The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-11-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Presidents Message
Smuggling Whiskey from Canada
Release of Seddon and Magrath'

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yrw YORK, Nov. 2s.-A special to the
rr;bnne from Washington 27th says
\, Mart ,ngrt Of the Presidents smessage has
."',afiyed 50 much special care as that
-,rton referring to our relations with
ypyico. His position is understood to be
.b.t while we are notindifferent TO trans
mo events in Mexico yet interference
n onr part is unneces ary.
commodore Craven's defence will be
,,Smitted today The result of the Wis
,.of tbe court to the Stonewall is inter
nrstel rs iustitying the Commodore in
declining an engagement.
The Washington specials statement
=, the World that the government has
5s,,iIel vessels to assist IA laying the
.slroraph cable at Behring's straits is
The specials statement to the Times
,lat the President has pardoned John
Mitchell is untrue. He did not apply
for iar pardon while at Washington but
took oath of allegiance.
snrcial to the Tribune says: An in
.sTiops scheme for smuggling whisky
from Canada into the United States has
;nst heen detected. There were thirty
tro women on one train bound to the
Tri. -es who held in their arms
DSst 4. Grst appeared to be babies care
,ryv wrapped up, with their little feet
ryr,,rd to the gaze of the passengers.
I5,p jovestigation it was discovered
tb,ttl.y were tin cases, fashioned after
- ni.tude of babies, containing from
go i've gallons of whisky. About
70 of the women were arrested and
...r enc hundred gallons of whisky Sc
..r d.
special to the Times says: Col. Har-
rjsop White, late of the Second Provis-
i0nal New York Cavalry, informs us that
his application to the Secretary OF War
for nav for the officers of his command
who we're detained at Elmira some twen-
~ davs through misapprehension, has
been favorably considered, and the Pay
master General has been instructed to
nav them accordingly The evidence of
Snch detention will be the certificate OF
Major Havman, u. S. Chief Mastering
Officer, Elmira. ..,r4,,o
Messrs, belmont & Co, as agents OF the
RothcMAAs, have put in a claim 1or the
tobacco seized by the treasury otncers Ut
Richmond as rebel property. The case
will probably come up in the courts.
The Worlds Washington special says
the freedmen's bureau to-day received
from Montgomery, Alabama, cOmmum-
cation inclosing a copy OF proposition
made by firm in that city to supply
white labor. The German citizens OF
the State publish lengthy article pro-
testing against the plan as a scheme to
defraud and enslave for the season, such
Ignorant cmigrants as may fall into the
hands of the cOmpany's agents, who are
now in New York for the purpose of
shippiuga a cargo of emigrants south
The atteation of the military authorities
At Montgomery have been called to the
snbiect. and some interference with the
game is expected
Tne President has just issued an order
releasing from fort Pulaski the rebel
Secretary of War, Seldom, and Judge
Magrath. of South Carolina. The order
did not eminate from the Adjutant
Generals department, but came direct
from the President Hence arose the
contradiction of previous reports that
they had been released.
Aspecal to the Herald, dated Wash
ington. Nov. 9th, says: The contractor
at Fords theatre has finished his twenty
eight thousand dollar job of remodellng
that building, aud has turned 1T over to
the authorities. II is now ready for reb-
el relics
The commission between the United
States and Columbia was lnaugurated TO-
dav bv the appearance of Col. Bldwell,
for the United States, and Gen. Salzer,
for Columbia. with Sir Frederick Bruce,
the British Minister, as umpire. The
irst case argued was that OF Augustus
Fret. who owned the Ocean House, near
the Panama railroad depot which was
destroyed by the riot in April, 1896: HIS
loss was about $4,000 Mr., fretz II now
dead. but his heirs claim this amount.-
It was objected that the case was not be-
fore the commission under the treaty, as
it could not take jurisdiction on claim
when the claimants were dOmiciled IN
New Greuada. Mr. j. VI Carlisle, for
Columbia, argued that tretz'S owner
shin of the hotel doGiciled him at Pana-
ma. Mr. s. Cox's argued that he never
lost his domicil, that, by simply OWL
ing the hotel, FTetz was III Panama,
and further, that By the treaty Of 1916,
he had official protection as a citizen of
he United States
The Posts Washington correspondent
contains the following: But two or three
of the representatives from the States
recently in rebellion have arrived here
and it is understood that none OF them
will attempt to interfere in the organi-
gation of the House one week from TO-
day They will await the action OF the
clerk and dominant party in the House.
The question of the seizure OF the
French tobacco in Richmond having
been presented to the consideration OF
Tue government, by the French minister
snow undergoing investigation.
Colonel Jardine, late OF the ninth New
iOrk Hawkins Zouaves, has been promo
led to brevet Brigadier Generalshlp.,
He, while endeavering tOput down the
uots in New York in 1863, was wounded
and permanently disabled from field
service
The Washiugton's special dispatches
TO the commercial say: There are good
reasons reasons for believing that Secretary
McGahoHgh will recommend steady
lgndIng Of the floating debt, with reg
@ nlar withdrawal of greenbacks, which
nus' cause decrease of the national
bank circulation.
II was officially announced this morn
ing that the government has received no
.LlVTmation whatever of any difficulties
on the Rio Grande.
Inc POSTMASTER General has accepted
DDS for the mail service from Savannah