The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-12
The Assassin Conspirators, Mudd
Spangler and O'Laughlin.
Annexation of Canada to
the United States.
Sale Of old Navy cannon.
General News.

been poisoned by the use of musky
| flour purchased at a neighboring gro
Gerry. One has died, two ares still danger
ously ill, and the remaining two are
| conValescent.
AT a meeting of the George Washing
/ ton Circle of Fenians last evening, res
olutions were passed sympathizing with
General Sweeney at the uncalled for
harshness of the Secretary of War in
dismissing General Sweeney from the
army. which they say was done at the
4 instigation of Sir Frederick Bruce,
British ambassador.
The Times publishes an order of the
Secretary of War disbanding the 25th
Corps as an organization.
The General Order mastering out GER
tain officers has produced consterna-
ton among the decapitated Generals,
in this list expected that he would be
thus disposed of, and many whose
names do not appear expected to find
themselves in the list of the beheaded.
Another order of the same kind could,
| it is believed, be issued without detri-
meut to the interest of the country.
The Convention of Collectors and
Treasury Agents of the frontiers,
that has been in session in Washington,
in the Office of the Commissioner of
Customs, has not concluded its labor.
The result of its elaboration will be
laid before Congress in a day or two In
the form of q memorial, accompanied
by bills for enactment into laws, to eff
fectually prevent smuggling on the Ca
madam frontier. a4i
On complaint of Mr.. Henry a. Cram
the counsel for Mr.. Strong, in the re-
cent divorce case, Mr. John Austin Ste
vens, brother of Mrs. Strong, was
brought before Justice Hogan, of the
Tombs Police Court, yesterday, on a
charge of having made threats of mall
ice against the advocate because he
would not retract certain statements
made by him in his opening speech to
the jury. A spicy correspondence was
promising not TO trouble Mr.. Cram, he
was permitted to depart, but he will be
required to enter into bonds for his fu-
ture good behavior.
The Herald's Washington special
says: DIR. Bacon, in behalf of the fac
ulty fYale College, is reported to have
sent communication to Speaker Col
fax, requesting the House not to array
itself againstthe reconstruction policy
of the President.
The rumors of an impending Cabinet
reconstruction, which have peryaded in
we'll informed circles for week past,
are believed to have more foundation
in fact than usually attaches to such re-
ports. The President is known to be
waiting anxiously for the European
mail, to know whether MIR. Adams pro-
poses an immediate return from Lon
don. This, taken in connection with
other small straws, is believed to indf-
cate the course of the coming breeze.
The Herald'S Fortress Monroe cores
pendent writes that Captain Alexander,
OF the Empire City, arrived at the For
tress on the Bird, from Key West. He
had seen DIR. Mudd, Spangler and
O'Laughlin, the Lincoln assassination
conspirators. They all occupy one
room, and were in good health. They
about tho prison. DIR. Mudd has be-
haYed with exemplary proprfety since
his failure to escape some time ago, and
is evidently striving to reinstate him
self in the good opinion of his cuSto-
dians and his former easy and agree
able place in the prison hospital.
The locomotive of freight train on
the New York Central Railroad ex-
ploded, at Granville Junction, on Tues
day; the engineer, fireman and a brake
man were Instantly killed.
Last evening the Union League club
assembled attheir hall in Union Square
and passed appropriate resolutions, ex-
pressing their sorrow at the loss sus-
tained by them in the death of their late
associate and first President, Robert b.
Minturn. se W ).
Bayard Taylor lectured at Cooper In
stitute last evening upon yourselves
and Our Relations"
The Herald's Toronto special says:
At a meeting of the Montreal Board
of Trade held yesterday, resolutions
were passed affirming that no adequate
means exist enabling Canada to COM
pete with the Erie canal, and that the
Welland canal must be enlarged, the
great st. Lawrence lock lengthened and
Improved, and new canal built be-
tween Lake Champlain and the, st.
Lawrence. sJ.lH 1Fr
Petitions to the home government,
looking to peaceful secession from
England and annexation to the United
States, or the formation of a separate
government, are said to be in circula-
fion among the annexationists in the
rural districts. ~
The Iron Moulders' Protective Union
was in session yesterday in Tammnny
Hall, The business transacted was of
no special Importance to the public.
BV order OH. A. Wise, chief OF Ord
able navy, cannon was disposed of at
public auction, at the Brooklyn navy
ward. Yesterday. Only about forty per-
sons were present at the sale. These
guns, before delivery topurchasers, will
be mutilnted, so as to be of no service
wise they would have brought large
prices, and met with ready sale. One
lot consisted of forty of the famed Eric
son torpedoes, Weighing los, 400 pounds,
which were manufactured at a large
cost, and with which the monitors pro-
missed to clear out Charleston or any
other harbor, but they proved failure,
being dangerous to use and unwieldy.
Yesterday they brought Is 2-16c. per
The names of the Adams Express
robbers arrested are Taisham, Lock-
The Worlds Washington special
says:
tfnguished lawyer of Washington,
which will be offered in Congress at an
early day, for the reorganization of the
Supreme Court OF the United States, so
as TO reduce the number of appeals and
increase the number OF circuits and
circuit judges.
Senator Wilson's bill for increasing
the regular army makes its smaximum
$1,000 men If the present nine regi-
ments of infantry are TO be retained.
The contested case of .koOntz and
Cohroth, sixteenth election district OF
Pennsylvania, was again before the
Committee on Elections to-day, and
was argued for upwards of two hours,
and then adjourned until Friday when
a definite action Is expected1ta be had
on the question.
The Brooks and Dodge contested case
of New York, is ready for considera-
ton, and will be taken up at ouce. The
evidence in the case makes a printed
volume Of 600 pages. 81
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LOUISVILLE, Jan. 1.-THE Rev. Thos.
j. Fisher died to-day from the wounds
received from assailants ON Monday
night. he was entirely unconscious TO
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