The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-11

The Latest News.
1890 TEEEGE4PH:R
ny the Union Lime:
once, corner of Main and Monroe Etreets.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Colored Schools of Missouri
and Arkansas.
Increase of the Army.
Freedmen's Bureau to be
Continued.
French Troops to be Withdrawn.
From Mexico.
Freedmen's Bureau to be
Continued.
French Troops to be Withdrawn.
From Mexico.
General Newa.

General News.
New YORK, Jan. 1O.@The Tribune's
Washington special says:
General Howard, is in receipt of the
November report of the Superintend-
ent of Colored Schools in the States of
Missouri and Arkansas, in which he
says:
sonn 10 freedmenfs. schools, with %
teachers and / $40 scholars; and in Ar
kansas there are 18 schools, with II
teachers and ], 47S scholars"
The Birmingham Association in Eng
land, since the close of the war, has
largely contributed toward the relief of
the destitute freedmen of the United
States. Their last invoice of goods,
mostly clothing, amounts in value to
over 5000, and the Secretary of the
Treasury has notified the Deputy Col
lector at New York to hereafter admit
allsuch goods free of duty.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
decided that canal boats duly enrolled
and licensed, and on which tonnage
tax has been paid, are not liable to the
internal revenue tax.
Brigadier General Milford, late agent
for the exchange of prisoners, returned
from Richmond yesterday, where he
has been for some months engaged in
closing up the business relating to the
doing, and in compliance with orders
has turned over to General Hitchcock,
formerly Commissary of Exchange, all
the property forwarded to Union pris-
oners during their incorporation, inclu-
ding boxes and money, amounting to
between $50, 600 and S4O,O me money
will be restored to the original forward
ers, and it is supposed that the express
boxes will be turned over to the freed
mems bureau. .s,.l -
The northern trains are still consid-
erably behind in consequence of the ice
in sthe Susquehanna at Havre De
+ The Worlds Washington dispatch
says:
Gen. Grants bill to increase the regu-
lar army is in the hands of the
Chairman of the Military Committee.
If adopted it will increase the regular
army to over $4,000.
The House Committee on Freedmen
yesterday authorized their chairman to
report bill continuing the bureau and
charging its powers in accordance with
the recommendations of Gen. Howard.
The bill authorizes the President to set
apart in the States of Florida, Missis-
sfppi and Arkansas, under the home
stead law, three million acres of gov
eminent lands; the same to be allotted
in parcels of forty acres each to freed
men, at such rental as may be agreed
on, and giving thei freedmen the right
to purchase the land at any time, by
paying its valuation. "a
The Herald's dispatch says: Tho or
der recently issued mastering out the
troops in Virginia, was countermanded
yesterday by the War Department.
Miss Anna Dickinson lectured last
night at Cooper's Institute. 5s.s !"
Last Friday night, the wife of John
Knismaul, of Caldwell, N. j., arose
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fined some time by illness, and climbed
to the summit of a mountain, from
which she walked of. She was discoy-
cred at its foot in her night clothes,
frozen to death. hi
The Alumni of Dartmouth College, re-
siding in this city, gave q compliment
tary dinner last night to Asa d. Smith,
d. b., at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
The chess tournament continued yes
terGiay at the rooms of the New York
Chess Club, and, as on the opening day,
large gathering of experts were pres
emit. Two matches were played yester-
day by Graves and Martinez, of the sec
ond class, each gentleman winning a
game. Gen. De Frobrand was beaten
by Mr.: Dill. se's5yi 10 I.
The Times Washington dispatch
saws that firm In Little Rock, Ark,
to-day presented 10. Gen1 Howard ofthe
Freedmens' Bureau, proposition to
NIG HCgA14S4 eA40kt9f IL tAA1AS ALS-
partment, in the COMPLETE of the rail-
road which connects Little Rock with
the Mississippi. Themen are to bepaid
extra pay at the rate of so cents per day
in land on the line of the road. The
proposition is favorably endorsed by
Gen. Reynolds, commanding the De-
partment OF Arkansas, and by Maj.
Gen, Sherman. It has been referred 10
the SecretaryRof War. ,9f
Alarge sale of old Navy cannon.will
take place ut the navy yard to-day, and
will be continued Tomorrow. 80
The Worlds Washington dispatch
SAYS Fred. Hassaureck will return TO
Washington on the sd inst, to resign
his mission to Ecuador, to take edito-
rial charge of the Cincinnati Xolks-
blatt. - q 3 .3i...i -.ni.,t -. ,.i!.-.'lll
The Tribune's Washington dispatch
says the Secretary of the Treasury has
decided that vehicles of every kind from
contiguous foreign countries into the
United States, loaded in such a manner
that each box or barrel can be satisfacto-
rily inspected without unloading, such,
hereafter, may be permitted TO enter
under such provisions. suf eIlsH