETON. a A motion for a recess from half-past four ti! half- st seven was carried, and at five minutes to foar M, the Senate went into executive sessiou. : Evening Session. Mr. CHANDLER, (rep.) of Mich., from the Committee on Commerce, reported a foint resolution extending the time tor the completion of the Portage and Lake Superior Sip Canal, and it was passed, Mr. MORRILL, (rep.) of Vt, from the Committee on Finance, reported versely the joint resolution to authorize the importation free of duty of works of art intended for free exhibition. The motion was ia- deiinltély postponed. Mr. Rick, (rep.) of Ark., called up the bill to ex- tend the time for the construction of the Lite Rock and Fort Smith Railroad, which was passed. Ou motion of Mr. Assert, (rep.) of N. G., the bill to remove political disabilities trom cer.nia persons nained in there, Was ta .en up and passed, ‘The bill for the relief of Biauton Duncaa, of Ken- tucky, Was also amenled aud passed. TUE UNION PACIFIC KAILROAD. ‘The considera:ton Of the jommt resoition to protect the interests of the Uaited s.ates ta tue Pacific Kali- road was then resumed, Mr. SHERMAN offered an amendment to the pend- ing amendment of Mr. Howard difying it so as to authorize the President to appoint a board of commissioners simply to examine aad report upoa the condition of the Pacific Ratlroad, but not to do anything to tix the point of j n. Mr. liowarp declined to @ yt the amendment because his object was to settle the potat of junction by legislation, Mr. WILSON, (rep.) of Mass, said that the five directors appointed to take care of the interests of the United States were unantinous in urging action upon this bill, He believed that those geatiemen knew What the interests of the country in thls matter Were, aud that the Senate ought to act without further delay. Mr. SHBKMAN advocated hb amendment, journed, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES). WAsHINeToN, April 6, 1869. THE NINTH CENSUS. The House proceeded to consider the bill pro- viding for aking the ninth and subsequent censuses. Mr. GARFIELD, (rep.) of Ohto, took the floor to ex- pointments and the rates of compensation of the | j.411 and advocate the bill. He said that the im- employés of the Senate, recommending retrench- | portance of a bill on the subject of census could | not be overra'ed, He should not have taken the | floor but for the request of the Chairman | of the Census Committee (@fr. stokes), — be cause he (Mr. Garfleld) bad been chairman of that committee last session. le reminded the | House of the remarkable fact that the constitution of the United States was the only constitution of of the House, OCRAN POSTAGE. Mr. RAMSRY, (repa, on Post OMces and Post Roads, presented a comnr nication from the Postmaster General in relation cheap ocean postage. Mr. SUMNER, (rep,) of Mass., said there was a movement on foot in England to secure peany ocean ostage, and expressed the opinion that if our Postal department should give us three cent ocean postage it would be @ great tutng to accomplish. EAN STATES, Mr. SHERMAN, (rep.) of Ohi on Finance, reported back without amendment the bill authorizing payment to be made for certain ser vices rendered to the United States in the Jate Insur- nary States. It authorizes the heads of the sev- specimens of the notes that had been returned to him as @ public depositary by Assistant Treasurer i i Texas; James A. . Sith Kennessee; Van Dyck a8 not receivable, General Spine xecuitve departments to pay to officers and es of the United States who failed to take the presoribes by the actof July of Minn., from the Committee | u- | new dispensation of government, in which popula- to | tion Was the great source of @ealth as power. PAYMENT OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYVES IN THE SOUTH | 1862, such suis | and. This would give for the next decad inodern government that provided in itself for the taking of the census, They were living under a He believed the time was coming when every legislator must come furnished wiih facts, not theortes—come with @ great array of facts exhibiting the wants, the weaith, the industry, the tendevcy and progress of the people for whom he proposes to legisiate. If he came without them he would be unfit for his place. This was the age of s.atistice. Who could doubt that the next census would from the Committee | develop tore important truths concerning the situation of the people than any census that had ever been taken before? in regard to representation he expressea his opinion that instead of the number of Representatives being « fixed numbor, the basts | of representation should be fixed. The committee had chosen as that bass one hundred and han i ee je two WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1869—QUADRUPLE SHEET, Mr. dollars a aay was too much to be allowed to enu- merators, whose duties would not be of any higher order than those of mechanics, A smaller rate | to hold that the ctvilized should be fixed, and the general superintendent might be authorized to make an additional allowance in large cities, States and Territories, where the compensation fixed might be too small. Mr. WASHBURN, (rep.) of Wis,, moved to postpone the bill so as to take up some. appropriation