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Show GENERAL. Horace Greeley Speaks. New Orleans, IS. The American Union Club entertained Horace Greeley last night Greeley made a speech, in which he said, "this is my first visit to the South. I come here with a heart devoted to the good of all people. They are not my enemies now, who were six or eight years ago. I bear hatred to no one." He believed that the best men should occupy the best places, without any reference to bygones, by-gones, for the peril which necessitates the exclusion of some men from the ballot-box no longer exists. He opposed op-posed disfranchisement as no longer a necessity, and said there would not be a Ku I-ilux in the land now, if there had been a general amnesty five years ago. It would have united the people and healed up the wounds produced by the war. For that he had struggled. and the time was not far distant when every American would have his fair chance at the ballot box, and the majority ma-jority would rule. dominations. Washington. 17. The President has sent the following nominations to the Senate: Commodore B. F. Sands, to be Kc-ar Admiral; Captain Beed, to be Warden Commodore; Capt. Steven D. Trenchard, to be Commodore; Josiah M. Lucas. Ills., U. S. Consul at Sig-napoor: Sig-napoor: Rev. Charles B. Boynton. La., Keeorder of the General Land Otfice; Wm. Harrison, ermont, Consul Con-sul at St. John's, Canada; Jas. R. Partridge, Maryland. Envoy extraor-dinarv extraor-dinarv and Minister Plenipotentiary to Brazil; W. A. Pile, Mo. . MinUterRe-sident MinUterRe-sident in Venezuela; Wiliiard Warner, Alabama. Governor of New Mexico; Frauz Siecel, CoUectr of Internal Revenue. Ninth New York District. Cable laying. New York. IS. A dispatch has been received from V". H. Heiss. Genera! Gen-era! Superintendent of the International Internation-al Ocean Telegraph Company, at sea, rive miles from Key YA est, Florida. May ISfh, saying : "I have just laid the heavy catie between Ranra Rosa and Key West, in aa air iine, by American tains: exclusively, both electrical elec-trical and meehanieaL This is the tirst long cable ever laid without foreign assistance, and. notwithstanding bad weather, was laid by tow from the ship in which it had been coiled to be loaded, load-ed, a circumstance which makes the success of the work unprecedented. |