Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-02-05


reasonable figure, that the site Is an eligible
| one, and the building well adapted for post
Office. The committee also recommend that
the general government acquire by purchase
and condemnation the square bounded by Sth
and 9Th and and streets. The committee
say that the rapidly increasing general postal
service will soon require more room than 1t can
be accommodated with In the present building
and that If the aforesaid square can now be
! bought On favorable terms 1t would be economy
On the part OF the government to make the p.tr-
chase, inasmuch as the time must soon come
when the Post Office department will require
fddilional buildings to accommodate the,poStal
service.
TIE CREDENTIALS OF Senator Jon IS, of Ne
vada. recently reelected TO the Senate for ar
other term, were presented to the Sc late TO-
day. The hardsomest credentials of the e.ec-
ton or any senator from any state yet pre- sent
cd TO the Senate are those from the state OF
Pennsylvania, which certified the election OF
Don Cameron.
REoRGsNIZaTIoN OF INDIAN TERRITORIAL
meeting Of the Senate committee on territ )rieS
Was held last night to consider the subject of
lelCrt upon the proposed reorganization Of the
I'D an territory. plan for report was agre ID
tu and tue preparation OF the reoort was in
trusted 10 Senator Patterson The committee
viii recommend the establishment of L. S
cCultS In tie territory; representation of tha
HNe1rteS by delegates In Congress; and the
lefeal o1 the land grants TO the railroad COM
Ian!es owning lines in the territory.
DIRECTOR CT THE MINT-It is definitely set
tied, it is said, that the President Will appoint
X. +. Preston director of the mint vice DR.
Llndei man deceased. Mr.. p. has been acting
In the capacity OF direct 'r for some moatls.
NAVAL OKpERs.-rassed Assistant SURGEON
Ernest Noltieet to the Franklin at Norfolk.
Iassed Assistant SureeCn r. II. McCarty to the
ST. Louis at League Island. Chief Engineer
jackson McElWe ell to duty in charge Of stores at
League Island 18th inst. Passed Assistant
M Mulgeon L: g. Henneberger. from the Washing
ION naval hospital, and ordered to the Trenton,
Eulofean station, per steamer 18th instant from
Philadelphia. Passed Assistant Surgeon w. G.
FaieWell from the Mare Island hospital AMI
oldered to the coast survey steamer Hassler.
Passed Assistant Surgeon ii. Aulick from the
81 Louis and ordered to the naval hospital al
Mare Mare Island, Cal; Chief Engineer Robert Potts
lIt ~ League Island navy yard. 18th instant
and ordered TO hold himself In readiness for sea
service.
PENNSYLVANIA POLITICIANS are worked up
over the vacant federal Offices to be filled by
citizens OF that state, and SO many diverse in
fiuences are brought to bear that there is almost
daily change in the outlook. Yesterday after
noon secretary Sherman received letter from
A. l.. Sn0Wden, postmaster at PHILADELPHIA
Teconsidering his determination to accept the
OEect0lSnlp or the mint, made vacant by the
death OF DR.. Linderman. Mr. Snowden formally
dechned the position, saying that private inter
estS forced him to this conclusion Mr Snow
den wants TO be connected with the mintS bat
does not like TO leave PHILADELPHIA 1t is in
'lmated In authoritative quarters that as the
Omm1SsiOn OF Naval Officer FeStant at Phiia-
elphia expires In March next, Superintendent
Pollock, of the Philadelphia mint. may be trans
lerred TO that position and Mr.. Snowdan take
is place. This would leave a vacancy ia the
Philadelphia pOStmaStershtp. Mr.. Leeds w .
as been prominently mentioned for the po,.-
lion, has but little chance, il is U1ol1iit II q
election for the p0stmaStersh!p seems TO t'e
10 off
MIR. Munder, and Frailey Smith, with the
hances In Numbers favor The appointment
the JudgeShip In place Of judge CldYalai,r
ecently deceased, is another bone that Penn
:ylvan1ans are fighting over. Judge Cadwalt-
er had not been dead twenty -f0nr hours be.
ore applications for his position be ran to no Ir
d, and candidates began to come on in person
+. Carroll Brewster seems to have the lead in
the rush for this place, though son of the la.a
Morton McMichael is making stubborn fight
petition or merchants representing one hun
dfed millions OF dollars has been received In
favor OF Brewster. Through all these contests
1oI pennsylvania offices there run Cameron and
l-CdIDerOn influences.
CAPT. BLA1Rs TRIAL.-The general court mar
t1al appointed to try the charge of conduct un-
becoming an officer and gentleman which has
peen made against Captain Thomas Blair 18th
Y: 5. Infantry, assembled Monday at Governors
lSiand. Major ID. G. Swatue, who has been an
pointed Juoge advocate, being sick In this city
Tue coui was ordered to meet and adjourn from
tTt31
NJ I. Mcmahon and MIR. Elliot f. Sheppard viii
deleud Captain Blair the charge against whom
Is that he married the widow Of the late Gen
Soldon Granger, while his wife, married 10
Scotland, was still alive. The New York Tri-
Iune says: 'Since his imprisonment Captatn
pa, Blalr has said that he was never married to
M Mis. Nlchols, or Glasgow, but he has admitted
that he has lived on intimate terms with her.
anu that he was the father Of her two children.
Ven we cans al IS that he supported the children as
wen as lie could afford, and that the woman
was untrue to him. He explains hts visit tn
this city by the fact that he had passes over the
New York Central railroad. His wife was re-
lated TO the vander6llts by her marriage to Gen.
Granger, and Mr.. Vanderbilt, it is said. has
shown her much kindness In providing for her
son by her first marriage. Mrs Blair clings to
her husband and visits him dlly. Her re.a-
yves, who are wealthy residents Of Georgia,
are anxious to have the charges against Canr.
Blair either proved or disproved, and it was
said at one time that they meditated procuring
iequisition to have him tried in Georgia In
recovered to-day to be at the War department.
He Will 60 to New York this evening Or to-nor-
row, to be ready for the trial.
COMMANDER KILLS DISMIssED-The President
has approved the recommendations of the court
martial that tried Lieut.. Commander d, G.. KeIlS
l. .. NJ, and which were as stated In THE STAR
some days ago. that he be dismissed the service.
hellS was tried for selling his pay account and
then craving the money himself
HUNTERS ACCOMPLICE.-On the 25th instant,
Glaham, the accomplice OF Hunter In the Arm
sg ssIong murder, VIII oe arraigned before the
supreme court Of New Jersey at Trenton The
attorney general Will then ask the advisory
opiIloh vi the supreme court as to the propriety
OF ane STATE accepting the plea of murder In the
petent lot the court of pardons to consider the
case, and upon good behavior or other reason
extend elemency.
STRIKING MINERs.-Tbe miners OF the Union