The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-27
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ueOfgla 6gaIe convention,
Would Not Take the Oath.
LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.
The Adams Russell CORES
pondence. aa3
The Late Alabama state Convention
aud Clement Q. CIny-.-RepOrt OF SUI
perlntendent Sells, ON Indian AZ.
fnirs---The Sea Island Property and
the observation-disclosures ofthe Yete-
ran ReserVes--Capt. Cushing Going
to England ON a Special AIIssiOn.--
Verdict I'm the yVirz Case, Is Guilty.
New York, Oct. 26.-The Herald's
Washington special says the delegates
to the late State Convention of Alabama
united in memori0lizings President
johnson to order q speedy trial of
Clement @. Clay, and In the meantime
TO release him on parole from the rigor-
Gus confinement to which he has been
subjected since his arrest. The memo
rialists state that they havo not made
this application from any motive of
sympathy with the past political course
of Mr.. Clay; as for the part he took in
the late rebellion, but that, on the con-
trary, many of them have uniformly
condemned his efforts to incite rebellion
and secure success to the reYolutionary
movement, They ask this on his be-
half because his Implication in the I'M
paralleled and latroclous assassination
of Mr.. Lincoln is regarded by them as
"a shadow of credible testimony. The
President has the matter under advise
ment. The probabilities IRE that the
prayers of tho memorialists will he
granted.
The report of superintendent Sells,
Of the Southern Indian Superinten-
dency, was submitted to the Commits
sioner of the Indian Bureau of the In
terror Department yesterday.
1t says that tho bitterness of feeling
caused by fOrayS of white buShwhRck-
ers into the territory of the Indians
forms great obstacle to the negotiation
of favorable treaties with them. These
gained system of wholesale cattle steal
ing, by which it is estimated that the
tribes have lost over 800, 900 head of cat
tie, valued ut between S4,OOO,OOO or
IS, OO0, 600.
Nineteen thousand Indians are now
being subsisted by the government in
this superintendency,
Aspecin1 to the n. Y. Times, dated
Washington, Oct. 25th, says:
An influential body of the citizens of
the States of South Carolina and Flori-
day, accompanied by some northern
gentlemen in high official position,
called upon the President to-day and
urged him to rescind his order with re-
gard to the Sea Island property and
Freedmen. The resembling of the or
der is recommended also by Gov. john
son, of Georgia. A4
The President declined to interfere
with the order, at all events, until he
shall receive the report of Gen, Howard,
who is now under the order referred to,
investigating the condition of Freed
mems affairs upon Sea Island.
In the course OF the interview the
President stated that hewas opposed to
the plan of colonization of the Freed
men, believing that by contact with the
whites their intellect would be develop
ed and sharpened, and their condition
in nll things improved. ~ II
+ An examination of the officers of the
veteran reserves, discloses the fact that
two per cent of them are disabled from
wounds four per cent from disease.
and four per cent from accidental frac-
lures, DC. r. .-'s
Z The board to examine officers for col
ington, has been dissolved by order of
the War Department and new board
organized, which will meet in Balti-
more for the examination of candidates
for appointment of officers of tho United
States Veteran volunteers, LIST Army
Corps and United States colored troops.
The sentence of the Court Martial in
the case of Assistant Quarter Master a.
L. Thomas, is to-day promulgated. He
WINS sentenced to be cashiered, but the
Secretary of War in consideration of
previous good character, allowed him
to resign.
Z A special to the World dated Wash.
ington 25th, says:
Hon. Caleb Gushing leaves for Eng
land on next ednesday' steamer on n
special legal mission connected with the
State Department. Thus far his BUSH
ness is kept confidential, but it is very
clearly snrmised thatit has reference to
anRdjudication of the claims for dam
ages nude by this government on Great
Britain for depredations of the Alaba-
ma on American commerce. It is be-
lteved that the has accepted
the proposition of Earl Russell, to APP
point n commission to settle such
claims. s55tIgs ti ~
The thar Wirz is to be hanged
on Friday is false 1t is believed that
the charge of conspiracy has been aban-
doned inithe findings, and 1t is the inn
preston, generally, that the prisoner
has been convicted on the other charges,
and sentenced TO be hung on such day
as the President shall designate.
The Tribune's Washington special
says: Ha,t
Three hundred and sixty-one thous-
and FIVE hundred and five dollars and
ninety cents is due the Government
from the defaulting Postmnsters of the
Southern States, which they retained
when the rebellion broke ont, and they
are now. being called upon for this
amount. The Virginia r ostmasters are
most in arrears, owing S0,G9O,4 47, AS
all their securities were required to have
real estates, It is believed that the larger
portion of this sum can be recovered.
In 1851 their refnsnls to pay the sums
tNvere often abusive and arrogant, and
now their tone is apologize and power.
typleading.
The verdict in,the Wirz case is guilty,
Meeting orithe Georgia state conven.
tlOn.-.1Iessnge OF Gov. Johnson.
NEW York, Oct. 26.4The Ho raids
special from AIilledgeYille, Ga, dated
yesterday says, the Georgia State Con-
vention met In the State House to-day
Provisional Governor johnson called
the meeting to order in BRIEF speech
Over 80 delegates were present, The
amnesty oath was administered by
Judges Averon and Harris, and the
Governor called for n vote by ballot fol
permanent President. 1t was expect.
ed that Mr.. Chas. j. Jenkins, of Rich,
moTd county, would be punanimously
nominated, but he declined peremptori.
/ of Jefferson county. After discussion
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