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dean's Military History of Ulysses S. Grant” to 
Count Bismarck, received the following letter in 
acknowledgement: 
BKfWJK. 1868. 
Dear Silt: — Baron Cerolt has transmitted to 
me a copy, which you have been kind enough to 
incribc to me, of the history of your military 
career. I hasten to return you my hearty t hanks 
for a work which promises*me the enjoyment of 
reviewing in u succinct shape that gigantic 
struggle, the varying phase* or which I did fol¬ 
low at the time with intense interest. 11 will be 
a permanent source of gratification und pride to 
think that I atn owing the volume now open be¬ 
fore me to the kind mid sympathetic feelings of 
the very man who took Vicksburg and Itlcli- 
mond. Stay peace, restored by you, afford equal 
scope to vour powers with equal benefit to 
your country, and may the present Interchange 
of friendly y-iitbmenta between us prove a good 
augury for the continuance of those relations 
so happily established between America and 
German) . Believe me. dear sir, 
Ever yours, very sincerely, 
(Signed) Bismarck. 
New l'ork. 
A .mass meeting was held at the Cooper Insti¬ 
tute in New York City on Monday evening, the 
15th, at which Mayor Hall presided, to impress 
upon the Federal Government the necessity of 
taking steps to secure the release of American 
citizens now In English prisons on charges of 
complicity with Fenianism In America. Speeches 
were made by Mayor Hull, District Attorney 
Garvin, J. A. MeCnffery, Gen. O'Neil and others, 
and a committee was appointed to go to Wash¬ 
ington to press the matter upon Congress. 
It is reported that two gentlemen of New 
York City are to ride a velocipede race from 
that city to Chicago fora wager of $1,500 a side. 
No time is fixed as yet withlu which the feat 1 r 
to be accomplished. 
The President has signed a pardon for John 
Devlin of Brooklyn, who was convicted about a 
year ago of being implicated in whisky frauds. 
The charter eleolion in Syracuse on the 16th, 
resulted in favor of' the Republicans by about 
five hundred majority—an increase of three 
hundred over the majority last spring. Six of 
the eight Aldermen elected are Republicans. 
The First, Second and Third Wards, which have 
generally gone Democratic, elected Republican 
Aldermen, while the Fifth find Seventh, usually 
Republican, elected Democratic Aldermen. 
A man arrested for driving a sleigh without 
bells In the st recta of Oswego, pleaded that he 
was carrying the United States mail, and that 
therefore the city ordinance did not a (feel him. 
The Recorder thought differently, and fined hint. 
It is reported that the Erie Railroad Company 
has purchased twenty-one propellers to run in 
connection with the Erie ltoad, to transport 
freight to 1 he West, bines of propellers will be 
organized to run between Buffalo, Cleveland, 
Sandusky, Toledo and Detroit, as well as be¬ 
tween Buffalo and Lake Michigan pons. 
Benjamin Joy, the able and distinguished tem¬ 
perance advocate, died suddenly at his residence 
in Peun Van, on the isth. 
The Phoenix Hotel, at Whitehall, N. Y., was 
destroyed by lire on IB It. Loss $10,000. 
A young man namod Jacob Afanzer, in the em¬ 
ploy of Moore & Cole of Rochester, who, ou a 
salary of six hundred dollars a year, had been 
making large purchases of real estate, baa just 
confessed t hat he has been in the habit, since 
1802, of robbing Ills employers almost daily. He 
restored property valued At $8,250, and escaped 
prosecution. 
A women's free school of telegraphy recently 
Opened at the Cooper Instit ute. The Trustees of 
the Cooper Union had made arrangements with 
the Western Union Telegraph Company to sup¬ 
ply the necessary apparatus and instruction, and 
Miss Lydia H. Snow, connected with that com¬ 
pany, is employed as preceptress. The term 
The burglars succeeded in forcing open two 
heavy doors leading to the vaults, and were suc¬ 
cessfully working on the doors of the vaults 
when they became alarmed and fled, leaving be¬ 
hind a complete set of most ingeniously con¬ 
structed tools. 
