The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-13
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
WASHINGTON, September IL.
Treasury Closed.
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WASHINGTON, September IL.
Treasury Closed.
The Treasury Department was closed
Saturday or the Fessenden funeral.
Pennsylvania Wants the Secretary
ship Of War.
The Pennsylvania Republicans are
making an earnest political movement
to secure the vacancy in the Cabinet.
They say that the State is entitled to
Cabinet member, and that when Bore
retired and Robson was appointed 1t
was well understood among leading Re-
publicans that in any future Cabinet
changes Pennsylvania should be repie-
scented They now say that there is pc.
cuiiar fitness in Pennsyl vauidn being
appointed 10 the War Office, as Stanton
and Cameron have filed it. Ex-Speaker
Grow, General Kenyon, of Pittsburgh,
aud others arc mentioned. The Con.
necticut Republicans a,e in hopes thai
Governor Hawley will be appointed.
The shaiIers and the Internal Reeve
nue..
General Durbin Ward, of Ohio, has
appeared before the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue on behalf of eighteen
Shaker societies in this country, and
argued that the income tax should be
collected, not from the members, but
from the association, AM that instead
of he usual deduction OF $1,000 for the
head of every family, there should be
but OBJ deduction from TIE association,
the members of which hold all their
property in common. The Commission
er took the pa pers and reserved his de-
cisiOn.
Euller Bcught of.
A friend of Senator Wilson writes
here from Massachusetts that private
arrangement has been effected with
General Butler, whereby the latter will
not be a candidate in the approaching
Senatorial contest in that State.
The virginia senatorship.
At tie last interview which Governor
Walker had with the President about
Virginia matters, the question of the
came up, when President
Grant uureseryedly expressed his per-
sonal preference for General Robert
Williams, of the army, and the husband
of Mrs. Senator Douglas.
Secretary OF War.
Geseral Sherman's commission %
Secretary of War appoints him until
the end of the next session of Congress.
The law does not prevent him from
holding the two offices of General and
Secretary of War, but he must elect
which salary he will accept.
Affairs in Cuba.
A Southern gentleman who is visit
ing Cuba for the purpose Of ascertain
ing the state of affairs for himself and
friends, writes from Cardenas under date
of September lst, as follows:
The news Of the recent success of The
Cubans near Puerto Principe, Sasna La
Grande and Las Tunas has given impetus
and new life To the Patriot cause, which
will prove irresistible. The enthusiasm
of the Cubans knows DO Bounds. They
are rising en- maSse aud Hooking to the
Liberal army by hundreds.
The Spanish openly assert that the
revolution VIII be successful; that the
Spanish force is almost Destroyed, and
that Spain cannot send sufficient rein
forcemeuts to regain the positions lost
by these battles. 1t is reported that the
Cubans in these engagements fought
with great determination aud daring,
aud showed discipline equal to thai OF
the regular troops. The Spanish troops
everywhere are demorS LIKED; they have
no confidence in their commanders, nor
have the officers confidence in their sol
diers. Many of the regulars are known
to sympathize with the Cubans. The
revolution, honestly believe, will sue
coed aud the independence of Cuba be
attained.
The ouuages perpetrated upon inof,
tensIve and helpless people by the vol
uutreTs and their friends are of the most
revolving character, and exceed even
those perpetruted by the Indians on the
frontiers Of the Uni,cd States. Evely-
where evidences OF these outrages can
be seen; buildings are burned, churches
destroyed and there are hundreds OF
homeless, starving wanderers. This
once beautiful and luxuriant island is
now a barren waste, and should the war
be prolonged SIX months, it will be al
most uninhabitabic. Even BOW all
along the eastern coast of the Island
the people are on the verge of starva
ton, and are dying by hundreds from
diseases produced by want.
OIdIcd 10 Virginia.
Captain James Burns, of Company Il,
10Th u. S. Cavalry, has been ordered to
Virginia with a detachment of twenty
men to enforce the reven ne laws.
Retnrn OF the = u~ident
President Grant is expected 20 return
to Washington Tuesday next and re-
main. 1t is scarcely PROBABLE that the
repairs now in progress at the Execu-
tive Mansion will be completed before
that time.
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