The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-25
The Latest News.
BY TELEGRAPH.
ny the Union Line:
once, corner of Monroe and Water streets.
From Washington.
North Carolina Election.
THE MEXICAN IMBRoGLIo.
Diplomacy to supersede Arms.
North Carolina Election.
THE MEXICAN IMBROGLIO.
Diplomacy to supersede ARMS.
ALUDICRoUsF Us1LADE

ALUDIcRoUs FUs1LADE
The Latest Facts and RumOrs from
Washington.
New YORK, Nov. M.-The Worlds
Washington dispatch says:
The prisoner recently brought from
the South under circumstances of great
mystery, and incarcerated in the Old
Capitol prison, is Major Gee, arrested in
FLORIDA. He was in charge of the Sails
Dury prison while the mortality was
greatest among the Union prisoners.
postmaster General Dennison has
completed his report, and it is now ready
Tor distribution. The report exhibits
the department as being in Yery favor
able condition. 1t will not require any
additional appropriations for the next
fiscal year.
Reports from nearly all the States
where the Freedmen's Bureau has been
established, state that there is considera-
PIE suffering among the negroes. Gen.
howard is strongly opposed to abolish
ing the bureau at present. The reports
OF schools in the bureau in Kentucky
and Tennessee, show 100 schools in nc
tive operation for colored children and
destitute refugees. These schools are
supported by different benevolent asso-
Citations throughout the North, but they
are placed under the auspices of Gen.
Fisk, Assistant Commissioner. The
total number of scholars in attendance
In the month of September was l2.4SO
ana the total number of teachers em-
pIoyed IN active service, $50. Reports
TO the Freedmens' Bureau from Appo-
mattax county, Va, announce a very
noticeable kindness of feeling toward
the freedmen from the old residents
there.
The Tribune's Washington dispatch
says the Stonewall arrived late last
evening and anchored off Alexantlria.
Shewtll come up to the city to-day.
The War Department have decided
that no claim for veteran bounty will
be entertained unless the claimant has
heretofore been recognized and borne
on his company rolls, as such veteran,
Golored soldiers applying for bounty
should state whether they were mus
teTed as free on or before April 10th,
Hon. Schuyler Colfax will deliver his
lecture, "Across the Continent" in
New York and New England during
the holiday week.
Ex-Governor Cummings, Buchanan's
Territorial Executive of Utah, was at
the Treasury yesterday for the purpose
OF drawing the balance of salary due
him: He has taken all the oaths, been
Pardoned and to-day expects to draw
his greenbacks and leave for Georgia.
The forthcoming Treasury report will
show more encouraging condition of
our National finances than hitherto
anticipated.
says:
A contract was concluded yesterday
by Gen. Labaiar, Minister ofthe Colom-
Dlan Government, by which Col. S. A,
gilbert aud Preston +. West, two officers
of the US. coast survey, enter tho ser
vice of the Colombian Government for
tne purpose OF making a survey of
the Magdelina river, stream emptyinp
into the Co lombian sea, four hundred
miles east of Aspinwall, The object of
the Colombian Government is to deepen
the camel at the mouth of the river.
or to overcome two falls some distance
up, by which $40 miles of navigation
will be saved.
The Tribune's special SAYS:
A novel official document was receiy-
ed at the Indian Bureau to-day. It is a
tabular analysis of the cost, per head.
to the Government of killing Indians
and Squaws on the western PLAINS
The average cost of killing an Indian
has been about half million dollars.
while for Squaw the cost is nearly
two million.
The War Department has nearly dis
posed of all the sea-going transports.
and is now unable to furnish the trans,
Portation to refugees and others which
it has heretofore measureably furn-
ished.
The Herald's Washington dispatch
says Mrs. Bishop, a daughter of the ex-
rebel Secretary of the Navy, is in the
city interceding for her fathers release
on parole. fUF
Two white men named John NJ.
Brown and Christopher G. Rease, hav-
ing been convicted, by. a Military Com
mission, of the murder of a negress
named Nellie West, in Taliaferro coun-
y, Ga, were sentenced to be hanged.
The President has approved the SEN
tence and ordered the execution to take
place on the first Friday in january
next. IL
Many well informed persons hazard
the opinion that Mr.. and Mrs. Cobb,
plaintiffs against General Baker, will
not appear against him when he is
brought to trial. They have altered
their tone considerably lately. General
Baker threatens to produce in court
the accumulated history of their several
years in Washington. -.rl.u ~
The Herald's Washington dispatch
says: =, .i5.s
Emigration companies are forming
In many sections of the North ito fur
nish the South with the labor and capi-
tai necessary to produce their nccns-
toned crops and also to substantially
benefit the emigrRnt. The United States
Mutual Protection Company of this
city, with the first assistant Provost
Marshal General at its head, has al
ready leased many valuable planta-
tons in Northern and Central NIissfs-
sippi, and has many applications from
southern planters for tenants md la
borers. Some five hundred families
are preparing to move South in the
month of january under the auspices
of this association.
says:
New Orleans.
Major Hayne, of Newborn. is in this
city. he says that lhe people of his
State look upon the recent elections
there as complete farce. None of the
| Congressmen-elect can take the oath,
X. +. Lehman, the only candidate in
the State who could do SO, was defeated
by large majority.
The English capitalists, who sailed
from here on the LIST inst, had a pleas
ant voyage home. Sir Morton Peto. in
a letter toa friend in this city, says that
ms visit was an exceedingly happy one,
and that he cannot but hope that It will
be Of some little use in dispelling the
clouds which, with more perfect
knowledge of the sentiments and feel
ings really existing between the two
countries, would never have appeared.
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Large Steel Works.
Z HARRISBURG, Nov. 24.-The Secretary
of the Pennsylvania Steel Works has
decided to accept what is known as the