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WASHINGTON, Sept 30.-District Attorney
Carringten has appealed from Judge Wylie's
decision in Surratt's case. A new indictment |
will be submitted.
A peace treaty has been concluded with the |
Shoshones, Bannock and Sheepeater Indians. |
They are to be located in Idaho and Montana. |
Gov. Smith of Alabama thinks no Federal |
troops are needed to maintain peace in that
State. He is confident of his own ability to
preserve order. He says there is NO disposi-
ton, except in one or two localities, to resist
any officer in the discharge of his duties.
| 1t is understood that Gen. Sherman has de-
termined To issue arms and ammunition to the
citizens along the Indian frontier for their pro-
| lection.
Anew Orleans dispatch says: The wrath
! of the negroes at Gov. Warmouths veto of the
Negro Equality bill il unbounded. Threats
against bis person are reported. In the House,
Mr. Isabelle the colored author of the bill, said
if Gov Yarmouth bad been elected on Dem
0cratic ticket be should not have been sur
piised at this veto. but be was surprised that
such document should come from man
elected on u Radical Republican platform. He
thought the message very weak document
1t carried out certain principles of the Chicago
platform which he did not approve. He said
when he should see cOlOred men sitting in the
halls of Congress be should be ready 10 ex-
claim -.Oh, Lord. have lived TO see Thy sal
yation; am ready to depart,'
Another negro announced that if this bill
brought on 4 conflict, let it come; the black
man is ready for it.
The consideration Of the veto was postponed
till Monday.
Judge Coley, of the Sixth district, who was
refused registration, has sued ont mandamus.
The Republicans of the Fifth (Mass Dis
t trict to-day nominated Benjamin f Butler for
Congress. He referred To those who opposed
his nomination. chasing them with Lee, For
, rest, Bpauregard and Booth. aud charging
them with raising S40, ,0GU to defeat his noni-
nation, which he considered equivalent to his
. election He recommended these malcontents
to send their money into some doubtful State.
He considered these who opposed him as de-
serters from the Republican party, and said
the party should be managed as the army
welcome recruits and shoot deserters. He
denied the rumors that Grant opposed his elec-
> tion. and spoke ut some length ON the finance
J question
A dispatch from Fort Wallace says, scout
from Col Forsythe's camp reports his wounds
Z doing well. In the late fight FOrsythe lost i've
: killed and twelve wounded. and all ot his
horses The Indian loss is not far from eighty
killed and wounded. They were Sioux, Chey-
it ennes and Arrapahoes, and numbered between
= Coo and 100. 1t is estimated that they fired
not less than 10000 rounds, besides quantity
OF arrows. The ground is thckly strewed
= with the latter. The fight on the first day wa'
E. the most terrific that has ever taken place or
= the plains. The Indians made charge after
,r charge, sometimes coming within fifty feet q
,Sfa Iah fh.at,xk sr..h n
few bushes and small amount of grass, ST
that the men were almost entirely exp"sed
=, Their only defense was small sand breastwork'
Y which were thrown up without tools-the mei
working between the attacks of the Indians
u, who rode round charging down on them. A
/! the same point one party OF the men were
digging while the rest fought.
ID Adyces through army sources from Marshall
Id Texas state that the country IN that nelghbnr
hood is overrun by robbers. All the roads ART
VI unsafe except for considerable armed bodies
4 band of ireebooters numbering ITO men
well armed and mounted. are roaming throug
- the country About the 5th Instant they cap
tured furty Government wagons loaded Wit
supplies The commanding officer ut Sulphu
Spring, Texas, which is garrs0ned by smal
company of the Twenty-sixth infantry. ha
dy sent an express to Gen. Hayden. coinnandin
! garrison, which was surrounded, would b
slaughtered. A company was sent To his u:
sistance.
be NEW YORK, Sept. 29.-Four English miner
ow were instantly crushed tn death on Thursda
rm by the falling in of a shaft in an an iron nin
for at Mount Hope, New Jersey They wer
=. buried on Sunday. An immense crowd I
miners attended the funeral.
A train on the Central Railroad, with 80
. of the Twenty-ninth Infantry aboard, boun
to Tennessee from Washington, ran off tt
track near Gordonsville, killing four an
J wounding large number.
] Culbertson's Star Foundry in Wheeling W;
burned Sept 9th. Four men were killed al
six or eight severely injured by falling walls
Gen. J. C.. Hindman, of Arkansas, was q
~ sassinated last night, while sitting in his oW
- house among his family, and smoking A IN;
y who served under him in the Confederate q
my is suspected of the deed, and is in cnstot
nds to answer. .s,..ss st.~
The dam of the large reservoir in Barr
JS Mass gave way on Friday night, and the flo,
washed away several other dams, mills. brid
E. es, etc, with a loss OF many hundred thousa'
- dollars. @,aa.ee..ss.. ...x,
S The Nashville, Tenn, municipal electi
- passed off quietly. Alden, present Mayor, "
reelected over Thornberg, by $50 majori
Both candidates are Radicals. The leadi