I ~ 1 rerate—Datty. deett.Weekty.l _ 1 Weeny. One year... 0,00 One year. 22.50 Biagio copy-2150 free month 75 81.2. moe .. 1.50 s.coßles,esoh 1.25 By the week 15 Three mom 75 10 , • " 15 , (from curler.) ant,2 one to Agent. SATURDAY. APRIL 3, 1809. . Tms names of Hon. Russma. Renurr, for Assessor, and T. W. Dens, fol. Collector of the SICHd Revenue District, r. were sent - Into the Senate , yesteday. Theilconfinnadoit'is 1t "to be doubted. Tait... Peruvian gov ]eiument propoies to refer :all. the questions at ,issue to the arbitrition of President Gamer. The concurrence of Spain In_ the proposition is not yet announced, bnt is confidently . . . . W3l Navas reports Cr new, discoveries 'of silvirin Boiora, lesa than a hundred miles bow Ban Francisco. That Meal can State rests on the • Eastern Coast of the Gulf of California, and barely touches our own State with its northwestern • corner.' It has long been known that So _ flora was rieh in those metaliclreasures, •' with their development awaiting the ulti mate annexation to the Union. Tim depression of their cotton-manu facturing interests attracts the serious at tention of the English press. It is stated that times are now almost as bid in I‘an cashire as at any period during the rebel lion. On the llth tilt. the long -expected - `strike began among the operatives--those .-at Preston ceasing work in consequence `of a ten per cent. reduction in their wages r .: As this reduction has been re -solved upon by the trade generally, the strike will extend to other districts of the Kingdom: Nor do the employers care about going on, evun at the reduction. Grave apprehensions, therefore, exist as to the future condition of a very numer ous working-class. • " • GREAT BRITAIN produced, during the year 1887, metals, coals and other miner als, to the value of £43,486,092, equal to about' $250,000,000 of our currency. • The coal produCtion was 104,500,840 ions, of which about 9,761,827 tons were -exported, 277.176 tons going to North American imts,and nearly 2,000,000 tons ',going to Prance. The consumption of British (not Provincial) coals in the Uni ted States is confined to =our seaports, and mainly to the gas companies which use them for mixing with the coarser bitu minous coals of the States and of Nova Scotia. London alo, consumed, in 1867, coals to the amount of 6,322,088' tons, • taking in that supply one halk by sea and the other half , equally devided between railway and canal carriage. . A apron was circulated yesterday, at Washington, that the President consid ers the propriety of vetoing-- the new office - wntkre bill. The only basis for the rumor was found in the fact that certain politicians whO' were conspicuous in the - recent straggle, on the, floor of Congress, to bring about an adjustmenk not in ac - (=dance with the explicit understanding lietween the President and the Senatorial Committee, have - continued to be active in eforta . to compromise Gen. Grant, up on the qu on of exectrive _aproval. These politic! have, , it is said, called at the. White to remonstrate against siliffatnre. 1 How much they have real- Iy taken by their motions may be seen from the significant fact that the Presi dent yesterday transmitted two or time hundred of the long.delaycd nominations to the Senate. This is natirelyincompaS. ible with the idea that &Veto is proposed. Blaitimourrimw Num.= is about to report a bill providing for the muster-out OSA large number of army-officers now ottite,retired list. His bill'vary properly retains such officers as have distinguished theinselves in, the service, or by wounds; but sends the residue of the retired-list to a Commission for enquiry and a report upon each case. We cannot doubt that • '- the interests of the ' service, and of the country, - would be ',pronioted by the proposed 'diminution of these super . , Saone' veterans, who have been cerpet. knights add Ilothing else. Beyond that, public sentiment might be • unwilling to go. ;'Bat, even within the limit thus sug • gated, our_ Representative Will find that he stira"up a hornet's_ nest, and that he will encounter the Mott bitter opposition, expresied in every form. • known to a Washington lobby. fel. • 111M8 ~_ 5 .,. _~,{,Y. t:11 irgafttbutr Gaith PUBLIBRED DAILY, BY PENNIMN, & CO., Proptietom P. B. PICNNUSAN. Joistsla KIN% . T. P. HOUSTON. N. P. REED, Editors and Proprietor. • OFFICE: CASETTE BUILDIt4S, PIOS. 84 AND 88 FIFTH ST. OFFICIAL PAPER Of Pittsburgh. Allsghassad - glassy County. Wa Pzm't on the fluid' Pages of this awning's Garcrra—...lslftend page Po etribliPhemeria, Eativ and Dinners, Sher &iks. Third and Bioth pages: Com mercial, Financial, Markets,' Imports and Rion . . News. &tenth page : Continua. tionef Sheriff's Sake. 11. B. BOriDB at Frankfort, 87i. PICTROUMI at Aittirerp, norm closed in New York yesterday at TEXIIE can be no doubt that an organi zation of citizens, calling itself a Vigi lance Committee, exists in New York. It is equally probable that this association has been-formed for the express purpose of securing the arrest and due punishment of the villians who swarm in the Me tropolis; and who control its elections, its Courts and all its municipal authorities. But as to the timber of citizens concern ed In this movement, the , extent of their organization, and the resolute determina tion which governs their councils, the public