The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-10
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Canadian Cattle.
New Fractional Currency.
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CHESS TOURNAMENT.
Later Foreign News.
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General News.

--'f-i - General News.
NEW YoRK, Jan 9.-Tfmes' Washing
ton special says half million dollars
SOC fractional currency will be ready
for distribution next week
The funeral of Gen. Hickey took place
| yesterday morning.
Owing to the absence of one of the
Judges, the trial of Gen. Baker is post
poned until tomorrow. .-- -sis .-g-
The centennial celebration of the bat
tie of New Orleans was celebrated last
| night at Tammany Hall with regal
splendor. Speeches We're made by ohm
Van Buren,, Mayor Hoffman, Admiral
Farragut and others.
The Tribuneis Washington special
says the Secretary of the Treasury is
continually in receipt of communities
tons from purchasers of Canadian cat
tie, asking for permission to import
them into this country, but he invaria-
bly, replies that such permission would
| be direct violation of law.
A large number of the u. s. Revenue
officers met at the office of the Commits
sioner of Customs, at Washington on
yesterday, to deliberate on the best me-
thod for preventing smuggling on the
frontiers. Large numbers of collectors
from the Canada frontiers present.
The o. 8. Consul at Havre, under
date of Dec. Is, informs the Department
of State that there have been but eight
cases of cholera in that city.
Elijah F. Purdy, of this city, died last
night at u o'clock.
The Worlds Washington dispatch
says:
General Meredith in that city on the
18th OF last August, was convicted of
court of that city yesterday.
The TaFihnnatS WASHINGTON diSDatNlf
says: 80 .i.,-.sllsf... 9.
The evidence submitted before the
Committee on Contested Elections in
the Dodge-BrookS case has been sent to
the printer, and will soon be given 10
the public. saia iliiia
The Secretary of the Interior has
caused a list of the clerks of his depart
ment to be made out, with a view to
equal the distribution of clerkships
among the Congressional districts of
the various States. .f...-.. .tl
The Treasury department is prepar-
ing plates for new issue of fractional
currency of so, rs and 10 cents. The
design will be entirely original, and
the notes will be nearly oval in form.
The Times Washington dispatch
says:
Efforts are being made here tor the
pardon of Solomon Kohnstamm, the
notorious criminal who was sentenced
by Judge Nelson to ten years imprison-
ment in Sing Sing. Kohnstamm was
arragned on forty-eight indictments by
the grand jury, and convicted on the
first and only trial. A civil suit is now
pending against Kohnstamm's estate
for about quarter of a million of dol
lars that it is alledged he obtained from
the Government by fraud. From their
known completely with this criminal.
two disbursing officers committed sui
eide, viz: Captain EIIwood, who cut his
LIZ
after making written confession of
his guilt, drowned himself. The At
torney General, some time since, re-
ported adversely upon Kohnstamm's
application for pardon. ais .gssle 80
The Herald's Washington special tel
egram states that Provost Marshal re-
Gently stationed in Texas, corroborates
the recent accounts of the desire of the
inhabitants that the soldiers now being
mustered out ofservice take up their res
idence among them. BE represents the
condition of the State as quiet and or
Derby as before the war, and n general.
good feeling exists between the soldiers
and inhabitants.
The American Foreign Joint Stock
Company, an association of colored
capitalists, held its annual meeting last
night at Hope Chapel. The attendance
was large, the audience consisting of
both white and colored persons. Rev
S-'SS~ $3.50 -
dress. Jf ia TgFr
at Chess Tournament yesterday,
Captain Mckenzie won the first gamein
the first class after a spirited contest of
three hours and a half duration. His
opponent was Mr.. Stanley. 1rlt -aea
The Times Washington special says:
During the rebellion our Government
has paid $3.50, 900 prize money. The
business lin this branch of the Third
Auditors Office has been kept up SO
promptly that now prizes are paid with
In a week after the. presentation of the
petition. In the months of November
and December last, twenty-six prize
cases were disposed Of
An ex-General who served under
General Sherman, has made a proposf-
ton to the Government to take on its
hand the entire matter of land trans
portation of the army in Texas, to fur
nish his own mules, &c., and do the
whole thing for a less number of dol
lars in greenbaclzs than It has hereto
fore cost the Government in gold dol
lars - He Sc
: Last evening the friends and suppor-
ters OF Jim Remington, who is expect
ed to fight Morris Phelan In the ring on
the 10th inst, for 81, 900, gave him BEN
eft at LIB Boweryi which was MINER
-ously attended.
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