The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-03-07
NEW ORLEANS.
Heavy DefaIcati"ns I'm the Postof
fee.

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| New ORLEANS, March 9th In
the Lowell Douglass case the deficits
are sccumulatiug, and visit to the
private psrlor at the Postotiice, and q
conversation with j. c. Hays, and Ed
ward Leelye, reveals the iact that the
Posteffice defalcations- are assuming
larger proportions with each advance in
the Investigation. So lar as is now
positively known, the trouble in the
money order department alone amour 8
to $4,000. In stamps ard newspaper
postage, a rough estimate by Col. Hays,
places the deficit at $50, 900 more
In addition to this it has
been found that the quarterly
returns OF the receipts for newspaper
postage during the past wear show an
average deficiency OF S., 600 each. These
amounts are charged direct y to Mr.
Douglass cash. The officers engaged
10 the case say our post office appears
to have been the worst managed that
ever came under their notice. LIS ir
regularities, disorder and mismanage-
ment are horrible. 1t is this which re-
tards investigation and renders the sum-
ming up 30 difficult Not a day passes
without their receiving letters from the
country postmaslers speaking OF remit
tances forwarded by them and tor
which no credit appears on the books
OF the postoffice. Scsrcel y a step Is a.
ken in the inquiry which does not re-
veal some hitherto unknown leak by
which the funds of tie Government
have heen escaping Appearances now
indicate that the detalcaIion viii run
up to $4,000, If not more. unless it
should be found that the department has
some cash balance on baud with which
to offset the deficiencies This, hos-
ever, does not seem to be at all possi-
BILE.
kellogg w. MISUNDERSTANDING
Timestn progress.
The action taken bv General Emory
last night in ordering the d spersron Of
the militia was in response u a renui-
sition made on him by ievernor Kei-
logg calling for the interference OF the
United States troops to p' olect the State
Government and preserve the peace. At
about II o'clock Governor kellogg re-
ceived dispatch from GenrraI B .dger
stating that he was in possession OF
odd Fellows Hall with force OF police
1t Is the intention to prevent any iur-
ther meeting OF the fusion legislature,
they being charged with committing an
overt act against The authorities recog-
nized by the President.
Throughout the morning crowds OF
people kept pouring down IN the drec-
ton of the Third Preciuct S alton where
last nights recontre took place. the
plates OF glass and the dllapidaled cJn
dition of doors and windows in the VI
cinity OF the station attest the prev"
lence of bullets. The station is guard
ed by strong force OF military aud
Metropolitan police, aud the regular
business usually transacted within
the building goes ahead undis'uroed,
as about sxty-tive arrests were made
and positive orders TO ad nit OF no inter-
views until the examination Is bad
before U. S. Commiss nner Shannon.
Crowds OF curiosity seekers are sull
unsatiefied. Square surrounding the
streets bears many marks Of the recenI
conflict Grape and c4ue>ter have told
with some effect on the railing OF the
square, some halt dozen being broken
and twisted into fantastic shapes. Tme
iron column in front OF No 10, Chartres
| street, is u wreck, and tue window gla-'
ses of the buildings between Jefferson
and St. Peter streets, are completely
shattered, from the force OF the cJncus-
sion.
Itis now ascertained that the militia
lost three killed, and one mortaIly
woun nded; the station itself bearing lndI5
putable testimony oi iron hail The
walls and ceilings are punctured and
many OF the books pierced through aud
through. The police report one, mau
seriously wounded and Estimate their
,orce inside at forty men. Keudricks
Chandler the young man that was
wounded in the attack on the seventh
precinct sta ion last night by the Met
tropolitsn police, under Colonel B dyer,
died th morning OF the wound which
he received. G. G. Hartmann, who
was killed at Jackson Square, Wednes'
day night, was buried thi- evening
Capt. Robinson, of the sixth precinct,
received Instructions from Gen. Long-
street, delivered through Gen. Badger,
commanding that an mple police Iorce
be detailed to occupy the Old Fellows
Hall, and in event ot a re usaI OF
those present to disperse, TO arrest and
| imprison such parties 10 accordance
with the order Capts, Flanagan, Bobs
lnsou, and Rspp, with a squad OF one
hundred and fifty policemen. armed
with Winchester rifles, marched from
the srmory to Lafayette square, where
they were drawn up tac'rg the Old
Fellows Hail. Several persons were
seen on the balcony Of the Hall at
the time, while about fifty individuals
made a hasty exit from the building
Taking up position on the stree, where
there were gathered two hundred peo
ple, Capt. R Dbiuson taking with him
shout so men, proceeded to the Hall,
leaving the balance o. the detachment
| in the square Capt. Robln.on marched
his men to the main hall. where they
rested on their arms, guards bein g
mesnw hile placed at all the entrar crs
leading to the building with instruc'
tions to allow none 10 enter, but 10
hinder no one from leaving the etitice.
A number of members OF the McEnrey
Legislature who were tound 10 the
building were placed under arrest. The
police SQUAD in charge of the arrested
members reached the Lafayette station