The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-06-30
Administering the Oath.
The Central Pacific Railroad.
Reduction of Postal Currency.
by Governor Holden.
OPERATIONS ATTIIE GoID BOARD.

RG-intcrring Dead SoIliers-.--Errenu.
lIarity IN Administering ORfhs.s.Ass
selection OF Lands for Railroad P1Fs
poses. @'7 : -
NEW YORK, June 29.-The Herald,s
Washington special says:
Inc expedition recently sent to the
W1ldernessto RENTER and remark the
graves OF those killed in battles, have
accomplished the work and returned
to this city. The whole affair was unS
der care of Captain James NJ. Moore
act1ng quartermaster Of the LIST reEis
ment OF Gen. Hancock's CORPS, The LIST
corps, under command of Colonel Bird.
were employed in this duty, which thew
performed with much credit to them
selves.
The operations were commenced on
the 18th inst, and continued without
interruption until last SATURDAY.. when
their sad duty was completed. They
commenced operations on the extreme
right and worked around to the left.
All the bodies which had not been
properly buried were re-buried, and in
all cases where the graves could be in
terpreted, neat head boards, painted
White, were placed over them with the
name and regiment inscribed upon it,
Carpenters and painters were taken
along to do the work promptly and
thoroughly.
thus identified and marked. Where it
was impossible to identity them, thew
We're marked United States soldiers
unknown. On the extreme right two
sites for cemeteries were laid out and
enclosed by neat white fences: one of
them is on the Orange Courthouse
road, mile and II half from the Lacey
House. and the other on the Grange
Courthouse plank road. At the iunc-
ton of these two roads u guide-board
was put up directing visitors to the
cemetery. The remains of all who
were found not properly inferred were
placed in the cemetery. The number of
bodies found unburied was not so nu-
merous as has been represented, and
there was no odor from decaying corpse
as has been represented by some par
ties. The head boards to many of the
graves previously placed, were in many
cases so obliterated as to render identf-
hc1tlon almost impossible.
Great irregularity exists in comply
ing with the legal forms for oaths Of
amnesty and allegiance. One hundred
and nineteen were received in the State
Department to-day, containing vital
omissions.
In a large proportion of cases the
residence of the person is partly or
wholly omitted. In others the applil
cant is only sworn to defend the Con
stltutlon OF the United States, instead
of to support, defend and protect. Such
omissions are held to inYalidate the
oaths III many cases and the applicant
suffers from delay. The insertion of
the place of residence is not prescribed
by the Presidents proclamation, but is
SO OBVIOUSLY necessary that, it should
never be omitted.
The General Land Office has received
a list of lands selected at the land Office
ut Marysville, Cal, by the agent of the
Central Pacific Railroad as inuring to
said Company, under the grant of July
list, 1862, and July I'd, 1854, to aid in the
of the Pacific Railroad,
to 55,289 acres. The selec-
tons were duly certified by the register
aud receivers as free from conflicting
claims and subject to selection under
surveying, &c, duly deposited with the
United States Treasurer at San Fran.
1864.
The appointment of Mr., Van Dyck
as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Mt New York, is confirmed. He is eX-
Pected to enter upon tho discharge of
his official ClOfiaS on Monday