James Grant, who has been out on bail since 
the murder of Pollard, writs on the 18th commit¬ 
ted to prison to await trial. 
In the United States Circuit Court at Rtch-> 
mond. Judge Underwood presiding, the case of 
Robert Stevens, a negro of Charleston, S. C., 
against the Richmond. Fredericksburg and Po¬ 
tomac Railroad Company, for putting his wife 
in a second class car by force, after selling her a 
first class ticket, came up. The Judge, in his 
charge to the Jury, which was composed of half 
blacks and half whites, said: 
” Distinction on account of color was a relic 
of barbarism, which had been happily done 
away with oven in that sink of Iniquity New 
York, where it lmd been tolerated longer than 
elsewhere to secure Southern trade.” After an 
incidental statement to l he effect that Virginians 
were given to drunkness, and their clergy were 
not exempt from this frailty 
to seize them, but two escaped, and the other 
was only captured after being shot twice. Sub¬ 
sequently the two who escaped were arrested 
and lodged in Jail. They proved to be brothers 
named Alsop, and little over twenty years ot 
age. 
On Monday morning, the 15th, a passenger on 
the early train going into Chicago was ap¬ 
proached by a stranger, and informed that the 
conductor wished to see him immediately in the 
baggage car. The passenger started for the bag¬ 
gage car, followed by the stranger, and, when 
he had reached the platform of the second car, 
he was set, upon by a gang of three or four men, 
who garroted and robbed him of $200. The 
gang then jumped off theti'ainand made their 
escape. 
Huch Martin was some time since arrested In 
Chicago, at the instance of Messrs. Cutting & 
Walker, charged with stealing coal and wood. 
After a brief imprisonment he was released, and 
Immediately commenced suit against Cutting & 
Walker for malicious prosecution, alleging that, 
they caused *hi- arrest to enforce payment 
of a debt. The jury gave him $20,000 dam¬ 
ages. The Supreme Court reversed the judg¬ 
ment on the ground that the damages were ex¬ 
cessive. The ruse was again tried Inst week, and 
the second jury gave the plaintiff a verdict for 
$25,000. 
Michigan, 
Mrs. Leonard, an insane woman who was 
confined in jail at Flint, set her clothes on fire 
Friday night, the 5th instant, and was burned to 
death. 
Wisconsin, 
On Tuesday, the 16th, Putnam Siemens and 
Franklin Butterfield were on a fishing and 
hunting excursion at Beaver Dam. W[s„ when 
Stevens was shot in the mouth, from which 
wound he speedily died. From the fact that 
DOMESTIC NEWS 
I Washington. 
Feb. 15. — Scnutor Morton, from the Joint Se¬ 
lect Committee, reported the fulfillment of their 
mission to notify the President and Vice-Presi¬ 
dent elect of their election, and submitted the 
following reply from Gen. Grant: 
Gr.im.BMBN: Pleaw notify the two Houses 
of Congress of my acceptance of the important 
trust which you have just notified me of, my 
elect ion as President of tin; United States, and 
say to them that it will bo my endeavor that 
l hey. and those who elected them, shall have no 
cause to regret their action. 
Also the following from Mr. Colfax: 
Oentmimen: — Please convey to the Houses of 
Congress my acceptance of the office to which I 
ha e been elected by the people of the United 
: Rites, and assure them that 1 shall endeavor to 
prove worthy of tin-, mark of confidence by 
fidelity to principle and duty, 
fu the House, Mr. Brooks, on a question of 
privilege, moved to discharge without costs, 
Florence Scannell, the witness who is under 
urre-t for having refused to testify before the 
Uommiltce on Election Frauds. Mr. Brooks 
writ to the Clerk's desk the petition of Mr. 
