The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-12-29
Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.
THE NATIONAL BANKS.

ureu anu tWouty-ioui udtiohdI Dduh
have organized with an aggregate capi
tai of four hundred and eight million
four hundred and fifty thousand liars
The whole amount of registered Unite,
States bonds is two hundred and ninety
six millions of dollars.
1t is understood that the recommends
items OF Freeman Clark, Comptroller o
Currency, for extending the capital o
the national banks to four hundred mil
lions, will be brought up for the appro
val Of Congress, that the banks of the
Southern States may have their quotas
under the law.
MISSISSIPPI RESTORED.
The President has, through the Secre
tary of State, relieved Judge Sharkey OF
the trust of Provisional Governor, and
recognized his duly elected successor in
the person of Governor Humphreys
The letters addressed TO them are SINH
lar to those written to the Provisional
Governors and Governors of the other
Southern States, remitting to the consti
tuted authorities chosen by the people
the care and conduct of their proper at.
fairs Texas and Florida are the only
two remaining States to be relieved.
MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
The constitutional term of President
Jnarez expired on the 18th of November
last Among the Republican statesmen
of Mexico there seemed to be some
doubt as to whether he should continue
in his Office until another election could
be held, agreeable to the constitution
and the eXigencies of the country, or as
to whether he should relinquish the
presidency into the hands of General Or
tega, the Vice-President. All true Next
cans. however, were unanimous in the
first opinion. General Ortega deemed it
his duty to be at the capital Of the Re-
public at the expiration of the constitu-
tional term, with view to assume the
charge of public affairs should President
Juarez deem it proper to relinQnish them
As rumors growing out of these circum-
stances prejudicial to the Liberal cause
have been circulated, the friends nf Mex
leo in this city deny that President Ju-
arsz and General Ortega have quarreled,
and say that the latter will submit gra-
CT, and continue as hitherto to uphold in
the field and cabinet, the independence
and integrity OF the Republic.
PROGRESS or THE CATTLE PLAGUE.
The United States Consul at Manches,
ter, England under date of December 9,
informs the State Department that since
his last dispatch on the subject of the
cattle plague. the deaths have rapidly
INTERNAL REVENUE
The receipts from internal revenue for
tie week ending Esd, amounted to So
10000 Total since the first of July,
nearly Sill, 900
ANOTHER "PREPOSTERoUS LUNATIC."
Mr.. Ashley, of Ohio, has introduced in
inc House one the most fanatical Of the
radical measures yet presented-a COM
pound of nonsense, stupidity and malice,
by which it is proposed to reduce the
Southern States to territories, and gov
ern them as such so long as it shall please
the good will and pleasure Of the North
ern malignants to do So The real object
of the bill is to make few Federal offices
for the benefit of men whose constituents
will have no further need Of their servi-
2es after the 4th Of March, 1867, and
such ought to be its title.
JOHN MINOR Bolts AFTER AN OFFICE.
John Minor Bolts has been in the city
tor some days, engaged in calling upon
Senator's, radical, conservative and DEM
Dcratic, and personally urging that Sc
gar and Underwood he rejected, in or
Ter that he and some other person not
banned can have the seats. MI Bolts
s rather eager in the canvass consider
ng that he is not elected to the Senate,
md that there will be no possibility Of
his election till 1869, if then. The cele-
grated letter by Mr.. Bolts in 1861, to At
,orney General Bates. strongly pleading
'or peaceable secession will soon be pub
ished in pamphlet form.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AFFAIRS.
Senator Morrill, is preparing bill to
be reported from the committee on the
District of Columbia, of which he is
taking away all the political
franchise of the District and vesting its
government in a Board of Commission
RS ODE appointed by the President
This is Il device on the part of the weak
lneed in Congress-, to avoid the question
IF negro suffrage i'll the District.
THAD. STEVENS ON JUDGE TANEY.
The concluding sentence of Thad
stevens speech wherein he snatches the
cepter of eternal justice from the AL
mighty, and passes sentence of everlast.
ng death upon the late Chief Justice of
he United States; is one of the most dis
.raceful utterances that ever fell from
he lips of an American statesman. 1t
would be hard to tind in the United |
tates, to-day, an apologist, for, or de-
ender of, the bred Scott decision but | |
o not believe the American people have |
ecome so lost 10 all sense OF decency and |
ropriety as to applaud the man who
'ould, like some wild beast of prey,
esecrate the sepulcher of its dead |
uthor, or dag forth his crumbling 70
lains to curse and damn ~
hat, too, in the nr"- :, 30
ad know" ruem-and
essence of those who
At Judge fancy as a kind and
owing father. of whom two were in the
gallery of the House of Representatives
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