The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-07-07
WASHINGTON.
The Everlasting Ku.KIuI Invesliga-
tiOn.
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The Everlasting ku.kluI InVeSlisa-
tiOn.
WASHINGTON, July q.
The Ku.KluX Committee still stays
here, patiently working away in the hot
weather, without any prospect Tor Il ter.
minatiOn Of Its labOrS. Yesterday several
OF the leading citizens OF Alabama and
Mississippi arrived in this city 70 appear
rs Witnesses
ADMISSION OF CASADINN GOODS.
The acting Secretary ol the Treasury
has directed that the articles from Canada
intended for the International and Indus.
trial Exhibition Of the Mechanics lnsli.
tute, at Buffalo, 10 he opened on the 2lst
Of September and continued t0 October
18th, 1871, shall he entered and bonded
lor sixty days, and that al the close Of the
exhibition they may be returned To Cana.
da, with payment of duty.
A PRESIDENTIAL VISIT.
The President sends word that he will
be here on the llth to hold cabinet
meeting. This will probably be the last
one held prior to his new departure from
Long Branch for the Pacific coast. II is
expected that at this meeting the appoint.
ments under the now treaty with Great
Britain will he determined and soon
thereafter announced.
ASSIGNMENT Of GRADUATING wEsr POINT
CADETS.
The following are the assignments OF
cadets who have just graduated TO ditler-
Gnt regiments of Infantry tst regiment,
Frank H. Edwards; ID, James II. AyTes; !
ith, Henry G. Robinson; 9Th, Thomas NJ. |
Woodruff 9th, Thomas q. Townsend
1th, Charles A. Woodruff 9Th, William
Mott 9TH, George +, Chase; | llth, Francis
W Mansfield; 18Th, James Florence 18th
q. II. Walker; 10Th, George Il. Baker;
l1lh, Daniel II. Brush 18th, William +. |
Wheeler 10Th, Alexander McGuard; Goth,
Charles IT, ltibhel; !lsl, William II.
lIoag; 22d; John Me A. Webster; 23d,
Richard II. TOillOn cath, FayGtte W.
Roe; 25tl, Julius A. Parller. Cavalry
Regiments, Isl Regiment, Thomas \.
Knox; 3d, Edgar s. Stillver, Andrew II.
Russell, Walter y. Wyatt and Frederick
SChnatka: 4tl, James II. Wasson, John A.
Mckinney, L. Grant White and Fred. D. |
Grant; 9TH, Richard s. Stewart and Geo.
Il. Davis; 9Th, Geo. 3. Anderson, VintOn
A. Goddard, Chas. G. Morrison and Henry
d. Kngsbury; 7th, Andrew II. Neve; 9Th,
James p. HiChey; 9th, Thomas g. Mum.
ford; 10th, Charles II, Ward
The Postmaster General to-day ap.
pointed Abraham ACkerman, Postmaster
at Warrenton, Ohio, rice II. Middleklamp
removed, and j.. 8. Holmes, Postmaster at
Grand Ledge, Michigan, rice James A.
WiCkham, resigned.
THE SOUTHERN INVESTIGATION
The Ku.Klux Outrage Committee 10.
day examined Judge PGttis and Colonel
PGgh, of Alabama. Their testimony was
corroboratlve OF the evidence previously
given by Gov. Lindsay and others, that no
such organization as the KuKlux exists
in Alabama, and that good order and re.
speCt for the laws prevails In that State |
Col. Pugh at the outbreak of the war was
u member of Congress from Alabama,
and was aiterward member OF the Con.
federate Congress from the same State.
j. W. Justice, Of Rutherford county,
North Carolina, a prominent native Re.
publican, and member Of the Iiegisla-
ture Of that State, was examined prior to
the examination Of Pettis and Pngh, and
gave very direct testimony in relation 10
affairs in Ills section. lie testified that
some five weeks ago party Of forty or
fifty armed and disguised men camo TO
his house, took him out Of bed, and in the
presence oI his family beat him iCarlully
with clubs and pistols, and then carried
him into the woods, threatening his life.
They made him promise not TO come TO
Washington and testify concerning the
various outrages which hAd been, pre-.
viollsly committed in that vicinity. They
then left him, and he managed to get
home, where he was confined for three
weeks from the effects OF severe internal
injuries caused by the beating. He swOrc
he believed that this and similar Outrages
were part of regular system Of political
intimidation, and were not merely neigh.
borhoOd quarrols. lie believed firmly In
the existence Of Ku.Klux in North Caro-.
linn.
General Spinner will leave Europe on
the 29th inst for this country.
The Board Of Supervising Steamboat
Inspectors expect to make a report to the
Secretary of the Treasury in week or ten
days.
The regular monthly statement of the
condition Of tho crops will not lie ready
before the latter part Of next week. The
cotton reports Continue uniavorable.
Attorney General Alderman IL the only
member OF the Cabinet now In Washing.
ton. The others are in their respective
States
l}owens pardon has moi yet been re.
ceivcd. The blank form was mailed To the |
President last Saturday
Prof Stuart Eldridge, Of Wisconsin, will
go to Japan with Gen. Capron rs a mem.
Der Of the Scientific Expedition.
Second Comptroller Brodhead decides
that the repeal by the act of July 12, 1870,
Of the indefinite appropriation In the act
Of March 3, 1S4O, to pay for horses, mules,
&C., lost or destroyed during the war in
tho military service does not prevent &C.
tiOn at the Treasury upon this class Of
claims. There are no legal objections 10
entertaining those claims The Auditor
can report cases as usual to the Comptrol.
Ter, and If approved the sum allowed
stands adjudiCated, the claim TO be paid |
when Congress makes the necessary ap.
proprIatlon