The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-03-30
Washington Items.
Especial Dispatch TO the Cincinnati Gazette.

WASHINGTON, March 2l.
The chances for All adjournment of the Senate
to-day do not seem clear as yesterday
The President this morning intimated that he
could not let them go on Saturday, and doubted
very much if he would be ready for them to ad-
iourn even by the end Of next week.
The news of the nomination of John Sherman
as Senator from Ohio, was received here this
morning, and proved very gratifying to his
friends, who were congratulated on the Senate
floor prior to the hour of meeting
John A. Graham, of Iowa, has been appointed
Chief Clerk in the Registers office of the Treas
| ury Department., the salary of which is 81, 600
| per anRum. ..e
1t is understood the following appointments
have been determined on foi ST. Louis: Peter l..
Foy, of the Democrat, Postmaster; Henry Boer-
stein, Collector, and D. A. Rawlins, of the Po-
lice, Marshal for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Postmaster General Blair and Attorney Gen
eral Bates have got up the appointments for this
State. .n
The Postmaster at Madison, Florida, who has
| been using postage stamps other than those au-
| therized bv the Department, has addressed TO
| the Department AN explanation, saying that in
| the absence OF regular stamps and small change,
| he had issued number OF one and three cent
| checks, which, as used, were charged against
himself in favor of the Department. He ex-
| pressed great indignation at the suspicion of
| fraud on his part The present Third Assistant
Postmaster General replied to this letter to day,
| reading the Postmaster at Madison pretty Sc
we're lecture for the introduction OF uoauthorzed
| checks, and calling attention to the law, which
requires all postage to be prepaid by stamps.
! Secretary Chase sent all Collectors a revised
| copv Of the new tariff act, notifying them that
il p;,i 90 into operation on April first. IL is
nrdered M be published in those journals that do
Govern,,,en, advertising. The Government will
soon no in want Of funds to the amount OF six OF
eiubt millions am, it is understood the Treasury
| Department are now IN correspondence with
some New York capitali 's upon she SUBJECT.
is thought that Fifty dollar treasury nots, pear
ing six per cent interest, ant iit.
| bonds at par, will be the mode oi issuing snt
| new loan.
Applications for office continue to irour m
| Already the Treasury clerks have noted nd hieo
away for future reference thirty-two bush fis o
| well endorsed documents. 1t is useless for nnofs
than one hundred applicants per day to arriv'
| from the West At the Post Office Department
| 15,O ,OoO applca sons for office have already eeeI
| filed. The War Department employs three
clerks to note and file away applications
| IEx Governor Boutwell,, of Massachusetts,, ha
declined to accept the First ComptrolleIship
| the United States Treasury. -
| The Southern Volunteers of this city hav'
one hundred and fifty enrolled for service unde
| the Southern Confederay, and are in READINGS
/ to await their acceptance By President Davis =
/ Quite a number of applicants are here for tn
! PostmasteTship and Collectotship, OF Richmond
Virginia.
| Rufus King, of Wisconsin, was confirmed Il
day as Minister resident at Rome. One cler
from Mississippi has been appo inied in one {
i the Departments. John Nichol, Mr.. AcNisit all
| DR.. Hurley, the latter editor of the Democra
are here after the Nashville Post ice. Wn
L. Gaines has been appointed Post master
Frankfort, KY Judge Nelson, of In, tana,
now set down for the Brazilian Mission.
I A GREAT LUNiNARY ExTNsuIsHED.-.Th' .Th'
grand lurd and flaming Secession light, know
n,ortals AS OGILvIE Byron YOU'VE, the peerl II
orator, statesman, poet, and moralist--who sh,
atbwart the horizon of Missouri, a few month
ago, like some vast comet, Shaking from hi
horrid hair pestilence and war"--has suddenl
!, gone out in the murky darkness Of New Or
leans jail Those amazing ''powers" which wer
; meant for the "whole boundless continent" ar
ingloriously "put up within the narrow confne
of a Z by 9 cell, and bread and water furnishe
, the diet upon which this great Cesar feeds. An
: for what, do you thnk, dear readers For forgin
bit OF paper for the mere trife Of thirty dollar
to enable him to settle his little hotel bill, ft
II seems his landlord was so unmindful Of his p
triotic duty and 0GiLvIk's ETHEREAL genius, as
have put him upon the vulgar paying instead
the honored "dead head" list.) And thus tho
: fiery tones which set the Southern heart abla
!. and presaged wrath to Northern tyrsnts, al
: that soaring fancy which painted the glories
Secession. are, for the present, at least, lost
) the Confederates and to man. We may nc
T pause before that splendid pro dizzy, whose fros
!. terrified the glance its magnificsncs attracted
'-TCincinpsti Gazette.