The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-15
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COnf1scation in Richmond.
FINE PROSPECTS FOR COTTON.
The Internal Revenue De-
partment.
GENERAL SHERMAN AT COL
UMBUs.
Suspension of the Richmond Wing.
The Detroit Convention.
Gold Closed at l42 IL.
suspension Of the Richmond Wing.
ZINE Detroit Convention.
Gold Closed at l42 IL.


COnHscatInE the Property of wealthy
Richmond RebeIs---Plenty of Cotton
In AlnbamR.-AppOinte Provisional
/ Governor OF that State-.-PnFtlOnetl
| by the northumberland from In.
ternal ReVenue-.!The story About
| Mrs SurrRtt'S Spiritual Adviser. Hin.
true.
New YORK, July 1.-THE Herald's
Richmond correspondent says the work
tof confiscating the property of wealthy
rebels was inaugurated in Richmond
on Monday last, much to the conster-
nation'of thePeople of that city, by the
seizure of the famous Tredegar Iron
| Works by government agents. A de-
description of a large amount of other
property liable to confiscation has
been taken, and the tenants thereof
have been notified to pay no more rent
to the rebel prOprietors.
One of the Herald's correspondents
who has lately been through Northern
Alabama states that that region is al
most one continuous field of cotton.
The planters have given their attention
to the business again this year almost
as much as in anti-rebellion times. and
the growing crop looks very fine. Tile
negroes are working for their former
masters for wages, and the new labor
system appears to progress very well,
The Herald's Washington Special
states that Ex-Judge Marvin was to-day
appointed Provisional Governor of
Florida, and will repair to that State
early next week.
Contrary to the expectations of nearly
all familiar with his past career, Mr..
Cowardin, editor and publisher of the
rebeF Richmond Dispatch, has been
pardoned by the President.
Returns to the Office of Internal Rev
enue show that ninety-one and half
millions Ofdollars have been received
in that bureau since July LIST. Previous
to that date the expenses of collections
were deducted, and the nett amounts
returned. Now the total collections
have to be returned, and the increase is.
therefore, more apparent than real, al
though the nett receipts are substanti-
ally enlarged.
Measures have been decided upon in
the Internal Revenue Department for
putting into speedy operation the
necessary machinery for the dis
Posal of the public lands in
the late insurgont States, applications
and inquiry upon the subject having
been very freely made to the depart
ment. Registers and receivers haYeal
ready been designated for this work,
and as soon as this can be done for
other States, these officers will be or
dered to repair Immediately to their
posts ana open OthceS for the sale of
lands mt such places as will best meet
1.-THE general convenience.
3 Geo. A. Benedict, editor of the Cleve-
3and Herald, was to-day commissioned
Postmaster ofthat city, vice the present
incumbent, the editor Ofthe Leader.
AThe question of pardOning Colonel
Lee, of Philadelphia, has finally been
referred to the Attorney General, who
prosecuted him to conviction.
Mrs. Lee left here last evening for
home without being able to obtain an
unconditional pardon. Attorney Gen
eral Speed is known to have used his
influence to have the President recon-
slider his first determination to remit
the penalty of imprisonment.
The Tines washington special has
the following:
The story that Mrs. Surratt's spiritual
advisers were not permitted to visit her
until promising they would not pro-
claim their belief in her innocence from
the sca1fold, is untrue.
The Government has sent an officer
to Andersonville, Ga, to make special
Investigation into the brutal and inhu-
man treatment of of Union prisoners
during the war, with the view of bring
ing to trial before n military commits
sion the rebels who had charge of our
soldiers when the barbarous treatment
was practiced. Some of the guilty par
ties are already i'll the custody OF the
Government.
Up to Z o'clock this evening no order
had been received by General Hartrauft,
commander of the military prison, for
the removal of the convicted assassins,
Mudd, O'Laughlin, Arnold and Spang-
Ter.