The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-12

Miscellaneous Items.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1O.-Late adyiees
state that in Spain the news of the cap
ture of the Spanish steamer Coradenga
by the Chilians, has caused the most
violent ferment. A warlike address
has been voted, and instructions have
been dispatched to the Spanish Admiral
to avenge the national honor, and the
Madrid papers absolutely foam with
rage. One of the mildest of these jour
nails asserts that Spain puts up with in
suits from nobody and is not bound to
show consideration for any country in
the world. A more violent cotempo-
rary demands that wherever a palace,
or house, or hut, inhabited by these
bastard children of ours-by these par
ricides-may be seen, there must the
Spanish shell fall; whilst a Provincial
paper gravely warns France, England,
and the United States to stand aside,
for whoever comes between Spain and
her foes is Spain's foe.
The Gillian meeting lately held in
New York had called forth lively fears
in Spain for the safety of Cuba, and
the general excitement had been still
further augmented by the appearance,
OFF the Spanish coast, OF two iron clad
frigates, supposed to be the rams re-
Gently supplied by Alabama Laird to
the Gillian government.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Times says:
The war is not only with one or two
of the Republics of the Andes. 1t is
South and Central America. 1t may
soon have to be waged with Spain's
own subjects of the Antillis, and with
those Yankee ympathiZers-those loose
and desperate adventures of the North
and South, who would undertake to
scale Havana for employment, and who,
even if they cannot embroil their coun-
try in a war, in support of the Monroe
doctrine, will place men and means
enough at the disposal of Spain's enc
mics to make them more than match
for her power. 1t is possible that these
two iron clads in Spanish waters may
be only an earnest of what Young
America may do in the way of energy,
spirit and enterprise.
The Tribune's special says: The Com
mittee from the Virginia Legislature
in washington organized yesterday,
selecting Speaker Baldwin as Chair
man. The President was informed
early in the morning of their presence,
but the meeting of the cabinet being
day afternoon, by appointment the
Committee will be received at the White
House at 10 O'Clock to-day:
A telegram was yesterday received
by the Secretary of the Treasury from
the Collector of Customs at Portland,
Me-, relative to the admission of sever
al horses Just arrived in port from Ire
land. The Secretary gave his permits
sion for their landing.
The Birmingham, England, assocta-
ton for the reliefof the destitute Freed
men of the United States, has just con-
tributed another cargo of goods to Gen.
Howard for distribution, and the Sec
their admission into port free of duty.
A ball was given in Washington last
night by the Marques Monthalon, the
French Minister, which was attended
by a large number of prominent citi-
zens and army and navy officers, also
by foreigners of distinction.
The Panama correspondent of the
Herald SAYS: The combined Peruvian
and CHILEAN fleet is under orders to
commence Immediate hostilities against
Spain. Callao is strongly fortified with
guns, including eight OF Blakeley's
cast steel 800 FOUNDERS. The monitor
Victoria and ram Loa are also in port.
Some of the batteries are ofhcered by
Americans who had experience in the
late war. The Peruvian war steamer
Callao is at Panama repairing and will
soon leave to join her consorts. The
correspondent also says the four iron
clads that will leave England before
the declaration of war reaches there,
will either attack Cuba or carry war to
the ports of Spain, and attempt the de-
struction of the naval arsenal at Ferral.
Gen. Fitzpatrick left Callao for Valpa-
raise in the English mail packet. The
United States Steamer Wateree remains
at Callao. A number of ex-confeder-
ate officers who have been engaged for
the Gillian Navy have left Panama for
Chill in a CHILEAN war steamer.
The Trbune's Panama correspondent
saws that torpedo and other Internal
machines for the destruction of the
Spanish fleet, arrived atCallao. 1t was
purchased in New York by an agent of
the Gillian government. Carisky Jones,
late of the rebel navy, was in Panama,
enroute to Chilli, where he was to have
a naval commission.
The Herald's special says Gen. Joseph
8. Fullerton, chief of staff to Gen. How
ard, resigned q day or two since.
Gen. Hooker has ordered the follow
ing military districts to be discontinued:
District of New Jersey, District of
Rhode Island and Connecticut, District
of Massachusetts and New Hampshire
and Vermont, District of Maine, Dis
trict of Northern and Western New
The Worlds Washington special
says:
left, threw out some hints that, If the
reciprocity treaty were allowed to ex-
pire without some action upon the ques-
ton of the fisheries it might lead TO
serious difficulties. Under the treaty
OF stipulations, If the reciprocity treaty
expires, we are limited TO avery small
margin in the waters, and if our fisher
men go beyond that limit they will be
forced back.
The coroner's inquest on the body of
Milton B. Holt, who was killed by the
railway accident on the Newark d
Montpelier railway on Thursday morn
ing, caused by the breaking down of
bridge, was concluded yesterday. The
Jury returned a verdict charging the
company with gross and culpable neg
lect.
The Times Washington special says ::
Collectors through the Southern
States have been recovering for the pay
ment of duties on 7-S0 treasury notes,
from which the coupons have been de-
tached. These notes in those States are
received as currency. In answer to n
letter from the collector of the first dis
trict in Texas, addressed to the Score
tary of the Treasury on the subject, Mr..
McCulloch says: Congress alone hav-
ing the power to regulate the lawful
money of the United States, and having
decided what shall constitute it, and
that nothing but lawful money shall be
received in payment of dues, the Secre-
tary of the Treasury has no power to
receive $50 treasury notes in payment
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