The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-17
The Episcopal Convention.
Firemen's Riot in Jersey City.

Firemen's Riot in Jersey City.
late and Interesting Warrington In
telhgences
NEW YORK, Nov. ia Herald's
Washington dispatch says:
The Secretary of the Navy has determ-
tned to send abroad a considerable por-
ton OF our surplus naval force, to
cruise about and visit the principal
commercial ports frequently, If Com
gresS will make the appropriation.
The President has appointed Hon.
Chauncey NJ. Depew, Minister to Japan.
Winder, Duncan and Gee, are the on
lyprisoners of note in the Old Capitol
prison.
{ There are rumors of Cabinet changes,
but it is not probable any will be made
until after the meeting Of CongresS.
a Times Washington special des-
patch says:
The findings of the Commission to
whom was referred the adjustment of
the rewards offered for capturing the
assassins and conspirators, will not be
made public until approved by the Sec
rotary of War. g%
Reports just received at the Treasury
Department, from agents stationed
along the Canada frontier, show
that Smuggling is still carried on very
largely. "A large number Of arrests and
seizures are made constantly. The in
ducements are so great that IL one half
gets through, the parties are amply re-
Enumerated. An agent who arrived here
to-day, says the Smugglers have been
unusually active during the last two or
three months. Xxx
Fuller, who used the name of Senator
Harlan, to obtain a large amount of
money belonging to the National Re-
publican committee, and who has been
in the Old Capitol for several months,
has been released without trial.
The Times special says the Hon.
Freeman Clarke, Comptroller of Cur
rency, is engaged upon his report. He
will recommend the removal of the
National Currency Bureau to New
York, and Mr.. Mccullough, who made
the same recommendation when Comp
troller last year, will probably renew
the recommendation in his forthcoming
report as Secretary of the Treasury.
Yesterday, government refunded the
first money from the proceeds of the
sale of confiscated property, in pursu-
March Sd, 1855. The case in which the
money was refunded Is one in which
the claimants and former owners of the
confiscated property show they were
loyal citizens and supporters of the
Union, Notwithstanding the fact of the
abandonment OF their property at the
breaking out of the rebellion. The
property is located in AlexRndria, Va,
A large number of like cases are pend
ing.
The Herald's special says: Yesterday
the time for receiving bids for contracts
in the mail service of Virginia, North.
Carolina, South Carolina and Florida
he
the respective contracts to persons
whose rates had been accepted Is under
way. Contracts about to be consume
mated for service In the above States,
Will go into effect on the LIST day of jan
nary, 1866, and expire in June, 1867.
Bids made for this service have been
largely in excess of the rates formerly
in vogue for the same routes. n
The Secretary of the Treasury has is
sued a circular notifying all collectors
of Internal Revenues that he regards It
but o Just precaution that Wheneverap
plications are made for the storage of
petroleum or its products, within the
limits of any town or city, the Collector
of Internal Revenue should forward to
the department, in a statement, thatth
warehouse, If established, will not in
case of fire endanger other property or
the lives OF the people living or doing
business in its vicinity.
Nathaniel ii. Mclean, former Assfs-
tant Adjutant General to General Burn
Coast two years ago, as he alleges, to
prevent his tesitying against Huritt,
then about to be court martialed in
Cincinnati, preparatory to having the
case in Congress, promises to throw
much add ihonRl light upon that inter
estfng transaction. ia
The Times Washington special says
the statement that the Secretary of the
Treasury intended to discharge all the
female clerks in his department Is
erroneous. ~
The leading hotel in this city has rails
ed its prices 70 five dollars a day for the
special benefit of congressman.
I Governor Parsons left for home yes
ter1ay morning, with two hundred par
dons for citizens OF Alabama.
Admiral Porter Will soon publish a
reply to Gen. Banks structures on the
conduct of the Navy in the Red River
campaign. m. f.tf 81
master on Gen. Sherman's staff, has
been ordered to Arkansas for duty.
The Times special says:
Antonio Rosa who was convicted at the
October term of the New York Circuit
Court for the eastern district of New
York, Of counterfeiting fractional cur
rency, and sentenced 70 10 years Inn
the President.
The TEfbune's special says:
The President was more than usual
~ annoyed by the unfortunate recon-
structionist yesterday. BE remarked
that he had tried 70 overwhelm the
South with pardons and kindness, but
fromrecent events he began to think
them incapable of approaching the
magnanimtty.
Several efforts have been made to
placeta beIligerent construction upon
the action of the Navy Department in
ordering on certain o. 8. ships of war.
The facts are that sundry Naval YES
sells have been ordered out upon foreign
and domestic stations, the same a. in
years before the war, instead of allow
| ing them TO rot in our yards.
Gen. Grant attended the Academy Of
Music laEt night and was received with
great enthusiasm by the audience.
= Ills stated that plans are already OF
foot tofthe repair and reconstruction o.
st. Georges (Dr, Tyng's) church,
The body Of collector King Is not vel
recovered. No doubt Is entertained al
to its being in the bottom of NORTH
/ river, and Workmeu are dragging fol
his remaina.
aasi3s &. New York Items.
NEW YoRR, 16.-The issue of golC
Certificates yesterday and to-day at thu
custom house was 1915, goo.
| "A fireman's riot occurred in jersey
City this afternoon. Several personl
were injured. The riot was queIleti lbJ
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