The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-04-20
News from New York.

| NEW YORK, April lS-lHe Iicl alu
Fredericton correspondent says Th
discomfort of the people of New Bruins
wick at the legislation now being fxe'
| upon them, and the adoption of the Que
bee confederation scheme by the Pro
vincial Parliament, in spite of the larg
popular vote polled against it in 1865, i
increasing the minority. The uppe
House have prepared and presented
protest against the adoption of the Que
bee scheme, and the address to the Queer
in which the difficulties and grievance!
under which the people labor are sci
down with great force.
From St. Stephens we have the intel
ligence that the confederation scheme
has been pushed through the Parliament
of the Province. =,
The Tribune's Washington special
| saws: Col. Wynkoop, special Indian
Agent, stationed at Fort Laramie, Kan
sas. reports to the Commissioner OF the
Indian Bureau that mail travelling with
ont an escort across the plains is now at
tended with no'danger, the Indians along
the various routes being peaceably dis
posed. The agent states that in his
oninion if the government will only ful-
fill its pledges, the Indians hitherto hos
tile will continue to comply with the
provisions of recent treaties.
The Heralds special City of Mexico
correspondence, dated April Sd, says: The
disagreement between Ortega and Juarez
has become alarming and the Liberals
see no way of adjusting the difficulty.
Ortega claims the Presidency and de-
nounces JuareZ.
The Indians were still making raids
upon Sonora and committing great out
RACES
The Herald's Washington special says;
Acting upon information supposed to be
sufficient, the Treasury Department a
few weeks since seized as confederate
property, the iron steamer and blockade
runner Coquette, then lying at Balti,
more The vessel is.alleged to have been
built in Scotland, under contract with
Mallory, for the Confederate States
Navy. but is now claimed as private
property. The Department has finally
decided to hold the contiscatcd property
and proceed against her according to
law. She is valued at about Sl5O,OOO.
The Worlds Washington special says
The House Judiciary Committee yester
day had under consideration the ques.
ton recently submitted to them of en-
ouiring into the expediency of repeating
the test oath The President few days
ago sent in special message to Con
cTess upon the subject, transmitting let
ters from the Secretary of the Treasury
| and the Postmaster General, strongly
urqinr some legislation upon the sub
iect, and giving the reasons therefor
The committee, after short discussion,
directed the chairman to report against
an7 modification of the oath whatever.
The chairman will present an elaborate
report upon it, going into the whole
question, and attempt to vindicate the
action of the committee by quotations
from the Presidents records. Mr. Rog-
ers will present a minority report in IA
yor of its repeal, as delivered by the
Secretary of the Treasury and the Post
master General
A Washington dispatch says: walter
b Leakes, formerly appointed Assistant
Adiutant General to General John A.
McClernand has been appoinoed collector
of the port of Chicago, vice Luther ha-
nen, deceased
The Herald's Toronto special says
The examination of the Fenians at
Cornwall is still progressing with closed
doors The prisoners cannot be con,
victed unless more proof IS obtained
than what has leaked out
The Tribune says During the past
year smuggling transaction, By the
leading wire merchants OF Boston: vas
settled by The payment of sl2aOOO 1t
afterwards became known that the firms
paid Sl57 900 to settle the affair and the
government is making a legal investi'
cation to see who received the lubricat
ing $4,000.
The Herald's Vera Cruz cOrrespOn
dent of the 9Th inst says that the mer
chants of that city were complaining
bitterly of the addition of thirty pei
cent to the tarti' They claim that II
should not extend to the merchandise
imported before the publication OF the
decree Maximiian has declared thai
they shall pay not only the additional
duty upon such goods, but III case they
do not render a full account OF the
merchandise on hand in three days they
would be compelled to pay sixty pei
cent instead Of thirty
The President has approved the navy
appropriation bill. The aggregate
amount for The Boston navy yard |:
s273 500; New York navy yard sos OUV
Philadelphia navy yard 5000 To-
the purchase of Caves Island slO5 coo
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