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WEDNESIAY. MARCH 10. 1869.
Wit =Neon the in4le pages of this
morning's GAZETTE —:ifikeand Page . :
Ephemeris, Tragedy at Quebec, The-March
Modes.' Third and Siztli page, : Cons
eureka, /financial, Markets, Imports,
! PAW 2r4Ele. &tenth page : To Canada
and . Back, Miscellany, ~Amusement Di
reetory. -
11. S. BONDS at Frankfort, 871
PETROLEUM at Antwerp, 57f f.
GOLD closed in New York yesterday
at 131 i.
THE House of Representatives a
Washington adjourned over to Friday.
IT Tnitismnss that at least two Cabi
net appointments were declined, the In
tenor, by Mr. Borrrwraa., and the T 'rens
:Dry by Mr. G. H. Smarr. •
CbtranutinerTerts, smugglers, and whis
ky swindlers, and other men who live
and gehrich by' robbing' either the Gov
ernment or the people, comprehend that•
the present occupant of the White House
Is not their friend.
THE House hes passed a. bill repealing
the Office Tenure Law. Only sixteen
members in All .voted against the repeal.
This May be taken as an indication of the
degree of confidence on. Ike part of the
body in President GRANT.
NEW Heimannut elected State officers,
Legislature and three Congressmen yes
terday.` The Republican candidates
were, for- Governor, OrisLow STEARN;
and for Congress J. H. ELA, A. P. SrEv
zza and JACOB BEnzoN, all of whom
were in the last Congress. GRANT'S
plurality, last Autumn, was 6,967.
Tan joint-resolution, granting right of
way to the Memphis, El Paso -& Pacific
_Railway Company did not pass the Sen-,
sae. The only measure of any character;
conferring any part of the public domain
upon a railway company, which passed
late in the session, was the land-grant to
the road from Cheyenne to Denver.
THE variety and public importance of
the business which awaits the action 'of
Congress, leave little doubt that the pres
ent session must continue to the end of
April at• least. The Standing 'Commit
tees are now settled in each House, and
members are ready fqr business. The
country hopes that this will be taken up
at once, and completed with all possible
dispatch.
PRNSIDENT LINCOLN took sll his rivals
for the. Presidential nomination into his
Cabinet, and thus made it the focus of all
intrigues for the succession. But for the
pressure created by the Rebellion, it
would have gone to pieces in six months
.from inherent repulsions. Presideßt
GRANT wisely avoided that mistake by
selecting Cabinet ofßcers fiom an entirely
different class of people.
Tan XVvu Anmax has been ratified
by, several States, in advance of any
official notification, from the State. De
partment, of its adoption by Congress.
But this does not impair the validity of'
each ratification. It is only necessary ,
that the Article ratified should be identi,
ally. the same. State action thereon
thirty minutes afterward, in any part of
the Republic, fills all the legal conditions.
As soon as the Cabinet shall be filled,
the representation of the Republic abroad
will be a leading . subject for attention
The other. JOHNSON, now in England,
, will be-mustered out, and Messrs. WAtm
and Hanvrir will be dismissed from Atus-
trio and Portugal. And so of the leading
Consulships, of which those at Paris,
London, Liverpool, Haim and Havana
are considered quite eqtutt to some of the
missions in official importance.
A DISPATCH to , the St. Louis .Republi.
'can says, that "The Army order restor
ing to the southern commands the officers
removed rby .Toeusson, causes a painful
impression, and that 6f sending Bram
p.m back to New Orlmis, it is contend-
exi f Only arouse a bitter feeling among
people who despise him." We hav'nt a
bit of doubt that the feeling may`be pain
fhl and bitter;.would our sympathies
leviate the misery of them afflicted rebels?
,Porrs will see a very clear Blobs
lion of the Pieeldent'i ideas, totteldng the
responsibility .;of corporations already ,
aubsidiz,ed by the government, in the de
cisive promptitude with which, on Battu.-
urchly, within two days after entering
„office, lurremoved, with' but one map
tiol2-, the entire body of Government
Diree#ns of 'the Union Pacific road.
