The Portland daily press., 1872-03-22
Washington Matters.

PACIFICAT1ON OF LOUISIANA.
The Louisiana Republicans are burying their
hatchets and smoking the pipes of peace. 1t
may be that Mr.. Ingraham, a colored man, will
be appointed United States Marshal in place of
Mr.. Packard, who has been active in his opposi-
tion to Governor Yarmouth, but peace is to be
re-established among the Republicans at the
Crescent City.
ANDY JoHNsoN's MILITARY PROMOTIONS
Gems. Rufus Ingalls, and Rufus Saxton are
leading the opposing forces in the Quartermas-
ter Generals Department in. their present on
slaught on Congress against and for the pro-
posed legislation wiping out the promotions
made by Andy johnson out of precedence
r THE BRITlsH-AMERIcAN CLAIMS COMMISSION
will adjourn in few days to meet again at
Newport in the fall. Meanwhile Recorder Sur
vey, the British Commissioner, will return to
London to take his seat in the House of Com
MONS i,'l.nfI .5 ...et.r
-nl s THE wHIsKEY CHEAT.
Commissioner Douglass stoutly opposes the
earnest efforts of a large number of whskey
manufacturers to secure revocation of the
order prohibiting distillers from putting burnt
sugar and other coloring matter in spirits, for
tllc puTpOSt VI CTtdbluR d. HCblttOuS prOOI anu
giving new whiskey the appearance of age.
MATILDA HERON has again come before the
public in no enviable light. The California pa
pers have the following version of strange,
eventful history:
Mr.. Harvey Byrne, lawyer of San Francis
co. who has just died, it appears was secretly
married in that city on the 10th of June, 1854
to the celebrated actress Matilda Agnes Heron,
who is now en- route for San Francisco for the
purpose of contesting the will as the legal wife
of the deceased. At the time of this marriage
Miss Heron was in the zenith of her fame, and
was regarded as one of the most talented and
fascinating actresses on the American STAGE
The honeymoon lasted but five brief days, and
on the 10Th of June the romantic pair bade each
other fond adieu, and the bride sailed for Pam
anna on the Sonora to fulfil the engagement that
was to be her farewell to the stage, the young
husband remaining behind to attend to his busi-
ness and to arrange his affairs that he could
join the object of his tdoatry at the time agreed
upon. p. -erf.ls- 4e -
Turning his whole attention now on his busi-
ness affairs, he soon arranged matters to his
satisfaction, and within a short time sailed for
New York, buoyant with the good hopes and
high expectations love alone can inspire in the
human heart, but which, alas! were doomed to
vanish ''like the baseless fabric of vision"
He remained with her but single night, and
then their early lfe-path diverged forever 1t
is only known of this parting that the informa-
ton affecting the young wife's conduct during
her absence was now given him, and it must
nave been of such character that the sitive
nature could not overlook.
With heart weighed down with agony the
disappointed man returned to San Francisco.
1T Miss Heron is legally Mr.. Byrne's widow,
she is entitled under the laws of the State, to
one-half the property acquired since the date of
the marriage-which is comprised in what is
known as broadway Block, on the northwest
corner OF Broadway and Kearney streets, San
Francisco, which is said to be heavily mortgage
ed. If she proves his marriage, and that no
divorce was obtained, she, of course, subjects
herself to prosecution ON charge of bigamy,
she having married man named Stoepel sub
sequently and went by his name. The entire
estate of Mr.. Byrne is valued at over two hum
dred thousand dollars, on portion of which
there is mortgage of $4,000.