The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-11-13
WASHINGTON.


WASHINGTON, November 12.-Presi-
dent Grant, Gen. Sherman and other off
cials returned from Philadelphia thll
morning.
The Internal Revenue Collectors ant
Assessors, now numbering two hundred
and thirty. viii be reduced to eighty bJ
January next Commissioner Douglass L
about consolidating the collection districts
with that view.
The President has appointed William
Patrick United States Attorney for the
Eastern District oi Missouri, in place Of
Mr.. Crum, elected to Q Judgeship.
Mr.. Brasser, member Of Parliament from
Hastings, England, who arrived in his
steam yacht, now lying of the Navy Yard,
was introduced 10 the President to-day
BY Secretary Fish. III
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
estimates the receipts OF the Bureau for
the present fiscal year OF $l05, ,000, 600, or
$50, 0,0eO less than last year. So far as
the Bureau 10 aware, both the tobacco
and the spirit interests are satisfied with
the late law OF Congress. and therefore
there Is no reason To believe that any
modification oil 1t will be recommended,
unless the manner Of the Administration
and the Reorganization OF the districts, in
order TO render the system more com.
pact and to reduce the expenses.
As explanatory OF the recent diplomatic
call on President Grant TO congratulate
him on his reelection, it can ~ truth.
fully stated that the Ministers from Spain
and Belgium one day last week sever.
ally received kilograms from their
respective governments instructing them
so to act This was the origin Of the ar
rangement among the foreign Ministers,
now here, to call in body al the Execu.
tive Mansion. Secretary Fish at the
time OF the arrangement was absent, and
heard of 1t only on his return to this city.
What he did on that occasion was at their
own request, and therefore contrary to the
statements in the newspapers. No annoy.
snce was caused by him to the Senior
diplomats In consequence OF the alleged
disagreeable position In which they had
been placed by paying the courtesy of
congratulation in advance Of the decara.
tlon of the electoral college.
VII OElopSH1 SOllCltOA NouGEdIt u LOW
In Kentucky. he will probably forward
his resignation this week, when his sue.
cessor, already selected by the President,
will be announced.
The President has pardoned Appleton
Oak Smith, who was taken to Fort War.
rem in 1851. 1t being alleged that as a
ship agent In New York he had aided
In fitting out vessels engaged in the slave
trade, from the fact that he was trans.
ferred to the Boston Jail, and while legal
proceedings were pending escaped and
ever since has been fugitive. About
year ago paper was signed by large
number Of gentlemen asking the President
to pardon him, accompanied by docu.
ments tending to show his innocence OF
the charge.
The long pending contest over the
composition of the Brooklyn Board OF Ex.
amining Surgeons has reached conclu.
sion by the action OF the Commissioner OF
Pensions, who to-day reorganized the en-.
tire Board SO as 10 make its membership
as follows: Drs VIM. McCallam and N.
W. Leighton, Allopaths, and DR.. Albert
Summer, Homeopath.
Secretary Delano returned to Washing.
ton this morning and resumed his official
duties.
The President has recognized Halle
Steinsland as Vice Consul OF Sweden and
Norway at Madison, Wisconsin.
The horse disease is abating here.