The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-28
Washington.

The President is suffering froma severe cold,
contracted by exposure on Inauguration day.
The President has appointed George NJ.
Derby, son of Lieut.. Derby ("John Phoenix,
to cadetship at West Point.
The President has appointed Rev. Edward
Payson Smith, of New York, to be Commits
sioaer of Indian Affairs.
A Washington correspondent says: 1.-THE
country has been generally misinformed in re-
lation to Congressional Legislation with regard
to the postal laws this session The Farms
worth bill, reducing letter postage to cents,
aud providing for the prepayment of postage
OH mail matter, passed the House, but failed
in the Senate. There was an amendment to
the Postoffioe Appropriation bill, which re-
peals all existing acts with regard to free mail
matter This, of course, includes exchanges
between newspapers and free postage on pa
pers circulated in the counties where they are
published The law takes effect on the LIST OF
July"
The statement that the Attorney General
had decided that the eastern terminus of the
Union Pacific railroad is at Council Bluffs in
stead of at Omaha, seems to be prems-
ture, az he still has the matter under con-
sideration.
The President has designated for appoint
ment as Cadet Midshipman-at-Lsrge Frank
Crockey, of Iowa, son of the late Brig. Gen.
NJ. q. Crockey, formerly of DesMoines
Among the recent appointments of Post
masters are the following Arther d. Downs.
Wyandotte, Kan; Simon Mslz, Hayes City,
Kan; Frederick ID. Richter, Council Grove,
Kan; NJ. b. Baldwin, Elgin, ILL.,. Gustavus A.
Pfrangle; Aurora, H.; William c. Stewart,
Marengo, ILL.,; John j. Karnew, Fort Wayne,
Ind; John b. Tyer, Wabash, Ind; II. NJ. Red
ington, Elyna, o.. Thomas w. Golfer, Coshoc.
yenson, Greenville, o.
The report that David Blakely, of the Posi-,
Pension Agent at Chicago, il to be removed, il
authoritatively denied.
The President has sent the following nomi-
nations to the Senate George W. French,
Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court of Dakota;
J. i. Kidder, Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of Dakota Henry King Postmaster at
Topeka Kan; Collectors of Internal Revenue
Lewis Weitzel, for the First Ohio District
John W. Ross for the Fifth Indiana District
Col. Z. Mutt, for the Fifth Iowa District.
The President will visit st. Louis in April.
The President has pardoned two more Ku-
Klux out of the Albany Penitentiary.
Over five tons of WORKOUT plates for stamp
ing bank-notes were recently destroyed by
melting, at the navy yard at Washington, by
order of the Secretary Of the Treasury.
The books and records of the Credit Mobilier
Company have been confscated and turned
over to the Attorney General OF tho United
States, to be used by him in the suits au-
thorized by the Credit Mobilier act against
sundry individuals in behalf Of the Union
Pacific Pacific Railroad Company.
Rev. Edward Payson Smith has been con-
irmed as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Judge Richardson succeeds Mr.. Boutwell, as
Secretary Of the Treasury.
Appointments by the President postmas-
ters-J. r. Jackson, Union City, Ind; d. w.
Worries, New Albany. Ind; William A. Howell,
Washington, Ind; Vim. NJ. Winkler, Column
bus, Ind. Daniel N. Gross, Naperyille, H.; +.
A. Monson, Sandwich H.; Edward S. Smith,
| Batavia, H.. Mrs. l.. A. Cory, Ashtabula, o.;
j. L. Curran, Delaware, o.; Il. +. Hegler, At.
/ tica, Ind; J.. A. Burnett, Terre Haute, Ind;
/ A. NJ. Ellsworth, Lowell, Mich; T.. w Merrill,
/ Muskegon, Mich; A. Il. Turner, Grand Rapids,
| Mich; Asa Reynolds, Grand Haven, Mich;
James II. Norris Abba, Iowa. Surveyors OF
/ Customs-R. II. Stephenson, Cincinnati, o.;
| Philip Hornbeck, Evansville, Ind. Thomas
/ Steele Pittsburgh, Pa; George Fisher, Cairo,
1 H.: A. +. Titler, Alton, ILL.,; James j. Luse,
Louisville, Ky.
Foreign.