The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-31
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Once. corner of Main and Monroe streets.
From W ashington.
The Negro Suffrage Question.
The Trial of JEFF. Davis.
Smuggling on the Canadian
Frontier.
The Trial Of semmes.
Paraguayan Affairs.
Mexican Rumors and Re-
ports.
rnNnDTccT0NAT.
CONGRESSIONAL
General News.

General News.
NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-The Tribune's
| Washington special says: Rumors,
with more than ordinary foundation
for sensation reports are rife, that JEFF.
| Davis is to be speedily brought to trial
before a military commission. The
gathering of Major Generals to which
| yesterdays dispatches alluded, 1t is
said, are relative to this trial which Is
to be made imposing with distinguish
ed names. 1t is certain the Generals
are here ostensibly to consult upon
believe the reports; to organize a Court
for the trial of the head of the late re-
| bellion.
GenI Sherman entered the House of
Representatives yesterday, while Mr..
Raymond was speaking, and was intro.
duced by his brother. The House took
recess for five minutes, for the pur-
pose of giving the members an oppor-
| tunity to welcome the distinguished
guest. Speaker Colfax introduced him
to thi House, and the General received
| a most flattering reception, for which
he returned his thanks in a few simple
and very appropriate remarks. He then
took a seat beside Mr.. Bingham, of
Ohio, and soon the pages OF the House
crowded around him Tor the purpose OF
obtaining his autograph.
Secretary Seward and son were at
their posts at the State Department yes
terday.
The associated press dispatch giving
the Presidents views on the constitu-
tionai amendment pending in the
House, and the question of negro suf-
frage in the District of Columbia, IS at
tracing much attention, but, to judge
from present appearances, is likely TO
have but little or no effect upon the ac-
ton of Congress. Last evening the Re
publican stated that Mr.. Dixon is the
distinguished Senator alluded to in the
dispatch. 1t is stated, on good authori-
ty, that the dispatch, before being given
to the press, was revised and its publ
cation authorized by the President.
The Tribune's Washington special
says:
the Commissioner of Customs relative
to smuggling on the Canadian border,
have exhibited the fact that hostile In
dams OF Minnesota and Dacotah have
for a long time past been supplied with
rifles of the Enfield pattern by English
smugglers.
the trial of Semmes will commence the
latter part of this week or the first OF
next week.
to report against the proposition to turn
Overt to West Virginia the Government
1 property and appurtenances at Har-
per's Ferry. 1t Is the intention. of the
Government, if necessary, to rebuild
the works at that point.
The Worlds Havana correspondent
saws: Secretary Seward had an inter-
view at Havana with an aid-de-camp OF
Macmillan, but he does not know what
transpired.
The World g Washington specialsays:
| The United States Consul at Legation,
under date of December 3lst, informs
1 FakF NtNdT tNHa
antine which has been enforced against
all vessels coming from Marseilles,
Naples and other ports where the chol-
era had prevailed has been removed.
The Herald's Rio Janeiro letter gives
in full the letter of President Lopez, of
Paraguay, to General Mitre, the Argen-
| tine President alluded to in previous
dispatches. Instead of containing pro-
positions of peace, as it was surmised,
| Il proved to be of different character.
Lopez charges the allies with conduct
| ing the war in most barbarous and
| outrageous manner, and avows his de-
Termination, if satisfaction is not ac-
corded, to retaliate in the severest man
ner. and to prosecute hostilities with fe-
rocity and renewed vfgor. To this Gen.
Mitre replies at length, denying the
| principal allegations of his antagonist,
| ayowing that he has nothing to regret
or take back, and warming Lopez
against pushing mak1oIS " kAAS e!ASAt-
ened extremity.
The Posts Washington special says:
The House Committee on Public
Lands has agreed to bill which brings
/ All the public lands of the South under
the provisions of the homestead act.
Tie House Committee on ;kreedmens
Affairs are ready to report back the Sem
ATE hill CONCERNING the Freedmens
Bureau, with few amendments.
One of them was adopted to satisfy
Gov. Aiken end others, who made oo-
iections to the bill as it passed the SEN
ate. td
whenever the lands are restored to
their former owners, upon the agree
ment of the occupants, the latter shall
receive from the Government forty
acres out of the public lands.
The Ways and Means Committee
have not yet taken vote upon the Nc,
Culloch loan bill. It has peen tala a
aside temporarily and a new bill has
been drawn up. The Secretary is will
ing that notifications should be made.
The Commercials Washington spe-
cial says: The report of the Internal
Revenue commission meets only
| qualified approval. The New England
i interests regard it favorably, but It has
been strongly objected to as contempla-
| ting the peTpetuity of taxation and the
\ national debt, and as providing for an
immense host of officials. The Com
mittee of Ways and Means will modify
some of the measures proposed, and
among others the reduction ofthe whis-
XIV tax, which will be maintained at the
present rate. The western influences
on the House Commission will secure
the adoption of report against the
payment OF fishing bounties.
The Posts Washington special says;
Rev. Mr.. Ray, of Chicago, who has
lust returned from a trip through the
1 Southern States, was before the joint
! Committee on Reconstruction this
morning, giving evidence IN relation %
NEwYoRK, Jan. 80 -Thesuit brought
/ bv Hdr. Il. b. CnrtIss to recover $5,20(
from the firm of Geyter d Wainwright
wall st, brokers, was brought to close
/ this luorning. 1t occupied the courl
1 mart OF four days. The plaintiff claimed
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