information is really vague. Much has been said about this Vigilance Committee, and little or nothing is really known. If it exists, and is of the char acter usually attributed to such irregalar exponents of the public dissatisfaction, its first public demonstration is likely to be a decisive one. TO•DAY we surrender much of our space on the second and seventh pages to the announcements of sales to be made by Sheriff Sam= B. Curran . , at the Coqrt House, by order of the District Co on Monday morning, the 26th instant, at ten o'Clock. Much very desirable real 'estate is included in the sale and capital istdahould be in attendance. It will be observed that an unusual amount of property has fallen into the Sheriff's hands, and consequently largely increased the work of the office. Bat Mr. CLULEY is possessed with rare business qualitieS and liberal capacity, so that things go on more smoothly than ever in his office, notwithstanding the much heavier pres sureof labor. Thd term for which he was ,elected is drawing to a close, and there are few interested in the affairs of the county but will regret that the law pie vents him retaining longer a position•he has so faithfulli and efficiently filled. CANADIAN ANNEXATION. Some members of Congress are said to believe that a project for annexation to this Union has friends among influential Canadians. Very likely ! Every one knows that -some members of Congress can be found to believe anything that anybody chooses to assert. But it will be a long time before oar Government will receive authentic and responsible advises, that such a project is favorably enter tained in any Canadian quarter deserv ing even a moment's consideration. If the politicians and ;people of the Do minion are pretty nearly unanimous in sentiment, upon any one subject, it is in the hearty accordwith which they dislike their American neighbors. Even the ' Mexicans will forego their chronic love for revolutions, and agree in an unani mous pman to the * hated Gringos, before the small:beer politicians who rule Can ada will lay aside their natural prejudices and consent to annexation to the Repub lic. We shall never occupy and possess the territory of British America, until we conquer it with our embattled legions, under General Mama, of the Chicago Triune. Aid, then, after it has been ravaged by hie warriors,the territory will not be worth having. .A PITTSBURGH TRIUMPH. No argument his been more forcibly used, or with more damaging effect against tariff interests, than' that drawn from the fact that America had to depend on Prus \ sia for a quality of steel sufficiently hard and perfect to be used in the rolling of silver and other obstinate and compact metals. In the mints of the 'United States the rollers used bore the imprint of a foreign manufacturer, and that truth had but to be cited to bring the blush to our own steel workers, as frequent ever. inmate had failed .to produce suitable qualities of steel for the pprpose. How. ever, Pittsburgh has achieved another triumph, and has just furnished the Philadelphia mint with a steel roller, pronounced, after actual test of several weeke, -to be superior to the Prussian impo tations. The dis 'covery of a process of hardening and strengthening the of the roller, was made at the Crescent Stfiel Works of Mesars. Mmars, B4aa & Perutm, after considerable experimenting„ and it will be properly protected by patent in due course of time. The firm are now engaged in the. manufacture of another roller for the same piece, for rolling nickel, in which they encounter no diffi culty, lavuig thoroughly mastered the process of hardening steel to the required point. This invention is , a most import- ant one; and doubtlus will attract much attention throughout the country, and at the same time be hailed as fresh evidenCe of the enterprise and proficiency of American mechanics. A,DANGEROUS DELAY. The entire opposition. strength in the House united with one-half , of the Re. publican membena to postpone the Minis !dip! bill to Decembim next. The press report of the preceding day left the House debating this bill, with a pending propo sition, from Mr. Pensswonzia, to substi tute, for the bill regularly reported from the Reconstruction Committee, another, supposed to represent the li'resident's views. The two bills differed ateristly, the regular bill re.assembling the Con vention and authorizing it to designate a Provisional Governor, while the substi tute merely provided for another popular vote upon the ConstitUtion already framed, its obnoxious articles being sub mitted separately. Our rei3orts plate no disposition of the substitute, anti we infer that Thursday's vote for postponement to next applied , to the regular bill Bret before.the House. We need not repeat that we regret the gEI .t u , ---AA-W47.iktr , - • - PITTSBURGH GAZETTE l 'SATURDAY, APRIL; 1869 action by which the House thug defer the discharge of a pressing , duty to the people of Mississippi, of the other States yet unreconstructed, and of the Union at large. It will gratify ;heir constituents to know that Messrs. NEGLEY, PRIMPS and DONLEY voted against this.delay, record ing their names in a minority which corn- Prised most of the wiser and more expe rienced Republican Representatives. Ex cluding Scurncir, Fsmisworrn and GARFIELD, the Republican yeas were made up from the Eastern States, and are nearly all of members who have National fame yet to achieve. From this disposition of the Mississippi case, we may conclude that the Rouse also intends to do nothing at this session with Texas, Virginia; or even Georgia. We think this hi an nnfornmate decision and that another course would have been more welcome to a majority of the Re publican Senators and to the country. 