The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-08
BY TELEG H.
Exclusively for the Register
By the Pacific and Atlantic Line.
once, ITO Main street.
WASHING TON.
WASHINGTON, July 7.
Secretary Thompson's Account.

The account Of the late Jacob
Thompson, Secretary OF the Interior
under President Buchannon, were aet-
tied in the Second Auditors Office a
few days ago, and a deficiency charged
against the same amounts to 1921 ,OOO
1t will be remembered that in 1859 one
Jobbard Baily, a clerk in the office oi
the Secretary of the Interior. abstracted
bonds OF certain Indian trust funds to
this amount. The Government held
them in trust FOR the Indians as the
proceeds arising from the sale of their
lands, and every congress has since
appropriated a sum of S2SS.0OO to
meet the interest thereon. The defci-
ancy above named is charged to
Thompson's account. but is Of course
assumed 10y the Government and is
carried from year to year to the &C.
count OF the Secretary Of the Interior.
The account will no doubt at some
future day be provided for by legisla-
tive enactment. The Indian trust
accounts o! Secretary Delano have
been settled up 10 June 30th, 1872.
The statement being calculated to pro-
duce the impression that Thompson
was defaulter in the one above men
toned
Relieved.
Lieutenant Colonel Kaatz, OF the
Fifteenth infantry has been relieved
from the command of the Recruiting
department at the Newport barracks,
KY, aud ordered to join his regiment.
Appointments.
The President has sent the folio wing
appointments here for record: Joseph
Beale, L. S. Navy. to be chief Of
Bureau OF Medicine and Surgery in the
Navy Department; W. W. Murray, to
be L. S. Attorney for the western dis
trict of Tennessee; Henry G. W. Or
thington, to be Collector of Customs at
Charleston, S. C..
Yellowstone Expedition,
Dispatches received from the Yellow
stone expedition dated Camp, 20 miles
west OF Bismarck, Dakota, June 30"
states that the health Of the command
was good. The Indians were offering
no serious resistance to the location OF
the railroad through their hunting
grounds. An abundance Of coal OF good
quality was found twenty-seven miles
west OF the Missouri river in the sur
yeyed land of the railroad, and the
county thus far traversed BY the e1-
pedition force is excellent, well grassed
and waterei.
Postal Car Service.
SIce the first inst. the postal car
service has been in operation on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad between
Washington and Cincinnati, and the
railroad company have placed i've
handsome first class postal cars on the
main line.
Rear Admiral Jenkins, commanding
the Asiatic station, under date OF May
26:b, at Shanghai, reports the moves
men,s OF the vessels under his COM
mand as follows: On the 9th Of April
he temporarily transferred his flag from
the Hartford to the Monocacy tor the
purpose OF visiting the ports between
Hong Kong and Shanghai. he visited
Swaton. Moy and Foochow. He called
on the Vice Roy at the latter place, be-
ing the first foreign officer who has
ever had an interesting conversa-
ton with the present Vice Roy:
He usually avoided such visitors; he
had very satisfactory interview with
bin. On the 18th OF May he arrived
at Ming Po and visited the Tautois and
military commander. On the 18th OF
May he arrived at Shanghai, where be
fonnd the Hartford, Ironside aud Palos.
The Hartford sailed April Both and ar
rived at Annoy May Sd aud Sbag hal
May 10th. On the 10th Of May the
Admiral transferred his flag back to
the Hartford. The Lackawsnna on
Nav Goth WAS at Yokohama,
and was ordered to be st Nagasiki
Nav ll,h. The Yantic sailed on May
10th for Annoy and Nsgasiki. The
Palos was under orders to return to
Tiertri to relieve Ashullot. The Idaho
remained anchored at Yokohama. Ad-
miral Jenkins makes no mention OF the
reported outrage on the American
schooner Scott by Spanish gun
boat in Sooloo seas nor the reported
firing into the Ashullot by the Chimes
forts and it is thought that the report is
uptounded.