The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-20
The Latest News.
By TELEGRAPH.
ny the Union Line;
ONCE, corner of Main and Monroe streets.
From W ashingtOn.
The New Fifty Cent Notes.
LATE MEXICAN NEWS.
Fenian Invasion of Canada.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Later Foreign News.
Later Foreign News.


NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-The Tribune's
Washington special says that the new
fifty cent note was issued yesterday by
the printing bureau of the Treasury De-
partment. =,
The Secretary of the Treasury will
reduce his clerical force from 2, 200 u
1900 and divide the pay of the former
number among the latter.
Col. Loomis, special treasury agent
is investigating the matter of the burn
ing of S20, 900 worth of government
cotton in Richmond last Tuesday.
toms in Richmond, is at Washington
arranging for the new bonded ware
house in the former city.
Gen. Curtis and staff await muster
out in Washington. -se.
The steamer Montezuma brings
Kingston, Jamaica, dates 70 the 7tn
| The Island was quiet. Christmas holt
days passed without any trouble.
A special commission to try political
prisoners lately confined at Mirant bay
commenced its sittings on the 23d. Sew
eral prisoners had been brought tc
Kingstons by writs of habeas corpus.
The Worlds Washington special says
that the Evening Star says the govern
ment will notify our officers in Rio
Grande at once that strict neutrality
must be preserved.
The Heraldts Washington special
saws a case was recently brought before
the Treasury Department for its decis-
ion, of consideration portance and in
terest to holders of certificates OF IN
debtedness and other government Sc.
curities, The holder of thousand
dollar certificate mailed tito the depart
mept for redemption without filling the
blank space, making 1t payable to the
order of certain person. II was stolen
from the mail and sold finally to par
ty in Boston, the blank filled by the
holder, and the certificate forwarded q
the Department the second time. Both
parties forwarding it for redemption
promptly notified the Department, and
on its final arrival each claimed its pos
session, The Department held that by
neplecting to fill the blank, the New
| Yorker lost possession, and awarded It's
payment to the Boston holder.
Chas. A. Lewis Lindauer was arrest
ed in this city yesterday, and sent tc
Newark, N. j., for examination, on
charge of having been concerned in the
robbery on the 9th of last month, o.
nine thousand dollars worth of jewelry
from the establishment of Baldarn, II
the latter place.
F.W. Foster, formerly superintendent
| of the United States Sanitary Commits
sion at Wilmington, N c., whose ad
dress is box ITO, Wilmington Post or
\ flee, N. c., publishes in the city papert
| a list of the paroled prisoners and dis
| charged soldiers who were lost on thu
steamship Genr Lyons, on the Goth o
March,
emit sends Intelligence of a Republican
success of an important character
Taluca, the ancient capital of Mexico
| a CITY Of IL, 600 inhabitants, had beer
| captured by the Juarists under Munaz
and Marshal Bazaine with all the I'm
perial troops at hand, had started from
Mexico city to attempt to retake TN
position.
There is a rumor, apparently wei
| founded, that a couple of valuable sill
yer mines have fallen into the hands
the Juarists. The fighting in the int
rior appears to have resulted unfaVor
ably for The Republicans, but all agre'
and unite on the point that the position
| of Macmillan is a most critical one.
The new French commander, Admi
raj Dedelot, had arrived at Vera Cru
and proceeded at once to the city OF Mex
| leo to consult with Marshal BaZaine OF
the subject of the existing relations be
| tween the United States, France and thu
Mexican Empire. The latest advieei
state that he was preparing for actty'
movements. .g hna a
President Johnson's message haC
been received in Mexico city with
feeling of relief, that war was not to b'
Immediately made upon the Imper1a
government. ti'e =ia
The Vera Cruz papers regard the out
break OF hostilities between the Unitee
States and France as inevitable ant
only question of time.
The HeFald's Fortress Monroe cor
respondent of the 18th says: Rev; VIM
| @. Blont, pastor of Dinwtddie Metho
dist Church, at Portsmouth, was on thu
10Th instant probably fatally shot. Tht
assassin Is supposed to be q negro by
the name OF ElliLt.
The steamer Henry Chauncey IRON
spinwall, Is coming up with califor
nj a malls on board.
n She Herald's Toronto dispatch says
Gen, sral Sweeney's address promising
hosts, zes to the Fenians connected II
IrelaIe5. has renewed the fires of Thu
Fenian in yasion OF Canada. The To
ronto Leader promises sweeney a ma, nat
ter if he comes within Canadian 1ufis'
diction. 80 -ttF t.iita -
An Ottawa paper asserts that the vol
unteers behaved badly when called on
for duty during the recent Fenian scar
at Prescott.