Show BY TELEGRAPH rea rem pra U NION UNION TELEGRAPH usa A M E ERIC bric R 10 A N 5 33 berlin has asked to le be relieved but hig lils his sue bue successor cessor will not be appointed till still he be foi fbi formally mally maily resigns Secre secretary uary Lary blaine thinks all the government can do is to ask good treatment for irish american amerlean prisoners in edi Efi england gland giand chandlers chandless Chand lers friends say if the senate rejects him he will swill be united states senator from new hampshire to succeed rollins five republican senators oppose but will not bolt the caucus decree if many more senators absent themselves there will be no quo rum democrats think the president should send in all the nominations postmaster general james denies the report that there was a conference about judge nomination in new now york between vice president arthur an and senator platt piatt gov comell cornell and himself the objects and business of each were so different while they were in new york that they did not even see one another A sagacious new england friend of win wm E chandler said today to day that a rejection of his nomination as solicitor general by a solid democrat ac c vote in the senate would make his political fortune in new hampshire ham p and result in his election n to the united states senate to nill fill the next vacancy this may account for the nonchalance with which mr air chandler received the reports of the threatened democratic opposition to his confirmation and says he is content to take hi hl chances changes the evening star under the heading beading of A point of order publishes the following gen duncan S walker remarked yesterday to a star reporter iii in the senate chamber 16 ail ali all ali this debate and these proceedings are out of order asked the reporter iBe because causell was the reply its required that all treaties shall be considered in executive session and this is 19 nothing not liing but a treaty between mahone malione and the republicans Ap propos of tiie the many high offices given to ohio men it is remarked that except for the brief term of Wash bourrie of illinois as secretary of state tate durin during 9 the first six days of grants adrai adral administration n secretary Is the first chief of the state department who has not been a new yorker bine bino sine sinie buchanann Bucha nans administration secretary sem bev seward ihra secretary fish and secretary evarts were all from that state and their united terms coverd a period of 20 years jud judge ge pennsylvania immediate in predecessor of mr seward in thes th estate eStale trite department the response of the russian government to the senate resolutions on the of the ther czar zar a copy of which was vas transmitted by y secretary blaine to the senate this afternoon is in the form of a letter from the russian minister of foreign affairs to minister foster and has the following paragraph my august master has been deen been profoundly touched by this mark of respect for his beloved father and of sympathy with himself coming from the high assembly of a country for which the deceased emperor always professed sincere esteem and warm friendship it is a legacy which he leaves to th the emperor alexander III and which his majesty in accord with therus the russian nation accepts from the bottom of his heart the president in conversation in reference to the new york nominations said he had nothing whatever to reproach himself with so far as conkling is concerned he insists that conkling has lids really no cause of grievance against the administration in sunday afternoons interview between the president and conkling of which so much has been said the president was unreserved in his acknowledgment of the obligations which he felt toward the different factions of the republican party in new york for he realizes very fully that unless they had llad all pulled together in his behalf he would not now be sitting in the white house but he took particular pains to impress upon the senator that he could not for one moment think in his hs public acts of recognizing the divisions of the party or of giving the patronage of government to any of the factions in such a manner as to be considered as taking sides with either yesterday the president had a long conference a distinguished republican senator during the course of which the whole situation in the senate and elsewhere was talked over As the result of the conference the senator was author zed to communicate to his bis associates that the president dmit was of the opinion that ther then subject was one for the e senate itself and itself alone to dispose of that the executive hab had had no responsibility for what had been done and that he be had no opinion whatever to express in the matter the commissioner of the general land office has rendered a decision in the case of rancho arroyo do def rodeo Bodeo J embra embracing eink cink about 1500 acres of ve very ry valuable val land located in santa cruz county california commissioner williamson decides that as a survey was regularly published published under tinder the act of june 1860 and god no objection filed thereto the public publication atlon allon of the same under the act of 1864 was without authority of law and of no effect that