Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-01-03
TELEGR APHIC-
LATER FROM THE ATLANTIC STATES.
Appropriations fer the Postomce Depart.
| m0nt.


Appropriations for u. Postomes DEPART
ment.
WARRINGTON, Dec. 28.-The Third
Assistant Postmaster General has COM
pleted systematic and careful exam
ination of estimates recently submitted
to Congress for appropriations for postal
service during the next year, and has
arrived ut the conclusion that no reduc-
ton in sums asked can safely be made.
The Postmaster-Genera will submit to
Congress plans and estimates for the
improvement of the Postoffice Depart
ment building, together with RECON-
mendation that an appropriation of one
and half million dollars be made to
enlarge the building.
The Chief Justiccsh'p.
Dec. 27.-The growing conviction
that the President will nominate Pierre
pont it Williams is rejected, is strength
ening the latter and may secure his con-
firmation, If, as his friends claim, he is
exonerated from charges affecting his
personal integrity. The failure to NOM
mate Evarts, Curtis or Hoar, for Chief
Justice, is turning the entire bar against
Grant.
CHICAGO, Dec. ga Washington
special says the Oregon opponents of
the confirmation of Williams, are re-
newing their efforts during recess. They
have not rs vet filed any additional
charges, but they declare that his re-
lection is certain. There is but little
doubt that he will retire from the Cabi-
net in the event of his rejection.
The Chief JustIceship -witnesses Examined
by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Only three witnesses have been ex-
amined by the Senate Committee on
Judiciary in connection with the nomi-
nation of Williams as Chief Justice,
namely: Assistant Attorney General
Hill, A. j. Falls, Chief Clerk of the
Department of Justice, and Represent
ative Nesmith, of Oregon; the last
named with reference to adverse tele-
grams from that State. While some
Senators think the nomination may ul-
timately be confirmed, others are of the
opinion that it will die in the Com
mittee.
NIodoc War Indemnity.
The enormous expense attending
the Modoc war has, in all probability,
not yet ended. Settlers in Northern
California are urging their Congressional
representatives to have the General
Government reimburse them for losses
sustained by depredations committed
by these Indians. Should bills already
introduced, both in the Senate and in
the House, providing for Commission
to examine these claims, pass, it will be
taken rs an evidence that Congress is
disposed to make the necessary appro-
priations for damages sustained by such
depredations.
There is but little doubt that pen
sion will he allowed to the widow of
General Candy, also that of Rev. DR..
Thomas.
The Sunken Virginius.
WILMINGTON, Dec 29.-Dr. Wilbanks,
of the steamship 7bna,canda, which ar
rived here on Sunday from Philadelphia
reports passing sunken vessel nine
miles south of the Main Bar with only
her topmasts or topsallant masts out
of water. The steam-tug Brandt sub
sequently visited the spot, her officers
concurred in opinion that the sunken
vessel was undoubtedly square rugged
steamship. A pork barrel was floating
above the wreck, attacted to it by r.
inch hawser, the hawser, having evil
IDENTIFY been used MS tow-rope. Pilots
at the mouth of the river state that on
Friday last they observed near the spot
where the vessel lies, large steamer in
tow of full-rigged ship, but could not
tell whether the latter was steamer
or not. The above facts, taken in con-
nection with the telegram announcing
that the steamship Geo,yia from Charles
ton, at New York, had spoken the NIr-
gi!,ius in tow off Cape Roman on the
oath inst, ut o'clock P. NJ the world
renowned Cuban filibuster vessel. It is
propable that tho IIyiaius being 'leaky
was so much damaged by gales about
Christmas time that an attempt was
made to keep her close to this bar, and,
if possible, to get her in before she sunk.
Her crew were taken off by the man-of-
war having her in charge, which then
proceeded on its voyage. The sunken
ship liesin about eight fathoms of water,
with bald headlight bearing north
half east, nine or ten miles distant. A
pilot from Smithville visited the spot on
Sunday evening, and the men who were
on her fully agree in the opinion that
she is steamship. Only a few feet of
the main-mast is visible above water,
and there are numerous spnrs floating
around her, which are probably still at
tached to the vessel by means of rig
ging. It is thought that when she was
abandoned, the pork barrel was placed
as buoy to mark the spot where she
went down. The ship is, of course,
total loss, as it will be next to impossi-
BILE to raise her. In few weeks, her
hull will probably be entirely sunk in
the sands.