The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-23
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NEW YORK, Nov! 22.-It is stated that
the Congressional Retrenchment Conn
mittee, while investigating the AFFAIRS
ofthe New York Custom House, discov-
cred that the clerks were taxed four
dollars month for political purposes.
ana II they refused to pay were dis
a very handsome sum has been made
by the Collector in the matter of bonded
warehouses, and it is stated that he now
makes $40, 900 a year out of his Office.
Before Justice Bowling yesterday
morning, at the tOombs police court,
the witnesses against Frank Heller and
". r. Babcoeks brokers, were exanin-
ed, tending to prove an alleged conn
plictty in the Lord bond robbery. Bail
was refused and they were remanded;
the case being continued until next
Friday. ~, 800 80
The Tribune's Leavenworth special
says: Lieut.. Ames, with a detach-
ment of % men, encountered a band
Of 100 Sioux Indians near Fort Sedg-
wick, killed 8, wounded z, and CAP
tured 4S beef cattle, 81 mules, 81 horses,
and all their plumber, and burned what
could not be brought away. He
marched 10 miles in SO hours, with
nothing to eat for men or horses.
man named Min, having quarrel
with family of brothers, killed two
of them and escaped. Subsequently
he was captured by the other brothers
and killed.
The appointment of Mr.. Harrington
as Collector of the third district of In
diana, tits said, is to be reconsidered.
Another applicant is here urging his
claim TO that position. and the matter
Is now under consideration by the Pres.
ident and Secretary of the Treasury.
A Herald Washington special SAYS:
The friends of Gen. George n. EstV have
united to press him for the position of
United States Marshal for the Northern
district of Ohio. l7ds7s z.s'1f. 's-57IT
The Times's special says there are
less than 15, 600 troops in the department
of Washington, which includes the Dis
trict of Columbia, West Virginia, Ma
ryland and Virginia. 10
The Secretary of the Treasury is maxi
ing heavy drafts upon the national
banks for the purpose of redeeming the
accruing the debts of the government.
As much as nineteen millions were
thus drawn from the banks in one day,
The Tribune's Washington special
says: 1t is a singular fact that not
withstanding the semi-official an
nouncement of the administration or.
gan of the new policy OF the Govern
ment on the Mexican question and the
supposed negotiations now going on
between France and the United States
the French Minister here, Count De
Montholon, has not been consulted by
the authorities nor has he received any
information on the subject save what
he has learned from the newspapers,
he has not yet been officially informed
of Minister Campbell and General
Sherman's mission to Mexico.
The line of route of the Union Pacific
Railroad, eastern division, having been
changed from the Republican Fork to
the Smokey Hill Fork of the Kansas
River, the Commissioner has instructed
the register and receiver at Junction
City, Kansas, to restore some. 800, 600
acres of land to the settlement and en-
try under the presumption law. The
restoration does not make the lands
subject to sale at the previous entry,
but only renders them accessible to ac-
tual settlers during the past year.
The postal service in the seeded
States has paid for itself and Melted
1921 900 profit. This fact is mainly due
to the energetic management Of the
present Postoffice Department.