The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-17
BY Telegraph.
MiscelIaneons News.


| NEW YORK, April 16.-The car driv-
ers' strike continues on all the roads.
| Occasionally car runs on the Sixth
| Avenue road. 1t is rumored that the
drivers are inclined to violence and that
demonstration will be made to-day to
| tear.up some of the track. The police
are stationed in the various precincts
where the drivers congregate.
y heavy rain is falling.
| The drivers of the Second Avenue
Railroad published IL card this morning,
stating that the Company i'll the last
| four years has lost one hundred and
| twelve thousand dollars.
| The caulkers, who are striking for n
reduction in the number of hours for
labor, have published an address to the
merchants, ship-owners and under
writers, of the port of New York, stat
| ing that the eXOrbitant bills made on
them for repairs, are the doings of the
master shipwrights, and not the actual
charges of the caulkers themselves.
| The funeral of Brig. Gen. j. Lyman
| Van Buren, took place in this city yes
terday.
The Tribune's Washington special
says an attempt was made last week by
! burg, Va, to arrest the notorious eN-
guerrilla, John j. Moseby, for appear
| ing in the streets dressed in confeder-
ate uniform. Moseby took to the woods
and thus escaped the guard, who fired
| several shots after him.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany, whose projected route runs from
Minnesota to Oregon and the Pacific
coast, are asking Congress toguHrantee
the interest on fifty seven million dol
lars of their bonds, to run twenty
| years.
| The United States steamer Augusta is
| to be sent to Maine TO prevent any vio-
lations of the Neutrality Laws by the
Fenians.
A Washington special says there is
! official evidence that Louis Napoleon
is Withdrawing his French troops, and
that Macmillan is issuhstituting French,
Austrian and Belgian recruits.
Some excitement has been caused
here by the discovery within few
days of some gold quartz about four
teen miles from here on the Potomac
river.
The Herald's Eastport special. dated
the 18th. says:
mine armed Fenians captured the
English revenue flag on Indian Island
last night. They belonged to the crew
of the Fenian privateer, from which
they lowered IA boat and proceeded with
mutfled oars to the spot, actually under
/ the guns of the English war ship Py-
| ladies', and within reach MT any moment
| of the picket boats. The flag was sur
is believed there were no soldiers on the
Island.
The United States gunboat winooski
arrived this forenoon and anchored of
| the town.
Reports from Calias say that ten sof
| the volunteers at st. Stephens have
thrown down their arms in revolt, but
were arrested and imprisoned.
a suspicious looking brig was cap
| tured last night off the coast, by the
| United States revenue cutter, Ashurlat,
and was tOwed into the harbor here to-
| day.
The Herald's Canadian correspondent
says the public Indignation in regard
| to the secret trial of Murphy and his
men is still openly demonstrated all
| over Canada, and sympathy for the
| prisoners is thereby created.
| The scare is extending and prevails
I along the shores of Lake Erie to as great
| an extent as it does iu New Brunswick,
and the people are flying TO our shores
| for safety.
| says: Mrs. Clement G. Clay returned
! from Fortress Monroe within Il few
days, and has laid before the President
recommendations for her husbands re-
| lease on parole, from such officials as
| Gen. Grant, Senator Wilson and Thad.
| Stevens. They all express the opinion
| that Mr.. Clay will observe his parole,
and that his conduct in voluntarily Civ
| ing himself up to the authorities, enti-
ties him to this much consideration.
| His release from confinement, at For
tress Monroe, is expected within few
days.
The steamer Vera Cruz, it is thonght,
| will, with the exception of a portion of
her cargo, prove total loss.
The Tri6une's Washington special
says: Mr.. Wakemau returned last
/ nj toTinrr iS rNVN1arsfnc1 oil
| with him u letter of appointment for
| Mr.. L. g. Courtney, Assistant United
| States District Attorney, TO be United
| States District Attorney. This being
in compliance with the last wish of Mr..
Dickinson and being the message he
\ sent to the President just before he
breathed his last. The President has
written letter to Mrs. Dickinson ex-
pressive of his sorrow ut the death of
| her husband and assuring her of his
| sympathy in her sorrow.
The Times Washington special says:
The Secretary of War has announced
that he would not confirm the sale of
the magnificent car that bore the re-
mains of SIr. Lincoln from the city to
their final resting place in Illinois,
| The sale took place last Thursday at
Alexandria, where the QuarteTmaster
General in pursuance of an order from
the War Department, offered at
Z
properly in which the car was
included, and it was struck off to
Ward FL. Laman, Esq, late United
States Marshal of this District, for the
sum of 50, 800. The car cost the Gov
ernment something over $4,000, and
was manufactured by the Government
Military Corps, to be used by Mr.. Lin
coin when he should have occasion to
travel by railroad. Mr. Laman. a
steadfast friend of Mr.. Lincoln, pur-
| chased it to prevent other bidders from
| getting possession of it for exhibition.
4 He comedies with Mr.. Stanton, swho
thinks the Government should hold the
relic and place it among the rebellious
archives in the late Ford's theatre.
DLAsTER PARIa5O RBLs. CALCLEED
Plaster on hand and for sale by
mr24 PIC. HILDRETH q BRO.