The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-01-09

under cOntinementln the latter city, and
ignorant as to when the Court will be
convened His counsel is on his way to
Washington to ascertain the course the
prosecution will take in the case, and to
ask for a speedy hearing. Gee writes to
his friends in Washington that he is very
hopeful of the result. and only anxious
that the trial may go on.
The list of rightful claimants for the
reward offered for the capture Of the
conspirators has been designated, and
was referred to the War Department on
Saturday evening. 1t is supposed the
names will be published in day or two.
Gen. Grent sends three inspecting Off.
GERS on tour in the different militaryde
partments this week to seeif further re.
duction in forces aud expenses can be
| made. --.-,-
A number of medical officers were mus
tered out on Saturday. The volunteer
medical staff has been reduced since May
last from 240 to about so.
The Tribune's Washington special
says: Gen. r. Crawford, who is reported
to be at Brownsville, Texas, raising a
marine division for Mexico, is Il citizen
of Tennessee. About year ago he was
dismissed the service by sentence of a
court martial upon charges of stealth
money from man in Rogersville, Tenn
He was some years ago at West Point
as cadet, and was discharged after two
wears service He more recently went
| to Nicarauga with Walker, and about
the outbreak of the late war he was in
the,Virginia penitentiary for some ofense.
He was Captain of battery of artillery
in the United States service, and fraudu-
lently secured muster-in as Lieut.. Col
of the regiment, and held the appoint
ment as Colonel of the regiment, and al
so of colored regiment, to neither OF
which he was mustered, up to the time
of his dismissal His Chief of Staff was
Lieut.. Col of colored regiment, and
was dismissed some time last summer
by sentence cf court martial for gross
otfense. 1t is not believed by those
qualified to Judge, that Crawford or
Reed have recruited single man.
The Times Washington dispatch says:
General Swayne, commissioner OF freed
men tor Alabama, writes that he has sue
ceeded in limiting the issues of subsist'
ence to destitute persons of all classes -
10000 rations per day. The State Com
missioner, appointed by the Legislature
for that purpose, reported as destitute
1900 white persons alone.
A petition from New York Indians in
regard to thcir Kansas reservation, is
now pending before the commissioner on
Indian Affairs. The first treaty
liquidated all rights of these Indians,
and reserved to them 100000 acres OF
| land at Green Bay, Wisconsin. They
| were to remove in three years, and a
portion did So BY the treaty in 1888
the New York Indians ceded all their in
terest in the Wisconsin reservation, and
in consideration therefor the United
States ceded to them the Kansas lands.
The Indians forfeit all interest in lands
if they do not accept and agree to re-
move to that country within five years,
OF such other time as the President may
appoint. 1t was also provided that
100000 should be appropriated to aid in
the removal.
The Indians claim that this appropri-
alton was never made and no notice to
remove was ever given, and they argne
no forfeiture of their title has happened
and that by subsequent treaty the time
of removal is extended and all torfeitures
waived, if any had in fact happened, and
that the department in several instan-
ces recognized the claim and title of the
New York Indians 1t is claimed that
when Jacob Thompson was Secretary
OF the Interior, falling to have passed by
the Senate an appropriation, he after
wards, without authority of law and
without notice to the Indians, made it a
part of the public domain, subject to pri-
vate entry, and one third to one half of
this reservation has been sold and pat
ented by the United States at ten dol
lars per acre.
Last winter the New York Indians
made application for the appointment of
q commissioner to negotiate settlement
of their claims for indemnity, and upon
memorial from the representatives in
Congress from New York a commissioner
was appointed The Indians now insist
that this claim should be promptly adju-
dicated on a fair, just and liberal basis.
The question under consideration by the
commissioner of Indian Affairs is,whether
previous Secretary, Thompson, having
decided that Kansas lands belong to the
United States government, and these
lands having been brought into market,
the present Secretary is not precluded
from acting in the premises and
whether, therefore. the claimants must
not seek their remedy before Congress.
In the meantime, it is represented that a
person claiming to be an agent of the
nations included in this reservation is in
New York endeavoring TO sell the inter
est and title of his tribe to the lands i'll
question.
The select committee to devise meas
ures and means to testify national res
pect for the late President Lincoln, had