The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-10-03
WASHINGTON.
DEATH OF ooMMopoRE wooLssY.

DEATH OF coNMoDoRR wooLsRY.
WASHINGTON, October e-Commodore
M. .. WoolSey, commandant at the Pen.
sacola Navy Yard, died this morning Of
yellow fever.
RLMER G. wAsHDURNE,
OF Chicago, was formally commissioned
today by Secretary BriStow as Chief oi
the Secret Service Bureau.
RETURNED.
SccrGtery Delano returned today from
Ohio.
APPOINTED.
Henry Clay Writes has been appointed
Appraiser Of Merchandise at St. Louis.
PREslDRNT GRANT GoEs TO ST. LOUIS.
The President and Mrs. Grant leave to.
morrow morning for 81. Louis. They
will be accompanied by Gen. Babcock,
ex-Secretary Of the Navy Borie and
Mrs. Borle, and will probably stop q dsy
or two at Cincinnati. The President
will attend the unveiling of the Lincoln
Statue at Springfield, and will not return
to Washington until alter the marriage
OF his son, Lieut.. Col. F. D. Grant, which
takes place IN Chicago this month.
The Court OF Commissioners OF the
Alabama Claims, accompanied by A. F.
Creswell on the part oil the Government
and John Davis, Clerk, paid their respects
this morning to the President.
PRRsDENr1AI APPOINTMENTS.
The President has appointed ]. G. s.
Colby, Of Missouri, Consul to Chin Kaing,
vice Weston, Flint, suspended; Isaac i.
Shepard, OF Missouri, Consul at Swatow,
China, vice Joseph Q. A. WiDgate, sus-
pended; Wilhelm Finkler, Of Wisconsin,
Consul at Ghent; John n. Thatcher, OF
Virginia, Commissioner oil Patents, vice
N. D. Leggett, resigned, 10 take effect
November let; Ellis Spear, Of Maine,
Assistant Commissioner oi Patents, vice
J. III. Thatcher appointed Commissioner;
Marcus s. Hopkins, Of Virginia, Exam
liner in Chief OF the Patent Office, vice
Ellis Spear appointed Assistant Commis.
sioner. These promotions are all made
IN direct accordance with the spirit oil the
Civil Service regulations, though they do
not come directly under It's provisions
The vacancy created by the promotion Of
MIR. Hopkins will be made under the
Civil Service rules. The Secretary Of the
Treasury has appointed James O'Neil
Gauger for the 1st District OF Missouri.
A.CIRcUIAR FROM THE ATTORNEY GEN.
RRAI.
The Attorney General to-day sent the
following circular to the U. s. AIarshals in
the Southern States, in whose districts
armed bodies of men have committed or
are threatening 10 commit act Of yio-
lence and bloodshed:
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,
WASHINGTON, Sept. 80. IA
sIR-1 would suggest that at those
points where United States troops are or
may, be stationed in your district some
prudent and fearless person, in whose
judgment you have confidence and whom
the people respect, may be appointed as
Deputy Marshal 10 act at once in
the arrest ot the parties commit
ing outrages in the vicinity, 80 that
It may be necessary in such cases 10 send
Tor you before the troops can be used for
the purpose of arresting those who are
guilty oi violating the laws oil the United
States. This Of course will not be neces.
sary where you arc easily accessible, but
where troops are placed at remote points
before necessary communications can be
made the offenders rs a general rule have
an opportunity to escape. You will give
the deputies the necessary instructions as
to procuring warrants, and l need not re-
peat that it is important that you should
delegate this power to none but careful
and responsible persons.
Very Respectfully, n-
GEO. Il. WnL1Ms,
Attorney General.