Thitris pretty good proof that he finds
something rotten in that Numeric,'
especially since the only Director re-
tained was Mr. J. S. Witzulcs, of lowa,
whose clear and exhaustive statements,
some. months since, impeaching the
management of that corporation for ill
faith to the Treasury, have never been
fairly refuted. It .is gratifying to the
country not only to believe that the sub
sidizing policy has been entirely laid
aside, but that existing engagements are
to be scrupulously enforced, in the inter
ests of the Treasury.
Mn. A.. T. STEWART has relieved the
'President and Senate from embarrass
ment by declining the office of Secretary
of the Treasury. He felt that he could
not throw up his business as an importer,
..and that it would be a bad precedent to
set aside a good law, of general applica
tion, in favor of any Individual. In this
he has shown much better sense than
some journalists, fortunately but few and
insignificant, who, in an excess of flunky
ism, have sneered at the law as a musty
and senseless relic of antiquity. The law
that an importer shall ..not, preside over,
the. Treasury, or otherwise be concerned
in administering its affairs, is just as
sound as those other laws which prohibit
men from sitting as judge or juror on
cases in which they are interested. Nor
is the law in question obsolete. Every
man who has held office . in the Treasury,
down to this hour, has made oath, in con
formity to the law, thatOe was not an
importer.
PARTIES AND CLIQUES.
There never was a nation, poslessing
even a low degree of ;civilization, that
was not governed by political parties.
There is no nation on the face of, the
earth to-day, but is controlled in that man
ner. In all the future there will not exist
a nation that will be free from the power
and dominion of parties. 'ln' the very
nature of the case, it must be so. So long
as individuals shall not be organized
alike; while some of them 'are constitu
tionally conservative, and others consti
tutionally radical, th4re must and will be
two parties or forces arrayed in opposi
tion to each other. This condition of
things must last as long as human nature
remains what it is.
Under the most imperial monarchy, as
really as , under the most liberal democra- .
cy, there is no difference in this essential
fact. What difference exists consists only
in forms of organization and modes of
expression. No man of. sense doubts but
beneath the enforced quiet prevailing on
the surface of French society there are
political parties arrayed against each 'Other,
and mutually .struggling for the mas
tery as best they can under the rigid laws
of the empire, and.with the liability that
their, action - upon each other may result,
on any day, in one of those fierce , erup
tions known as a revolution, in which
one dynasty is
_overthrown and another
set up, or reptiblican rule substitued for
monarchic. With varying degrees of
difference, it is so the:world arouticl.
There have been periods during which,
in most ;countries, the conservative ele
ments have preponderated; in which
poppies have been sown upon the, life of
nations to such an extent as to stnpify
all aspirations for higher development,
if not to sink the populations down su
pinely into a hopeless inertia. Then,
again, there have been eras, like the pres
ent, in which a strong tendency to radi
calism is manifested; where manes of
men earnestly challenge all ideas and in
stitutions Itkat stand by prescription, de
manding to4cnow whence they came, by
virtue of which right they claim to re
main, and to what salutary ends they
contribute. Each of these epochs has its
perils.
there ir stag
nation y and
death; Ages of
radical undue
ferment, ending in most unwholesome
excesses.. But this must - be remembered,
that high degrees of agitation are always
safer • than those apathetic conditions
which result in putrefaction. Storms
. d tempests, in the natural world; are
equently appalling. It would be much
orse to have none of them.
As nations are divided intd, and gov
erned by, parties, in like manner are
parties formed into cliques and 'guided
.by them. The rule is without exception.
It is universal. In each State of the
Union both the Republican Ind Demo
cratio parties are divided into cliques. In
each County of each State the same ar
rangement is found; and in, each town
ship of each county.. So absolute is this
subdivision that when two sets of candi
dates are put up for delegates to a Comi
ty Convention of either party, all politi
cians who are familiar, with the locality
can tell to which cliques the candidates
respectively belong, and which will prob
ably be chosen. . •
e submit these suggestions to 'show
how ninate.and powerful political organ
izatinrua are; : no( to condemn. Nor is
this condition of affairs peculiar to poli
ties. I In finance, in manufactures, in
commerce, in medicine, in theology, in
all departments of mental or physical ac
tivity, there are as many parties and
cliques as in the'realm of politics. This
happens in obedience to irresistible natu
ral laws. Nor are parties and cliques
Outside. of politics any worse or better
thin parties and cliques inside 'thereof.
