Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-20
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.


MORE ABOUT THE TENNESSEE.
Secretary Robson, yesterday, in response to
MIR. Summers resolution, transmitted to the Sen-
ate the following instructions to Commander
Temple of the Tennessee dated January 10:
The department expects you to be ready to
proceed to sea with the Tennessee under your
command, on Monday next, the 10Th inst, with
out fail, having meanwhile, or on that day, re-
ceved on board the commissioners and their
suite. You will carry them with all practicable
dispatch to SANTANA bay, or such other port in
San Domingo as they may desire TO visit. You
will put the ship, her accommodations and her
movements at the disposal of the commissioners,
taking her 10 such ports within or without San
Domingo as they may desire to visit; observing,
however, the necessary regard to her safety
which proYident commaE1er must always eX-
erciSe.
"YOu will remain with the commissioners at
their disposal, aforesaid, until they desire you
to return TO this country, when you will make
all dispatch to New York, or such other port in
the United States as they may desire to be land
ed at, and report your arrival by telegraph and
otherwise as usual TO the department. The
whole party will number not more than sixteen
persons, of whom the commissioners and their
secretaries and such Others as they designate
will be accommodated in the cabin TO tile extent
OF its capacity, and the Others in the ward room
or the other officers mess. In this matter, as
well as in Others affecting the comfort and con-
venenCe of the commissioners, you will please
consult these gentlemen and conform as far as
possible to their wishes All the expenses of
the commissioners and their attendants will be
paid by the paytnaster of the ship on your order
and charged to the appropriation for contingent
expenses of the navy. The expenses of other
persons not commissioners or those belonging
to their suite, must be arranged by themselves.
The department wishes you an agreeable cruise
and confides to your discretion to accomplish its
object satisfactorily
Many persons, hitherto hopeful for the safety
of the Tennessee, are beginning to despair, not
withstandng the repeated assurances of the
high officials that she is safe.
ILLNESS OF MIR. SUMNER.
Senator Sumner was dangerously i'll yester-
day morning from contraction of the muscles of
the heart. He says the symptoms of his indis-
position are the same as those which followed
the assault made on him some years ago in the
senate by Representative Brooks of South Caro-
lima, added to which he has an asthmatic at
tack, and suffers greatly from difficulty of BREATH
ing. He was however, better last evening.
Later-AlrhOugh Senator Summers health is
reported improved, his friends are fearful thathe
will not completely recover from the serious at
tack of yesterday.
AN Ex-MAYOR ARRESTED.
William b. Virgins, eX-mavOr of Whining
ton, Del, has been arrested in West Virginia,
for frauds on colored bounty claimants, and
taken to Wilmington for trial.
CoLoRED PRINTERS.
The typographical union of Washington last
night admitted to membership j. Keet Smith,
colored, by Il vote of 229 against So. The cases
of Frederick Douglass, Jr., and Lavalettc Leath,
also colored, were not definitely acted on,
though they have been pending for year past.
NOMINATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS.
Among the poStmasters nominated yesterday
are: N. S. Falls of Thomaston, and L. Rowell of
Hallowell, Me. Among the postmasters con-
fiTmed are James T. G. Cook at Bennington
and Justin w. Moody at Waterbury, Vt.
The senate also confirmed Thomas Settle of
North Carolina as minister to Peru, Joseph P.
Root envoy extraordinary to Chill, John NJ.
Mckinney U. S. district judge for the southern
district of Florida, and Henry Huben consul at
Guatemala.
Y. NJ. C. A.
The international convention of young mems
Christian associations will meet at Washington
May "a, instead of June TO- as previously ap-
pointed.
IMPORTS.
The imports of the United States for the
eleven months ending November 80, 1870, eX
ceeded the exports S15,91O,616, while for the
corresponding period of the previous year the
excess of imports was S4,O99,019.
TRACT SOCIETY.
The Washington annual meeting of the Amer
lean tract society to-day was largely attended,
and was addressed by Judge Strong, and Sena-
tors Scott and Upton. The receipts of the last
year were s116,171; expenses, S115,452.
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker will, this week,
deliver her moral and religious argument for
the acknowledgements of woman, and Mrs. AL
mira Lincoln Phelps will, in a few days, issue
an address TO the women of the country, and
more especially the old pupils of her late sister
Mrs. Willard and her own, calling upon them to
protest against female suffrage, and vindicate
themselves as true women.