Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-05
From Washington.

- WASHINGTON, March ~.
The following persons were confirmed &c
might: L. Q. Chittenden, Register Of tn
r Treasury; D. K. Cartier, Minister to Bolivia
a F. Hausareck, Minister to Decatur.
Officers for Nevada Geo. Turrey, Chic
I Justice G. N. Mottand H. Jones, Associates
: d. B. Bates, Marshal B. B. Barker, Attor
ney; y. Clemens, Secretary j. Wentworth
Surveyor.
Officers for Dacotah-w. Jayne, Governor
L. 3. Bliss, Chief Justice; L. O. Williston
: and A. A. Burton, Associates II. N. Vail
: Attorney; w. A. Sharpe, Marshal; G. ID.
Hill, Surveyor; ]. Hutchinson, Secretary ;
Officers for Nebraska-Alvin Saunders,
Governor; W. P. Kelly, Chief Justice ;
IS. Millison, Associate.
i Officers for Colorado o-Chas. Seymour.
Associate Justice; G. Townsend, Marshal i:
L. b. Edwards, Attorney.
The FOLLOWING were confirmed in the Pat.
ent Office: D. P. Holloway, Commissioner :;
-: NJ: Hodges, G. II. Harding and L. o.
Theaker, Examiners in Chief
Tho following persons were confirmed: W,
d. Ocrwin, Secretary of Legation to Mexico
G. ". Y.n Horne, Co1su. to iasfseiiles; j.
Leslie, Consul to Lyons; W. II. Carpenter,
Consul to Foo Choo; R. NJ. Shuieldt, Consul
General at Havana; W. P. Mcguire, Consul
at Ningpo; ]. V. Arnold, Consul at Odessa
L. 3. Lawrence, Consul General ut Florence;
n. Howard, Consul at Hessina; R. G. Parsons,
Consul at RE Janeiro; W. Il. Fry, Secretary
of Legation to Turin. Collectors Of Customs
"a. Barney, New York; ]. White, Chicago
p. Palmer, Milwaukee; J. Heron, Dubuque.
". A. Dart, Marshal Of the Southern District
of New York.
The following Postmasters were confirmed:
K. f. Sanders, Memphis; Geo. Dawson, AL
bany; A. N. Olapp, Buffalo; j. N. Sternitt,
Erie; ,. L. Linegar, Cairo; S. Tindale,
Belleville.
Geo. G. Bestor vss confirmed Postmaster
of Peoria, and Clark Carr of Galesburg.
New York, March %.
A special dispatch to the Commercial says
tho President has appointed Carl schurs
Minister to Spain in place of Cassius M.
Clay, who has willing gly consented to be
transferred to Rassia.
Special dispatches also state that James
l.. Harvey, Washington correspondent of
the Philadelphia North american and N. Y.
tribune, has been nominated Minister to |
Portugal.
Thomas A. Jackson has been appointed |
Chief Engineer in the navy, and a number
OF army and other conGrmatiens, including
Maj. Day to the Lieutenant-C Colonelcy, vice |
Abercrombie, promoted to the Colonelcy,
were made.
The Washington correspondent of the
Tribune says orders were sent on the 18th to |
land the 400 troops on board the Brooklyn
and reinforce Fort Pickens. No intelligence
of the execution Of the order has yet
reached the Government, as all communica-
ton by mail and telegraph is cut off by the
Secessionists.
The correspondent also states that orders
were sent ten days ago to retain portion of
the dispersed troops in Texas subject to the
order Of Gov. Houston in REFRESHING any
attempt to overthrow the State authority.
Further intelligence from that quarter was
looked for anxiously.
WASHINGTON, March %.
The Senate, to-day, confirmed Carl Schurz
Minister to Spain; Jas. S. Pike, Minister
resident at Havre; @. NJ. Clsy, Minister to
Russia; R. N. Palmer, Minister to the Ar
gentine Republic; j. E. Harvey, Minister to
PORTUGAL G. 0. Flagg, Minister to Switzer-
land; A. B. Dickinson, Minister to Nicaragua;
3. Jordan, Solicitor of the Treasury; 3. F.
Sherwood, Engineer-in-C Chief OF the Navy
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Southern District, Alabama; Edwin c. Law
end, Attorney for Illinois; Herman Cox,
Attorney, and +. R. Glasscock, Marshal,
Middle District, Tennessee; J. L. Collins,
of Indian Affairs, New Mex
leo; Purveyors of Customs, j. P. Anthony.
New Albany, Indiana, and H. F. Cooper,
Chattanooga, Tennessee; Thos McElrath,
Appraiser, New York.
The following Postmasters were confirmed:
J. L. Scripps, Chicago; Chas. Hail, Oshkosh;
A. P. Miller, Chillicshe; Q. S. Pyle, Mt.
Vernon; B. Bsteman, Minersville; W. F.
Comfy, Dayton: T. Q. AcEwan, Ssndusky.
No action was taken On the proposition to
submit the San Juan dispute to arbitration.
The subject goes over till next session.
Contrary to expectation, the President
made no nomination to fill the vacancy in
the Supreme Court.
Mr.. Archibald, late Engineering Chief of
the Navy, has received q dispatch from Mr..
Mallory, Offering him a similar position un-
der the Confederate States, which he
promptly declined.
No orders have been issued, or will be at
present, to land troops at Fort Pickens, and
statements to that effect are untrue.