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Fatal Burning Of q Theatre
at Milwaukee.
A Congressional Candidate
i'm Mississippi Shot.
WASHINGTON.
Cabinet Meeting.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-There was
full cabinet meeting to-day except Bout
well
SIclIes 20 be Recalled.
A canvass of Senator'S shows that Minis
ter Sickles cannot be confirmed, hence
Grant and Fish have resolved upon re-
calling him from Madrid, with the inten-
ton of replacing him by Gen. Dix. The
action of the British government in send
ing Mr.. Layard to Madrid has shown our
government the necessity of having first
class diplomatist upon the spot there, to
handle the various complicated questions
which must necessarily arise ere long.
Trustworthy reports of Sickles' immoral
conduct in Madrid have accelerated the de-
cision arrived at by the administration.
The Port of Charleston.
The Collector of the port of Charleston
has authorized an increased force. owing
10 the increasing trade of that port.
The steamer 1antic is discharged from
quarantine.
Pushing Things.
Pierpont has been instructed to push
custom house frauds investigations. no
matter whom it involved
Revenue.
The receipts Of revenue foot up S448,
600.
Prospective Liquidation.
Notwithstanding the Presidents general
reticenee on public matters, he has within
day or two, opened up oneor two import
ant matters. He talked very freely on
Friday last with Senator Wilson on the
prospective legislation of Congress, and to-
day stated TO a gentleman that he should
advise, IN his annual message, the consolida-
ton of the debt into 49 per cent loan,
and recommend that Congress do not
change the present rates of taxation. The
revenue now derived, if kept up for year
or so more, would tend, he said, to redue-
ing the principal of the debt
The Condition OF Southern National
Banks.
The condition of Southern National
banks on Oct 9, is thus given:
Virginia - Resources: loans and dis
counts, $4,O0O,OO bonds, 81, 900, 600;
due from other banks, $500, 900; bills of
other banks, $4,000, 900; specie, S23,-
100000. Liabilities capital, nearly S.
10000; profits, 1891, 600; notes outstand-
ing, $1,000, 600; deposits, over So, 2JO, 900;
due other banks, nearly S2JO,0OO.
North Carohna-ResOurces loans and
discounts nearly 81, 800, 600; federal bonds
nearly $500 due from other banks
nearly $3.50, 900; bills of other banks so. 900:
specie $40, 900; legal tender notes nearly
$3.50, 600. Liabilities: capital nearly 81, OOO,-
600; profits S155, 900; notes outstanding
1919, 900; deposits 81, $50, 900; due to banks
$4,000
South "Reminiscences loans and
discounts nearly s 500, 600; bonds over
$3.50, 900; due from other banks 500. 600;
bills of other banks SS05; specie 81, 900
Liabilities: Capital, over $3.50, 600; profits
Sl67 900; bank notes outstanding SIS 900;
deposits $1,000, 900; due to banks Sl73,
600.
Georgia Resources: loans and discounts
$500, 600; bonds over 81, 25O, 900: due from
other banks S348, 600; bills of other banks
500. 600; specie S32, 900; legal tenders over
$500, 000 Liabilities: capital 81, 500, 900;
profits S3lS, 600; notes outstanding 81
100000; deposits nearly 81, $50, 600; due
to banks 100000.
Alabama-Resources: loans and dis
counts, 1924 600; bonds, S3ll, 900; due
from banks, $50, 900; specie, 81, 900; legal
tenders, $4,000 Liabilities Capital,
500, 600; profits, $4,000; deposits over
SZ50,OO0; due TO other banks, $4,000;
bank notes outstanding over $250,0O0.
Texas-Resources: Loans and discounts
nearly $500, O0O bonds nearly $3.50, 600; due
from other banks, $4,000; bills Of other
banks, $50, 600; specie, 1914, 600; legal ten
ders, $4,000. Liabilities: Capital over
$500, 600; profits, $3.50 600; notes outstand-
ing, 1886, 900; deposits, $3.50, OOO; due other
banks, $4,000
The Alabama Claims.
Letters from Minister Motley, read last
-. 7
mention of any resumption of negotiations
for the settlement Of the Alabama claims.
He will be able to forward, however, new
treaty relating to consular matters, which
he has negotiated within the last three
months.
Louisiana ~. the United states.
In the Supreme Court to-day the case
Of Louisiana VS. the United States. for
cotton seized on land but tried in adj
miralty, was argued on an appeal from
admiralty jurisdiction.
The Ecrgcr Case.
II is learned that, with the substantial
concurrence Of the administration, coun-
eel have agreed that the Nerger case shall
not be argued on the pending petition for
hdbeds corpus. The Attorney General, in
common with all of the members of the
Supreme Court bar, feel confident that the
court having decided that it had jurisdic-
ton in the case, will decide in this petit
ton that portion Of the reconstruction
laws unconstitutional which provides for
the trial of Nerger 10y military commission.
Rather than have such decision made, the
administration is willing that the sentence
of Yerger shall remain in the Presidents
hands until Mississippi Is reconstructed,
when the prisoner can be turned over to a
civil court. He will probably then make
the plea that he has been once tried for his
life. and cannot under the Constitution of
the United States, be again put in jeop-
ardy.
The Texas Cases.
Representatives of the Texas cases, where
one man is under sentence of death by
military commission, and others have been
sent to prison by the same authority, are
not likely to abide by this understanding
unless it applies to them. The administra-
ton will probably concede the point and
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