bills. Mr. SCOFIELD, (rep.) of Pa., moved to postpone it until the first part of the month of December next. The vote was taken on the latter motion, which | portion of the citizens o: the United Was not agreed to—yeas 65, nays 88, The democrats for the most part voted against the postponement. more econo- nag with the early history of the settiement New LAWRENCE, (rep.) of Ohio, suggested that five | the Indians UTLER of Mass , gorerninet with the Indians, id. He held did not admit the right of the Indians to the sotl, but only admitted their soll; for it had been the rule of all European nations meat Whirh Cold nized @ country owned the soil of that country. The fourteenth amendment of the constitution required to be considered in connection with the indians, ‘That amendment provides that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the Jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the Stete wherein they reside. Could the President and Senate make Valid treaties with a ates? He in- sisted that by the ratification of that amendment the Indians became citizens. They were on the sot! aud The House then proceeded to consider the bill by | under the jurisdiction of the United States, and he sections for amendinenta, : Mr. J (rep.) of R. I., moved to strike out creping relating to subsequent censures, that the bill shou'd be a temporary matter to be superseded by @ billto be reported and acted on at the next session. The amendment was agreed to. Mr, JENCKES moved an amendment so as to make the appointinents of subordinate oiicers to be on the nomination of the superintendent. Agreed to. Mr. GARFIELD, on behalf of the committee, moved to amend by requiring the census to be taken on the ist of June, 1870. Agreed to. Mr, BurcEen, of Mass,, moved to amend by re quiring a table of divorces to be given. He wished when they were ascertaining what had been done on the one side of the question of marriage to ascer- tain also what had been done on the other side. Agreed to, ir. BUTLER suggested a3 a substitute for the sixth = heid as the best opinion he could come to that there Was no Validity in auy treaty attempted to be made with any Indian tribe since the ratification of the fourteenth amendment. Referring to the mode in which the Indiaa treaues have been ratified in the Senate he said he could cail a Senator to witness that an important Indian treaty had been rattfled when there were but two Senators in the chamber— ove acting as the Senate and the other as chairman of the cominittee, Mr. CLARKE asked what treaty that was - Mr. BUTLER «lid not ree »leet, but it was’a treaty which was now one of the “supreme laws of the land.” He pointed to the fact that north of tae United States boundry line there was no Indian War, and that souch of that line there was no Ins dian war, that in the Russiaa Possessions there was no Indian war; but that in our borders there wad always Indian war, and tat immediately after our section an amendment providing that the census | acquisition of Alaska intelligence came of Indian Shall be taken by the assessors and assistant asses- sors of internal revenue in their severat districts, without additional compensation, and that for the purposes of this act they should be under the direc- ton of the Superintendent of the Census, The amendment was agreed to, and the bill as amended was passed. It 1s as follows:— Be it enacted, &c., That there ts hereby established in the Department of the Ynterior an ollice to be kuown as the Cen- sus Buran. the principal oflesr of which auall charge of the census to be taken in 1870 and shall perform such other duties as may be required by law. No.2. And be it further enacted, That, subject to the con- ditions of this act, the Census Bureau shall be under th roction of n Superintendent of the Census, who shal! b pointed by the i’resident, by and with the consent of the Sen- ate; and his ter.n of villée shall begin on the Ist of May, 1808, and shall continiue for the term of three years and no longer. He ghall ve an annual salary of B4,U00, to be paid in monthiy instalnienta, nevessary allowance .or oftice expenses, and shail be allowed the official franking privilege and the right of asing the library of Congress, the vate as allowed by law to members of Congress. SKC. B. That the Secretary of the Interior shall appoint for the Census Bureau, upon nomination of the said Superin- tendent, from time to time ‘ns the business of said bureau , not excee'ling une chief clerk, with a salary j six clerks of the fourth class, ven of the third class, ten of the second class and as many of the first class e di as may be necessary to complete the census within the thne prescribed by law. He ray laborers also employ such watchmen, messengers and may be necessary, who I ar cory Edin hE fame rates ax are now allowed for similar services in the departinent of the Interior; provided that none of the clerks or employes authorized in this section, except the chief clerk and one clerk of each class, shall be appointed unti the firat day ot December of the year preceding that in waich the census is to be taken; and provided furiher, that at the end te fixed by the uct, as the beyin ning of the service of the Superintendent of the census, the term of all oilcers