The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-05-09
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
News from New York.

| open, aud the omcerS TeHlaiu tuer'
making promises of future redemption
but with no prospect of being able t.
fulfil them 1t appears that, there wa
on deposit from the Interior Department
on account of Indian funds, S32, ,9S7
post. Office department, dead letter fund
Washington paper fund and disbursine
clerk, $4,000; Treasury Department
$4,000 and other paymasters and quar-
| ter-masters, S640,l63 Total, S6S7 900
| General Spinner holds above the amoun
necessary for the redemption of the notes
of the bank, about $4,000, leaving
loss for the government of S347 600
without having recourse to ,stockholder'
of counting upon the probable non-re
turn of large portion of the notes OF
| the bank or the bank recovering or hav
ing anything from the general assets OF
the concern. The official inquiry now
roinr on will soon demonstrate the
amount of the private deposits theiI
liabilities and assets. Information from
Baltimore indicates that nothing OF any
account will be received from Bayne, oi
Bayne & Co, of Baltimore. The failure
of the Merchants National Bank has
caused general feeling Of dissatisfaction
| among depositors in other institutions
and to-day quite a run was made upon
some others, and a large amount OF de
| nosits have been removed to Jay Cookies
| The First National and to the United
| States Treasury. There are no other
suspensions, however, and it is an.
nounced by Maury & Co, that they will
resume tomorrow. On May lst, there
was in the various public repositories
S2I. .222, 73O 80, for which there are joint
securities held by General Spinner.
| amounting to S36l, 1850.
The Inspector General of the Freed
mems Bureau in Virgins has just re-
parted to the Assistant Commissioner at
Richmond, the result Of a thorough in-
yestigation of the affairs Of the freed
men in that State of which he has Just
completed an inspection His report, on
the whole, is comparatively favorable
He represents the various colOred schools
as being, generally, we'll attended, and
the prejudice existing against the freed.
men slowly but steadily diminishing.
The sanitary condition of the freedmen
has so far improved throughout the
State that all bureau hospitals have
been abolished. The employers, in com
pliance with the terms oftheir contract,
furnish the requisite medical attendance
The demand for labor greatly exceeds
the supply in all portions of the state
The wages of the male freedmen aver
age about Sl2 per month, including
food quarters and medical ATTENDANCE
The Senate committee on Public
Lands have several important measures
before them, which will be reported i'll
few days, looking to an early develop
ment of the North West Several lead
ing railroad men are here in conference
with them, among whom is Mr. Merse,
who is urging legislation to insure the
completion Of the road from st. Paul to
BAYFIELD,. which makes an outlet to the
lake.
The Commissioner Of the internal
Revenue, in a letter in reply 10 ) gentle
man from Buffalo, New York, dissents
from the recent decision of Judge
| Smallev, OF Vermont, while sitting IN
| enuity in the Western part Of New York
! The Commissioner says Il at the rule
! laid down by Judge Smalley, rs 10 the
cases in which he thinks the Judge
| ,uUht not to give aid 10 the Assessor,
mnst he srpposes, he taken rs the rule
in the abstract, as Judge Hall appears
! 10 concur in the opinion OF Judge
! Smallev, but as to the right Of making a
second assessment, the Commissioner
does not regard Judge Smalley's opinion,
even in his district, either as an au'
thority or a precedent for his decision
cannot he deemed to extend as pre-.
cedent. in It's legal effect beyond
the roiut in the case turned, viz: The
Assessors right OF investigation III the
manner proposed, in that class of cases
rrprescnted in the case of Mr.. Brown.
| The rest of the Commissioners opinion
contains views not called for in the case
before the Court.
DIR Lavne, of New York, at the head
al \ committee of eminent physicians
anpointed by the Medical Commission,
rrcentlv assembled at Baltimore, We're
| tore TO day in conference with the Sen
| ate Committee of Commerce, for the
rurpose of devising some Legislation TO
prevent the introduction and spread OF
bsiotic cholera in the United states,
| After a free interchange OF views the
Committee unanimously Instructed their
| chairman to report a Joint resolution to
| toe ClleCt Iudt tue S'Ni' NN'', W
and Navy, with the corporation OF the
Secretary of the Treasury, shall cause an
efficient aud uniform system of quaran'
tine against the introduction into the
country, of Asiatic cholera, through ITS
ports of entry
| The Herald's Washington special says
The President has signed the bill incor
poratiHg the International Telegraph
| Company between the United States and
| Cuba
Senator Dixon expects 10 leave tor Ia:
home in Connecticut within len days
His Improvement here is gradual, but
will probably he accelerated by the gust
of home life.
Mr. Bunker, on behalf Of the Union
Pacific Railroad, is here for the purpose
of obtaining another instalment OF I'M
ted States bonds in payment for the
twenty-five additional. miles of road
lately occupied by the Commissioner
The line is now completed between Elk
horn Bridge about siXty-iva miles west
ward from Omaha.
The War Department has suspended
the payment of over one hundred dis
cborred officers who have failed t7 make
the proper returns.
DISPATCHES from North Carolina IIe
veal further acts of malteasance on th'
part of the agents of the Freedmen
Bureau IN that State. Col Whttt!ssey
the Commissioner for the State, and sev
eyal of his subordiuates, with the assist
anCe of some Massachusetts, phiIanthro
pists, it is alleged, have been discovered