The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-05
miscellaneous News.

Miscellaneous News.
New YORK, April 4.-The Tribune's
| Washington special says:
Senator Wright, from New Jersey,
was SO fatigued by his journey here
that he was yesterday unable to go to
the Senate, and it is extremely doubt
| full if he can be got there when the vote
on the civil rights bill comes up.
Senator Dixon is somewhat better. If
it should be raining when the vote is
taken neither can be relied on to be
present.
The Secretary of the Treasury yester-
| day issued Il circular TO custom officers
| in which he states that as a large
amount ofspiritousl liquors are imported
| into the United States purporting to be
medicine, but in reality being but
slightly tinctured with essences, they
must exercise unusual vigilance in the
detection and prevention of such frauds
in the revenue in every instance where
such merchandise is entered, and that
| there must be thorough inspection to
satisfy themselves that the liquors thus
tinctured are for medical use.
By the arrival of the steamer Vera
Cruz Mt this port, from Vera Cruz,
March 22d, and Havana 18th, we have
news from the City of Mexico to the
18th ult.
Gen. ozagon had proclaimed himself
| President of the Mexican Republic,
by virtue ofthe constitution OF 1857.
| The assRsSins of the Belgian ENJOYS
were being vigorously pursued by the
French police under the direction of
Mr.. Mauray.
The Imperlalists, under the command
| of Gen. Mendez, had sustained severe
reverse upon the plains of Uruapan.
where, it is stated, two hundred priso-
ners were shot in retaliation of the exc
cution of Liberals under the recent de-
cree of MaXimilinn.
A secret agreement has been entered
into between Macmillan and the child
deem of Iturbide, by whcih the latter
have bren sold into exile.
| We are also informed that French
troops have recently been sent from
France to Mexico.
| AdYices from Caracoas, Venezuela,
March 9TH. received.
Both Houses of the Venezuelan Con-
Gress assembled on the I'd.
The President announced in his mes
sage that measures were in progress for
the adjustment of the Spanish claims.
Several shocks of earthquake, some of
them violent, had occurred in various
parts ofthe country.
Advices from Antigua, West Indies,
March 18th, report the sugar and cotton
crops coming on plentifully.
A statement has been published IN
several of the Paris papers to the effect
that the government OF the Onlted
States had purchased of Denmark the
island of Santa Cruz, one of the Antil-
les. with the object of making 1t naval
station.
The case of Simon DOMAIN, charged
with having bribed E. II. Pyatt, an in
spector of liquors, in order to induce
the latter to give him the use OF his
brand on several barrels of whisky, by
which act it was alleged fraud to
considerable extent had been perpetra-
ted on the government, was up fortudg-
ment Yesterday before Commissioner
Belts, who decided that Donan should
be discharged, on the ground that the
law did not make 1t crime to offer or
pay money or a bride to an olncef 10
influence his action.
A number of resident Canadians held
revolutionary meeting in this CITY,
last night, and appointed a committee
to form "a permanent society IN TINS
city to agitate for Canadian independ-
ence.
The Tribune's Washington special
says: Another invoice of goods,
amounting in value to $1,000, from the
Freedmen's Aid Society of bradford,
England, and consigned to the Presi-
dent of the National Freedmen's Relief
Association in New York, has just been
received by the Secretary of the Treas
ury, who has directed their admission
| into port free of duty.
The Hon. Z. A. Rollins, Commission
er of Internal Revenue, yesterday de-
ciled that all persons who are required
| to take out license under the Internal
Revenue laws, must give new bonds
before resuming licenses for the ensu-
ing year. .,--,,.., r,,,,,,..,
vateer, the Mellow, was arrested yester-
dny on the charge of having beaten ana
cut open the head of II seaman. The
name ofthe accused is G. j. Nolwinker,
who was admitted to bail before JUS
tice Buckley, in the sum of $500 to an
swer the complaint.
The Hernld's Toronto special says the
order disbanding the volunteers has
been received, and troops are still be-
| ing sent to the frontier. THERE'S agreat
deal of mystery in the matter. The
| Government processes to intend to mus
| ter the men out, yet under the cover OF
night they send new companies to the
frontier. Last night four companies
arrived at midnight in this city, and
this morningt herearen no signs OF them,
and the authorities refuse to tell where
| they went. Many think that the Gov
eminent is endenvoring TO make the
Americans believe that they are dis
banding the troops, while secretly call
ing out more. An attempt was nude
to burn the City Hall ut Ottowa few
nights since.
Alex. III. Stephens, of Ga, is in this
CITY and speaks calmly but encourage
| ingly of the condition of public opinion
| in that State. The labor question is
fast adjusting itself and less luminosity
exists between the blacks and whites
than northern people generally sup
pose. As an evidence of this he cites
The fact that the Georgia Legislature
passed an act providing in a few words
| that freedmen shall have the right to
contract and to enforce contracts, to
sue and be sued, to testify in the courts
and to be submitted to the same pun
ishment for like offences as the whites.
The same statutes apply to both blacks
and whites and the same courts take
cognizance of the 'offenses. No dis
| tinction is made on account of race or
color, so that all stand equal before the
law, Beyond this, however, Mr.. Ste
phens asserts that the people of Geor-
a,ia desire nothing SO much as their
practical restoration to the Union, and
| that they honestly intend to adapt
themselves to the new conditions by
which they are surrounded and make
good their professions of sincerity.
The Petersburg, Va, Express has in
formation direct from Toronto, @. W.,
that John G. Breckenridge is residing
there. He is weary of exile and anxi-
Gus to return. Ex-Gov. Price. of New