Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-21
TELEGRAPHlc BREVITIES.
Montana iustructs for Blaine.

Montana iustructs for Blaine.
Mr.. Moody goes to Florida in a few
days.
A report is current at Paris hat the
United States contemplates the annexa-
ton of Hayti.
All the telegraph lines between Mon
terey and the City of Mexico are in good
working order.
The Berlin correspondent of the Lon.
don Times telegraphs that the abandon
ment Of the Merv expedition by Persia
is attributed to Russian influence.
A convention is called to meet al Sac.
ramento on the 29th inst. to choose dele
gates to the National Greenback Conven-
ton at Indianapolis on the 18th of May.
The bill to transfer the Indian Bureau
to the War Department was the subject
of a brief debate in the House of Repre-
~sentatives yesterday, but it was not dis
posed Of.
A bill passed the Senate unanimously
yesterday authorizing the Secretary of
the Treasury to allow Mrs. Minnie Sher-
mani to receive, free from duty, a
wedding present from the Khedive of
Egypt.
Colonel Whitley swears that he paid
out s35, 900 to Davenport, a prominent
official and Republican, of New York,
on the order of Landalet Williams, and
that Williams told him it was done By
direction of President Grant.
Senator Sargent submitted a resoIu-
ton yesterday recommending the Presi.
dent to cauFe negotiations to be. entered
iato with the Chinese government with
the view to the application of restrictions
to the great influx Of Chinese subjects to
this cor.ntry.
Gen eral Labarra remains at Browns.
Vile and seems confident that Matame-
ras will soon be in the hands Of the gov
erp.ment forces. All the Mexican Off
GERS at Brownsville assert that Matemo.
ras was only lost through the treachery
Of General Toledo.
Diaz Is busily organizing his forces in
Mstamoras. His pa~rtisans say it is pre-
paratory to a march on Monterey, but
from the fact that be is remaining in the
forts around Mstsmoras, it is doubtful
about his advance. Nothing new in the
situation, therefore, at Matamoras.
Secretary Bristows open letter to the
Committee on Expenditures in the De-
partment Of Justice has called forth a
sharp rejoinder from B. G, Caul6eld the
chairman, in which he says that no
charges have been made or proven
against the Secretary and that he stands
before them with the fullest Z ~ueration
Of even a suspicion.
Mr.. Cox, from the Committee on
Rules, made a report yesterday on the
case of Charles b. Smith, Journal Clerk,
who issued a circular seeking business
in the collection Of additional bounty
claims. The repsrtreprehendsd severely
the action of Smith, but as be had re
signed no action was recommended.
When Judge Pierrepont came into
Office as Attorney General he found that
within two years $3.50, 900 we're paid to
Colonel Whitley by his predecessors,
Messrs. Alderman and Williams. Thirty.
hvs thousand dollars Of the amount was,
1t Is said paid to Davenport. No vouch-
ers can be found. The cabinet will
probably consider this matter.
In the House of Representative yes.
tsrday Colonel Casey Young offered a
resolution r%eciting the unsettled condi-
ton OF the Mexican Republic, and many
outrage' committed on persons and prop.
erty OF American c~itizens living in the
neighborhood Of the Rio GrAnde. and re-.
queating the President Of the United
States to order such military force TO
rendezvous at some suitable point on the
Rio Grande as will be able to enforce the
existing neutrality laws, to prevent hos
t%ilities on the border and to preserve
peaceful relations between the two coun.
tries, and also requesting the President
10 direct the General of the armv a,