The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-22


miscellaneous News.
NEW YORK, March 2l.-The Tribune's
Raleigh correspondent itelegraphs that
the Gee case will last till June.
A citizen convicted by the military
commission at Richmond of the muir
der of some Union soldiers, has been
released by the Secretary Of War be-
cause of clerical error in the report.
The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia
and North Carolina have turned the
criminal cases over to thecivil courts.
Senators Dixon and Foote are daily
growing worse. There is little hope of
the recovery of the latter.
Ike Cook, of Chicago, who was sued
by the auditor of the postoffice for n
balance due the department from him
as postmaster at that city in 1862, has
paid up the amount of $500, and the
case has been dismissed.
Comptroller Clarke states that TWEEN
ty-nine millions of dollars of the 1910
loan was notissued; that recently, how
ever, S3,7S5 have been quietly issued OF
this old loan at six per cent. interest.
Another contribution amounting to
nearly $1,000 in value from the Ber-
mingham, England, Freedmen's AsSo-
citation, has just been received by Gen.
Howard, and will be appropriated to
the use of the destitute colored Poop g
in the South.
General Spinner publishes letter in
the Washington Chronicle, in which he
maintains the correctness of Comptrol-
Ter Clarke's statement regarding the
amount of government funds on hand.
A Washington special says: 1t was
currently reported last night that the
President has signified his determine
ton to veto the civil rights bill.
The Herald's special says: The coun-
terfeiting of Government coupons has
srin IN n fhnf I'm
Treasury Department has decided to
engrave vignettes of the proper size to
be printed upon all future issues. and
thereby render engraving as necessary
to counterfeit coupon as it is to the
motto or bond. Portraits of the Presi-
dent, McCulloch, Grant, Sherman and
others are executed for this purpose.
Richard G. Mccormick has been ap-
pointed Governor of Arizonia, not of
idaho, as previously stated. p. p. Car
ter, of Tennessee, is made Secretary of
Arizonia.
The Herald's Yucatan correspondent
of the 10 inst. gives an account of the
Seizure and contiscation in that port, by
the Mexican Imperial authorities, of
the American schooner Wilson Craw-
ford, and the filming and imprisonment
OF her master, because some powder
was found on board the vessel. The
masters sentence. was ten years. penal
labor but he was pardoned by the EN-
peror. Immediately after regaining
his liberty, however, he was once more
arrested and sentenced to pay n fine of
$500, which he avoided liquidating by
secretly leaving the country. EF
The central council of the Feniuns
remained in secret session at the Union
square headquarters yesterday, but
nothing could be learned of their pro-
ceedings.
Preparations on an expensive scale
were made last evening, by the Fenian
Sisterhood, at meeting in their rooms
in the Moffat Mansion, for the relief of
the families ofthe Irish State prisoners.
The Times special says: Several
collectors ofcustoms have sent commu-
nications to the Secretary of the Treas
ury asking instructions in regard to the
transportation of crude and refined
petroleum. They ask if the penalties
Of the law of August 80, 1852, shall be
enforced against steamboats, for trans
porting crude and refined petroleum
without special license. In other words
does petroleum come under the class of
other explosive burning fluids. The
Secretary replies that the Department
has not decided that crude and refined
petroleum are of that character, and
until otherwise ordered these commodi-
ties can be carried as freight without
special license, proper care being OBJ
served in its storage, with reference to
the safety from hazard offire.
Mr.. McCulloch has referred theques-
ton of the explosive quality of petro-
leum to a special board of chemists and
experts, with directions to report at the
earliest moment. The session of this
board will guide the Secretary in max
ing rules thereafter, us to the Transport
tation of petroleum..
Among the passengers for Europe by
the Lawn to-day. is Mr.. w, u, Banning,
OF st. Paul, Mimi, President of the
Lake Superior and Mississippi Rail-
road Company, who takes out bonds to
the amount OF four and n half million
dollars for sale in the European capi-
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