'lf the progreas of events, in the four States particularly concerned, should be, during the summer, in the direction of an In. creasedtranquility, and a more demon strative regaid for the Federal authority, the present action of ,the House may find its justification—and not otherwise. THE PUBLIC DEBT. The official Treasury statement for the first of April shows the very large reduc tion of $20,140,000 in pie total of net indebtedness during the month of March. The increase of debt bearing coin interest is only some $16,000; that bearing cur rency interest is reduced about $3,000,. 000; some $400,000 of the matured debt has been paid off, and about $7,000,000 of the debt bearing no interest has been discharged, this iteici being altogether in gold-certificates, upon which thd • owners have recalled their coin; There are about $6,800,0000f the matured debt, which has' been so matured for periods ranging from six months pp to ala years; this sum is mainly in compound interest and 7 3-10 notes, and is doubtless retained in the 1 place of greenbacks, by way of a reserve in bank-isults. i l'his, the first statement of Secretary BOUTWELL, exhibits upon its face a fla grant disregard of the red-tape precedents thrashed by Mr. McCuLtoca. The items of the interest-bearing debt are, for the first time, all specified, with the date of the authorizing act yin each case, the rate of interest, the amount outstanding, when redeemable, when the interest is payable, and the amount accrued up 'to the date of statement. Thus we see that the three to five months interest'accruing up to April Ist, amounts to some *38,- 000,000. The railroad bonds, now amounting to over $56,000,000, are speci fied- with equal particularity, thestate ment showing the exact issue to each company, the amount of interest paid for their account, and the amount, nearly $3,000,000 short, refunded in transporta tion by the companies. The country is thus indebted to the Secretary for the first clear and satisfac tory expose, in the way of a monthly statement, which has yet been issued from the Treasury. His complete re moral of the cloak which has heretofore covered the gold-transactions of the De- penmen; will be especially acceptable to financial circles. THE NEW TENIIRE-OF-OFFICE BILL,. This bill repeals , the first and second sections of the old • law. That first sec tion authorized persons, appointed to civil offices, With the advice and consent of the Senate; to hold - such offices until their successors should be in like manner appointed and qualified. But the' Cabi net officers were to hold their places din.- .ing the ierm of the President appointing them, and for a month thereafter, sub'. jectto removal with the same advice and consent. The second section, now re pealed, authorized the President to, 'sus pend for cause, during a recess, filling' the(acancy with an ad interim appoint ment, reporting the case, "with the evi dence and reasons" for the suspension, to the Senate within twenty days after its meeting. lyith the concurrence of the Senate, this suspension could be made an absolute removal and a successor ap. Pointed. The Senate non-concurring, the 'suspended officer resumes his place and salary. . • For these two sections thus repealed, the following are now substituted: Sao. 1. That every person holding any civil offioe to which he • has been. or hereafter may • her ,appeinted by and with the advice and consent of the Sen ate, who shall have become duly quoit to act therein; shall be entitled to hold "inch 'office during the term for which he shall have been appointed, unless sooner removed by and with the advice and consent of the Semite, or by the appoint ment, with 'the like advice and • consent, of a successor in his place, except as herein othetwise proVided. BIM 2. o.lnd be ftfaraer enacted, That durin any reties. of the Senate the Pres ident hereby is empowered in dis ! oretion to suspend any civil officer ap. pointed by and with •the advice and consent of the Senate, except Judges of the United States Courts, ..until the end of the next session of the Senate, and to designate some suitable person, subject to be removed in his discretion or by the resignation of another, to perform the duties of such suspended officer in the meantime, and- such person so desig. noted shall takethe oaths and give the bonds required by low to he taken and given by the rsuspended - officer, and shall during the time he performs his dudes, be entitled to the salary, and emol uments of such officer, no part of which shall belong to the - officer suspended; and it shall be the duty of the President, within thirty days after the commence ment of every session of the Senate ex. cept for any office which in his opinion ought not to be tilled, to- nominate per , sons to fill all vacancies in office Winch exist prior to the meeting of the Senate, whether temporarily filled or not, and so In:the place of all °Metals suspended; and lithe Senate during such session