oui Fifth edition of Yesterday. Gram and Johnson correspondence. Washington, Keh. 11.—The President this Afternoon sent the following letters to the House of Repreßentativcrt, in accordance with the resp- Jution aaoptedscsterday r J Execctivk Mansion, Feoru§J^^ow^ v < wo9e*tr • General: Tho extraordinary letter of the 3d inst., would seomto preffiude any rtSlr on my part. But the IpneMn whii* pubßctiv has been given of which that letter fonns -»»w questions which are me totnko this mode of giving, as ft proper sequel to the communications which have between us, the Statements of the .eve member® of >"the Cabinet who were present bnUhe qtjcnslon of; onr conversation 0r.., the thb letters wMcMmJj. have addressed to me upon the subject arc oc ; cordlngly herewith enclosed. You speak of my letter of iimSlst ulh as a reiteration of momany j add gross tmirepresentations contained In certain newspaper articles, and reassert the oo^oju®* 9 of the aStementß contained in your communi cation of the 28th nit, ■ aci ■2“ and here I /°“ r tn ° t ? 0 words, “anything In your reply ;to it to tho J»nfe»ths%nding.” When a controversy upon matters of fact reaches (he point to winch tble haB ! been brought, further assertion or do nial between the Immediate parties sbould ceasc, especially where upon either side it loses the clmractcrol the respectful discussion which Is required by .the irelation in which the parties stand to each Other, and degenerates in tone and temper. In such a case, if there is nothing to ! but the opposing statements, conclu sions must bedrawn from , those statements alone, and from Whatever intrinsic they afford in favor or against either ofihopar ffes. I should not shrink from, this test m this controversy, but fortunately it is not loft to thisteat alone. ? Thero were five Oabinot officers present at the conversation, the in myletter of the 28th nit. yonaUow yourself to say contains, many, and‘'gross misrepreaenta- ■ tions. These gentlemen heard that conversation nndnavfe read my statement. _Jbeyspeakfor themselves, and I leave the proof without a word ° f It proper before 1 ' concluding this com munication to notice some of the statements con fjSnJd In your letter. You say that a perform ance of the proihises alleged to have been made bv you to the President, “wbuld have Involved a .resistance to law, and an: Inconsistency with the whple history of: my connection with tho suspension of Mr. Stanton. You thenstate that von had fears the President would on the removal of Mr. Stanton “appointisome one in his nlace who -would embarrass the army in carrying out the reconstruction nets, and.it was to prevent such an appointment that I accepted the office of Secretary of War, ad-interim, and not for tho purpose of enablta| you to get rid of Mr. Stan ton, by my withholding it from him in opposi tion to law; or not doing so myself, surrendering itto onowo would, as the • Statements and as-; Bninptloiis in yohr coTrespondiench plainly Inal ■ cate, was sought.” First oi all you |jere admit that from the very beginning of what von term the whole history of your connecUon with Mr< Blanton’s suspension, von Intended to circumvent tho President. It was to cany ont that intent that you accepted the appointment This was In your mind at the ■HmA of your acceptance. It was not then in obedience to the order of your superior, as bas heretofore been supposed, that you assumed the duties of the office. You knew it was the President’s purpose, to prevent Mr. . Stan ton from' resuming the office of Sec retary •of War, and yon intended to defeat that purpose. You the office not in the Interest of the President, but of Mr Stanton. If this purpose, so entertained by you, had been confined to yourself; if when ac cepting the office, you had dOne so with a men tal reservation to frustrate tho President, it would have been a tacit deception. v ln the ethics Of some persons such a course is allowable. But yon cannot stand even upon that questionable cround. The history of. y°ur connection with Sis transaction, as written by. your netf: places you ,In a different predica ment,-and shows that yon not .only concealed your design from the President, but induced him to snppose that you would cany out his purpose to keep Mr. Stanton out of office by retaining It yourself after an attempted restora tion by the Senate, bo as to require Mr. Stanton to establish his right by judicial decision. I now give that part of this history as written bv yourself iii your letter of the 28th ult.: _ Some time after I assumed the duties of Secre tary of War, ad interim, the President asked my views as to ihe course Mr. Stanton would have to pursue, ih case tho Senate should not concur in his suspension, to obtain possession of his office. My reply was in substance—that Mr. Stanton would have to appeal to the Courts to reinstate him. illustrating my position By citing the ground I had taken in tnocaflcof tneßalti more Police Commissioners.” Now at that time, as you admit in your letter of the 3d inst, you held the office for the very object of. defeating an appeal to the courts. In that letter you say that in accepting the office . one motive was to prevent the President from appointing some other person who would retain possession, and': thus make judicial proceedings necessary. . You know the President was unwil ling to trust the office with any one who, would not by holding it compel Mr, Stanton to rcsorfto the courts. You perfectly understood that m this interview, sometime after you accepted the office, the President, not content with yoiir si lence, dcßlred an expression of your views, and you answered him that Mr. Stan ton wotild Mve to appeal to the Courts. If the President had reposed confidence before he knew your views, and that confidence had been violated,’it might have been said he made a mistake, but a violation of confidence resposed after that conversation was no mistake of his nor of yours. It is the fact only that needs be stated —tiiat at the date of this conversation you did not intend to hold the office with the purpose of forcing Mr. Stanton Into Court but did hold it then and had accepted it to prevent that course from, being carried out. In other words, you said to the President* that is the proper course; and you said to yourself, I have accepted this office and now hold it to defeat that course. The excuse you make in a subsequent paragraph of that letter of the 28th ult., that afterwardsy on changed your views as to what would bo a proper course, has nothing to do with the point now under consideration 1 . The point Is that before you changed your view's you had secretly determined to do the very thing which at last you did—sur render the office to Mr- Stanton. You may have changed your views as to the law, but you cer tainly did not change your views as to the course you had marked out for yourself from the begin ning. I will only notice one more statement In your letter of the 3d inst.,—that the performance of the promises ■ which it is alleged were made by you would have involved you In the resistance of law. I know or no statute that would have been violated had you, in carrying out your promises In good faith, tendered your resignation when you concluded not to be made a party in any * legal 'proceedings. You add, “I am in a rrreceub'oTdfrs Greeting mTto' Nkpaiitment oi- thk Intkuioh, Wasjunoton from ffie Secretorv of War, my superior, D. 0., Feb. 6,1868.— Hirx lam in receipt ofyours ' and C your subordinate, without having counter- of yeßterdoy, calling my attention „ t 0 “' - 1 c ( ?"® B t ' manaed his authority to issue the orders lam to pondehce between yourself and General Grant, Sisobev.” On the 21th ult., you addressed a note published in the Chronicle ospe- - to ihe requesting in writing an order dally to that point of said correspondeimo which irivpn to von verbally flvo days before, to disre- refere to the conversation between the President SXi&SSftET&StSn asSe’cretary of tod General Grant at UurCabinet meeting :on. - sass. sg^gs^sag I g.. order 1b known by the General commanding the been reached In the order of armies of the United States to have been autho- dent asked him, as usual, If ho bad anything to rizcdbv the Executive. -There are someorders present. Inroplyythe General, ?[te r reforrlog to which a Secretary of War may Issue without the a note which he had that authority of tberresldent; there are others which | tho President, enclosing a copy orthoreaolutlou of the Senate, refuting to concur in the ato which nuroorf to b?' W direction of the i reasons for the suspensionof ' President. ■ 10/wjchorderstoe President is re- -ton, ■ proiat^'to sponsible, and he should therefore know and his duties, understandwhatthey are beforeglvlng suchdl- terminated by that resolution, ,toa inai,qe rcetion. Mr. BtanStotes Jq bisfetterotthe 4th could not lawfully f r b v ?to inst .which accompanies the published edrrespon- mentafter the adoptionlOf ihe reßplution ny tue dence,; that he had had ho’ edrrespon- Senate. That the resolution' reachea him last dence T 1 of thfe - the part of tie Senate, and bein < assumed to be issued * verVdfeHlrotfiJ to have the constitutionality of the President. It would appcajfrom Mr. SUratWfl (Wu/a PY.