The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-10-24

OF Lle court mhELlhl III tue ChSe VI tut
Surgeon oil Marines oil the United StateI
Navy, who was tried at Annapolis fol
shooting and wounding two marines who
were gathering strawberries In one Of tht
foreclosures, at the Naval Academy, Is thai
he'be suspended from rank and duty fol
three years. The President modified the
sentence TO two years suspension.
James NJ. Walker has been appointed
Internal Revenue storekeeper for the 9th
Kentucky. district; a. 1 Connolly, Gaugel
for the 12th Ohio district. 80
The statement ot the operations OF the
letter carrier or free delivery system fol
the year ending June 30th, 1873 has been
prepared and shows the aggregate num-
ber OF pieces handled by the carriers was
375, ,315, ,G73, and the aggregate cost OF the
service including all incidentals was ST.
422, ,4G5 at the average cost Of delivery oi
8 and $40 mills per. piece. The lowest
average being Chicago 2 and 4.10 mills
The service has nearly reached position
in which It's expenses will be paid
by the local postagcs with which
It Is credited. As compared with
the preceding fiscal year there were 49,
5000 more mail letters, $5,33G, ,169 more
local letters, and $6768, ,207' more news
papers delivered, and there were 81 ,04S, :
1873 more letters collected than during the
previous year, at an increased cost to the
service OF 2 G.10 per cent, while the re-
ceipts on local postage increased 81 per
cent since the first day .oi last July. The
free delivery system has been established
In thirty.fve additional cities, and will be
extended 70 all cities having population
of 10000 or upwards.
Customs receipts for the week ending
October 18th were US follows: New York,
$1,73O,743; Philadelphia, $l2l,l70; Bos-
ton, $3l1 200; Baltimore SOL $50.
Outstanding legal tenders $3.50, ,453, ,SSS.
At the opening of the Supreme Court
to-day Attorney General Williams pre-
sented the resolutions Of the bar in respect
to the memory Of the late Chief Justice
Chase, and in the course of his remarks
said: "PosteritYSwill know him through
his public services, but we, his associates
aud friends, know and can appreciate as
well his private virtues, physically,
Intellectually and morally. He was all
that Chief Justice ought to be. I'm.
PEELED by what has been termed the IN.
trinity of noble minds. He pursued with
unremitting zeal his lofty aims, and what.
ever else may be said o. his experience,
happily no one can say that they marred
the excellence or purity of his personal
character. He went down to the grave
crowned with years and many honors,
and left TO his children and his country
record of life rich in the worlds opinion
and mems praise, and full Of oil We could
desire but days"
Associate Justice Clifford in response
reviewed the public career OF the deceased
saying: "Men find it easy to review 9TH
ers, but much more difficult to criticize
and review their own acts, and yet that Is
the very summit towhich an upright Judge
should always be- Tho striving pride ol
opinion at such time Is too apt to pre-
dominate over the love Of justice, but II
was exactly under snch circumstances
that the late Chief Justice was called up
on to review, as Judge, one of the most
striking and conspicuous OF his acts as
guarding of the National Treasury, at the
moment when the fate Of the Nation so
much depened upon It's correct admins
tration. Great success attended the tinan-
cial scheme when 1t was adopted, and
time had secured for il an extensive ap-
proyal. As the war Of the rebellion was
VIGOROUSLY ended, and the National
wealth was rapidly increasing. Circum-
stances better calculated to foster the
pride of opinion cannot well be imagined.
But the Chief Justice who had so credita.
bly met the demands OF duty in such great
variety Of other responsible positions, did
not hesitate to apply his best power to
the task OF rcviving the measure In ques.
ton, and finally recorded his opinion that
It was not justified. by, the constitution.
judges and jurors may dissent from his
final conclusion, and hold, as majority
OF the justices Of this court do, that he
was right as Secretary Of the Treasury,
but every generous mind, as It seems TO
me, should honor the candor and selI.c
troll which inspired and induced such ac'
tion,
In conclusion, he said the justices Of
this court had lost Q rcvcred companion,
and the public q great magistrate and an
upright servant.
The Court concurred in the resolutions
Of the Bar, and directed that they be en-
tered on the minutes Of the Court from re.
spect 10 the memory Of tho deceased.
Adjourned until tomorrow.