the land office has no jurisdiction to consider objection made by claimants in pursuance of that publication and that patent should issue upon wallace wallaces survey as approved as approved proved V by surveyor general Mau man mamdeville eville deville the following patents have havel been issued to pacific coast Inventor sS wm akin of san ban francisco for automatic advertising devices frank batchelor of Sa sacramento cramen to for wheelbarrow and seeding machine H casebolt san Franci francisco franeisco for endless cable way jrufus rufus D lane stockton paper gulp pulp machine henry C lanore langrehr r of san francisco for fog hoin horn horm horn J frank mahler of san franr frang francisco for flax drawing machine isaac N matlick san ran francisco tel lureau cassus C land ice machine lowell A richards grayson california ahr threshing ebbing machine feeder W schwall sacramento california combined ticket case and whistle budd smith san francisco flaget flagstaff holder andrew anorew J stevens sacramento friction brake for steering a apparatus raffis for vessels theo wagner san francisco shuttle worker Dispa dispatches tebes received today to day by gen ordway of dakota give ai an ac account count odthe of the fearful flood damages in that territory lowlands were all sub merged 1000 head heid of stock swept away and dro drowned railroad ruined and all sorts of property damaged OMAHA 5 the ahe river is falling slowly at this thia point it is thought an ice gorge has formed somewhere between omaha and bioux sioux city gorges above sioux city are reported as holding firm yet the river is falling at ports forts sully and bandall randall yankton dakota dakota 5 the only change in the river riven river situation is is an ot herrise which exceeds by far tha of the heretofore reported lower yankton is submerged today to day and the people have been removed to the upper portion of the city no lives imperiled but some bome will occur in removing and considerable damage must result to property intelligence ilgen ligen e received today to day from bannen is is that out of fourteen persons 10 had been rescued alive and well A family named bates and one named Hadde menn are undoubtedly drowned and seven other families are probably lost six miles this side of green island the people have been in part removed to this place no lives lost here but the vilia villa village geis gets is completely washed away water and ice to the depth of 12 feet across the village site the ice lee probably choked up the channel of the river a distance below yankton turning a great volume of water across the low lowlands lands on the dakota side and flowing eastward 30 miles before it reenters re enters the clia cha nei nel mel at vermillion a point on the river aver bank which is reported washed away with the loss ot of 30 lives this report needs confirmation fir former dispatches have given the situation at niobrara Nio brara which intelligence has been confirmed no lives ilves lost and nd damage to the town by suta suba submersion emersion mer sion slon very slight 1 ht the river at this point is I 1 about six miles in width its surface covered with broken ice further east a few miles breadth of water broadens to tho 15 miles retaining this width without exception for 15 45 miles CHICAGO 5 11 p m the returns from 93 precincts give harrison harrlson democrat candidate for mayor 2365 9 majority the remaining twenty seven precincts will change this total som somewhat but will not alter the fact that the democrats have carried their entire city and town ticket by a fair majority with the possible exception of the west side town indications are that the vote of the east fast side will be about which ia nearly 2000 less than at presidential iee lec election Jee tion of last fall midnight i harrisons majority will reach and probable elc exceed that figure some kome somewhat what the vote in the city has been very close 0 o there was no socialists Socia lista and the votes of that party seem to bearty have gone chiefly chief ly to the e d democrats the irish republican vote disappointed the republicans by its smallness and the german germon citizens fearing the beer privileges would be curtailed cuthbe cut the republican tickets heavily the democratic vote remains about the same presidential election while the republicans fell peli away through at home howg and nd the influences bove noticed there is is no doubt tha that te the democrats have madea made a clean claA sweep swee bwee p although by less leas MA majorities than 16 that for mayor major As to republicans so far as heard from baye haye have made bade ofia one gain and the council will remain republican as at present by order of postmaster general james the postmaster at san francisco will wili wi 11 hereafter advise the postmaster at new york city of the dates forba ded by each mail steam er departing from san francisco for japan and china and pho bho also aiso of the ho hours 5 and dates of arrival at san ban francisco of mail steamers from japan and china including if practicable ti the dates of china chila chi aa mails brought by them and dates and hours of departure from san pan aa fahn francisco 7 of trains by which such mall is forwarded eastward those reports will be made public by postmaster james |