&fflce bill tested, and hia right to bus- Mas, tbat vouN &}s&en f^B^ on] what bisection wonlfl bef In tjld eVsnt Stanton that; hojbjß Senate should roftSV toe^ the War Department is not countermandcd it Q or re&galiuf office into •will be satisfactory .evidence to “0 that any { bc £ andB “ftim President before the case was orders received from the War Dopartment by dl ~ Bonatei B 0 as to place tho Pre- ; reotion of the PreMdent are authorized by the P J situation he occupied at the ] Executive.,’ The President issues an order hiß fGrant’B) appointment. ThePteßl to you toobey noorder from the War Department farther said that the conversation was rcr purporting to be mode by the dircctonoftho d"^ b^ e Ba ‘ a ec l e n d i n g Saturdays which time President until you have referred it to him for the General ',wbat he I ,intended to do if his approval. % reply that you have received “ h 7““ e ßh 7 uld n ' nde rtaketc< reinstate Mr. the President s order and will not obey it, but in reply t 0 which , the General., referred will obey an order purporting bo e£ven by hi to his former conversation upon the same subject, direction if it comes ifom the War department to TjndeVstolid & y position, ana my You Will hot obey the order of the President, but id ®i rawa i. w m be conformable to that under yoh will obey, his indirect order. -If asj standing.” That ho, tho General then expressed there baßbeen apractlcein theWarDepartment to tQ ’ beinr mado a to 0 issue orders in tho name of the rreside.nt wittiout saying that lie would expose his,direction, does not the Precise order you jumciai png-** ri “ onni eht b y dolng 80 , have requested and.received change the practice continuing to discharge the. duties ofSec as to the General of the Army ? Gonld no thc “ /nVm after the Senate should President countermandany suchorder issued o to concur in the suspension of Mr. yOnTrom 1 the War depar"?. l *,. ** Stanton would boa ( violation, of the Tenure of should i receive, an order dom that Jje g l ffl bi]K That in reply to this, be ■ (the Presl partment.-.-issued- in the name of the Piesi dcnt | informiEd General Grant that he had not dent, ■ to; do a special act, and an or gnsp c n ded Mr. Btanton under the Tenure of .01- directly.from the President himself not to do the u u bntby virtue of. the power conferred act, is there a doubt which you arc to do/ You hce tUution f aildt bat as to answer tho question when the Presi- m and imprisonment, ho (the dent in your letter on tho 3d inst., tho secretary p ; d enty would pay -wh,atover fine of War is'my superior apd your f“ b n hnrdhilte was 'imposed, and submit to whatever ,im- Withontfurther, comment npon tho lnßUbordinst .wriso'nitfeiit-might be adjudged against .hlm, the attitude which you have assumed, I a™. “ HSffl*. a loss . hnow bow. yon ccP ; «Ueve law a( length,^ yourself irora obedience to tho ° r ,^. B n ° p _ tbat ttoy finally separated .without having President, who is made bv the Constltuwn Com reacbcda definite concmslon, and- with the un mander-in-Cbic-f of the Armyjmd Navy, and dereiandUig.thatthe General would see the Pre therefore the official superior m well-as of the d "^^^‘ bll .'...M o nday.;,;-':.;ln,rfply.G9n- General of tho ArmYas of the Secretary of War. Grant admitted that tho conversations '. Res P ectfully ’ y Snßw Jomrsox. bri occurred, 11 and 'jaid . that ■ at. the first Genernl U. S. the Arrnlbs terf^SSdWtha. of the United States, Washington, D. C. Senate in 'thenction of the President .in respect Copy of letter addressed to eacji' of the mem- t 0 t be Secretary pf War, the question would haye bers of the Cabinet present' at the convorsation to bo decided by the Court.,. That ,Mr. Stanton between tho President and . General Grant, on wouldhave to appeal to the Court toreinstatehim January 14th,‘ 1868« T „ „ _ ■■ in office; that the ins would remain in till they ExF.cimvi! Mahsion, Washinotox, D. C.,Feb. . COB i d be displaced and the outsipnt in. by legal sth ! 1868.— Sir: The Cfironicle of this morning proceedings. And that he thpn thought so,and had contains a correspondence between toe President agreed that if he should ; change 'Tna nund ne and General Grant, reported from the War DC- won ld notlfy him to make anotUer.appointment, partmerit in answer to a resolution of the House but that at the time pf the first conversation he of Representatives; X beg to call yonr attenupn had not looked very closely into the law; that it to that cbrrcßp'ondehce, and especially to, that, had recently, been discussed by toa newßpapcrs t part which refers to the conversation between an d that this had indaccdhim to examine It more ihe President and General Grant at the Cabinet carefnliy, and that he had come to the conclusion meeting on~Tuesday, the 14th of January, and to that it the Senate should refuse-to concur request you tP state what was said in that con- i n the ~ suspension, ..yMr., , Stanton, . -wonid versatlon. Very respectfully,-- thereby he reinstated, and that he(Grant) could -ArnSnEW Johnson., not continue to act as Secretary of War ad interim I without subjecting himself to fine and imprison ment, and that he came over on Saturday to in form the President of this change in his . views and did so inform him. That the President re plied that he had not suspended Mr. Stanton un uei the tenure of office bill, but under tho conati tution, and had appointed him (Grant) by virtue of the authority derived from the . constitution, and that they continued to discuss the ‘matter sometime, and finally he left without any conclusion having been reached, expecting to see the President on Monday. He then proceeded to explain why he had not ealleiPon the President on Monday, saying that he had had a long interview with General Sherman. That various lit(le matters had occupied his time till it was late, and that ho did not think the Senate would act so soon, and asked: “Did not General Sherman call on yon on Monday? ’’. .. . .. _ , I do not know what passed between the Presl drat and General Grant on except as X learned it from the conversation between them at tho Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, and the fore going is substantially what then occurred. The precise words used on the occasion are not oi course given exactly in the order in which they were spoken, but the idea expressed and the facts stated are faithfully preserved and presented. I have the honor to be, sir, with great respect vour obedient servant, „ „ (Signed] O. H. Bkownisg. Washington, D. C., Fob. sth, .186 6-Sir. Your note of this dote was handed to me this evening. My recollection of the conversation at the Cabinet meeting, on Tuesday, the 14th of January, cor reroonds with your Btatcmcnt ot it in tho letter of the 31st nit., in tho pablished correspondence. The three points specified in that letter, giving your recollection of the conversation, are cor rectly stated. ' Very respectfully, We „, es . To the President. Treasury Department, Feb.fi, 1868.— Sir: I have received your note of the sth inst., calling my attention to the correspondence between yourself and General Grant as published in the Chronicle of yesterday, especially to that part ot it which relates to what occurred at the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday,the 14th ult., and requesting me to state what was said in the conversation re ferred to. I cannot undertake to stato the pre cise language used, but I have, uo hesitation in saying that your accotrat.of that conversation, as given in your letter to General Grant, under date of the 31st ult., substantially and in all im portant particulars accords with my recollection of it. With great respect, your obedient servant, H. McCulloch. To the President Post-Office Department, Washington, D. C.. February 6th, 1868.