Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-04-09
PoLfTICAL.

STATE OEBE4zkElHl1g the ehl0EAkl -
aL Larch there was paid of the State deHt
50, eg5
Having been Withdrawn as a Moses,
Andrew Johnson Will hereafter,
Ilntn further notice, appear M .'Catask
On urday g eneral Stg eRaan. iA
command in Virginia, removed Gov
ernOr Wells from Office, and assumed
the duties Of the goTeTnOrship himself.
A coIored woman has been appointed
to elerkship in the Treasury Depart
ment. The first instance of the kind
IN our history,
Postmaster-C1eslefal Cressweu has
appOinted his Iaw-partner, George
Earle, formerly clerk of Maryland
Court Of Appeals, to the Office OF First
Assistant POstmasterrG5eReFa4
The Ohio House Of Representative Is
by a strict party vote have refused 70
fatify the proposed Fifteenth Amend
ment to the Constitution All right.
Kentucky is with us United We
stand.
The economical Democrats Of the
New Jersey Legislature EaFe voted 10
Increase their individual pay $500 a
wear, allowing themselves $50 for post
age stamps. and $3.50 day for extra
sessions.
Some of the principal banks in New
York are going to change from the Ns'=
tiOnal to tie state system, on account
of the new law forbidding National
! Banks to certify checks in advance II
actual deposits.
Hon. Henry T. Dawes, member Of
( Congress, has declined the offer of Gov,
/ Ciafiin to give him seat on the bench
Ofthe Supreme Court ofdassachusetts,
left vacant by Judge Hoaf. q. 5. At
tOTDey-GeneTal.
Congress is expected to adjoufh to-
morrow, and the OHIO Legislature
within---zzIifbiiths
spfague has another chance Il pitth
into the laWyefs OF Congress, if he
wants to, with certainty Of having t he
laugh upon them, for the Senate went
and passed bill, the other day, allow
ing the Secretary Of the Treasury TO
anticipate the payment of the interest
Of the public debt, when there was a
statute In force already allowing tllIt
very thing,
The louisville Courier-JournaI is
indignant at Miss Van Lewis appoint
ment as POstnIistress of Richmond,
because t'slle was exceedingly unp0plI-
lar in Riehn1ond, on account of
her undisg8ised sympathy with he
Federal cause, and her constant and
notorious exeftiOns in the promotion
Of it. - What an outrage
{ Senator Spragae appears to have lI5l-
deFtalxen the difficult task of lectUr 6
the SenateaupOn it's sins of omission n
and commission, and of diseoE erin g
historical parallels to it's conduct. Iie
has already made three harangues, the
last of his obiurgations being deliver
ed on Monday. He has discovered a
strong resemblance between. the eN-
/ isting state of the country and the
times of Charles the First in England.
The National Republican of Wash
ingtOn saws that Senator Schurz,
in his maiden Senatorial effort, demon
strated the soundness of the reputation
as a popular orator he brought TO
/ Washington. No more ready or pun
gent debater has held a seat in the
1 Chamber in the last decade, nor any
more graceful or polished in the msJil-
ner of his elocutiOIi,"
The law fixing the pay of soldiers IN
the regular army at $16 per month eX-
pires June 1st. Both Senate and House
committees have agreed upon propO-
sion extending the present rate of pay
one year.
In letter declining to attend the
Baltimore reception of eX-PresideIt
Johnson, Secretary Seward said: Il
cordially thank the authorities for so
kindly remembering my association
with the great statesman of Tennessee
ton was gained, while the integrity of
theUnion was saved, and the COnstitu-
ton was not lost. " .a 81
General .Shermanis orders since he
assumed command of the army do not
appear to work well. The resembling
of the order directing staff officers and
heads of army bureaus tofeport to him
instead of to the Secretary of War, was
done by the President, at the solicita-
Ea-rar L
would rather resign than serve only as
an ornamental fgure-head.
WAsHINGToN,rM March 31.-The attefl-
tionof Secretary Boutwell, having bet n
called to a large. number of persons
now acting as Special Agent of the
Treasury Department, many of whom,
it was ascertained, were appointed ut
the instance of Ex- President johnson
for political considerations, it has bee n
determined to remove the force. IF
there are any who ought to be retained,
that fact win be developed when they
are again presented for cOntinuanc3.
Boutwell, is determined to
lop off all the worthless and inefficient
officers who have been pensioned upon
the Department for several years past.
The same course will be adopted re-
specting the CustOm-houses of the
particularly in New York, BOs-
ton, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
I'll. J. Maxwell, negro, has been APP
pointed postmaster for BennettsYille,
S. @. He is a very intelligent man, free
born, a native of Charleston, educate d
in the schools of the North; was conf
missary-se in the army of Ten
nessee during the War ofthe Rebellion;
has been engaged in teaching in his
native state since the war, and earn
estly laboring in the cause of recon-
struetions eloquentlY advocating the
rights of humanity, until he has not
only aided in restoring his state to her
practical relations in the Union, but
now sits in the senate of South Caro-
line as laWmaker under the new re-
giale This is the first appointment of
a black man. under President Grant s
administration and the fact that it
Wasmade by a M Maryl ylapderl Postmaster err
Cresswell) shows what a revo-
Iution has been achieved within the
asst eight years. Fr..-.f-