Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-12-14
Correspondence.
WASHINGTON Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, ID. G. Nov. y, 10

tics, learned and habituated IN mliltary
life, of keeping his intentions very close.
1t is said he has made up his mind whom
to nominate to the Senate for all the Cir
cult Judgeships to be appointed but he
cannot be induced to reveal who any OF
them are
1t is surmised that Gen. b. II. Loan
will be one of them because he has been
endorsed for the place by the Missouri
delegation. That is a better reason for
the hope than it would have been once
when the President first occupied the White
House but now even it does not render
the matter by any means certain.
The President, Tuesday, gave very
respectful hearing to deputaton of Jews
who presented a petition friendly com
munication from this Government to the
Government of Russia in behalf Of some
1900 Jews, Resident of Russia, who have
been expatrated from their homes in the
northern part of R1ssih, solely, as is al
legged, on account of their religion. The
President was free to say that it was too
late in the day to prosecute any one on ac-
count of condition, birth, creed or color.
He promised to give the matter a careful
consideration and to present 1t to the next
Cabinet mccting-just converting. The
matter was presented and it was agreed
that the Gar be interceded with,
John w. Marshall, Of Boundbrock, N.
j., has just been appointed First Asst
Postmaster General, vice Geo. Earle, re-
signed. Mr.. Marshall is a native Of Vir-
mia was a class-mate Of y. Nj. General
Creswell ia Dickinson College; afterward
was Professor of Greek and Latin there
was appointed early in Lincolns admins
tration Consul at Leeds, England.
J. M. Binckley-all know Buckley
has brought civil suit, laying damages
at $4,000, against Ex-Commissioner E.
A. Rollins of Internal Revenue, for the
letter the latter wrote to the President
requesting Binckley's dismissal from the
office of Solicitor of Internal Revenue
upon which request he was dismissed
The wonder Is that he doesn't also sue
Pres. Grant for dismissing him.
The Court of Claims opens next Monday
with a ponderous docket Of upwards O
300 cases, some of them hangers-on yeal
after year.
1t is rule of the Departments, in Sc
Letting female clerks to make it a sin,
qua non that the appointces be Dependent
upon DO one but themselves for their sup
port. THIS excludes wives who have hus
bands able to support them But nov
and then married woman gets smuggleC
in as single woman | am told Of ;
whole household conssting Of father
two daughters and their husbands whC
are employed in the Departments, thC
daughters passing as spinsters. But Thu
mode of getting money under false preten
ces is liable to little awkwardness OF
occasions. A female clerk in the Treasu
ry Department who passed herself off as
maiden. and Who made acquaintance will
her numerous official lady associates as
maiden, and who, by the way. is still sus
pected by many of them to be unmarried
was obliged to resign her situation thu
day, for domestic reasons, and before 90
ing deemed il advisable to allege that sh,
had all the time been married woman
Thos. Ii. Talbot, of Maine, is appointed
Asst Attorney General, viceT. j. Dickey
resigned. Mr.. Talbot has for year o
so been in charge of the business Of thu
Court of Claims, as a clerk of the Att,
Generals office, and is a good lawyer ans
arc able man.
Jos. w. Dryer, of Ohio, who has beer
for months past in specal charge of Su
pervisors' and Detectives business, ia tn,
bureau OF Internal Revenue, has Just beef
appointed Supervisor for the Northern
District of Ohio, vice Charles Hedges, de
ceased.
Little Alexander Delmar, who, some
how, was chief Of the statistical bureau
during the johnson administration, anc
whose figures, etc, Congress and the pres
made so much fun of, has purchased tn,
lnte1igencer T. Express, and says he viii
conduct it as an Independent journal. Il
will be a paper as is a paper, no doubt
The Freedman's Bureau has, / under
stand, almost entirely closed up all it,
vast operations and affairs. But one hos
pital remains, and that is in the Distric,
Of Columbia.
! This 'oixed;school question is still agi.
tating this community. The corporation
attorney has given an opinion in the case
of Sela Martins little daughter, to the
effect that, as the child was admitted by
the adequate authority of the ticket Of