There are, indeed:lndividuals here and
there, who care comparati*ely- little about
politics.' Their public , spirit and their ,
selfishness—one or bOth—run in other
directions. Some men are only for
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'themselves and families. They will
- patronize politics or religion, provided
they can gain some selfish end through
either,. but not otherwise. Others find
agreeable substitutes for political parties
and cliques, in finan cial clans in the
stock, oil and other markets, or in eccle
siastical controversies and antagonisms.
But almost everybody belongs not only
to a party Of some sort, bat to a clique
within that party. ,•
In view of these facts, the demand of
the Commercial that President GRANT
shall not appoint to office any man who
belongs to a clique, deserves considera
tion. Who, then, shall he appoint ?
Shall he take men who have never feltin
terest enough in political on-goings to
form ideas and prepossessions sufficiently
definite and controlling to constrain
them into exact and active associations?
That would be to put under the ban all the
men who impart vitality .to the Republi
can party. Is our contemporary anxious
to have its own rule applied to itself?
and to all who, in the main, act in con.
cert with it ? We give neither it nor
them credit for so much self-abnegation;
if that sort of thing can be accounted
creditable in any sense.
The Commercial has done more labOr,
intended to embitter and intensify the
war of factions in the Republican party
of this Commonwealth, than all the other
Republican journals of this city. 'lt .tkas
never let an oppoitunity pass to hit lead
ers of the faction to which it is opposed
as hard blows as it could. "Even within
the last few days or weeks it has ben en
gaged in this business; and, doubtless,
with the full concurrence of its own fac
tion, and this, too, while all the other Re
publiesnlournals of the ,city, were careful.
ly keeping the pence within the party. Ref
erence is iiot here made to the pastes and
folder case
Does the Commercial mean to be count
ed out, and upon its own motion? And
to insist that all of its set shall follow it
into self-ordained excluslon?; Thenublic
will be satitied it so means' when it is
found heroically resisting xempting offers
of preferment
p-'Now, it would be folly to maintain
that any man became entitled to office
solely by reason of services rendered to
• a faction or party. ' No man ought to be
put into a position unless he is honest
and capable. The people—whieh in
cludes all factions and parties—ought to
be well. served. 'But, after that point is
fully provided for, Re insist that each
party ought to promote thole men. who
are most In harmony with it, and who
contribute 'most to its success. No genii-
Lue party man will own any other rule.
There are two factions in, the Republi
can party of Pennsylvania. So there are
in every other State. Who carried Penn
sylvania for G o laarr and CoLrax ? The
men who are outside the two factions ?
No, indeed. Both factions were in the
contest, and each contributed potentially
to the final result. If either faction had
dropped out of the canvass, thoiltepubli
cans would have been badly beaten. We
shall need both factions next October, as
much as we needed them last autumn.
It is easy for leaders in •one faction to
denounce everybody else' as !hedonists,
and ort that ground to demand that they
shall be set aside. But such conduct is
simply impertinent. It proceeds from a
desire to monopolize. The men who fur
nil& the brains, do the work, or sap•
ply the money to run a party, are the
men whom the party should recognize
and reward, subject Only to the condi
tions that they combine the requisite de-
grees of ability with undoubted integrity.
Mr. STEWART'S OFFER.
