Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-01-17

Washington Items.

Hon. James H. Campbell of Schuylkill
county, Pennsylvania, who was sent Minis
ter to Sweden by President Lincoln, was re-
Gently nominated to Il ministerial position at
Bogota, South America. The proceeding
excited some remark, but it is now explain
ed by the fact that Mr.. johnson wants Camp
bells place for certain John McGinnis, of
whom all that is known is that he is an OBJ
scurc contractor of Chicago, who made some
money during the wars that he is of the
Copperhead persuasion that he came here
with his wife, that they, John and wife,
were then invited TO "'swing round the cir
cle'' to Douglass grave and back that they
complied with the invitation with alacrity,
and that to the amusement OF everybody
John was subsequently, nominated Minister
to Stockholm. The last heard of him in
Washington is that he made anxious inqui-
ries in regard 10 the uniform of the Embas-
sailors at tine Swedish Court. But he is not
yet confirmed.
Leading New York merchants and bank
ers have sent letters to members of the Sem
ate Committee on Foreign Affairs, asking
that the appointment of Gen. Dix be con-
frmed as Minister to France The Commit
tee do not seem to he in any hurry.
The chair that President Lincoln occupied
in Ford's Theatre at the time OF his assassin
ton has been presented to Secretary Brown
ing, who has transferred il to the Museum Of
the Interior Department.
Last month the Treasury Department re-
deemed and Cancelled National Bank notes
amounting to $4,000.
Senators Thayer and Upton of Nebraska,
and Evans and Chaffcc of Colorado, will be
admitted to their seats within fortnight
Should the President veto the bills admitting
Colorado and Nebraska, they will be passed
by two-third vote,
They say AIR. Wade comes back from his
New Orleans trip with the firm conviction
that the South will adopt the Constitutional
Amendment, and in this opinion, some of
his associates on the trip agree heartily with
him. They think they saw indications of a
reaction IN the South against the President.
Prominent men who have trusted him begin
TO doubt his wisdom, and to think that he ia
bad adyiacr ior the Southern people, One
result Of the excursion unques,ionably Is To
incline the members who made il to give the
South One more chance to accept the Amend
ment,
The Committee OH tho New Orleans Riots
will not prepare their reports for several
weeks, the entire testimony not yet being
written out.
| Speaker ColiaXs first reception of the sea
son took place Thursday night. The tllrona
of visitors was very large and fashionable
Chief-Justice Chase, Senators and Represen
tatives, gentlemen Of the Foreign Legations
army and navy officers, and others of pro
minence, were among the guests,
Secretary McCulloch, in q recent CONVEX
sation with a gentleman Of this city, upon
the subject Of the finances, said that he re
GREETED to find the future prospects so unfa
yoable and forbidding. 1t was his earnes
desire to secure practical measures of reform
in this important matter, but his plans wer,
seriously INSTRUCTED by the political compli
cations that had been sprung upon the coun
try, and which threatened TO retard, if no
break up, the efforts which he might pu
forth,