Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-20
GENERAL News.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD.
UNION.
DOMESTIC.
Further Cabinet Gossip.

Further Cabinet Gossip.
WASHINGTON, December 19th.-There is
to-day very high and apparently ample au-
thority for predicting that ex-senator Sar-
gent will shortly after the holiday recess be
appointed to a place in the Cabinet, and
strong indications point to the Secretaryship
of the Interior as the position to which Pres
ident Arthur intends to assign him. The
Presidents choice for the Navy Department
seems now to lie between General Ed
ward T. Beale and ex-senator Bout
well, with the chances at present favoring
the former, whose appointment is strongly
urged by General Grant. The widely circu-
lated reports that ex-senator Chaffee is
booked for either the Interior Department or
the Postmaster Generalship are entirely des-
titute Of substantial foundation. President
Ar thur has no intention of appointing Chat
fee to any Cabinet position, and in fact has
never taken his candidacy into serious con-
sideration. AN impression prevails in
well.iDformed circles to-day that some
obstacle has arisen in the way of
Chauncy l Fileys appointment as Pest
master-General, and that ex-senator Howe
now has the best chance for that position
but the question is still undetermined, and
will perhaps remain undecided until after the
holidays. Sargent is expected to arrive here
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Washington, at the request of the President,
for the purpose of consultation in regard to
his place In the Cabinet. 1t is generally un-
derstood that there will be no further Cabi-
net nominations sent to the Senate until that
body reassembles in January, at which time
Postmaster-General James will retire. and
the formation of the new Cabinet will be
completed.
Presidential Nominations.
WASHINGTON, December 19sh-The Presi-
dent has nominated Thomas G. Acton, to be
Assistant Treasurer of the United States at
New York; Horace Gray, of Massachusetts,,
to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States; William Henry Pres
colt, of South Carolina, to be special Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
of the United States to the Republic of Chile,
Peru and Bolivia George NJ. Durkin, to be
Attorney of the United States for the south
ern district of Alabama.
Craftsmanship OF the House Committees.
WASHINGTON, December 19ih. Speaker
Keller intends to announce the House COM
mittees next Wednesday. Although the list
is not yet fully completed in all the details, it
is practically certain that Page of California
will be made Chairman of the Committee on
Commerce, and that Pacheco will become
Chairman of the Conf ittee on Private Land
Claims.
The Guiteau Case-Adjournment on Ac.
count of Death.
WASHINGTON, December I9th.-The Grim.
inal Court opened at IL o'clock, and Guiteau
was escorted to his seat by the officers. The
announcement was Immediately made of the
death of the wife of juryman Hobbs, and the
Court adjourned until Wednesday.
Possibility of New Trial for Guifeau.
WASHINGTON, December 19th.-Among the
lawyers here there is an impression that the
death of juror Hobbs wife and his absence
to attend her funeral will sventuate in new
trial for Guiteau.
Guiteau's Vanity.
WASHINGTON, December 10TH Guiteau, |
when he was leaving the Courtroom to-day, |
stopped at the District Attorneys desk and |
said "Corkhill, 1 have had model taken |
from my head for a bust. 1 will be a great |
man yet, Corkhill, If you let me alone
The United States and the East.
WASHINGTON, December 19th.-The report |
of the Secretary of State on the necessity of |
Introducing notifications into the extra ter.
ritorial jurisdictional system of the United |
States in China, Japan and the Eastern |
countries where Consular Courts are allowed !
by treaties, is long document. The Secre.
tsry deals with the subject comprehensiyely. |
Miscellaneous Washington Items.
WASHINGTON, December 19.h.-The total
amount of standard silver dollars put in ciFcu-
lation during the week ending December 18th |
was S44S, 495, as against S41S, 1856 for the cor.
week of last year.
The Senate Judiciary Committee to-day
unanimously agreed to report back the nom
iuation of Benjamin II. Brewster, as Attor-
with recommendation that he |
be confirmed.
The Senate Committee on Naval Affairs |
decided to postpone action on the nomination |
of Pay Director Walmouth to be Paymaster
General and other contested navy nomina- |
lions, until after the holidays.
Secretary Frelinghuysen took possession of |
the State Department to-day.
JEFF Davis Under Fire Charged with |
Dishonesty.
PHILA DELpHIA, December 19th-The Press |
has a column interview between staff CORE
spondent and General Joe Johnston, in the |
course Of which he charged JEFF Davis with |
stealing a large amount of money. He de. |
sired that it be distributed amongthe soldiers, |
as they had received no pay for months, ana |
SO wrote Mr.. Davis after he fed from Rich
mond to Charlotte, but Mr.. Davis paid no |
attention to his suggestion. In answer to |
question as to what he knew about the final
use to which the money was put, General |
Johnston is quoted as saying: 1T followed |
or preceded the head of the civil government |
of the Confederacy to the South about the |
time Davis went IN that direction"
Have you any idea of the amount of |
specie Davis carried South"
"Colonel Paul, an eminent artillery officer |
of the Confederacy, and now prominent |
lawyer Of Richmend, a man of high charac-
ter, told me he inspected the specie before its |
removal from Richmond, and after il had |
been loaded ready for transportation. He |
said there was carload of it. As he only |
saw it boxed ready for shipment, he could OF |
course give no information as to the amount |
in dollars and cents. General Beauregard, |
however, was in immediate command at |
Greensboro while President Davis was there, |
and doubtless had an opportunity of know
ing more accurately the amount of money |
with the President than most any one except |
his immediate political friends He told me |
he was convinced that the President had |
81, 500. 600 in specie at Greensboro. |
have no doubt General Beauregard's |
estimate was within bounds. After Davis |
left Charlotte and moved south, Confeder- |
ate officer told me that while be was stand |
ing near the bridge crossing q small creek |
man rode up and inspected it. He said he |
was in charge of the Presidents money, and |
wanted TO see whether the bridge was safe or |
not. The man In charge told the officer that |
he had twenty wagon-loads of specie in his |
train. This would be in perfect harmony |
with Colonel Psul's statement-thst there |
was carload when it left Richmond, and |
with General Beauregard' shat there was /
g, 800 eco at Greensboro
What became of the money left?" ]