The Portland daily press., 1874-07-10
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

These are quiet days at Washington, for
nearly all of the Congressman have gone home
though despatch states that few lnger
about the departments trying to save their
friends to places which they abolished. The
President and several members of the Cabinet
are absent and it is quite likely that the town
gets very drowsy, as 1t used TO do summers ten
years ago when johnny Reb quietly staid about
Richmond
The President has appointed ex-Gov.s Mar
shall Jewell, now Minister to Russia, to be
Postmaster General The appointment is an
excellent one Gov. Jewell is a business man
of great executive ability. By his own force
of character he became power in Connect
cut and wealthy man from poor boy.
Whatever he attempts do he does well and will
make practical head of that most important
department.. Shall we hear again of postal
telegraph or postal savings bank? We hope
not. The mail system is not perfect
The new District Commission, consisting of
Messrs. Denuison of Ohio Blow of Missouri,
and Ketctum of New York. have taken hold
of the affairs of that fabby concern called a
| government, and are likely to bring about val
| liable reforms. The territorial government
| opens very badly.
| There has been great trbuation among the
! clerks, 500 OF whom have been discharged of
late. The notice of discharge caused some to
faint, and the President has been besieged to
retain them. They are to be pitied, particular
| ly the women. They get two months pay ex-
ira when discharged. Moral: Don't go to
Washington to be clerk
Secretary Bristow thinks he will find no diff
ficulty in dsposiDg of the per cents.
The findings of the court martial in the case
of Gen. Howard have been approved by the
| President, and as that officer is acquitted of
| intentional guilt, he has been assigned to the
| Department of Columbia.
| IN GENERAL.
The weather the past week was cold up to
Wednesday. That day people said hot. Sun
day they wanted a coal fire. People are change
able.--In Buffalo, Saturday, six of sixteen
persons were drowned by boat capsizing.--
The Freedmen's Bank at Washington has sus-
pended.--R. j. Dobbins of Philadelphia has
contracted to build the centennial building for
| S2,5O0,000 Two servants were killed in East
| Cleveland. O., Friday, by the explosion of a
| can of gasoline.---In Buenes Ayres men die
| with cattle plague. A. G. Buell. correspon-
dent of the Detroit Free Press, has been in
dicted for hbeling Senator Chandler, drunken
ness in the Senate being the charge.
| Montgomery Blair is going to run for Congress
| and Andy johnson too.--In the case of
| Andrew L. Roberts, the alleged Central Rail-
road bond forger, the jury disagreed and he is
| out on ball. He is native of Mane.-
| Moses Cha hnr1aip Of
New York, imagined that the postal card
would be good way to punish his enemies.
He therefore denounced one of them as a swind-
| Ter, and sent it through the mail to him For
| repeating his announcement he has now seven
| indictments against him and bail of $4,000.
The centennial building at Philadelphia is
| to cover eighteen acres--A Cadiz despatch
says that the Spanish government has imposed
| ~ cents ton on YES sells clearing for America,
| and ten cents ton on all clearines for Euro
| pean ports. --Railroads In England are falling
off largely in their ipts.---Of the six mon
itors put to sea when the Virginius trouble oc-
CURED all except the Dictator are laid up and
| the crews discharged. 1.-The extensive railway
bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis was
| opened the 4th for busness.-The Catholic
uisHops OF germany, IL is said, desire total
| separation of church and state.-The race
horse Tammany fell dead on the track at Long
Branch, SATURDAY., and two other valuable
racers We're SO injured as to have to be shot,
Nearly all the operators in the Union mills in
Belfast, Ireland, have struck.-The first
sample of the wheat of 1874 was exhibited on
change in New York Tuesday. 1t was pro-
nounced good.---Henry Lewis has been ex-
tradited by the Dominion government at the re-
quest of the State of Ohio to be tried for throw
| ing train off the track.--700 Mormon con-
verts arrived from England>by late New York
steamer, and have gone forward to Utah.
| The Western roads have voted to increase the
freight on cattle 80 cents per 100 pounds
The earth isn't going to be hit by the comet
| Alexander H. Stephens of Ca, won't run for
| Congress again-sick.
In the single soail race for the championship
| OF America, Brown of Halifax beat Scharff of
Pittsburg, Pa, at Springfield, Wednesday.
| Tilton has another article on the Golden Age
denouncing the silence of Beecher-The
| New Hampshire House has passed the license
bill to third reading by the casting vote of
| the Speaker.