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Show CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Congress, it is hoped, will adjourn in about a month. Morrill's appointment as secretary of the treasury is very satisfactory. All available hands are working ninht and day to prepare the Russian fleet for sea. Not much will be done by either branch ol congress until after the St. Louis convention, Plymouth church on Wednesday Wednes-day fixed the Hilary of Beecher at $20,000 annually. There is a prospect of an early compromise com-promise on the legislative appropriation appropria-tion and other bills. The republicans of the Becond district dis-trict of Kansas have nominated D. C. Haskell for congress. Gen. Sherman will in a few days take possession of the diamonds bo-longing bo-longing to his daughter, Minnie Sherman Sher-man Filch. Col. Daniel Hall of Dover, N. II., will probably eucced Senator-elect Rollins aa treasurer of the Union I Pacific railroad. Wm. Adin, who killed his wifo, stepdaughter and Mrs. Benton, at Cleveland, 0., last December, was hanged on Thursday. He maintained to the last that the deed was not pro-meditated. The committee on theiSew Urieans custom house will recommend the dismiesal of Collector Casey and hii-deputy hii-deputy for having paid a number of persons salaries who were never on the custom house rolls. A bill is before the committee on ways and means to fund legal tenders ten-ders into a 40-year 4 per cent, gold loan, the bond to be available for de posits in the treasury by national banks as security for their circulating notes. Col. John 8. Moaby authorizes the statement that he will support tho : ticket of Hayes and Wheeler, and ail conservative men of Virginia, he thinks, who desire peace and reconciliation, recon-ciliation, and who see that no g-"od can conio outof thedetnocra'ic p irty, will do the same. A republican mass meeting in Pan Francisco Wednesday night ratified the Cincinnati nominations, endorsrd Ithe platform and passed a re?olution inviting Mr. Blaine to visit C-ililuvnia during tha canvass. T. G. Puelpn, Thoa. Fitch, J. McCoghlan, Governor Woods and ex-Senator Stewart made speeches. It appears by m - IVow Orleaun 1 nowspaperu on TticxJay that tho congressional con-gressional commilk-n holding ila sessions ses-sions in that city has been looking into the circumstances counectd with the establishment and maintenance of the tS'aliomil JiepiibHcuii, a defunct newspaper lh;it was started in New I Orleans, in 1871 an an origin of Grant'e adi 'ii.itration and tho custom house ring, as the Sat tonal Ueubln-tin, printed in Washington, is the recognized recog-nized organ of Ur.uit personally, ami of the District of Columbia ring. It wan shown that tho receipts of the Untii(iLn for advertising and the salt of papers were not more than $200 per wei:k, while the expenditures amounted to $1,000 or more; that the name oi its editors were carried on the rolli of the custom houm; as government gov-ernment nflirials; that employed :n tho custom huuso were aasecaed $1 pr month for the support of the paper; that some ot them were compelled com-pelled to subscribe for stock in tho concern on pain of dismit-sal from ollico; and that, when funds ran short, payments of $1,000 and $1,200 at a time were made in tho custom house to supply deficiencies. And yet the poor thing died, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the importance of having a Grant organ in New Orleans. |