The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-06-09
Tho Reign of tawiessness on
the Rio Grande Drawing
To a Close. .-.
The Baf'er- Heyeigh Correspondence
gives The Louisiana MarshalshIp q
SeandulOus Interest --Pi,kin
Requested 10 Make Room
for jack Wharton.
The nayes-6arfieId Letter is Fact, and
was Shown by the Latter TO Score
Of Persons Roumania
Places Herself Under Rus
sian Protection.

to-day's cabinet will reach some i'm
portaDt decision in Alabama offices.
General Ord leaves tonight for his
i.sa.l4uaFtsss-in Texas.
COLONEL Rodgers, the presidents
private secretary, has gone west for a
days for recreation ati -
The president has appointed Theoph-
Illus Gaines, formerly OF Ohio, tut now
of West Virginia, district attorney for
Montana fg-si lals7.e.H sl.l
The debt statement shows decrease
OF 5, 9Sl IA; coin in treasury ten and
one eighth millions; currency four and
q half millions. sas =
The Contract for furnishing postal
carde for four years was executed to-
day with the New York prototype
company. hF 19I@
DefrYes has continued captain p.
L. Rodier ms foreman of the treasury
branch OF the public printing depart.
fment.
The large apparent decrease OF the
fdebt is attributable to the current ex-
peiises not paid, Including nearly twn
millioifs TO The navy. Tie real de-
crease is about five millions.
Assistant Secretaries Seward and
lIyner, represented Eysrts aud Key In
the cabinet. No appointments com.
pleted by the cabinet though there Wa.
| a general discussion Oh the merits oil
applicants for positions at home and
abroad. Most of the session was devo
ted to the RioGrande troubles and the
conclusions reached are fully stated in
the letter of tie secretary OF war to the
general commanding. The theory il
the state department. was relieved OF
all connection with the matter for thu
reason that action through that de
partment would have involved some
formal recognition Of the Diaz govern.
ment, for which step the administers
| ton IL not now prepared.
WAX DEpARTMkNr. +
=. WAsHIsGTos ID. c., June /, 1877. !
The report of WIN Shafter. Iieuteu.
| ant-coiosiei OF the twenty fourth in.
fantry, commanding the district OF
Nueces, Texas. concerning The recent
raids By the Mexicaps and Indians
from Mexico into Texas, for maraud-
ing purposes, with yoar endorsement
| OF the 18th instant, has been submitted
| TO the president and together with
numerous other reports and documents
relating tothe-same subject, have been
duly considered.
Ehe president desires that the utmost
vigilance on the part of the militia nv
| forces in Texas be exercised for the
| suppression of these raids. Ii is very
desirable that efforts.
to this end, so far at least rs they neg
essarily involve operations on both
sides of the border, bes made with the
cooperation of the Mexican authori.
ties, and you will instruct General
Ord, commanding in Texas, to invite
such cooperation on the part OF the
local Mexican authorities, and
to inform them that while the presi.
dent Is anxious to avoid giving
ioffsnse to Mekieo, he is nevertheless
convinced that the invasion Of our
territory by armed and organized
bodies OF thieves and robbers to prey
upon cur citizens should not be longer
endured. :, s4s -
General Ord will at once notify the
Mexican authorities along the Texan
border of. the great desire of the presi-
dent to unite with them in efforts to
suppress this long continued lawiess-
ness, and at the same time he viii in
form those. authorities that il the
goyernfne cut Of Mexico shall CONTINUE
to neglect the duty Of suppressing IL ese
outrages, that duty will deveiysi on
this government, and win be.perform-
ed even If its entpfcsment should me-
cessitate the occasional crossing OF the
border by out troops. .'1ies. sI9ls.i. ri
You VIII therefore direct General
Ord, tkst 10 case tile iawless incursions
continue, he Wi dc at liberty, In the
use of his own diseretiou, xhen in
pursuik ola band of the aarsuders and
when his troops are eitller in sight Of
them, ~ when on q fresh trait, to fol-
low them aefoss the Rio Grande and
to oyestaks aud punish them, rs well
80 retske stolen properly taken from
our citizens and found In their hands
on the Mexican aide OF the line. ~
I have the honor TO be, yours re-
CIV. MccREARY, Secretary Of war.
2 10 usnesaf W. T. sherman. commanding
tbs Gnited States army.