The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-10-08
TELBGRAPHIC NEWS.
News from New York,

New YORK, October Ga Herald OF
tawa, C. W, special says: The Cana
dian volunteers have commenced dis
banding. The civil service corps have
been disbanded al Ottawa.
A Herald Hartford special says: Fuller
the teller of the Hartford National Bank,
who was charged with the robbery OF
$4,000 worth of bonds belonging to
| Royal Wilcox. Il merchant of that city,
was arrested hy the latter on a civil suit
Yesterday aud released on S2O,0 900 bonds.
He was again arrested during the day on
a criminal suit brought by the bank and
placed under $40 900 bonds to appear in
the polio court. Today the compro-
mise betw,tu the interested parties that
was expec I'd yesterday failed.
The HeIlIds' Montreal special says:
In the billiard match between Dion
and McDeyitt, ior the championship of
America and the British Provinces, Dion
won at two iuudred and twenty.siX
points.
The Times Washington special says:
Hon. LoUis Y. Bogg, Of St, Louis, was
to,day appointed Commissioner Of Iu-
dian Affairs, in place of Mr.. Cooley, to
take effect en- the first of next month.
This appointment is made in Difference
to the request yf the citizens OF ST. Louis,
who claim that the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs should be selected from
among gentlemen whose experience has
enabled them u comprehend the inter
ests and rec>ss'ties of the Indian tribes,
while il is Urged that most of the busi.
. J. Ic iva
acted, or 10 an,n" way, passes through
St. Louis J. Is stated among other
things tta contracts for trans
portation ha,, heen made by the In
dian bureau, with citizens of New York,
to the exclusion Of western men, who
perform tho work that the contractors
afterward sub-ct their contracts at
greatly reduced prices, to Missouri men,
thus pocllet,ng arge amount of money
without ri'.; "r labor of performing the
stipulations rI their contract.
A Herald Washington special says
The CommSs Onsr of the Freedmen's
Bureau has received reports from Ten
nessee, Alabama and Arkansas for the
month of August all of which continue
to give highly encouraging accounts of
the return of peace and tranquility to
those States. The freedmen themselves
are generally employed and industrious,
and are gaining more confidence in the
whites. Everything indicates desire
on the part of the people to welcome
the day that will restore quiet and
harmony II that section of country.
Among certain classes the old antipathy
to the freedmen's bureau still exists, and
when disposed to resist the most dis
tasteful requirements of the law, many
of them evince a decided dislike of any
interference on the part of the officers of
the bureau.
The Assistant Commissioner of the
Bureau in Alabama reports that during
the month of August l8l,740 ratiOns
were issued, TO 1869 refugees, at cost
v;t5cA.asS. ..d) = ~ ratians wara issnad tn
The Assistant Commissioner Of Arkan
sas states that in the same month he is
sued 6,S53 rations to 40S freedmen, and
5,049 rations were issued to 449 refugees.
The total number Of rations issued was
ii ,90l to 5i7 persons, at cost of S1.5l7.
saThe Tribuu e's Topeka, Kansas, special
says:
Frank Kilby and Charles Smith, stock
tenders for Holidays overland stage
company, were murdered by Indians ON
Saturday night, at Chalk Bluffs, a sta
tion on Smoky Hill route, 100 miles west
of Fort Ellsworth.
London papers received by the Persia
contain dispatch showing that it was
the Turkish army that was defeated In
the great battle with the Cretian insur-
gents, and not the Cretes, as reported by
the Campbell. The dispatches say the
Cretian army, led by Greek officers, had
attacked tho Fares Egyptian army, and
completely routed them with a loss of
5000 men. The Turkish pasha and the
troops under his command who fell into
the hands of the Canadians obtained their
release by concluding convention with
the leaders of the insurreCtion. The
Governor General of Gambia has ordered
a general Nrmng of all the Turks on tho
Island.
The Persia brings G2700 in treasure,
The Heralds Buffalo special says that
four Fenian prisoners recently confined
in the Welland jail were removed to To-
ronto, where they will be arraigned next
week. Their names are Patrick Heating,
David Damn, Peter Damn and William
Daegan.