The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-03-15
WASHINGTON.

IsHERwooD TRYING TO BE RETAINED.
WASHINGTON March 23.-The friends of
Chief Engineer sherwood are making strong
efforts with the Senate to save him from the
removal asked by President Grant. His pros
poets OF retention are not brilliant.
PACIFIC RAILROAD DIRECTOR.
The new government director of the Union
Pacific Railroad is Gen. j. d. Webster of Till
nois, for many years in the engineer corps of
the army, and not Col Webster late Aide-de-
Camp to Gen. Grant, as stated in some of the
papers.
GEN. sIcKLEs TO GO TO MEXICO.
There is every reason to believe that Gen.
Daniel e. Sickels is to be nominated for the
Mexican mission. Gen. Grants first purpose
was to have given him command in the
South; but for some reason change has been
made in the programme.
THE MISSION TO HAYTI.
The colored people are earnestly pushing for
sent the United States in Hayti. Langston,
George T.. Downing, G. F. Cook and Fred
Douglass are spoken of in this connection.
ANDY's RETURN.
Ex-President johnson, who returned to the
city to-day, drove along the avenue this after
ator Patterson. They leave for Tennessee next
week.
RESERVATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Noah L. Jeffries, Register of the Treasury,
has resigned. 1t is stated that John Lawson,
Third Auditor of the Treasury, intends also to
resign. The Secretary of Interior has appoint
ed Col. A. f. Forbes as Pension Agent at Phil
adelphia, vice e. w. G. Greene, the former in
oumbent, who resigned at the close of the late
administration. The agencies at st. Louis
designations of Mr.. Egbert B. Brown and Mr.
VIM. B. Porter, have been filed, though their
successors have not TRANSFERRED.
Gen. Ames, who has been assigned to dnty
in command of the military district, will also
obtain the provisional governorship of Mssis-
sippi until Congress acts in the matter.
THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT
In accordance with the directions of Seere-
tary Boutwell,, lists were to-day prepared at
the Treasury department of the division of du-
ties in the various bureaus of the department,
number Of persons employed, salaries paid,
&c, in order that he may become fully &C.
quainted with the duties of the several officers,
the distribution of the force, &c. Postmaster
General Creswell has also had similar lists
prepared in his department.
APPOINTMENT OF WARDEN OF THE JAIL.
Gen. John S. Rocker was to-day appointed
Warden OF the Jail under the recent act of
Congress placing the appointment in the
hands OF the Supreme Court fer the District
of Columbia.
PEW RENDERED THE PRESIDENT.
AT O'Clock to-day one of the Trustees of
the new Metropolitan Church waited upon the
President and rendered him the pew assigned
him in the new church. This would have been
done before had the church been fully organ
lied. The interview was very pleasant
RECOMMENDATION OF CoLODED MAN FOR
OFFICE.
Gen. Butler to-day introduced to Secretary
Boutwell, colored man from New Orleans,
named Joubert, and recommended him for ap-
pointment as Assessor of Internal Revenue in
that city. Joubert said he did not desire the
Office from pecuniary considerations but mere
ly to test the disposition of the party in power
as to the rights of his race.
COLLECTOR OF NEW YORK.
1t is reported that Hon. John Fl. Clifford, of
Massachusetts, is to be Collector at the port OF
New York.
AN INVESTIGATION ORDERED.
A thorough investigation is about being or
dered into the accounts between the govern
ment and Southern railroads in the matter oil
rolling stock and material turned over to them
since the close of the war. ks
COMMISSIONERS OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAIL
ROAD.
The following appointments of Commission
ers of the Union Pacific railroad have been
made by the Secretary of the Interior: Isaac
n. Morris, of Illinois, vice Frank P. Blair, Jr.
Gen. G. r. Warren, vice Gen. N. b. Bufterd,
and Hon. James f. Wilson, of Iowa. vice Cor
nelius Wendall.
STATEMENT DENIED.
WASHINGTON, March 14.-There is authority
for the statement that the representation made
against the United States Minister at Madrid
which recently appeared in New York jour
nal, to the effect that our Minister does not
sympathize with the Republican movement in
Spain, is not confirmed by the official and
other correspondence of Mr. Hale
GEN. GRANT AT CHURCH.
President Grant and his family to-day Occu
pied pew set apart for them in the new Me
tropolitan Church, of which he is trustee.
GEORGIA.