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Show lYuHhiiiielun Advice. Washington, 23. The House Com-! miltcc on l'o&t Utliees made a rciorl tu-day on tho charges preferred by I.utlrell against tho I'udt Olhcc Department De-partment and sonic of iu suborelinatc ollicei-s, in relation to certain post route transiietions. In Calitoi uia the committee -iy they don t jiud any evidence of fraud or irregularities ui violation of law, althnugli tluy ore riatilicd that uixm many, it not all the routed mentioned, straw hula wen1 made, whieii, under the hnv, the I'i-slma.iter Ceneral was jiOMerless lo e or reel. The Senate continual C . liogcrt receiver of public moneys, lie .email, Montana; Chan. A. HraMow, receiver ol public moneys, Norte, Cal.; Samuel Sam-uel H. Winsor, regioler ol the land ollicc at Cheyenne. Tiie S.malc, in ex -ciiUve srssion, after a discussion in which free t-x-previous of opinion were expressed on the subject, tabled Ihe nomination of ex-Cioveriior Shepherd as commissioner com-missioner for tho Di.-triet of Columbia, Colum-bia, by a vote of thirty-six to six. Tue other nominations were confirmed confirm-ed without division. After a recess uf the Senate the Tresidenl, to complete com-plete the number, sent the name of A. (i. Callell, ex-U. S. Senator from .New Jersey, who was toon Ihcrcalter eonlirnuxl. This gentleman is the only one of tho commissioners who I has real t slate inti re.-Is in this city but all lire uon-re-sidei'ts. |