Feanneil, setting forth that he was not tbo owner 
! uf a trottlng-horse, arid that he did own a dia¬ 
mond pin, but. did not like to pawn it. to get 
money to pay the costs charged against him, yet 
wn willing to deposit It in the United States 
Treasury. Mr. Covode made the point of order 
that the petition was not, respectful, and the 
Speaker sustained the point. Mr. Ward objected 
to Mr. Brooks being allowed to proceed, as ho 
had incorporated the disrespectful portion 111 
I, - apeech. The House sustained the objection, 
a;:d Mr. Brook-,' motion was laid on the table. 
The .Senate amendments to the joint resolu¬ 
tion relative io the suff rage amendments were 
taken from tho table. After some debate, the 
amendments were non-ooncuiTcd in, und a 
S t 'oininittee of Conference asked for. 
The acceptance of Gen. Grant anil Speaker 
I Colfax of offices of President and Vice-Presi¬ 
dent was reported by the Select Committee, and 
copies of (lie same letters sent to tho Senate 
were presented. 
1 r.u. in.- -The bill grunting lands to aid in the 
con -traction of the Green Bay and Lake Michi¬ 
gan Railroad was passed by the Senate; and also 
the bill authorizing the transfer of lands from 
the Union i’ueiflc It. It. to the Deliver City It. It. 
A committee of threowas appointed to make 
arrangements for the inauguration of President 
Grant. 
At the evening session ft bill removing politi¬ 
cal disabilities from a large number of persons, 
named in the bill, was discussed quite fully, and 
passed unanimously. 
In the evening session of the House the Inter¬ 
nal Revenue Bill wasdiseussed in the Committee 
ol'tho Whole, and as amended by it was passed 
by the House. 
Feu. IT. The Senate, after considerable de¬ 
bate, agreed with the Committee of Conference 
on tlto bill relating to the navy, which proposes 
a large reduction in the naval force and marine 
corps. 
The Committee on Public Buildings reported 
against the purchase of a new situ* for an Execu¬ 
tive Mansion. 
The Judiciary Committee submitted a report 
and resolut ion declaring that tho Amnesty Proc¬ 
lamation Issued on Christinas by President 
Johnson was not authorized by the Constitution 
and laws. 
A resolution was adopted calling upon the At¬ 
torney General to furnish a list of the persons 
convicted of violating tho Revenue Laws, the 
penalties attached to such convictions, and the 
number of pardons granted to such offenders. 
Tho message of the House asking for a Com¬ 
mittee ol Conference on the Suff rage .Amend¬ 
ment was taken up and debated at great length. 
Finally a motion to recede from tin* Senate 
amendments to the bill was agreed to. A mo¬ 
tion to agree to the House proposition was re¬ 
jected -yeas thirty-one, nays twenty-seven. 
The amendment reported from the Judiciary 
Committee was then taken up, amid much con¬ 
fusion, and Senator Nyo spoke in opposition to 
it. Tile debate was continued till midnight, 
when the report of the Judiciary Committee 
w;-s agreed to. it reads as fol lows: — “ The right 
of citizens of the United States to vote and hold 
office shall not be denied or abridged by the Uni¬ 
ted States orany State on account of raeo, color 
or previous condition of servitude.'' 
FjSB. 18.—In the Senate a bill was submitted 
from the Committee on Post-Offices intended to 
encourage the building ol’ steamships in the 
United States, and to establish an American line '• 
of steamers lo Europe. 
The House passed the bill supplemental to the 
National Banking Laws, which grants tho West 
and South the currency they have been asking 
for. 1 
Per. 10 —Tin: Army Appropriation bill was 1 
passed by the House. It con templates the re- ' 
duetion of the army to twenty regiments of ; 
infantry, live of cavalry and five of' artillery; 
and provides that no appointments to the staff ' 
departments shall be made until further action 
of Congress, 1 
The Sergeont-at-Arms was directed, at the re- 1 
quest of the New York Election Fraud Commit- 1 
tee, to arrest John II. Bell aad David W. Reeve, 1 
two recusant witnesses. 
