The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-11-25
WASHINGTON.

ment Of Agriculture gives the cottoI
prospects % substantially the same as Il
the October statement. &t e a
The following are the balances In thl
Treasury Of the United States at the closl
of business to-day: Currency, 50, 1856, ,094
coin, $7l $3.50, 500, including geo, 1885, 800 Il
coin certificates; special deposits Of lega
tenders for redemption ol certificates o
deposit, $28505, 900; amount Of ftactiona
currency received from printing division
for week ending to-day, $959, 400; ship
ment, 1894 800; shipment OF legal tenders
$4,000. The Treasurer holds In trus
as security for the circulation Of notes o
national banks, 1886, ,58S, 300, and for de-
posits Of public monies, $l6,60S000. H.
ternal revenue receipts to-day, SAC, ,057
receipts Tor month, $GS34, ,070, and fol
fiscal year to date, $51, ,537, ,O3S. Nationa
bank currency outstanding at date, $34l,
5Ol 500; fractional currency redeemed and
destroyed during week, $7l9,S00.
The President today appointed Albert
W. s. Waine, pension agent at Desmolnes
Iowa.
Since the adjournment Of Congess the
President has made 1877 appointments: fol
the Interior Department IS, the most o.
them were Indian agents and Public
Land Officers; Department Of Justice Is
United States Marshalls, District Attorneys
and Navy Department 8; Postmasters Al
State Department 81, of which II are
Consuls and most oil the others Centen.
nial Commissioners. The last named ap'
pointmCntsare not 10 be confirmed by the
Senate. For the Treasury Department
"a. OF which 10 are Supervisors Of Inter.
nal Revenue under the new law, most oil
the other appointments are for the Inter,
nal Revenne and Custom Service
The Postoftice Department has ordered
postal service on the Dakota Southern
Railroad, from Sioux City to Vermillion,
Dakota, thlrty.five miles, from December
14th; pay to be arranged hereafter.
Two hundred and fifty recruits have
been ordered to Louisville for the 9th
cavalry.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24-The Commis.
sioners 10 investigate the outrages on the
Rto Grand border have completed their
report, which Is very long. They spent
two hours with the President yesterday,
when he asked for many explanations,
taking deep interest in it. The Com.
missioners confined their investigations to
q distance Of five hundred miles, from the
mouth Of the Rio Grande TO Rio Grande
City, estimating that the Americans in,
cluded within that limit have, by the
Mexican raids, suffered to the extent Of
S3O, ,OOO,O 600, to say nothing Of the mur.
ders committed by the Mexicans. They
think that II they had continued their IN.
vestigations as far Ell Paso 1t would have
been discovered that the total losses, in-
cluding those caused by Indian raids,
would have increased the sum total to
$lO0, 100000. They ufse protection 10
the people on the border by an increase Oi
cavalry, otherwise q predatory war will
be the result The appropriation for the
Commission IL exhausted, but a new one
will be made 10 continue the Commission
in the prosecution OF further investiga.
ton. There Is no doubt but that the
President will urge upon Congress prompt
legislation In the premises
A telegram was received by acting
Postmaster General Marshall, late last
night, from the Postmaster General ol
Great Britain, stating that the steamship
City Of Brooklyn, which left on the 18th
inst. with American and New Zealand
mails, had put back into Queenstown
disabled, and that those mails would be
sent by q Cunard steamship to-day. E
The estimate Of the appropriations for
the next fiscal year are now completed.
Those for the Navy Department arc
smaller than last year, as are also those
OF the Indian Bureau, which are cut down
from hall to q quarter OF q million dol
larg, but there isa Slight increase Of mon
ey In the Legislative, Judicial and execn.
tive appropriation bill, rendered necessary
by the increase in the number Of mem
bers OF the House Ol Representative
under the new appointment act, and The
enlargement Of the number Of cadet ap.
pointments in the Military and Naval
Academies! All things considered, the
aggregate OF the appropriations will be the
same as heretofore. The Committee on
Appropriations are disposed TO keep all o.
them within the estimates.
A new edition Of rules and regulations
for the Improvement Of the Civil Service
for application in New York has Just beer
issued. Members Of Congress and othel
politicians who are opposed 10 the Civi
Service policy have been referred to tht
executive order issued last April, in which
President Grant says while the right OF al
persons in official positions to take part II
politics is acknowledged, and the elective
franchise is recognized as a high trust L
DO discharged by all entitled to It's exer
else, whether In the employment OF th(
government or in private lie, honesty ant
efficiency mot political activity will dc
termine the tenure Of office. A.. ~,
The Court Of Claims are to be now en-
gagged on the remaining unadjudicateG
cotton claims filed within two years aftel
the declaration Of peace. Since the pas
sage of the proviso referring TO the Secre
tary Of the Treasury all claims for cotton
seized after that date, the proceeds of tht
sale which have been paid into the Treas
urY, 1900 claims have been filed with tht
Secretary. The number Is 80 large thai
he cannot possibly attend to them witt
the particularly they require. Hence
there Is no doubt but that Con-
gress will either provide that they b.
committed 10 the Court OF Claims, or tha
they be examined and settled by specia
commission. The report Of the Secretary
Of the Interior, will be a long document
devoted almost exclusively TO summar.
izing the years work Of the variou
branches Of the public service under hi
charge. The successful working Of thl
Indian policy will be set forth, and nj
recommendation of change be made ii
regard to 1t, m ~ ...as ~.
President Grant yesterday directed tn
issue oi a pardon to Reuben ]. Young, O
Alabama, convicted In May, 1872, Of be.
ing implicated In a Ku.Klux conspiracy
and sentenced 10 be imprisoned for tel
years and 10 nav a fine nj Il 00l