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The T. S. Telegraph quotes the following paragraph, from the speech of Mir. stanbcrry, as the cause of the at tack made on NIT. S. by htr. Houston.

 '.Ihe superintendent of the Cumber- land Road is now tke only officer who has been suffered to continue in office after proofs of his transgressions had reached the President. Was the late Secretary of War removed in conse- quence of his attempt, fraudulently, to give Governor Houston the con tract for Indian rations? l derive my knowledge of this transaction not from the columns of the Telegraph. The whole affair was known to me at tue time it took place. The editor of the Telegraph gives himself too much cred it for defeating this attempted fraud. understood that 1t was in consequence ol the remonstrances of the delegate from Arkansas, that the contract was not completed. There is one fact, howey- CT, for which l ono indebted to the Tc- legraph; and that is, that the President had full knowledge of the business, and that it did not meet with his aisappro bation.o