The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-17 00:00:00

was sent back to him. No one knows who the
Minister is to be, and I suppose you will, as soon

as I. do.

WAsmxGroN, Feb. 2G.

Washington is gay, as every one is here to get
.what they can from the old or from the new Ad-
ministration. Mrs. Colfax gave her last reception
on the 24th, and that it was the last rather tended
to damp the pleasure the guests world 'otherwise
have experience 1. Mr. Colfax gives a dinner to-
day, which will also be a grand affair. Senator and
Mrs. Harlan entertained 200 persons on Wednes-
day. The Mayor is arranging a welcome for the
expected visit of a delegation from the New York
Councils, who desire to insi ect the public buildings
with a view to improve those of that city. The
inaugural ball has been arranged. There is to be
a grand procession. Part will form in the First
Ward, the military on Penn=ylvania Avenue, and
other divisions where convenient, and the whole
will march to the corner of Seventeenth and First-
streets, Grant's headquarters, where they will take
him up and proceed by the Avenue to the Capitol.
The procs,ssion will return with the President after
he is sworn in, along the Avenue, disbanding
where convenient, and all the troops arc ordered to
take part.

Attorney-General Evarts has replied to the
Senate's resolution of the 17th February, calling
for a list of persons convicted of violating the reve-
nue laws and counterfeiting, aud as well as the names
of the persons pardoned by the President: The
Attorney-General has cleverly evaded this by point-
ing out that it is impossible for him to understand
from the terms of the resolution, what was the
actual information the Senate wanted. He has also
furnished a long despatch in answer to the inquiry
why he had ordered the postponement in the
Courts of the trial of the New York whisky frauds.
The letter is very long, and is accompanied by a
voluminous correspondence, explaining the reasons
which induced him to act in the few cases where
the proceedings were suspended, but in no case
had he directed the discontinuance of such proceed-
ings. The Congress Yale Club has dined with the
Attorney-General. District Attorney Courtney bad
a❑ interview with the President last Monday to urge
the trial of Judge Fullerton, as well as a second
trial for M‘Henry, and another Judge to be ordered
to the Circuit Court of New York. Colonel Parker,
the Indian officer on General Grant's staff, is to be
made Commissioner of Indian Affairs if he resigns
his commission. General Breckinridge has arrived
here, and bad a reception in the rooms of Mr. Beck,
which was largely attended by his admirers. Re-
ports on frauds continue to pour into the House ;
there never were such people for " crying stinking
fish." In one breath, we assert that there was not
such good fish since the world began, its quality be-
ing unequalled elsewhere on the globe ; in the next
breath, we proclaim that there never was such a set
of rascals, that we cannot touch anything without
stealing ; indeed to read our newspapers foreigners
would suppose that the most quiet and law-abiding
of all people were the most dishonest, cut-throat
rogues, who spent their whole time in shooting on
sight, or in the Divorce Court, or in swindling the
Government, or swindling each other ; in forming
" rings" and organizing gigantic speculations. We
wash too much of our dirty linen in public. Mr.
Hurlburd has finished his report on the Alaska
bribery and corruption matter, and Judge Law-
rence has finished his on the frauds by which the
State of New York was carried for Seymour and
Hoffmann ; but as I suppose you will have some-
thing to say on that subject, I need not discuss it.
Grant is meeting the fate of all successful heroes ;
his pbiz grins from every wall and his colossal sta-
tues are about to take dignified and commanding
positions i❑ squares, parks, and streets. Some of
his principal friends propose to erect an equestrian
statue of him on the southern portico of the Trea-
sury Department. A model of the statue has been
received by General Spinner, executed by a Boston
artist. A life size statue would cost $35,000, heroic
$50,000, and colossal $75,000, the material being
cannon captured by Grant, on a granite pedestal.
The remains of Henry Wirz have been given to
Mr. Lewis Schack by order of the President. He
has the distinction of being the only man executed
after:the close of the war for his part in the rebel-
lion, and even then, as he was very ill at the tine,
there was but little life taken from him. Con-
sidering that it was he who was in command
of the prison at Andersonville, where Federal
prisoners perished in thousands, many of them
of sheer starvation and neglect, his fate is not
surprising, though I think that our great nation
ought in this matter to have had a record wholly
pure, unsullied even by the taint of so small a re-
venge as that. His body was removed by an under-
taker from the Arsenal grounds, where it had been
buried. No further action, however, is to be taken
this session according to the decree of the Senate
Judiciary Committee on the removal of political
disabilities. Mr. Buck, who ran against Mr. Arnell
for Congress in Tennessee, contests his election ;
both are Republicans. Among the brevet appoint-
ments in the army transmitted by the President to
the Senate are John T. Sprague, Thomas Wilson,
Milton Coggswell, Richard N. Batchelder, Allen
Rutherford, and Robert Avery to be Brigadier-
Generals. Also the last-named to be Major- General
for gallant and meritorious conduct. In a case
involving $lOO,OOO, the Richmond and New York
Railway Company against the National Bank of the
metropolis, the former was nonsuited. It had been
on trial for two weeks in the District Supreme
Court. The Committee of Conference have agreed
to report on the Diplomatic Appropriation Bill,
though retaining, at General Butler's special re-
quest, the mission to Chili, so as not to interfere
with General Kirkpatrick, although it was to inter-
fere with hiin, that the amendment was introduced.
Hereafter, instead of Ministers resident, accredited
as heretofore, Commissioners may be sent to the
Governments of Honduras, San Salvador, Nica-
ragua, and Costa Rica in Central America, and to
the Governments of Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, and
Uruguay in South America,' at a salary not exceed-
ing poo per year. M'Garrahan's claims to the
New-Idria. Quicksilver Mines is reported by the
Committee of the Senate, as decided by the Su-
preme Court, to be worthless, being based on the
assumption that mining lands of immense value
may be so given away by Congress as to unsettle
all the mining titles on the Pacific Coast. A
minority of the Committee differ, however, and
the tight is likely to be protracted. There Lab long
been a squabble over Mr. Corcoran's claim, who is
a leading Democratic banker of this city. The in- '
vestigation has gone on from day to day. ' Some
property of that gentleman had been used by the
army for hospital purposes, and the question was
whether so rank a " sesech" should get anything
out of the Federal Treasury, and this was opposed
by men who accused him of openly stating at his '
dinner table that he would give $lOO,OOO to have
Mr. Lincoln put out of the way. Brewer heard him,
and Senator Bayard, set this price on Lincoln's
head. He was then the butler of the Russian
Ambassador, Baron Stoeckl, and a question arose
as to whether he could be brought up as a witness,
having respect to the privileges of an Embassy. An
old story then came up how a British ambassador
at Berlin said at his dinner table he would give a
reward to any one who brotight him Franklin's
papers. On this the butler behind his chair broke
into Franklin's room, forced his desk, and ab-
stracted the papers to earn the reward. Ido not
see the connection between the stories.

Mr. Dawes wrote the following letter to Mr.
Blaine, which settled the question of the Speakership if
there had been any doubt :—" House of Representatives,
Feb. 24, 1869. The Hon. J. G. Blaine.—My dear Sir, -
Having determined not to be longer a candidate for Speaker
I deem it due to the friendly relations which have all along
existed between us that I should communicate this deter-
mination to you at the ealliest moment.-1 am truly yours,
11. L. DAWES."
The Consttturonnel of the evening of March 5
says that the address of President Grant shows a straight-
forward, firm, and enlightened spirit.
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