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WASHINGTON.
onsrl Grants Letter to President Lincoln
Recommending the Promotion Of Sher-
man and Mcpherson.
The Steamer Colon WAS Not Seized ut A..
pinwan ss Reported-President Cleve-
land Approves the Finding In
the Hazen Case.

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LETTER OF GENERAL GRANT.
WASHINGTON, April 1s.-A letter Of
General Grants now published for the first
time, in which he recommended to President
Lincoln the promotion Of Generals Sherman
and Mcpherson few weeks after the fall of
Vicksburg. 1t was dated Vicksburg, July
"a, 1868, and after advising the promo
tion of Sherman and Mcpherson from
the rank of Brigadier General to that of
Major General he says:
The first reason is, their great fitness for
any command that it may ever become nee
essary to entrust to them. Second-their
great purity of character and disinterested-
ness in anything except the faithful per-
formance of their duty, and the success Of
those who are engaged in the great battle
for the preservation of the Union. Third
they have honorably won this distinction
upon many well fought battle fields"
The General then proceeded to name
some of the services referred to. He says
that to Sherman's individual efforts, he was
indebted for the success of the battle Of
Shiloh. Twice hit, and several horses
shot under him on that day, he maintained
his position with his troops. 1t is no dis
paragement to any other officer to say that
do not believe there was another Division
Commander in the field who had the skill or
experience to have done it."
Sherman's Generalship at Corinth and
Chickasaw Bluff, Is also mentioned. Nc
PhelsOn is spoken of as having commanded
his lixcinp with oil tho skill v,pcSihla for .
soldier to show.
Unofficial information received at the
Navy Department from Aspinwall says that
the New York steamer Colon was not
seized, as reported, by the Colombian rebels.
Instead of this she was taken under the pro-
lection of the United States ship Galena by
Commander Kane, who sent her out of the
way of the rebels until the disturbance had
subsided. He then turned her over to her
rightful owners. Her arms and other cargo
reached their proper destination.
The President yesterday made the follow
ing appointments: James W. Morgan, of
South Carolina, Consul General at Mel
bourne; Jacob Mueller, of Ohio, Consul Gen.
eral at Frankfort -On-the- Main; Consuls-
C. W. Wagner, of Missouri, at Toronto;
Thomas R. Welch. of Arkansas, at Hamil-
ton; Francis H. Wigfall, of Maryland, at
Leeds, England; Charles Jonas, of Wiscon-
ain, at Prague; Richard Stockton, of New
Jersey, at Rotterdam: William Stadt, of
Ohio, at Brussels; J. Harvey Brigham, of
Louisiana, at Paso Del Norte, Mexico. Fran
cis Wharton, Of Pennsylvania, Examiner of
Claims in the Department of State. Post
masters. D. Corcoran Rome, New York;
]. Ladae, Westfield, New York; E. Evans,
Westchester, Pennsylvania; j. Drury, Bris-
tol, Pennsylvania; David Overman, Marion,
Indiana
Secretary Manning yesterday received q
communication from the Secretary of the
Interior, stating that the amount due the
Government by the Union Pacific Railroad
Company, ascertained by the Court of
Claims is S2S3, 1853, on account of bonds and
interest, and $685. on account of the
sinking fund. The final adjustment of this
matter is left to the decision of Secretary
Manning as to whether he will accept these
figures as final. 1t is understood that Presi-
dent Adams, of the Union Pacific Railroad
Company, has sent check for S916, 7O4 to
close the cOmpany's account with the Gov
eminent
President Cleveland has approved the find
ings of the cOurt-martial in the case of Gen.
eral Hazen. Chief Signal Officer, charged
with conduct prejudicial to military disci-
pline. The court found Hazen guilty, and
sentenced him to be reprimanded. The
President approved the findings, and in is
suing the order of reprimand comments
upon the demoralizing tendency of unauthor-
lied and captious criticisms of superiors.
Attorney General Garland rendered an
opinion yesterday in which he decides that
the appropriation of S335, 900 for payment
Of the claims against the New Orleans Ex-
position can only be used for the payment Of
claims, persons and corporations living and
doing business outside of the State of Louis
lana, and the payment of premiums hereto
fore awarded or which shall hereafter be
awarded TO exhibitors in accordance with
the published lists. 1t was expected that
after the payment of the preferred claims a
balance of about 100000 would be avail
able for liquidating claims of residents Of
Louisiana, but the Attorney Generals opin-
ion is adverse to this.
The President yesterday appointed Will
fam Fl. Brinker, of New Mexico. as AssO-
ciate Justice of that Territory; Henry w.
Hobson, of Denver, as District Attorney for
Colorado, and Thomas W. Scott, Marshal
for the Eastern district of West Virginia.
Friends of J. A. O'Neill, say he will re-
main chief en:,raver of the Bureau of En-
aiiu "
master all the details of the bureau when
he will succeed Colonel Burrill as Chief of
the Bureau. All this, they say, is in &C
cordance with programme mapped out be-
fore ONeill was appointed to his present
position.
Mr.. Jacob Meuller. who was appointed
Consul General at FrankfOrt-on-the-NIa Main,
Germany, is lawyer of Cleveland, Ohio,
and was always Republican until after the
election of Hayes to the Presidency. After
working with the Republicans through that
campaign, he broke with the party on the
personal Liberty Question:" and has since
acted with the Democrats. He was Lieu
tenant Governor of Ohio as Republican
and acted as Governor at one time.
President Cleveland issued proclamation
reversing President Arthur's executive order
OF February 81. which restored to the pub
lie domain the lands of the Old WinnebagO
and Crow Creek Indian reservations of Da-
kota. In his proclamation he says this stepis
taken after careful examination of the Indian
treaties bearing upon the subject, fortified
by an opinion of the Attorney General, de-
Gliding that as these lands We're treaty reser-
vafinps prasiIant rfb,,r bad No laurful