The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-08

miscellaneous News.
NEW York. March 6.-Another fraud
ulent sensation case leaked out yester-
day morning. A serious charge was
brought against one Lewis Colin, for
merly the foreign clerk of Duvean,
Sherman & Co., who is accused of abb
stracting $4,000 worth of bonds, and
Railroad securities deposited with the
| firm by parties travelling abroad, who
desired TO obtain letters of credit; with
these, it is charged, Colin carried on
rninous stock speculatlons, anu hhaily
confessed his offence TO his employers.
The case was argued before Judge Cor
doZa yesterday, on motion to dis
charge tho prisoner from the county
inil under the insolvent act.
A johnson meeting was held last
evening Mt Hudson city. Resolutlo oI1s
pledging the meeting to support the
President in his veto and reconstruc-
ton policy were unanimously adopted,
the same being ordered to be engrosSed
and forwarded to the representative OF
the district in Congress presentation
to the President.
The Fenian excitementstillco continues.
Public meetings were held last night in
various parts of the city, and Mt Brook.
lyn over one thousand dollars worth OF
bends were subscribed for, and fifty
muskets presented by friends OF the
cause.
This evening there is to be large
mass meeting Of Fenians in Brooklyn
in front OF the City Hall, for which un-
usual preparations are being made.
a bold robbery was committed yes
terday afternoon in Broadway Dank,
corner of Park Place and Broadway.
Mr.. James Rowe went to the bank TO
deposit $3,727 % in two packages.
While counting the money, near the
teller's desk, he noticed man stand-
ing near by and soon afterfelt an arm
under his own and ut the same moment
one of the packages, containing S2,2SS,
was taken up. The rogue lodged into
the hall, but was seized by Mr. howei
when he dropped the money and
started off again but was subsequently
arrested by persons passing the bank
door. The thief turned ont to be George
Gardner. alias Dutch Heinrich. who
committed the celebrated gold robbery
at the Bank of Commerce. abouta year
ago and who was charged with SINH
lar robbery in Philadelphia, but who
escaped punishment in both cases. he
was committed for trial.
The Times Washington special says:
There has recently been convention
of the Internal Revenue officers OF Inc
Southern States at Atlanta, Ga, which
appointed a committee, consisting OF
Assessor Bowls, of Augusta, Ca, and
Collector Moses, of Sumter, >. e., to
proceed to Washington for the purpose
of urging upon Congress the modlhca-
ton of the test oath so far nslt affects
assistant assessors and deputy collec-
TORS. under the adVice of the Secretary
of the Treasury, and in consequence OF
the impossibility of Obtaining men who
could take the test oath entire. 30
The Tribune's special says: The Dis
trict Attorney for this district has been
ordered by the Treasury Department
to commence an nctlon against ans . DLigto
der General r. ID. Mussey, late PrlNate
Secretary to President johnson, to re
cover the sum of $4,000, which, II IS
alleged, was distracted from the sum
advanced him for recruiting, ana lor
which it is claimed he has failed to ac-,
count.
In pursuance of the report of the
Commissioner and Chief Engineer OF
the Central Pacific Railroad of Caliior-
mia. the solicitor of the Treasury has
submitted the opinion that the company
is entitled to bonds TO the amount oil
S64O, 900, the sum allowed per mile De-
ing $4,000. ,,c.,,, ruo,.,
ury Inns instructed the Second Auditor
to REQUIRE all claimants for arrears Of
nav or bounty for deceased soldiers OF
foreign berth and who represent them7
selves as only brothers, sisters and
widows of the deceased, duly autnen,
| f1r1Teu,
tables of their native place before their
Claims be allowed.
The Worlds Washington special
says:
| ) fine House Committee on Military
Affairs have completed the bill for the.
increase ofthe regulnrarmy. IL dltie .fS
very materially from the Senate Dill
and ignores entirely the recommends
tons Of Generals Sherman, Thomas
and Meade. 1t provides that the army
shall be made up largely of the yolun-
teers. The Veteran Reserve Corps is
fully provided for as an organization:
II also provides for the retention OF
several negro regiments, to be Differed
by white men. Boards for the exam
nation of officers arc to consist OF Il
majority of volunteer officers. The
proposition to revive the grade Oh Cen
erat will not be included in the army
bill. The probabilities are that The
Committee will decline for the present
to take any action in this matter
sSecretary NIcCulloch was assured
Yesterday by several members of the
Wavs aud Means Committee, that as
soon as tho reciprocity matter was dis,
posed of, the loan bill would be called
m and finally disposed of. They also
notified him that Mr.. Stevens substl-
tute would not prevail.
The Tribuneis Washington special
saws that another constitution from
the Birmingham (England) Assocla-
| ton was yesterflny received by General
Howard. The invoice consisted OF
t'clothing, and amounted in value to
over 81 900. The money value of artl-
Giles which have before been contribu-
ted by the snme association is over
$4,000.
REPORTS have recently reached Gen.
| 10. Fl. Howard, Assistant Commissioner
of the Freedmen's Bureau for the Dis
trict of Columbia, Maryland, and sew
| eral of the eastern counties of Nirgfn1a,
| TO the effect that certain unprincipled
and unauthorized persons are engaged
in transferring freedmen from Baltl-
more and vicinity to Annapolis, where
thcy are, by some process unknown,
disposed of to their employers Mt $40
nor head. Strong efforts are being made
| by the Bureau TO ferret out and bring
them to justice.
Considerable excitement is occasioned
| among the lager beer brewers of this
city and Brooklyn, in consequence of
rnnors that the returns of sales upon
which the taxes are collected have been
suspected by the assessors of lnaccu-
racy. 1t is now undoubted from recent
discoveries that extensive frauds have
been committed upon the Government,
/ and the authorities are instttuting
most searching and rigid inquiry.
NEW YORK, March 6.-The Post says:
Intelligence has been received in this
CITY from New Orleans that military
order has been issued there or
| dering all vessels arriving from the
| West indies to be subjected TO twenty
4 five DAYS quarantine, as precnution
against the introduction OF cholera.
/ a Washington special states;
CsaT I4ranf and five members of his