New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-15
FROM WASHING TON.
NEw~YoRs STATE, AND THE SUBORDINATE AP-
PoTNTsENTs III THE HoUsE-TBE NEWSPAPER
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PRESS.
From Special Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Fee. 10, 1860.
| Thergh Ney-York has received none Of the
| elective appointments under the Eouse Organiza-
ton she has not been overlooked in the selection OF
subordinates.
Gel. Forney has wisely placed Gen. E. NJ. Sher-
of Utica in first-elass position at the Clerks
desk. Gen. S. has beea Chief Clerk of your AS.
sembly five years Or his eminent capacity 70, the
post there was never any question ameng political
friends OF opponents Speakers Raymond, Var
mum, Hocrtt, Pruyn, Littlejohn, and Robinson,
under w2lom he served, gave him an unqualified in
dOrsement for rare capacity. Whoever has seen
him in the desk at Albany has been struck with his
almost marvellous skill as the chief recording officer
of deliberative body. He is the author of a val
liable manual of parliamentary practice, as applied
in the Newly Ork Legislature. Gen. Sherman was
a member of the Assembly of 1857, and was placed
on the Committee of Ways and Means, and Com
merce and was Chairman OF " the Committee of
Sixteen" which was second in Importance Only to
the Assembly itself. Mr.. Speaker LittelOhn often
ntrusted the duties of the Chair TO Mr. Sherman,
in his absence. Precisely what place he will hold
under Col. FOrney, we do not know; but whatever
it may be, we are sure he will till it, Gen. Sherman
has been journalist for ten years having ence ed
tied The Utica Herald with marked ability.
Mr.. MarstOn, the DOorkeeper, has been liberal
toward New-York in bis app intments. Capt. n.
Darling who filed that post in the XXXIVth Con.
gress is now First Assistant. Capt. ID. was APP
pointed lieutenant in the I'd dragons by Gen.
Jackson. He served in all the Florida Indian
campaigns, and was appointed captain in 164I.
After his resignation he a delegate to the Balti-
more Convention from Louisiana, in lSie, and
voted in favor of the admission of the Barnburner
delegation from New-York, and against the Hunk
ers Born in New York, he returned to that State
in 1850, and was radical Democrat till the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise when he helped to or
ganize the Republican party, to which be has rem
dered valuable services.
Mr. Ira Goodenow another of Mr. Marstons ap-
pOintees, was an Assistant DOOrkeeper in the
XXXIVth Congress. He formerly belonged to the
police in New-YOrk City, and is now sound Re-
publican Of the metropolis. Mr.. MarstOn has also
placed two other New-Yorkers in good positions
viz, Messrs Coppernoll and Ensfeld. The latter
is O German. He has appointed another German
TO Office, and has thus emphatcally recognized that
important branch of the Republican organization
Of Mir. MarstOn himself it may MT be amiss to
say, for be has been misrepresented this point)
that, though he was formerly Democrat, yet he
was always hostile TO the extension of Slavery, and
has been tor some time a thorough Republican, and
was unquestionably removed from post in the
Treasury Department on that ground.
Mr.. Bridges, recently of The Chicago Journal,
who has been appointed Assistant Postmaster of
the House. il a quasi Rew-Yorker He was in
Quoted into the craft and mystery of printer in
the Office of The Montpelier Wdtchman !. received
his diploma in the Office of The albany Euening
Journal t; published and edited The BrOekpot
HGtehmdn from lS43 to lS48, since which he has
been engaged in journalism in Illinois, of whose
House Of Representatives be the Clerk in 1854.
Mr.. George A. Bassett of this city, has respon-
sible place in the Post-OHice Department. He was
the efficient Secretary of the Congressional Repub
Gcan Committee during the last Congress. His
present position s worthily bestowed
Mr.. John w. Jones is the Chief Messenger of
Col FOrney He was Assistant Door Keeper in
the XXXth and the XXXIVth Congresses He is
an active Republican of Ohio, aud rendered valu-
able services TO our friends here in the long and
bitter contest for Speaker. We believe he has been
connected with the Western press.
So, however, it may be with New-York, and
strict Republicanism in the elective offices of the
House, neither has been overlooked in the second.
airy places. The newspaper press has certainly
been literally recognized