--Sir: lam In receipt or yourletterof February sth, calUng my attention to tho correspondence, published in the Chronicle, between the President and General Grant, and -especially tOJtbat part of it which refers to the convocation between the Presldent and Gcneral Grant at the Cabinet mcoting on Tuesday, the 14th of January, with a request that I state what was said in that conversation. In reply,! have the honor to state that I have read carefuly the correspondence in question, and particularly' the letter of tho President to General Grant,dated January 31st. 1868. The following extract from your letter o l January 30th to General . Grant is, according to iny recollection, a correct statement of the conversation that took place between the President "and General Graut at the Cabinet meeting on January 14th last: ‘ In the pre sence of the Cabinet, the President asked General Grant whether, in a conversation which took place after his appointment as Secre tary, of War, ad interim he did not agree either to remain at the head of the War Depart ment, and abide any judicial proceedings that might follow in non-concurrence by the Senate in Mr. Stanton’s suspension, or shonld he wish hot to become involved in such a controversy, to nnt the President in the same position with re spect to the office as he occupied previous to General Grant’s appointment, by returning it to the President in time to anticipate such action, by the Senate. This General Grant admitted. The President then asked General Grant if, at the conference on tho preceding Saturday, he had not, to avoid misunderstanding, requested General Grant to state what he Intended to do, and further, If in reply to that inquiry he (General Grant) had not referred to their former conversations, saying that from them the Presi dent understood his position, and that his (General Grant's) Action would be consistent with the understanding which had been reached. To these questions, Gen. Grant replied in tho affirmative. The President asked Gen. Grant if at the conclusion of their interview, on Satur day,Tt wagnot understood they were to have another conference on Monday before t nal action by the Senate in the case of Mr. Stanton. General Grant replied that snch was theunder standing, tut that he did not suppose the Senate ■would act so,soon; that on Monday he had been eneoKed in a conference .with General Sherman, and was occupied with many little matters, and ashed if General Sherman hod not called on this mode of complying with the request contained in tho Presidents letter to me, because my attention had been called to the subject be fore when ihe conversation between the Presi dent and General Grant was under consideration. Very respectfully, Alexander Randall, Postmaster-General. To the President. • t THE DAILY EVENING BULLETIN PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12,1868. The President Department of State, Washington, Feb. 6, 1868.—Sir—The meeting to which you refer in your letter was a rcgular.Cabinet meeting. While the members were assembling, and before the President had entered the Connell Chamber, Ge neral Grant, on coming in, said to me that he was in attendance there not as a member of the cam net but upon invitation, and I replied, by thein ouiry whether there was a change in the war Department After the President nad taken his scat business went on in the usual way, oi hear ing matters submitted by the several Secretaries. When the time came ior the Secretary of War, General Grant Bald that he was now there, not as Secretary of War but upon the President’s invi tation; that he had retired from the War Depart m A* slight difference then appeared about the sup posed invitation, General Grant saving that the officer who had borne his letter to the President that morning announcing his retirement from tho War Department had told him that the Fre sident desired to see him at the Cabinet meeting; to which the President answered that when Gen. Grant’s communication was delivered to him the President simply replied that he supposed Gene raf Grant would be very soon at the Cabinet meeting. I regarded the conversation thus bo gun as an incidental one. It went on quite in formally, and consisted of a statement, on your pan, of your views In regard to the understand ing of the tenure upon which General Grant had assented to hold the War Department ad interim, and of his replies by way of answer and explana tion. It was respectful and courteous on both sides, being In tho conversational form. Its de tail could only have been preserved by a ver batim revork So far as I know, no such report was made at the time. ■' i I can give only the general effect of the con versation. Certainly -you stated that although yon had reported the reasons for Mr. Stanton s suspension to the Senate, you nevertheless Mid that he would not be entitled to resume the office of Secretary of War, even If the Senate should disapprove of his suspension, and that you had proposed to have the question tested by judicial process, to be applied to the porson who should bo the Incumbent of the deportment under your designation of Secretary of War ad interim in the place of Mr. Stanton. Ton contended that this was well understood between yourself and Gen eral Grant; that when he entered the War De partment as Secretary ad interim, he expressed his concurrence in a belief that the question of Mr Stanton’s restoration would be a question for the" courts; that in a subsequent conversation with General Grant you,had adverted to un derstanding thus bad/and that General Grant ex -1 ureseed his concurrence la it; that at some con-.- versation which had been previously held, Grant said he still adhered to the same ‘construction of the law, he should change bis opinion he wouhLgivc you reasona- . ble notice of It, Bb.tha.t, you bhouia, i n any case, be placed in the samepbAitioh in regard to. the War Department that yptl,; were while General Grant held It ad interim-".... ... _ .... . . , ' ; : 1 did not understand GChcral Grant as denylng nor as explicitly admitting these statements in ’ the form end full extent to which you made them. His admission of them .was rather Indi rect and circumstantial, though.l did not under-; stand it to be ait evasive one. He said that, reasoning from what occurred in thocaeoof the police In Maryland; which ,ho regarded as a : pafaHerohc;"h'e‘*Ba <, tff'''t)plniOn,--and’so assured you, that it would be bid right and duty, under yobr Instruction, to hold the War Office after .the Senate should disapprove of Mr. Stanton’s Bus-, pension, Until‘ the question should be'decided., ■upon by the courts; -that he remained until very recently of that opinion, atjd that on the Saturr day before the‘Cabinet meetiug a conversation Was held between yourself end him,‘ln which tho subject WaSgetieraily discussed. * . Gf ner al Grant’s statement was that in that con versation hehadstated to you the legal difficul ties which mlghtarise, Involving fine and imprls bninentihuder the eivil'tennrfi bill, and that, be did not CBre to subject himself to those. pen alties. ’That you. replied to this remark that yqn regarded 1 the civil - tenure bill ‘As unconstitu tional, and did not think: its penalties were to‘ be feared, or that. yon’ would;, voluntarily assume’ them;** And yon insisted that General Grant ’ eh'duid idithtfr; retain 1 ;the/ offlee until relieved bji yourself, i the original understanding between yourself and' him, or by seasonable notice of change of, purr, pose on his part, pm.yon in the, same situation which yon woukl be if he adhered. Yon clMcncu that General Grant finally said in that conversation that you understood 4ug his proceedings thereafter would pfc consistegi*, i with Vhat had Grant did, hot eobtrOverfclt, iM ci»t say that Admittedibid test i* J A “ccrtaGily General Gfatis di<||otjWi a ? y ,l m the Cabinet fluting insist thdfeVhMl, rnthoSaky pjdav’econversation* either dpUnMr advised! you of*)iis d tibiy ™ Retire IrOfii tho ciiwge ol the War Department* otherwise than under your own subsequent direction. Ho acquiesced in yonr statement that the Satunl w s • conversation ended with an expcctatlonthat there ■would be a subsequent conference on tho sub ject, .which he,, as well; as yourself, supposed could seasonably take place on Monday. _ You then alluded to tho fact that General Grant did not call upon you oumußuuj w n-a. es pected from'that conversation. General Grant admitted that it was his expectation or purpose to call upon you on'Monday, General Grant BBBlgned reasons,for, the omission. He said _ne was in conference with General Sherman, inai there were many little matters to be attended to. He had conversed upon tho matter of the incum bency of the War Department with Genoral Sher man, and he expected that Gen. Shcrman would call npon you on Monday. Mv own mind .sug gested a further''expianatlon,b'nt I do not remem ber whether it was mentioned or not; namely, that it wae not supposed by General Grant on Monday that the Senate would decide the ques tion so promptly as'to anticipate further ex planation between yourself and him if delayed beyond that day. General Grant made another explanation, that he was engaged on Sauday with General Sherman, and I think also on Mon day, in regard-to the War Department matter. With a hope, though he didmot say in an effort to procure: an anllcable settlement of the affair ol Mr, Stanton; : and ho still hoped that it would he ! brought about. . . ■ I have the honor to be. with great respect, - Your obedient servant, ■ WiILIAM H. Snw.uti). To the President. ; •To the House of Representatives-- The accom panying letter from General Grant, received since the transmission to the fiouse Of Representatives of my communication of this date, is submitted to the House as a part of , the, correßpondence're*- ferred toin the resolution of- the 10th Instant.