The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-03-16
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IMPORCANT FROM wA1HIMGTOH.
2umonS.-Gsonap-.App Etc.
NEw YoRK, March 1.-THE Worlds CORES.
pondent saws the question Of the nomination Of
n. Crittendcn to fill tho vacancy in the Supreme
Court 10 at last settled, by vote in the Cabinet
that it shall not be made.
Col. Ellsworth has been appointed Br. Lieut.
in the Army 49, i
quest of jeff Davis, has gone to Montgomery
| with the evident view to resume the same posi-
tion in the Southern army as.s 800 -.
| The Herald correspondence says in reply "a
dispatches putting the authorities on thef'
guard, that Gen. Bouregartle tclegraphs here to
day as follows: We are prepared at all points
| and defy them 70 reinforce Fort Sumter.
Senator Trumbull is severely denounced by
Illinois Republicans for urging his brother-in
| laws appointments rs Governor of Dacotah.
| The nomination of James Speed az post mastel
at Louisville gives a good deal of dissatisfaction
the friends of Mr.. Gallagher are especially chag
rined.
D. G. Rose will be appointed U. s. Marshal II
Indiana. m 9s [
John L. Scrpps post master at Chicago.
G. G. Jones postmaster at Terre Haute.
JIM. Stockton post master at Maysville, Ky,
John Corwin postmaster at Hamilton, o.
James Tynor, State elector, has been ap
pointed special mail agent for Indiana
Secretary Cameron will retain the present
| chief clerk, Mr.. Potts, for the present flSk
To-day w. Il. N. Cobb Of Tioga, Pa, was ap
| pointed disbursing clerk of the War department
Judge Edmonds of Michigan is prominen!
candidate for Commissioner Of the General Land
Office. 23as.
The Times correspondence says Secretary
| Cameron is understood to favor the policy Of
collecting the revenues outside of the ports after
| Secretary Chase shall have drawn acquisitions
upon the officers Of the seeding States, and they
| have refused to comply. Bii
| The French Minister called upon Mr. Seward
at the State Department to-day, and rendered
| the good services of his Government to mediate
| between the United States and Peru, relative &c
the difficulties growing out of the seizure of the
| ships Lizzie Thompson and Georgiana. Mr. Sew
ard received the order cordially, but of course
did not commit himself on the subject. All ar
bitration on the case was rejected by 1.-THE late
Administration. III
The Court in the Com Armstrong Court Mar
| tial case was organized this morning. Commo
| dore Stewart officiating as President; Coma
! Shubrick, Gregory, Stringham, Mervin, Pauld
| ing, +. Breeze, McClung, Jarvis, and Capts. Hull
| and Nicholson constitute the Court. Col. A. B
Magruder is Judge Advocate, and Phillip Phil
lips counsel for the defence
ia Tribune correspondence.
The nomination of Mr.. Corwin as Minister to
Mexico was quite unexpected to him, and was
not desired. 1t is only three days since he urged
| upon the President the selection of another per
| son as peculiarly fitted for this post. Mr.. Lin
coin nominated him without any conference
| whatever, and was influenced mainly by the de
sire to secure his services in carrying out the
| policy which Mr.. Corwin has advocated IN ard
out of Congress, as most desirable in our future
| commercial, political and diplomatic relations
| with that Republic. If he consents to accept
| that mission at all, which is yet undetermined
it will be for the purpose Of inducing Mexico to
| adopt this policy, and for no other reason. In
| this view the mission is now among the mos,
important in the whole service. The agents Of
jeff Davis are there endeavoring to obtain recog
| nitiOn :