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Show LATEST NEWS j BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. ! i I The Gov. of Kentucky a .Sensible Man. Caleb dishing after Congressmen. Con-gressmen. Earthquake in Mexico, Interesting Items from Washington. &c., &c., &c. GENERAL. WASHINGTON intelligence. The Tribune's dispatch says Caleb Cusliing has put in an answer to the Post correspondent before the house committee to-day. He has submitted papers upon which the dispatch was founded, and made some very sharp points against members, for complain ing of the publication of statements by lobby agents, when everyone knows that they have no difficulty in approaching members for conversation at all times. He claimed that the publication was not an end ursemeut of the matter stated, but simply a presentation of the papers, copies of which were in possession of the house. The member from .Nevada, who was present, said when the answer had been read, that if it had been made in 1 1 1 e house he would not have pressed the matter further. The same dispatch contradicts the rumor that Fish is about to resign, or that there is any disagreement between be-tween him and the Piesident. The resignation of Hoar was solely in pursuance pur-suance of an intention long since announced. an-nounced. There has been no difference differ-ence between him and the President, and there is no cause tor believing bis resignation indicates any general change in the cabinet The President's Cuban message was under consideration in the cabinet for at least two weeks before it was sent to congress. From the best informa tion the conclusion is that it was written by assistant secretary of state Davis, and revised by secretary Fish and attorney-general Hoar. The majority of the San Domingo committee will report to exonerate Gen. Babcock from the charges made against him by Hatch, while the minority hold that he has not fully cleared himself from the mud. a sensible governor. Louisville, 17. Governor Stevenson prints a card in the Courier-Journal of to-morrow, in which he says he never used Burbidae's recommendation recommenda-tion to injure Senator McCreery, and that he has produced evidence of what he has stated. He rests his character, sustained by 32 years of conduct, and concludes on the duel: "I will not fight. For more than thirty years I have been a professor of christian religion. re-ligion. I am now chief magistrate of a state, and nothing can induce me to stab Christianity or trample on a majority ma-jority of the public laws which I am sworn to uphold." FOREIGN. CUBAN NEWS. Havana, 17. Guteras and Peralta, two of the men captured on the Cairo, were executed on the 3d. Accounts from the field state the killing of 26 rebels. The captain general on his birthday liberated 27 rebels, mostly negroes. FROM MEXICO. City of Mexico, 11. Congress adjourned ad-journed on The 31sr of May. The revolutionists in San Luis and Seacoticas are reduced. There was an earthquake on the 11th of May in Tabasco. All the churches and nearly all the private dwellings at Neiahulta were thrown to the ground. Near Pachulta the roads were rendered impassable by the rocks from the mountain sids. The revolt at Guaymas is quelled. A new gold mine has been discovered discov-ered near Jalapa. L Y CABLE. London. 17. In the ca-te of Hill vs. Ribbetts, wherein the property of the late A'. W. White, of Yorkshire, amounting to two hundred thousand pounds sterii-.g, was claimed by a daughter ttoru in .New York, has a new claimant with proota of a valid Scutch m irriage previous to that in New York. |