Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-03-29
APPOINTMENTS FOR NEW ENGLAND.
The Commissioner Of Patents Confirmed.


The Commissioner Of Patents Confirmed.
The President expressed his disappro-
baton at the appointment of an ultra Re-
publican as Mail Agent in Virginia, which
has created bad feeling there. The Pres
ident also says he will not sanction the
bestowal of patronage upon cliques, but he
desires to have all component parts of the
Republican party recognized.
The following appointments have been
made:
Nehemiah G.. Ordway of Concord, as
Special Agent of the Post Office Depart
ment for New England.
Martin G. Evarts, Postmaster at kut-
land, vt.
Joseph B. Upham as Collector, and jon
athan Dearborn as Naval officer, at Ports
mouth, N. H.
Mr.. Holloway's friends have succeeded
in securing his conformation as Commits
sioner of Patents.
Silas H. Hodges of Vermont is to be
Examiner in chief in the Patent Office.
TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Demonstration against Fort Pickens-Thc New
Loan-Trouble with Virginia Mail Agents
Northumberland Houston Predicts
Civil War In Texas and Alabama-yirginia
Secessionists Discouraged.
New York, March 26. The Herald
Washington correspondent says intelli-
gence has boon received from Montgom-
cry, that there will be five thousand troops
at Pensacola by the first of April.
There is prospect that every dollar of
the eight million loan advertised by Sec
rotary Chase, will be taken at fair rates.
The Postmaster General is experiencing
trouble from the new mail agents in Vir-
ginia, whom the people along the route
threaten to tar and feather.
Among the appointments sent into the
Senate to-day, are H. Winter Davis, Min
lister to Russia Richard Hildreth, Consul
to Tripoli; Mark Howard of Hartford,
Conn.,, Consul to Messina; VIM. Clapp Of
st. Adams, Collector at Burlington, VT
Secretary Chase has appointed Lucius
E. Chittcnden of Vermont as Register in
the Treasury department.
Messrs Hodges of Vermont, Harding
of Pennsylvania, and Theaker of Ohio
have been nominated for the board of APP
peals in the patent cases.
A gentleman from Texas states that hi
had a conversation with General Houston
few days since, when the latter said tina
civil war in Texas was inevitable anC
that Alabama will soon be involved in tn,
same dilemma.
A dispatch to the World says that tn,
; President has has received several appli
cations from Louisiana for Cadetships a
West Point.
.. The seccssionists in Virginia are begin
ming to despair Of passing direct seces
, sion ordinance and are urging the adop
ton of the Arkansas plan, to submit tn,
question of secession or cooperation to tn,
, people. The Union men are coniden
that secession will be voted down by ;
large majority. - altH
/ Governor Owens of Arizona, in reply t
/ the Texas Commissioners to New Mexic
f and Arizona to urge the formation of
} new Confederacy, invites them to be pres
! ent at the Convention in Messllla on tn
18th of March, to consider the crisis.
New York. March "a. The Herald
: Washington correspondent says the Presi
dent issued an order yesterday to Majo
r Anderson to put his command in READINGS
to evacuatc Fort Sumter on the arrival @
] war steamer. Col Lamon has been sen
, to Fort Sumter with an order that if an
attempt was made to prevent the evacua
| ton, Major Anderson should remain in tn
fort and open his batteries upon the city
9 1t is reported that a steamer has been sen
r by the secretary of the Navy to Fort Sum
: ter. Major Anderson is to salute his fla
and embark. RW@H f
s The Cabinet have dispatches from Lieut.
t Slemmer, at Fort Pickens, stating that h
0 is nearly out Of provisions, and that h
e must be supplied soon or he Shall have [