The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-12-16
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The Telegraph in Chill
New Railroad from New York to
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THE GREAT FRENCH EXPOSITION
observation-disclosures,

NEW YORK, Dec, 15.-The Tribune's
Washington special says:
Desertions from the regular army are
becoming alarminglS frequent.
Generals Banks and Swift delivered
addresses last night before the National
Equal Suffrage Association ut WASH
ington, taking strong grounds in favor
of negro suffrage. =
( Great activity pervades at both head
quarters of the F'enians in this CITY.
Anathimas from each party denouncing
the other, continue to be issued, Last
night the usual meeting of the Man
haitian Lodge was SO largely attended
that the floor began to give way and the
meeting adjourned to the Goth regiments
armorry. They emphatically endorse
OMahony.
The Worlds Washington special
says:
Two banks with a capital of $500, 900
each, were chartered to-day at Charles
ton, 8. @.
Upwards of two millions of currency
have been issued to national banks
within the last two days. The total
amount now issued is two hundred and
twenty-eight million four hundred
thousand. 1t is announced that the
Secretary of the Treasury has now good
reasons for being satisfied that the
wants of the War Department will not
amount to anything like what he was
led to suppose they would. Many cir
cumstances have occurred since the es-
Inmates were made, to warrant the con-
clusion now reached and believed by
the Secretary to be correct. He is very
confident that he can get along during
the present year without further loun
and without increasing the public debt,
and he is of the opinion that next wear.
he Will certainly be able to diminish it
very much.
There was hearing yesterday in tho
Supreme Court, before Judge Seward,
In the case of Robert Martin, an alleC-
ed accomplice of Kennedy, the rebel
New York Hotel incendIary, Confined
at Fort Lafayette by order of the Sec
rotary of War. A writ of habeas cor
pps had been issued by Judge Bomand
addressed to Gen. Hooker, for the pur-
pose of bringing the case into the civil
courts. Gen. Hooker was absent from
the city at the time the writ was issued
ana u was lett with his Adjutant Gene
raj, Brevet Brig. Gen. Van Buren,, who
made return to 1t. Judge Seward dis
missed the application on the ground
that the writ was improperly served.
The Tribune's Washington special
contains the following:
Intelligence has Just been received bv
the Commissioner of Customs that the
Collector at Rochester, New York,
has just made an important seizure of
band goods, whiskey, teas, dry goods,
&c, at Fonda, New York.
The great Government sale of war
material at Alexandria will probably
last throughout the week. There are a
large number of buyers from New
York and the west, seeking Rail Road
material and the competition is quite
spirited, and the prices obtained, in nu-
merous instances, were in advance of
cost. The scrap iron has averaged over
$50 per ton. Railroad tires from O to is
cents per pound; cordage 81 cents per
pound, and all the prices highly satis-
factory to the Government officers,
Count De TarOiny Forest, Secretary
of the French Legation, sailed for Eti-
rope in the steamer Scotia yesterday,
He was sent to France by the MARQUIS
De Marthaon to report on the state of
feeling existing here with regard to the
Mexican invasion and to bring back
instructions from the Imperial governs
ment. The French minister, who did
not find in the Presidents message any
ground for serious apprehensiOns, APP
pears somewhat alarmed by the reso-
lutions relative to the French invasion
of Mexico, recently introduced by Mr..
Wade in the Senate aud Gen. Schenck
in the House.