The Bth Section of the Act of 1789, or
ganizing the Treasury Department, reads
as follows :
"Szariou 8. Be a enacted. That no
'persons appointed to any office instituted
by this act, shall dipactly or indirectly be
concerned or interested in carrying on
the business of trade or commerce, or be
owner in %hole or in part of any sea ves
sel. or purchase by himself, or another
in trust for him,: any public- lands or
other public property, or be concerned
in the purchase or , disposal of any public
securities of any State, or of the United
States, or take or apply to his own use,
any emolument or gain for negotia
ting or transacting any business in the
said departmentinther than what shall
be allowed by law; and if any person
shall offend against any of the prohibi
tions of this act, he shall be deemed
guilty of high misdemeanor, and forfeit
to the. United States the penalty df three
thousand dollars, and shall, upon eon
viotion, be removed from office, and ;for- -
ever thereafter be incapable f holding
any office under the United Stites; Pro
vided that if any ether person 'than a
public prosecutor shall give information
of any such offense, upon which a prose
cution and conviction shall be had,
one
half of the aforesaid. penalty of three
thousand dollars, when recovered,. shall
be for the use of the person giving such
information."
From the passage of this act up to this
time every man who has taken office in
the Treasury Department has been made
to swear that he was not an importer of
goods. It is noiv known that in 1860,
President LINCOLN offered Mr. Montial4,
of New York, the Secretaryship' of the
Treasury, and that he declined it because
he could not honestly take . the oath.
Mr. STEWANT, to EMIJI3fY the law, of-
fered to put his bubiness into the hands of
trustees, his share of the profits to be dis•
tributed to benevolent objects, so long as
he should be Secretary. Clearly this
would not be a compliance with the law,
but a transparent attempt to evade it. The
offer furnishes •a measure of. Mr. -STEW
ART'S anxiety to hold the place; but such
a distribAtion of profits as he proposes
would not•eatlsfy the people. The law
is 'a good one, and no reason can be pro
duced why it should be abrogate& Much
more difficult is it •to show that because of
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Mr. STEWART'I3,WeaIth and eininencean
exception should be made in his favor.
If a law should bind and! conclude poor
and obscure men, It should maintain its
hold upon those who are itch and promi
nent.
If Mr. STEWART iihonl4 divest himself
of interest, as he proposes, in the profits
of his business, he would'nevertheless be
concerned to have affair so cohducted
that his capital would be unimpaired,
and upon the expirationiof his term' of
public service, -OW. he would find his
traffic maintained - At least , 'at its present
proportions, if not still fart her expanded.
This we account a direct interest in the
business. If anybody should decide that
this interest is; not direct, they can
hardlygo farther and say it is not an in
'direct one.
Mr. STEWART was selected by_ Presi
dent GRANT because of hi 4 demonstrated
capacity to manage a multitude of details,
and so order complicated 'affairs as to en
sure success. These are prime requisites
in the head of the Treasury. Some men
of genius, whose orations will serve
_as
models for all time, haveibeen so igno
rant of practical affairs as :to find difficul
ty in keeping out of the lists of paupers.
Such men have their uses, but clearly not
in managing public finarices. In that
department, a man like Mr. STEWART is
worth a legion of them. %
The Democrats are building on the dis
cussion of this case,. large hnpes of a
schism in the Republican 'Tarty. They
are destined 0) disappointment. The
President and Senate alike overlooked the
law cited above. sow, buth manifest a
disposition to stand by th&•law. There
is, and can be, no quarrel between the
President and , Senate toucliing this mat
ter.
CHICAGO AND THE XVT II ARTICLE.
The Republicans, atThicago, recog
nized the abAute control of the suffrage
question by the States, under the existing
provisions of the ConstitutiOn. But the
entire tenor and effect of their platform
was equivalent to a clear notice to all the
world that an inflexible Principle was
marching on, and that it !must. in due
time, and by the proper modes, obliterate
and leave behind it every arbitrary and
indefensible barrier to its piogresa We
paused before such an obstacle at Chicago;
as long as it should stand, it preiented a
situation which commaoja gnr obe
dience, and this we plainly a. That
obstacle is now to be removed by
constitutionalmethods,, and in the most
exact accordance with the strictest rights
of the States to which the,question stands
submitted. When their decision shall be
given. It will mean that each State accepts;
as it originally agreed to accept, the final
arbitrament of , the constitutional three
fourths of their number, touching the abro
gation or amendment, in any particular,,
of the common. compact. The .submis
sion of the Nlith Amendment to the judg
ment of three-fourths of the individual
States is, in itself, the highest possible rec
ognition of that State supremacy over the
suffrage which the Chien° platform pro
claimed. . 1
The question is with the !States; and
each State, alone. When their constitu
tional quorum pronounces on it, affirma
tively or negatively, we shill abide by
the Verdict, and we, expect all who up
hold State rights to do likewise,.unless
their "Inconsistency and stupidity" shall
tempt them into a second rebellion. It
was "stnpifl".in some of them not to
perceive sooner the logical results of a
true, living, radical Republicanism. It is
"inconsistent" in them to 4ppose any
constitutional exercise of State rights,
upon any sham plea ivhatsoever.
