The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-02-20
FROM WASHINGTON.
The President vetoes the
s,sedmen's Bureau Bill.
TIE FRENCH IN MEXICO
General Lees Interview with the
Reconstruction Committee.

NEW YORK, Feb, 19--The Herald's
Washington special states that private
dispatches to government officials III that
city announces that treaty was enter
ed into during last month, between
France and Austria, for the immediate
withdrawal of French military forces
from Mexico and their replacement by
troops to the amount OF one hundred
thousand to be furnished By the Austri-
an government. These soldiers Aus
tria, it is said, proposes to raise BY vol
unteeriug in Belgium and Hungary, and
the transportation Tor them aud the ne
cessary stores uutil they are landed IN
Mexico are to be furnished by Napoleon.
The Times special says that dispatch
received last night from New Orleans
announces that Gen. r. Clay Crawford,
the Bagdad flibuster, has escaped from
the fort where he was confined, His
confederates had been liberated on pa.
role.
Dispatches received from General
Sheridan state that everything was 60
ing on we'll on the Rio Grande.
The Worlds special says Hugh
Hatch, Of New York author OF several
reports on Canadian reciprocity, Is
here at the request Of the Ways and
Means Committee to confer IL regard to
that matter, The British Minister is
still in conference with the committee
in relation to the adoptiau Of some plan
which will be mutually advantageous
to both governments
The Heralds special says, For one va
cancy III the old pay department OF the
regular army there are about i've hum
dred applicants.
A memorial, signed Uy citizens OF Now
FORK, Boston; and the principal cities IN
the Union is about to be presented to
Congress praying for the appropriation
Of $4,000, the sum recommended by
the Secretary Of the Navy to be divided
among tie officers and crew OF the Aear'
sage.
Of General Lees luteTvIew with the
reconstruction committee the Worlds
dispatch says; He was quite reticent,
and did not volunteer any remark be.
yond the proper answers to questions
put to him. He said that 50 Tar as he
had opportunities 1or learning, the pe0-
pie of Virginia had accepted the result
of the war IN good faith. and were
anxious for q restored atuity II Union,
When pressed by question; be is said
to have iutimated tLat the feeling Tor
the Union was much stronger after the
close of the war than now, Tor there
appeared TO him to be some lmpatienCe
among the men who had not been identi,
fed with the war, that the South should
be prevented from representing the
States in Congress He declared that
there was a disposition to treat the
freedmen kindly, as we'll tor their in
terest as for the white people. lie OK
pressed decided hope that The Govern
inent might endure for all time and re-
parded the course Of President Johnson
and General Grant towards the Southss
liberal aud humane.
The Herald's Washington special Say >:
Tveuty-tour hours have worked Won
derful change IN public expectation here
concerning the Presidents opinion oI
the Freedmen's Bureau bill, Nearly ev-
er7 one now comedies that he Will return
it with his objections, and the most Ia
vorable hope entertained by any radical
seems to be that these objections may
be SO unimportaUt that CoDgresa can
modify the bill until { command his
approval
The Heralds Washington special says.
The resignation OF Secretary Harlan Is
the current topic Of CONVERSATION lie IS
known to have expressed to Western
Congressman his intention not tore.Dain
much longer Those who are III the
most eligible places Tor understanding
the Presidents mind upon the subject,
assume that he is only awaiting the os-
tracism of Tennessee as d State, which Is
evidently the plan of the Reconstruction
committee, to invite such OF the Cabinet
Ministers as are III known accordance
With that decision to vaCate their places.