The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-06-14
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, June 10.


liCate payments to the army officers, that
the original receipts or pay.rolls on hle in
the Treasury Department, are all the evil
dence required. In order to avOid,the dan
ger of losing these, the Secretary will
cause to be prepared certified photo
graphic copy OF these pay.rolls, which
may be transmitted to the District AttOr-
neys whenever needed. The Department
recovered more than $4,000 which had
been fraudulcnuy paid to the army last
year. One case is reported where the
regular army officer by committing per-
Jury thirty.five times, fraudulently OBJ.
tained in one year thirty.tive monthly
payments more than he was entitled 10.
1t is positively announced here that n.
Ferry will succeed NJ. Trielherde as
French Minister to the United States.
Hon. L. B. Washburne, Minister to
France, has received permission to make
short visit at home this summer, and
will avail himself Of II, should affairs in
France become sufficiently settled to
make 1t practicable for him 10 be absent
from his post.
The Register Of the Treasury will pay
the semtannual dividends on the 25th
inst.
IL. NJ. Mead, the delaulting cashier of
tho steamship Massachusetts, has Just
paid the amount Of his bond.
At tho Treasury Department the first
Controller was Informed to-day that the
bOndsmen Of Foster, Of Indianapolis, had
paid the amount for which he was do.
faulter, $4,000.
The Supreme Court, having by a tie
vote affirmed the decision Ofthe Court of
Claims allowing Lieut. Price commuta-
tion for transportation after he had vol.
UNFAIRLY resigned his commission In the
army, the other officers have asked for a
similar allowance. The distributing ofl.
GERS here do not consider this as d prece-
dent, and will not recognize these claims.
Ex-senator Cattell will probably accept
the appointment rendered him as Com.
missioner under the civil service section
Of tho last miscellaneous Appropriation
bill.
The President Is expected to arrive
here Friday morning. II 10 not certain
that any Cabinet meeting will be held,
since there Is yet no necessity for ono
known to exist
Solicitor L. U. Banfeld, Of the Treasury
Department, returned here yesterday
from California, and will, without delay,
proceed to examine the case Of the New
York Central Railroad Company.
General George StOneman has applied
to be placed on the retired list on account
Of incapacltY resulting from injuries re-
ceived during the war.
Secretary Fish Is soon TO start on
tour across the continent
Frederick Douglass has resigned as q
member Of Council In the Territorial
Legislature.
This morning 9. G. Bowen, recently
convicted of bigamy, was brought into
the Criminal Court to be sentenced. Mrs.
Susan Pettigue King said; III you sen.
tence him sentence me too, for ! am rs
much to blame as he is." Bowen then
made a statement concerning the Circum.
stances Of his marriage, before which
Mrs. King sent to New York and OBJ.
tanned copy Of the record of his divorce
from his former wife. She, as well as
himself, was satisfied that ateverything was
right, and no legal obstruction In
tho way Of their marriage. Judge
Olin then sentenced Bowen TO pay
a fine Of 5000, and DO impris.
oned two years In the penitentlary.
Bowen af(er a pause, addressed Mrs. King
saying when bis term expired he would
return 10 her, whereupon Mrs. King ex.
tended to him her hand, which he grasped
as in pledge of faith. She appeared to be
deeply affected. Bowen was subsequent.
ly taken to Jail, where lie will remain un.
I'll the decision OF the Court, which meets
next Monday, on the exceptions to the
ruling of the Criminal Court. His object
being 10 obtain new trial.
The Agricultural Bureau has elaborate
reports 10 regard to the acreage and con.
dtion of cotton, including forty counties.
North Carolina forty.eight, Georgia and
like proportion from other States. The
Bureau Is busy comparing these returns
with those Of last year and will on the
18th publish its first cotton statement for
this year. The Bureau has as yet no
sufficient data to approximate the extent
Of the falling Of crops from last year.
Tho strikers at the coal wharves In
Georgetown resumed work to-day, at the
old rates.
Reliable advices from Arizona received
this morning say that every one In the
territory slstainB General Crook, and ex
poets that the Apaches will be well
whipped, II not tanned. The cavalry are
ara very deficient. Gen. Stoneman states
that only one.flfth are mounted and there
Is no money to buy horses. New diScov.
cries Ofgold and silver In Northern Ari.
zona are attracting much attention In
San Francisco.
Hon. Sylvester Z. Mowery Is still SO.
riotsly Ill, and unable to leave his rooms
In Washington.
The counsel OF Perkins claim against
the Russian Government had nothing to
do directly or indirectly with the recent
alleged letters Of Minister CatacbIy re.
feeling on Secretary Fish.
Rev. A. s. Lakin, Of Alabama, was be.
fore the Ku.Klux Committee to-day, and
testified that since 1868 two presiding
elders Of the NJ. E. Church had been
driven from work; two ministers whipped, /,
and another fired on and requitedt TO leave
his circuit one travelling minister killed,
and two local ministers murdered. In
nearly all instances the offenders were
in disguise. Lakin himself was shot in
his house, and also on the highway, and
had been molested by the Ku, ,Klux with.
in the last two years Union men are
inSulted and maltreatcd, and frequent
murders are committed. Affairs In that
State are as bad rs ever. There Is no I'm.
provement.
Chas. z. Coon, Of the Treasurer's Office,
has been designated by Secretary Bout
well, to accompany Judge Richardson
and party to Europe, Tor the purpose Of
assisting in the new loan negotiation. The
party will leave New York tomorrow.