^ ; Andrew Joiinscln. Washington, D.C.,Fet>. 11,1868...,; ,' j ; ; f HEADQUARTERS AItMY OF TIIE UNITED STATES, I Washington, D. G.,,Fcb. 11, 1868.—//W A*-.I cettencu Andrew Johnson, President oj tke Untied I States:— Sir.: Thaye the honor toaaknowlcdgo the receipt oC.your .communication of the ioth, ■ accompanied by, the statemefite of your Cabinet I Ministers, of their recollection of what occurred I in ■ Cabinet meeting on the 14th of Jon-i nary. Withant ..agmittiug, anything com taiued in these statements where they cutler from I anything hercboforestated by me, I propose to J notice only that portion of your communication wherein lam charged with insubordination. It think it will be plain to the reader of my letter of the 30th Of Jan. that I did not propose to dis obey any legal order of tho President distinctly I given, but only gave an interpretation of what) would be regarded as satisfactory evidence of the :] President’s sanction io orders communicated by the Secretary of War. >'■ '. I will say here that vonr letter of the 10th in stant contains the first'intimation I have had that you did not accept that interpretation. Now for the reasons for giving that interpretation: It was clear to me, before my letter of January ; 30 was written, that I, the person having more pub lic business to transact with , the Secretary ot War than any other of the President’s subordi nates, was the only one who had been instructed I to disregard the authority of Mr. Stanton, where his authority was; derived as agent of the Presi deOn the 27th of January I received a letter from J the Secretary of War (cfepy herewith) directing me td furnish an escort to public treasure from the Rio Grande to New Orleans, etc.* at the re quest of the Secretary of the Treasury to him. I also send two other enclosures showing recogni ! don of Mr. Stanton as Secretary of War by both i the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster I General, in all of which cases the Secretary of i War had to call upon me to make the orders re -1 quested or give the information desired; and his i authority to do so is derived, in my view, as agent | of the President. ~ „ . With an order so very ambiguous as that of th 6 President's here referred to, it was my duty to in ! form-the President of my interpretation of it, and to abide by the interpretation until I received other orders. , ; : . Disclaiming any intention now or heretofore of disobeying any legal order of the President, dis tinctly communicated, I remain, very respect fully. Your obedient servant, J U. 8. Ghaut, General. PoST-mFFK E DEPARTMENT, CONTRACT OFFICE, Washington, Feb. 3,1808.— Sin It has been represented to this Department that in October last a Military Commission was appointed to set tle upon some general plan for the defence of the Texas frontiers, and that the said commission has made a report recommending a line ol posts from the Rio Grande to the Red river. An ap plication is now pending in this Department for a changb in the course of the Ban Antonio and' El Paso mail so as to send lit by way of Forts Mason, Griffin, and Stock ton, instead of by Camps Hudson and Lan caster. Thia application requires immediate de cision, but before final action can lie had thereon, it is desired to have some official information as to the report ol the commission above referred to. Accordingly, I have the honor to request that you will cause this Department to be lurnished, as eariy as possible, with the Information desired m the premises; and also, with a copy of the re port, if any has been made by the Commission. Very respectfully, George W. McLellan, Second Assistant Postmaster-General. The Honorable the Secretary of War. Referred to the General of tho army for reporl E. M- Stanton, February 3,1868. Secretary of War. Headquarters A. U. S-, Feb. 11, 1868. Official copy* Gko. R. Leet, Assistant Adjutant General. Treasury Department, January 29, 1868. Sir it is represented to this Department that a band of robbers has obtained such a foothold in tho section of country between Hulpiboldt and Lawrence, Kansas, committing depredations upon travelers both by public and private con veyance, that the safety of the public money col lected by the Receiver of the Land Office at Humbolat requires that it should be guarded ■ during its transit from Humboldt to Lawrence.. I have therefore the honor to request that the proper commanding officer of that district may he instructed by the War Department, if in the . opinion of the honorable Secretary of War it can be done without prejudice to the public interests, to furnish a sufficient military guard to protect such moneys ,as mav be in transit from .the above office for the purpose of being deposited to the credit of the Treasurer of the United As far as we are now advised, such service will not be necessary oftener than once a month. Will you please advise me of the action! taken, that 1 may Instruct the Receiver and the Com missioner of tho General; Land Office in the matter. ** .-■■ Very respectfully, your obedient servant,: H. McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury. To the Hon. Secretary of War. , Respectfully referred to the General of tho Army to give the necessary orders in this case, and to furnivh this department a copy for the in formation of the Secretary of the .Treasury. By order of the’Seeretary of War.’ Ed. Schbivbr, Inspee tort General. Headquarters Army of the United States. . February 11,1868. Official copy: Geo. R. Leet, Assistant Adjutant-General- ~ WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON CITTT, -JAU. 27,18G8.— General —Tue Secretary of the frea sury has requested this Department A. F. Bahda)l,special agent cf ment,’ such military aid as may be > I secure, and forward'for deposit, from Brotm vllld, Texas, to Nett Orleans‘pobbe moneys in, poeaeEelon of Custom-house oolcert »t BrownS vllle andwhicharti deemed tnsednfoatthatplaco. ’ ’ ttLl please give sdchdlrectlons aSyaurhay deem proper ’to’‘th^ l officer nf : ! Brownsville to 'the Treas'uryDepartifatot/thd'lnstr^cti? 0 ?, 10 ,^, r. i, 7 i. 1 ' f sent by telegraph to Galveston, to tke chi™ of A. F. Randall, Special Agent, who ie at Galveston, fei'a , saW‘s , S^- cSutlto (ho the '» ;,? pf. ■ Yo wl*- *mm>h y M J . ■ -SpwGturylpf WsuV.' /'&b Gen. U. 8. OiMjjCotnmandiog Ai v U,j&;, ■ "r HkadqcAitTEns knsivoi; thii Thrift® Bratus, February 11, v . .; • Official copy. (■; l Oitonnß x 'Assistant Adjutant General. ’ «»OCEHUEB, Uqi)Q«Bt * c » Sew Salad Oil, French Peas, Green Com, Fresh Peacheß, Tomatoes, &c., &c. New Messina and Havana Qranges. ALBERT C. ROBERTS* Dwler in Ebb finwriM, Corner Eleventh and Vine Street*. FRENCH GREEN PEAS, ’ - ' ; Finestquality., . ji. , OLIVE OIL, very enperior auftlity t of own importation. VANISH OLIVES, by the gallon. For Bale ,by , j aMBB P..WEBB, WALNUT and EIGHTH Stroete, T'.AVIS’ CELEBRATED DIAMOND BRANDBUIH 118 BoUth Second Street. * ./ EfcT INDIA' HONEY, AND FASHIONED EW y6rK PLUMB. PITTED CHERRIES. VlHj gtaia Pared bl*e «H .Archstreets. • . . p-pTf^ and Eighth atreota. AIBINBI RAIBINB 11-900 JVHOLE. HAI# AND quarter boxes of Double S r< gfH l ,?fs?}W’ N t fe fruit In the market, for sale by M. P. BPILLIN.N. W. eat. Arch and EUhth rtreota. l HBHW HIBHIBHIKB COOP*. patent shoulder seam shirt MANUFACTORY. Orders for theae celebrated Bhtrta (applies promptly brief notice. Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods, Of Uto atyl*. to fnH variety. WINCHESTER & CO., 7d6 CHESTNUT. . leUmwAtf x: J. W. SCOTT & CO., FINE SHIRTS AMD GENTS’ NOVELTIES, gl4 Chestnut Street* Fonr doors below the m w tf gents* patent-sprxnq Atto Birr- J&issn&s ass-sSssmss or ladles ant *ant*. »* b i CHE IdEKFER’B BAZAAR. nol4-tfS OPEN IN THE EVENING. LOOKINO CLASSES ANP jPAUreiHBB. A. S. ROBINSON, 910 CHESTNUT STREET, LOOKING GLASSES, PAINTINGS, Engravings and Photographs. I Plain anfl Ornamental Gilt Frame*. SjVDDLEH, UAKNESB, HORSE COVERS, Bnftalo, Fur and Carriage Robes, CHEAPER THAN THE CHEAPEST,'AT KN BASS’S, 631 HarKM Street, Where the targe. Hone rtanda In the door. l*Mr STOVES AND HKATEH»« REMOVAL. W. Al. ARNOLD M l THOMSONS LONDONKTrOHBNEE,‘O!R ETD* retail, by thf> A ijidMSON. V^.n, w ,mn} No. amNorth Second rtreefc A THOMAS B. DIXON & SONS, ' @L No •n?fe»®« , fe il,Ph, ‘• Manufacturer!of I|Wpo*N. For Anthracite? Bit)m^tuul« I *nd , Wood Eire. For WarSw^^hiteMiS^ivate%midlnffl, F ■ Ann. '' ,< wv wholesale ana retail. ■ OLOTW. OAMIgtEBEg, ftO. T ivra * TH-P. AHK WOW GLOSKiO OnT 'fnElß ‘ •I »ntfrA gtock of Winter Goods at vtry.low price* pom* ■guSgwww^r“w^»a«“ a toW« ana Soya’ wear. oVEECOAT CLOTHS. Duffellßcevert. . . . - • COATINOB, Black French Clothi. ■ . ■ ri Colored French Clotha. . j ; > lVicot,aUcolor». euidDlagoDal . PANTALOON STUFFS. -Slack >'••».'