Their stupidity will 'be enlightened
and their inconsistency made ridiculous
by the certain event In the' meantime,
this inconsistency and stupidity are pe
culiar to a "Democracy" which never
could see why rebellion, against a dis
tasteful law, should not be prtiferred to a
wesent submission with an orderly move
ment for its speedy and constitutional re
peal. Nor, on the other handi has it ever
been the Republican habit to abjure any
of the constitutional rightsl i either., of
States or of citizens. That would be a
stupidity which the oPposition monopo
lizes.
JUSTICE TO ALL
What does the Dispatch mean by quot
ing at the head of its c‘lumniyesterday,
"Gold at New York, 12111" Unless
these figures are to be interpreied in sorat)
occult way, the Dispatch ther* greatly
',underrates this precious metal
Probably We Editor wanted to buy a
draft on - Ireland, expecting to base on the
quotations in the Dispatch the amount
to be paid. It won't work, Mr; Editor, as
a the . Bankers look at the. Gm:Ernes
quotations before selling or baying.
—By the way, the same profound jour•
nal heads its Harrisbism news in a face.
tious manner thus: "PIUs passe&" Whose
pills passed ? Brandreth's or ;Wilson's ?
The punctilious, and would be tunny
editor of that sheet should hOre enough
physic in his 'own blunders to draw his
attention from those of hie neighbor's.
Washington _
President Grant on Saturday last re
moved all the Union Pacific Railroad
Commissioners, except Williams. Frank
Blair and Snow, of the Intelliglncer, were
among those removed, and exrCongress
man Dodge, of lowa, is understood to be
one of the new appointees.
Senator Fowler being considered as no
longer a member of the Republican party,
the committee have agreed to recommend'
that he be'asked to stay away!, in:lm the
Republican caucuses in Mum` The
chairmanship of his Committee on En
rolled Bills has been given to another,
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and he is no longer recognized as a Re.
publican Senator by his associates.
Pennsylvania Republicans in the House
have expressed themselves against any
repeal or modification of the act of 1789
in order to let Mr. Stewart come into the
Cabinet. If special exemptions are once
made there will be no rule by which Con
gress can hereafter beguided when simi
lar applications come in as thick as peti
tions are now coming-in from the South
ern States.
All of the bills which passed one House
of Congress, but failed'in the other, hav
ing fallen with the close of the former
COngress, and also those which passed
bOth branches, but did not receive the
President's signature, will again be intro
duced. Among.them are the bill to re
peal the tenure of civil office act, Mr. •
Schenck's bill to strengthen the public
credit. the Indian appropriation bill, - the
amendatory internal revenue bill, and the
bill to redistribute the national currency,
giving a larger share to the South and
West.
There were a number of Senators and
members called on Saturday to pay their
respects to Mr. Delabo. Among them
were Judge Kelley and Mr. Townsend,
of Pennsylvania, to whom Mr. Delano
exhibited a blank form of a circular letter,
which he will hereafter send to all Repub
lican members when charges are made
against any of the appointees in their re
spective districts, or where there are ap
pointments or removals to be made, as he
desires to hold the' embers responsible
for the officers in their districts, and there
by relieve himself and the Secretary of
the Treasury from much labor and trou
ble.
Donn Piatt writes: The other day Gen.
