The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-05-24
New. from fsw York.

| OF Ele Dill 10Y JnG EelEl Ol CerGdlu udEal
contractors till the 20th of June next
This conn rec have had four hundred
and thirty. l-,s subuitted to them this
week, and Laye y1potted favorably on
thirty-nine ot~them, The claims amount.
ed in the aggregate I'd over twenty mil
lions Of GGIiais. The claims allowed
have fallen hrlo~ one.bundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
The. refusal OF the Senate to confirm
General Frank Blair IS Collector of In
ternal Reve! ue at st. Louis. was recon
sidered by th.t bodyi in executive ses-
sion on FFid.v. and the whole subject
reopened.
j. 3. Smith aud Major Cheeny are
reported to haze been appointed collec
tor and assrs.nr for the First Congress
sional Dist;icg If Wisconson, vice Emer-
son and 3 uspu, removed. Col. Starr
is also spoErp of as almost certain to
receive The f'.' q. astership of. Milwau-
kee.
George oH.a o.. New York, has been
week in Wellington, attending to the
preliminariee 10 Jeff: Davis trial.
General LoraI has declined the Mexi-
can mission
The Judic,.-7 Committee Of the House
have receiycd lett.r. from leading law
yers throu2 A,ar tie country in opposi-
tion to the s.ngte bill reorganizing the
present judi"iir. system of the United
States
A maiorify ut tie Senate Committee
on the Distrlct Di Columbia are said to
be in favor OF governing the District by
a COMMISSIONS and doing away entirely
with the present system.
Newspaper reports from the Inyesti-
CATION Commissioners at Port Royal,
South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia,
present far moro favorable condition
of affairs as existing among the freed.
men in Port Royal. EdistO and the Hill
ton Head Islands Under the admins
tration of General Scott, the Commis'
sioner of South Carolina, matters are
progressing very satisfactorily. The
same old story is told in relation to the
condition of the Sea Island settlers.
In Georgia the report is to the effect
that the Freedmens' Bureau is an OBJ
stacIe in the way of kindly feelings be-
tween the whites and the blacks.
Among the amendments to the Excise
Bill is one taking of from passengers the
two and one-half per cent. tax saddled
upon them by the Internal Bill. 1t Will
be put upon corporation,
The Secretary Of the Treasury an
nounces that he j. prepared to redeem,
before maturity, all certificates OF
Indebtedness fully due in June, July and
August. 1896, with accrued interest
thereon, if Presented before May 3lst,
and that thereafter such certificates win
cease to bear interest.
1t is reported that Spain is actively
preparing for the coming shock Of a
great European war. Her Mediterranean
positions were being reinforced, and 1T
was thought any offer, on the part OF
the United States, of mediation between
Spain and her enemies il. the Pacific
would be very agreeable to the Cabinet
of the Queen.
The President has pardoned three of
the Alexandria rioters sept to Albany
last /. winter.
The President yesterday granted par
don to r. Palmer, Of MurfreesbOro', for
merly brigadier general in the rebel
army, on the strongest recOmmeuda-
tions
The President has granted pardons to
tbe following persons held for criminal
offences Charles Z. Mould, Of Illinois,
now under arrest tor stealing letters
from the PostofTice at ChicagO George
Cook. of New York, convicted of snug
gling and sentenced to thirty day con.
finemeut and pay fine of one hundred
dollars: and Joseph " Bowling, Of New
York, also convicted of smuggling, and
sentenced to pay q fine OF one hundred
dollars. aud be imprisoned for sixty
days. .
The War Department reports that of
its EMPLOYEES, GS3 were in the Union
ormv and one in the rebel army The
latter was appointed to- place by Mr.
7 inooln. because he was q deserter and
was Obliged TO have some occupation
that would not subject him to recap.
| ture.
The suffering in Louisiana, in cOnse-
ouepce of the flood, is considerable. The
neonle in the overfowed districts are &C.
tually suffering for food.
Specials to the evening papers say;
Politicians are being stirred up by the
continued removals Of radical Office
holders. and the appointment of volun
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The committee on Ways and Means
have agreed to the amendment of the
tax bill providing that lists of incomes
shall not be published or furnished for
nnblioation, but that they shall be
omen for private inspection in the office
of the collector.
The following is the text of Napoleon s
speecb at AuXerre, to which IS sttribut-
"a the cause for the financial panic in
; Trrone: Il see with pleasure that the
memory of the first empire has not been
affsced from your minds Believe. me,
fnr nv own part, have Inherited the
fseIinps entertained By the chief of nfy
family for this energetic and patriotic
,,orniation who sustained the Emperor
n riod es in yilfortuue. Ihave debt
of Sratitude TO discharge toward them
This department was the first to give
me its suffrage in ls45, because it vel
} tnew that the Interests of the French
neople were my interests, and that de
tested equally with them those treatie:
@. If ISIS. which it is now sought to make
the sole basis Of our foreign policy.
thank YOU for the sentiment you have
, eTnressed toward me. | breathe freely
for il is among the working population
both in town and country, that / hope t
find the real genius OF France"
The President has approved the bill t
! prevent and punish kidnapping, the I'm
bsing from $500 to $500 and inprison
mept not TO exceed Ave years.
-, -. Ia. ,I.o spnroved th