Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-02
JEFF DAVIS.
An Interview With the Ex.Presidert On
Politics.

Politics.
WASHINGTON, D. c., June lin an in
teryiew with Dr.. A. Y. Garnett, Surgeon
General of the Confederate armies during
the war, who lately visited Mr.. Davis, the
doctor said:
I'm the course of our conversation during
the day Mr.. Davis alluded to the political
condition of the country by saying that he
knew nothing of the present executive, and
that he had not yet progressed far enough
with the administration for him to form An
opinion of it. He seemed satisfied with
the members of the Cabinet selected
from the South, but not disposed, |
thought, to entertain e very hopeful
view Of our future, as he said that the re-
spect love and veneration fer the Constitu-
ton which animated the citizens of the
United States before, had now departed
from our people, and that the system of gov
ernment erected by our forefsthers existed
only in name; that there were elements of
disintegration and disruption at work in
our midst which could only be restrained
and held in check by force; that the
underlying and fundamental princi-
pies upon which our system Of
government was erected, and upon which
the constitution as it was before the war
rested, are fast becoming obsolete, forgotten
by the old man and never learned by the
young; that under the rule of Republican.
ism during the war, and subsequent to it
the constitution was made rope of sand,
! and that while this party Of so called liberal
ideas was proclsiming universal freedom
and equality on the one hand, they were
tearing down and blotting out the very safe
| guard and defenses which alone under our
fern Of government could secure it to
them"
Speaking Of Commodore Bullock's book
which discloses the secret history of the
Confederate agents in England during the
war forprocuring ships, the doctor continued
after pause: "Mr. Davis exhibited much
feeling at what he characterized the duplic-
ity and mean ness Of the English Govern.
ment in Its conduct toward the South, and
while that Government would permit the
United States to purchase and take away
as many ships as it desired, there was al
ways some pretext found to prevent the
sailing Of those vessels purchased BY any
agent or citizen Of the Confederacy, al
though such vessels were entirely unarmad."
The Civil Service Commission and Lamar.
WASHINGTON, June Within the past
few days 81 900 clerkship in the Pension
Bureau having become vacant, Secretary
Lamar sent a requisition to the Civil Ser
vice Commission for certiGcation Of a per.
son to ill the position, in which he request
ed that the commission certify to the De.
partment the name a female clerk
from Dakota, be having found
that territory had ma representative in the
bureau. A reply to this request was pre-
pared to-day by the Commission to be for
warded to the Secretary. In it the Com
mission declines to make certi6cation as
requr sted and say in substance that it is
the province of the Commission and not of
the Secretary of the Interior to name
States or territories from which selections
shall be made for certifcation
upon requisihon and with respect to this
particular case that Dakota is not on the
list for choice OF appointments, and that
therefore the commission will not select
the clerk from that territory. The decision
of the commission will, it is understood, be
regarded by them as a precedent that will
govern any future cases of the kind.
A Bad Outlook.
General SchoGeld to-day telegraphed to
the War Department the following dispatch,
dated 1T. Baysrd, yesterday, from General
Crook, commanding the Department of
Arizona:
Eight parties Of troops are scouting after
the Indians The outlook is very bad and
the troubles will be exceeding difficult to
suppress"
Ii is learned at the War Department that
between sixteen and twenty companies, con-
tanning about twelve hundred men, are in
the field, in pursuit of the Indians.
Absconding Postmaster.
WASHINGTON, June l.-Chiet of Postofiice
Inspectors has been informed that pOstmss
ter /. n. Hibbs OF $l5, 900 or $4,000 psya
ble to himself, ordered banks in different
cities to collect them and forward the
money to him, and absc )nded. He was
las heard from at Victoria, B c.
Land Grants In New Mexico.
At request the Secretary of Interior
Commissioner of Land Office has caused
40 investigation to be made into merits
of Gervacco Nolan lsud grant in New Mex.
ico, and has reported that in his judgment
all of the lands claimed (abOut 81, 900 acres)
should be restored to public domain. with
the exception Of IL square leagues, for
which patent has been issued.
Miss CIeyeIand's Book.
The title of Miss Cleveland's forthcoming
book is George Eliot and Other Studies.
AP. o. Superintendent Removed.
WASHINGTON, June l.-Supeiintendens
D. W. Rhodes, Of the postofice supplies
was to-day removed by the Postmaster Gen
eral and Morello Noyes, Of Burlington, VI,
was appointed to fill the vacancy. Mr..
Rhodes division had been inspected by |
committee appointed for the purpose, and
the Postmaster General being dissatisfied |
with the methods pursued, thought the pub
lie interest would be best served BY change
in the organization Of the division.
Mr.. Moves is well known merchant OF
Burlington, VT, and has always been
staurch Democrat. He married a cousin |
Of Postmaster General Villas, but it Is stated |
that his selection was made solely upon
recommendations Of aiessrs. Smslley and
Atkins, Of Vermont.