••• ••••:• . Black French Dooekina. , •. Alao, a largo «“®rta»t and" j aetta, and QooSa, adopted to JAMES _& USB.'. • • r i !'■ 'j G^AtBARGAINS V, -■■■ v -■ •■■■■■,-■■ I K -WpteljßOGDa ETC. •• •. a, taa*« Mi qulrlog for heavy reduction of our Stock, vvo have dcclde&to offer,'On and after . , Monday Next, Feb. 3. OUR ENTIRE ABBORTIIENT OP White Goods, 1 , Linens. Embroideries, House*Furnishing Articles,, - Etc.,.Eto , At a Very Heavy Bcduetion fh Price, * Imuie Speedy Sales. Ladies will find it to thetr «dvnnta,o to lay In the! BPRING SUPPLIES In c • WHITE GOODS, ETC., NOW, As they will So able to purchase them at about ANTI* WAR’PBICES. Extra inducements will be offered to thoso purchasing by tlio.piece. u- E. M. NEEDLES & CO., Eleventh atid Chestnut Sts. GIKABP BOIV. r BBCONI) BTBBET, «■« now prepared torapply their etttotterrwitb itnriirley’s TableLinenr and Napktue. TablOCloUiß andjiapktn*.' lUchsrdeon'e Uieu.. v -e 1 .. ■ , 1 ColoredHorderedToweU BathTowele. Huckaback To w«t» in* ToweJtn*. lined bheetinMnnd Sbtrtinga 1 ' lientmakenof Cotton Sheetings and Shtrtlnge. , (Jotmurputeei Uonoy Comb Bpreade. Piano and TablflOovera. * ' ' Superior Blanket*. HAU( * ro., .28SoatliBoeondetrecL JICIIAJIBEI.S, NO. PlO AnCH STREET. i , ■ .1. ! BAKOADiB ■ Polnto AppMqnaLece#. - Pointed deGaavdo. --- - ' ckcmlMttca. new iljlee. Thread Veßs.'j i • , •• i Mareclllea forPr6i«!#ißar*aln«. , French Mudln,two yard# wide. W eta. . . HAMBcfficFfeD choice dethrna. C * UMmi IiDnBEB. 1868. 1868. SSGO SOUTH STREET. 1868. CAROLINA FLOORING. ABH FLOG KINO. FiX^W^a ATiOj^CEsK 1868. 1868. 1868. LAROI3 A 1868. MKjp- 1868. walnctlanp fine. IOCO SEASONED PoPLAIL 1868. : Sealonedckekby; WHITE OAK PUC.AND BDB. HICKORY. 1868. 8 1868. BPAKISH O CH>AR.RW W BOAHDa *1 o/?o CAROLINA BCIANTLING# 1 AAA 186 a ‘sitMmi 1868 * 1868. 1868. 1861 CHESTNUT POSTB. . C T *™TNUT-M»Asj& AKD BOABDS. : SPRUCE JOlf'ri 1868. PLASTERING LATH. °MAULE MtOTHER * CO., aaoo south street. _ 1868. Ann FEET CHOICE 4-4 AND &-4 MOULDINCJ 50.000 etuff; It«l OdarTesta iind Log»for T OKO BOARDS— IB TO 84 FEET\ FIRST, AND 1 1 second com- and roofing; filler, 6r* ow* Hoard. 34 feet-long; Cndertueiß’tw Bal ©l lew idtCHOLBON. Boventh end C»rpenlCTrtj?U»lBi;n& PEBEimtHl. "White’s New Perfume, ‘ipEBF EOT IO N,” An exqnliite perfame for the tbe delicacy of ib© Violet with th* perpetuity ©f Mug*. Bold everywhere liKPOT, 728 iRCH ITKEET, PHILADi. I»18-lm8 . NEW PUBUICATIONS. EWoS-sYair. on G e«nie&^^ city of Blena~ol the countrj around-of ■nlafe fntm oftho Mnrgmma—are WQBdfirfoUy- hiving t »«W» iSS3£Si s Sy te .^^g 'BB«»Sias3gssg eet Increuea oi it sioeeiiß."—A.utaumm. of •?ctei^» , Chjrf» ; iaKteairlw*- fenAt'f-''-i <•■:• W tihwtnut ctowt. PbU*^',"*- ffi. f va■. ffi?BawSriittendePt ofittai - msSa^S^SSS asiSiWSf &f3«s« at tow rates. $1 W- j?. If. BUTUBR-A CO.. Published by Vm South Fourth: street, , ''"'■■ * • Philadelphia. AndtOT«alehrß^Uer L » tt Stt_ . i : :V t r ; j; •- , Laces, 1868. " V;{JW .?■ •t . /K. Pennsylvania legislature# [close op yesterday's pftociatijnras.'l. Senate Mr. McConuugUy „., re ®°T lutlons urging Congress to procure sucha change in the Turiff.laws as will encourage native arts and artists. He stated that, under existing laws very unfair works were allowed to enter the country at nominal rates, to the Injury ol Ameri can artists. A protective tariff to remedy »«? should be adopted. In relation to artists ma terials there should aiso be a change, and they should be allowed to enter free of. at low rates. At present such material are costly. . Mr. McConaughy presented,# memorial on the BublectCseltlng forth in substanco the above facts) from the leading artists of the State. The joint resolutions were passed. Mr. Brown (Northampton) called up an act as Whereas, The vote polled in ihc township of Bethlehem, In the county of Northampton, is largo; and Whereas, A large portion of the voters are cither engaged during the.days of election*at •work until mx o’clock, P. M., or reside some dis tance from the polls, rendering it almost impos sible to receive all the votes Up to, the hour of seven o’clock—the time fixed by the generaL election laws; therefore, > ’ He it That after aud from the passage of this bet, the polls of the township at genoral elections In that township shall be kept open un til eight o’clock in the evening. This bill was opposed by Benator Rldgway and •others, on the ground of being an Innovation upon the election laws, and of being a party give the: Democrats power In the toWnship.' ‘ V. • On the other b,snd, Mr. Brown (Northampton) and others declared that it was a local question,,, and Intended to accommodate the working mefc in the township. v The bill was urged by Messrs. Brown, Wallace, and DavtA andi opposed by Messrs. Rldgway, - Cowles aim Errett rj Mr. Errett (Rep.) moved to amend by keeping the polls open between six and half-past six, o’clock, A. H., instead of an additional hour in. the evening, and the. amendment was accepted by both political parties, and the bill teas passed. Mr. Connell, of Philadelphia, called up an act : to appoint an Inspector or petroleum, kerosene' and burning oils for Philadelphia, which was road (as previously published.) : Mb. Searight moved to make the term of office three yeareinsteadoffowyand toglve thd Gov tmttpowertdremove. *» ? • ’ The three year amendment was agreed to and. the removal lost. The hill as thus amended was' passed. Adjourned. Evening se«uw.*-Thfl follOWlUg bills passed;— A supplement to the Consolidation act,providing that when turnpikes and plank roads nave been graded and paved by the city It shall destroy all franchises of such turnpike and plank road com pany. • Also, an act antborlzlng. the Chestnut Hill Railroad to tike land 'tor a branch at Ger mantown. Also/an act incorporating the Gwy nedd and Blue Bell Turnpike. Also, on act ex empting ,tho stock ol the Military Academy Com pany from taxation. Also, an act providing for the opening within ninety days of Fifth street from Berks to Germantown robe amended to read as follows: The Senators shell receive a compen sation lor their services,, to be ascertained by law, nnd paid out of the 'freoftttrjl of the Common wealth; but in no caae shall’ the said compensa tion expeed one thousand dollars a year for each - BeeatonaJ»i;Eepreßeutative during their respec * live terms ofoflko, .together wltn fifteen cents per mileingolngtoandandretamlngfrom oach regular and extra session, to be computed by the; usually-traveled route'between tjielr places of residence and the Capital of the State. They shall,ail spaces* except treason, .felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged from: arrest dnring their attendance at the session of their ro ,(toectmi Houses,,and ingoing to and returning -fronthe same; and forWny.speechor debate in either House they shall not be questioned in any othor place. . ' . . Second—The first sectipn of the third artlcleof •toeCOnstitution shall be so amended as tortad the citizens, eveiy frtoman of , years, haying reridedin this Stfttp ope year, and in the election district,whore . diet, effers-to yote top days Immediately preceding j such election, having paid a State or county tax within two years;-assessed, at least ten., days: be fore the,election, and able to. read .the.ConstitU .tiwiilffldftihjoy', thelHghtsjef en/eleeto&hut a ‘citizen of the United States who has previously: KeeaPamaidedVpterof-' thisStatendaremoved thferemmf find returned, and who shall have re : sided in the eleotlon district, and paid taxes as aforesaid, shall be entitled to vote after romaln tog?'b|iithb B|ato six months.: 'Provided, That freemen, cltlzensof the .United States, between the ageß of twenty-one and twenty-two years, having resided In the State -one. year an Jin the electlqn distrlct tcn d&ya aforesaid, shall, be on-, titled to vote, although they shall not have paid i -taxes. VEUo. ftbpve. was Introduced by Mr. Hickman. - The lobbies of the House were densely crowded. to hear the debate. "The Democrats Opposed the; resolutions by speeches from Mr, Dleso and othere. The majority of the Kepublicans,headed by Mr* Mann, of Potter, and- othors, objected to' the passage oi the resolutions at this time. They i expressed themselves favorable to giving the no- - grocs all the rights to which they were, entitled.- including the right to vote; but were mot pre pared at present to sanction theproposed amend ment, and its indefinite postponement,which had been proposed by Mr.