The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-12
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NEW YORK, March 1O.-The Yribune's
Washington special says: In the SUI
preme Court Mr.. Stansbury, of Ohio,
and Attorney General Speed closed the
arguments in behalf of the Government
in the Indiana conspiracy case. David
Dudley Field, of New York, will sum
up on Monday for petitioners.
The 18th Connecticut, retained in SER
vice Mt Savannah, claim their term OF
enlistment to have been more than full
filled, and great irritation among the
officers and men is the result. The 3Sth
Illinois is III the same predicament.
Generals Custer and Fremont arrived
in Washington yesterday.
Four clerks were discharged from the
Treasury Department yesterday.
General Custer gives rather n gloomy
account of political affairs in Texas.
There is little if any loyalty outside our
lines, and If our troops were Withdrawn
there would be none anywhere. Green
backs are but seldom acknowledged TO
have any value, and gold and silver are
the circulating medium. In many
places greenbacks will not buy food or
fuel. The idea that they will ever be
paid is but seldom entertained. Matters
are daily growing worse.
On the return of Senator Howard
another instnllment of testimony Will
be ready for publication, among which
is that OF several rebel Generals.
General Lee says he never took an
oath to support the confederacy; that he
always purposely avoided 1t.
The Treasury Department yesterday
received IA telegram from Chicago an
nouncing the death of Luther Ravens,
collector of that port. His successor
has not yet been appointed.
Wm. II. Cannon and James Mitchell,
aged respectively Is years, were ar
s.IN rNr for
gerry. Cannon procured blank checks
from n printer of the firm in whose en-
plOy he had recently been, and forged
the name of the firm to three checks for
$500, $1,000, and $1,000 on the Central
National Bank, and obtained the two
first named sums, but the third check
was the cause of his discovery and ar
rest. John Casey, saloon keeper,
and Alex. Gray were arrested on sus-
picion of being concerned in the scheme.
The case is still under investigation.
Twenty distilleries were seized yes
terday on the charge of the proprietors
defrauding the government by emitting
to pay import levied on whisky under
the internal revenue law. The charges
against the parties will probably be in
Vestigated to-day.
The Times Washington special says :
Hon. +. Thomas, of Maryland, is pre-
pairing to make n claim before Congress
on behalf of the State, for damages on
account of the burning of two bridges
on the route from Washington to Fred
erick, destroyed by order of Gen. Lew.
Wallace mt the battle of AIonOcacy in
July. 1851.
Gen. Wallace, in response to inquf-
ries from Mr.. Thomas, says he ordered
the burning of the bridges to retard
Early's march on Washington by de-
priving him of facilities for crossing
the stream, and that Early was thus
detained 36 hours; n second object was
to bring into action the forces retained
to guard the bridges, the oVerpowering
number of Early's troops making II
imperative to. concentrate forces to
hold the rebels in check.
The further consideration of the
bankruptcy bill will be resumed in the
House on Wednesday, or Thursday
next. The friends of the bill have con-
fidence i'll its passage, several of the
members who heretofore opposed the
bill having signiiied their intention OF
supporting it.
As the New Haven freight train,
which left the city at s O'Clock this
evening, was waiting for the Albany
express to pass, the boiler of the loco
motive exploded, shattering the engine
and everything connected with it. in
stantly killing the fireman and dan
gerously wOunding the engineer. The
Albany and Troy express train was de-
lnyed an hour and one-hnlf, and the
Boston express about so minutes by
the catastrophe.