The Committee of Conference on the bill to 1 
reduce the Navy and the Marine Corps submit¬ 
ted a report, which was agreed to. It provides 
for a gradual reduction of these corps by ab¬ 
sorption, 
In the Supreme Court on Monday, the 15th, 
Chief Justice Chase delivering the opinion, de¬ 
cided that gold contracts must be satisfied with 
coin. Where the kind of currency is not men¬ 
tioned, then legal tenders are as lawful in such 
eouueotion. Messrs. 1 )uvis and Swaine gave then- 
qualified consent, but Mr. Miller dissented in 1 
great measure from the opinion. 
, j It is reported that Reverdy Johnson will avail 
g-;. himself of a leave of absence, granted by Sec- ' 
“n rotary Seward, and shortly return to this coun- * 
try. 1 
Hp A Washington correspondent says that t he only i 
large payments to be made front the Treasury 
X p this month are on pension accounts, and that the t 
m, receipts will reduce the public debt about $10,- ] 
000.000. On the first of next month there will be i 
M) paid $4,500,000 interest on ten-forties. This will l 
rft be the only heavy payment out of the Treasury 
lyrr until the first of May. 
The President elect having sent a copy of “Ba- c 
the judge read 
several extracts from the Bible, and closed by 
instructing the jury to teach this country that 
' they must not make distinct ions on account of 
color. The Jury brought in a verdict of $1 000 
’ damage* for plaintiff. 
North Carolina. 
The State* Auditor, Mr. Adams, has been com¬ 
mitted to jail at Raleigh for having refused to 
obey an order of the Supreme Court directing 
i him to remove hmpapers from the Clerk’s office. 
President Johnson ha* been invited to deliver 
the mutual oration at the next Commencement 
of Davidson College. 
Louisiana. 
A dispatch from New Orleans reports the 
burning of t he steamboat Nellie Stevens on the 
night of the 11th. She had a large number of 
passengers on board, sixty-three of whom lost 
their lives. The survivors, forty-three in num¬ 
ber, were taken to Jefferson, Texas. The steam¬ 
boat and her cargo arc a total loss. 
Ten itcKKer, 
Gov. Browneow has sent in his resignation, 
to take effect on the 25th instant, that he may 
be in ltls scat in the Senate at the opening of the 
Fort y-ff fth Congress. 
A blacksmith named Ennis was shot In the 
head while at work in his shop In Memphis, on 
the night of tho ITtli lust. Frank Minroy has 
been arrested, charged with firing the shot, and 
held to bail in the sum of $10,000. 
Kentucky. 
JOHN W. Lee, a respectable citizen of Lexing¬ 
ton, Ky.. on the 16t.li ilist-, while temporarily de¬ 
ranged, cut the throat ol’ his wile with a razor 
and then cut his own throat. Both are dead. 
Mr. Leo had been sick for a long time. 
A Kentucky paper reports that Gen. Preston 
recently asserted that he ran for the Legisla¬ 
ture l’or the purpose of testing the Fourteenth 
Amendment that ho desired to be arrested and 
tried under it. 
A few evenings sinceJno. Thompson. City Mar¬ 
shal ol’ Covington, arrested a man for high¬ 
way robbery committed In the suburbs of the 
city a few hours before. The man surrendered 
quietly, but while on the way to jail suddenly^ 
drew a revolver and shot the Marshal in the ab¬ 
domen and made his escape. 
Ohio. 
In Cleveland, on Saturday, the 13th, a work¬ 
man of one of the oil refineries went down into 
an oil tank for the purpose of making some re¬ 
pairs, Ho was overcome by noxious gases and 
fell insensible to the bottom. Another work¬ 
man went to his rescue, but was also overcome 
by the gas, as was also a third and a fourth work¬ 
man. The men were finally got out alive, and 
although much prostrated, it is thought they 
will survive. 
Ai Cincinnati recently the railroad compan¬ 
ies got up a lively competition in the prices 
charged for carrying freight., which resulted in 
a reduction ol’ their rates nearly one half. This 
was found to be too expensive, and a compro¬ 
mise had been effected, whereby a new schedule 
of freight charges goes into immediate effect. 
