The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-06-17
WASHINGTON.

NEW York, June 18.-A Washington
special say the Mexican border investigat
ing committee have returned TO that city
to prepare their report. Th6y;have beer
engaged continually since June 10th, anC
have heard the evidence In four hundred
cases, and have received thirteen hundred
e1pdrte affldaVitS. Several women ant
children who had escaped from tho In
diaus appeared before the commissioner
and told the story Of their terrible suffer
ings. The Gomanches are said 10 be en-
gagged mainly in the business Of stealing
children and women ot white settlers
while the Kickapoos, and Arapahoes, and
Mexic8ns, disguised as such, chiefly con
tina themselves to cattle stealing. Raids
Of these people are so frequent that stock
raising within 200 miles Of the Rio GrGnde
has been veil nigh abandoned. b
MesSrs. Robb and Savage, commission.
erS TO inquire into the depredstions COM
mitted on the Rio GfSnde, related TO the
Secretary Of State, this afternoon, the re:
suit Of their mission. ~ ~ = 4 "a, a.,
THE sEARoHFoB THE Po1ARIs.
WARRINGTON, June 1G-Commander
Green has been,ordered to take command
Of a vessel to be dispatched for the dis
covery and release Of the Polarls, with
Liut. Commander White as executive
officer. The Secretary Ia making selec.
ton Of q vessel suitable for the Arctic
expedition. Efforts are being made TO
start the expedition early in July. The
Juniata is taking out her guns and pro-
visionIng for q. voyage OF inquiry, and
may leave thela Of his'week. ss'
James Corning has been appointed in
ternal revenue storekeeper for the, first
distrit Of Missouri. .e. 1
The commission to inquire into the
outrages on the Texas border, arrived
here this morning, and had an interview
with Secretary Fish during the day.
They deny the reports that the Texans
make raids into Mexico, and say that
there Is nothing there to induce them to
plunder their poverty stricken neighbors.
all that our citizens care for is the protcc-
ton Of their persons and property against
the incursions from the Mexicsns and
Indians. After the commissioners went
up the Rio Grande 10 take the tes.
timony, the Mexicans on the lower part
of that river crossed and began their
thieving operations, for which they were
pursued and chastised by Col, Mckenzie.
The Texas Legislature instituted an In.
duiry into the Mexican and Indian wrongs
upon the citizens Of that State, when
some OF the most respectable residents Of
the Neuces Valley went to Austin and
gave stronger testimony than they had
previously gwen before the Commission.
The Commissioners represent the amount
of damages direct and consequential to
those who have suffered by these raids
at between $50 900 900 and 800, 600, 900.
Five hundred petitions In the way Of com.
plant with the speculations were present.
ed to the Commissioners, and these
were supported by 1000 afIldavits.
Many Of the petitions and af1daVits are
represented by men Of fine education and
of most respectable characters. As 70 the
Kickapoos, it Is supposed that there are
not more than two hundred warriors Of
them altogether. One Of the chiefs, re-
ierring TO the proposition Of the United
States to the Kickapoos to go on the res
erVation, said to q Commissioner as fol-
lows:
! We would have but small patch Of
ground and could not make raids on the
other reservations here which are sup
ported in part by the Mexican Govern.
ment, which not only supplies Us with
provisions but gives Us money, and when
we want TO 90 10 Texas the Mexican mer.
chants and planters supply US with horse,
guns and ammunition and provisions, that
We may make our bread and we
pay for them from what we, cap
ture. Besides this, we have q good
country, q fine climate and many priVl,
leges, and the whole Texas border to raid
on. The Commissioner think II the
captiVes taken by Colonel Mckenzie
should be restoredto the Kickspoos, they
would DO no more inclined to return to
the United States than they are now, and
hence they doubt the propriety oi COM
plying with ther requests. The Secretary
Of the interior will take no present action
on the request Of the Kickapoos. The
Commissioners except to refer II 10 the
Secretary Of War, with the suggestion
that he confer with the Secretary Of the
State on the subject,F
Intelligence has been received here
from New Orleans, that on the 10th inst,
the United States Commissioner, John B.
Weller, formerly Governor Of California,
was lying dangerously III, almost hopG-
lessly, at his residence In that city.
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