Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-20

1t Is almost certain that John Z. New can
go to Russia If he wishes.
1t seems certain that John Russell Young
is to go to Japan or China.
1t is possible that Judge Hunt. secretary
of the navy, may receive the Berlin mission.
The successor of General Hurlbut as min
lister to Peru will probably be soon selected.
There is no intention of removing Mr..
Lowell from London, if he desires to stay there.
Judge Bingham, instead of returning to
run for Congress in Ohio, may receive the Austrian
mission.
Pitkin, of Louisiana, the 'My Dear Pit
kim of Buffers letters, 1t is thought very prob
able may be made minister to Mexico.
There will be changes in Central American
! will be taken from the Pacific coast.
John Q. Smith, former Indian commits
sioner now ccnsul-general at Montreal, q special
friend of Mr.. Hayes, is said to be booked for
moval
The Hon. John WATSON, of Illinois, United
States consul at Quebec, who has been in Wash
consular sSrVice Of the government;
Mr.. Pendleton's proposition to take the
clerical service of this government ont of politics
is almost matter of selfpreservation though the
posed to It. '-N' ''-''7' - W
1t is expected that the President will ap-
point a Southern man TO the vacancy the Court
of Claims made by the appointment of Bancroft
Davis to the office of first assstant-seeI etary of
state.
General o. E. Babcock, Grants private
secretary, is now talked of as successor OF Major
Twining, the engineer officer of the District gov
eminent. General Babcock is the engineer
officer OF the fifth lighthouse district. which ex
tends from Cape Hatteras to Susquehanna.
The gossips repeat with emphasis the re-
port that Daniel Shepard will be made assistant
ee5etfy o5 the u who ought to
is not even an aPPleant for the place although he
it II he should try.
That is pretty picture which Mr.. Hoey
paints, in an interview in the New York World of
the anti-monopolist Jones, of the Times interced-
ing with him to beg subscriptions TO the Grant
and Mr.. Musgrave where would the fund have
been? And yet neither Mr.. Hoey nor Mr.. Musgrave
can tell where 1t is now! -
1t is reported that General Hurlbut has
come home fncog, so TO say-has sneaked back TO
America much as a boy sneaks into the house With
his fathers night-key and tip-toes off to bed The
bH 3e 10 pef Of Ie ne Gid WAS
blush? Why not come with a flourish OF trum-
and explain the tedious controversy?
Bowen, once prominent Arkansas poll
tician and now Colorado mining prince, is Civ
ing testimony as to the greatness of Dorsey If
Bowen, says the Nashville American, has reflected
he regards greatness divisble into good and bad
A great rascal and great man, it is all one But
found in the line: Great let call him, for he
conquered me-
''Gath," says of Pendleton's proposition to
admit the cabinet ministers to speaking rights in
sary one. You can not have the American form OF
government and the English under the same roof.
against each other. Our cabinet reaches Congress
through the government printinghouse Qui ker
lowed to speak this that occasion, PROVOKING
debate, and either dissipating the influence OF
ing it,
Secretary Folger has introduced at least
one good custom He has determined not to sacrifice
all of his time the demands of the ofice-seekers
He spent Inc srester porton Of his tme in Bis or
flee with the doors locked, clearing up the vast
during the week. The secretary says most of his
time during Office hours is consumed in receiving
margin to transact the legitimate business of his
Office.
The New York World, which is carrying
profitless war with the New York Times and
the New York Erening Post says that Ex-Secretary
Post, judiciously evades any direct denial of the
perfectly notorious connection of Nj. Henry Vii
way ompany, with the decision rendered in the
interest of that company by Mr.. Schurz while sec
rotary of the interior. He contents himself with
evasive comments upon certain quite secondary
details to the precise date at which that connec
ton began, the precise measure of Mr.. Nallard's
present interest in the PAPER OF which Mr.. SchuIz
is now the editor.
What, asks the Nashville American, do the
people of Tennessee think of the wisdom of keep
ing the press of the state its statesmen and active
business men dawdlng over this paltry State debt
question, when they ought to be engaged if they
conld let tn at issue alone in setting out and push
forward the material interests OF the State? 1t is
permitted by demagogues 10 think of nothing else
but means to cheat creditors; or else they have
the people as a means to place and plumber. We
have settled six per cent. debt at three per cent
The debt is SO small for State Ike Tennessee
that in i've years II viii never be heard OF and no
man in out of the State will ever know we have
q public debt This agitation is worse than plain
folly; ii is criminal folly.
The Hon. Aaron Sargent, the probable
new secretary Of the interior, is native of Massa
chusetts, born at Newburyport, September D, !
1877 He began his working life in the printing [
desk. When, in ls4g, CalIfornias golden gates /
were thrown open to the enteTpriSing OF all the |
world, young Sargent migrated tither- He quietly
settled down to the reading OF law, IN 1854 !
elected district attorney of Nevada county in his
adopted State He served representative at 1
and was twice afterward elected TO the same dis ]
t1ncuon. serving in the Forty-hrst and Forty 1
second Congress His third term as representative
expired March 5, 1873 The day following he took /
his seat as United States Senator from California.
M Sargent is an earnest Republic and a man /
OF unquesuoned capacity, but 1t must be confessed
that ne does not bear an enviaole reputation In /
Sargent
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