The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-12-18
The Latest News.
BY TELEGR APH.
NY the Union Line.
omee, corner OF Main and Monroe streets.
From Washington.
About Jefferson Davis.
Gov. Corwin Struck With
Paralysis.
He is Not Expected to
Recover.
Late Mexican News.
New Postal Communication.
New Postal Communication.
Observation-Disclosures.

obtain a manifest from the voting com.
munity to be placed before Congress tc
show how repugnant the passage of the
negro suffrage act Is to the people. The
floating population Of Washington, de-
| partment clerks and government arti.
sans, whose families are residing there
were considerably incensed at the re.
/ OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in the Mavor's
late message to impose poll tax of 81
on all such residents.
The Herald's Fortress Monroe CORES.
| pendent says: JEFF. Davis is turning
his attention more than ever to the
concern of his soul. He has recently
been visited by his old spiritual advis.
er, pastor of st. Paul's Church Rich.
mond, who passed the entire day at his
| prison in religious reading and CONVEX
sation and administered to him the sac.
rament.
The Worlds Washington dispatch
contains the following:
The Secretary of the Treasury TO-DAY
decided not to anticipate January in
terest on bonds of more than the whole
amount. The interest payable in gold
is about SIS, 0O0, 900.
@. r. Huntington, vice president OF
| the Central Pacific railroad, yesterday
received from the Treasury Department
I'll 600 In bonds on account OF the sec
ond division of that road, which has
been completed.
The Herald's Washington dispatches
say the settlement OF the back paw and
accounts Of discharged soldiers will be
much facilitated by sending their dis
charge papers direct to the Office of Col.
Paulding, paymaster, in charge of the
district of Washington. By this means
the long delay occasioned by soldiers
accounts in the Second AUDITORS office
will be avoided. This is understood to
apply only to cases where the applicant
is living.
The want of regular mail service
between this cOuntrYa and Colombia has
long been felt to be very Injurious to
our interest in that quarter. The con-
sequence is that our trade is declining
there, while that of England is rapidlY
increasing, because there are several
lines OF steamers which carry regular
mails between the olombian ports and
the English.
Post Master General, Dennison, aware
Of the difficulty, prepared the draft of a
postal convention, which was submitted
to Gen. Lalzar, the Colombian Minister,
in August last, which with the excep-
ton of two articles, was fully approved.
The draft in question was ACCORDINGLY
returned to Senior Lalzar on the first
ulttmo, with suggestion that certain
notifications be made therein. On the
18th of same month note was address
ed to the Department by that officer,
from the post OF Envoy Extraordinary
to this country, it would be impossible
for him to continue the negotiation of
the postal convention, and that he had
forwarded the communications to him
of the first of September to his govern
ment, and that as the notifications
therein suggested were accepted, he
trusted that the Postal Convention
would be speedily ratified.
Gen. Fitzpatrick leaves here to-mor-
row and will depart on his mission to
Chilli on the first of January.
The Tribune's Washington special
says: Col. Brown, Commissioner of
the Freedmen's Bureau of Virginia has
submitted to Gen. Howard a proposi-
ton concerning the transfer of negroes
from Virginia to unoccupied govern
ment lands in Florida. The result of n
conference between him and n lepisIa-
tive committee will probably be sub
mitted to Congress.
Gen. John Eaton, late Superinten-
dent of the Freedmen of the District
of Columbia, has resigned and proposes
to establish for himself in Memphis-
Tenn, loyal journal to be called the
Memphis Post"
The government has detained a YES
sci at Boston destined for Europe. and
another at Delaware BreakWarter dos
tined for India via Brazil until yester-
day, for the purpose Of taking out gov
eminent annual reports to our foreign
representatives and naval officers,
The Times Washington despatch saws:
Secretary Stanton left that CITY last
evening for trip North.
General Grant has issued orders tn
commanders of posts, where powder. ia
stored, to take precautions for its pre-
servation. The close of the war has
left immense quantities of powder on
the hands of the government.
lNNH T0nN ~
on Wednesday last, offered the follow.
ing resolution inthe House, with a view
to provide pensions to surviving repre-
sentatiyes of hundred day men. Il
was omitted in the press account OF the
proceedings:
Resolved, That the. Committee on
Military Affairs be directed to in0nire
into the propriety of allowing pensions
to surviving Representatives ofsoidiers
called into the service of the United
states for period OF one hundred davs-
or less, who died while in the Service
said committee to report by bill or 9TH
The Worlds Washington dispatches
Representative Eggleston, of Ohio.
Will introduce in the House on Monday
bill to repeal the charter of the civ
OF Washington, and place the Municipal
government in the handsof three COM
mtsstoners, as was the case many years
The Cabinet was in session Yesterday.
General Grant was in attendance at
their deliberations. =
An investigation just made discloses
the fact that s. NJ. Clark, of the Com
merce Bureau, and Solicitor Jordan.
OF the Treasury, were both in possession
more than year ago Of all the infor-
nation in regard to the abstraction OF
the plate upon which the hundred doll
lar counterfeittre asuryno te was printed.
General Spinner, it is said, is now satis-
ned that the plate was taken from the
currency bureau, and that the American
5ank Note Co. are entirely innocent of
The Tribune's Washington deEpatches
say: A. Jourdan, acting Consul at San
juan Porto Rico, informs the State
department, under date of Nov. 9th.
that the ports of Arrieba, ARuadfIlo and
Maguaba are to be closed as ports 81
entry and lett open only for exporta-
t Eon. rms regulation viii take effect
three months from the 18th of Noyem-
Der. 49,
The Navy Department. received adj
vices to-day from Commodore Rrasha,.
OF the Pacific Squadron, dated 40 Gallo
Nov. Il, stating that the Government al
Peru had determined to make a COM
mon cause with Chill against the ao-
gressions OF Spain.
The clerical force of the Treasury Ia
p9rtmsnt is to be reorganized and Cii-
m1nished 100 by the LIST of January.
The Tribune's Washington special
Gen. Towards official report concern
ing the operations of the Freedmen's
Bureau and the condition of thinrZs in
the South, Is still in the hands 81 the
President, where IL has been for seven
or eight days, and its publication has
not yet been permitted. The DELAY is