The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-26
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
IBy Telegraph to the Register.l
WASHINGTON, June %.
Indian Affairs.

Indian Affairs.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs
received letter, dated May 3lst, from
George ". Dent, superintendent of In
dian Affairs for Arizona Territory, in
which he gives some statements of the
conduct of the Indians. News Of depre-
dations come from all parts. They
have made attacks on herds and wagon
trains in the immediate vicinity of
Camp Verdi, wounding and killing sew
eral men and driving off the stock. The
same scenes have been enacted near
Camp Lowell. The river Indians Of the
ella and Colorado are quietly engaged
in planting. The troubles he says are
owing to the temporary removal of the
troops from the posts in the Territory.
The Gettysburg Dedication.
The committee having charge of the
monumental dedication at Gettysburg
on the 1st of July, have made arrange
ments with the principal railroads lead
ing to New York, Boston, Chicago, St..
Louis, Baltimore and other points, for
the issue of excursion tickets at reduced
prices.
Berries ResignRIiOn.
Adolph E. Borie has resigned his posi-
ton as Secretary of the Navy and Geo.
NJ Robson, Attorney General Of New
Jersey, has. been appointed to succeed
Borie. Robson was sworn in at noon
to-day and will attend the regular Cab
met meeting. Borie felt compelled to
resign by reason of the multiplicity of
private duties. .... .-
Brutal Negro Outrage.
A negro man seized young lady of
sixteen years while she was on her way
to school at Howard University yester-
day morning, and committed rape
upon her in spite of her resistance and
the efforts of two younger sisters to save
her. She is of very respectable family,
aud was severely injured in the strug-
gle. The negro escaped and has not
yet been arrested. One of the evening
papers suggests his lynchiDg if he is
caught.
The New Executive BInnsiOn.'r
The President and members of the
Cabinet have been looking over the
ground to find a site for the new Exc
cutive mansion, which can be recon-
mended to Congress, and are understood
to be substantially agreed upon loca-
ton in the northwestern part of the
city.
The Cuban Envoy.
Stories have been afioat here, and
were perhaps sent forth, that Senior
Lemus, the Cuban envoy, had been
granted an interview with the Presi
dent. The rumor in whatever form put,
is unfounded in fact, as the interview
exists only in the imagination of those
by whom it is circulated. Lemus has
heretofore, as private individual, call |
ed on Secretary Fish, and in the same
manner called on Secretary Rawlins.
He was, Of course, received. But moth
thing of Importance or significance took
place.
Captain General DE ROdns.'
The most important item of Cuban
information is the statement of the
Spanish Minister made this afternoon |
that De Rodas, the new Captain General,
has landed in Cuba, not at Havana, but
at another port, and is first giving his
attention to things in theinsurgent part
of the island. His arrival has been ex-
pected for some days, but the present
statement rests entirely on the author
ity of Senior Roberts, no other informa-
tion having been received. He also says
that some of the Cuban leaders in the
island have been arrested, and adds that
important information will shortly be
received from there.