and employes. herein provided for ball Conse Bureai shail be closed, and all re- papers and other property connected therewith shall ‘bo delivered for safe keeping to the Secre:ary of the Interior. SEC. 4, That the census shail extiibit the number and con- dition of the population of the United States as it may exist on the first day of June of the year in which the census ts taken, the nuinber of births, marriages, divorces and deaths that may have oceurred within one year next preceding said the statistics of agrien tare aud productive industry the year preceding eaid date, and sratiatics of the edu: ligioas. intellectual, charitable or other soctal in- d ! and sanitary etatistics. accovuing to the reinafter to be provided for. SI the purpose of obtaining in the most eill- cient manner, the statistical information requiret by the fourth section of this act, the Superintendent of the C acting under the advice of # joint select committee ninth census, to consist of the Ho Committee and such committee ax the S add thereto, is hereby author ized and directed to prepare schedules, not exceeding six in Bamber, wnich sail couform geuecaliy to the schedules pro- vited for by law for the seventh and elglith censuses, bist with such moditications aa the cuanged condition of the popula- tion and induatre of the Unite States may require, att with other moditications as may in his judgment render tue ce more correct and va uable, and fn carrying ont ¢! by authorized to employ ied in any branch of real J censtta, auct for this purpose there ate, within appr un not to exceed 85,00) ont of mee in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Me shall epare a full set of blanks to be used In taking the cen. as ou the first day of tts s report of the schedules and any sugzes:ioas he may think necessary in order to. perfect arrangements for taking the census, to the end that Congress may x by law the exact f heilities to be used. , In provi ry Seo. 6 That the said joint committee on the ninth census, to be appointed as hereinbefure provided, shull have power to sons and papers and to examine witnesses, in best method of takiaz the said ninth census and for obtaining ench other intormati industry, property a ¥ think proper for t Statlatios tc 1 evens of Cong: 5 ‘shall report at the next sesslus of Congress a bill tor the taking Of the census, with such schedules, forms and jona as they may think best; and the Cungresstonal Printer 1s he ed to print such portions of the e € c aay require y be maite in 1 DE N CASE. SON, (rep.) of Ohio, from the Commit- ections, reported cesolutions on the cou- jon case from the Third Congressional ylvania that Joa Moffett, th % entitied to the se: stunt, is. He gave notice report for action on ‘Thurs- tee on tested el distriet of Pex ting member, is Leonard Myers, that he would call up day. THE MEMBER FROM THE FIFTH DISTRIcr OF Lovis- ia Mr. Patwr, (rep.) of Wi the same commit- tee, reported that Mr. McCrainue, clatming a seat from the Fift Congressional district of Loutsiana, iz poe eligible to @ seat in the House. Laid on the table, dite PATTLE. CAPITATION TAX ON Mr. SARGEANT, (rep.) of C introduced a bill re- P gan act of the New Mexico Legislature im- posing a capitation tax on boy:ue cathy Passed. . THE BIGHT If LAW. Mr. NipLack,(dem.) of Ind., asced leave to intro- duge a resviaiton lustractiag the Judiciary Coumnit- tee to inquire ag to having iui daily Wages pald for A that a similar re- beginning of this and of the lasi session, but that the Judictary Com- iittee, for some reason which te did not under- stand, had fatied to report. Mr. BeTLen, (rep.) of Mass. remarked that the | reason Was, (hat the commuitcee could not get the Noor, The House then, ata quarter before two o'clock, went into Committee of the Whole, Mr. Judd tu the ‘THE INDIAN Av TION PULLe Mr. Dawes, Cliairman of the Committee on Appro- | priations, proceeded to give the history of the new Indian treaties for which the Senate amendments provided ap; ropriations. He showed under What extravagant ieas these treaties had | been made, and reutinded the House that its | action upon them now would nnd the government | for the next thirty years. It might not be improper, | he said, with entire respect to the Seuate, to invoke | atthe hands of the House a careful attention to | those items and these treaties, particularly when they read in @he Globe that whatever ratification those treaties recetved was at the hanas of two or three or half a dozen of the seventy men consti- tuting that vody. and that the Senate amendments were voted, one after another, by ayes 2, noes 2, the Vice President giving the casting vote. | Mr. BRooxs, (em.) of N. \., called attention to the | fact that one of the leading amendments of the | Senate, appropriating $400,000, was adopted in that j way. ‘Me Dawes thanked Mr. Brooks for anticipating | what he was himself going to-say. He haa read froin the Glove the offical report of the Senate pro- ceedings, some extracts ve ifving the statements made. Anythiag, however, was better than a breach | Of plighted faith. As far as he himse't was con. | cerned he lad no diMeulty on that point If those Indian tribes were treated as independent nat with whom treaties could be made tt was