Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-14

1 secretary SeWard-A Large Number
Of appointments Agreed Upon-Is-
terPretations, Opinions, ETC., etc.
New YORK, April 13.-In the Supreme
| Circuit Court, part 2, yesterday, in the case
OF VIM. A. Sanborn as. Silas c. Herring
et az, verdict was rendered for the de.
| tendant The action was brought by the
| plaintiff to recover S24, 200 which had
been stolen from a safe purchased by him
from the defendants agent, at Chicago.
under representations that it was burglar
| proof The safe was broken into by sledp
ing the pindle of the knob on the outside
| Of the chest, snd the verdict is rendered
accordingly.
Secretary Seward issued letter 10 the
I Consular Agent ard Ministers of the
United States, stationed at ports likely to
| be visited by Gen. Sherman's expedition 10
the holy land, commencing the General
and his party to their consideration, and
intimating that any attention paid to him
by the foreign States will be greatfuIly
appreciated by the government. Tee Sec.
rotary of the Navy has given orders to
supply the Quaker City, the vessel in
which the party sails with artillery and
flags, to be used in saluting.
The Herald's Matamoras correspondent
giving further news from the vicinity Of
Queretaro to the 22d ult. says: No doubt at
present exists that the recent engagement
resulted in an Imperial defeat. The fight
ing was very stubborn, and the losses are
admitted by Escobedo to be very heavy on
both sides.
The Imperial chiefs has issued a procla-
nation offering ten dollars to any soldier
who would join them with arms. and five
dollars for any one who would Join them
without arms. 1t is probably intended as
bait for deserters from the Liberals
The commander Of Matamoras has again
requested loal of the merchants of that
city, the amount desired being $50, 900.
AdYices from the west coast of Africa.
dated at Sierra Leone on the 18th of Feb
uary, report that the natives were giving
trouble again to the English in the Ganebia.
The Heralds Charleston special saws
the firm of Frazier, Trenholm & Co. Of
that city, of which the late Confederate
Secretary of the Treasury is a member.
and Laftte, their agent at Nassau during
the war, have been notified to appear be.
fore the Judiciary Committee at Washing
ton, to give testimony relative to the busi-
ness OF blockade running, and the assets of
the trim remaining at the close of the war.
The Times special says that Judge Geo. |
q. Hugh, of Idaho, and General Winters
are rival candidates for the Governorshis
OF Washington territory, with chances IN
favor of the former.
1t has been proposed TO make new ter
rltory ont of portion of Washington and |
Idaho, but the project has been abandoned
for the present and the parties represent.
ing the Washington interest have united |
on Judge Hough for Governor.
The Presidents health is reported much /
improved to-day.
Hon. Thaddeus Stevens and ihe Hon.
w. f. Chandler, Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, the latter of whom has been
very sick, are both much better.
The Tribune special SAYS; A large mum.
Der OF appointments were agreed upon AZ
the Cabinet meeting to-day, but we're not
made cut in time to send to the Senate
they will be communicated TO the Senate
tomorrow. There are not more than
twenty-five vacant postofices to be flled.-l
and not more than twenty-five or thirty
collectors and assessors of internal revenue
to be appointed. All of the above appoint
ments can be disposed of before Tuesday
next so a member of the Cabinet stated
this evening.
A number of Republican Senators stated
to-day that they should vote to confirm
any and all good men that the President
may nominate for collectors of customs and
other officers of revenue, without regard to
politics. They seem to regard the proper
collection OF the revenue of too much i'm.
portance for the Senate to trihe with the
appointment of good men merely on the
question Of policy, especially since the late
of the civil tenure of Office
bill.
Col. Capron will be rejected as Commits
sioner Of Agriculture in which case Fred
erick Law Olmstead, of New York, will be
nominated. The nomination of General
Kilby Smith as Consul to Panama was re-
considered, but not finally disposed of. The
only reason assigned for the reconsidera-
tion of Gen. Smiths nomination is that
the Senators from the Pacific States claim
that disappointment belongs to that section.
A Tribune special says: Several inter-
pretations having been given to the opinion
of Solicitor Jordan, on the civil tenure of
office bill, | have made inquiry, and find
The following to be the correct version
The Secretary of State having on several
asked the opinion of the Solicitor
On certain appointments under the civil
tenure of Office bill, these decisions were
rendered by the solicitors. The first was
hat in cases where a vacancy in Office oc-
cured previous to the date of the tenure of
)fiee law, such vacancy should be filled
lnder the old law.
Second, when vacancies under the tenure
Of Office law occur in collectorships and as
'essorships, and where the Senate has
allied to confirm a nominee, it shall be the
luty of the Secretary Of the Treasury to
ill the Office temporarily, by the appoint
nent of a deputy collector or assessor, as
he case may be, although the law does not
provide foi such action And third, the
Secretay Of the Treasury has power at will,
o remove sllchdeputy, and appoint another
o hold oih,'e until a regular collector or
issessor shall be nominated and confirmed.
These opinions received the approval of
Attorney General Stanberry when made.