Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-09-11

so apportion his comm and AS to meet
| the cxigences of the situation as they
may arise.
There are now in the Southern
| States, exclusive of Teuness' e ard
| Texas, four regiments of the army,
| with headquarters as follows: The
First artillery, at Charleston, s. G.,
Second infantry, at Atlanta, Ga,
| Third infantry, at Holly Springs,
Miss, and Eighth infantry at Column
bia, S. G. As the troubles are princi-
pally in the middle portion of Ala
bama, the lied River country of Lou
isiana, and N Georgia, it is more than
once issue orders changing the pres
ent stations of his command TO point
which will cover the localities desig-
mated.
The following is the distribution Of
troops in the several Southern States:
Three companies of the Second in
fantry in Alabma, six in Georgia, and
one in Tennessee; the entire Third in
faDtry at Holly Springs, Miss, three
companies of the Sixteenth in
kansas, one in mississippi, one in
AOulSlaHd, auo Cllo III LCAucooCC,
eight companies of the Eighteenth
more in Georgia; eight companies
of the First artillery in Floridr, one in
Georgia two in South Carolina and
one in Virginia six companies of the
Second artillery in North Carolina,
ginia and four in Maryland, making
the whole number of troops in the
South about two thousand five hun
dred. The Third infantry was or
dered to Louisiana several months
ago, but on account of the warm
weather and liability to fever, it was
decided that the regiment should re-
main at Holly Springs, Miss, until
| the fall. It will now be hurried on to
| Louisiona.
The President has advised Secretary
Bristow to withhold for the pr esent
any contemplated change in the mat
ter of making a new appointment in
place of the suspension of Internal
Revenue Inspector Cobb, of North
Carolina. The removal of Colonel
Whitley as Chief of the Secret Service
Division of the Treasury Department,
was determined upon to-day.
| WASHINGTON, Sept. 5-Noon.-"Op
dit" That under the present arr ange-
ments, Attorney-G General Williams,
whom the Senate rejected as Chief
Justice, is virtually commander-in-
chief of the armies and navies of the
United States in their use or abuse
throughout the South. He is to use
this high power delegated by the Con
stitution to the President for fraction
al purposes of whites against blacks
and blacks against whites or other
| wise.
WAsHINGroN, September 5-Night-
! District Attorney Beckwith is here: he
will authoriz 10 statement regarding
the situation.
Orders have been issued, placing
troops at New Orleans, Baton Rouge,
Shreveport, Alexandria. Monroe. Hur-
ris onburg, and ST Martiusviiie, in
/ Louisiana.
Appointment-Richard Peters, Com
missioner for Georgia. to the Center :
NAL Commission.
The following order was issued TO-
day. dated yesterday: "With tie AS
sent OF the President, and at the
| request of the General, the hea,iuumr-
| ters OF the army Of the United States
will be established AT S.. Louis, Mo
in the month of October next The
regulations and orders now governing
the functions of the General OF the
army, and those in relation to the
transaction of business with the War
Department and its bureau VIII con
nue. III force"
Tie order is signed Dv Adiutalt
General Townsend, by oiucr of tie
Secretary OF War.
A letter has been received at the
Treasury Department from the CoIlrc-
/ Tor of Customs at Brunswick, Ga to
| the effect that on the 14th OF August
tie American ship, VIM. Wilcox, put
in at Dobay Sound, Ill the District,
| with yellow fever on board, the
| Captain and first officer having died at
sea. Tie Collector ordered the vessel
to remain III the Sound, away from
the track Of passing vessels, ant that
a guard be kept on shore to prevent
boats from going to the vessel He
also had q temporary hospital con
! structcd "a Wolf Island and the crew,
twelve in Number, landed there. They
were attended aud supplied with pro-
visions and medicines by a physician
whom the Collector employed to at
tend them. One of the crew has died,
but the rest are improving very fast,
and viii soon be in condition K dis
| charge.