The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-04-10
WASHINGTON.
Appointed BY the President.

| WARRINGTON, April S,-Ihe Pfegiden,
to-day appointed James Gilchrist "A
Surveyor OF Customs at Wheeling, VIVA
and Alonzo Bell as Assistant Secretary
Of the Interior, promoted from Chisi
Clerk on the ground OF merit and in au.
cordance with the Civil Service rules.
Visitors at the Executive Mansion
were very numerous 10 day, aud nearly
all In quest Of Office. Many were women.
There was also delegation Of coOttd
men.
The PostolRce Department to-day re.
ceiyed the resignation OF Mrs. L NJ. Por.
ter as Postmaster at Louisville, to take
effect July lSt.
THE SILVER FUND.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has di.
rected the Treasurer Of the United States
to keep as special fund separate from
all money the legal tender notes received
in exchange for silver coin. The Treas.
urer will open au account With these notes
at once, and they will be held only for
the purpose Of redeeming silver as re-
quired by the provisions OF 4 joint resou
tion.
THE CENTENNIAL DRcIsIoS-THE GOVERN.
MENT A PREFEBRED CREDITOR.
The Supreme Court in the Centennial
appropriation case has decided that the
81 800, 900 appropriated by Congress shall
be returned TO the Government before any
dividends are paid TO stockholders.
TREASURY CIRCULAR IN RELATION TO
COINAGE.
The following circular will be issued
tomorrow: The National Bank rGdpmp.
tion agency under the provisions OF the
Treasury Department circular No. A3, Of
March 2Sd, 1877, relative 10 coinage, in
which subsidiary silver coin may be Ob
taiued in exchange for currency. The
Treasurer OF the United States and re.
demption agent will cause to be forward.
ed from some mint Of the United States,
the expense Of transportation to be paid
by the mint, to any point in the United
States reached through any established
express line By continuous railway or
steamboat communication, subsidiary Ill.
yer coin in return for national bank nolcs
forwarded to him for redemption, in sums
OF $1,000 or any multiple thereof not
exceeding $4,000.
(Signed) A. U. WEYMAN,
Treasurer o. S. and Redemption agent.
WEST POINT NoMISArIoNs.
The President has made the following
appointments OF cadets at large, 10
enter the Military Academy ut We.r|
Point in June, 1875 Il. A. Gilman, oil
Fort Leavenworth, son of Capt II Gil
man, CommissSry OF Subsistence Of the
United States Army; Wm. E Woods, Of,
Newark, Ohio, son Of Col. Chas Wood.
retired late Major General OF Volunteer,
commanding second division 18Th army
corps; Chas. Lee Collins, OF C.nciunatI,
Ohio, son Of II. E. Collins, late Liru,en.
ant Colonel of ID Kentucky cavalry; II.
B, LOCKER, Of District oiColumbia, son Of
|. II. LOCKER, Pay Director OF United
States Navy; G. D. Fitch, Of Indiana, -un
Of the late Capt. II. S. Fitch, Of United
States Volunteers, who served on the
staff Of Gen. Pope and Sherman, and
grandson Of DR.. q. n. Fitch, who tcryed
during the war as Col. OF 45th Indiana
volunteers, and was also United Statrs
Senator from Indiana; William b..
L. Due, of Minnisota, son Of II. G..
lie Due, late Brigadler General Of Voluu.
teersi Warren Putnam, NeS Comiord,
Mass, the only male descendant OF Gems.
Joseph Warren and Putnam, of revolu.
tionary fame. The following have been
appointed alternates to take the pac
Of any OF the above named who may fail
to pass the preliminary examination: g
W. Lightburn, Pa, son OF Gen. Light.
burn, who commanded division oi the
18th army corps and served StVick. bufg
and Chattanooga; G. K. Davidson, No,
son of General ]. W. Davidson, late OF
the us. volunteers, now Lieut.. Col. ut
the 10th cavalry; C. ". MendenhaII, Cal,
son Of Capt. ]. Mendenhall of the 4 h
artillery; A. E. Gregg, New Mexico, sou
Of Col. J, r. Gregg Of the 5yh cavalry,
late Brigadier General Of volunteers Ia
Iowa and Of the cavalry division; ". A.
Thorne, Maine, son Of Lieut. Col. Geo.
Thorne, Of the engineer corps; c. c. Gil
bert, Montana, son Of Lieut.. Col. C. c..
Gilbert of the 7Lh infantry; Victor
Richardson, nephew Of Gen. John G.
Robinson, U. S. A.