Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-06-19
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OVERLAND DISPATCHES


BosroS, June l5.-An important in
yention of substituting crude petroleum
for coal in steam navigation was tested
on the Government steamer Palos, yes
,erday. Steam was got up in twenty
FIVE minutes. The Palos proceeded
twenty-five nautical miles in one hour
and fifty minutes, consuming but four
barrels of oil. With coal she would
have never exceeded eighteen miles.
The Indian Expedition Under Sherman.
ST.. LOUIS, June l5.-Denver papers
are full Of accounts Of Indian depreda-
tious and murders. They also contain
dispatches from Sherman to Governor
Hunt which. say he has not troops
enough to protect all the exposed points.
The people for the present must fight
the Indians themselves. He also ad-
vises Hunt 10 send 300 men Immediately
to scour the Republican River country,
and then send them 70 Fort Sedgwick,
where he will have them mustered into
service for two months. General Augur
will scour the South Platte to La Porte,
and cross to Suyder's. Another party
will scour Lodge Pole, and another to
Laramie. Custar is expected to strike
the C~heyennes that were stampeded last
month by Hancock. Wagon trains,
stages and rapchmen must protect them
selves. Sherman says the great bulk OF
| the Souix are not within 500 miles Of
Fort Sedgwick, and that the depreda-
| tons are committed by small scattered
bands who, being successful in stealing
| horses, may combine to do something
worse. Hill, Division Agent ofthe Union
Pacific Railroad, was killed on the 18th
about forty miles north OF La Porte, and
| Mr.. Archer, Inspector Of the road, was
severely wounded. Hills body was per-
forated by nineteen arrows and FIVE pis-
toll balls and scalped twice. An en-
igraut train was attacked at Douglas
| Station, on the Atchison and Kearney
route, on the sth, and two thousand dol
lars worth of stock run off.
Internal Revenue Receipts-Gold In the
Treasury.
WASHINGTON, June l5.-The receipts
of internal revenue are 81, los, $40.
There is gold in the Treasury to the
amount of SlO3, 00O, 900, including a
registered million for gold certificates.
Billiard Match.
QUEBEC, June l5.-In the match for
the billiard championship Of Canada,
| Dion won. The score was-Dion, Il
500; Crown, SOC. The playing was very
bad Of both sides.
The Surratt Trial, Etc.
New YORK, June l5.-The Times
| Washington special says Darlington OBJ
jected TO further proceedings in the Sur
raft trial, on the grounds that this term
ends on Monday next; that Judge Fisher,
who is obliged to head the present term
is sick and absent, though he was pre-
sent on Thursday last; that Judge Car
ter is assigned to the next term of this
Criminal Court, and that as the COM
meucement of the impanneling Of the
jury was by Judge Fisher, it is submit.
ted BY the District Attorney to be illegal
before Judge Wylie to complete the i'm
pauneling. The Court overruled the
objection, and Darlington excepted TO
the ruling. The examination of Tails
man proceeded, a full jury having been
obtained at 10 o'clock tonight.
The Attorney Generals opinion on
the Reconstruction Act vas published
on Monday. The Attorney General
holds that the Reconstruction Acts pro-
vide for two governments, civil and mil
itary, both provisional, to be obeyed BY
the people and continued until super
seeded by a reorganization Of the several
State Governments under provisions Of
law. Military Commanders are to act
as conservstors Of the peace, to suppress
disorder and protect all in their rights
Of person and property. They have no
power to remove State officers, EIecu-
tive and Judicial, and their rights in
common with thise of all other persons
are to be respected. Not being author
ized 10 remove, they as n consequence
have no authority to appoint a success
sor. In brief, they are not acting in
the capacity of abrogators in law, but
as couservators Of peace.
Thad. Stevens, in a letter to the
Chronicle, suggests the propriety Of hav-
ing a quorum of Congress on the first
proximo. The opinions Of the Attorney
General seem to require some explana-
nation or supplemental acts. Hecharges
the Attorney General with the usurpa-
ton in acting at all in the question and
creating his directions MS binding Off
cially. The Attorney General has no
more right to interfere than the Presi-
dent had to reconstruct, which preten-
sion Congress had settled. The South
ern States are to be treated as subdued
territory aud rebuilt without reference
to their former condition by the legisla-
tive power alone. Congress alone is to
be appealed to in case Of difficulty.
Bricklayer.' strike ut washington-In-
dian Affairs. n
CHICAGO, June l6.-The Republicans
Washington special says the bricklayers
on the Treasury extension struck yester-
day for the eight-hour system. The
Government refused to comply with the
demand.
The Tri6uRe's special says the Wal
Department has received no message
from General Sherman relative to In
dian affairs since Wednesday, when he
reported that some Of his telegraph lines
were torn down by hostile tribes.
The Interior Department has a tele-
gram of Thursday from Fort Laramie,
saying that twelve chiefs and 300 0ga-
tallas and Brule Sioux, representing
200 lodges, came there on Wednesday
to make peace and join Spotted Tail.
They reported that all the northern In
disns had abandoned hostilities and
will arrange for peace.
Indian Depredations.
ST. LOUIS, June l6.-The Sioux City
Uowa) Register Of May 9Th, says a party
Of Brule Sioux stole 81 horses from Fort
Randall a few days ago, and wouded a
herder. Subsequently they sent word
that they would attack the Fort. Ma
jor Brush formed the citizens and made
preparations for defense. The Brule
Sioux wintered near Fort Thompson.
They are bold and insolent, and freely
declared they would kill every white
man who settled upon or in any way in
terfered with their hunting grounds.
The Ran Nonpareil Spoken. r.,
Bosrox, June l6.-Coast Pilot Lowell,
of the steamship Franklin, reports that
he spoke, on the l4th, one hundred and
seventy miles east by south from Sandy
Hook, the raft Nonparsil from New
York. for Europe. All well.