The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Department of Indians.
VETERAN RESERVE CORPS.
The Freedmen in Tennessee.

| Agreement with Indinu Tribes in the
West-The Southern Mail Service
Rrigndes Of Veteran Reserves Dis
continued - Reports On Freedmen
from Tennessee.
| lBy Union Line cor. Monroe and Water Sts.l
New YORK, Sept. s-The Haytian war
steamer Geffrard, supposed to be bearer
of dispatches to our Government, has
reached the city.
The Times Washington special says
the Government has received comlnu-
ncation from Col. Leavenworth, dated
August 23, at Cow Creek rancho, on the
Arkansas river, western part OF Kansas,
that an agreement has been entered into
with the chiefs of the Arrapahaes, Chey-
ennes, Kiawas and Camanche Indians, to
meet commissioners on the part OF the
United States on the 23th day of October
next, at Bluff creek, 40 miles south OF the
Little Arkansas, to treat for perp6tual
peace between the United States Govern
ment and various tribes If this meeting
takes place it will probably lead to an
immediate cessation of hOstilities on the
plains.
The southern mail service will from
this date be self sustaining, notwith-
standing the great reduction the Post
master General has ordered in the
amount of service Gov. Dennison has dis
covered that an immense excess OF serv-
ice was being performed in these States,
at the breaking ont of the rebellion, and
in re-eStablishing the mail service in the
South, he has been governed by the ne
cessities of the people.
Orders were issued by the War Depart
ment yesterday discontinuing the vari-
Gus brigades of the veteran reserve corps
now stationed here The commanding
officers have been ordered TO their regi-
ments, thus doing away with number
of staff officers and staffs, which will
have tho effect of greatly reducing the
expenses of the garrison of Washington.
The Herald's special says General Fisk,
commissioner for the Freedmen's Bureau
in Tennessee, reports to the Department
from Nashville, under date of September
I'd, that large number of former slave
owners have testified their desire to CO.
operate with the commissioners by all the
means in their power, to secure tranquil
ity and order. But in addition thereto
are many who refuse to accept the new
of the Government as far as is practical
BILE without endangering personal safety.
Much of the trouble and agitation now
existing in this State is owing to this
class of citizens.
The freedmen's courts are crowded
with applications for justice. Scant and
hard earned wages are withheld from the
colored people, and the crack of the whip
and use of the shackles in many locali-
ties are as common as in the days of their
serfdom. The great demand for labor
during the comming year will do much
towards regulating wages and securing
their prompt payment On the 1st day
of July last there were 7l50 negroes sub
sisting on the government in contraband
camps of Tennessee. There are now but
978, and they are chiefly aged and intirm
and orphans of colored soldiers.
The refugee establishments at Nash
Vile, Clarksville and Memphis were on
the lst of July last subsisting at the ex-
pense of the Government 1869 depeu-
dents, in addition to the large number
drawing rations for their families at
home. Of the former number there are
but eleven remaining inmates in the ref
ugee establishment, and have ceased to
be furnished with public bounty.