Two old ladies living near Unionport, on a 
piece of laud which they owned, were taken 
suddenly sick a little time ago, and one of them 
died. Examination showed that the had been 
poisoned. The man who managed their farm is 
suspected of having committed the murder. 
The stockholders ol’ the Cincinnati, Hamilton 
and Dayton Railroad on the 18th, by a \ nte of 
five to one. ratified its lease to the Atlantic and 
Great Western Railroad. This lease conveys uLJ 
the roads con trolled by the Cincinnati, Hamilton 
and Dayton Road. 
Indiana. 
John W. Vannatta has been arrested at Fort 
Wayne, charged with having caused the death 
of Iris wife’s sister. It Is stated that in April 
last Vannatta was married to a Miss Horn, in 
opposit ion to t he wishes of her parents. On the 
night of the wedding all the guests assembled 
were taken sick after partaking of refresh¬ 
ments. and the sister of the bride died in conse¬ 
quence. Recently Vannatta proposed to elope 
with another young lady, and in one of bis let¬ 
ters to her confessed that he had poisoned the 
coffee served to his wedding guests. 
As the steamer Glendale was passing Green 
River Island, near EvunsWllo.cn Thursday the 
18th, fire was discovered itl her pilot-house. The 
passengers were landed, and the crew by vigor¬ 
ous efforts succeeded in exUnguishing the flames. 
The destruction of the pilot-house was the 
amount of the loss. Great coolness was ex¬ 
hibited by the officers of the steamer. 
Illinois. 
A SCOT is now being tried in Chicago involving 
property valued at $1,500,000. Carl Gottfried 
Uhlich died intestate some time since, directing 
$50,000 to be paid to his eldest, son, Henry, with 
w bom he had previously quarreled, and a month¬ 
ly allowance to his second son, who was of weak 
intellect. The remainder he directed should be 
divided between bis youngest son and a man 
named Muhlke. Henry sued to recover from 
Mu hike, alleging that he exercised undue in¬ 
fluence over the deceased. The ease attracts 
much attention in Chicago. 
Three men wore arrested at Odin on Friday 
night, the 12th, while attempting to rob the 
mail. Several mail bags have recently been 
stolen while on their way to Cairo, and post- 
office detectives traced the robbery to Otlln. 
where the mail is trans-ferred from one train to 1 
another. On Friday night, while they were 
watching, three men came up and attempted to i 
carry off some boxes. The detectives attempted 1 
live near St. Louis, went to the city on business, 
leaving their little boy eight years of age nt 
home witli tin* hired man. On their return they 
found their house had been robbed, and a short 
search revealed the dead body of the boy. cov¬ 
ered up undent pile of corn and a couple of saoks 
of wheat. He had boon smothered to death. His 
lmndsand l'eel. had been tied, and the wheat then 
thrown over him. The hired man la missing, and 
is supposed to be the thief and murderer. 
Senator Morgan of New York obtained n judg¬ 
ment in the Circuit Courted St. Louis, on the 
13th, against G. \V. Thatcher, for $37,800. 
On Monday morning the 15th a mob went to the 
Jefferson County Juil and took therefrom two 
men, who were Imprisoned on a charge of mur¬ 
der, and hung them. The names of the victims 
of lynch law were Charles Bigford and James 
Quick. 
The funeral of Sol. Smith, the veteran actor, 
who died on the 14th, took place at St. Louis on 
the 16th, and was largely attended by prominent 
citizens of that city. Seven sons of the deceased 
were present and acted as pall bearers, by his 
special request made previous to his death. 
Knnsair. 
Thu State Senate, <m Wednesday the 17th, re¬ 
jected the proposition to strike the word 
“ white ” from the State Constitution. The vote 
was yeas fourteen nays seventeen, three Sena¬ 
tors voting in the negative, because the bill did 
not also strike out the word male. 
Nebraska. 
A no rt between bands of Blaclcfeet and Crow 
Indians took place recently at the Big Timber, 
on the Yellowstone River, in which a number 
were killed and wounded on each side. 
The Nebraska Senate on tho 17th passed the 
House bill giving twenty thousand acres of land 
for the construction of every mile of railroad 
track within the State boundaries. 
