The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-12
THIRD EDITION
WASHINGTON.
The RumOred European Alliance
Against the United States
What is Thought of it
at the Capital.
The Cincinnati Conhagration.
FROM WASHINGTON.

Special Despatch 10 The -EUeniilg Telegraph.
The Great National Peace COnyentiOn.
WASHINGTON, May 12.-A committee, consist
ing of the Mayor of Boston and Aldermen are
here for the purpose of inviting the President
and Cabinet to participate in the Peace Con-
vention which meets in Boston next month.
The President and members of the Cabinet were
unable to determine whether they would accept
the invitation. 1t is hardly probable that the
President will be able to attend, as he intends
having leave of a month or six weeks in July
and August.
General g. B. Mcclellan
had lengthy interview with the President to-
day. lie spent some time with Grants former
staff officers, with whom he served in the army.
American Interests i'm Cubnn Waters.
1t is ascerained at the Navy Department that
no additional vessels have been ordered to
proceed to the West India Station Admiral
Hof having notified the Department that sufii-
cient force was there already to protect the
American interest.
Bankers and Secretary Boutwell,.
Several prominent bankers in Wall street,
New York, have addressed letters to Secretary
Boutwell,, asking an explanation of his recent
order in relation to the purchase of bonds Re-
ports have been circulating that the Secretary
intends to pay them ont again, instead of can
ceiling them, or applying them to the creation
of the sinking fund. The Secretary has not yet
determined what action he will take in the pre-
misses.
The European Alliance.
The announcement here that despatch had
been received by cable stating that it is rumored
that England, France and Spain had formed an
alliance against the foreign policy of the United
States, has created good deal of excitement in
Government and diplomatic circles. The state
ment is not generally credited, especially by the
members of the Cabinet and the President.
Representatives of England, France and
Spain, now here have no official information on
the subject, or that any such alliance at all was
contemplated. If it should prove correct it will
| not change the policy of the Administration in
| any respect, as it is believed that none of the
parties to the affair can afford to go to war with
the United States, all of them having as much
on hand as they can attend to in their respective
| dominions.
| Despatch TO the Associated Press.
Naval Orders.
| Lieutenant Commander Simon p. Gillette is
/ detached from the Naval Academy, on the Sth
| of June next, and ordered to take passage in the
| Sabine on the 30th of June to the European
| squadron and report there for duty; Lieut..
| Commander Henry l.. johnson is detached from
| the Naval Academy and ordered to the Juniata;
| Lieut. Commander John Clark is detached from
| the receiving snip ONO ana ordered 10 tne Mace
| donia; Assistant Surgeon o. 2. Biebby is detached
from the Naval Hospital at New York and ordered
to the Lancaster; Chief Engineer Chas. II. Loring
is appointed member of the Board of Visitors
to the Naval Academy; Commodore Carter is
ordered in charge of the naval rendezvous al
San Francisco. Captain Fabus Stanley is or
dered to open n naval rendezvous at Baltimore
Md, and Surgeon William Grier is ordered tC
report to him for duty; Lieutenant Commanders
Smith w. Nichols, &. D. B. Glidden, and George
| II WadlpiOh arr Or1arp1 tn the Naval ApndpmX
on the Goth of September next; Surgeon PhiliI
Lansworth is ordered to the Lancaster and al
fleet surgeon of the South Atlantic Squadron or
the 45th of June next; Assistant Surgeon Ben
jamin S. Mackie is ordered to the Naval Hospi
tai ut New York, and Andrew NJ. Moore to the
! Naval Asylum at Philadelphia; First Assistant
Engineer A. V. Frazer is ordered to the Navy
| Yard at New York.