The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-03-17
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, March lG.-A caucus
meeting OF Republican Senators was 10
be held this morning, but no quorum
assembled, and the meeting was, there.
fore, not organized. There is said to have
been some mistake in the notifications to
members. The President to-day adionrn.
ed the meeting until Monday next.
The Senate. in executive session. con.
tirmed the nominations Of Phillip II,
Emerson as Associate Justice OF the Sn.
preme Court Of Utah; John c. Lee, u. S.
District Attorney Tor the Northern Dis
trict Of Ohio, and o. Adds, Of Vermont.
James L. Howell, Of Iowa, and Orange
Ferris, to be Southern Claims CommIs.
sioners; Jessie II. Moore, Pension Agent
at Springfield, ILL.,, and James NJ. Wilk.
inson and John NJ. FarIand, Receivers of
Public Moneys at Marquette and Detroit
respectively.
Surveyor Of Customs, Thos. ,Iennegan,
City District OF Chicago. u. S. Mar.
shals-Jesse S. HiIdrup, Northern Dis.
trlct oil Illinois, Sam. 7. Evans, Eastern
District OF Tennessee; Peter Schenck.
Register OF Land Office, Norfolk, Neb
Postmasters-Gco. I. Ward, Utica, Ind;
Miss Julia F. Voolfolk, jackson, Tenn,
VIM. Rule, Knoxville, Tenn: Sam'l Hunt
Cleveland, Tenn; John D. Lewis, Pulaski
Tenn; John A. Post, BolSel, City of Ida
ho; Silas II. Crounz, Helena, Montana;
ThOs. (. Douglass, Mansfield, O.; Thos'
W. Collier, jr., CoshoCtou, o.: David
sayre, Wabash, Ind; Michael Piggot,
Quincy, ILL.,; Jas. II. Clark, Mattoon, ILL.,:
II. W. Hubbard, Centralia, Ill; Clark +.
Carr, Galesburg, ILL.,; Mrs. Prescilla w.
Wilson, Breidwood Ill; Orlando II.
Morwin, Evanston, Ills; Francis NJ. Tay.
lor, Belleville, Ills, L. S. Rogers, Re
dowa, Iowa; George L. Tarbet, Dubuque,
Iowa; Edward Russell, Davenport, Iowa:
Wm. G. Cawley, Manchester, Iowa: Eden
n. Heavens, Faribault, Minnesota; Fran
els NJ. Seelye, Lake City, MINI; John
Kennedy, Hastings, Mimi, Charles L.
Singer, MaunatOwac, Mis-; Justus T.
Moak, Waterloo, Wis; Mrs. Ellen D. W.
Hatch, Rolla, Mo-; Henry W. Turner,
Lexington, No.; Cornell Crisler, indie
pendence, Mo-. Arthur D. Downs, W.
andotte, Kansas; VIM. S. Blakely, June.
ton City, Kansas; Lorenzo ]. Warden,
Lawrence, Kansas; Henry King, Topeka,
Kansas; Thomas F. Hall, Omaha, Neb.
NOMINATIONS.
The President sent the following nomi.
nations to the Senate to-day: Frederick
Seward, Of New York, to be Assistant
Secretary Of State; J, n. Tyner, Of Mis-.
souri,, to be First Assistant Postmaster.
Postmasters-O. H. Merum, Evanston.
Illinois; HIS. Hubbard, Centralia, Ills;
Henry King, Topeka, Kas.; George I.
Ward, Utica, Mo-; Geo. +. Dick, Bloom.
ington, Ills; q. NJ. Mitchen, Charleston
Ills; Thomas T. Hall, Omaha, Neb. u.
5. Marshalls-W. ], Waldron, Western
District Of Tennessee; Samuel c. Evans,
Eastern District Of Tennessee; Jesse s.
Aildrut, Northern District Of Illinois,
Thomas Jerrigan, Surveyor OF Customs
Michigan City, Ind. Peter S. Charnick
Register Of Land Office, Norfolk, Ncb.
RE-APPoINTED.
Postmaster General Key to-day re-
appointed II. J. J.Sperry agent in charge
oil the stamped envelope works at Hart.
lord, Connecticut. Sperry was one Of
Postmaster General Jewels appointees,
but was removed soon after Jewell re.
tired from the Cabinet.
In executive session to-day, Mr., Dor.
sey, chairman OF the Committee on the
District OF Columbia, reported back the
nomination OF Frederick Douglass TO be
Marshal OF the District, with the recon-.
mondation that it I've confirmed. On oh.
lection being made to its immediate con.
tlrmation, it went over under the rules
until tomorrow.
The nomination OF Frederick W. Sew.
ard and j. n. Tyner has been confirmed
by the Senate.
LOUISIANA AND SOUTH CAROLINA.
There are very we'll grounded intima.
tmations that the Cabinet will, next
week, enter upon thorough discussion
and determination by the government, ON
the matter Of deciding what course is
necessary to take in its relations TO the
State governments in Louisiana and South
Carolina.
CIVIL SERVICE,
There has been general conversation
to-day regarding civil service, but no rules
have been definitely adopted. Itis given
out, however, that they will embody de.
nnnciatlon Of Congressional interference
in the Executive appointments and re.
moval OF competent officials to further
the political ends OF any party.
Qualifications for office are to be good,
moral character and ability, and the re.
quirement that Oficeholders shall dis.
charge their functions with an eye singly
OF othccholders for political purposes i
to be prohibited.
The favorable condition Of American
securities abroad has mote than once
been the subject Of ccngratulation. me
calls for the redemption 81 bonds aFe