Grant said to a Mr. Slade, of Ohio, I be
lieve, that he would consider a nomina
tion by Mr. Johnson in the last hours of
his administration as positive evidence
that th%nominee was unfit for the ' place;
and if die 'Senate confirmed such nomina
tion, he, Grant, would do all in his pow
er to turn him out. This was known to
the Senate, and yet, at midnight of the
3d; this body went into executive session,
and I am told to-day, confirmed the en
tirebatch of nominees. I am prepared
to believe this. From what I saw last
night I believe the Senate was In a con
dition to do any folly or injustice.
These night sessions ought to be pro
hibited bylaw, and the liquor agiiin driv
en from the Capitol.
It is true, as telegraphed on Monday,
that Mr. Stewart tendered his resignation
to the President, but the manner in which
it was done, instead of relieving Grant,
only served to increase his embairass
ment. Mr. Stewart is loth to give up the
Treasury Department, and he has left the
alternative of his retirement with the
President. Instead of unconditionally
retiring, he says to the President: "My
resignation is in your hands. Yon can
accept it if you desire; and yet I should
like to retain the office." He does not
iay: "I will relieve you from the compli
cations which surround you. I wiltnot
perform the dutiei of the office,
and you
must accept my withdrawal." This was.
the state of the case Sunday night, and it
is supposed that Stewart's slumbers were
disturbed for fear the President would
take him at his word and accept his res
ignation. This was the opinion of many,
an
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re was good foundation for the
ste nt that Boutwell would be his suc
cess° . - A
Acting on the advice of the President,
Mr. Stewart consulted with Chief Justice
Chase, Senators. Fessenden, Grimes,
Trumbull, Prelinghuysen • and many
other leading lawyers and statesmen in
Washington, and it is 'understood their
decision quite disheartens Mr: Stewart.
They hold that he cannot assign, trans
fer, dr dispose of the contingent profits of
a business; and inquire what is to become
of the losses and what will be done if
there are no profits. They also ask Mr.
Stewart if he would 'not still be in the
business of an importer '
even though he
gave the profits of that business to the
public charities. The result may easily
be seen. Congress, it is very sure, will
not repeal the law. He is also convinc
ed, though not satisfied, that in order to
get out of business he must get out of it.
Therefore it is presumed that the Presi
dent will be forced to accept his resigna
tion, whether Mr. Stewart would prefer
to remain in the office or not.
Even Attorney General Evarte did not
know of the existence of the. law which
makes Mr. Stewart ineligible. When
the question was sprung, Mr. Everts de
clared to an ex-member of Congress that
there was no such law, and nothing is
the way of Mr. Stewart taking the office.
There are several acts bearing on the
subject. The original Treasury act of
1789, from which the section is quoted,
was framed by Alexander' Hamilton;and
had special reference to his own occu
pancy of the position and the force of,
the restriction is universally conceded.
The act of 1791 extended the restriction
to clerks, and the act of 1795 partially.re
moved the prohibition of clerks and
other officers, but the act of March 2,
1799, extended the prohibition to all offi
cers 'of the Treasury, so as to include
Custom-house officers, Inspectors, :Ike-
The act of Feb. 26, 1853, provided an ad
ditional guard on this subject by prohib
iting any officer of the Treasury or other
Executive Department from acting as
agent or attorney, or prosecuting as prin
cipal any claim upon the Government.
So little was known of the act in ques
tlon by that eminent legal body, the Sen
ate, that no, allusion whatever was made
to it when his name was sent in, and no
one even hinted that against him there
was the slightest taint of ineligibility.
