The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-05
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General News.
h.. NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-Judge Hughes,
| terlay made application to the Secre-
/ tary of the Navy to fix a day for the
trial of the accused. The Secretary de-
clined) tot do SO, for thereason that not q,
suff1cient number of officers of proper
rank are now unemployed. The coun-
sci engaged for Semmes are Hughes,
Peck and Denver of Washington, and
Pendleton and Colshen, of Boston,
i Semmes is confined in a room IN the
! Navy Yard, guarded by sentinels. His
meals are brought from neighboring
restaurants. No person, excepting one
| of his counsel, is allowed to speak with
him. he is quite cheerful, but anxious
| for a speedy. trial.
George l.. Little, special Treasury
agent, recently returned from the Sonth,
reports that Southerners have album
\ dance of money received from North
ern spectators in exchange for Sonth-
ern staples and landed property.
BreVet Brigadier General w. f.
| Smith, (Baldy), late Major General of
Volunteers, has been granted six
months, leave of absence on account of
The steamer Vera Cruz, from Vera
| Cruz on the 24th nlt., has arrived.
The Herald's correspondent, under
date of Vera Cruz, December oath,
writes that the Empresst Charlotte
4 reached Vera Cruz ON the 10th on her
/ return from her visit to YucatoI, (which
was pronounced to be very sahstac-
tory. n
The Imperialists claimed another
\ victory over the Republicans, under
tPerfuro Diaz,so the 4th, near Count
Ilifea, in which the famous leader, Tow
as Sanchez, was killed.
/ AFo-f,,afItaI1 3had arNnnfnfpH nnF TalIiS
Ayrago assistant Secretary of Foreign.
Affairs, and Dez Manuel D'Cauha Refs,
\ exclusive Superint dent of the intro
4 duction into Mexico of Coolie laborers.
| General Quintanilla and his private
Secretary were assassinated on the 2Ith
of November on one of the highways,
by their military escort, with the object
| OF plumber.
The Republicans have taken posses
sion of the town of La, Paz in Lower
California. 'ie s4 59 p
The announcement is made of
the final prevalence of peace in the de-
ipartments of La Lierra and Huastesa.
Eight hundred French troops, whose.
terms of service had expired, were to
leave Vera Cruz on the 9th. The arri-
val there Of others from France was
daily looked for.
eign affairs minister recentl stated that
the only hope of the Imperial govern
ment rested ON the success of It's loan
4 in the London market. The university
of Mexico had been suppressed, and a
| public museum of the Natural History
of Archaeology been established in its
stead by: Macmillan. q.
The Times Washington special says:
| The designations of Generals sKilpatr
| rick, Minister to Chilli, Cox, Governor
elect of Ohio, and Davis, Public Adj
ministrator of New York, have been
Il NAfa9
Brevet Colonel Cnyler, Surgeon uni
ted States army, has been assigned to
duty as Post Surgeon at Fort Wnds-
| worth, New York harbor.
4 BreYet Lieut.-Col. Bailey, Surgeon
United States army, has been assigned
The tende for returned soldiers
in the States of Connecticut, Rhode
4 island and New Hampshire are broken
Iup. All troops of those States have
been mustered out.
-Four companies of the 9th u, s,
cavalry, serving at Cumberland, Nd,
have been ordered toNorth Carolina
forduty. f;iiyii 3 lel,i
The case of the alleged rebel emissary
Martin was yesterday adjourned by
us. Commissioner Osburne till Fri
T6e Herald's washington special
1 = Patents for Ii, 600 acres of swamp land
Ehave lust been forwarded from the Gen
eral Land Office to the Governor of
| Missouri q siFI5HCi
\ The Times dispatch says: Special Or
4 hder No. q, of. the War Department, dated
1866, musters out the following paymas-
tiers, to take effect from January 10Th:
Breyet Lieut.. Colonels VIM. Tillman,
Stephen w, Crosby, James A. Fanish,
w. b. Mendenhan and Samuel -.
| Adams. Majors 8! "A. Stafford, O. w.
Campbell, James Mann, John X. Graz
4 vens, Henry Mcfarland; n. A. Knapp,
w. H. McAllister, Champion s.. Chase,
/ Zachariah VOORHEES,, Frederick Kelley,
VIM. Asson, w. n. Stewart. q
| New. York, Jan. 4.-The Herald's
| telegram says: A letter from General
Sully, dated Sioux City, to the Indian
4 Bureau, states he just arrived from Fort
4 Rice, on the Missouri river, and reports
Il large bands of Indians gathered about
the latter locality. They apparently de-
sire to preserve friendly feeling with
4 the whites, and the chiefs announce that
/ their tribes We're to make Immediate
4 restitution OF property stoIen. on recent
1 expeditions, and agreed to deliver up
certain Indians who were guilty ofshed-
ding blood in their recent thieving
al Communication from the Superin-
Etandent of Indian Affairs for the dis
ltrict of New Mexico represents things
4 in an unfavorable light. He reports the
1nu1an RoPuIhLlon0 I LuabCouhbEy oebeE-
4 mined on an outbreak, having already
\ begun to drive of cattle in broad day.
EtIhe cause Of this mischief is said to arise
from the scantiness of their supplies
Il from the Government during the last
two years. The military force has been
decreased so much that the Indians no
longer fear it. An instance Is cited
where eight thousand Navago Indians
are under the guard of 400 soldiers, and
the former begin TO show disposition
to- turn the tables by becoming the cap
tors.
4 Z The following is an exhibit of the
business of the Pension Department
for The year just expired: Number OF
applications admitted from invalid sol
oilers, 10 800; number of same rejected,
lao, 1852; number of applications admit
llted from widows, mothers and orphans,
q, 962; same rejected, 1900; number of
cases still waiting TO be disposed OF,
I S4,OO9: of which, 81 ,66I are from inYp<
lids. and the balance from widows,
mothers and orphans. During the last
month of the year, 81, $50 letters and
I circulars, Relating TO the cases on file in
\ the Office, were mailed to parties inter-
ested, or their attorneys.
H The IHerald's telegram saYs:E
Inasmuch as the marine corps has
4 officers for a brigade, it Is probable that
the one regiment now constituting the
Il corps will be placed on a footing with a
heavy artillery regiment and incorpo-
I rated in the regular army. .,isI5T
IN Upwards of twenty clerks were dis
f eRas aiss 5 iTGm inc department u on
n An order mastering out over sixty
one general officers, it is reported, will
be issued before the 18th inst.
The Worlds Washington telegram