The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-26
Our Washington Letter.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF TIE DAILY NEWS.
WASHINGTON, March %, 1867.

WASHINGTON, March %, 1867.
CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE AS DISPENSER OF OFFICES.
It came out In the Senate yesterday that tn
provision of the Bankruptcy Act directing tn
Chief Justice to nominate and the District Court
to appoint the Registers of Bankruptcy, does no
work as smoothly as the Radicals had hoped. u
fact it transpires that the Chief Justice is over
whelmed with applications for appointments unde
the Bill, both by letter and in person. Senator
SHERMAN stated in course of debate that he hat
forwarded fifty petitions OF this character hlmsel
TO Mr.. CHASE, the larger half of which he knew
nothing about, and readily conceived that the
Chief Justice would be no better oil IN endeaVor
ing to reach q decision. The proposition to trans
fer the appointing power directly to the District
Courts, and thus relieve the Ceief Justice OF any
hand in the patronage, was not entertained with
any favor by the majority of the Radical Senator's
and 1t seems likely that CHASE must reconcile HIM
self to discharging this new duty whether LIE VIII
or not.
Up to this time the applicants are mostly con.
fined to Southern districts, where it is supposed
that the Bankrupt Act will be most generally made
available. In many sections the fees Ct the Reg
| lister will amount to very pretty figure. In Ne"
Orleans, especially, the Office will be handsomely
profitable, and the race for it's incumbency has
grown to scramble nearly as general as that
which has pertained these six weeks to the United
States Marshalship for that District.
CHASE has been very non-committal upon the
subject up to this time, apparently awaiting some
cue upon which he could shape his recommends
tions with tolerabe certainty Of pleasing his Radl-
col masters. fev weeks ago he announced, in
the case of the Louisiana appointment, that he
should hold himself governed by the endorse
ments of the men who had been elected to the
United States Senate by the Southern State
egislatures-giying their preferences IN the
premises the same consideration they would
be entitled to, if actually admitted. But
the ruling was only made to open a way for
compliance with the recommendation Of Southern
Loyalist HAHN, who, in pushing the nomination OF
JACK HAMILTON, of Texas, for tho appointment OF
Bankrupt Register in New Orleans, claims to do 80
by virtue Of having been elected to the Senate and
still retaining his credentials to seat therein, be-
cause the State has not been represented in that
body since his assumed election. It Is not ct all
likely, however, that similar consideration would
be vouchsafed other Southern Senators, even
should they be of the Southern loyalst school, for
HAHN wields peculiar influences over the Chief
Justice, CHASE, which can only be derived from
long and conspirative intercourse.
~. t.i-5-. AN OLD STORY REVIVED.
Few people who have lead newspapers for half
doze1 years back will have much difficulty in call
ing to mind the nine days wonder1nent evoked in
New York early in the present decade, consequent
upon the ill-assorted union of the daughters Of 3
millionaire with her fathers coachnlan. Perhaps
the insanity Of such procedure has been. so
much on the increase Of late years. that it will be
necessary TO name the parties in order to refresh
remembrance Of the particular incident re-
ferred too. In the good old days when wars and
rumors of wars had failed to rock the continent
and being millionaire meant bank account
founded upon something more solid than YER
dant, treasurer Of greenbacks, Mr. BoKER, q
banker Of Gotham, lived on Madison Square, and
led the ton,, charioted by coachman named
DEAN. "This old man had daughter'-MNNIE
beautiful, accomplished, and sentimental.
The result was, that MINNIE loved her fathers
sswhip'-which, allow me to suggest, was equiva-
lent to skissing the rod and married him, only
to discover, as Madam DEAN, that the Bokerian
heart was adamant ind would never receive her
more And so the twain drifted ont into the depths
of flewer life, and society no longer scandalized
with the wretched story.
Now, after the lapse Of these long years, comes
areminder Of the forgotten pair, in the smilitudo
Of the wife, MINNIE DEAN. About month ago
the Samartans Of this capital had conveyed to the
Magdalen Asylum woman calling herself MARY
MILTON, who subsequently was known to be the
forgotten daughter of Mr.. Boxer, but sunk 80 low
in the scale Of deprayty as to turn the heart with
shudders. Of course the old, cid story-DEAN,
the coachman, disappointed at not being taken TO
the breast of his father-in-law and ted on tho
sweets of wealth for the rest Of his lowborn days.
abandoned his wife and disappeared from view;
and she, first cleaving to shame that bread might
come, has finally sunk to tho dregs. The father
has gone long ago. and the heritage Of his house
is sustained in another no less proud name
MINNIE DEAN herself has flown beyond the reach
Of her captors in the Asylum within the last few
days, and now figures in the advertisements Of
police records inviting, in humanity's name, her
return to the guardianship she has escaped.
There was but worn out remnant OF life re-
naming to her when she fed to the old haunts oil
wretchedness day or two ago, and its abandoned
tenement will not long avoid the "Potters Field, "
VrDEY