- Strang, of Tioga, was fa vored by the Republican speakers. Mr. Strang withdrew his motion to postpone the resolutions, and movod -that they be referred - back to tho Judiciary Committee, with luatruc tions to consider the expediency of reporting a bill Babmittlug,to. a popular vote tho question of i(tohventldtt: forthe tmrpoa& of amending the Constitution. Mr. Hickman ajjaln announced his independent as explained some time since, that'it was the plain duty of,...the Republican party to drop the question o(;expediency and resort (o noble principles,.and give the negro all the rights to which be is entitled. He denounced the position of his Republican: associates, as intended to get rid of -wqat they Imagtoed a troublesome question, and the effort td refer the resolutions to a committee to be a dodge to cover the matter up. He scorned both rite dodge and the agencies, add would not let the matter be buried' without his protest, although his brother Republicans had fixed up the burial. Unless the matter was disposed of in a manly way It ;Wonld rock the continent Tbcrc was a world outside the Legislative halls, which lodkcd for a plain exposition of principles on tho negfo question, and the mere success of an election gained W resorting to expediency did not always secure the permanent triumph of;a party. Bpeaker Davis, had no faith In conservative pien, cither In politics or religion,-tjut could not’ regatcl anj* man as a safe teacher in the Republi can ranks who, like the gentleman from Chester, made a speech which was approved tin the Demo cratic side. ; y---' 7 j • The Republican party had enough ;to do to take care of the life of the nation and’the ’ inter ests of the people,: without taking up l any im practicable issues.. .The Speaker: said at length that the reconstruction of the Southern States was really to be the question at the next elec tion. .;-.v The subject was finally, on motion of Mr. Bon*#,;.'postponed until next Tuesday evening. Adjourned. tint COWOKEBB—«ECOIV» SESSION* ' ' CLOSE OF YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Senate*; nEOOXSTBUCTIOSr. ; : Mr. Davis declined to Waive the floor Any farther, and proceeded to. address. the Senate on the supple mentary reconstruction bill. . Be moved to strike all ont alter the word “instruct -ed” tfa Mr. Doolittle’s amendment, and insert the words “with therecommendaritm that this bin do not pass,” and also a bill entitled “an act further to pro- Stfbt more efficient government of the rebel passed Marchs, 1867, and all acta supplemental endatorr thereto.” He then proceeded to-re vlewbis past course on national affaire, declaring that been an Old-Line Whig. Be said there, bad been three great epochs in the history ot the United States. First, the American Revolution; second, the formation of. the present GpnstUntion, andthtrd, the recent rebSUiom urlds judgment It was the doty of the United States to pat down that rebellion and bring back thosp rebels to obedience, and he thought that bad Bden promptly alto constitutionally done: ■ The fourth epoch was now before the coon try. Loy- and snfferingpCOple of the' Booth to be the’ most loyal portlonofthe people of the United States. Without Intending to wound any man, he said the most dis loyal people in the United. States were the Radicals and their lesders. , The end of that fourth epoch was to be decided with the question, shall the Radical party or the Con stitution |insonr-aTstem of government perish t For if tbe dominance ol the Radical party should continue, the Constitution must' go under. Bis conviction was that the party in power had most flagitiously violated every principle ol the Constitution, and be would make good that declaration by quoting from the founders of toe Constitution in regard to the powers delegated to the United States government, the powers: of the three departments of the government, and the liberty reserved to the people of the United States. An organized despotism, he said, could reside either in an individual or in a body of men. The Constitution, created limited legislative, executive and judicial powers, ; vested in Congress, toe President and the Supreme and inferior courts. Congress had no right to exercise a particle of executive power, whether in the President, as Commander-In-Chief, in executing the laws, or with the Judiciaty. When, therefore, after taking an oath to support the Constitution, Con gress passed measures encroaching ypon, executive powers, too* violated the.Conetitntion, andeverjman would be justified In forcible resistance to every law passed by them in contravention of the Constitution. Certain powers were vested in the President and Sen ate jointly, others in the 'Senate, and others In the Boose of Representatives; In the latter, the power of presenting articles of Impeachment. Be denied that the Constitution authorized Congress alone to guarantee a republican form of government. That power was vested in the United States In all de partments of the government. Congress had power-' under the Constitution to admit new States into the Union. Insurrection was an armed rising against the government of a city, a State, or a nation, and for that state of things the Constitution provided one remedy . in the oath of the President to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and to see that the laws of the United States are faithfnlly executed, and another, in empowering Congress to call out the mi litia to suppress insurrection and to raise armies and navies. - That was the sole power of Congress over the snb iect. and It is then passed into the hands of the Presi dent, as Commander-In-Chief. Congress hod no more to do with it afterwards than a private citizen. This position, founded on the plain language, of the Con stitution, he thought was invulnerable. The Presi dent waa then clothed with sovereign, absolute power over the army, which no power on earth could ques tion, and any*man who disobeyed him, be he the Gen eral of the Army himself, was subject to punishment for that disobedience. Hr. Davis then referred to the insurrection in Mas sachusetts and Pennsylvania, and in the City of Balti more, and asked whether that city had been deprived of its charter or reconstructed? If there was any con queror When an insurrection was suppressed, it was not Congress, but the President, as Commander-in- Chief pfthe army. It had been decided by the Su preme Conrt thst Congress could not declare war against a State; that a Btate must first have commit ted acts of war against the United States. Be argued that the principle of conquest could not apply in this country. The Constitution was established by the people acting by States, and his view was that the acts of the people of the South in the rebellion were unconstitutional and void, and therefore at the dope Of the war they recurred to the exact condition which they occupied before the war. The reconstruction measures were'therefore clearly unconstitutional. Be then sketched the circumstances of the Dorr re bellion, and eaid the Supreme Court In Luther vs. Bor den had merely ratified the decision of the local court, which had aocepted the decision of the Legislature and Executive of Rhode Island in regard to the Dorr gov ernment, and he claimed that the governments in operation in the Southern States being recognized by the Judiciary and the Executives ofthose States, Con gress was bound to recognize them, and doubtless the Supreme Court would make the same decision if the case was Submitted to them. _ ; Atthe'SUggeStionof Mr. Mobutm, of Maine, Mr. Davis here yielded to a motion to go intoanExecu tivesesslon at 8.45 r,.iL, which prevailed, and after a Executive seasion the Seriate adjourned. Houte of KeprusenUMives. , • . 'CITIZENSHIP. t . The House then proceeded to the consideration “os the business of the morning hour," of the - bill re ported from, the Committee ou Foreign Affairs, con cerning the rights of American.citizens in foreign wAVdlSCnssed Criticised principally on the same joints and to the same effect on which the dlscusslomhaa.heretofore turned, by Messrs. Hunter, Cook, Baker and Aebley,of. Ohio. %i ! ' * V Mr. onra, a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, defended the bill against the attacks made npottit.'ibln the course of his remarks ho salditwas a matterbfsurprieeto him that the Democratic party had, never legislated. On this subject. - The hour having- expired, the bill went over until tbe morning hour to-morrow. TUB onANTCOBBESrONDEXCE. The correspondence between the. President , and General Grant, called foryesterday, was then read, te gether with letters from membera of the Cabinet in re gard to the affair., - , , -;; . The letter of JHri Seward was: listened to with the most interest and'attention. ‘ Alter the papers were all read, - v : Mr-BrSOHAMj- of OhlOr-moved their reference to the Beconetrnctton Committee, and that they be printed.:,.,,.... : -r Mr. Looan stated there was‘a reply from General Grant to that letter,which he derirett-’to have far nished to the House. , Mr. BiKoHHrtUfen modUled bis motion so as-to re fs* the correspondence ttrthe committee, andtohave it minted': : V j-'- The motion was agreed to, and Mr. togan’s resolu tion, calling on,the president for all further, corre spondence! was also called for. •. 