The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-07-24
WASHINGTON.
The Civil Service.


WASHINGTON, July 23.-The sue
cessful candidates for promotion in thu
civil service who were examined some
days ago will receive their commissions
today.
The Northwest Boundary.
The Officers Of Commission for the
survey of the northwest boundary, lef
Washington last night for St. Paul
Minnesota. They will 60 thence tc
Pembins, where the first OF the boun-
dary will be fixed. The line to be es-
tabiished is about one thousand miles
in length and it is expected that two
years will be occupied in the completion
OF the survey.
The President.
The President, accompanied by Gen.
eral Horace Porter and Lieutenant
Fred Grant, arrived this morning. A
large number Of visitors called upon the
President this morning. Among the
number were Mr.. Blair, American
Minister to Costa Rica, and General P.
D. Raddy, of Alabama.
ACabinet Meeting
took place today. All the members
were present except Secretary Delano.
Secretary Boutwell,
will not be able to attend the mass
meeting at Richmond tomorrow night.
Fred Douglass, Secretary Delauo, and
Senator Wilson will be present and
make speeches. Efforts are being made
to make the meeting the largest ever
held in that city.
The President and Spotted Tail.
President Grant will give Spotted
Tail and his friends an audience at ten
o'clock to morrow morning, and will
leave on the late train in the evening
for New York.
Grant Denies she Charge.
The charge made last evening by
Senator Schurz, in his speech in st.
Louis, that he had been offered official
patronage by the President or his
friends to vote against his convictions
of duty IN regard to the annexation OF
San Domingo, was telegrsphed to Sec
retary Belknap and was by him laid
before the President this morning. The
latter pronounced the charge untrue,
and requests Senator Schurz to publish
the letter he claims to have received in
relation to the alleged offer.
Treasury Balances
The Treasury balances at the close OF
business yesterday afternoon were as
follows: Currency, $l0,l90,07l coin,
SO, ,S66;96O, Of which s28, ,230, 900 were
in coin certificates. Allowing the actual
cash in the Treasury to be only $3s.-
536, $50, four millions of which is held
to redeem called bonds and therefore is
not available for any other purpose, the
decrease in cash has been very nearly
at the rate Of one million per day since
July |. ,
A sIckIy Story.
The letter Of Jacob Thompson to j.
P. Benjamin, the Confederate Secretary
of State, found among the rebel
archives which were sold TO the
Unites States Government, through the
agency of John 7. Pickett, has been
published in pamphlet form, for dis
tribution by the Republican Nationsl
Executive Committee. From this
letter it appears that Mr.. Thompson
was the regular authorized agent OF the
Confederacy, both for the burning OF
New York, Philadelphis, st. Louis and
Cincinnati, and for organizinga counter
revolution at the North for these pur-
poses. Thompson and his associates
were supplied with a million dollars in
gold. It'll claimed that the St. Albans
raid and the attempt to free the priso-
ners at Johnsou's Island were some OF
the results. 80