The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-02-25

amendment, which was rejected.
The Senate, by vote Of ~ to 26,
refused to concur with the House, and
asked for d Committee of Conference
Telegraphic Summary.
The Tribune's Washington special
says: There is no truth in the state
ment that, in accordance with the
custom, Gen'l Grant has allowed MIR.
Colfax TO select one member Of the
Cabinet, and that he has selected
John D. Defrees for Postmaster Gen.
eral. He says no such custom exists,
and no such arrangement has been
made.
The Suns Washington special
says:
General Grant remarked to Res
publican member OF Congress to-day
that he would consider it an insult to
the party which had elected him to
think Of putting any men in his
Cabinet who were not in the party
during the war, or had not acted with
since then. He knew the party
had rights, and he should not allow
his personal feelings to in -erfere with
these rights.
Washington, Feb. 10.
All the members Of the Cabinet
were present at the regular meeting
to-day. The session was short.
The Presidential Electors now in
the City held meeting at the Ma
tional Hotel, this afternoon, for the
purpose of arranging for attending
in body the forthcoming inaugural
ceremonies. Electors were present
from Mississippi, Nebraska, Tcnncs-
see, Iowa, Arkansas, and Maryland.
1t is reported that General Butler
and Mr.. Fisk, of Erie, are about to
purchase paper in Springfield Mass,
to run opposition to Mr. Bowles, Re-
publican.
Parties in Now York have raised
800, 900 to purchase General Grants
house in Washington to present to
Gen. Sherman.
One thousand Chasseurs have ar
rived in Havana from Madrid.
The civil war RACES in Cuba with
varying success.
L. is reported that the Cashier of
the Fourth National Bank, of Phila-
delphia, is Il defaulter in the sum of
100000, and has made his escape.
There was a slight run on the Bank
to day, but it was not closed.
ST. Paul, Feb. 20.
Detective Moses Sargent, of Bos-
ton, and Marshal Fits, of Newbury.
port, Mass, aided by the chiefs of
police of Minneapolis and St. Paul,
on Thursday last, arrested Leonard
Choate, at Log Cabin, fifty miles
above the falls. Choate is an incen
,liary and has been terror to New
buryport for sixteen years. 1t is SAID
that he has fired over fifty buildings,
including two churches. The case
was very intricate one and the trac-
ing of him to this State, was due to
finding various pieces of the ST. Paul
press in the box with which he fired
the Dulluings.
St. Louis, Feb. 20.
An examination OF the books of
White & Erickson, and Thurmond &
Co., tobacconists, disclosed the fact
that the former firm have failed to
report to the u. S. Revenue office
sales to the amount Of 5000 pounds
of tobacco, on which there is due to
the Government for tax and penalty
s21 900.
Thurmond & Cos books show that
they sold 2S,500 pounds more than
they returned, upon which there is a
tax and penalty due the Government
of &26,50O
The president has vetoed the Cop
per Tariff bill
Benz. F. Wiler and daughter 10
years old passed through St Louis
on Saturday en- route to Memphis,
Scotland county, to stand trial on
charge of numbering an infant two
years old, the fruit OF incestous in
tercourse between the father and
daughter.
The Herald's Washington dispatch
says:
That Grant has become more com.
municative, and expressed himself
on Saturday to an intimate friend
very freely in regard to the compost
ton of his cabinet saying: 81 shall
invite civilians to fill all cabinet posi-
tons. If my selections should not
prove judicious in the first instance,
| shall feel justified in correcting the
mistake by making second or third
selection, Unnecessary
The letter book of General Halleck
has been found, containing all the
correspondence on the subject of the
removal of Grant when at Vicks-
burg, including an order for his re-.
moval. The order was signed by
Halleck but was inspired by Stanton,
who at that time directed all the
correspondence of Halleck, General
Banks friends urging him to give all
papers in his possession on the sub
ject to the public, but he still refused
to do so.
The attempt of Bishop McQuade
to lastal, as Priest, Mr.. kavanaugh,
in place OF tho Old priest, Thomas
O'Flaherty, Sunday, was prevented |
by the Catholics OF this place. The
Bishop was prevented from saying
mass in the morning, being led out
of church by the crowd. O'FIaherty
prevented violence to the Bishop.
Subsequently over one thousand |
held meeting and were
addressed by influential Catholics,
and resolved unanimously to stand
by O'Flaherty, who condemned the
Bishops actions and expressed a de-
teImination not to submit to one
man = power any longer in the Uni
ted States, but would appeal to the