Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-12

ward with the Star of Empire, and
Barbour is receiving her quota despite
hallucinating kilograms OF fatal Indian
inyasions which are reported to be
spreading horror and dismay from mar
gin to centre. Yet the
TIDE OF IMMIGRATION STILL CONTINUES TO
FLOW,
and the arrival of every train fails not to
bring those who desire to lend their
mite TO the building, not Onl Y OF their
fortunes, but the West, which is des-
tined to be an important weight in the
scale of the National balance. Were
the Eastern cities to disgorge and send
from their midst their over-pOpulation
in the loafer line, with the promise to
leave loafing behind, the Western States
and Territories have land enough TO
furnish them with homes, and thus they
might become the happy recipients otan
old age annuity in the far West.
INDIAN DIFFICULTIES.
1t is current in the memory OF many,
and particularly the telegraph operators,
that the attempt to remove the North
ern Cheyennes from the Black Hill re-
zion within the limits of the Indian
Territory and there corralled by the gov
eminent agents, incurred the indigna-
ton of the Indians, and wishing to find
their way back to the old hunting
grounds, it was thought probable that
much mischief might be done, and be-
ing a remnant of that warlike band that
shuffled General Clusters cards, bill
was brought forward in the Kansas
Legislature empowering the Governor,
st. John, to muster a patrol guard not
exceeding forty, unless OF extreme ne
cessitv, and station them on the border
to repel the invasion should one be
made or warn the settlers should an
attack be imminent. 1t was believed
that the return of spring would rouse
the wild and misChievous passions OF
the restless Cheyennes and prove az
gre -sive along the front.
ST. JOHNS PATROL TO THE RESCUE.
In accordance with the provisions OF
the bill His Excellency selected men
from different counties on or near the
frontier and forthwith sent them to the
probable scene of conflict. The impress
sion along the line was that His Excel
lency had caught up clerks and loafers
at Topeka and other eastern towns who
were wholly unacquainted with the dll'
ficulties, and hence the patrol was a
draw on the Treasury and wholly made
ouate TO compete with Indian Chival-
nv; and some prophe1ied, when the host
hove in sight of the town, that nothing
like it, in sublimity of aspect had been
seen since Peter the Hermit and Pope
Urban, the second, filled Europe with
the prospect of alleyiating Jerusalem
from the Aabian infdels. But subse-
que1t inve >tigation by the false prognos-
ticators revealed the fact thGt the outfit,
were in the main, accustomed to the lg-
nOminiOus tragedies practiCed by the
"noble Redman." The Adjutant Gen.
eral, Noble, selected his camp at the
mouth of Hockberg, eighty rods from the
Indian Territory line, and following up
that practice which has characterized
all Indian expeditions, called the place
Camp st. John, in honor and Commem-
Grafton of His Excellency, Gov. S. 2.
st. John. At this writing all is calm
and quiet along the line. When the
patrol is once drawn along the border
OF the county in the shape of a halt cir
Gle, it will shut off all fears from out
siders or those who are scared for the
frontier settlements.
THE TELEGRAMs TIE PRINCIPAL FRONTIER
WARFARE.
1t lisa predominant rule that the East
ern papers are full of kilograms over
rating the movements on an enlarged
scale; which is probably due to the fact
that the rumOr will have the effect to
carry out that neiarious practice so os-
tensibly commenced by l. S. Grant, the
cosmopolite, OF keeping standingarmy
at the expense of the government. The
rumors are generally unfounded, and
the lives and property OF the citizens are
as safe here as elsewhere. T. G. G.