The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-04-11
Proceedings Of the Louisi-
ana Commission.
Troops Withdrawn From
the South Carolina
State House.
Chamberlain's Farewell
Address.
The Other State Officers
Gracefully Retire.
The Eastern War Cloud
Darkening.
Warrington Items.

WASHINGTON, April 10.-The follow
Ing law is relative to appointments in the
Treasury Department: On and alter
January /, 1876, appointments in this
department shall be so arranged as to be
equally distributed between the several
States of the United States, Territories
and the District of Columbus, according
to the population. The above law
Secretary Sherman will rigidly enforce,
and under it there can at present be no
appointments from New England, New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland,
Delaware, West Virginia, Virgiria,
Arizona and the District of Columbia.
The Secretary will also insist that only
one member of family shall be en-
ployed.
A. K. Tingle, recently removed from
the Office of supervising special agent OF
the Treasury Department, was to-day
reinstated. Mr.. TIngle was removed to
make place for w. B. Moore, who fig
ured prominently in connection with the
stories against Assistant Secretary Co.
Isnt and other treasury officers.
The Cabinet was in session about two
hours. Nothing of extraordinary inter-
est was under consideration
The clerk OF the House OF Representa-
tives to-day received brief from Mr..
Patterson, OF Colorado, who denies the
right of Mr.. Belford to a seat in the next
Congress, on the ground that he could
not be elected at the same election to fill
the fragment OF term in the
Forty-fourth, and a full term
IN the Forty-flth Congress,
the Constitution providing that one rep
resentative from the State at large should
be elected ut the first election uGder the
Constitution, and thereafter at such time
and places as may be prescribed by law.
Mr.. Patterson contends as such provi-
sion has not been made by the State, his
own election is valid under the general
law of Congress which establishes Tues
day next after the first Monday in
November as the day in each of the
States and Territories for the election of
Representatives and Delegates to the
Forty-Fitth Congress. The clerk says
he is now carefully considering the law
and all the facts of the case OF contest be-
tween Patterson and Beliord.
G.. Nj. Lockwood, ot New York, chief
clerk of the Patent Office, was to-day ap-
pointed chief clerk of the Interior De.
partmept, vice Bell, appointed assistant
secretary OF the Interior, and +. A. Belye
of New York, assistant examiner, las
been appointed chief clerk Of the Patent
Office, vice Lockwood.
The Secretary of the Interior has re-
commended John A Green, of Iowa and
John n. McKenna OF Dakota, for ap-
pointment by the President, as register
and receiver, respectively, OF the newly
established land office at Sheridan, in the
Black Hills country.
Very large revenue frauds in the man.
ufacture of tobacco in North Carolina
have recently been discovered. Some
thirty manufacturers in the county OF
Surrey, charged with participating in
these frauds, have been indicted. The
frauds discovered are estimated by the
revenue agents to exceed one-third OF
the total amount cf the internal revenue
taxes collected IN that State.
Gen. Sherman will leave here Thurs.
day tor St. Louis, whittier he will &C.
company his family who 20 there to re-
side for the summer He will be absent
about week. His preparation for this
trip gave rise to tho unfounded report
that the headquarters o. the army We're
IN be moved To St Louis,