The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-20

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NEW York, Feb. ia convention of
the Orangemen of Canada Having been
perfected meeting is to be held at
Ottawa during thepresent month. Mr..
Killian, of the Fenian Brotherhood, ad-
dressed communication to one of the
Aldermen of that town urging the inn
propriety of such gathering at the
present time, and representing 1t as
calculated to do much harm in reyl-
wing old hatreds between the Catholic
and Protestant Irishmen, and leading
to additional strife. .4zs
J The Herald's Washington special
states that private dispatches to the
Government officials in that city an
nounce that treaty was entered into
during the last month between France
and Austria for the immediate with
1rawal of the French military forces
from Mexico, and their replacement by
troops 10 the number of hundred
Thousand, to be furnished by the Aus
trian government. These soldiers,
Austria, it is said, proposes to raise
by volunteering in Belgium and Hum
gary; and transportation for them, and
the necessary stores, until they are
landed in Mexico, are to be provided by
Napoleon.
patch received in Washington last
night from New Orleans, announces
that Gen. R. Clay Crawford, the Bagdad
fillibuster, has escaped from tile fort
where he was confined. His conteder-
ate has been liberated on parole.
Dispatches received from Gen. Sherl-
dan state that everything was going
on well on the Rio Grande.
The Worlds special says the Hon. j..
Il. Habel, of New York, author of sew
eral reports on Canadian reciprocity, is
here at the request of the Ways and
Means Committee, to confer IN regard
q. Tho PrftfEh ministers
are still in conference with the commit
tee, relating to the adoption! of some
plan which will be materially advan-
tageous to both governments.
The Herald's special says that for the
one vacancy in the old pay department
OF the regular army, there are ABOUT
five hundred applicants.
The Fenian Congress at Pittsburgh is
being largely attended by delegates
from all sections of the country. Presi-
dent Roberts and General Sweeney are
in attendance.
A memorial signed by the citizens of
New York, Boston and the principal
cities in the Union is about being pre-
scented to, Congress, praying for the APP
Precipitation of one hundred and ninety
two thousand dollars, the sum recon-
mended by the Secretary of the Navy,
to be divided among the officers and
crew of the Kearsage. i-l.s-
SAYS that there ism great and favorable
change in the feeling of the people In
that section toward President Juarez-
He entertains little fear of the advance
of the Imperialists in the present seat
of government, and is contemplating
military expedition to invest Chlhua-
hua from there. They have about eight
hundred troops at that town and are
fortifying it. The French soldiers of
the Imperial army in that region are
said to be generally Disguised with
their present service and large numb ers
of them have deserted, some OF them
crossing to Texas and enlisting in the
American army. ca
OF General Lees interview with the
reconstruction committee, the Worlds
dispatch says: ssf
Lie was quite reticent, and did not
volunteer any remark beyond the pro-
per answers to questions put to him.
He said that so far as he had opportu-
mites for learning, the people of Vir-
ginia had accepted the result of the war
in good faith, and were anxious for ne
stored amity in the Union. When
pressed by aquestion, he is said TO nave
intimated that the feeling for the Union
was much stronger just after the close
of the war than now, for there appeared
TO him to be some impatience among
the men who had not been identified
with the war in the South that they
should be prevented from representing
The, States in Congress. He declared
that there was disposition TO treat the
freedmen kindly, as well for thelrt1n-
terests as for the white people. He ex-
pressed a decided hope that the Gov
ernment might endure for all time, and
regarded the course of President john
son and General Grant toward the
South as liberal and humane.