Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-06
UNCERTAINTY OF OFFICIAL STA
TIONSs
RemovnIs nnd APPOINTMENTS.

Removals and Appointments.
The old adage that uneasy is the head
| that wears the crown, is no more a tr1ism
| in our day than is, uncertain is the seat
| occupied by official incumbent. This has
| had a practical illustration or rather a
number of them in our midst recently.
| In the vast executive and official patronage
| which is used indiscriminately for political
purposes of the present regime, appoint
ment has superseded appointment to Off
cial station throughout the. country. In
| this city and section there has been quite
a shaking and a quaking among incum-
bents. For alength of time past rumOrs and
| reports of removals and appointments by
the hundred have been circulated and
| discussed upon the streets and thousands
| of interrogatiOns of the same sort have
| flashed to and from Washington by day
| and night. Hitherto these have in the
! main turned out to be unfounded in fact
yet the excitement kept the occupants OF
official station all the time squirting
They knew that the clack of decapitatiOn
was ready and the political guillotine sll
| the time working, and they knew no
what hour might send their heads rolling
| into the basket
Along with the advance of spring and
summer this nettlesome squirming became
more intensified and uneasy. In fact there
were better grounds. A few days since re-
ports were freely circulated concerning
| certain removals. Subsequent events show
that there were good grounds for the same.
On Wednesday intelligence of almost an
L unquestiSnable character was received to
I the effect that DIR. T. w. Sparkling, Rev
| enue Assessor for this district, and Joseph
Blackburn, United States Marshal, had
both been removed. The intelligence was
fully confirmed yesterday, Mr.. Blackburn
has but a short time been the United
States Marshal here, having been inducted
| into Office less than two months since.
Without entering into the causes of his
taking of, alleged or real, we advert to his
sudden suppression as among the local
| events of the times. As to who will be
| the successor of Mr.. Blackburn is fully set
tied by the following telegram received
yesterday:
| WASHINGTON, May $50 Enos Hop
kins.-Gen. T. j. Harrison has been nomi-
mated and confirmed United States Marshal,
vice Blackburn, removed. PRossER-
Gen. I. j. Harris IN is from Indiana, and
was a Brigadier General in the Federal
| army in the department of the Southwest
| during the war. In the State whence he
came he bears an irreproachable character
| for integrity, etc. He won a good reputa-
ton in the army as gallant officer and
heightened gentleman. Since the war he
has been a resident of this State, having
| located at Testers, near Pulaski, in Giles
| county, where he has been actively engaged
| in industrial pursuits as an energetic man
| of business. We presume that he will
| take charge of and assume the duties of
the Office at once, as its duties, especially
at this time, are important and almost i'm
perative.
Though it has not been authoritatively
announced as to who will be the successor
Of DR.. Sparkling, the conviction appears to
be pretty well settled that DIR. d. B. Cliffe,
| of Franklin, is, or will be the man. This
| conviction seems to be fortified by the
fact of the Doctors presence in the
city, he having registered at the Maxwell
Honse on Wednesday night. DIR. Cliffe
was at one time Receiver of the Nashville
| and Northwestern Railroad, and is quite
well known by our readers
Meantime, though they take things and
| appearances complacently and serenely,
the positions of other official ineumbents
are, we infer, by no means secure, and We
know not who may next be thrown over
board Of one thing they are all pretty
well convinced, and that is that Govern
ment offices are ''monstrous uncertain.