The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-29
From, New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. Zo.-AEElVeu, tne
ship Uncle Joe, from New York. Cot
ton dull and lower. Sales of 1.250 bales
of middling at 47@4Sc.. The sales for
the week were 5000 bales; receipts for
the week $4,000 bales; stock 176, 600.
New York checks &c. discount. Gold
40.
In the Louisiana Legislature the SEN
ate passed the House bill ordering an
election for New Orleans municipal
officers on I'd the Monday in March. 1t
awaits the Governors signature
Should the Governor veto 1t. 1t Will
pass over the veto. tt..7.l n.
Private information was received here
from the City of Mexico from a reliable
source to the effect that French troops
were not to be withdrawn until Maxi
milan be free from American inter-
vention. On the other hand Maxtmtlian
will certainly not give position In the
Mexican army to an ex-Confcderate:
The Commander the French fleet of
at Bagdad, protested gainst the
occupation of that place by the Uni=
ted States troops, and those who have
been sent over for the protection OF the
town and of American interests, were
Withdrawn. Many families were leaVT
| ing Nfatamoras fearful of further law
lessness.
CAPT. Weir, of the bark Mary Belle
Roberts, from New York for Liverpool,
died suddenly at Galveston on the sd
| inst. - = il5t-1 9
The steamer Alabama leaves to-mor-
row with $500 bales of cotton and
number of passengers.
On the 18th instant, cotton was com
ing freely into Trenton, on the Omehlta
river, which was falling slowly. Inc
upper Omehita coal mine company, To-
Gated at this city are about to resnm
operations having been interrupted by
the war. 1t owns 10000 acres of coal
land on the Omehita river. In Union
county, the lower part of Arkansas,
coal was some years ago, expertmented
with by a we'll known chemist of New
York and the most satisfactory decision
was given.
The Galveston News urges sending
special detectives to Texas TO search out
the alleged gross cotton transaction by
government agents. AJefferson, Mari
on county, Texas, paper chargers the
agents with down right bare-taced
stealing and oppression:
There were over 100, bales OF cot
ton at Houston on the Goth inst. The
receipts are falling off. Large holders
of dry goods at Houston refuse to sacf
rifice their stock as they are expecting
better prices. 80.
The New Orleans Price Current re-
views the report from different South
ern States on the labor question and
shows the urgent necessity for the
Freedmen's Bureau, throughout the
South taking energetic measures for
making freedmen keep contracts for
work il it is desired to make even,mod-
crate crops: The Cotton Price Current
saws the financial arrangements of the
government will be seriously affected
should the crops be cutla short
by the failure of the Freedmen's
Bureau to protect the great agri-
cultural interest of the South this
year through proper enforcement of
. n, laR Shnnl6 the cotton
supply be small and the material rise
in price it will be result which Will
press severely onN Northern manufac-
turing districts, and will leave so small
quantity of cotton for export as to di-
mfnish the supply of foreign exchange
and cause consequent demand for
ness and materially obstruct the federal
treasury operations. ~ ",,.L