Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-27
TELEGRAP HIC.
WASHIN GTON.
p A Department Wiped out
The Chronic Cabinet RumOrs
The War in New York HarbOr
Cincinnati Wants the Pope
The War in New York HarbOr
Cincinnati Wants the Pope
WASHINGTON.
Admiral Porter 20 be Relieved.

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.-A report that
Admiral Porter will be relieved from fur
Their duty in the Navy Department, on ac-
count of failing health, seems to be be-
lieved at the Department, though nothing
positive is known in regard to the matter
Department wiped Out.
An important discovery was made to-
day, fully illustrating the bunglng legis-
lation of Congress. The act to revise,
consolidate and amend the statutes
to patents and copyright, approved
July 8, 1870, contains clause re
pealing all of the thirty three acts and
parts of acts set for them and the ap
pended schedule of acts. Among those
thus repealed is the act of March 3, l849,
chapter 10, volume 9, which created and
authorizes the continuance of the depart
ment of the interior. BY reason of the
repeal of this the department of the inte-
ri0r has ceased to be q branch of the Gov
eminent since April s, 1870. Numerous
complications and difficulties with regard
TO the business of the department will
likely grow out of this inadvertancy and
gross blunder of Congress.
Change IN the CaDlnets
The moment the President returns to
Washington an attempt will be made to
have him create change in the cabinet.
Secretary Cox is the party against whom
the ire of the Radical politicians is direct
cd, and The charge is that he does not &C
cord with the anxieties of the Republican
Congressional Committee. Simon Cam
eron is expected to be here to make last
appeal for Pennsylvania. The friends of
Gov. Cox declare that he will remain in
the cabinet during the entire administra-
ton of Gen. Grant, unless he himself ex-
presses desire to be relieved.
why Alderman Hastened Back
The Attorney General, who has re-
turned here has by no means thoroughly
recovered his health. He has been very
seriously i'll, but was anxious to be in
Washington to attend to official matters
requiring prompt consideration, and left
Georgia before he should even have left
his bed. 1t is said the appointment of
Solicitor General, as well as two or three
important opinions necessary to be made
by the time the government machines get
in running order again, were the reasons
which determined Alderman to hurry back
to Washington. The soldier organ here
comes out O-day in fierce denunciation
of Akerman, and says there is rebel in
the cabinet.
The Troubles i'm south Carolina.
A letter received here from Charleston
SAYS that the condition of things in New
berry and Lawrence counties, in that
State, has not been correctly represented
by the kilograms. At one time there were
two or three hundred negroes armed,
while several hundred white men, as the
posse cOmitatus of the sheriff, were NOV
ing against them. Arrests of the ring
leaders Quoted down matters, but the
prevailing political excitement is so great
that formidable outbreak is imminent.
Change i'm the Foreign Policy.
Those in position to know declare that
the appointment of Senator Morton as
Minister to England means a change in
the foreign policy of the administration.
Its character was made known to him
before he consented TO accept the posi-
ton or leave his place in the Senate.
Nothing beyond this general declaration
has transpired, but the interminable Ala
bama claims question, it is assumed, is
included in the anticipated vigOr of the
new policy.
The BIunders of Congress.
No attention is paid by the Government
to the alleged repeal of the law creating
the Department of the Interior The act |
enacting various appropriations for that |
Department by Congress shows the legisla- |
ton alluded to was unintentional.
1t is repor ed that Secretary Boutwell,, |
who has returned, contemplates an ar
rangement whereby the work on all public |
buildings can be continued until Congress |
assemblies.
No complete census returns from the |
larger cities have been received. Returns |
from the South come in slowly.
Later of MOrtOn's Mission.
There is reason to believe the instruc-
tons to the new Minister to England as
regards the Alabama claims will not differ
from those given to Motley, and will con-
form to the views expressed in Secretary
Fish's dispatches of Sept. IS, 1869. 1t
is still the desire of the President that |
when negotiations are resumed they he |
conducted in Washington.
MEMPHIS