Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-02-26
Letter From Washington.

Letter From Washington.
TROUBLE ABOUT CONGRESSIONAL
APPOINTMENTs-DR. HANDLE
| TOMS RESIGNATION j UDG e
STEWART RECOMMENDED BY OUR
| CORRESPONDENT IN HIS PLACE
A BERKELEY MAN IN DANGER.
WASHINGTON, d. c.,
Feb. 23d, 1876.
The Democracy in control of the
House of Representatives have
heen decidedly unlucky in some of
their appointments. The Georgi-
an, DIR. Hambleton, who was Sc
lected as chief clerk of the Ways
and Means Committee, has resign
ed. This step was by no means
\ voluntary. 1t was asked for by
Mr.. Morrison, the chairman of the
committee, as the result of the
charge made in the New York
Tribune, and sustained, that Ham
bleton had shocked the public
sense OF even his own section by
nameing one of his children after
Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John
Wilkes Booth-a fact which the
| offender denied until the Tribune
produced the obituary notice of the
death of the dishonored child from
a Washington Journal, he having
died here in 1872,wherein the name
was given as "John w. B. Ham,
bleton." There were other char
ges against Hambleton, such as
MATCHMAKING
anti-slavery merchants in New
York, pending the excitement
caused by John Browns operations
at Harper's Ferry, to induce them
to advertise at exorbitant rates in
a paper published by him at At
lanta. The resignation of DIR. Ham
bleton, demanded as it was by the
Tribune, shows the great power OF
that paper from the independent
standpoint from which it is pub
lished.
Among the persons appointed to
places at the Capital under the
Democrats was Judge James Frs
kline Stewart, formerly resident
of Martinsburg, now County Judge
at Luray. Va He was selected by
Judge Harris, the member from
that district, as clerk to the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections
of which he, Judge H., is chair
man. was very glad of the pros
pect of having him here curing
the session as an old friend at
school in the stone academy under
Mr.. SortWell and at the Cannons-
burg College, my intimacy with
whom was afterwards renewed at
Baltimore, while he was studying
law and l medicine there. But
we were
MUTUALLY DISAPPOINTED
of our prospective reunions. The
place offered him formerly paid
quite well--abOut six dollars u day.
But the compensation had been SO
much reduced, that he came to the
conclusion that he could not affnru
to hold it, and has returned home.
L suggest, now that DR.. Ham ble-
ton has resigned, his place might
be suitably given to Judge Stew
art. The probability is that DR..
Hambleton was not the only bur-
den too heavy to be borne by the
Democrats, in the matter of APP
pointments. The case of a certain
Berkeley man is destined to give
more or less trouble.
The person alluded to is one of
the few West Virginians appoint
ed TO places about Congress. 1t is
whispered around in newspaper
circles, that he made himself par
ticularly obnoxious to certain of
his neighbors during the war. To
some of these the member from the
second district, who is bearing the
blame of his questionable appoint
ment, is understood to be under
obligations rendering such an APP
pointment-if really made at his
REPRESENTATIVES risky, not to say
unjustifiable and unsustainable by
him before his general constituent
cy. j. Z. S.
A fatal explosion of sulphur occur
red in King q Co. s colliery lat Llew-
ely, Pa, Wednesday, which killed
Adam Sherman and fatally injured
| John Harris. 1t is Thought the Su1-