The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-09-29
TEIEGRAPHIC NEWS.
New. from New York.

/ N,,, vopK. September 2o.-General
Na" Anua has addressed letter to
San;S Ssn;ster Romero, in which he takos the
leaders of the present Republican Gov
arnment in Mexico to task for refusing
his services in their struggle against the
| Empire. He declared that their refusal
will not deter him from doing his best In
behalf of the country.
Deputy Sheriff Simmons, OF Richmond
county. who, it is alleged, killed man
named Dixon while the latter was drag
ging for oysters, shert time ago, was
indicted for murder by the Grand jury
of Union county, New Jersey, yesterday
| A Paris letter of the 7th inst. an
nounces the arrival in that city, in des'
| titute condition of NJ. Lurean Lam
irande.
A Herald's Ottowa special says: There
is rumor of concentration Joy the Fen
| iaps on the border Another raid into
| Canada is premature, and is believed to
be 40 in Canada. A flaw has been dis
covered in the indictments against the
Fenians captured at Fort Erie, which
will probably necessitate their cis-
charge.
A Herald's Washington special says
The statement having prevailed that the
President is about to modify his policy to
the extent of modifying the proposed
| Constitutional amendments to the adop-
tion of the Southern Representatives,
gives it a most emphatic denial.
| The President considers that the
amendments were proposed in violation
of the 5th article of the Constitution and
therefore invalid, and that it would be
| in contradiction of his oath of off; to
encourage them in any way. There is
however, reason to believe that he con
templates recommending to Congress a.
it's approaching session: LIST, The adj
mission of Representatives OF all states,
and then the proposal of amendments to
the Constitution, embracing In a less OBJ
iectionsble form the essential elements
of those now pending.
A valuable statistical table, exhibiting
| the rate of increase in the population OF
the different States of the Union since
| the census of 1865, has been received by
the department from seven States, and
the increase of population even during
the war, in which mortality was unusu-
ally large, is as follows: Minnesota, 40
per cent; Illinois, % per cent; WlScon-
sin, II per cent; Iowa, IL per cent
Michigan, 10 per cent; Rhode Island,
a per cent, Massachusetts,, 3 per cent.
Taking the general average of this IN
crease, 1871 per cent. as fair representa-
tion of the rates of increase in the other
States, the census bureau estimates that
the population of the United States and
territories has increased from 81 ,433, ,243,
| the number found by the census of 1860,
to 35 500, 900.
A Tribune's Pittsfold special says: AT
the session of the Board of Foreign Mis-.
sions yesterday, resolutions on the state
of the country were adopted, urging the
education of the freedmen. The course
of Bishop Staley at Honolulu was severe
" censured in a special comthiuUoe io'
port. u, +o Iate
hour this evening no intelligence had
been received from General Dix with
reference to his acceptance or deolinatlon
| of the French mission. 1t was freely
reported on the street today that he had
accepted, but there was no authority ior
the rumor. There has not been time Tor
| a reply in the ordinary course OF the
mails since the appointment was sent
II is understood here that General Dix
has been qualified as Naval Officer OF the
mort of New York, but that does not de-
bar him from the acceptance OF the
French mission
The Opinioue Rationale of Paris, Prince
Napoleon's radical organ, commenting on
| the financial convention between Napo-
leon and Macmillan, which arranges for
| the payment of the expenses OF the
French expedition from the Mexican
customs and receipts, condemns the plan
in most decided terms, as fraught with
great danger to France by requiring her
to leave agents on the soil. The Opinione
proclaims the Mexican scheme q bad
business, and insists that there shall be
no economizing with the wrecks of the
undertaking, but that the French So!
diers shall be returned home at once.
The Posts special says General Dix
has accepted the mission to France.
In response to the general Anxiety
among the applicants for positions il
the organized army. Nothing further
can be said than that the list of field
appointments, though understood to bt
be nearly completed, is not ready for an
noucement. The country will be glat
to learn, that under the careful super
vision of Secretary Stanton and Genera
Grant such selections are being made
from the immense number Of meritoriou
applicants as will insure the best officer
ed army in the world Every man viii
be of proven valor and integrity, ant
his appointment will be on those grounds
alone. No political views or Influences
having the slightest might in the matter
The better mans record the more Ger
tain will he be of securing position, fol
the record of every afficer selected il