Show Whip twi new york february 23 A letter from the directors of tho the western union telegraph company says bays they resolved at a recent meeting to send ft commissioner to russia to urge that Government to assume me the construction of the russo busso ameri cau telegraph from the amoor holthe russian possessions if it is probable that talat the line lin ovill I 1 will bo be abandoned the atlantic cable proving a success beyond the expectations of those thosa who constructed it but not nothel le ing fully employed which causes a reduction or of i its ts rates is assigned as the abandonment of the enterprise it if is ig that the company have exve expended t two wo and a half millions of dollars bud and his ha property and aad funds worth ono ode million and a ha hate the JIe correspondence dated petersburg burg gives an account of knobs journy iuga throughout the Iti salan possessions in which ho he was the r recipient eci plent of the warmest now new york much march 1 tho the times rimes says saya the private cause of mr attack on mr mcculloch McCu yesterday was the removal of mr Sum nera brother in law Hasti hastings ngab surgeon of the maxine marine hos ho pital at san francisco complaints had beon mado made against him and mr M moved oed him for cause causa greeley writes from washington that the primary cause of the defeat of ane tariff bill was the absence of conkling and mor rill of the ways and means committee leaving in the committee in the hands of the enemies of A the he bill who overloaded it with amendments the master spirit of the entzi intrigue LIU e was waa mr hooper who aspires inspires to the chairmanship of the ways and means committee next session the tribunes special the committee of conference on reimbursing the fian clad contractors have agreed to the house amendments which sends the whole matter to the secretary of tho the navy thus virtually virta ally ending ni lidea of relief to tho the contractors 1 tha heralds special says the president contemplates a clean sweep of 0 the cabinet CAbin ct excepting the attorney general it is said that judge black of pennsylvania willbe secretary of state A rebel general genera I 1 aud and ex member of the cat cal belie believes tho the president would sig sign h tion bill bih buffor but for tho influence ol 01 seward and mcculloch ho he says EATS the pres dent is controlled by the cabinet and outside rings in the house on motion of mr higby aby the C committee on publio public lands landis was discharged from the further consideration of 61 the bill biff iu in aid of the St stockton and copperopolis 3 eail road the caso atso of insurance company vs soule before the court involving the constitutionality of the law directing di rean collectors of internal revenue in california to reduce the incomes return from a gold standard to greenbacks green backs wasp dismissed because of its being between citizens of the rimmi state and could not therefore be e 4 in m the federal but should lave have beel baroug brought in the first instance in the ce courts arts and then on application of the collector or other officers sued should have beaw taken to the federal courts the law does not MIX apply to this caso case it did not reach C till t the suit R as decided there |