The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-02-23
IN Washington, Feb. Ii

1919 Washington, Feb. IL.
) Gen. ]. M. Hedrick was to-day ap-
pointed supervisor of internal reve-
nue. for the District of Iowa, Nebras.
10, Colorado, Wyoming and New
Mexico, vice Willis Drummond, re-
signed.
r. G. Whitney was nominated to
the Senate to-day for Superintendent
Of Indian Affairs in California.
The following nominations Of post
masters were also made: John Mo-
Nicely, Petersburg, ILL.,; w. H. Nor
ton, st. Charles, Mo; A. H. Hamil-
ton, Ottumwa, Iowa; Charles Wier,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The party that sailed on the Ten
nessc for San Domingo comprised
ex-senator Benjamin +. Wade, Hon.
Andrew d. White, and DR.. s. G.
Howe, Commissioners; Allen A. Bur.
ton, Secretary Of the Commission;
Or. 9. 9. Parry, Department of Az.
ricnlture, botanist; II. r. Hit and
John Foley, stenographers; Prof.
Blake, of the State Dept, geologist;
ard I. F. Crane of the Cornell Uni
versity, private secretary to Presi.
dent White. In addition to these,
General Sigel, Capt. Henry Wade,
and Fred. Douglas and his son &C.
companied the expedition, though
not in any capacity. A number Of
newspaper mon also went with the
expedition, w. H. HurIburt, N. Y,
World; General A. V. Boynton, rep
resentative Of the New York Asso
ciated Press and tho Cincinnati Ga
sette. Homer J. Ramsdel, of the N.
Y. Tribune; @. G. Fulton, of the Bal
timore American; Arthur r. Shep-
herd, of the Washington Republican;
and Charles f. Hart of the New
York Standard.
Washington, Feb. 16.
Admiral Porter in conversation to-
day said that according to the course
she would have to 60, the Tennessee
would have to sail 2, 800 mics ere she
could DO heard from in the ordinary
course of events. It would take ten
days to reach SANTANA Bay. She
would remain in SANTANA five days.
II would take her two days to reach
San Domingo City, and five days
from the latter port to Havana. She
sailed on tho 10th, and would not
have much moro than got clear of
Sandy Hook on the first day. This
would bring hor to the 18th. Then
allowing ten days to SANTANA would
bring her to tho 9th. Five days IN
SANTANA would bring hor to the 1st
instant. Two days to San Domingo
City would DO tho Sd inst, and five
days to Havana would DO tho 9Th in
slant. She had to cross the Gulf
stream diagonally against a four-mile
current, which would be equivalent
to loss Of ono hundred miles on the
day of crossing, and which would
have to be added to the time. Al
lowing for incidental. mishsps to
machinery not tested, leakage Of
valves, and little matters only to be
known by those in charge, and an.
other day or two may be easily ac-
counted for, bringing us down to the
9th or 10th inst. So those having
kno Wedge Of the vessel and familiar
with the incidental drawbacks to a
speedy passage by vessel just over
hauled and not subsequently tested,
have no uneasiness as to hcr safety.
i Admiral Goldsborough, command
ing the Washington yard, states that
he does not see any cause for appre-
hension yet. The Tennessee had
probably not made more than the
speed expected, and which might not
have brought her into tho Bay OF
SANTANA week ago. There was a
wide margin in which to hear from
her.
/ A prominent firm acting as com.
mercial agents in New York, in a
letter to the Herrld, writes: "In or.
der to allay the anxiety which seems
to exist on account Of absence of news
from tho steamship Tennessee we
I would state that, unless o special
vessel is dispatched to Havana from
San Domingo, which is hardly prob.
able, as the distance TO that place il
nearly as far as to Hampton Roads,
it would be almost impossible to near
of her arrival out before the 10th
inst, when the st. Thomas mail il
due at this port, bringing, in case Of
| connection by the Spanish and Do.
minican mail steamer, news from st.
| Domingo City to the 10th, this being
| the only steam communication with
that place except by the steamer
from st. Thomas, touching there on
the 10th and arriving in Havana on
the 28tb, and the steamship Tybee,
from st. Domingo TO this port, due
on the 22d inst. We shall in all prob
ability then, and not before, hear Of
i the arrival OF the Tennessee ut st.
Domingo City. ar1 lW