The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-01-25
Late T~elesraphic News
By the IDAHO and CELESTIA.

10y GlC xo11xx oI4o la
WASHINGTON. Dec. 16.-The Presidents communi-
cation TO the Senate. giving his reasons for the
suspension OF Secretary Stanton. is published to-
day. He SAYS Stanton. liz his condemnation of the
Tenure of Office bill. in a Cabinet meeting. was the
most elaborate and emphatic of all the members.
He says that after the death of President Lincoln.
a scheme of reconstruction was adopted which
Stanton himself prepared for Mr.. Lincoln. The
proclamation organizing the government of North
Carolina was issued in pursuance of such scheme,
with the approval of every member of the Cabinet
present. The Presidents difference of opinion with
Stanton began with Acts relating to suffrage in the
District of Columbia. and the Reconstruction bills
OF March. 1866. The President also says that
Stanton withheld the dispatches stating the proba-
bility of II riot i'm New Orleans until after the riot
occurred. and that he refused to send instructions
to prevent the disturbances.
In the Senate. the Committee on Territories re-
ported a bill regulating the selection of jurors. and
for other purposes. in Utah. Ii forbids polygamy {;
makes the issues therefrom illegitimate, and repeats
the law exempting the church OF the Latter Day
Saints from taxation.
The bill repeating the cotton tax was postponed.
In the House. Eliot offered a resolution. which
was adopted, directing the Secretary of State to
furnish information in regard to American whaling
vessels being recently ordered off the Russian
coast. in the Ochotsk Sea. by n Russian war vessel.
In the Senate. Mr.. Sherman presented the memori-
al OF the citizens OF Cincinnati. asking the adoption
OF n measure to secure the rights of American citi-
zcns.
Mr.. Sumner thought the American Republic was
competent to meet this matter, but the committee,
of which he is chairman. would not he induced to
act hastily by any temporary measure. The COM
mittee has already considered this subject. and the
organs of public opinion in England have indicated
a disposition to abandon their assumption Of once
citizens always citizens He thought it would be
absurd in Great Britain TO maintain perpetual allie
glance in view of the immense emigration permitted.
The Times special says the House Committee will
report an appropriation for the purchase of Alaska
on Thursday, and that it will probably pass by a
small majority.
The TriJune's special says the Senate Committee
on Foreign Affairs has considered and will soon re-
port the treaties with Japan, Sandwich Islands,
Venezuela and Madagascar.
miscellaneous.
PHnADEIPHIA. Dec. 1o.-The Union League has
nominated Grant for President.
The fourth article of the treaty for the purchase
OF 81. Thomas declares cession 10 be deemed COM
plete aud absolute on the exchange of ratification
without waiting for a formal delivery
Ii has been arranged that the delivery shall take
place on the first of January.
NEW YORK. Dec. l4.-Several persons have been
frozen to- death in this vicinity during the late
storms.
The Worlds special says the Senate refuses TO
sustain the President in the suspension OF Stanton.
The President will probably issue an order remov-
ing Stanton and force an appeal to the Supreme
Court.
A Herald Havana special says that authentic in
telligence had been received that the Spanish Gov
eminent has made "a formal offer ofCuba and Porto
REQ To the United States for $3.50, 900. 900 in gold
one third to be paid cash down, one third in one
year and the remainder in six years. Great excite
ment is caused by this news. which is received with
general satisfaction.
The news from the West Indies is regarded in
diplomatic circles as indicating readiness through
out all the islands for Immediate annexation TO the
United States.
CHICAGO. Dec. l9.-Late accounts of the frightful
disaster near West Buffalo fully confirm the FIRST
reports. Two cars, filled with passengers, were
thrown off a bridge forty feet in height. The real
cause of the disaster will probably never be known.
or at least fifty persons N the first car only four are
known TO have escaped, and many more in the car
were killed. Both cars took fire, and were burned
entirely, consuming a number of passengers I'm the
other i part of the number persisted. 1t will prob
ably not be ascerta ned for some time how many
are lost. Madame Ristori was among the injured.
Most of those in the Erst Car were burned to ashes.
The screams Of those inside were heard for fifteen
minutes.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2-Mr. Burlingame telegraphs
to Secretary Seward that he has been appointed by
the Chinese Government as Envoy TO the Western
Powers. and will leave Immediately. tits under
stood that this acceptance vacates the mission
temporarily, and it devolves on Williams, Charge
d'Afaires.
The New Years reception at the White House
was the most brilliant for several years. The re-
ceptions of the heads of departments were also
crowded and marked with good feeling. Grants
house was crowded from noon till night
CHICAGO. Jan. 1.-THE Posts special says the re-
ports on the case of Stanton are completed and will
be presented 10 the Senate on Monday. Stanton has
made a very clear case. and the report will fully
exonerate him from the charges of the President.
The report goes further. and will throw much light
upon the SecretaTy's action, and that of the Presi-
dents, which hitherto has been shrouded in mystery.
IL i believed that there will be no doubt but that
Stanton will be reinstated. Probably Grant will
Immediately retire, even if ordered to remain by
the President
ACQUISITION or TERRITORIAL Washington de-
spatch SAYS: y few disappointed lobbyists. who
have pleasant recollections of the passage of the
Reciprocity Treaty, years ago. are inaustriously de-
nOuncing the proposed purchase of Alaska and OF
~. Thomas. evidently in the hope that they may be
=" retain, a. Of course opposition TO the appropri-
ations therefore l. a good lobby for would-be
economists, but Congress will hardly assume the re-
sponsibility of refusing to make desirable acquisi-
tons.
There is also much talk about the acquisition of
Cuba-some say by purchase some talk mysteri-
ousiy of "A revolution among the whites on the island,
and some predict an instruction among the blacks.
But that by some way Cuba is to be offered to the
United States. all of the posted n~ews-mongers
agree. and / give their rumors for what they may
be worth.
RUSSIAN ANERICA-Hardly six months have
passed since Russian America was acquired, and
vat enterprises of every character are s~pringing up
in that country, which promise 10 develop a vast
and most valuable Pacific trade for the United
States. Building lots have advanced several hum
bred dollars in price at New Archangel and Sitka,
in anticipation ola large flow OF emigration thither.
Numerous parties are organizing in California 70
proceed 10 Russian America to reap the wealth
afforded in her gold. copper and coal mines, fur
trade and fisheries. Ship builders on Puget Sound
expect. and are preparing, for extensive orders in
the Spring, and a United States navy yard is to be
located on Cambridge Island.