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Show DOMESTIC BRIEFS. The Expressmen's Mutual Aid association as-sociation is in session at Chicago. George A. Schnider of Chicago, banker, is tpoken of as tho new miu-ieter miu-ieter to Switzerland. Packard refuses to listen to the proposed compromise which is to make Nicholls governor. The resolutions passed by the Nicholls house will not be accepted by the Packard legislature. Warmoth has gone over to Packard, Pack-ard, and will endeavor to hold the Packard legislature together by getting get-ting his followers to desert back from the Nicholls assembly. It is stated that the vouchers stolen from Connolly's office some time ago and Bit id to have been burned were 1 shipped abroad by Hall and that he has Lheiu now in London. Alderman elect Hildroth of Chicago, Chi-cago, on being investigated by tho conimoD council as to his eligibility to hold a Beat in that body, produced a pardon from President Grant. At tho coroner's inquest on tho St. i Louis fire John K. Ruse, professor of mathematics at Washington university, uni-versity, gave a graphic description of tho escape of himself and wife. Secretary Sherman is preparing to overhaul internal revenue matters, and to push prosecutions againBt the whisky ring, which iB believed to be flourishing at the present time. The Tweed confession published by the World has met so many denials that it is regarded as inaccurate and largely false. Tweed positively refuses re-fuses to bo interrupted by the press. He will eertainly he released in a few days. Private Secretary Manning, under instructions from Governor Hampton of South Carolina, has sealed the doors of all the Btato officials. The republican officials seem willing to await tho decision of the supreme court. The World's Loudon special says that the universal opinion among the bankers of tbe capital is that the ultimate ulti-mate effect of tho eastern complications complica-tions must be favorable to American securities, though everything is now down in the market and Germans are selling American securities. It is expected that the money current will soon turn decisively towards America for a time. |