The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-21
THIRD EDITION
WASHINGTON.
Special Dispatches to The Evening Telegraph.
WASHINGTON, March 81.

special Dispatches to The BventnG Telegraph,
WASHINGTON, March u.
Another Veto.
II is reported to-day that the President will
positively veto the Civil Rights bill He VIII
give his reasons in full in a special message.
Paid Up.
'Ike" Cook, of Chicago, who was sued by the
Auditor of the Post Office for a balance due the
Department from him, as Postmaster OF that
city, m 1862, has paid up the amount OF S53Oo,
and the case has been dismissed.
Controller Clarke Again.
Controller Clarke states that $27, 900, 900 OF
the Ten-Forty loan was not issued; that re-
Gently, however, S37s5 have been quietly issued
Of this old loan, aud al six per cent. interest.
The BIRirs.
Considerable anxiety is manifested by the
Blair family about the confirmation of Frank
Blair as Collector of Internal Revenue at st.
Louis. His name will be reported to the Senate
by the committee, without any recommendation
pro or con. He is opposed by Senators Brown
and Henderson, and has but little prospect OF
confirmation.
The Navy Yard at League Island.
Yesterday the Committee heard Judge Kelley
inIiavor OF the site at League Island The qucs-
ton, as put by Judge Kelley, is, the transfer of
the present Philadelphia yard to LeagHe Island.
His effort was inspired by all his well-knoWn
ability, as well as local preferences, and was
deemed one of his most successful efforts-so
much so that the friends Of League Island seem
confident of carrying their point. On the other
hand the opinion more generally prevails thai
the subject is of too vast consequence to be
decided by a Congressional Committee, or the
Navy Department, but that the whole subject
ought to be referred to O special commission of
naval and scientific authorities ard experts, to
thoroughly examine the various proposed sites,
and determine upon the one best adapted to the
necessities OF the Government, aud taus end
this long and yexa.ious controversy. The Com
mittee have now fixed upon Friday morning
next as the time when they will decide the ques-
ton so far as their action goes.
Personal Liberty tn Georgia.
The Postmaster of Acworth, Ca. writes to the
Auditor of the Post Office Department, enclosing
a small sam of money, that his life has been
endangered, and the post Office nearly destroyed,
because he had collected this sum for the UAited
States of an ex-postmaster.
Resigned.
II. Fl. Starkweather Postmaster at Norwich,
Conn, sent in his resignation to the President
to-day.
Political PRiatiug ORiee.
The proprietors of the National Iate,igencer
have just purchased the extensive Job printing
Office of Polkinhorn & Co., tor the purpose OF
printing Democratic campaign documents on q
large scale.
Pennsylvania Soldier Senteacsd.
Private Charles u. Bell, 214th Pennsylvania
Volunteers, has been court martlalled Tor de.
sertion, and sentenced 10 Imprisonment for one
year.
An Andrew johnson political club was organ
ized in this city last night.
Consul Rt Galveston.
The President has recognised F. A. Santers as
Consul OF Wurtemburg at Galveston, Texas
Admiralty Case.
The Admiralty case now before the United
States Supreme Court on appeal from a decree
of the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of
Louisiana, is one of four from the Soutnern
States now ready for argument, and the deter
mination of which was interrupted by the war;
There are sixty odd cases pending from the
same section, but they cannot be reached during
the present term of the Court.
Tue RIadsrPest.
A grazier of Germany has addressed com
munication to the Department of State suggest
ing a means of preventing the spread of the
Rinderpest The theory is that the diseased
cattle poison the atmosphere; hence they are
to be separated from she healthy ami mails, and
the latter fabricated with petroleum and
small quantity of oil mixed with their food.
The communication has been sent to the House
COn- mittep on Aprieulture