Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-03-06
The Other Appointments Give
Satisfaction.
New York, 9th.


a meeting of Cuban ladies was held
yesterday in aid of the Cuban rebels 1t
was announced that fair would shortly
be held under their influence.
Subscriptions to the amount of $4,000
had been collected since the previous
Friday.
The room was adorned with the new
flag of Cuba, consisting of a white ground
broadly bordered with blue, and con-
tanning at the base a large mass of red,
of triangular shape, in the centre of
which was star.
Wendell Phillips delivered his lecture
at the Academy of Music, last night, on
Daniel O'Connell, the grea Irish agita-
tor, to an audience of 1000 people. The
proceeds are for the benefit of St.Peter s
Hospital and the House of the Good
Shepherd, Brooklyn.
The TriJune's despatch says, Grant
had offered the portfolio of the Treasury
to Mr.. Boutwell,, but that gentleman
had declined to accept. He gave as lis
reason that he desired to remain Mem
Der of the House of Representatives
The opinion prevails that Mr.. Stewart,
under a law of Congress passed in 170S,
is not eligible for the position he has
been appointed to fill. This law provides
against the Secretaryship of theTreasury
being held by a person who is so situa-
ted in his private business affairs as to
be continually in the capacity of a party
against the United States in the collec-
ton Of its revenue.
NEW YORK, 9Th.
The cable special despatch is pub
lished:
LONDON, 5th.
The English and French journals
mainly eulOgZe Grants inaugural adj
dress, and agree that the paragraph on
foreign policy indicates peace.
The Li6erte publishes an account of
the death of the Pope, but it is discred-
tied.
New YORK, 5th.
On Thursday of last week, the rebel
Brig. Gen. ArOz was taken prisoner, and
brought to Saqua, where he was shot on
Saturday.
The rebels in the eastern department
have concentrated their forces at Ma
Zan.
Troops have left Santiago to attack
them.
\ fight had occurred between the col
ored volunteers and band of cOlored
reLels in the neighborhood of Santiago
de Cuba, in which 40 rebels were
killed.
Captain Gen. Dulce has recognized
Henry Hall as Consul General of the
United States.
A force of cavalry has gone to Cienfu-
Cos, and battalion of volunteers has
started for the same place.
Repairs have reached here Of the Ian
ding of revolutionary expedition neal
the mouth of the Sagua La Grandt
: River. The inhabitants of the vicinity
sank the schooner in which they came,
to prevent their escape, and tro ps have
been sent in pursuit.
Advices from San Domingo to the 23d
ult. have been received.
The revolution which broke out al
Leybo has been suppressed, and tho
leaders captured. Many arrests of per-
! sons implicated have been made at the
capital.
Me- YORK, 9th.
The Tribune says. the new Cabine
emphatically means business.
: The Herald says, Grant has given the
managing Republicans wide berth /; h'
has chosen his men for business and a.
his subordinates, and without the reno
test idea that they are to be his masters
/ or his co-equals in the administration.
The Times says the Cabinet as whole
will not commend itself to politicians
because it has nat been taken from thei
ranks; nor are the men who compose i
sufficiently we'll known to the public a
: large to command, in advance, the full
= confidence of the community, but in TIN
!, very freshness of its character, and il