1 Al-PBOPBIATION BILL. 1 V: The House then, at a quarter past two, went into Committee.,of ,thq Whole pn the State of the Onion, Mr. Wilson; ,of Jqwai In thejehair. and;resumed the consideration of the Legislative, Executive and 3 udlT. clail appropriation bill.' , ■ - The amendment proposed yestorday by Mr. Bboom aix, to add to the article-appropriating 81,000,000 for payment of judgments of the Court or Claims, a pro viso, that no judgment exceeding, $500,000 should bo paid out of the appropriation, was rejected, and tho amendment of Sir. Scofiew) toetrikaout tfie whole paragraph was also rejected. W* . • , r Mr, Butler, of Massachusetts, moved to strike out the item for compensation .to tho assistant secretary, short-hand writer, derk of -pardonapaßd; three cterka of l he lourth class, employod by tho President of the United States. He dedared that the proposition was made by him not on a th© officcswcr© , Mr. Pkuyn, of Now York, oppoßod Mr. Kellky, of Pcnnßylvimia, enetalnea It, declaring that there was not a ahort-hand writer employed by tbo President, except an army officer, the pay of the short-band writer being drawn by one, who knew nothing of tbo art end did not practice it cither in tbe service of the Executive Department or in the other ires DAILY EVBjSIM BULyBm-PHILAPiBLPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 t 186^ •pos-ttlops bodieid as reporter foitaPhliadelphtsJand a BaltimoreUfewspapdr/ -'7-v* * Mr. Si'aldino, of Ohio, opposed the amendment, contending, tbht thqhAvprovtdedfortliese offices, that they wcreneedcd for thedueUkhcntrOTi of the duties of the Executive Department, and that therefore the eppropriatlon should bd»Mle; ! » 1 > VA 4 m f Mr. Scheuck of Ohio, moved a proviso to the paragraph thatnoofflCer.of.tlie army of mavy shall be detailed or' asSlgucdto duty as a private secretary or' clerk, or for other civil service afthe Executive Man elon. i-U . .7 i ‘‘ ».bv . Mr. Kiklack, of Ohio, opposed the amendment. ThesmendtflenMJaliioptoA /U'u . Mr. MAVKARD.df Tennessee, In reference to Mr. But. ler's amend meat,stated that the .President many years ago, when Governor'of TenheaSee.'hnd-had his right arm disabled by a railroad accldeat, and had eversince boencomiwlled to ua&tbdAervlces of anamaummsis. The office of shorthand writer was therefore necessary to him- ,f, ■. . . *.. . ./ .... *. , Mr. Stttiato, m vfewbf’that statement, excepted from his amendment the office of ahorthand writer. Mr. BpaimU, of Maind, opposed the amendment on the ground that the oillces were provided for by law. Mr, WodD. of New York, opposed the amendment, ,and said that the'contiunoaß assaults made upon the President in Congress and elsewhere, made it neces gary for the' President to hare a number of clerks to carry on his correspondence. Be doubted whether the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelley) could say ■ofhisowh'personal knowledge that what he stated about the shorthand writer was true. Mr. Keli.rv, of Pennsylvania, said he could not say so of his own personal knowledge, his authority being that gentleman's own sworn statement before the Ju . diciary .Committee. . , , Mr. MUI4.W, of Tennessee, sustained the amend 'mentf ' ■ ’ Mr. Washbtjhke, of Illinois, supported the Amend ment, and fintfily the, Committee vofrd on Mr. Butler's amendment, striking out tlie words “assistant Secre tary, elerkof pardons, three clerks of fourth class,” and it tea* agreed to. Mr. Lou an, of Illinois, moved to strike out the item for toe salary of the aoUcltoFto the Internal Hevanue Department, esnosnch officer wapin existence—the Secretarrot tod Treasiirr having resisted all efforts to have a solicitor appointed. Be subeequeutly, after cousidcrabie debate "between himself, Mr. Blaine and Mr.-ARison,' tapdiAed hia iiiptidti lfr inserting at thecloM of the jjAragreph a proviso that nntil a soli citor is appointeA inacoofdapce wlth law. no part' of the appropriation shall be applied Inpayment for ser vlet* properly pertaining to that office. The amendment war adopted. ' Mr. Woodward, of Pennsylvania, moved to strike out the items for the office of Military Justice, saying that that Bureau WSs a disgrace to the, country, and that the sooner it was blotted ont ftota the record, the better It would be for the character of the country. , Mr. Bunts onpoeed (he amendment, and it was re- Cbraihitteorose at 4:30 p.«., and The Breaker presented communications from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a letter from the Light House-Board, relative to the sale of such light house sites as are nolonger necessary; also, relative to the Bingham Surge Reliever. Referred to the Com mittee on Commerce. r The Speaker presented a message fromihe Presi dent; transmitting a copy of General Grant’s last letter to him, recejved slnce he had Bent to the House his letter to General Grant. ; 7*’ It was read, and ordered to be prluted and referred to the Committee cm Reconstruction. Mr. Schehck, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill to facilitate the collection of the ditect tax in Delaware, The bill makes the assessment of -April 19, 1867, a lawful assessment for that purpose. The bill was passed. Mr. Morgan, Of Illinois, asked leave to offer a res olution calling on the Secretaty of the Treasury for correspondence of the Commissioner of Internal Rev enue relating to the removal or appointment of asses sors Dr collectors; bnt Mr. Wood objected. On motion of Mr. BAKEn, of Illinois, the Commit tee of Wafa and MAUDS teas Instructed to inquire into the expediency of amending the internal revenue law to as to provide for the distribution of government stamps through postofflees or otherwise. On motion of Mr. Jenckes, the Secretary of the Treasury, Attorney-General, and Secretary of State were directed to furnish statements of fees paid yearly siDce 1660 for legal services, in addition to the amounts paid to salaried officers. Mr. Scbekck, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a joint resolution to reimburse Israel SrDleu tor dutitspaid byhlm.On the importation from Asia Minor of 135 Angola for bleeding purpoees. Referred to the Committee of the Whole, At 4:45 p. m. the House adjourned. novEHEirrs or ocean KtPiwp.m, TO ARRIVE. SHIP* PEOM „ FOB DAT* Caledonia Glassow. .New Y ork Jan. 23 Palmyra Liverpool. .New York. .Jen. 25. Wm Penn. ..... London.. New York Jan.2s Helvetia., .Liverpool. .New York. J an. 29 City of Parle Liverpool.. New York ....Jan.29 lowa .Glaegow. .New York Jan. 30 Nova Scotian Liverpool. .Portland Jan. 30 •Minneeota Liverpool. .New York Jan. 31 St. Laurent Brest.. New York ;..Feb. 1 City of Waehiß*ton.Liverpool..N Y vianalifax.,..l;eb. 1 Cuba ;- .Liverpool. .New York. I eb. 1 IJeutechland....Southampton..New York l eb. 4 Manhattan Liverpool.. New York ...leb. 4 Ciiy of Baltimore. .Liverpool.. New Y0rk...,. Feb. 5 Tripoli Liverpool.. New York Feb. 5. Peruvian. Liverpool.. Portland Feb. 6 Cimbria.....—.Southampton..NewYork .Feb. 7 Atalanta. London-. New York Feb. 8 TO DEPART. Eagle .New York.. Havana Feb. 13 Union New York.. Bremen Feb. 13 Star of the Union..Pbiladel’a..N. O. via Havana.. Feb. 15 City of Pari- New York. .Liveropool Feb. 15 Arago .New York. .California, .Feb. 15 Caledonia. New York. .Glasgow Feb. 15 Hibernia New York. .Glaegow Feb. lo Wyoming .Philadelphia. .Savannah Feb. 15 Wm Penn New York. .London Feb. 15 Mirmeeota. .New York. .Liverpool Feb. 19 Java New York.. Liverpool Feb. 19 Morro Caetle New York.. Havana.. . F e f>- 20 South America New York.. Rio Janeiro Feb. 31 St Lament New York..Havre I Feb. 21 City of Baltimore. New Y'ork..Liverpool -Feb- ~ Helvetia .New York. .Liverpool _F eb. 23 Pioneer Philadelphia..^Wilmington. Feb. SOAR'D OF TRADE. WASHINGTON BUTCHER.) JOHN SPARHAWK. } Monthly Comsuttee, GEO. MORRISON COATES,' - Son Rises, 6 481 Son Sets, S 121 High Wateb, 4 41 Steamer Saxon, Bores. 48 hours from Boston, with mils* and passengers to H Wlnsor & Co. Steamer Hunter, Rogers, 41) hours from Providence, with mdse to I> 8 Stetson & Co. CLEARED YESTERDAY. Srhr Z L Adams, Robinson, New Castle, DeL Mention i: Cloud. Schr Montezuma, Gordon, Now Castle, Del. Knight MorD*m«obyFiro,on Build lag*, either perpetually or foralimicod flmo, Hotuehold Furniture and ManchandiM generally. • Abro.Mafine Inrarance on Veonla, Canoea and Freight*. Inlaodlnirariinoo to aUparta of the Union. DIKECTOKB. Wm.Eeber, ; Fetwffloger. . . j>. Luther. J. E. Baum, Lewie Audenrled. - Wm- R Doan,- John B. Blakiiton, JohnKetcham, Davi* Peanou, F. BEAM, Vico PreeMent. j*attu.thi-tf’ Wm. MJBHTTH, Secretary.' rriHE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COMPANY OP 1 PHILADELPHIA. “ QFFICE -a. W. COR^FOURTH AND WALNUT STREETS. FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. TERM AND PERPETUAL. cabhcapital. .: .