The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-22

BY TELEGRAPH.
ny the Union Iine:T T.
Once. corner OF Main and Monroe streets
From W ashingtOn.
All Sorts of Mexican News
and Rumors.
Bank Robbery Statement
Virginia Cali Quiet
Later Foreign News.
CONGRESSIONAL.
CONGRESSIONAL


NEW YORK, Jan. GA dense fog
overhangs the water and city this morn
ing.
( Yesterday Edward o'Brien was ar
raigned in the Essex County Court of
Oyer and Terminer, and plead not gull
ty to two indictments for manslaugh-
ter in causing the death of Mr.. Gordon
and Bay Britt, at the time of the recent
railroad disaster at Newark.
The Herald's Washington special
says: Telegraphic dispatches of the
18th inst, from Gen. Sheridan at New
Orleans, disayow all knowledge on ms
part of the fillibustering attack on Bag
dad, and state that his orders to subor-
dinate officers have been to preserve a
strict neutrality. he disbelieves the
popular account of the affair, and con-
siders 1t a sensational story.
A Brownsville correspondent gives
the full official correspondence between
Gen. Weitzel and Gen. Mejia, Imperial
commander at Matamoras, and Gen.
Crawford and the American General of
the Mexican Republican army, in rela-
ton TO the Republican prisoners con-
demned at Matamoras to be shot in &C
cordance with Maximilian's decree, for
the execution of all those found in arms
against his forces. Gen. Weitzel, in the
name of his government, protested
against this barbarity, and Mejia re-
sponded that it was a matter in which
the Americans had no right to interfere,
and that the execution of the men must
be proceeded with.
To another letter of Gen. Weitzel in
which, in accordance with Gen. Sheri-
dams instructions, he informs Mej1a
that in future correspondence with our
officers, he must not style the Mexican
Republicans bandits, the Imperial
General again repels what he considers
foreign dictation, and replies that all
future communications of similar pur-
port Will remain unanswered.
1t is rumored that Mejia is to be SUI
perceded at Matamoras. The prepara-
lions of Generals Escabedo and Craw-
ford for another attack on that place
continued, but the Imperialists have
greatly strengthened its defences since
the previous assault. The latter officers
efforts to raise men in Texas for Juarez
do not seem to meet with success. 1t is
suspected that Crawford has a new IL
nancial speculation in his eye, which
\ can be greatly subserved by the cap
ture of Matamoras, which is thought
to be much dearer to him than the Mex
lean Republic. e-=g =rrs--
The Imperialists are reported to be
preparing for new and vigorous cam
paign in the North. a statementof at
fairs in Mexico, prepared by the ImPe-
rialist for circulation in Europe, depicts
q fine and f1ourishing condition soi
matters under Maximilian's rule. II
represents that the Republican military
forces have nearly all disappeared, and
| thatithe remnant of armed opposition
to the ImperiRlists which still exists,
ave.degenerated into mere predatory
bands Of robbers, and that order and
civilization are being rapidly tablish-
ed throughout the country under the
benign sway of the Emperor.
An investigation ythe Provost Mar
TIT E9atf tn
Imperialist gunboat at the 1evee neal
Matamoras, records some facts as here
| tofore published.
Capt. Nelson Plato, formerly Acting
CHIEF Quartermaster of the army of the
James, has been appointed Supervising
Quartermaster of the Rio Grande. Capt
w. II. Cochrane of the 18th Pennsylva-
mia, has been appointed Depot Quarter
master at Relazos. 80
The execution of Martha Grinder, at
Pittsburg yesterday, is described by the
Herald's special as an awful SCENE
The wretched woman fell distance OF
about three feet, owing to an oversight
in adjusting the rope connected with
the upright under the trap. Her fall was
not sudden, and the neck was not dis
located and she slowly strangled to
death. The knot, too, had slipped, and
the circulation of the blood on the right
side of the neck was wholly uninter-
rupted. Her death was literally a hard
The Cashier of the Farmers, and Citi-
zens' Bank. Brooklyn, modifies the
statement that their messenger boy was
robbed of $4,000 In checks. 1t was
$1,000, making the amount stolen
ilS, 600.
The Worlds Richmond special says:
Virginia is to-day as quiet as the State
of New York or Massachusetts, and the
people white or black suffering from
nothing but poverty. All the insinua-
tions about the virnlent antagonism be-
tween the whites and blacks; all hide
Gus illusions to negro instruction as
the result of the oppressive measures OF
the whites towards the blacks, are all
sheer wicked inventions. Gentlemen
from the interior declare that never
were the negroes more quietly disposed
towards those who were their former
masters, and never were the latter more
kindly disposed towards those who
were SO lately dependent upon them.
The negroes are gradually giving up all
notions of the millennium that was to
come with New Years day, and are rap
idly seeking and obtaining work quite
as rapidly as the Impoverished land
lords are able to employ and to pay
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