Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-06

home, by taking due care that their con-
stituents shall get fairs hare ofthe little
things remaining to be divided out.
We will wager a new hat that the Vir-
ginia members mentioned above, as well
as Senator Brodhead, are solemnly i'm
pressed with the idea that there is little
Justice in the demand of the office-seeking
tribe from the new States. that hereafter
no one from an old State shah be appoint
ed to place until {" the party" in their re-
gion shall have obtained per rata share
of federal offices. The Virginia doctrine,
ION Pennsylvania avenue contends that
new States are entitled only to share in
the appointments made subsequent to
their admission into the Union. This
reading Of the spoils doctrine would give
California, for instance, but pro rata
number of the places uaodted BY the re-
morals made by the present Administra-
| tion.
Col. SAM MEDARY.-This new Ohio
plenipotentiary has not entertained the
idea of declining his mission, though mod
esty induced him to refrain from forward
ing his acceptance in advance of his recent
visit to Washington. The Colonel designs
going abroad in the fall. Not until then
however.
New APPOINTMENTS IN WASHINGTON
Mr.. Charles E. Peasants, of Arkansas,
has been appointed to first class clerk
ship in the LIST Auditors Office, vice Joseph
c. Perry, resigned.
Mr.. F. K. Dunlap, son of Judge Dun
lap, of the United States District Court
for this district, has also been appointed
to similar clerkship in the I'd Comptrol-
ler's office.
Mr.. William N. Barker has been ap-
pointed to 5000 clerkship LIST Glass; in
the office of the Secretary of the Trea-
sury.
Messrs. P. McGill and j. O. Rowland,
have been appointed to temporary clerk
ships in the Patent Office, and Messrs.
Charles B. Moss, William Read, and Will
liam A. Hacker, have been transferred
from temporary clerkships in the same
bureau, to permanent places therein.
They are at present doing duty as assis-
tant examiners.
New DISTANT MISUNDERSTANDING
John Kahn of Indianapolis has been ap-
pointed route agent upon the Madison
indianapolis and Terre Haute railroad
The Captain occupied seaton the mourn
ers bench after the decision of the question
who should be the new Postmaster at
IndianannIiS- Hn ,-na fs-.--~-ly p. NJ.
there, and was urged strongly for re-
appointment. Lucky man is Captain
Kahn, thus so soon to find consolation for
his recent disappointment.
| JUDGE SrRANGE.-Judge Strange, of n.
e., who was, if he is not at present, a
candidate for foreign mission, is in
Washington, on his way North. His
many friends at home and elsewhere will
be glad to learn that he looks exceedingly
we'll. He is not at present urging his
claims for office, on the Administration.
POSTAL TREATY AMENDMENT.--The
postal treaty between England and the
United States, of December Is, 1913, has
just been amended between w. L. Maber-
ly, Esq, commissioner on the part of the
British Post Office Department, and our
fellow citizen, Horatio King, Esq, on our
behalf, by agreeing to supplemental
clauses reducing the postage on newspa-
pers prepayment required) from the
United States to St. Thomas and other
Danish Islands, going by United States
packets to Kingston, to eighteen cents un-
der $500 miles, and to twenty-eight cents
over that distance
The NEW SURVEYOR GENERAL. OF Or
EGoN.-Our fellow citizen, Col. Charles
X. Gardiner, recently appointed Surveyor
General of Oregon, starts for the scene of
his duties, via. the Panama route, on the
9Th of August. He will be accompanied
by his two sons, Mr.. Charles Gardiner,
and MIR. Clinton Gardiner. The latter
has served four years as surveyor under
Major Emory, U. S. A
! HE NEW POSTAGE ENvELOPEs-Mr.
George Nesbitt, of New York, the con-