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office of collector of internal revenue and as. sistant treasurer at New Orleans, and as to the measures which have been taken by the government to enforce the same. The records of the Attorney General's office show that Whittaker was tried for embezzling public moneys and found not guilty. The Secretary of the Treasury, in his letter in compliance with the resolution, says that a suit is now pending against him in his collection account for $11,182.06. The amount of the original deficit was $1,076,797.29, which has been reduced to $680,891.53. Herbert W. Otis, with four other men and one woman, has been arrested at Beston charged with being concerned in the removal of a safe from the house of Ephraim Otis in South Seituate, last Monday night, and robbing it of thirty thousand dollars in bonds. Herbert W. Otis is a nephew of the party robbed, and a member of the firm of Merrick, Billings & Otis, druggists, of Boston, a concern which recently failed. He is supposed to have concooted the plan of the robbery. The plunder has been recovered. The Pensacola and Louisville Railroad was sold yesterday under foreclosure, and was purchased by J. F. Sullivan, holder of the first mortgage, amounting to $600,000. He is the President of the Pensacola Railroad Company, to whom the franchise and property of the old Company have been transferred. The price paid was $50,000 for the road, and from ten to twenty-five cents per acre for the land owned by the Company. In Boston, yesterday, Judge Holt issued a decree allowing the receivers of the Mercantile Savings Bank to pay a dividend of 20 per cent. The Savings Bank commissioners ap plied for a restrictive order to the Bristol County Savings Bank of Taunton, to day, permitting the payment of 15 per cent. of the amount of deposits during the first six months and 15 per cent. during the second six months. The New York Coaching Club's coach TallyHo, from Philadelphia, reached New York yesterday evening, driving up in front of the Hotel Brunswiek at ten minutes to six o'clook.Fifth avenue was thronged with private cquipages, and over 2,500 persons greeted the arrival. On the route up Broadway and Fifth Avenue the coaching party were lustily cheered. O'Donovan Rosa. says the last raid on Canada was the ruin of Fenianism, and that to strike Eogland through Canada would do Ireland no good. He pronounces the stories from Buffalo of a contemplated raid without foundation. Gen. Thomas F. Bourke and other prominent leaders make like assertions. Chaplain Henry Ward Beecher of the Thirteenth New York Regiment, will appear in uniform and on horseback on Decoration day, and is to deliver an oration in Brooklyn. Next Sunday he will preach to the members of the regiment. Rev. W. D. Morgan, pastor of the 3d Bap. tist Church of North Stoughton, Conn., was thrown from a wagon early this morning and instantly killed. He was returning from a Masonic meeting. A fire at Lectonia, this mornning, destroyed thirty thousand dollars worth of property, consisting principally of machinery and stock of the Grafton Furnace Company and freight cars. Insured for fifteen thousand dollars. The Methodist Episcopal Conterence in ses. sion at Woodstock, Vermont, has expelled the Rev. E. D. Hopkins from the ministry and membership of the Church on account of the charges of forgeries brought against him. A dispatch from the Coast Survey party at the summit stations, Sierra, Nevada, to the Academy of Science of San Francisco, says the transit of Mercury was completely observed yesterday. Plymouth church last night resolved to turn over to the examining committee members who have been absent three years; which means that Mrs. Tilton is to be dropped. About 60 colored laborers of Washington have promised to go to Brazil to work on a railroad now being built there. They expect to sail from Philadelphia this week. Hard crabs sell for five cents a dozen at Annapolis. The indications are that soft crabs will be plentiful. Marshall & Co's. organ factory, in Milwaukee, Wis., was burned this morning. Loss, between $25,000 and $40,000. The celebrated race horse Leamington drop. ped dead yesterday, at Chestnut Hill, Pa.Leamington was 26 years old. Geo. K. Davis, real estate broker, Portland, Me., filed a petition in bankruptcy yesterday. His liabilities are $160,000. The municipal elections in North Carolina yesterday resulted generally in favor of the democrats. Dr. Chancellor has returned to Baltimore much benefitted by his recent Southern trip. Government Bonds. NEW YORK, May 7.-The Tribune says:-
