The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-08-14
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WARRINGTON, August Is.
The Virginia Changers.

The Virginia Changers.
The Farmers Oranges have been
established in considerable numbers in
Virginia, and applications are being
sent to the centre OF the Grange organi-
zation here for detailed information.
A mercantile organization, which has
become very obnoxious to the farmers,
facilitates the establishment OF these
Oranges. The merchants have COM
bination by which they seek to main
tain uniformly high prices upon all
articles in all the rural districts Of the
State. The workings OF this combina>
ton have long been very oppressive,
and the Grange question is now being
actively discussed as means ot reliet.
Opening O f Indian Territory 10 Set
tlemeEt.
The question having recently been
raised whether the Indian Department
would reconsider the decision by which
it took away q hundred thousand acres
OF improved lands in Southern Kansas
from the bona fdc settlers and gave
them to railroad company, the Secre-
tsry OF the Interior states that the de-
cision OF the Department is final in this
respect, and that in his judgment the
right OF the railroad to the land is be-
yond dispute. Representations made
by the settlers which have reached here
indicate that this decision is the
forerunner OF general scheme which,
in the form of bill for the estab-
ishment OF the Oklahama Territory, s
designed to seize all the lands Of the
peaceful Indians in the Indian Terrific
ry and to open them up to settlement.
The tribes whose lands are embraced in
the scheme are the Cherokees, Creeks,
Seminoles, Cblckasaws and the Choc-
taws. 1t is known that the supporters
OF the Oklahama bill and other similar
bills for the opening OF the Indian Ter
ritory, and the violation OF the treaty
rights, have organized grand combl-
nation to affect this purpose. Harlan's
Chronicle. in this city, has already be-
gun a very active agitation for the pro-
position.
Northern Pacific Railroad.
Messrs. Thompson, Sturgess aid
Ketz, the commissioners appointed for
the purpose, were yesterday directed by
telegraph, to proceed at once to an eX-
animation Of 65 miles Of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, between Portland,
Oregon, to Puget's Sound.
Postal Cards.
The Post Office Department made O
requisitioa on contractors for 3, l2S.OOO
postal cards. Of This number Al ,0S5
have been sent to postmasters. Orders
untitled in the hands OF contractors
amount to 7,700SG0 cards. Add to
this number the number OF cards o.
dered by postmssters and not yet for
warded 10 contractors, viz: lO3, ,3l6, 800,
and there is a total deficiency on orders
amounting to lT,304. 400. 1t lacks a
few days Of being three months since
the first postal cards were issued. The
estimate at the Department was lOO,-
100000, which il was supposed would
supply the demand for the first year
This estimate was too low, for already
orders from postmasters aggregate
6l,4jS.SO0. Last week 1852 900 were
issued. 1t is now believed that con-
tractors wilt not get even with the De-
partment before the first OF OCto5er.
The wawassct Disaster.
4 gentleman who has Just returned
from the scene Of the recent Wawassct
disaster, reports that the steamboat au-
thorities are responsible for the dis
graceful actions connected with the re-
covery and disposition Of the bodies.
As as body is recovered there ls o
scramble on the part Of many to discove
whether any valuables or money is on it.;
If so, there is q struggle and frequently
q fight for possession. A large number
OF bodies recovered have been buried
along the river shore, without so much
az being enclosed in an ordinary pine
box, and with only few inches OF
dirt to cover them. The result
of this has been that several bodies
bsye been dug up and partially coa-
sumed by dogs and continue 10 remain
exposed without proper burial. The
friends and relatives of persons lost on
the Wawasset are quite bitter in Their
condemnation OF the Potomac Ferry
Company for the heartlessness display
ed bv some Of the employees engaged in
searching for the bodies. The total
number lost will reach fully one hum
dred. As yet the hull OF the Wawasset,
which has drifted down the river about
one-eighth OF mile from where 1t first
sunk, has not be searched for bodies,
though an attempt will be made to-day.
It's expected that number OF bodies
will be found in the hull, enough il is
believed to increase the number recov-
cred to about one hundred.
The Attorney General has decided
that no spirituous liquors can be intro
duced into the Indian country without
the order OF the War Department, and
that the jurisdiction OF that Department
Is exclusive Of all other authorities.
Rear Admiral L. NJ. Go.dsborough,
commanding the Washington Navy
Tard, will take command OF an Asisiic
station early in November.
BOSTON.