The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-11
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TO TIE REGIsTER.-
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
rBy Telegraph to the Rsgistcr.l
wAsHSoroN, August 10.

WASHINGTON, August ~.
81 Arrfvals.
The President and Secretary Fish ar.
rived this morning. The Postmaster
General arrived last night.
Interviewed she President.
Several visitors, including fsur men,
bers of Congress, had interviews with
tho President this morning. 4
Cabinet MeefisE.
At the Cabinet meeting this morning
the Treasury Department was repre-
sented by Assistant Secretary Richard
son and Attorney General by Assistant
Field. The present intention of the
President is to leave Washington again
for New York tomorrow. The Cabinet
meeting adjourned at 3 o'clock P. NJ.
Nothing has transpired concerning the
subject discussed for which there is the
slightest official authority. ~
Changes in the Names OF Vessels.
The Secretary of the Navy has made
the following changes in the names OF
vessels to conform more fully with the
law: Arizona to Nevada, Hecla to Ne
braska, Hercules to Oregon, Thunderer
to Massachusetts, Astoria to Omaha,
Cambridge to Congress, Detroit to Can
aHdaigua, Achilles to Modoc, Etna TO
Nausett, Argus to Koko, Atlas to Nahant'
Caster to Mahopac, Spitfire to Suncook'
Stromb boil to Wassuc, Tarter to Yazoo,
Tempest to Yuma, Nemesis to Wyan-
dstte, Vixen to Osceola, Tornado to
Winnebago.
The Test-Oath Question.
The question has been seriously con-
sidered here as to whether or not the
President with his settled opposition to
test oaths, in which he is strongly sup
ported by General Sherman and two or
three members of the Cabinet, Will
abide by the decision of the Attorney
General respecting the requirement OF
that oath from members elect to the
Legislatures in the yet uLreconstructed
States. Radicals assert that the deci-
sion of the Attorney General will be
final, no matter what the result may be.
State of Affairs on the Frontier.
Advices from our Indian frontier are
favorable to prospects for continued
quiet, at least, until after the winter
season commences. In the meantime
the Quaker Commissioners will have
ample opportunity to carry out their
efforts to establish permanent peace.
The Radicals in the South TO be Up
held.
Within the ensuing ten days the pei
icy of the Administration regarding the
pending campaigns in the South will
assume more definite form, decidedly
favorable to the ambient Republicans
in Mississippi, and the Davis Radicals
in Texas. There can be no mistake
about this, as it comes directly from the
President himself to Radical Missis.
sippi Republican, who sought an inter
view with him at Secretary Fish's house
on the Hudson, for the purpose of learn
ing something definite regarding the
prospects of his party. He reports that
the President was sufficiently emphatic
in his denunciation of the Dent move
ment to satisfy him that the moral in
fluence, if not the active Political power
Of the Administration, would be used
against Dent.
Dent Advised by His BrotEer-in law.
President Grant is reported TO have
written q letter to Dent, advising him
not to have anything to do with the
new Conservative movement, and finally
requesting him not to accept the NOM
ination for Governor, if it is rendered to
him by that party. This letter must
now be in Judge Dents possession.
A New Unitarian Congregation
Has been organized in this city, to be
known as the Free National Church
of Christ" 1t is designed that it shall
be in every sense free church. The
first public services will be held next
Sunday.
General Sherman leaves here on Fri |
day, and will join Secretary Robson |
and party at Philadelphia, to accom-
pany them on their tour of inspection to