Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-06
OVERLAND TELEGRAPH,
DATES TO OCTOBER Sd.
Indian Affairs.

the Southern Indians, has made an lmpor-
tant treaty with the Usage Indians, at
their council grounds, one hundred miles
south of here. The Osages cede about a
million acres, for which the Government
will pay three hundred thousand dollars.
About two million acres are also coded
from the north side Of the reservation, to
be sold in trust for the Indians. All these
lands are in Kansas. The rights of settlers
and heads of families on these lands are
protected by treaty.
Jeff. Davis in New Quarters.
FORTRESS MONROE, Oct. Jeff. Davis
was moved to-day, under a strong guard,
from his casemate prison to the quarters
assigned him in Carroll Hall.
Georgia Act Of Secession Declared
Null n Void.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-The Mercedita
and Idaho bring Savannah dates to Sept.
9th. A dispatch to the Savannah Herald
says: The Georgia State Convention has
unanimously adopted an ordinance declar-
ing the act Of secession null and void.
Congregational Election in Virginia.
RICHMOND, Va, Oct. Cen. Terry,
by q general order, has designated the
members of the City Council and nine
Aldermen, being a majority of the body
elected in July, who shall be permitted to
qualify and organize for the sole purpose
of appointing officers to conduct the Con-
gressional election, which takes place Oc-
tober 18th. Christian and Douglass, in
the First District, and Fps, ii the Fourth
District, have withdrawn from the contest
for Congress.
General Connor's Defeat Of the n
diuns-Soldiers Dissatisfied.
Fort LARAMIE, October 1.-General
Conner returned on Saturday from the
Powder River Indian expedition. His
column will be here in six days. The re-
suit of the campaign is four pitched bat
ties with the Cheyennes, Sioux and -
~rapahoes. The loss on Jul side is Captain
Cole, of the Sixth Michigan, and twenty
| four men killed and two wounded. The
Indian loss was 400 to 500 killed and a
large number wounded. The villages of
the Arrapahoes were entirely destroyed.
We captured 500 head Of horses and
mules. The Arrapahoes acknowledge the
loss Of sixty-eight of their braves IN one
battle, and are now coming in to make
peace. 1t is thought, however, that the
Sioux and Cheyennes are not half con-
quered, and that not less than 1900 men
| should be stationed at Fort Conner and
| the campaign be continued in the Winter.
| The citizens are now fearful that the Sioux
and C%heyennes will come back on the
road and interfere with the mails and tele-
graph. The expedition has been carried
on under the most embarrassing circum-
stances. Not q pound of stores intended
for the expedition arrived in time for the
use of the troops. The men are mutinous,
claiming their discharge because the rebel
lion has ceased, and regiments have been
| ordered to be mustered out almost as
rapidly as they arrived on the Plains.
Plot for Robbing n Qunrtermaster'S
dicr General ArrcHted-The Pacific
Railroad.
NEW YORK, October 2.-The Herald's
special dispatch says: About the middle
| Of September, General Baker received in
formation Of a plot at Lynchburg, Va, to
rob the Post Q~uartcrmaster's safe Of a
large amount of money. The case was
| worked up, and has resulted in the arrest,
last night, Of Brevet Brigadier General ].
c. Briscoe, of the Nineteenth Pennsylva-
MIA Volunteers, commanding the post of
Lynchburg, and W. Lackey, of Worces-
ter, Massachusetts,, formerly a sutler at
that post. General Briscoe is an 1rishman
| by birth. and has been in command of the
post of Lynchburg since Lees surrender.
Captain Alberger had been QuartermaSter
at Lynchburg, and had in his charge on
the 2lst of September, 500, 600 in green
backs, besides q large amount Of captured
gold coin and bullion which had been
placed in his charge for safe keeping. Bris-
coe approached Alberger through Lackey,
and proposed to him as the wal was about
to close, and none of them had made any
money out of it, they should make a grand
haul in concert, and pocket $4,000
apiece. Alberger kept the funds in a safe
which formerly belonged to a rebel officer.
This fact would give color to the charge
which was to be made, that the rebel hav-
ing a duplicate key to the safe, had robbed
it. Briscoe was to arrest the Quarter
master, his clerks and half the people of
Lynchburg to avert suspicion. He took
IN impression of the safe key in wax, and
sent Lackey to Philadelphia to get keys
made. Alberger, though o~stensibly in the
plot, informed the Secretary of War, and
| two of General Bakers officers were sent
Aop.n e. Hnnhhnrn RI urraof fho 0fIlfu
parties. These officers saw, through holes
in the ceiling of the Office, General Briscoe
come in while the Quartermaster and his
clerks had gone to dinner; saw him I'M
lock the safe with false keys, take out
three packages of %greenbacks containing
forty thousand dollars each. and load
himself down with coin and bullion to the
amount of fifteen thousand dollars, hav-
ing previously ignited saturated paper and
cloth with a view to burn the office. They
followed him across the hall Of the Office
and burst in on him while counting and
rearranging the money behind his bolted
door. Wax molds and false keys were
found upon him, and the proof was indis-
putable. These proofs are now in General
DdkeE 3 pOSheSslOus oLloCOe uuu 11oShSg
are in the Old Capitol awaiting trial.
Col. Simpson, Of the Engineer Corps,
who is specially detailed for service in the
Department Of the Interior, left here a few
days age for a tour of inspection over
forty miles Of the route of the Kansas
branch Of the Pacific Railroad.
From ChRrleston.
NEW York, Oct. 2.-We have advices
from Charleston to the 29th Of September.
The South Carolina Convention passed the
Constitution, with some slight amend
ments, on the 28th. On the following
day the Convention adjourned. By the
Constitution, the right of voting is given
to every Whit man of full age, who has
been two years q citizen Of the State and
who is not a pauper, nor now a commits
stoned officer or private soldier in the
army, nor a seaman nor a marine Of the
navy of the United States. An amend
ment was introduced to confer the right
to vote upon European immigrants who
declared their intention of becoming citi-