The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-03-20
FROM WASHINGTON.
Congressional Proceedings
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD.
The Texas State Convention.
TREATY WITH THE INDIANS.
The President and the New 0riean:
Municipal Election.

NEW 1ORK, MdTCn 1S.-lHe lTiDunc
special says: A large number of the citi
zens of the Northern Territories met in
Washington on Saturday, for the pur
pose of expressing their views as to the
practicability of the proposed northern
route of the Pacific railroad A commit.
tee of FIVE was appointed to prepare an
address urging Congress to grant the
aid asked for, after which the meeting
was addressed by several gentlemen
present.
The shipments of fractional currency
last week by the treasury department
amounted to $685., 900, of which 100000
was forwarded to the sub-treasury in
New York
The Herald's special says: President
Johnson yesterday received a dispatch
| from A. J. Hamilton Provisional Gov
ernor of Texas, giving moro hopeful
account of the doings of the State Con-
vention than any that have found their
way into print. Governor Hamilton
sums up by saying that although the
Convention had been in session one
month without apparently accomplish
ing anything, material measures, SINH
lar to those adopted by Alabama, were
| likely to prevail; that there will be no
| trouble whatever concerning repudia-
ton of the rebel war debt, and that the
| freedmen will be treated more satistac-
torily than by most of the other States.
The principal difference of opinion was
| whether the ordinance Of secession
should be merely repealed or declared
absolutely null from the beginning
, The report of Major c. w. Wyncoop,
United States army, and special Indian
agent, dated at Fort Lawrence, Kan
sas, March 5th, 1866, and enclosing the
treaty with tho Arapachoe and Chey-
enne Indians, has been received at the
Indian Bureau The treaty is dated at
Bluffcreek, Little Arkansas river Kansas,
March lst, 1866, and bears the signatures
| of twelve Chiefs Major Wynscoop
complains of the system of free trade
| carried on by irresponsible parties, and
attributes all the difficulties to the in
PRODUCTION OF contraband articles, and
the admission of unprincipled men
The expedition brought in a young
white girl, fifteen years OF age, named
Amanda Fletcher, captured last August
near Fort Halleck.
The publication in several papers that
the new appointments at large for the
cadetships at West Point had been made
by the President or Secretary of War
was permature. The question is still
open, and the selection is undecided.
About five hundred applications have
been made for the ten appointments.
The Heralds Washington special gives
the following as facts regarding the re-
ported Presidential interference in the
municipal election in New Orleans:
Mr.. kennedy, the present Mayor of
the city, telegraphed to the' President
on the 10th inst, expressing doubts as
to the fitness of his successor elect, Mr..
Monroe, inquiring whether or not he
should yield the succession The Presi
dent replied as follows, by telegraph;
Il have no information to give in RET
crence to surrendering the mayorality OF
New Orleans to the person elected to fill
the position, and have no information
showing that the election was not regu
lar. or that the individual who has been
elected cannot qualify. In the absence
of such proof, the presumption is that
the election has been according TO law
and that the person elected can take the
oath of allegiance and loyalty required ,
Mr. Monroe seems to have known that
efforts we're being made to keep him out
of Office, and also telegraphed the Presi
dent yesterday that he had been reg
ularly elected Mayor Of New Orleans, and
that he is as loyal to the Union, and as
enthusiastically in favor OF the recon
struction policy of the President as any
man living, and can qualify according tx
Law. The President replied to him by
republishing the telegram sent to Mr.
Kennedy, thus leaving the matter whert
il belongs-te the people Of New Orleans
and to the civil and military laws tha
covern such caSesf