The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-12-25

Miscellaneous Items.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2s.-The Worlds
Washington dispatch says:
A quorum of the Committee of WAYS
and Means and Appropriation will re-
Congress.
The Hera1d's Washington dispatch
says:
Congress will be called upon for fur
ther appropriations for the support of
INDECENT Indians during the winter,
Estimates state that 81, 100, 600 is neces-
sary. The Washington tribes are rep
resented as being in an extremity desti-
tute condition. A letter furnished to
the Secretary of the Interior, from Gen.
Sully, dated the 9Th inst, say:
There are large number of Indians
assembled at Fort Rice and elsewhere
on the Missouri river, who are mani
Testing the most friendly feeling for the
whites, and are quite willing to enter
into the most liberal treaties, Gen.
Sully remarks that he forwards this
information in order to give contradic-
ton to newspaper accounts of a con-
trary state of affairs among the Indians
of that section.
Maj. Gen. Osborn, direct from Geor-
gia, reported to Gen. Grant last evening
in Washington.
Last night fire broke out at No. 143,
Fulton street. The damage of proper
" by fire and water amounts to about
The Herald's Washington special saws
persons interested in patents for inven-
tons, and who have been led to believe
that 1t is intended to obtain through
Congress a very essential modification
OF the patent laws, are authoritatively
informed that no material change in
such laws will be asked for during the
nv,I
minor points affecting the details of Sc
curing patents will be modified.
The Worlds Washington special con-
tains the following: The Department
of State has completed the Instructions
which IL desires the minister to Mexico
to follow and he will be dispatched at
once to the headquarters of the Juarist
he may go, thus making an active de-
monstration to Macmillan of the poll
cy which the government intends to
persist in. 1t is this that has given
offence to the French minister.
The Washington Republican issued
an extra last evening on Mexican nf-
fairs. Its information purports to come
from London, and 1t declares that a Sc
cret understanding between Napoleon
and Macmillan allows the former to
withdraw the French troops from Next
CO whenever MaximiliAn's payments
should become embarrassed or. two
months in arrears.
The Peruvian minister to this govern
ment has been recalled, and in a recent
manifesto says:
The President of Peru has produced
this recall.
Senior Garcia's departure has not
been announced.
removed. Senior Garcia has been min
lister resident in Washington for many
years.
The State Department is in receipt of
dispatches from our minister to Chilli.
The war between Spain and Chill is
still progressing. The principal ports
are blockaded, and the commander of
the squadron is only waiting instruc-
tions from the Spanish Government to
commence more active operations. The
Admiral commanding the squadron off
Valparaiso has grossly insulted our
minister, F. II. Nelson. The American
and English merchants and and resi-
dents, ARE very indignantat his conduct,
and have laid the matter before their
respective governments.
The q. s. Treasurer has all thesched-
ules prepared, and is ready to pay the
interest on the registered bonds of 1861.
The Government Will probably COM
mence paying them early next week.
The Algonquin has received her spars
paint, and otherwise preparing for the
race with the Winooski. In examinn-
ton of her boilers it was found they
were so far corroded by the use of salt
water as to render them unfit. The old
ones were being replaced by new ones.
The 245th anniversary of the landing
OF the Pilgrim Fathers on Plymouth
Rock, and the 10th anniversary of the
New England Society of this cftv. was
celebrated last evening Mt Delmonico's.
There was a large attendance and the
occasion was n very pleasant one.
"A Times Washington special says:
An order will be issued by General
Grant in day or two, directing that
disabled soldiers capable of doing duty
as watchmen of public buildings and
like services, shall have preference in
such employment overab1e bodied men
in the army, The object of this order
is to prevent the discharge and muster
ing out of disabled soldiers as far MS
may be practicable, by making room
for them in positions where they can
perform service as we'll as able bodied
men.
Mr.. A. P. Lants, late Military Agent
for Indiana, who wns relieved
by Governor Morton, has been appoint-
ed to position in the House of Repre-
sentatiVes.
A special meeting of the Working
mems Union was held last evening, at
which a new constitution was adopted
and circular was distributed calling
for a convention of delegates from the
various Union associations throughout
the State, to be held at Albany on the
9th of February.
The Herald's dispatch says:
The Secretary OF the Treasury has is
sued a circular relative to the release of
property seized for the violation of the 4
revenue laws, stating that no collector
of customs has authority to relieve any
property which has been seized for VIC
latiOn of the laws upon the payment of
the appraised value, unless the seques-
ter, together with the peculiar circum-
stances, the appraised value of the
same has first been reported to the Sec
rotary of the Treasury, with the recon-
mendation of the collector that it be re-
leased and requesting authority; and
until the same has been granted by the
Secretary of the Treaury.
Anxious for a Foreign War.