because Congress chose to make them so, They were subject to the law of the land, if Congress He admitted that the Indians could be magnitied | into an independent contracting power, aud that | the government might bind itself solemaly to carry out the obligations made with them, and not wntl | then that the Indians stood tn that dian treaties could become a law of the land, ‘The mountaim to valley, and from valley back to moun- tain, pursued by that onward wave which was as | sure to overtake and overwtelm them as the waves of the deluge rose over the heights the world in olden time. What was to be doae with the Indians? To fight them wouid be worse, a hu dred fold, than even to ratify those treaties. Committee on Appropriations had considered the matter in all tts various lights and had agreed to re- commend au sgpropriation of two million dollars, to be placed inthe hands of the President of the United States, with fail according to his diseretion and official responsibility, to maintain peace with the { Indians, to promote ae ee pong them, to lace them, Where practicable, on Pheourage their efforts at sel{-support, and to nd | @ report to Congress next Lecember. The adoption. Of that amendinent would save an expenditure of ions of dollars, would save the government m all the immediate cons-quences of assuming those treaties, and would put the resi where it belonged, with the Executive: dent would be at liberty Jent entiemen as migh he mught omit to ap authority, @ confidence in, or pint them. He might place the Indians on reservations, Or he might omit dotr go. He could do everytiing he chose tn the mat. ter 80 jong as the two muilion dollars jasted: and ould so deciare, | The Twitchell Case OsiTON. | Mr. LAWRENCE asked whether the Senate could | about them dignify the Indians into an independent nation, | Mr. Dawns replied that he had put tt to the Honse | thatit was an act of Congress aloue that tose in- | she was her aunt, ad mountains of | of the latter's death. The | | maten (1 thb judgment and ander he | and un reservations, to | and when biiity | maniy and ‘he Presi- | it hinwelf. Y BO es such benevo- | done the deed.” | starvation and Indian war tbere. All this he at tributed to the victous system of making treatieg with and appropriations for the Indians. He hoped the House would stand up against those new Indian treaties as firm as the “rock of ages.’? He proposed to stay here if necessary ail summer, so as vo have proper legisiation for the government of the indians, Without disposing of tae bil the committe: rose. VHE FIRST LOUISIANA DIS®RICE CONTESTED ELUC- TION CASE. Mr. PAINE, from the Election Committee, made a report in the contested election case trom the First Congressional district of Louisiana that the claimant, St. Martin, 1s unable to take the tesioatn, dhe re- por. was laid on the tavie. The House then, at five o'clock, took a recess till half-past seven o’clock, the evening session to be for the consideration of the Indian Appropration bill, Evening Session. ‘The House resumed its session at half-past seven in Committee of the Whole—Mr, Jupp tn tne chair— on the Indian Appropriation bili, the question being on the amendment oered by Mr. Dawes piacing $2,000,000 at the disposal of the President io preserve the peace among tie Indians. Mr. BECK, (deu.) of Ky., argued in support of the amendment offered by Mr. Dawes. The senate had adde « $3,600,009 to the bill as it passed the House, The Comuuttee on Appropriations felt satisited that it was impossible between this and Saturday next to look into all these items, and that the only course left was to ridge over the diiiculties between now and December. Mr. LAWRENCE thought there was a princip! uuderlying the bill of the utmost importance to U whole country. The issue between the House and. the Senate was whether the House was bound to carry out the stipuiations in the treaties made by the Senate, or whether the House should reserve t@ itself the right of passing its judgarents oa the mat- ter. For his part, he was opyosed to the amendments. ut on the bill vy the Senate, and he held that we House Was hot bot by these treaties to vote aa Appropriation of mony, Mr. ALLISON asxed Mr. Lawrence whether ha thought Congress couid perfect an Indian policy bee fore its adjourament, next Saturd: Mr. LAWRENCE repiled in the negative, bat said he would have the resolution for adjournment rescinded, He commented on the action oi the Appropriations, in delivering over the I President without chart or compass to guide him. He referred to tue terms of an lilian treaty as pubs ‘ lished in che NEW YORK HeRaLp of the 22d day of February iast, and said that the lobby was hese operating. (vep.) of Pa.