The New York herald., 1870-10-05
wAsHlNcToN
Rumored Important Changes
in the Cabinet.
General Walbridgo and Ben Wade
Named for Portfolios.
The Meeting OF the Cabinet
Yesterday.
THE CONDITION or THE CENSUS

THE CONDITION OF THE CENSUS.
WASHINGTON, Oct. A. 1870.
Meeting Of tho Cabinet.
All the members OF rhs Cabinet Messrs. Akerman
ana Cox excepted were present at the meeting to-
daY. The session was about two hours long. anu
business OF routine character only transacted.
Coming Cabinet Chunges--OId Ben Wnde,s
and General Hiram Walbridgo's Pros
pects.
Whether or not there Is anything moro than mere
talk Ia the reported inclination Of the President TO
bestow Cabinet honors upon General Hiram Wal
BRIDGE II Is certain that some friends of the veteran
politician OF New York have been working very
earnestly to accomplish something OF the kind for
their favorite. General Walbridgo, no doubt would
be nattered by tender OF some prominent Cabinet
position aud would accept cheerfully. Some OF his
friends declare even that such O tender has been
made indirectly, and that the General IA now
considering tue matter seriously. l do not
pretend 10 vouch for the truth OF tho
statement I only repeat what I hear
which, briefly Is this, that there is probability OF
three Cabinet officers Withdrawing at no distant
date-nameIy. Fish, Cox and Robeson--and that
WalDridge has been offered either the Navy or State
Department. Mr.. Fish, 1t Is known, long since de-
sired to retire from puplic life. but remained at the
urgent request OF President Grant Cox wishes, it
Is said to 60 TO Ss::.S :nd joval Robson bankers
for the delights OF an easy private life, Of yore.
The programme n1ed oy the Cabinet changers ls
tnat Ben Wade shall get the Interior walbrdge the
Navy And some one else not named the state De-
partment.
Bingham for Minister 20 Italy.
II is SAID John A. Bingham Is anxious TO represents
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strong men, and being great lover OF Italy and
student OF European matters, would make . good
Minister.
Consul at Nice.
william II. yesey OF the District OF Columbia has
been appointed United States Consul at Nice,
France.
1he Census-The Disappointment In Second
Class Cllies-Ths Census Honestly and Tao-
roughly Taken.
Complaints In regard to the manner in which the
census has been taken in different parts of The
country under investigation at the Census ONCE.
| The payments to assistant census marshals are
stopped In all where exist for supp0s.
| ing the work mas been Improperly or imperfecuy
performed. The cases where substantial
/ reasons for complaints are shown are
| not. however numerous. With the exception
| OF New YORK the almost universal disappointment
OF the larger cities has not led TO serious accusations
| OF negligence or unfairness Brooklyn and st.
| Louis exhibit an unexpected increase. Philadel-
phia every 70 be satisfied with the result.
| The marshal OF Maryland has not yet allowed the
| returns to be published. New Orleans and San
Francsco win come fully up every reasonable e.
| innate.
chicago, Boston and Cincinnati have had marshals
whose iahfulness aud efficiency could not be ques-
! toned. Al to New York, the controversy is re-
L u, H. So
orally believed that General Sharpe is likely 10 b
found as candid and honest the marshal who tool
| the census in 1880. Scarcely complaint has beer
made in regard TO the cities OF the second class
| Is mainly in cities OF the third or fourth clas
ana In smart towns which aspire 70 b,
cities that the greatest 1sappoptgspt y !et For
tunatcly these are te tas.A Isl ~hinh Gn n. ~aaiili
be investigated, and the question to the complete
ness OF the census Is generally settled a,
home without an appeal to the Census once.
In some cases volunteer committees OF citi.
gems have gone over the ground 9 second
tiiSS with the assistant marshals, until IL
was settled 10 their satisfaction whether the work
was or was not well dono. Very few complaints
have been recsivcd from the rural districts. In
few Instances snail portions OF the sparsely settled
Territories at the MOTH and West have been passed.
by in the enumeration aud IL has been found neces-
sary instruct the assistant marshals to return and
take them The Territories have almost
uniformly been promptly and thoroughly taken.
By the act or 1852 provision Ia made
for the remuneration OF the sections where the
census shall be found to have been improperly
taken. Generally It is found to be better to allow
supplementary returns TO be made. This Is partlcu-
larry the case IN the cities where families are now
returning from the sea shore and the country
Wherever IN
merate has been made the Census ONCE
has instructed the marshaIs not TO be innu-
ced by popular disappointment dissatisfaction
at the results. nasmuch the expectations formed
had been In so many cases shown TO be unfounded
ana unreasonable, but 10 make personal inyestlga-
tion INTO the facts before reporting.
Going Homo Ia V0te-A House Order Re-
yoixed.
in my dispatches some days ago there appeared
order from Judge Otto Chief Secretary or the In
terror, insructlng the heads OF bureaus to allow
clerks to go home and vote, deductng the time they
were absent from their usual thirty days. leave In
the year. This order gave considerable offence TO
the clerks, as such order had never been before
issued, and was not now In the other departments
and yesterday Judge Otto verbally notified the seve-
raj heads Of bureaus In MS department that the
order in relation to deductions for absence would not
he enforced. 1t Is said that this reracton Is made
in obedience TO an order from tho President upon
the circumstances being made known TO him by
Senator Cameron. 1t was evidently . very harsh
order, and the President has done perfectly right IN
directing Its prompt revocation.
Protection for Trade Marks.
But O small number or applications TO secure pro-
tecton for trade marks under the act or Congress
July s. 1870, have been made. although IT was be-
hcved at the time the law was passed that there
would be quito a rush for the Issuance Of snch pro-
lection. why this neglect on the part OF parties
using trade marks occurs Is somewhat surprising,
but IL IL supposed that tho character OF the law has
not to be generally understood, and that u
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