The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-07-26
News from New York

New YORK, July 25th.--The morning
papers contain the following specials
from Washington:
The Commissioners appointed to III
vestigate the Memphis swindle will not
report until the next session of Congress.
Their Investigations SO far, have dis
closed vast amount of official corrup.
tion in high places; but as the record
cannot be completed before adjournment
it has been deemed best to postpone the
report in order that all the facts can be
obtained.
1t is not improbable that both Nebras
ka and Colorado will be admitted before
the close of the session. If vote can
be reached the Colorado veto will be
overriden, as many of those who opposed
the bill when it was under discussion
and voted against it on it's passage are
now convinced of the necessity for all
the loyal votes that can be got into the
Senate to be prepared for the contingen.
cy of such reconstruction as may result
from the Presidents policy
1t is rumored that the President will
veto, on the grounds of unconstitution,
ality, all bills granting telegraph com
panies rights to build lines on mail
routes
An Internal Revenue Inspector has
Just returned from Danville, Va where
he went to take action against the Mayor
of that city for forging internal revenue
stamps amounting to over $4,000, upon
his tobacco, recently sold in New York.
He found such strong sentiment there
against the Government and its officers
and the Mayor so bold and defiant,
while confessiDg the forgery, that he
came away glad to get Walkers" note
for the amount ofstamps forged.
Immense quantities of mutilated cur
rency redeemed and destroyed, has Gre
ated drouth in this class of Government
calculations, and orders are pouring in
daily by telegraph and letters, from the
banks all over the country, asking for
supplies. The Superintendent of
Printing is working all his available
force extra hours to keep up with the
demand.
The President and Secretary Seward,
it is now positively stated, will attend
the Douglas Monument Inauguration aC
Chicago; which takes place after tne
Philadelphia convention
The Joint committee appointed by the
recent caucus, agreed to night to name
Friday for for the final adjournments.
1t seems to be generally understood
that the Senate will tomorrow confirm
Governor Randall as Postmaster Cen
eral.
A report has been made by the COM
mission appointed to investigate cruel.
ties perpetrated by Mrs. Henry Abra
hams, of King Williams county,'Va., on
servants. The report shows that on the
I'd of June, freed girl named Martha
Anne, aged seventeen, was burned she
was sent to the hospital in Richmond;
the surgeon examined her and said there
we're upon her body seven ulcers, all the
results of burns; and all produced within
two or three weeks. The largest was
nearly two inches in diameter. In ad-
dition to these her entire body was al
most covered with scars, some old and
some covered with recent scales ; some
the result of burns and some the result
of whipping. She had been so abused
that she was scarcely able to give ex-
preston to an intelligent idea. Investi.
cations made before the Judge Advocate
of Richmond proved that this monster,
Mrs Abrahams, whom half the lawyers
of the city volunteered to defend, has
within the last few years been the cause
of the death of four of her negro ser
wants