—What for? NCe—The gentleman cau have an oppor+ out. Meimbers of the lobby are hera en exeriing their intiueace to-day in tas Capitol with promises of money to carry thig treaty Brough. Mr. Dawes called upon Mr. Lawrence to name the parties who ofered money to members of Cous gress. Mr. LAWRENCE denied saying that money was offered to members of the House or Senate; he had only said that tue jobby was at work to carry that treaty through. ‘The question was taken on increasing the appro- priation to 22,400,000, and it Was rejected. The question Was then taken on the amendment offered by Mr. Dawes a8 a substitute for all tie senate aincadments, making appropriations under the new treaties, and 1t was agreed to, tis ag fol- lows:— ‘That there be appropriated the further sum of two millions or so much thereo! asinay be necessary to enable the Presiz dent to maintain the p amoug and with the various trives, bawis aud parties of Indians not otherwise sud: ciently provided for in this act, and to prom civilization among said Indians, bring them, where practi bie, on reservations, relieve their necessi:i¢s and encouraze their eYorts at self’ support. A report of all expenditu.ca uader this appropriation is to be made in detail to Congres iu Decémber next. the Senate amendments were then taken up im thew order, aud were disposed of in the manner recommended by the Committee on Appropriations, twenty-two of them being concurred in aud 103 nou concurred in, Tue committee tyen rose, and the House at a quar~ ter past ten o'cioc@ adjourned. ihe vote in the House is wo be taken to-morrow om the amendments, TWIDCHELL AND HIS CONPESSION, [From the Philadelphia Press, April 6.) Yesterday afieravon two frieuls of Goorge S.. b dr., Visited him at the Guunty Prison and he having expressed @ desire to expiain the statement made on Satarday. The following interrogatories and the repiies thereto we give for what they are worth:— Q. Is tug statement made on Saturday of your own composition, and without any influence wWhat- ever? A. It was ny owa entirely, and on Saturday. 1 asked for Mr. Perkins to be present, a.ong with Mr. Bringuurst, at (he reading of it, Q. Did you on any occasion éver before know Mrs. Twitchell to leave her bed after retiring? A. Yes; f have known Mrs, Twitchell frequentiy to leave t room, and also have knowa her to be gone some~ times for over an hour, conversing with Mrs. Hil; but on this evening in question | fell asieep on the lounge aud cannot say whether she left the room or not. «q. How do you account for the biood on your shirt and person? A. All [ can say to that is that ip lifting up the body to throw it out of the window I ught hold of the head and shou ders, the heaviest portion, and my wile the feet. q. Was Mrs. Hill dead when you threw her out of the window? A. As faraslam ableto judge Mrs, Hull was dead when | lifved up the body. Q. Where was Mrs. Twitchell when she called you? A. She was in the entry at the end of the staircase leading up into our roo. q. Can you account for the poker in the yard? A. leannot; [new nothing of @ poker unt afer our arrest. q. How about the ashes on the window sill? A. I Was smoking after tea, a$ it Was wily Usual Custody and | presume I leit them there, Twitchell here added:—“1 did not entertain the sligutest idea that my statement would aiter ny sitiation, a¢ far as the law went, but made it co have entire peace with my God. any did not think tt would be published until after my execation, Mz Teasous for not stating It sooner Were shaply these— that I fully expected my wile to come forward and state all, and not leave me to pervorm the unpiea- sant duty; but ber absenting herselt from me, and her actions 80 unnatural to me, and in such-a posi- tion, have compelled me to come forwar! and state all Lknow, whieh | did on Saturday. [| woald state, also, gentlemen, that if these statements can be said by my wife to Want foundation, aud are tacorrect, ad in & conversation, jous | let her come forward and deny them." and the Twitehel! Family. vontele fare A correspoudent of the Washington nishes that paper with the following + Miss . of this city, knew both Twitchell a his wife, and from her f learned the following facus —The murdered woman, Mrs. Mth, a house of asviguation, of prostitute ae “she represenied to her daughter that and tt t# only within a few years that Mrs, Twitehell accidentally ascertained from mer! im this city. her putative aunt was crisis was now on the Indians; they were fleeing some old letters that from hanting ground to hunting ground, from | really her mother, and that her father we@ member of Congress from Ohio. Giscovery caused S. Cee Bg ae ae Irequentiy rene up to the time sekeeper for | cheil’s father, and aspi wo inet tage with him: but he refused, on the ground that she Was not kind to the chileren. Thereupon she, though many years his senior, transferred efforts to her present husband and secured him, A sister of his, a girl perfectly healthy and weil, in- curred her ure by her Ce agen to the it Was), and she died very oo circumstances indicating poison. Thoug! nothing Was ever done about It & od many of the neighbors suspected Mra. Twitchell at the time; Mrs. Hill was murdered they remem. bered the death of the young Miss Twitchell. My e informant, on reading the account of Mrs. Hill's murder, said at once, “That was done by Mra Twitchell; George never could bee done it; ‘and he ia Just that sort of afellow that he will think it nerous to shield his wife and pang, for ut aome day sie will be found to have This lady's Ln ggg aon the on reased nd f renember to have remarked thet Mra. ‘nwt melt conduct at the thine of thelr ars rest seemed to corroborate them, ‘They were thet only of private tnterest. Now they seen to be oi padlic Importance and i communicate them WO yous