Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-04-17
FROM WASEINGTON

= KUN WASh1NGiON.
In the absence ofother accounts, we must con-
tent ourselves with the glimmeiing and doubtful
lights which are sometimes furnished by the Coa-
ton prints and their correspondents iro, Washing
ton In laying them before our readers, they must
consult their own judgment, and take them for
sent them with the following extracts OF a letter
to the Editors of the Baltimore Chronicle I'VE
know that Of the Post Masters alluded to,
(South OF us) has removed himself; and that OF
course the new appointment is not made by re-
movai from the Postmaster General.
"WAsHINGro.;, April IL.
:" learn that the Postmaster General has daily
devoted himself since his arrival TO the concerns
OF his office; and that he has made some appoint
ments OF deputies, say in Portland Me. Raleigh,
N. c. Chambersburg, Pa. and Maysville, KY
The notion thai he was engaged in lieu Of his dis
tln9uished predecessor Tor the purposes OF indis-
crininae revolution, will prove groundicss.
" 1 understand MIR. Barry has adopted the rule
to commission no one while in attendance at the
Seat OF Government, preierriDg TO act upon writ.
ten representations tom the People, Interested
Immediately in the Offices to be ilcd rather than
the personal applications OF the candid ates them
selves. This is a wise determination, and will
make II impossible for any one to obtain, against
the opinion of his neighbours, place affecting the
convenience and business oil any community. The
mode OF application required will necessarily no.
tify every one entrusted, and allow the opportu-
nifty OF fair Canvass.
" In the course of the week past, Gen. Boyd,
late of the Army, was appointed n avail Offirer for
the Port OF Boston; and Major Henry Lee, OF Vir-
ginia, Consul General, TO reside at AigierS.
" Commodore Hull is now in this city and il is
said will take command Of the Navy Yard here.
Commodores Rodgers and Patterson OF the Board
OF Navy Commissioners are about to proceed 10
Pensacola, on business relating TO the Navy Yard
at that place. Mr.. Rush has made arrangements
TO go 20 England as ageut for the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company, 10 obtain funds for the pro-
secuton Of their work. Great confidence is en-
tertaned OF the success of his mission"
Another letter from Washington Of the 10th
from the Philadelphia u. States Gszettee (mark
another Coalition print,) states that " Yesterday,
commissions we're made out at the Treasury De-
partment for John p. Decatur as Collector Of
Portsmouth, N. III in the room Of Timothy Up.
ham, and Tor Judge Tbruston of Kentucky, az
Collector OF Key West, in the room Of William
Pinkney; and also for John p. Boyd for some sit
uation in the Custom House OF New York, it is
said Naval Officer, but this is probably mistake.
Some changes have also been made In the Post
Office Department, the Post Master at Maysville,
Kentucky, having been removed, aud also the
Post Master az Portland, Maine"
The remarks removals, and appointments,
and Messrs. Van Buren, aud Ingham, and Duff
Green, are conceived too much ia the spirit or
party TO deserve Republication.
Connecticut Eiccfion.--Tbe Columbian Regis
ter OF New Haven, which has been de yot,l TO the
cause OF the Coalition, expresses It's fears that but
Ingersoll, Barbour and Young, have been elected
TO Congress; and " that MesSrs Ellsworth, Hun
tng;on and Storrs, who were on the tickets sup
ported by the Federaists, have succeeded, TO the
exclusion Of Messrs. PLANT, Merwin and Phelps
We are under the impSc. lion, that Jackson
ticket was run upon iis own bottom: If 80, Mr.
Miles, the foremost on that ticket, has received in
SO towns, 2bli votes, while Ingerso had $3.50
and Huntington 4335.-- Parties have become so
mixed up in that country that we cannot precisely
ascertain the bearings Of The successful candidates;
that Is tosay, how Jar the republican and The three
federal members would go for or against, tic
present Administration. The Register says, in
deed, that Mr.. Storrs was FIRST nominated by il,c
Middletown Jackson Convention, and afterwards
put upon the federal ticket--then dropped by the
Times, one OF the Jackson papers, but supported
by the Herald, another Jackson paper, and by tic
federal papers generally. 1.-The Republican Can
didates for Governor, lieut.. Governor, Treasurer
Secretary, and Senators, aro all elected; and the
republican majority in the II. Of X. sbou, the
same as il was last year"
The 7driF-The Columbia Telescope Of the
10th inst. states, from information derived from
the best authOrify. that fhare ia atnonor Ar