Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-20

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hold it in. The President elect has been
invited to attend.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL SHERMAN
is expected TO arrive from New Orleans
about the latter part OF this week. He
will occupy the same room with Gen.
Grant at army headquarters, where &
desk has been prepared for his use. Gen.
Sherman TO Washington a fort
night before the resignation Of his supe-
rior officer in order to acquaint himself
with the routine Of business at the office
! Of the General-in-C Chief. He viii bring
bus one or two members of his staff with
Bim.
THE sPEAEERSHIP.
The contest for Speaker Of the House
is narrowed to Blaine, of Maine, an&
Dawes, Of Massachusetts, with chances
about even.
A BONA FIDE CABINET OFFICER.
One Cabinet appointment has st last
leaked out. 1t is learned from a trust
worthy source that General Grant hav-
ing extended to the Vice-Presldent elect,
the usual courtesy Of nominating one
person for a Cabinet appointment, be has
selected John D. Defrecs, OF Indiana.
The placs TO be given him is that OF
Postmaster General. Eight years ago,
when Mr.. Lincoln, following the time
hOnored precedent, gave Mr.. Hamlln this
courtesy, he selected Mr.. Welles.
MISSISSIPPI.
In consequence Of the protr acted de-
bate to-day on the currency bill in the
House, the Mississippi case was not re-
ported by Boutwell, from the Reconstrue-
don Committee. There IS now q strong
probability this bill viii fail to become q
law, as the President viii certainly
pocket it il the opportunity is presented.
The Radicals will, however, make siren
uous efforts to press il through before
Monday.
DISABILITIES.
The Reconstruction COMMITTEES have
agreed on a bill relieving q hundred OF
more North Caroliuiaus from political
disabilities. \ number of these are
Democrats.
MONEYS RECOVEREDI ~ FOREIGN CoUN-
TRIES on ACCOUNT OF THE con-
FEDERACY.
The Secretary OF the Treasury on Sat
urday sent to the House = reply to the
resolution as 10 the amount of money
recovered in foreign countries Oh account
of the late Confederate States. Caleb
Cushing was employed by the State De-
partment on that business, and reports
that $2l 723 have been recovered. The
balance remaining is $23.0, Of which
there il N unpaid deLnand for $1,000, in-
Guiding in the sum which hes been dis
burssd from this fund $50 francs de-
posted with a court in France in the
Amman suit, according to the law which
requires from aliens security for pay
ment Of costs, which SUN shsll remain
ia said court. Tbs in5or nation called
for by the resolution has already been
furnished, the residue Of money received
from the sale Of captured and abandoned
lands IN the iasuTrsc -i0nary districts hsv-
ing been covered into the Treasury. or
this cum, the 500. 0JJ mentioned In the
previous document, On deposit with the
Farmers' Loan u Trust Company, of
New York, 10 secure the sureties on a
bond required 20 lie given by Simeon
Draper, iafe cotton agent st New York
city. Ia the suits against hin S40O. 600
were released 10y the disc0n tiuuancs OF
part Of the suits and covered into the
Treasury ia November, 1867. The re-
manning 500, 600 still remains OF deposit
to abide the result Of guch remaining
GEN. REYNOLDS AND GOV. THROCK NOR.
TON.
Facts have just come to light here
exhibit q malignity OF feeling Oh
part OF Gen. eyDolds towards ex-
GOV. TnrOckmorton, OF Texag, which
hardly to be expected, even in this
degenerate ege. The whole country is
aware Of he complete vi~1dication GOV. |
ThrOckmOrtOn made o. his official course
IN Texas; but ia doing this he was COM
PEELED to expose the tyranny Of Gen.
Reynolds. The latter, however, sue.
in inducing the military powerof
me GOVERNMENT, under the recOnstruc.
ton acte, to remove VArockmorton from
office. Then, under ordinary circum-
stances, the matter would have ended
but not so vito Gen. Reynolds, who bss
ven-ured % file wi b the II ems rue.ion
Committee 5 protest against the removal
Of the political disabilities OF G,y
Throckm0rton. Verify, tie military
power is fast p~ermesting ali the densrf-
Of the Federal Government
Nevertheless, it csn be aid To the crafit
Of the military, that Ger. HeintZ slman
who was 10 Command at san Antonio
during Gov. ThrOckmoTtOn's Rdminis.
volunteered 10 appear bsi0ra fbe
RsconstrDction Committee in behalf of
he Governor whom he e~mphAticsllv
endorsed IS q Of The ahicsy and purest
men ne had ever known, and a who
lid all in his power to reconstruct Texas
according to the letter and spirit of the
reconstruction measures OF Cougregs
and who would have succeeded n he nd
not been stript OF all power by the mill
.ary suthOrlties. Gen Fremont hss also
volunteered TO endorse the application
made, not by Gov. ThTockmOrIoD him
self, bur by his friends IN Texas. IL Ia
IntimsIed that the Reconstruction Conn
may report q biil REMOVING fba
disabilities from the entire population of
the ) ate, but such q bill would scarce w
receiVe the sanction OF Congress. IN
view OF the fact that the SenaJe has sew
srsl times refused 10 alio the House
bill, relieving from disabilities in special
casss, to be taken up.
REDISTRIBUTION OF CURRENCY.
The House YVES occupied all day with
the bill for the redistribution of the Ma.
tlonsl Banking currency, so as to take
the excess from the Northern and East.
eru banks, AID give the south sbout
twenty-five millions, but prGyidjng ~
the amount Of three hundred million ~
currency should not be increoaaS
The House voted az one tins to sccsn;
the bill substantially TO this effect -
amendments, carried by Wesfern
votes, proved so offensive 70 the frien5s
oil the National Banks thst the I.t,or
turned round 1T the les. momept. and -,
a most decided vote laid The min ans al
the amendments Oh the tgble. the~sby
il. By a report Of the Tresgnry
il appeared that New EOgiand has &C.,
ty five dollars bank circulation for evsry
Hhile Pennsylvania averages h1t
dollars, and for The South it Is az low
as ten cents, aud ia the West two or
three dollars per cepits.
ANOTHER CONTUMACIOUs WITNESS.
The servant of the Russian Minister
to testify befors 8 Senate commit
tee IS TO any conversations held at his
employers table. The foreign embassies
sre grsvely concerned in this affair, for
II established a. a precedent, al social
intercourse would be declined BY them.
EmbassadOrg being eXamnt frnu, all