The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-12
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
by Telegraph to the ROgister.l
WASHINGTON May IL.
Valmaseda,s ProeIamation.

CuOa, VIII, IL cdIEleu OUT l6aQ TO IrOuDlo
between Spain and the United States.
The PROCLAMATION is regarded in official
circles here as one of the most infamous
ever issued by commander having any
pretentions to civilization. As there
are many American citizens in that part
of Cuba, it is feared that an indiscrim-
mate execution of the proclamation may
result in the shooting of some of them.
Should any American citizen be shot,
under this decree, our Government will
be prompt in furnishing the outrage,
and it is underst God til ut instructions
to this effect have been sent to Admiral
HoT since the proclamation was issued.
The Alabama Question.
A gentleman who arrived here to-day
direct from London and who is we'll ac-
quainted with the leading statesmen
there says that Sir Henry Lytton Bal
wer had given notice that he would on
the evening of May llth call up the
Alabama claims treaty in the House o.
Commons. 1t was Sir Henry's intention
to speak at some length criticising the
action of the British Ministry and also
taking exceptions to the course of Mr..
Seward in precipitating action on this
subject after the American people had
condemned the Johnson administration
ut the ballot box.
Indian Agents.
A general order has been issued from
the headquarters of the army assigning
a large number of officers to duty as In-
dian superintendent and agents. They
are all officers who were left out of their
regimental organizations by the cOnsol-
idation of the infantry regiments.
Mail Matters.
The Postof1ice Department has receiv-
ed telegram from Premontory Point
stating that mails have been delivered
at that place to the Central Pacific road
and that the through line has been reg
ularly established.
The Butterfeld Company were last
week informed that their contract
would cease on the junction of the roads.
The cost by the Buttertield route for
transporting mails was SllOO mile and
by the railroads 500 mile per annum.
More Removals.
About thirty clerks were removed to-
day from the Office of the Sixth Auditor
of the Treasury, and several other dis
missals in other Bureaus are to take
place Immediately. The appointment
Clerk has issued stringent instructions
to subordinates in his office forbidding
them to give any information concern
ing the removals under his supervision,
either previous to or after they have
been made. The object of this is to pre-
vent any parties designated for removal
annoying that officer withimportunities
TO be reinstated.
Financial.
Secretary Boutwell, desires il to be I'M
derstood that on issuing the order for
the purchase of bonds, the bonds so pur-
chased are not to be set aside as = sink
ing fund, and that it has no connection
whatever with the matter. His purpose
is simply to use the surplus money
in the Treasury to purchase the six per
cent. gold bonds, in order to stop the
interest. tbs not his intention to can
eel the bonds, but TO allow them to re-
main in the Treasury. 1t may become
necessary for the Department to dispose
of them again, if there should be a fall
ing off of the receipts.
Declined, With Thanks.
Mrs. DR.. Mary Walker applied at the
Postoffice Department yesterday for
n clerkship. The Postmaster General
informed her that he had places for
both male and female clerks, the former
drawing the better pay. She demanded
male position aud male pay for her
self. and offered to inform him ut the
end of month how many rebels there
were in the Department. The Post
master General declined all her offers.
Respecting the carrying out of the
Sinking Fund Law, no conclusion has
been reached.
Treasurer Spinner has received cir
cular signed Cambridge & Co., GO Wall
street, New York, proposing to furnish
genuine fac simile United States Treas
ury notes, in sums of two hundred up to
two thousand dollars, on the receipt of
from fifteen to eighty dollars in green
backs. The circular was sent to Spin
nsr, 10y the victims OF the fraud, who
ask for redress. General Spinner has
written to Superintendent Kennedy, of
New York, calling his attention to the
matter, and asking him to ferret out and
prosecute the parties.
The Only
COlOred man appointed to o Federal
Office in Tennessee is Thomas J. White,
to be Mail-rOute Agent from Nashville
to Decatur, Alabama.
Reported Suppression OF the Cubnn
RebeIIis0.
Tho Spanish Minister read, last night,
a submarine Gable dispatch from GenOr
al Dnlce, announcing the final suppress
sion OF rebellion in Cuba. ltis asserted
by Dulce that only 1900 insurgents are
pnder arms in detached bodies without
leaders or concert of action. The new;
was submitted TO the State Department
1t does not receive great credit here
and is supposed 10 be promulgated
Z .scOurage American sympathy with
Cuba and deter administering schemes
The CubauS here affirm the ability OF
their countrymen 10 hold out against
the Spauiards for an indefinite time
They claim that armed bodies alleged
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