The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-05-29


what 4, known ~ Mcrrlck's quarter, n
tract Of mnd of some tSo thousand
acres, surrounded hy dense forest.
This has been his stronghold, aud
here, IN company with some five
hundred negroes, lac has drllcd the au-
thOritieS.
FRIDAY m0rnnga party Of mounted
men aud officers of the law, eight or
ten In all, surrounded Mcrrlcks house
and ordered him to surrender. Mer-
rick aud his brother Wood closed the
door aud opened fire ON the party,
killing Robert Clendenin instantly.
DR.. House, of lIornhill, was shot in the
back, aud IL is feared he can not re-
cover During the excitement Mer-
rick and Wood csacped, although the
latter was wounded in the head.
LATER.
Since the trouble between the whites
and negroes last Friday seven colorcd
aud two white persons have been
killed. II Is not known how many
negroes arc in the woods armed,
though there Is no doubt most of the
negroes in the county will assist the
negro leader whose arrest was at
tempted last Friday.
The white men of the county are be-
ing organized rapidly, and by to-mor-
row there will be sufficient force ready
to quell any disturbance, even should
every negro in the county take part
therein. G..
AsHINGToN, May 25.-Thc Sioux
delegations are becoming more and
more dissatisfied, and in some respects
without reason. Both the president
and Secretary. Delano are understood
to be determined no step shall be taken
in regard to opening the Black Hills,
which is not just to the Indians, and
fully in accord with the stipulations of
existing treaties.
The Sioux chiefs are, however, very
suspicious of the Indian bureau of the
agents who came on with them, and
especially of some of the Interpreters
who are here in the interests of the
agents. General COwan shows every
disposition to give the Indians full OPP
portunity to communicate with those
they believe to be friends, through
their own Interpreters. There have
been efforts in other quarters to pre-
vent this.
Seven of the Indians, including Red
RI. / A Nj If 1, At
tiers to-day and Went over to the old
hotel, in spite of the refusal of the In
dian Office to give them permission.
They have also notified the commits
sioners that they don't expect to he
ready to talk formally about the Black
Hills for week or ten days, and not
in any event till some other questions
they have in hand are first settled.
The receipts of the government for
the first nine months of the current
fiscal year We're SOB, POI, $50; the en-
penditurcs were '222, 2!23 Oh. These are
exclusive of transactions concerning
the public debt, in the matter of the
redemption of bonds, etc, which do
not alter the account. The customs re-
ceipts for ten months ana n half, end
ing May Is, were Sl34, 7I2, l9S, internal
revenue, SlO2, 1928. The miscella-
ncous receipts have kept steadily up
to expectations. Customs receipts
have fallen below, and the in
ternal revenue receipts have been
above the estimate. The secretary of
the treasury has$7l 600, 600 of gold, from
which he must yet make provision
to meet the sinking fund call, about
$25, coo, 900 of which remains unpaid.
The interest ceases on called bonds
June 10th. 1t is estimated that SO, OOO,-
900 will yet be received from customs
before July lst, and from this and gold
on hand must come the payment of
S25, 00J,OO0 for July interest. 1t is evil
dent that the sinking fund payments
will create deficit, and throw someOf
the treasury warrants into the next
fiscal year, but the secretary Of the
treasury, with such an abundant sup
ply of coin on hand, may sell gold and
rsalize currency enough to make a
clean sheet mt the end of the fiscal
year.
The authoritative announcement is
made that the special mission of Quar-
termaster General Meigs is for the pur-
pose of examination into military mat
tiers in Europe. General Rufus ingalls,
will probably be designated to act as
quartermaster general. That designa-
ton will be only temporary. Meigs
can't be placed OF. the retired list of
the army till 1878.
The Petition of parties in the Sand
witch islands for permission to organ
i've leagues of the knights of Pythias
has been rejected by thesupreme lodge
of that order.
Lieutenant Wheeler will leave here
this week, to take command of the eX-
petition to explore beyond the one
hunGredth meridian.
CHICAGO, May 25.--General Sher-
idan to-day sent the following dispatch
to Hon. A. w. Hubbard and Others, ut
Sioux City, Iowa:
The secretary of war has sent me
your dispatch of the 2lst instant, from
Sioux City. General Terry, command
ing the department of Dakota, has di-
rected that the Gordon mining party
he released, if the capture was made
outside of the Sioux reservation, hut in
case il was made inside, to require
promise from each individual compOs-
ing it, not to violate the conditions of
the treaty of 1869 with the Sioux In
dams, which forbids any trespass on
the part OF the whites until the govern
ment gives permission. The Gordon
party, or any other party, has no more
right, under the treaty of 1863, to go to
the Big Horn than they have TO so TO
the Black Hills, and it might MS well
be understood at once that it, or any
other party, will not be permitted TO !
L Inc tafi Hon
which now govern the military are re-
voked.
I. II. SHERIDAN,
Lieutenant General.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May o.
The break on the Union Pacific has
most seriously affected all kinds of
business, and we have not recovered |
from il even now. The roads in the
different mining districts are fearfully |
bad, and scarcely any one is coming |
i'm. Carson d Briggs have proposed to
fund their Indebtedness in mortgage
bonds upon their property, and with
$4,000 sinking capital, commence
work again. Trade generally is im-
proving, and a good years business is
The mines are all looking
well and promising.
GRoEsBEcK, TEXAS, May 20.
A meeting was held on Monday, at
Tended by the principal citizens of the
county, at which resolutions were
adopted expressive of sympathy with
he friends OF the young man who WIS
killed, and counseling moderation.
The pursuit has been kept up until