Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-01-08
1;ELEGRAPHIC.
For additional Dispatches, see thfrd page.l
CONGRESSIONAL

1 flee IN st. Louis.
Mr.. Stephens, of Ga, announced in response
to many inquiries, that the Oregon bill is in his
desk and that he is ready TO report it the first
time the Committee on Territories shall be called
upOn by the Speaker. He will then request that
immediate action be taken on the bill, and trusts
! it win be reached by Thursday next.
/ Mr.. Washburne of Ills, wished to know
whether the gentleman frcm Georgia (Stephens)
would press the passage of the bill without dis
cusSiOn.
/ Mr.. STEPHENS replied that he was willing the
debate should continue as long as the House
NAV desire.
/ Various bills of a private character were re-
ported; among them was one by Mr.. Hopkins,
/ of Va, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
for the relief OF the owners, officers aud crew of
( the brig Genr Armstrong.
| Mr. Phelps, of Missouri from the Committee
on Ways and Means, reported bill making
appropriations for Notifications.
| Mr. Jones, of Tenn, offered resolution call
/ ing on the Secretary of the Interior to report
under what law and by what authority the
/ Advisory Board of Agriculiuralists to Patent
1 Office assembled, the manner in which delegates
were apportiOned and from what fund paid.
| MesSrs. Hughes and Stephens, severally, spoke
/ favorable to an understanding of the. subject,
supposing delegates to have assembled under
direction OF the Sec'y Of Interior, seventy-tiye
thousand dollars having heretofore been nppro-
priated for the collection of agricultural STA
tisticS
| Mr.. Jones' of Tenn, said if it was right and
proper that such conventions should be cOntin.
ued, Congress ought to take the responsibility,
providing how they shall be called the number
of delegates and amount Of compensation.
Passed.
House in Committee on private bills. CoIfax
| in the Chair.
I SESATE.-lt being private calendar day, much
business was transacted
| communication was received from the Sec'y
of War, covering the report of the Engineers
Bureau, relative to the grounds used for federal
purposes in the harbor of n. Y.
| Mr.. Seward presented petitions from the State
of New York, in favor of the homestead and old
soldiers bills; also n resolution, which was adopt
ed, calling on the President for all recent cor
Ircspondence between the British Govt and the
| American Minister at London, touching the
abuses of the American flag in connection with
the African slave trade, especially in the case of
the SLAYER Wandercr.
Mr.. Wilson, of Mass, offered resolution,
which was laid over calling for full details of
contracts made with Mr.. Butterfeld, mail con-
tractor.
! The bill giving new registers to the Canadian
built steamships America and Canada, was
passed.
Mr. Harlan, of Iowa, offered resolution,
which was passed, calling for information rela-
tive TO the number of ships and officers, and
also Of the pay Of the navy.
Mr. Hammond, of S. c., presented the ere
dentials of his colleague, Mr.. Chestnut, as U. S.
Senator from South Carolina till 1865.
The Senate agreed to take up the French
Spoliation Bill by vote of so yeas TO % nays
| Mr.. Davis, of Miss, was speaking against the
bill when ne complained of being too sick to
proceed.
The Senate refused a motion to postpone the
consideration of the subject, by vote of 81
yeas to 80 nays, but in consequence of the sick
ness Of Mr.. Davis, the Pacific r. L. Bill was
talsen Up.
WASHINGTON, Jan. T. This morning the
House Committee on Territories, decided to re-
port bills for the organization of the territorial
governments of Arizona and Dacotah and
against Colona.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 7.--Overland mail of the 18th
ult. arrived last night News unimportant-
Gov. Weller has offered reward of 81 900 for
the conviction of the parties engaged in the late
mobbing in Washington and Columbia. A man
named Ward, caught Melony, State Comptroller,
in bed with his wife. Subsequently, Ward shot
at his wife, and thinking he had killed her shot
himself, inlicting dangerous wound. Melony
! is fifty years old, is married and has large
family of grown up children. The press de-
nand his resignation.
! Dr. Odornia committed suicide in couse-
quence eff administering an over dose of opium,
producing the death of q young man named
Bradley.
The French sloop of war, Eurydice, from the
Sandwich Islands, with dates to Nov. 20, arrived
at San Francisco. News unimportant Wealth
err at San Francisco colder than ever known be-
fore Business quiet. Arrived-G odfrew from
New York, Black Hawk from Liverpool. Pass
engers report Pardee sick at Ell Paso. The P-esi-
dents message is being expressed at the rate of
about two hundred miles day.
! About fifty persons were met returning from
the ella River mines, discouraged by the scar
city of water. Three mules with provisions for
miners left San Francisco for Fort Yuma.
| Three companies of Dragons have gone from
Los Angeles TO establish post in the Navnjoe
country, three hundred miles above Fort Yuma,
on the Colorado. The Camancles continued to
rob stations whenever an opportunity occurred,
they and the employees of the Mail Company
| being virtually at war. The latter are building
strong station houses, which arc provided with
| ten or twenty guns each.
! a Stockton and Kansas City mail party has
been turned back by the Navajoe Indians, with
threats of massacre if they attempted to cross
| their country again.
! Gov. Stewart submitted his message to the
Senate yesterday, reciting recent depredations
committed on citizens in the border Counties in
Kansas, by banditti under Montgomery and
Brown a bill was immediately reported,
authorship the Governor to call out volunteers
to protect persons property and repel invasion,
appropriaung $4,000 for that purpose The
bill will probably pass to-day.
VENGEANCE AND VITTLEs Under this hap