The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-06-14
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Exclusively for the Register.
BY the Pacific and Atlantic Line.
OMee, l1O Main street,
WASHING TON.
WASHINGTON, June Is.
EN.rafaHY Rich a I'd aAn

WASHINGTON, June IS.
| Secretary Richardson
Will leave here on Saturday, the 2ls
of June, to attend the annual Com
mencement Of Harvard college.
Revenue Receipts.
The receipts from Internal Revenue
to-day were s3l2.924 4S, making tht
total amount since the commencement
OF the present fiscal year $ll0,077,-
95505. The estimate of Commissioner
Douglass for the fiscal year was SllO.-
100000, while that Of Secretary Bout
we'll was sl0S,000,000. At least 81 :
100000 will be received before the
first OF July.
The Indebtedness OF the Pacific Rail.
roads 10 the Government.
The following Information hss been
furnished to Senator Casserly at Eia
request by the Treasury Department to
aid him in that part OF the investigs-
ton assigned to him as a member ol
the Senate Special Committee on
Transportation: The interest paid by
the United States TO January ], 1873,
on bonds Issued to the Pacific railroad
companies and remaining due and un-
paid by them, after all allowances for
moneys earned by them, is $l4,323, =
507 a. OF this amount the Central
Pacific owes s6,429.9S6 55. and the
Western Pacific s4l7,429 IA. On July
first rext will be due on the same &C"
count from the railroad companies the
further sum Of 81, ,93S,705 &c, making
q total then due Of Sl6,262, 2l3 OS.
For this total amount of over sixteen
millions the Central Pacific and
Western Pacific will, on July first,
stand indebted to the United States in
the same proportion as now-seventeen
thirty y-iiltbs, or nearly one half.
ReversedDeSisiOn.
On q question referred from the Treas
ury Department the Attorney General
decided that velvet ribbons made Of
silk and cotton are subject to duty OF
50 per cent, under the eighth section OF
the tariff act OF 1864.
The Modoc Troubles.
The following telegram was received
at the Indian bureau to-day, coDfi!ma-
tory OF the report telegraphed east sev-
eral days ago;
WnIrE MOUNTAIN RESERVATION.
10y way OF Santa Fee,)
June 18th.
E. p. Smith, Commissioner Of lndia'!
-Ifdirs
On the morning of May the 9th first
Lieut.. Jacob Almey, OF the fifth caval-
~, commanding the United States
troops stationed on this reservation,
while attempting to arrest an Indian at
nv request, was brutally murdered by
the Apaches belonging to Chairwas
band. Great excitement prevailed for
a time. Every effort will be made to
arrest and punish the murderers. The
Apache interpreter is in military custo-
dy.
TSigned.1 &C. LAsADEE, U. s. A.,
Special Indian Agent.
The Modoc peace commissioner,
McMeachen, whose assassination was
tempted at the lava beds at the same
time General Candy was murdered ar
rived here last night and to-day gave a
full account ofthe occurrences and trou-
bles with the Modocs generally to Sec
retary Delsno and Commissioner
Smith. He pronounecs as untrue In
the most unqualified terms the plea Of
Captain Jack to General Davis thai he
did not shoot General Candy. Conn
missioner McMeachen Gays that there
ia no doubt that the assassination was
planned BY Captsiu Jack, as it was ex'
ecuted by him. McMeachan has not
vet made his official written report but
will do go at an early day.
Credit Mobilter.
The Attorney Generals Office is no.
titled that all processes against the de-
fendants in the case OF theCredit Mobi'
lier suit have been served. The papers
in the Injunction which the Govern
ment counsel proposed to ask the cour
to grant against certain named defend
ants, prohibiting them from depositlne
any OF their property, have not beer
com pleted but will he in a very few
dave 1t is not expected that the trla
will begin before the first ofSeptember
Appointed.
Judge Lauger was to-day appointed
United States Distric. Attorney for tn
State of Massachusetts, to succeed u
II. Mason, deceased.
Coming In.
The Treasury Department to-day re
! ceived $2O,OOO,0O0 Of cancelled five
twenty bonds forwarded from the syn
dic.te agencies in London. Of the $50,
GOO 600 OF fiye-twenties called in abou
s35 OOO, 900 have been received by tn
Treasury Department, leaving onl,
about sis, 900. 900 yet to be forwarded
Information received from Londol
TO-DAY states that the British Govern
ment, acting through the Bank OF Eng
tand has decided not to send the award
ed sum in gold to Washington, to pa.
the Geneva award, but to purchss
| five-twenty bonds for the amount an
send them to the Treasury to be re
deemed in gold as provided in tn