Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1866-01-11

vost Marshal toIturn over the Old Capitol
Prison to the yyDepartnent, and it Is un-
derstood that Sdnmes will be confined in it.
The trial Of the abafiia pirate will begin on
the ] 7th of Jan,hfys and the Court will sit in
| the Navy Department building The Court
has not yet beenli IN constituted. : 4t,s
!sxacQ. i:as j Il.
Official intelligence was received here to-
day from Mexico that the French are on the
point of evacu,ting Acapulco. The Mexican
Liberals under Alvarez were within few
hours march ofthe city, and in sufficient force
to regularly invest il
INTERNAL REVENUE.
/ The receipts from internal revenue for the
first half Of the fiscal year ending today
amount 10 $l75,556, ,45S o.
, FINANCIAL MATTERS
| Interest notes and currency to the amount
of 81, ,63O, $50, and certificates of Indebtedness
amounting to S5l4,926, we're redeemed at the
Treasury daring the week Only two Ma
tional Banks were established during the
week, With a capital of $l50,000. The total
number now in operation is 1925, with a cir
culation Of $237, 0l55
| SMUGGLING on THE BORDER
Washington, Dec. 3l.-Several of the rev.
enue collectors OH the Northern frontier have
called the attention of the Secretary of the
Treasury tothe lact that the Canadian snug.
glers have made preparations Tor the revival
of the smuggling trade, which had nearly
closed, as soon as the ice forms bridge
across the st. Lawrence river, and to prevent
which, they ask an additional force to patrol
the American shore. Secretary McCulloch
has accordingly instructed the Commissioner
OF Customs to furnish the force required
SECRETARY SEWARD GONE ON A VOYAGE
Under the advice Of" his physicians, the
Secretary of State and the Assistant Sccreta-
ry, embarked last night on board the United
States steamer De Soto, for short voyage in
the warmer latitudcs of the South Atlantic. -
They expect to be absent two or three weeks.
Wm Hunter, Esq Chief Clerk of the De
partment, has been appointed Acting Secre-
tary Of State during the interval, and II. N.
Cougar Commissioner Of Emigration, has
been appointed Acting Assistant Secretary
MEDIATION BETWEEN SPAIN AND CHILL.
Government has been advised that the rep
rescntaton made TO Spain in favor of peace
with Chill hasiso far prevailed, that the good
Offices of France and England have been ac-
ceptcd upon the terms proposed by them and
the United States -
TERRIBLE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN MEXICO. .'-
| New York Dec. 3l-Accounts from Mex
| leo show thai extreme measures are being
used toward tie people. Macmillan at first
tried mild measures, but finding they did not
succeed, the Trench officers we're instructed
to use the utnpst severity. a gentleman who
has travelled fpm Mexico 10 Vera Cruz, states
that the road is lined on each side with the
blackencd conses OF gucrtillas. There are
no trials or court fnartials.
If man is caught robbing, or even if he
looks suspicious, he is promptly strung up by
the roadside. Some lieutcnants are at once
Judge, jury ant executioners. AS conse-
quence reign Of terror prevails all over Mex
leo except along the Rio Grande
A Paris lettel says the reason of the ter
mination of III. extradition treaty between
England and France was, that during the
whole period ofIhe existence of such treaty,
every criminal demanded by England or
France has been promptly surrendered, while
rot one single ciimina demanded by France
has ever been tiven up by England. The
Emperor does n(t choose to be any longer a
party to such one sided arrangement
THE NEw ATLANTIC CABLE.
Several bundled miles of the core or in
terror portion of tn" new Atlantic telegraph
cable are completed
! FROM GENITAL AND SOUTH AMERICA.
New York, Dec 3l.-The steamer Atlantic
from Aspinwall o, the 22d, brings the Cali.
forna mails of December 9th and 1916, ,OUC
in treasure. The news from the Pacific is
important
On the 2Sth of November the Chilian man
of war Esmeraldt captured the Spanish gun
boat Covadorga off Papula, having on board
the Spanish Admral's correspondence. The
Engagement LASTED half an hour. Severn
Spanish were wounded, and two killed. The
Esmeralda is umlamaged. The prisoners
taken were commdndant, officers and ll(
men, who were treated kindly by the authori
ties and people, The commander of thu
Esmeralda was promoted TO Post Captain
and subscription commenced to present hin
a sword of honor.
Though the Spanish Admiral was only fort,
miles off he was ignorant of the capture unit
informed by Che Chilian papers, three day
afterward. The Spanish flag ship, Villa Ma
drid, left Valparaiso on the evening of De
cember lst, it is Supposed for Callao. Th
Chilians have also captured q launch Of tn,
Spanish gunboat Resolution, OIL the blo,kad
between Tome and Talcahuano The lanncl
contained one gun and forty neh, and wa
used for watching the movements of vessel
near the shore. The Chilians had armed
small towboat called the Independence wit
two or three guns One night she fell il
with the launch. which fred at and orlere
her to stop; this done, and the lights put out
the Spaniards soon jumped aboard and foun
themselves prisoners.
tl INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS.
The Collector of Internal Revenue for III
vicksburg miss District, has just paid int
the Treasury upward of half million of do
lars, the proceeds of six months collection i
his district The receipts from internal re,
enue for the last two days are, in round nun
bers, sS,sOO,OoO. r''l.s f
Washington, jan Among the first bill
to be introduced into Congress upon the n
sumption Of the session, will be one protidn
that the heirs of soldiers who have died i
Southern prisons during the war, may collee
of the Gt vernment full commutation of rt
tions at the rate OF twenty-five cents a day fo
! the full time the deceased may have been i
confinement According to the present res
ulations of the War Department the heirs {
I q private soldier are allowed no claims of thi
character, while those of a Commissioned O
n g.. o.1toot a,,ory oInr,avt Al,4 -,