Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-19
FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, April 10.
GRANT AND II SENATE.
The Senate divided its time to-day II
executive session bstween the considera
ton Of the San Juan treaty and the dis
cussiOn of what q Radical Senator calleC
some OF President Grants most remark
able appointments. There was no resul
reached on the treaty, though many con
frmations were made. Several Senators
however, of the Radical persuasion tool
occasion to denounce in severe term
some OF the recent appointments, anC
the widest hammered who participated
in the debate were willing to admit tina
the President had been imposed upon
Cameron said that some of the foreign
appointments we're simply d~isgracsful
and others cited the nominations of Pile
and Russell Jones as unfit to be made.
COL. ELI PARKER.
The nomination really before the Sen
ate while the discussion was going on,
was that Of Col. Eli Parker, the Indian.
TO be Commissioner OF Indian Affairs
SINE Senators, Harlan, Ross and Thayel
among them, did not exactly approve o
the appointment nor the new policy re
! garding Indian matters that dictated it
however, he was confirmed.
4 THE RUssI AN AND MEXICAN MISSIONS
Cameron opposed Curtin for Minister
/ to Russia, but ii awaited nothing, for he
was confirmed, and so vas ThOs. Il. Mel
son, Of Indisns, for the Mexican mission.
The President sent to the Senate to-day
q brief list of nominations, the bulk OF
which were Internal Revenue appoint
ments.
WABsWoRTH's REWARD.
VIM. A. Wadsworth, OF Kentucky,
who Is nominated as q commissioner un-
der the new Mexican treaty to settle in
ternstional claims, is an ex-DemOcrstic
member Of Congress from that State, but
came out last summer in support OF
Grant. This commissionersaip is worth
three thousand dollars a year.
A REMARKABLE NOMINATION..
A. Il. MARYLAND, also OF Kentucky,
who is nominated Third Assistant POST
master General, Was a mail agent with
Grant while the latter was in command
of the Western armies, and was . john
son man in 1866. He attended the Phil
adeIphis Convention, anu was sdelegate
to the Cleveland Soldiers Convention.
A LUCKY CORRESPONDENT.
Ira N. Barrett, q Washington cores
pendent, Is on the list to-day rs Assist
AIT Secretary to the President to sien
land patents.
Ii PARAGUAY OUTRAGES.
The subcommittee OF the House For
eigu Affairs Committee was engaged to-
day 10 taking evidence regarding out
- on A nrarfnan nFFsnanu A., Darg.rpn-
AMI will report on the same Dext session.
THELEXINGroN DISTRICT.
For Assessor OF the Lexington District,
Hunt, vino was appointed, Is Withdrawn
from the Senate, and Pratt substituted.
There hes besn = great contest over this
place, and the lately defeated candidate
lures up al right, unless Grant should
Withdraw him tomorrow.
PERSONAL
Hon. J. B. Beck snd family ard Sem
ator McCrsery lefs for Kentucky on Mon
day.
THE KANSAS APPOINTMENTS
are ~displeasing to both Of tbs Senators
from that S5sta. The postmaster at
Lawrence, nominated Wednesday, was
rejected to-day st the instance OF Pome-
roy.
THE AURORA BCREALIs.
The observatory here took observa-
lions last night OF the great magnetic
storm which was visible for several hours
in the Eastern part Of the country. The
storm was fret heralded by telegraph
from the northwest, and moved SOUTH
ward at the rate OF q hundred miles
an hour. The telegraph line reported
its progress all the way from the north
eastern portion Of the continent IS far
south as Wilmington, N. @. At seven
pm. IL took possession of all the tsle-
graph lines leading out OF New York
city, 50 that 1t was impossible to WORK
the wires for half an hour. In two hours
from that time the magnetic waves or
flashes Of electric light, 50 to speak,
reached Washington. As the storm
passed on, the wires from Washington
10 Boston were taken possession OF by an
aUrOral current. The gsivsnic batteries
were removed from the line by the ope-
rstors, and toe telegraph w0s then work
ed from Washington 20 New York, aad
from New York TO BOston, without any
batteries Whatever. Dispatches were
sent TO the President with no other mo-
tive power than the magnetism which
came from the heavens.
DEFREEs.
John D. Defrees, late Congressional
Postmaster, authorizes q denial Of the
Associated Press dispatch that he ia to be
appointed Second Comptroller. and adds
that he is g candidate for no Office.
IN PROPORTION.
For thirty-ive positions In the gift Of
superintendent Rice, OF the Treasury
building, there have been three thousand
DISMISSAL.
OF the thirteen hundred clerks dis-
missed from the Third Auditors office
there are seven out Of eleven chiefs OF
divisions. The notifications were all
the 18th, and gave only five DAYS,
to be dismissed. The dismissals
embraced all grades, and included a con-
siderable number OF well known Repub-
Leans.
H HEBREWS.
Rabbi Sneershn, aecon panied by Pres
Samson, of Columbian College, has
had a lengthy interview, by appoint
nent, with the Secretary OF State, IN
to the condition Of the Jews In
he Holy Land. Tae Rabbi, who speaks
with dIency, has been a resident
Of Jerusalem for twenty-siZ years. He I
was eloquent in his appeal to the Secre-
larry for q more liberal construction of
our foreign policy rs applied to our con-
in sffording protection to the
[sraelltes n Zion, who are without q
national representation or Government
appeal to when opposed by the sur
'Ounding hostile tribes and nations. The
Secretary has promised to give the sub.
ect bis prompt attention.
wAsHBURNE's NOMINEES.
It appears that nearly ~seven-eiehths of
he diplomatic and consular appoint
nents sent to the Ssnate yesterdsy were
made by Secretary Fish cver the nros.
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