The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-10
internal ReYenue Decision.
The Paraguayan War.
ssIoNAL.
Later Foreign News
Miscellaneous News.

Miscellaneous News
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-The execution OF
John Hackett for murder which was Il
have taken place at the Tombs o-day
has been postponed, a stay of pro-
ceedings having been granted for the
purpose of taking his case to the SUI
preme Court.
A verdict of guilty was yesterday
rendered by the jury in the case OF
Nelson Stewart, tried in the United
States District Court in Brooklyn on 8
charge of counterfeiting national cur
rency. BE will be sentenced on We'd
nesday next.
A report prevails in this city to the
effect that Arehy Hughes,G the well
known minstrel, was shot by a South
American rebel refugee in Montreal,
Canada, on Wednesday night.
The Tribune's Washington special
says the, board of officers will assemble
at Washington, d. C., March 10th, 1865,
or as soon thereafter as practicable, to
examine upon the following questions
and make recommendations thereon.
First-What forms and calibre OF
breech-loading arm should be adopted
as y model for future construction OF
muskets for infantry.
Second-What form and caltbre
should be adopted as model for future
construction OF earbines for cavalry.
Third-What form. of breech- loading
arm should be adopted as model for
change of muskets already constructed
to breech-loading muskets.
Whoever submitsan arm to the above
board win be. required to state in wEis
ting the lowest price at which it will be
furnished in the event of its adoption
by the Government. The chief of ord
nance will furnish the board all the in
formation in his power, and will also
provide it with office room, stationery,
and place for experimental firing, tar
gets, ammunition, &c. The report of
chief of ordnance. Major eneral Ham
cock Is the senior officer of the board.
The Tribune's Washington special
gives the following as the true note that
was returned by b. f. Butler, ESD, to
Iieutenant-Gen Grants carte de
invite to his reception:
General Butler has the honor to de-
cline the invitation of Ilieutenant-Gen-
eral Grant. General Butler has now no
desire for further acquaintance"
a Herald'sspecial says: Cen Spinner
has decided; in order TO be in harmony
with the ruling of the Commissioner OF
Internal Revenue and with the opinion
OF the Secretary of the Treasury to clas-
sify reserved profits as capital instead
of deposits as now As the duty on
both is the same this will not affect any
banks that hold of United States stocks
an amount less or equal the amount OF
capital. Such banks, however, as hold
United States stocks in excess of their
capital, would be able to deduct the
amount of such excess from the item
of reserved profits, so classified, as
capital. u. yl-fr5Srs,g
Colonel Rowland, in behalf of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, notified the
Government two days ago that the COM
pany was prepared and was about Sto
~ IN MI
soon be opened throughoutthec country,
and a strong effort made to push the
work vigorously. etss -5s eiil
NEW YoRK, Feb. "a Buenos Ayres
correspondent writes that the loss ofan
the Paraguayan troops that had in
vaded Brazil by crossing the Uruguay
river, was followed by the prectpitate
retreat to their own territory of all their
forces that We're occupying Corrientes.
For more than week the work of con-
centrating the allied land and naval
forces had progressed SO that, on the
25th of January, they would make a
grand combined attack with $1,000
troops, and thirty war steamers on the
Paraguayan stronghold of Humaita,
on the Paraguay river. This is place
of immense strength and mounting
over 100 heavy guns, rendered difficult
of approach by chains extended across
the channel, and it is also supposed by
submerged LorpeuOeSs anu having "
back 1t q Paraguayan army of fifteen or
twenty thousand and considerable
feet. The march'of the allies in pur-
suit of the retreating Paraguayans
across the province of Corrientes to the
Paraguay river, ,forthree hundred miles
through. an almost uninhabited coun-
try, Is described as one of the greatest
difficulty and suffering, and hundreds
of the troops persisted on the way and
many others deserted.
Errors were made by the telegraph in
the transmission of the dispatches of
Mr.. Asia Buraza, the Gillian Minister
at Washington. For all this the prop
er time will come before the tribunal OF
Justice and before the great jury ofpub-
lie opinion.H He adds: i will come for
ward alone and maintain the justice
and legality of my proceedings, and
then the people of the United states
and the civilized world in general shall
know If the great principles which we re
the glory of the power and the, privil-
ege Of the country in the olden time are
today but the shadows of the past, or
If they may still be seen like rainbow
OF hope, by freemen and free people,
who may be subjected to the aggres-
sions OF crowned usurpers from the Rio
Grande to the Archipelago of Chloe.
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