The question as to what will be done
with the request of the President has been
almost the sole topic 'of discussion in all
circles. It does not seem posidble that
any moffification of the act tan pass the
Senate, without very 'warm discussion,
involving the whole question of Stewart's
fitness and business. • The sentiment of
the Republican members of the House
seems to be decidedly against any change
in the act. Mr. Stewart's status in this
matter is just this: If the modification of
the act cannot be made without a contest
graceffilly, and with a degree of tmani:
mity, he will himself quickly relieve the
whole subject of all embarrassment by
declining the position. It is reported that
a delogation - of importers and merchants
from New York will use - their influence
against Ide Stewart. •
• A later statement is that Mr. Stewart,
after the fullest consultation with. the
President and the principal officers of the
government, including Senators and Rep
resentatives, has prepared`a letter of nu
conditional resignation of the' office of
Secretary of the Treasury, and ;has also
by the ald of counsel drawn articles of
agreement in accordance with his pre
vious propositions to the President, and
will submit the same to General Grant
for his acceptance of either.
It is well understood among the Mends
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of the Administration that the present"
Cabinet is going to pieces at an early.
day. Gen-Schofieldintends to return to
the army, and Gen. Cox is to be trans
ferred from the Interior to the War De
partment. The Northwest is to step tato
the Interior Department in the person of •
James F. Wilson, of lowa Washburne
has not decided to stay in the State De
partment, and will probably resign. This
may give the President an opportunity teh
silence the expressions of discontent and
disappointment that run in the press and •
among the people, without regard to
party, over the existing Cabinet.
The fact has been made known, with •
the consent of President Grant; that both
Governor Boutwell and Mr: Wilson, of
lowa, were offered Cabinet positions and
declined them. Mr. Wilson was strong
ly urged. by Geheral Grant to accept a
place, and he was given choice of three.
General Grant spoke of Mr. Wilson in
the warmest terms, and declared that
from the first he had him; in view for a
Cabinet position.
OPERA FlonsE.—Thare was a remark- '
ably. large audience at the Opera
House last night, notwitlustanding the
rain. "Ambition" ass presented. The
cast was an excellent one, and the piece
was admirably rendered. Mr. Proctor
is a fine reader, and is a very pleasingactor.. Miss Dargon'srendition of ,
"Catharine Howard" was unexception
able. She is a remarkably fine reader,
is evidently a close student, and is rapid
ly rising in her profession. To-night
"Macbeth" will be presented. •
,A.eADEntv of Music.—The Susan Gal
ten Tonic English Opera troupe , ap
peared last night before what may be
termed a respectable audience, but one
deficient in point of fashion and num
bers. The parquette and dress-circle
were respectably well filled, but the re
mainder of - the house was unoccupied."
The entertainment , furnished was, from
one view, first class, and another far
beneath the ordinary merit of operatic
pgrformances. Judging the troupe by
, fts leader, Miss Susan tialton, we must • •
award it high place in the ranks of su
perior vocalism; but stripping it of the
'presence of that, prima donna, we have
nothing left bit ' a combination of or
dinary singers, 'whose beat execu
tions fell far short of those put
forward by our home amateurs.
Miss Susan Galton as a finished and high
ly cultured artist is without many supe
riors in this country; as an actress she
rivals most of the stars now gracing the
upper walks of theatrical life; but she is
surrounded by a troupe which can lay
claim to nothing higher than moderate
musical ability. We would willingly
pay three prices for admittance to hear. ,
Miss Susan Galion interpret the music
of the masters, if we could at the same
time shut our eyes and ears to the other;
common-place offerings of the troupe,'
which, considered in the most lenient
and favorable light, is a dead failure.
We think that the city of Pittsburgh
was deemed a provincial town by the
managers, and, consequeurly, but one
half of the troupe was 'sent hither to
please and edify our people. This was
a grand mistake, as our community, Re
cording to- the judgment of Kellogg,
Parepa and others, are better educated
in musical matters, and keenertodiscov
er deficiencies, than any other class in .
America, and cannot be well imposed -
upon by tnat which is not the genuine
coinage oemerit.
To-night Miss Susan Galton takes a
benefit.- The bill is good and grand. We
trust there will be a full house, and that
the lady niay not be permitted to depart
from the city without a substantial ree
ognition of her high order of talent and
ability as a vocalist and histrionic artist,
S2dYTHE'S 'AMERICAN THEATRE. —
The many attractions at the American
continue to draw crowded houses every
night. The Victorelli Brothers termi
nate their engagement this week, and
those who desire to seethe greatest gym
nasts in the world should improve this
opportunity.