*200,000 00 CASH ASSETB. Jan 1.1868 8409,609 13 , DIRECTORS. F. Ratchford Btarr, J.L. Erringer, Nalbro' Frazier. Geo. W. Fahnestock, . obn M. Atwood. Janies L. Claghom. BenJ. T. Tredick, w. G. Boulton, George H. Stuart, Charles Wheeler. John H. Brown. Thee. H. Montgomery. F. RATCHFORD STARR, Pretldoni THOS. H. MONTGOMERY. Vice President peaMlm} : ALEX. W. WISTER, Secretary. A MERICAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, INCOB XI- porated 1810 —Charter perpetual, _ No. 310 WALNUT afreet, above Third, Philadelphia. Having a large paid-up Capital Stock and Surplus In vested in sound and available Securities, continue to in sure on dwellings, stores, furniture, merchandise, vessels in port, and their cargoes, and other personal property. Ail losses liberally aad^roni^tj^nt^jusped. Thomas R. Maris, James'R. Campbell, John Welsh, Edmund G. Dutllh, Patrick Brady, Charles W.Poultney, John T. Lewis, Inael Morris, ' John P. Wktiierill. , . THOMAS K. MARIS, PresHtent Albert C. L. CnawroßD, Secretary. . , / ■■ ; 81,607,606 U Fame insurance company, no. nui«6 chest Street, PHILADELPHIA FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. DIRECTORS. , - Francis N. Buck, Philip B. Justice, Charles Richardson, John W, Everman. Henry Lewis, Edward D. Woodruff, Robert Pearce, J Jno. Keaaler, Jr,, Geo. A West, 8 Chas. Stokes, Robert B. Potter, Mordecal Buzby. FRANCIB N-BUCK, President, CHAS. RICHARDSON, Vice President. Williams L Blabcsaetj. Secretary. Bestooc3l M THOMAS A SONS, AUCTIONEERS, , Noa. 139 and 141 South Fourth (treat. SALES OF STOCKS AND REAL ESTATE. mr Public sales atthePhlladelphlaExehangeEVßßS TUESDAY, at 13 o’clock. HE" Handbills of each property tuned separately. in , addition to which we publish, on the Saturday pravioui to each (ala, one thousand catalogues, in pamphlet form, riving full descriptions of all the property to behold on the FOLLO WING TUESDAY, and aUat of Beat Batata at Private Bale. ... - BT Our Salea are alio advertised in the followlni newspapers : Noam Aictratua, Press, Ledobb, Laoai INTKU.IOXHOXB, IIrQUIBBB, AQB, EVEKIHO BULUSTM, Everino 'I ELEOREiui, Gamuts Dehoobat, Ac. g*“ Furniture Sain at the Auction Store EVERY THOHaDAY. gar* Sales at residences receive especial attention. ' BEAL ESTATE SALE, FEB 18. Orphan** Oourt Sale—Trust Estate of Sidney P, Dunott, under Will of Thomas Lancaster, dec’d—THKEE’STQRY BRICK DWELLING. No. 438 Lombard at. VERY DESIRABLE FARM and COUNTRY SEAT, 134 ACRES. Montgomeryville, Montgomery, county. Pa, VERY DESIRABLE FARM, 86 ACRES, Montgomery rille, Montgomery county. Pa. THBEE-STORY BRICK STORE and DWELLING, So. 700 Cumberland st THREE-STORY BRICK DWELLING, No. 703 Cum berland st, 19th Ward. 3 THREESTORY BRICK DWELLINGS. Nos. 2(13, 2415 and 2417 Cedar Btreet, north of Wreken street, 19th Ward. BRICK DWELLING, NO. 460 Allen Btreet, 18 3« STORY FRAME DWELLING, No. 123 Allen street. 18th Ward. 2 THREE-STORY BRICK DWELLINGS, Noa. 1011 ank 1016 Palmer stroet, 18th Ward. 2# STORY BRIGK DWELLING, No* 1868 Beach st, 18tuWard. 2 2Jtf-BTORY BRICK and FRAME DWELLINGS, Nee. 418 and 420 Rscbmond at. 3 THREE-STORY BRICK DWELLINGS, N«e. 423 and 4S3Richmond st. 3 3Jtf-bTQUY BRICK DWELLINGS, Nob. 919 and 931 Warren Blr'eet. 18tli Ward. 3 2)tf-BTORY FRAME DWELLINGS, Noe. 6M and 606 Richmond st. 8 CHOICE BUILDING LOTS, Cumberland street, Dickinson street and Tulip st _ . . FRAME BUILI ING, lately occupied os a Public School h ouso, corner of Fifty-second and Paschal streets, 24tb Ward. 1 ■ Business STAjm—THREE-STORY BRICK STORE andDWELLING, No. 313 South Fifth street, below •Modern three-s Tory brick dwelling, Twelfth street, north of Jefferson. . , Till; EE STORY BRICK DWELLING, No.‘ 820 South Tweltth stroetcbelow Christian. > ; 3 THREE-STORY BRICK DWELLINGS? Nos. 2212. 2214 and 2216 A street, between23d and 23d and Thompson and Master streets, 20th Ward. a i TBREE-STOKY BRICK DWELLING, No. dag l Reed street, . . •. > - - ~ j• Sale at No*. 189 and 141 South Fourth street VERY SUPERIOR WALNUT FURNITURE, FINE - VELVET ANlf BRUSSELS ' CAEPETeC FINE . FJffiNCB PIATE MANJ»L AND PIER. MIRRORS. FINE OIL PAINTINGS,-Ac.,Ac. ON THURSDAY MORNING, At 0 o’clock, at the anetloq rooms, excellent Furniture, including—Very superior Walnut Parlor Furniture, hand some Walnut Chamber and Dining-room Furniture, line French-Plata Mantel and Pier Mirrors, line Melodeon, Velvet, Brussels and other. Carpets, China and. GUa* ware! Counters, snperior Oak and walnut Oltico Furni ture, Feather Beds and Bedding, sevaial very fine Oil Paintings and Engravings, handsomely framed, Ac. ELEGANT -.WATCHES, DIAMONDS, HANDSOME ’ JEWELRY. Ac. . , ON THUBBDAY MORNINGS At 11 o’clock, at the auction rooms—Elegant one-fifth and independent'seconds Gold Watches, ladies’ and gent's Gold Hunting Case Watches. En{Uah Cbronamo tar, line 1 Diamond Cross, Ring and Scarf Pins, elegant CaineoPbjjCorai Sets, fine French Mantel Clocks, lino ‘ LEASE OF CITY WHARVES. ON TUESDAY. Feb. 18, at 13 o'clock noon, at the Philadelphia Ex change, by order of J, H. Pngb, Esc., Commissioner, Will bo leased atpubllo sale for a term of one eg .three years, to the highest and beat bidden Sprace Street Wharf, on the river Delaware; Almond Street Wharf, on tbo river Delaware. , NOT*.—Only that portion of Almond street wharf lying oast ottheaaatßne-af Delaware avenoo will bo sold. ... ~ mpE EMNCIPAI. MONEY ESTABUSHMENT, S. A X conteofarsTHandßACEatreeti, . tMoueyadTlSfedonMorehsidla?, goneraUy-Watobe., ltoaOoldDnSSS*»Sd>Oi°r ug Cua andOpomEaea Eagliib, Amertpan "and Enin Mt^l^auTE&tae^WtohMjl»^raKM|u!iK Quartier and otier^Watohear LadwWjEajra# Wa»ne« t Diamond Broastpina: Finger Ring*t EarKkifa-Stud*, tos.iw Gold ChaUM. JaedallJonaj _Braeoiefaj Scan Hoaißrenatpln*; Fingor Bw*a:PwwW (totally nttonttoa,, ""' t , T *.;. t> * rtto ' BABBITT * OO^tJOTW””- B* No.*S)MARKETri Qua lul vanwdonoo; IMSDHARCE. AUCTION! Mink ; extra chareft '• ADOTI SEJ&HUT.t«*t AVCTIOMtIJ LAKG^aii^w^af^s , , GERMAN, AND 1 ■ . o ■. ■ Feb, 13, #t ~10 o'clock t embracing about ICOO Packages andPptaofStapleand FancyAnlclcs. ' LARGE PERKN PTORY BALR7oF FOREIGN 'AND v ‘domebtic dry Goona - NOTICE.—IUCIudedIn our saleof THURSDAY* Febt : Bales bleached and brown Shirtings find ; dOe .ftR wwf Canton, Domet and Shirting nsaoeW . Case* vvlgan?, Kentnckj> and Corset Jeans, Denims. > -do. .: JSnmltutc and Apron ChecXs;SNcdns, Strlprß*Flaiinefa. da Keruej < 8. tT|^dagptln|jg^MBltnero»rCoatiii«B - Duck Coatingß* I>riUi\Crfl§h t Diaper, do. 4-4 Irish Shirting Linene, Barnsley Sheetings: do. Spanish,t£lo& an*t Mantle .'-Uhensf Hollands, ji Canvas ■- •do. blea. and W.- BjD&magkvTablfl Cloths, Towels, &C-. Y B. SCOTT. Ja. IS SCOTT’S ART GALLERY, No. 1030 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. G. H. BECHTEL’S THIRD GRAND SPECIAL SALE OF BEST QUALITY TRIPLE-PLATED WARE, Will take place at Scott's Art Gallery, 1030 Chestnut street. • ON FRIDAY MORNING, February 14. at lojg o’clock, comprising a full and general* assortment As this manufacture ox Ware is far superior to any now in the market, we would advise all in want of a good article to attend the sola • All goods warranted as ropreented, or money refunded. C D, MoCLEES & CO., A • SUCCESSORS TO . ■ ■■ MCCLELLAND £ CO.< Auctioneers, No. 608 MARKETstreet. BALE OF 17C0 CASES BOOTS, SHOES. BROGANS. BALMORALS* &«. ' ON THURSDAY MORNING, February 10, commencing at ten o'clocß, We wul sell by ca talogue, for cash, 1700 cases Men’s, Boys’ and Youths* Boots,ohoea, Brogan* Balmorals, Ac. ’ . ' Alao. a large and superior assortment or Womb’s, MJUees’and Children's Wear. ■- To which wo would call Aho special attention of tha trade. - -r ■ ■ lll 1 ’ .■ / B XJ - _ V Ne. 908 WALNUT Bfmt . BlIKl? eMaTR STOCKS AND SECURITIES AT THB PHILADELPHIA EXCHANGE. : w WHandbillaof cacti property issued aeparatety.. WOne thonaand coplee publiahedana circulated, containing full deacflptlona ol property to be Bold, aa al*o .partial Ilat of (property contained: fit our - Beal Batata Reaiater. and offered at private Bale. .■ a •gy Salee advertised EAILY in all the dally newt' pap era. " : -a? h .. , W. OHBBlNjlTatreetffidl2l»and 1221 CLOVER .treat. Bleaßureitfln forming thetmblte that our FURNITURE SALES Me confined etrietbr toentiretV NEW-and FIRST-CLASS FUKNITURE,aR In perfect order and guaranteed in every reapeat; i. Regular aaleaof Furniture every WEDNESDAY. ■ OnEdooraatet prompttr attanded to. ' iAa~¥SxTvM^ VANKIRK & MARSHALL HAYE A COMPLETE : V i atockof Chandeliers, Brackelav Portablo Stand and Broniea, at No. 912 Arch atreet v ;: f’IALL AND BUY YOUR , GAS-FIXTURES FROM Vy. the manufactuftra VANKIRK A MARSHALL,. , ’ No. 913 Arch atreet VANKIRK * MARSHALL. NO. 912 ARCH STREETS V manufacture end keep all styles of GaeJPLtturea and Chandeliers. V Alao.refinlaholdflyturea. ■ : ■ "■ - ■ VAN KIRK* MARSHALL, NO. 913 AItQH STREET. V give ep€cVaJ attention to fitting up Churches. Pjpe nm Rt the lowest rates. All work, guaranteed to. give fimt-claeeworkmeu employed. ■ flaw ' fTTTPREB.— MiagCTi COAX, Aim W FEBSQIUIL. ISABELLA KAMAMO. jft P* gWMOBTHTWEIjFTa JL rtreetTHouSsto#. Mrtontne. ; 3