California. 
Late San Francisco telegrams give the follow¬ 
ing: 
The United States sloop-of-wav Jamestown 
has arrived in the San Francisco harbor, from 
Mare Island, having been throughly overhauled 
for a cruise on the South Pacific coast. She car¬ 
ries a battery of sixteen guns, and lias a crew of 
one hundred and fifty officers and men, as well 
as a fine marine guard. 
The United States steamer Lincoln is fitting 
out for a cruise in the North Pacific, having 
been .substituted in place of the Wyandotte, 
which vessel is unsuited for duty on tiie Alaska 
coast. 
Mount Diablo and tho coast range of moun¬ 
tains iu the vicinity of San Francisco have been 
covered with snow lor several days. The trains 
on the Central Pacific Railroad are delayed in 
the Sierra Nevada Mountains by oue of the most 
terrific snow-storms known to that region. The 
since. It was voted to ascertain euch person's 
loss by the Jate flood, and also to apply to the 
next Legislature for liberty to issue bonds for 
rebuilding the Kohanza dams and paying the 
damages. The total loss will be but $80,000. 
New Jersey, 
The National Association of Jersey City, 
among whose members are many prominent citi¬ 
zens, ga ve a supper at No. 146 Newark avenue, in 
honor of the birthday qf Abraham Lincoln, op 
the evening of Friflky the mf». The Lincoln 
Association also observed the day By a supper tit 
Cooper’s Hall. 
A special meeting of the trustees of Princeton 
College was field on the 16t h to adopt measures 
to increase the efficiency of the college. Several 
new departments of instruction were resolved 
upon, and the elective system, to a limited ex¬ 
tent, is to be adopted, but when students choose 
their studies the st udies will be obligatory upon 
them. Dr. MeCosli, in addition to his duties us 
President, will rake an active part in the educa¬ 
tional department, and a re-adjustment of the 
duties of. the several Professors will be made. 
Pennsylvania. 
Gov. Geary has recalled the death warrants 
Issued by him for the execution of Wm. Brooks 
and Charles Onne, for the murder of Theodore 
Brodhcad, a writ of error in their eases having 
been granted. 
I ii November last, a freight train on the Lehigh 
and Susquehanna Railroad was 
going up a steep 
grade, when a coupling broke, and three or four 
of tho rear cars commenced to descend the grade 
at a frightful rate. The brakeman of the rear 
car became alarmed, and instead of applying the 
brake, leaped from the ear. Tho cars ran back 
until they came in collision with another train, 
whereby several persons wens kilied. 11 ami!ton, 
Hu brakeman, has just, been convicted under the 
laws of Pennsylvania nf neglect of duty, and 
sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for 
thirteen months. 
A meeting of prominent manufacturers and 
miners was held in Philadelphia on the 17th, and 
it was resolved to organize a National League 
for the protection of our manufacturers. 
Virginia. 
Under instructions from tho United States 
Attorney-General a nolle prosequi has been en¬ 
tered, at Richmond, in the oases of Jefferson 
Davis and thirty-eight other persons indicted 
for treason. Among those persons are William 
Smith Seldon, Breckinridge, Longstroet, Early, 
Ewell and Faulkner. The securities of Davis 
are released from their bond. This action is the 
result of the last proclamation of amnesty. 
Tlie United States steamer Delaware, which 
was sunk in 1861 by the side of the United States 
man-of-war Columbus, in tho southern branch 
of the Elizabeth River, near Norfolk, is now 
being sheathed, preparatory to being raised. 
The little blind musical prodigy, Willie Coff¬ 
man, whose performances on the piano hate 
excited the wonder of the many who have wit¬ 
nessed them, died in Richmond, at Ford’s Hotel, 
Friday night, the 12th, aged three years. He 
performed in Pittsburgh Thursday evening, and 
seemed in his usual health, but was taken with 
convulsions in the train Friday while en route to 
Richmond, where he was to have given another 
exhibition of Iris wonderful gift. He was born 