PITTSBURGII TREArns.--This populk
establishment will open to-morrow night
with an entire new company, compris
ing some of the leading; artists from the ,
Eastern cities. Mr. Williams is an ad
mirable manager, and the public fully
appreciate his efforts to provide first class,
amusements. •
NEw ORLEAms, . March 9.—Cotton
essier;. middlings, 22.%®283; sales,9oo
bales, 3,262 bales; exports, 658 b ales.
Gold, 131%. Exchange—Sterling. 143;
Commercial, 14.1%@142%; N. Y. Sight,
3 premium. Sugar nominal. Molasses
'dull; prime, .70@75c. Flour easier; su
perfie, 86,25; double extra, $6,62; treble
extra, 87,25. Corn dull at 78@790. Oats
declined to 77c. Bran, $1,15. Hay de
clined to $25 for prime. Pork, 831,150(il
32,00. Bacon firmer at 14e for shoulders,
17%o• for clear rib sides, and 17%0 for
clear sides. Lard dull at lifil®2l%e.
Whisky nominal; Western rectified at
95c©81. Coffee nominally unchanged.
CHICAGO '
March 9—Evening.—At the
open board this afternociii there' was but
little done.. In the grain market a weak
feeling prevailed. Wheat quiet at a de
cline of 34@wp per bushel; No. 2 closing
at $1,113¢@1,12. Other grairu3 neglected,
and prices nominally the same as at the,
close of 'Change. .In the evening trans-.
actions were confined to buying and sell
ing a few privileges to deliver wheat to
morrow at $1,113;. Provisions neglected.
Cussurnaz, Mass., March 9.—Beef
Cattle; receipts 329 head; prices are equal
to last week, with a firm trade; sales of
extra grades at $13,50®14,00; first quality
512,60@13,60; second 'quality $11@12;
third quality 89,00©10,50. • Sheep and
Lambs; receipts 2,879 head; the demand
was good; prices not materially varied;
sales at s4®9.
. ,
HOW HOSTETTER*, BITTERS CUBE
DYSPEPSIA..
THE WHOLE STORrIN A NUTSHELL.
The once of the stomach is to convert the food
into threim-like send-fluid, called Canal. This
is ereted partly by the talon of tsolvent,called
the gastric Juice, Winch exudes from the coating'
of the stomach, and partly by amschenical move.
ment of that organ. which 'Awns: as It were.
.the dissolving ailment. The Limn passes from
the sumach Into the duodenum, or entrance to
the bowels. where It Is snbiected to the action of
the bile, and the nutritious portion of it convert
ed Into a fluid called Ohyis, which eventually be
comes blood.
Now, it is eVldeut that it the great solvent, the
gastrio juice, Is not produced in auldclent quan-
My, or tf the mechanical action of the stomach
Is not auMciently brisk, the drst proem clams.
Mu will be but Imperfectly performed. It is also
clear that if the liver. which plays such an im
portant part in changing the nourishing portion
of Me chyme , Into .tea material of the aloud, is
congestea or in any unnatural Condition, the
*mond Pr?msta will not be thoroughly accent-
Unshed. The result of the two fat - lures is dye.
The
canplicated with btitouansse •
The mode in which HowTETTEIVEI BITTERS
operate in such cases tirade: they - invigorate the
cellular membrane of the stomach, which evolves
the fitarlo Juice. therebY Insuring in am pl e SUE"
flelencLof the Auld, to completely dissolve' the
food. They also act upon the nerves of the atom
ach, attlisilat an acceleration of the mechanical
Movement nmessuy Th e yduce the food to a
homogeneous utast also act specifically
upon tile liver, crengthsrans regu lar d suppl ying
-ft te produce an ample and y of'
bile, for the I:impose et converting the nutritious
particles of the Minns into w
ets e and promote
the pusege through the bow of the useleu
debris.
In this way, HOSTETTER'S • MUMS cure
dyspepsia and livercomplaint. The explanation
la Nab, simple,'philosophical, andfrus.
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