, 1873-04-11
WASHINGTON.
An Administration Organ on the
Death Of Civil Service
Reform.
Ex-senator Ny6 Looking After the
Japanese Mission, Whioh
Cole Declines.
ThH PraaidA11t Gnt1eratta1ntad
Ths President Congratulated
; by Some Quakers on
His Indian Policy. :.
Further Arguments On lilo Postal
Car Service.

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Mayor MediIl Resigns His Position on
tie CIVIL Service Coftnission.
What President Grant Says in Accept.
ing the Same:
Special Dispatcht to Tho Chicago Tribune.
WAsu1NoTos, D. G., April 10.-Tho Balti-
moro american this morning, d staunoh Admin
iatration organ, hnB ths following melancholy
vail ovor Civil 8ervico Reform: It aays: 8.
We don't know how 1t is In othst. Bsatca but .byil
Service Reform has been entirely abandoned in Mary
haSa ali bsen semoyod, and tho WORK Of slsusStor %
among tho innocents IN Tho subordinate ranks bus
ii wsre t.
among tho most olcont in tho service. There havo
not only oeon no promotions Int nearly al those In ho
mover believed 0lY sorvico Roform likely to lat long
enough 10 get It IN fun operation, and supposed L
So ohsnSe of P1esidenis W. hqpe, However a tSaE
te death win DO officially promutgated and that her6
T bo no no more 9Ss about Examining
Of the dbfunct Joncks: Whilat believing 1t, when
adopted At Philadolphin; to bo . rnore 4 'canpaign
when tho President In his inaugural lis d.
termination to adhere to 1t in letter md spirit, NO
thought TINT Il would likely Hst during the Presiden.
actual experience in enforcing It to have brought
about change Of mind, nB t as been gradually ap
pEoaclang dissolution from the time Of It's birth.
THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN.
The Virginians arc working themselves into
considerable excitement over their Forthcoming
campaign this summer. Tho distinctive fea-
turcs Of this canvass azo that it involsos the
election Of Legislaturee, Witch is to chopso
United States eenator in the placo Of John Lew
iB, and tho enactment Of q free railroad law
which shall ta1zo the building Of railroads out OF
tue hands Of few monopolists, hnd glvb ingreaa
to the Northorn companies now seeking ,a<lmis-
sion into tho State. The latter issue Particular
1y intluenooB tho Conservatives. Tho litter
claim that on tho Presidential election their vote
fell ono hundred Thousand short. but no expeo-
taton is had in any quartor that this roserve will
rally around the Democratic standard in tho COM
ing election, Personal considerations in the
nomination for Governor will also enter largely
into the contest. Tho cx-Oonfoderatas arc
emerging from thoir oheourity, and their names
ns I'll bns + n Hsfar SSsa for 5 ss bsns
the Senate Finance Committee prior to the war,
ia prominently mentioned as tho Conservative
candidate for United States Senator, wIlilo ex-
Confederate Commissioner Oulds scoms to
nomination.
THE JArANEsE Mrs81oN.
Ex-senator Colo has informed the President
and the Secretary OF State that he il not a can
didate for my foreign appointment. He does
not want tho mission to Japnn, nor will he &C.
copt Of any appointment. Tho general impros-
sion now Is that ex-senator Nye will bo appoint-
cd Minister to Japan.
Caleb Clothior and William Darsoy, Of phila-
delphia, With JamoH 8. Hultne, of New Jersey,
delegation from tho Society OF Friends, called
upon tho President to-day to congratulate him
upon tho success Of his Indian policy,
and also upon the gonernl management
to keop their visit as private as possible, but Of
course it 1oakod out. The President received
tie delegation with great cordially, and thanked
them for their visit. Hs stated that it IL his In
tontion to carry out tho policy ho has hitherto
pursued.
Tho National Executive Committee Of tho
Workingmtn Of America held meeting hero
last Tueaday. Bpeakor Dlaino, it appears, was
among the liberal contributors to the object ct
from the organized movements Of tho agricul-
turiBtg in the Western States, assuring earnest
noas Of the people as against tue expressions Of
oyer-groWn monopolies, and clasping hands for
tho practical work that is to come in the frat
gront effort to socuro moro just aud equitable
Liquidation.
ITO ns Associattd Prts&l
aREENDACKH.
MAHH1NuTQNt ApIll 4N.--LbEAl EEuAG1H OuL-
standing, $95S, ,109.
PROBABLE APPOINTMENTS.
It Is reported tho President will appoint Gen.
Lafayette McLowo, United states Marshal for
Georgia,
ORDERS ISSUED.
Tho presidont today isnuod an ordor changing
tho boundaries Of tho O,nul,a and Grand Island
Land Districts IN Nebraska, as recommended by
tho Secretary Of tho Interior and OomMIsaloner
Of the General Land Office, Senator Hitchcock
nni oY.H1nrcpAntatiyG Tnafe
Tho President also directed an order to DO ia-
auod giving tho right Of way to tho Flint l.
Pero Marquette Railrond through Township 49,
North Range 16, Western Michigan, formerly an
Indian reservation.
APPOINTED.
William l.: scruggs, OF Georgia, has been ap:.
pointed hliniator Nesidentto the United States Of
TIE rosrA1-oAn SERVICE.
NEW YonK, April 10.-1n tho postal-car in
ycBtigation, to-day, hr. Hinckloy argued in
favor of railroad companies bong paid by
measurement instead ofweight for cSFryng mall a..a
patent hoating apparatus IN postal-cara.
ons t. of % postal sorSiee' Vd'A' replied for tho
Government, and read a statement showing that
tho Middle and Eastern statea railroads wore
paid an advance Of. 20 per cont since 1867, and IN
some instances on Westorn roads aa high as l00
and evon 150 per cent. Mr. Davis said he con-
Bidered the postal-cara q necessity, because OF
the time saved IN delivering mail mattor, anutho
relief given tho largo pobt.o!licea, Shiol! other,
apartments for distributing mud regulating the
mails.
hlr. Hinckley believed tho new Postal bill
would compel the railroad companies to carry tho
mail at compensation which they regarded in-
adequate aud leavo it optional with the oonpa-
nies to curry the mail Or not.
Adjourned.
MAYuu MEpIII.'8 RESIGNATION AB CIVIL SERVICE
COMMISSIONER.
NEW YonR, April 10.-TAo Times tomorrow
prints tho following correspondence:
MAYORS OFFICE, CHICAGO, April !, 1879.
10 His Etct!ifney u s. Gran, Irestdtnt " hs U"fel
Etates:
ugAM Sin, An Executive order was promulgated on
tho lh Of January, 1870 Hganst the holding Of staa
or municipal offices by Federal apponteea efor the Ill,
Of March, 1879. Under this order It would bo illegal
for to continue TO hold tho ollcc Of Commissioner
9f ths Civil b'ryice cn MosFd uuless .an rssiSt,
that It would bn aIpedfenk to do