Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-27
WASHINGTON.
me New York Customhouse.

The New York CustOmhOuse.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-The Senatorial
New York Customhouse Investigating
Committee, for want of a quorum
adjourned till Monday next. Senators
Howe and Buckingham have nearly recov-
cred. Ex-CollectOr Murphy and Gems
Babcock and Porter win be examined in
this city.
The General Order business.
Gen. Arthur, Collector Of the port of New
York, has written letter to Secretary Bout
well, in which he expresses the opinion that
a complete reorganization of the general
order business cannot be effected without
additional legislation, and suggests that no
steamship should be allowed to discharge
her cargo under general order within less
than two full business days after arrival.
lie also suggests the division of the wharf
front into several districts, with increased
warehouse accommodations. Tothis letter
Boutwell, replies as follows:
Treasury Department, Washington, FEB.
26.-Sir: / laid your letter Of the 23d before
the Presidents and am authorized to say that
he approves the main features of your plan
for the storage Of general order goods. The
change should be made with as little DELAY
; L
organizing the general order business, po-
litical influences and personal interests
should be set aside. Having first made the
rights of the government secure, it is the
Presidents wish that the work shall be
so arranged and conducted as to give the
largest facilities to merchants with the least
possible cost. The details Of the organiza-
ton must be left to your judgment.
Respectfully,
GEO. s. boutwell,, Secretary.
The New Orleans CustOmhOuse.
Three weeks will probably elapse before
the New Orleans special committee viii
make their report, all the testimony not
having been written out. 1t is not likely
that any legislation will be suggested further
than that the election for members of Con-
/ gress and of the Legislature of Louisiana
take place on the same day as the Presi-
| dental election, which it is thought may in
! some measure, guard against frauds.
The North Carolina Case.
/ The Senate Committee on Elections did
/ not make a report in the Abbott case to-
! day, Senator Carpenter not being present
! to present the minority views, he having
met with an accident by falling and sprain-
! ing his leg.
- FOrney's Successor.
/ Seth COrnly has been nominated COilec-
tor of Philadelphia.
Garrett Davis.
Senator Davis having partially recovered
/ from his illness will, in company with his
I son, leave here for his home Wednesday.
The Paraguayan Disgrace.
Charles a. Washburne, formerly Minis
/ ter to Paraguay, has arrived here. His
! presence is in connection with a court-mar-
! tial, which, it is said, will convene at an
early day, to try Admirals GaddOn and Da-
Wis for their conduct while respectively in
command of the South Atlantic squadron.
when Washburne was Minister to Para
quay.
Special TO the heLOuisvile Courier-JourDa
Senator Caldwell.
The news of the report of the Kansas
Legislature, involving Senator Caldwell's
election in bribery and corruption, from that
State, creates quite sensation here. The
moment the record arrives, if not before,
an investigation will be ordered here the
same as in the Clayton case. If the Senate
decides that their elections were Illegal, a
majority can unseat them, as it does not re
quire two-third vote for an expulsion.
Both the Kansas Senators it is intimated
will demand an investigation.
FOrney is Here
again in the role of peace-maker, and dined
with Sumner yesterday. Afterwards be
called on the President. His efforts to re-
conciIe the anti-Grant Republican Senators
simply eXCites amusement.
The Relief of Chicago.
The Chicago relief delegation are somewhat
demoralized over the lukewarm support
which Grant is giving their cause. True,
he stated on Friday at the interview that he
was in favor of relief, but il cropped out
that he favored a subsidy scheme, and after
talking all around the question, he intima-
ted that he saw no good reason why he
should do anything for Chicago, for Logan
and Trumbul (the two SenatOrs) and the
Chicago Tribune were constantly fighting
his administration.
How Grant Was First Nominated.
Col. Forney publishes in the Sunday
Chronicle here to-day a remarkable account
Of the manner in which Grant was first
nominated for President. He says Judge
Cartier and Senator Thayor suggested to
him in November, 1867, to write an eX-
haustive article favOring such nomination. |
FOrney replies: Il answered that Gen. Grant |
was not a candidate for President, and did |
not desire to be, and if | printed it without |
authority there was little doubt that some |
super seryiceable politician would call upon /
him and ask him if he had been made a |
candidate with his sanction. He will Of |
course reply that he never saw the article |
till it was in print and so your schemes |
to make him President will |
gang agley.n Then Rawlins took |
it to Gen. Grant and stayed quite long |
time. When lie returned be said: Gen. |
Grant is quite pleased with your statement |
Of his political record, and surprised that he /
proves to be SO good Republican, Upon |
this hint ! printed. When Rawlins came |
back from Gen. Grant with the editorial, he |
told US with great emphasis Gen. Grant |
does not want to be President. He thinks |
the Republican party may need him, and be !
believes as their candidate he can be elected |
and reelected. But said RawliDs, what |
is to become of him after his second !
Presidential term? What, indeed. Dur
ing his administration he is receiving from
$1,000 to $4,000 a year as General Of
the armies Of the Replblic-a life salary.
To 90 into the Presidency at 900 a |
year for eight years is perhaps to gain more
fame; but what is to. become of him at the
Cuu CI LIS LtoluCiiSl 1AC NOCo LtOo aSpAlO
to the place. Eight years from the fourth
of March sixty y-nine he will be about fifty
SIX years old. Of course be must spend |
his salary as President. England with her |
Wellington, her Nelson, aud her other he
roes on land, and sea has never hesitated to !
enrich and ennoble them through all their |
posterity. Such policy is in accordance |
with the character of the English Govern |
ment; but, in our country, the man who |
fights for and saves the republic would be a
beggar if he depended upon political office.
Mark it! If Grant takes anything from the |
rich, whose vast fortunes he has saved, after |
he is President, he will be accused as the |
willing recipient of gifts" 1t will thus be |
seen that Grant intended to run for Presi |
dent for the second term when he was work
ing for the first.
MEMPHIS.
Negro Murderers Arrested.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 26.-Detectives last night |
arrested Joe HODGES and George Hander- |