The Postmaster General Has Already

ou tilo 15,000 applications for postotiïces. M. H. Clark, of the Grand Rapids Democrat, is the Dumouratic candidato tor City Clerk. BUT '271 new voters were registered iu Detroit during the recent three dtiy's 8ession of the several ward boards. Tms TIME Joe Bennett's head is off " for shuah, for sartin," as Sambo would put it. His successor is Col. S. S. Matthews, of Pontiao, formerly postuiaster of that city. On Saturday last the House passed, with a single negativo vote, " A bilí to próvido for the incorporation of reform club temperance societies within this State." Marshal Douglas is to be relieved of the duty of standing by the side of Mrs. HayeB, and introdueing the g'iests. Is this "new departure" because of his color, or is it in the line of reform and greater simplicity. Senator Blaine had a long consultation with the President on Tuesday. Did he want tho President to contradict the Btory that Morrill was appointed collector on the reconrtnendation of oxP dent Grant ? Nobody ever inistrusted that Judge (now Senator) Davis was an intellüctual giant, and yet Bob Ingersoll says that he is as broad mental ly as ho is physically." Bob is certainly either an inventor or a discoverer. . - - -- -i- Inspectors of electiou will of course remeuiber that the poll for the State election, - or rather for the Judge and Regent ballot must be opened at 8 o'clook A. M., and kept open until 5 o'clock P. M. - au hour before and an hour after the regular township poll. Hon. S. M. Cutcheon, of Ypsilanti, has received his reward tor his services in the last and foriner politioal campaigns, having been appointed United States Attoruey for the Extern District of Michigan, vice A. B. Maynard, Esq., whose term of office had expired. The rule of " civil service reform " would have promoted one of Mr. Mayuard's efficiënt assistants. Hon. Elon Farnswortii, of Detroit, died on the 24th inst., aged 78 years. Mr. Furnsworth was one of Uetroit's most estimable and beloved citizens. Mr. Farnsworth was a member of the Territorial Counoil, for many years Chancel lor of this State, and from 1837 to 1858 a member of the Board of Regents of the University, except for the brief period from 1842 to 1846. He was bom in Vermont and canie to Michigan in 1821. It would be well for the Detroit Post to brush up its knowledge of State political history. It saysof Mr. Cutcheon, just appointed by President Hayes to be Attorney for this district : " Mr. Cutcheon has achieved the highest honors in both branches of the Legislatura, and also in the Stato Constitutional Convention." As Mr. Cutcheon has never been a member of the Senate nor a member of the or a Coustitutional Convention, the Post, as usual, is full two-thirds out of the way. And now comes the President (if a ■ " friend " is not mistaken) and settles tho hash between Messrs. Blaine, Frye, and those Maine fellows. And the President's version is that Morrill was appointed Collector of Portland at the suggestion of ex-President Grant, - having promised to do so " some days before any of the Müine delegation appeared at the White House in regard to it." Which ougbt to be satisfactory to those would-be Maine dispenséis of patronage ; but then it won't satisfy any of thetn. Sich is life. Hon. E. H. Thompson, of Flint, a prominent citizen and politician, is an active member of the Eed Ribbon Reform Club of that city. Judgo Mitchell is president of the club at Port Huron and " declared bis elevation to the chair to be the proudest hour of his life." Hon. Heury A. Shaw, of Eaton Rapids, once Speaker of the Michigan House, has enlisted for the war. The Lansing club numbers 1,125 members, and includes many prominont citizens who have been industrious punishers of bad liquors. m !■ - - i i Mayor Pieroe, of Grand Rapids, a wag and a poet, and always a good fellow - notwithstanding ho is a Republican - has been appointed postmaster of the " Valley City,'1 vice Aaron B. Turner, who having held the office eight years didu't want it any longer. This last announcement we were dispcsed to take with some grains of allowance, even before we read that Aaron and Don Honderson aro rival applicants for the position of Public Printer at Washington. Aaron wouldn't have given up his postoflïce for such an uncertainty as that goverumont printing office. Guess he wus hit by that " two term enough " rule of Postniaster-General Key. These are noblo words of Gov. Hampton's, - fouud in his recent letter to President Hayes : " Whatever grievances exist, whatever wrongs we suffer, we proposo to redress thuin, not by a resort to forcé, but by legal and constitutional remedies. In seeking such redress I feel sure that I represent freely the determination of all the thoughti'ul and conservativo portion of our whole people when I give the assurance that no proseription shall be exercised here on account of politioal opinions ; that no discrimination Bhall be mado iu tho adniinistration of justico ; that all citizous of both parties shall bo regarded as fully protected and amenable to the Iaw8." They are' also the words of patriotism and atatesinanship.