The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-29
BY TELEG APH'
Exclusively for the Register.
BY the Pacific and Atlantic Line.
once, ITO Main street.
WASHING TON.
WASHINGTON, July %.
Ira nkfcr OF Government Treasure
from San FrauciAeO.

urer, is authority for the statement
that the Treasury Department ha
adopted the practice OF sending to tn
far west parties OF Government EN-
ployes who carry currency from here
and generally bring back to the eas
large quantities of gold coin, becaus
the transfer can be made in this way ,
good deal cheaper than through bank
ing concerns, and with greater safet.
than the usual mode of Forwarding
valuables by express. About three
fourths of one per cent, is the loves
compensation demanded by banking
huuses for making transfers OF golc
from San Francisco 10 New York
Yet it is estimated that the Govern.
ment is put to the comparatively
small expense OF one-fifth of one pei
cent, ifit sends its employees 10 bring
the treasure. This latter amount, il
is said, covers the entire expense of the
clerks, including their mileage and
salaries, and the chartered car. Besides
the government has to send currency to
the west to pay the army and other In
debtedness and the money is believed to
be quite safe in charge Of these special
messengers, who are sent to deliver it.
Very little tear is entertained that any
attempt will be made to rob the train
on which the money may happen to be,
as all the parties are well armed and
are usually provided with a small guard
of United States soldiers, whom it is
found convenient to transfer from east
ern TO western duty, and vice versa on
occasions OF this sort. The half doze n
employees who are to leave here to-
morrow night on an errand Of the kind
spoken OF, will be sent to Santa Fe,
New Mexico. Their round trip will
consume about forty days, large por-
ton of the journey having to be made
in stsges.
An Official vIndicated.
4 statement OF the expenditures by
the Sergeant-at-arms Of the United
States Senate during the last four years,
as compared with those under the pre-
ceding Administration, has been made
fox the purpose Of reiuting the charges
that Mr.. French. the present Sergeant
inc in the four years, ending March 4,
1869 there we're expended by the office
81 Ssrgeant-at.erms SS5G,26l, and for
the four years ending June 80, 1873, the
expenditures amounted to sooo'4Zo.
Second Lfeutenants.
The Secretary of War is expected
here from Long Branch Tomorrow. de
will bring with him about forty MOI noml-
nations of persons now in civil l'ie' 10
be Second Lieutensnts in the army.
The names of the appointees will be
made pablo in day or two.
Competing Railway Lines.
The active competition between the
old aud new through lines OF railway
from the north and east to this city and
the south rebounds to the material ben.
eft of the travelling and business pub
lie, as has already been demonstrated,
in several particulars. BY a ne"
Advancement on one OF the lines, q
tr9;a known as the Richmond express
leaves New York at quarter past 5
in IN, afternoon, arriving here before
mi!ci,ht, and continuing through,
reaches Richmond early the following
morning.
Railway Postal Service Extension.
The Post-otiice Department has or
dsred an extension Of the Railway
Nal Service on the Texas and Pacific
railroad from Longview to Dallas,
T,xas, l22 6-l0 miles, at yearly COM
rcr. alton Of $9,S0S.
AFeolish Undertaking.
simultaneously with the appearance
here OF Brother-in-law Casey, the job
papers in this city commence the publi-
cation OF Isbored and elaborate defenses
Of the kellogg usurpation, no doubt for
a consideration. Oae Of them this
morning devotes three columns to this
object. This attempt to create puoilc
opinion will not work aud Casey might
as well keep his money.
The Old Snbj.ct Renewed.
Letters written by General Scott dur.
| Jog the Mexican war, and not before
pulished are furnished to-day by 6
daughter OF the late John j. Crittender
The burden OF the letters Is the dlrec
charge by General Scott that Presiden
Polk and Secretary Marcy were atralc
to nut him in command of the armies
because his success would break up th'
Demoratic party forever, and their pur
pose was to allow none but Democratic
generals to reap the glory. What par
ticular object is to be subserved BY tn
publication of these letters now it 1
hard to tell, but we shall probably hav
sny number OF old fossils coming GU
10 tell what they know aboutit.
The vIrgInius' Cargo Safely LANDED
Late intelligence from Havana say
il was rumored that he blockade run
uer Virginius has safely landed he
cargo.
Pardons Recommended.
The Attorney General to-day rec
commended that pardons be Issued t
Felix Dover, Stephen Spawn, Eva
Murphy and VIM. Scruggs, conVlcte
in North aud South Carolina for Ku
Klux outrages.
Mary Harris. who shot and killed
clerk named Bouroughs, at Washing
ton, a few years ago. has escaped fror
the luuatic asylum, and the rest OF tn
Washington clerks are breaking II