The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-03-15
Night Associated Pres, Report. /

Night Associated Press Reportl
Colonel +. w. Dawson, of the Char.
lesion News and Courier, Is at VIII
liards.
An extra session of congress will not
be convened before about the first of
June, If AT all.
Nominations: Archibald w, Hughes,
attorney for the middle district Of
Tennessee.
The new postmaster general is 10
overwhelmed with letters of all sorts,
that it ia useless to attempt to reply to
any Of them at present.
An Atlanta special Says Mr.. Bell,
the Democratic candidate in the ninth
Georgia congressional district, WAS
elected AZ the successor of Ben Hill.
A Portsmouth, New Hampshire, dis.
patch says the State ia conceded to the
Republicans, who claim 1t by $500 ma
jority. Jones, Democrat, is elected by a
good majority In the first district.
1t Is most likely that some civil SER
vice device will be adopted whereby
applicants for Office may be subjected
to special tests that no one can bear,
every one will fail and the places con-
sequently go to favorltes.
The cabinet meeting did not discuss
Southern affairs to night. Civil ser
vice and all extra session OF Congress
have occupied their attention. Their
was a full cabinet, and lasted until
midnight. Details are inaccessible.
1t is reported Senator Schurz had
rendered the position ofassistant secre-
tary OF the interior to ex-senator Hen
derson, of Missouri This Is the Mr..
Henderson that was dismissed as AS
slstant counsel against Babcock fer re-
Elections on the white house.
A Columbus, South Carolina, dis
patch says Governor Hampton, to-day,
respited Dave Anderson, one of the
five negro criminals condemned to lbe
executed on the l4th, fer the murder
of Housemsnn and Pontmann, in
Akin county, in November last.
The commissioners Of internal reve'
nue. has issued u circular to collectors
In the South, where ordinary means Of
collecting the revenues In portions o
North Carolina, South Carolina, Vir
ginia, Georgia, Alabama and Tennes
see have failed. He advises the collec
tors that the use Of the military shoulC
be avoided when possible, and assign
three deputies for each collectors dis
trict. These deputies are specially de
signed to suppress the illicit manufsc
ture OF spirits and tobacco.
Judge Advocate General, UNI. Dunn
writes to Con. Sherman that supplies
for the army, under forced coDstruc
ton OF the statutes, cannot be pur
chased in advance OF appropriations
Under certain exceptional cases officer
may borrow money for pay Of men
The opinion " positive that a proper
maintenance OF the army requires NJ
appropriation by the end Of June, an,
consequently involves an extra Sos
sion.
At the white house to-day, Senator
Beck, Gordon, Burnside and Jones
five colored men from Virginia, THU
teen professors and instructors fror
Maryland seminary, two Baltimor
delegations, one headed by the ex
! postmaster general, favor Asker fc
/ the Baltimore postmaster, which th
, president has decided to give him.
General Tyner and nine colored mel
from North Carolina, asking the al
pointment of Colonel b. G. Lindsay Z
missioner Of agriculture, called o
the president to-day. The nine'spet
ton closes, "For Gods sake and tn
peoples sake, let 1t be recorded In th
history OF the government, that oil
request we asked was granted"
Latest
II has transpired that nothing del
D tie was reached In cabinet meetir