Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-14
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. JUSTICE HUNTS SUCCESSOR Judge BIafchfOrd for the
 Supreme Bench. AFTER EDMUNDS HAD DECLINED. The Last Nomination Hailed
 With Satisfaction.
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THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Important Nominattons-Judge Blntch-
 istcr to China.
 WASHINGTON, March 13.-The President sent the following nominations to the Senate today: Samuel Blatchford, of New York, to be associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States John Russell Young, of New York to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to China
 Judge Blatchford is son of the late Rich ard M Blatchford, who was a prominent lawyer ill New York city He was born in New York on the 9th of March, 1920, and was graduated from Columbia College in 1887, being then only seventeen years old Before he was of age he was selected by Gov ernor William H. Seward as his private sec retary. Afterward he studied law in New York city with his father and uncle (who formed the firm of R. M. & E. H. Blatch- ford), and, after practising his profession there for some time, removed to Auburn, N. Y. about 1846. There he formed law partnership with Christopher Mor- gan, under the firm name of Morgan G5 Blatchford, with William H. Seward as coun- sel. Afterward Clarence A. Seward was taken into the firm, which was then styled Morgan, Blatchford & Seward. In 1851 Judge Blatchford and one of his partners re- moved to this city where they were joined by Burr w. Griswold, and the firm of Blatch- ford Seward & Griswold was formed. In addition to his extensive and. successful prac- tice, by which he established high reputa- tlon at the bar, Judge Blatchford performed the task of preparing the reports of the United States Circuit Court, (second circuit,) and he has continued this work till the pres ent time. He also took part in editing Blatchford and Howland's Reports of Ad- miralty Gases in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. On May 3, 1867, he was appointed judge of the United States District Court, to succeed Judge Betts, resigned. On March f, 1878, he was appointed judge of the United States Circuit Court. to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Johnson. Judge Blatch- ford is trustee of Columbia College, and member of the Union and Century clubs He was married in Boston, in 1S44 to Miss Caroline F. Appleton, daughter of Eben Ap- pleton, formerly well known merchant in this city. His only son, Samuel A. Blatch- ford is a member of the present firm of Blatchford Seward, Griswold < Da Costa.
 MT. John Russell Young is a journalist by pIO4e5n1Ou. IIe "dS uHudBluS eultOr OI tue New York Tribune for some years, until May, 1869, when he left that paper under charges of improperly sending the Associa ted Press dispatches to paper in Philadel- phia in which he was interested. He soon afterward started a daily paper in this city called the Standard, but it was not long lived. In recent years he has been connect ed with the New York Herald, and he went around the world with General Grant as it's correspondent. Grant has urged his ap- pointment.
 The nomination of Judge Blatchford is hailed with universal satisfaction here. The President this evening gives for publication the following letters of declination by Messrs, Conkling and Edmunds. From this it will appear that the published rumor that the President had heard nothing from Conkling week ago Sunday was erroneous. It may be authoritatively stated that the President never authorized such statement and in fact he had no conversation with anyone obopt if