The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-12-06
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once, corner of Monroe and Water streets,
From w ashington.
Counterfeit Fractional Cur.
rency.
Another Railroad Ac-
cident.
Congressional Proceedings.
Later Foreign News.
Congressional Proceedings.
Later Foreign News.

Anticipation OF the January Coupons
Anew Smuggling DOdge--COunter-
felt Fractional Currency.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-Ths Tribune's
Washington special says, the payment
OF the January coupons VIII be antici-
pated, owing to the large accommodations
of coin in the Treasury.
Disabled soldiers in various Depart
ments of the Government will petition
Congress to allow them the same boun-
ties paid as others of their class not in
the government employ.
Quite sensation was occasioned in
Washington yesterday by report OF
the Stonewall. She has been towed
into the stream and is being thoroughly
cleaned preparatory to the reception
of visitors. m
The Commissioner of Customs iscon-
WINGED, from the character of the re-
ports which he is daily receiving from
the Canadian frontier, that his action
in employing female detectives there
WINS judicious, and will be OF great BEN
eft in the exposure and arrest of the
female smugglers who have recently
been SO extensively engaged in the con-
traband trade between Canada and the
United States. Not one female SNUG
gler now crosses the line where twenty
crossed before, and merchants along
engaged in the contraband trade, are
closing their stores and selling out.
Another smuggling dodge has just
been detected. An unusual number of
collins have been brought across the
line of late, for interment on the Amer
lean side. Lust week the United States
revenue officers insisted on seeing the
corpse after the coffin was landed,
against the earnest protests of the
stricken relatives, when, instead of a
defunct body, the coffin was found
filled with costly silks.
Two per cent of all the fractional cur
rency received at the Treasury is coun-
terfeit. This comes to the Department
from bankers and others deemed ex-
perts in judging money, and two per
cent escaping the detection of such par
ties.
The Supreme Court met at IL o'clock
to-day. All the Judges being present
they proceeded in body to the White
House, and after paying their respects
to the President, adjourned until to-
morrow, when they will enter upon the
business of the term.
L. @. Durant, the Vice President and
General Manager of the Union Pacific
Railroad, is now in Washington, max
ing arrangements for the examination
commissioners of the first forty miles by
the main line. Since the decision of the
President approving the amended Local
ton of the line. the work has pro-
crossed very rapidly.
The Times Washington special con-
tains the following:
A motion has been made in the Su-
preme Court, by a. H., Garland, Esq,
of Arkansas, to be permitted to practice
in court without taking the oath as pre-
seribed by acts of Congress of July I'd,
1862, and January oath, 1895. The mo-
ton will be argued probably on
Wednesday, directly after the adjourn
ment of the Supreme Court of the United
States. Yesterday meeting of the
members of the bar of that court was
convened for the purpose of paying
proper respect to the memory of the
late Judge Catron, who died since the
adjournment of the court last spring
Judge Black, formerly Attorney Gem
eral, preceded, and eloquent speeches
were made by Hon. Caleb Gushing,
Hon. Montgomery Blair and others. A
committee was appointed to draft reso-
lutions expressive oflthe sense of the
meeting. The resolutions were pro-
posed and adopted, and the committee
desired to present u copy thereof to the
court to-day, to. be placed in the jour
nal -H am