The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-07-07
NEW YORK.
Society of the Army or the jaime

parations are being made for the re
union OF the Society Of the Army Of tn,
James, to be held in this city on tn
10Th inst. The address of welcom
will be delivered by Brevet-M Major Gen
eral Samuel A. Duncan, New York vol
unteers. An original poem, written 70
the occasion, will be read by Col. Johl
Hay, late Private Secretary to Presiden
Lincoln. Thepublic exercises will tax
place at Apollo Hall, in the afternoon
Most of the prominent members of tn
society are expected to be present.
Meeting OF Orangemen.
A meeting of Orangemen was hel,
last night tor the purpose Of finally de
Gliding as to whether their society shoul'
or should not parade on the 18th o
July. The proceedings were conducte,
with closed doors, but it transpired tina
the majority Of those present were il
favor OF procession.
The Cuban General Covoda.
Several well known citizens of thi
city and Philadelphia are using thei
best efforts to save the life of Genera
Frederick Covoda, the Cuban General
who was captured on the Sd inst, by .
Spanish guuboat, when attempting tc
leave Cuba. General Covoda was for
merly Lieutenant Colonel of the ll4tl
Pennsylvania Volunteers and after
wards breveted Brigadier General. A
prominent gentleman has gone to Long
Branch to request President Grant t
direct Secretary Fish to intercede fol
Covods. 1t is thought the President
will exert his good offices and save the
lite of a gallant soldier, who has for {
long time been a helpless invalid.
Civil Service Commissioner Ku
Klux COmmittee-A New Posta
Treaty-Steamboat Inspectors.
A Washington special to the Time
Of the 9TH, says: The Civil Service Com
mission met again to-day, all the mem
hers being present but Mr.. Mitchell
He returned to-day and will be presen
tomorrow. The Commissioners are al
eager for practical solution of tht
question before them, bnt they know toe
well the difficulties in the way to hole
out extravagant hopes concerning wha
may be accomplished. All they prom
ise is to make an earnest effort. If s
radical separation of politics from ap
pointments is made, it is feared tha
Congress will sweep away the whole
machinery ofreform, a: the next session
and then reform could only be effected
by being made political issue. Just
how much it is expected to attempt, il
order that the reform may grow, instead
of being smothered in its infancy by the
politicians, is a difficult question 10 de
termine.
The Ku-Klux committee still stays
here, patiently working away in the hot
weather without any prospect for the
termination of its labors appearing
To day several leading citizens of Ala
bama and Mississippi arrived in the
city to appear as witnesses.
The Minister Of the Argentine Re
public, Mr.. Garcia, has been authorized
by his Government to make ! ew pos
tai treaty with the United States, and
negotiations are now going forward be
tween him and the Postoffice Depart
ment.
The steamboat inspectors resumed
their meetings today, and will probably
continue in session until the middle o
this month.
PaiikaO and TrOchu.
Count Palikao published a denial o
General Trochu's charges relative to
the course pursued by the former. On
the fourth of September, General Tro
chu in his three days speech in the
Assembly, said that when the news Of
the Sedan disaster arrived in Paris
Palikao said to him, General, revolu
ton is await aecomph. If you don
take direction of affairs, it is all up with
US; il you do, probably the result will
be Just the same" To this Trochu re-
piled that his conduct was proper in all
respects. Trochu. it will be recollected
also accused Paliko of acting unwisely
in keeping Bazaine at Metz, and sending
him reintorcements after he should have
been recalled to Paris.
Mexican Bonds.
Late foreign advices state that the
English holders OF Mexican bonds have
issued protest against the mortgage on
a part of the revenues Of the Republic
which the Mexican railway company
offers as security for loan of $1,000,
OOO, which it is raising in England. The
bondholders aver that they havea prior
claim, as already telegraphed.
Probable Election Of JnareE as Pres
fdent OF Mexico.
Telegraphic advices from the City o.
Mexico indicate, without clearly an
nounciug the fact, that Benito Juare'
has been elected President OF the Re
public of Mexico. Diaz Cones was
second to Juarez in the vote so far a:
heard from, and Lerdo de Tejada, tht
third candidate, was utterly defeated.
Base Ball. b q. ...0
The Mutuals were defeated to-day by
the Forest City club, Of Cleveland, by {
score of six to five.
A Republican Quarrel.
The General Committee Of the he
publicans, Of which Horace Greeley If
chairman, met tonight and again quar-