The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1871-02-11

TEa.EGRAPHIC NEWS.

Nrw YoRK. Feb. 6.--The H0rIiss CORES
nandent telegraphs that the denials that the
President will soon re-organize the Cabinet
have ceased and runlor is busy with the
names of the new Secretaries. The lates.
more reliable rumor gives Senator Morton as
the successor Of Boutwell,. and distinguished
PENNSYLVANIA as the successor of Creswell.
Sc far as the Attorney General is concerned.
while ii is settled that Akerman is to so GU. !;
his successor had not been decided on.
The debate in the executive session of the
Senate Saturday, on the nomination of NJ. j.
Grame-. Minister to Denmark. was one os the
most bitterly personal on record. Those OPP
posed to the confirmation il is seid were led
by Sumner. Cramer, who is brother-in-
lew of President Grant, was originally an
itinerant Methodist preacher in Kentucky.
from which State he was appointed Consul 10
Leipsic, by President johnson. about the
time Grant became Secretary of War, and at
the latter's request. At the beginning Of the
present session. the Copenhagen mission be-
ing vacant the President sent Cramer' name
for the office. Ii has been before the Com
mittee of Foreign Relations until last Thurs
day, when it was taken up in the Senate.
The debate took an intensely personal turn,
those opposed 70 the confirmation. led hy
Sumner, Shurz and Patterson, arguing that
Cramer was not Of class of men who should
represent the United States at European
courts that his career as Consul at Leipsic
bad proved him unfit for the position, and
tina. it was not an appointment which would
reflect much credit ON the administration.
The nomination was supported by lack
Chandler, Carpenter and others. and the first
(Chandler) is reported to have been very Sc
we're in his remarks. Some of those opposed
to confirmation left the Senate chamber before
the debate closed; and finally it was voted 10
discharge the committee from further consid-
GRAFTON of the nomination, and Cramer was
confirmed, only two or three Republicans
present voting in the negative.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-There is now no
hope that an understanding can be arrived at
by the Income Tax Conference. An attempt
will be made in the House to-day to suspend
the rules and rescind the resolution by which
the Senate bill was sent back.
New YoRK, Feb. 6.-The following gentle
men were elected Directors at the annual
meeting of the stockholders of Wells, Fargo
& Co.'S Express Co., to-day: Leland STAN
ford, VIM. g. Fargo. j. G. Fargo, D. 0.
Mills, Lloyd Tevis, NJ. S. Latham, C. p.
Huntington, A. II. Barney, B. P. Cheney.
NEW IORk, reD. f.-1ne train leaVin 9
New York at o'clock last evening met an
oil train on the New Hamburg drawbridge.
The oil train jumped the track and broke in
two, and an oil car tipped over onto q passen-
ger train and set it on FIRE, and the locomc-
tive and cars and bridge were all burned up.
Three sleeping cars are among those destroy
ed, and eighteen persons were killed out
right, and many more are injured who will
not recover. No names have yet been OBJ
tanned.
New HAMBURG, Feb. Pr. M.-Nineteen
bodies have been recovered, fourteen of
whom are thought to be passengers. inelud-
ing three children and Ave employees of the
railroad. The search will be continued, al
though it was thought that all have been re-
covered.
New YORK, Feb. S.-Some surprise and
anxiety is felt at the absence of news from
the steamer Tennessee, which sailed three
weeks ago with the San Domingo Commits
sioners. She was not expected to be more
than nine or ten days on the outward voyage,
and a day longer would have carried dis
patch to HAVANA. the nearest cable station.
The weather since she sailed has been very
rough, but she is iron and the staunchest
ship in the navy.