The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-22


NEW YORK, Feb. 2I.-The Tribune's
special says:
General Terry has testified before the
reconstruction committee and left for
Richmond.
1t is stated that Mr.. Doolittle will in
troduce new freedmen's bureau bill
to-day incorporating Presidential fea-
lures.
Brig.-Gen. Gregory, Assistant Com
missioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for
the State of Texas, under date Calves
ton January 3lst, reports to Gen. How
ard very satisfactory state of affairs
Throughout the State.
The Second Comptroller yesterday
decided that disbursing officers when
paying fees to witnesses, are not re-
quired to deduct therefrom the per
cent revenue tax, as such fees are not
of the nature of the salary to Govern
ment officer. The same officer, in re-
ply to an inquiry addressed him by an
American temporarily residing In
Syria, as to whether he has forfeited his
claim to the bounty provided by law in
the case of his deceased son who died in
the military service of the United States,
leaving neither wife nor child, has de-
cided that no citizen temporarily resi-
dent of any foreign country, forteits his
rights to bounty due his son killed IN
the military service of the United
application.
The reply of Secretary Seward to Mr..
Bigelow's dispatch, enclosing the speech
of the Emperor Napoleon in reference
to Mexican affairs, has been printed,
and will be forwarded to Europe
to-day. Mr.. Seward alludes, with con-
siderable severity, to and denies the as
sertion of the Emperor that our govern
ment had been invited to join France
in her Mexican intervention before the
introduction of the French forces into
the army of Macmillan.
The Herald's Rio Janeiro correspond
emit of the I'd, states that General Wood,
the agent of number of southern as
sociations of emigrants on his explor-
ing trip, ON his arrival at Rio Janeiro,
was received with courtesy and atten-
ton by the officials, and the General
had an interview with the Emperor and
all his ministers and received promises
of all the land he required at the mini
mum government price, immediate clt1-
zenship for all colonists, freedom OF re-
igion and the press, control OF their
own municipal regulations and educa-
tiunal institutions and free importation
for five years of all necessary articles
from Rio Janeiro. General Wood and
party passed into the interior of the
country to make an inspection OF 1t,
transportation being furnished them
anu III &AA b1O
were received with ovations, entertain
ed at balls and dinners and enthusiast
tically welcomed. The General will
report favorably in the projected emf
grafton thither.
The Tribune's special says:
The enormous amounts paid by the
government during the war and now
being audited here, are shown by the
fact that the accounts of Col. Crossman,
of Philadelphia, now at the Sd Audi
tors office, involved disbursements to
the amount of $4,000, 600 or over, $3.50, 900
per month for clothing and army sup
plies. % - ~
1t has now come to light that the in
structions under which the Freedmen's
Bureau in Louisiana was so completely
disrupted in November last; its 300
schools brought to a close soon after
wards the Freedmen discharged; color
cd soldiers arrested as Migrants in the
streets of New Orleans, without bail or
process of law; and the orphans OF
freedmen returned to former slave
holders as apprentices, were impaired
by the President himself, and that
General Fullarton acted in accordance
with executive instructions.