shall refuse to advise and consent to an ap pointment in the place of such suspended officer, then, and not otherwise, the Pres ident shall nominate another person as soon as practicable to the said session of the Senate for said office. The first section is a stronger vindica tion of the joint prerogative of the Sen ate than any part of the old law afforded. But the exceptions are broadly stated and mark the real distinctions between the old law and the new. It is seen thit the President is no longer required to report "the evidence and' reasons" for either a suspension or a removal. But no officer can be removed without the adviii and consent of the Senate, either for the re moval itself or for the appointment of his successor. During . a recess, the Presi dent may not remove at all,- so as to de prive the incumbent of the place and emoluments up to the moment when the Senate shall concur in the appointment of his successor. But he may "suspend" the officer until the end of the next session of the Senate, award ing the place and emoluments in the meantime to another. In all such cases of suspension and ad interim ap pollitment, the . President must nominate to the Senate within thirty days after its next meeting, and if the Senate rejects the ‘ domination, he must again, "as soon as practicable," and to the same session, designate "another person" for the office. He cannot renominate 'an ad interim nominee once rejected. And if he makes no such other •nomination with the con currence •of the Senate, the suspended officer resumes his place at the end of that session. Before any office-tenure law was passed,such a resumption would have been impossible. It was first enacted in the law of March' '67, and its principle is fully pieserved and maintained by this' bill. In that principle, thus preserved, is embodied practically the. most com plete Senatorial participation in the pre rogative of removal. The points which have been really gained in this matter are, Ist, the exemp tion of the President and Senate froni any necessity for the assignment or con:- sideration of any "evidence and reasons" for either form of removal, and, 2nd, the final vindication of a policy which pope latizes the vast prerogative of Executive patronage—placing It upon that constitu tional basis of Senatorial particrpation which Is necessarilrimplled in the ex pressly co-ordinate assent, to appoint , ments, and which Underlierjolntly and equally every tfficial act, in the exercise of that patronage, excepting alone the privilege of selecting or designating the nominee. That privilege under the Con stitutioh belongs to the President only. Arnoros to the attack recently made by the New York Evening Post upon Sen ator FENTON, whom it charged with ac cepting a bribe, an eichangeays : i t Mr. Henderson, the publi her of the Evening Poet, was Indicted a d tried for fraud, while Naval Agent nn r Lincoln. Many who believed' in and sto tly lased ed his innocence changed 1 air minds when, as they affirmed. Mr. enderson took advantage while on trial f a techm cality. Had be been innocent, they ar gue, he would have scorned to midge use of any such technicality, but would have insisted on having the whole facts re• vealed and thoroughly 'scrutinized. Mr. Henderson is a heavy stockholder, in the Rost. THE nomination Of. Gen. LONGEITHEET for a lucrative post in the C►.stoms, at New Orleans, meets with much opposi tion in the Senate. The protest of Sen ator BROWN/rOll is said to have been pas sionately bitter and impressive. A dis patch says: He alluded to the unrecognised suffer- Sig and destitution among Royal Tennes beans, which had been largely brought, on by the desolation and persecution in' he Tennemee of this man, and called the 'attention of the Senate to the &at that Longstreet still wore the insignia of his rebel service ' and was proud of - the death awards he had mown in the tfnion army. So damming were Mr. Brown. 'low's remarks that an adjournment was had to prevent rejection. , GE N. CUESTAS, in an interesting report of his recent campaign against the Indi ans, after stating how he had recaptured two white ladies held by them as prison ers, and made ,. subject in captivity to ter rible indignities by the savages, says: "The Indians express themielves hear tily sick of. the war, and are willing to go to that part of the country which has been designated for them, and are ready to submit to the decision of the govern- ment authorities." He further says: We have taught the. Indians that they are safe from us in no place, and at no season, and - slack what some of our own people may doubt, that the white man can endure the inalemeneleta of winter'as well as the Indians." , He says that the country and the hiding places of the In dians are now better known. and that he has many officers in his command who could conduct an , expedition there with out guides. Washbalon Item. Secretary Boutwell and .Commissioner Delano have decided tc. appoint nd one to once as Collector or - Assessor who has any other business; as these offices are of such importance as to require not only the time of the officers, but their minds must not be on anything Ase. • The Germans of this district, regard less of political sentiments, tendered an ovation to General earl Schurz, in honor of his election as Senator from Missouri. This testimonial is