The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-04-27

Senators Foster, Sumner, Edmonds
Grimes and Poland voted with the op
position, to the disappointment and re.
gret of these who regard the integrity
and unity of the Republican party OF
| special consequence at this juncture.
The Treasury Department estimates
that the National income for the present
year will reach FIVE hundred millions
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 Gen Simon
Buckner, who deserted from the Union
army after two months service tempora
belli in 1881, the most atrocious rebel
sheet published in the South west, q
paper which in 1862, while under Nix
on's MANAGEMENT, worked the horrors of
Yellow Fever against Gen, Buffers army
then besieging Fort st Phillip,
There appears to be general misun-
derstanding as to the result arrived at
by the Supreme Court in the case or Mil
ligan and the other Golden Circle con
spirators. The line of argument on the
constitutional question put forth by
General Butler was not objected to seri
ously, but the case went OH on the ha
beas corpus act of 1868. The court stood
five for the discharge of the petitioners
to four against, and it 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 petition is in circulation'here praying
Congress to enact civil code and gell-
eral confirmation law, and allow the
district a delegate in Congress
A canvass of the different depart
ments of government is at present being
made, to ascertain the number OF enl-
ployes who have served in the Union
army, with a view to the discharge OF
incompetent clerks, and the appoint
ment of ex x-soldiers and sailors
An important decision materially al
fecting brokers' sales, will shortly be
issued by the Commissioners of Internal
Revenue.
In view OF The immense amount Of
mutAated aud redeemed paper money
daily destroyed at the Treasury Depart
ment, the Secretary has determined to
adopt the suggestion of the superintend-
ent OF the printing division, made two
years ago, recommending, instead of
burning, the conversion Of all such cur
rency into pulp for the manufacture of
stationery for the department General
Spinner intimates that the entire depart
ment can by this process be supplied
with envelopes, thereby saving the gov
ernment an expense of $4,000 to $4,000
per year
The Eeraids Havana latter says that
the two Spanish men-of,war which late
ly arrived at Havana, had again put to
sea Their destination is unknown.
General DUlss had received peremptory
orders to have the Africans who had
been seized by private individuals as
slaves delivered up aud removed to
Fernandino.
The Commercials special says lhats
vas 2 cholera panic among the contra.
bands in Washington to day, caused by
two sudden deaths. but investigation
shows that the cause was eating TOO
much fried fish
The same dispatch says There Is not
rarch chance for. the passage ot the
Northern Pacific Railroad bill
The health Office report shows that
there have been twentY-three new cases
of cholera admitted to the cholera ship,
The Posts special says; Senator Fes-
sendens health is better Mr.. Hubbard,
CT Connecticut, has resumed his seat in
the House,