The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-27
Miscellaneous News.

NEW YORK, April 26.-The Treasury
Department estimates that the national
income for the present year VIII reach
five hundred millions of dollars. The
balances at present at the command OF
the government from all sources are
believed to be fully one hundred and
sixty millions.
Col. Nixon, who to-day received his
pardon, is publisher of the New Orleans
Crescent, the paper edited by General
Simon Bolivar Buckner, who deserted
from the Union army, after two months
service, Temporal 6eLti, in 1861, the most
atrocious rebel sheet published any
where in the southwest; paper
which in April, 1862, while under Nix
on's management, invoked the horrors
of yellow fever against Ben. Buffers
army, then beseiging Fort st. Phillip.
There appears to be general mis-
understanding as to the result arrived
at by the Supreme Court in the case OF
Millgan and other Golden circle con-
spirators. The line of argument on the
Constitutional question put forth by
Gen. Butler was not objected to seri-
ously, but the case went OF in the ha-
beas corpus actof 1868. The cOurtstOOd
five tor the discharge of the petitioners,
and four against, and 1t is we'll under
stood that no two judges agree on any
line of reasoning, but each will deliver
an opinion of his own.
A canvass of the different depart
ments of the Government is at present
being made to ascertain the number OF
employees who honorably served in the
Union army, with a view to the dis
charge of incompetent clerks, and the
appointment of eX-soldiers and sailors.
An important decision, materially
affecting brokers' sale, will shortly be
issued by the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue.
In view of the immense amount OF
mutilated and redeemed paper money
daily destroyed ut the Treasury De-
partment, the Secretary has deter
mined to adopt the suggestion of the
Superintendent of the printing divi-
sion made TWO years ago, recommends
ing instead of burning, the conversion
of all such currency into pulp for the
manufacture of stationery for the de-
partment. Gen. Spinner estimates that
the entire department can, by this pro-
cess, be supplied with envelopes, there
by saving the Government an expense
of from IS 900 to Sl2, 900 per year.
The 18th regiment New York volun-
teers, $50 men, is en- route home by
way of Savannah and is expected at
Harris Island. This regiment was all
through the Louisiana campaigns, with
Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley and
then went to meet Sherman in Georgia,
where it has since been doing hard ser
vice. They bring back three stands of
colors presented them by the city and
State of New York.
Another bond robbery was committed
in this city yesterday to the amount of
$4,000. Payment of the bonds has been
stopped. a reward of n thousand dol
lars is offered for the return of the
property.
Another meeting of the rent payers
was held last night in Houston street
and an association formed to resist
extortion by landlords and house
agents.
The mass meeting in Brooklyn last
night, to give expression in favor of the
Presidents reconstruction policy, was
very large one. Among the speakers
were Mai. Gen. Rousseau, of Ken
lucky, John Van Buren,, Mr.. Dawson,
of Georgia, Postmaster Cleveland, of
Connecticut. A letter from Gen. Dix
was read endorsing the objects of the
meeting, and expressing his regrets
that prior engagements prevented his
attendance.
The Herald's Havana letter says the
two Spanish men-of-war which lately
arrived at Havana, had again put to
sea. Their destination is unknown.
Gen. DuIee had received peremptory
orders to have the Africans who had
been seized by private individuals as
slaves, delivered up and removed to
FernundinO.