The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-08-01
WASHINGTON.
SEws FROM THE INDIAN COUNTRY.


WARRINGTON, July 81.
A letter from Agent Darlington, date
Cheyenne, Arapahoe Agency, July lott
says: "The Indians are all quiet. tknoy
Of no deprepations having been commit
ted this season, yet the Kiowas have bee
constantly endeavoring to draw the Chey
Cnnes into a general war. Ihaye som
hope that the most tempting crisis ha
passed. But the present Is no time, il
my opinion, to slack our diligence"
REVENUE RECEIPTS.
The Internal Revenue receipts to.da,
are $S52,768 o.. The total receipts fo
July were $l4,2S6,O57 90.
The President has recognized Chris
ttau Boreas as Consul Of Norway ant
Sweden, at New York. Tho PreSiden
has made the following appointments
MarShe Glddings, Of Michigan, Governor
OF New Mexico; VIM. L. Warning, As
sessor oilnternal Revenue for the collec
tion district ofNew Mexico. The Secre
tary of State has arrived here.
THE STATE DEPARTMENT. CONTRACTS
The contract for tho granite for the OK,
terror walls and the steps of the cellar
and basement stories, tho walls of the
court yards, and tho facing and Gaping
OF the area walls oi tho new State De-
partment building, was awarded TO the
Bodwoll Granite Company, of Fox Is.
land, Mo. Tho price to be paid Is
sixty.thrGe cents per cubic loot Tor stones
tho dimensions OI which do not exceed
forty cubic feet Tho ocOntraCt for granite
for the superstructure has been awarded
to Albert OrdwAy, Of Richmond, Va.
The price to DO paid Is elghty.nine cents
per cubic foot for stones which do not ex.
coed twenty cubic ieOt, with an increase
of nine.tenLhs Of cent per cubic foot for
each additional cubic foot for stones tho di.
mcnslOn Of which shall exceed twenty
cubic feet. Tho granite IL TO DO Cut at
tho quarry and delivered here ready for
use. Tho contractors were also required
to agree TO furnish the granite which may
be required for tho entire building for
the use Of tho State, War and Navy De.
parlments, when tho construction Of the
other portions Of the building shall be au.
thOrized, at tho same rates and upon the
same terms as tho present contract
Orders were Issued to-day by tho Sec.
retary OF tho Treasury to the Collectors Of
customs on tho Canadian frontier and the
United States Consular officers In Canada,
to suspend nctlon under any orders here.
toforo issued applying to tho American
seal locks and companies passing from the
frontier line with dutiable goods without
appralsement but that parties who have
bonded under the act of July IA, 1870, and
are now using said lock, will be required
to continue their use. This order OF the
Secretary Is made with a view to re.ex.
anime, by the new Commissioner, into the
practical utility and price OF tho lock re.
ierred TO, as regards It's adoption for rail.
road purposes nnd tho protection of the
interests Of the government.
Sellgman & Co., of New York. sub.
scribed to-day for 100000 oI 0 per cent
bonds.
During July the number of applications
at the Patent Office was 1,912-2l more
than the corresponding month last wear,
OF the number 1,l8l patents and trade
marks were issued.
Tho Ku.Klux Committee adjourned
to-day until the 20th Of September, leav.
ing here rs sub Committee Senators Poole
and Blair and Representative Buckley, to
examine the few witnesses now here, and
several others on the way here. It Is SUD.
posed the examination will be concluded
this week. In the meeting In September
separate reports will be made on the ro.
construction acts, and the condition Of
finances In the late insurrectionary States,
the Committee having the subject in
charge,
MURDER MOST FOUL.
Andrew Curtin IA white mani, while
proceeding quietly home Saturday night,
was assaulted by three colored men, one
1f whom cut his throat with razor, In.
lictinp n fAtnl wotind