Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-04-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Intellisencer.l
wAsnrxc1os CRY, April 9TH, 1853.

WASHINGTON Cry, April 9Th, 1853.
/ Rowdyism, robbery and murder still run not
( in the Federal Metropolis. On Saturday even
| ing, between nine and ten o'clock, party OF
/ young men took tramp into the northern part
! of the city. Going into grocery store, they
called for cigars aud liquor, helped themselves,
md departed without paying,-the proprietor
! being glad, under the circumstances, to get of
50 easy Proceeding northward they overhaul
/ ed Young man named Cornell, belonging at
Columbia College. They accosted him, qucs-
( toned him closely about his residence, and
finally demanded money of him. He handed
them quarter of dollar, but this not being
satisfactory, one of the party held pistol 10
his head, while the others stripped him of his
watch and rifled his pockets OF whatever they
contained. Then returning south into the city,
the party met two young men entirely unknown
to them, one of the two being Marccllus Stops
messenger in the Treasury Department. One
ofthc party, stree arrested and identified as VIM.
johnson, seized Stops by the shoulder, placed
his pistol against Stoops breast, and shot him
: dead on the spot. Four of the party, including
three JohnsonS, have been arrested. 1t was
with much difficulty, yesterday, that the city
officers kept VIM. johnson from being hung by
n mob.
Two men, supposed to be the parties who
committed the murderons assault near the CAPT.
toll ground the other night, have also been ar
rested.
The report that the President has accepted
New York and Il Pennsylvania Regiment of vol
unteers for the two regiments authoriZedby the
Senate amendment, is hoax, probably got up
to PROSTATE such a result. The Army Bill has
not vet become a law, and there is no cOntrivinS
in what shape it will finally pass When it
does pass, if the selecting of the volunteers is
left to the Department, it will be made either in
the order of their application, by taking those
residing nearest the scene of action, as to
save time and cost of transportation.
Rpnlp of the Pacific WAGON Road EX-
petition, has returned to this city, having eX-
plored a route for the road last summer, and
returned over it during the past winter, for the
purpose of testing its probability at all sea-
sons. He reports to the Secretary of War
successful and agreeable trip in winter as we'll
as in summer OF the Cames which he had in
his service, he says, I'm n previous letter | in-
formed yon that | had sent the Camels back To
Fort TETON from the Colorado river, in the charge
of my Clerk, in order that they might be used
in the campaign against Utah. parted with
these noble animals with much regret. \ year
of hard and almost unrcmitted labor with them,
had attached us all to them with feelings strong
err, think, than any one experiences for either
the horse or dog. 1t is to he hoped that the
Government will continue the importation of this
valuable animal, until sufficient have been oh
timed for the nSe of the whole army. 1t is
cheaper at first cost lives longer and is infinite
ly stronger and harder than the mule while it's
capacities for work, is four times greater. For
military purposes regard it as invaluable, i'll
country where forage is difficult to obtain"
YIHGINICs.