The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-05-06
affecting Aealster.
BY TELEG GRAPH
pxr.us,seiS for the kegist el
Es,b. Pacific snd stInaIic bine.
IaISe, 40 Matn street.
WASH|N TON.
WASHINGTON, May 5.
The Back Pay Steal.

IrPa-urer SPINNER touay ieSe"eu
check OF Geo. Gorham, Secretary o.
Stale, Tor toe amount of the cosgree.
sioual back pay due Mr. Sumner, and
which the latter requested be conveyed
into the Treasury Up to thIs date
twenty-syven members aud Senators
have returned their back pay. The
total amount mus FAR turned into the
Treasury e Il -, 229
IL mas been ascrrtsinei that the de
iacsGan OF the Atlantic National
Bark amounts 10 5000 900.
O'Krliy.
The Department of State has rece'v.
ei Information OF the removal OF OKel-
lv to Havana. snd thst his case is
tsemsi tess -erious than was anticlpst-
ei ani that all proper facilities will be
extended 10 him.
Postal Cards.
General Barber to-day received 8
PROC sheet OF the last postal cards
made by the Morgan Envelope Comps-
ny. Of Springield, Massachusetts. and
pronounces the specimens entirely salts
factory. The company 10 now issuing
$40 900 cards per day, and by the last
ot ms week all the large circulars will
be islupd
Tue Fourth in'sptry has been ordered
rom TrImble r ,ck AID 10 march to
the Modoc couuiry.
The H-e~,pSs cat Customs
The following are the receipts for
customs for the week ending April 80:
N~s York 50 422 SIT B ,ston s633 lls;
PaiIadelphia S26O,0l4; Baltimore $l84,.
81.
Eour rear Admrals are to he retired
rom active service this year under the
recent law OF Congress plscipg them on
the retired list a. the age o 81. They
sre Go F Eumous and Charles
Steslmsn In Sept; w. Rodgers Taylor
in November and Thornton A. Junkins
10 December. The retirement Of these
officers promstes ConodoresJ. j. Alung,
! n Stray, E g. Parrot and W
Reynolds 70 toe grade Of rear Admiral
Successful.
The following persons have been
selected from those who competed in
the recent examination OF the treasury
;or the appointment as hrst clerks in
the department named Thomas Rob
inson. Georgia, " L Marion and h
NJ. Brush, New York, J II Lichletter,
Vrginia, Jas G Terald, Ohio, A.
Wxtrous, Virgin q, E s Brewer, IIli-
pols, T. L Norris, Massachusetts, R
A. Morrison, Pennsylvsnis, c. B Gil
bert, Maine, w. E Koch, New York,
c. P. Crippege, Indiana, II w. Hard
msp, New York, E J. Thomas, Louisi.
ana.
THE Iudiau QuesIion.
As soon ss the President returus
there will be a Cabinet consultation,
whereat the Indian question will be
carefully discussed aud some plan adopt
Ell TO meet any outbreak OF the savsges
that NAV occur this summer. The
Pr sideut is expected here the begin
ming o. the week In the mean time
no new arrangements will be made,
either "a regards the Modocs or the
other hostile tribss.
A proposition has been made to hunt
the Modocs from their stronghold in
the lava neds with blooihounds, as We
i>ne IN Florida during the Seminole
var. Tlis. however, inis no favor at
the War Department, and it is not
hkriy TO ne adopted until all other
means o. dislodgng them have Jailed
General Sherman regards this as he
iOes the scalp bounty business, rather
a dshouorable method OF warfare
against even 81 heartiesS and trescber-
ous an enemy "a the Modocs There
are officers OF the army, however, who
think II will be impossible to get the
l"iisn- ont OF the lava beds in any
Oluer way
A correspondent Of the Evsning Star
in y letter 10 that paper, dated Corpus
Christi, Texas, April 81, draws a fearful
picture OF the slate OF affairs on the
Texas frontier. The correspondent
says: believe the Administrator has
never been correctly informed OF the
.awless condition OF sffsrs which has
teen existing in this State for years, and
which is now increased by Mexican vi
oierce
| believe If the case was laid before |
the public eel coufi lent that you, as
sell AS others, would say that the le-
sIumste arm OF the law must be used
ty the Government, be it by the bsyo-
het or toy civil services TO protect the |
settlers and citizens OF this country. who |
are locatsd mere in accordance with |
law, and look with rights OF citIzens to
The Government Tor protection. !
Ihere.are TWO bands OF men numbering
shout thirtv Mrxicsps in all, led by |
Atsisno AIverado, and Alberdo Gsrss,
"no are devastating this section o. the
Safe rom Nor across Texas, and |
thence to Lsrsdo and to their head
quarters They defy the civil suthori.
lies, and when they cannot run the
cattle into Mexico. they kill them on
ihespot and conpel some poor devil OF
4 rauchmaU to buy the hides under pen-
atty OF death.