Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-05-18

MAY 1s, 1857
New York, N. Y........cool
Philadelphia, Pa......... cloud cool.
baltimore, Md. ......... CLOUDY. cool.
Washington, ID. C........ cloudy, cool
richmond, va. ....raning, cool.
petersburg, Va. cloudy, cool.
w llmngton, y. C....... cloudy, warm.
Columbia, :. C..........cloudy
Charleston, > C...--..... cloudy, warm.
SugusIa; ia. raining hard.
SaVannah, Ga cloudy, damp
macon Ud. raining.
columbus, ia cloudy, warm.
Montgomery, Ala. .clea-, warm.
Lower reach Tree, Ala. clear, pleasant.
The following reports have been furnished by
the National Telegraph line:
FROM THE WEST
rIedeIlGk Md -........-c cloudy, cool.
cumberland. Md clear cold
HaSerStown Md $1,000. cloudy cool
y" wheeling; va .....-.-..c clear, mild.
AT Washington Yesterday at o d. m the barome
ter was - 1Sl, thermometer SIS This morning
at O'Clock barometer 80 1S2 and rising; tbef
nonieter Is; wind fresh from NE.
/ The MARYLAND APPRAISERS. After the
Star went to press on Saturday last, it was de.
termlned In Cabinet council to appoint. as An
pralsers OF the Customs in Maryland, John
Baughman, Esq, editor of the Frederick CHI
zen, tor the State at large, and BeaIe H. Rich
ardson, Esq, editor of the Baltimore Repubii-
can, and David c. Springer, Esq, of Hartford
county, for the port of Baltimore They are
all three, eminently sensible well-informed and
excellent citizens, besides being gentlemen who
have served the Democratic party long and
faithfully, without turning to the right or to the
left. Better selections could not have been
made, either for the interests of the commerce
Of the State, for the Government, or for the
DpmOc 10 in
ment is still another earnest of the persistent
determination of the Administration to be gov
erned IN the distribution of its patronage by
rigid devotion to the public interest and sound
views of duty to the Democratic party.
Posi- OFFICE DEPARrMENr.-Nep Offices
decentralization, Galloway county, Ky,
Joseph n. Radford, Postmaster; Quindaro.
Leav0nworth county, Kansas Territory, Chas.
5. Parker, Postmaster; Shermansville, -
county, Kansas Territory (re-established), VIM.
o. DOnnall Postmaster; Walker, - county,
Kansas Territory, August Boridi, Postmaster
Glendale, Cas- county, Nebraska Territory
Waldo NJ. Tozier, Postmaster; McNeely's
Ridge, Washita county, Arkansas, Randolph
Brown, Postmaster; Lake Village, Chicot
county, Ark, Jos. W. Sherman, Postmaster
Cato, Rankin county, Miss, John Collision.
Postmaster; Pinetucky, Hancock county. Miss,
j. w. Winningham, Postmaster; Macksville.
Clarke county, Miss, s. T. Lowry, Postmaster:
Emory Creek, Choctaw county, Ala, Claiborne
S. Collins, Postmaster
HE CoLLECrORsHIP OF ALEXANDRIA, Va
month ago we took occasion to point out facts
to the readers Of the Star. showing the GER
tainty OF the eventual reappointmcnt of Edward
5. HOugh Esq, to the position, so satisfactorily
filled by him for the last four years 1t was
done on Saturday afternoon last, a few moments
after the Star went to press. In connection
with this appointment, we have to say that on
all mooted questions of the sort this Admins
tratiOn celebrates with great care and most
commendable solcitude, and. so far, in every
instance its conclusions have been eminentIy
wise, and satisfactory to the great mass of the
party in every community Immediately inter
csted in them.
The NAVAL ENGINEER BOARD-nOw in ses-
sion at lphia-expect to conclude their
labors as early as Wednesday evening next.
In all, twenty eight candidates for admission in