The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-03-20
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Sentence Commute ed.

" AsHlNGTON, MdTCu ~ - he L res
ideut has commuted the sentence OF
UBrien, who was to he hung on the
18th instant, to Imprisonment for life.
1t ia said a, the solicitation of General
Butler. The murder committed by
10 Brien was one OF the most cruel and
cold-blnoCed ever known. The action
OF the President has created considera-
bic comment
A Carpet Bag Treasurer.
Senator Sawyer OF South Carolina,
was this morning commissioned and
took the oath of office as Assistant Sec
retury of the Treasury, vice Judge Rich
ardson promoted to Secretary. Mr..
Sawyer will enter upon the duties o,
The Fixh, over the SpoiIs
Three more delegations from Balti.
more visited the White House this
morning, and had an interview with the
President ou the subject 0. the collec.
torship of that port. Two delegations
tAvoring Thomas, and one tavorlng
Washington Booth. A member OF the
Thomas delegation said to The President
Sir: We intend to follow the example |
YOU set us during the war. We intend |
TO keep hammering away on the Iortl-
flea ions until the enemy surreuders y
The President gave 30 inllmatl0n OF
mis- intentions IN the matter
Appointments.
The Senate to.dxy confirmed the |
nomination of ex-senator Frederick A. |
Sawyer, OF South Carolina, a. Assistant
Secretary Of Treasury. Gov Edward |
A. Cook having declined reHomna-
ton as Governor et Colorado, the Pres |
dent to-day sent to the Senate the uom
iuation OF Samuel II. Ebert for that
position
The Attorney General has written to
Oakes Ames requesting the use OF the |
books OF the Credit Mohilier corpora
ton.
PardOned.
The President to-day psrdoned Chill
ders and Mon gomery who were alleged |
TO have been connected with the South |
Carolina Ku KluX.
The LOUISIANA Trouble.
McEnery, OF Louisiana, has address
ed circular letter to the Governors OF
the States OF the Union, giving an &C
nnunt OF the condition OF affairs in Lou>
IslQpa As views II, hlu
call the attention Of their people, 90 |
well as Senators and Members, TO the
matter. He also has prepared a memo
rial, which he proposes TO send to the
President, asking him 10 convene an
extra session OF Congress TO consider
the pol tical differences Loulslann' IN |
hopes of effecting solution which will
he satisfactory to all
The New Assistant Secretary.
1t appears that against Mr. Sawyer
on Tuesday appointed Assistant Secre~
tary of the Treasury, there stands on the
books of the Department a deficiency IN
his accounts amounting to upwards OF
eighteen thousand dollars, incurred
while Collector OF Internal Revenue for
the Char eston, South Carolina district,
from 1865 ill his election to the S'nate
OF the United States in 1868. 1t is
now five wears since he held the office
OF Collector, and he has made no set
element.
The Insanity D"dgel
Drs. Wll.m Hammond aud Thad-
dues Cross. B 1ard de Lunatico Enqulr-
endo, appointed by judge Brady at the
request OF District Attorney Phelps,
seo1 in their report. They declare 1t to
he their opinion that Bleakly who shot
| his niece Maud Merril in q house OF Ill
tame. in Amlty street, and Levoy who
n,cked his wife 10 death with saw, are
both pe-fectlv sane and OF sound mind
The police boat Seneca which started
Yesterday afternoon on cruise down
the hsv, with Capt. Irving and detec
tive Farley on board, to interpret IN
coming steamers, and search for the
torOers who victim'zed the Bank OF
| England, DdS hot ySt
return is anxiously expected at the po'
lice headquarters, where no news has
heen received since their departure.
The Labor Question
The attacks threatened yesterday
uron the Italian laborers on the BouI-
eyards it is believed, has not been en-
urely abandoned, hut has been mercy
postponed until some more iaVoraoIe
opportuuity presents itself. The B%ul.
evard men are greatly dissatisfied Al
/ the Italian laborers who work tor - ~ ~
per day, while they were getting - w w
ner day. There is no doub! that, out
for the presence OF the police IN force force
yesterday. a terrible riot would nave
occurred as numbers of the Boulevard
men were noticed marching up ientn
and Eleventh avenues from E'ghte'n
street armed with pickaxrs, sboveis ano
crowbars, Who were pretending toIook 'oi
work bnt who were gathering TOR an aIn
attack upon the Italian laborers' All
is quiet to-day, but the storm may
bnTst forth at any moment, aud when