The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-03

BrOWulow estimates his majority at 80,
900. All the eight Congressman VIII be
radicals, and the U. S. Senator, In place
of Patterson.
News from Warrington, PittsburE,
Omaha and Memphis.
WASHINGTON, August 1.-The follow
ing is additional fromthe State Depart
ment. transmitting Information regard
ing the capture of Macmillan:
From Esco6edo to the Citizen Secretary
of War, by telegraph TO San LUIS Po-
iosi, 0ldy II.
When Macmillan was made prison.
err, yesterday, he requested me TO grant
him what is embraced in the following
points:
month of March, during the first half
OF the month. Among the archives
captured from me at La Cruza, there ex-
listed a COPY of it, certified and counter
signed by the Minister. The original
was sent to the President of the Coun-
Gil of State, Jose Maria, at La Cruza,
with orders that it should be published
when should be lawfully made pris-
I'd, That if victim be necessary,
the punishment be visited on my per-
son.
with which they have accompanied
me throughZall dangers and vicissi-
tudes.
He also told me that he desires Moth
| ing more than to get out OF Mexico, and
he, in consequence, hopes that neces'
sury escorts will be given him TO place
| of embHrkatiOn.
/ have replied to him thatI can grant
him nothing, and that all l can do is
to report this to the supreme Govern
ment.
TSiguedl EscoBEDo.
In addition TO the above. it has been
authoritatively Rscertained that in jan
uary last, Macmillan attempted to
make formal proposition through our
Government to retire from Mexico for
the purpose of allowing The Mexican
people to decide the queStisn of tie per-
| inanency of the Empire in their own
Way. He proposed to place himself on
board mau-0f-war pending the settle
ment, and added that the question was
virtually settled then, as three-fourthS
of the country was occupied by the
Liberals.
Bazaine, the French Marshal, assumed
| a neutral position regarding Maxi
milian's proposition, but promised. to
hold his II loops aloof during the can
vass or election he expected would fol-
low from its acceptance.
Secretary Seward declined TO enter
| tain the proposition, because he did not
recognize the authority claimed by the
Emperor's agent to represent any por-
| tion of the Mexican people.
PITTSBURGH, August 1.-The Penn
sylvania State Fair is TO take place
here on the 9th of next month.
Thomas Smith, an old and we'll
known citizen, and who was engaged
rs private watchman in a business
house, was found dead in the cellar
this morning. 1t is supposed that he
fell through hatchway while asleep,
and that the fall was the cause of his
death.
The rain interfered materially with
the arrangements which the colored
people had made to celebrate this, the
anniversary of emancipation in the
British colonies.
Au old lady, named Kelley, was burn
ed to death last night, her clothes TIA
king fire accidentally, from a candle,
which she had placed in an entry Tor
protection ftom the wind.
A man passing under the name OF
Rev. DIR. Ely has disappeared suddenly,
and II has since been discovered that he
is a swindler. He worked himself into
the good graces of some of our Metho-
dist brethren, and, representing himself
as being in destitute circumstance sue
caeded in getting considerable money.
He also succeeded in getting assistance
from some OF the Masonic fraternity.
He represented himself as coming from
Charleston, South Carolina, where he
resided during the rebellion. II has
since been aScertained that during the
war he was In a New Jersey peniten-
tiary, serving three years term for
bigumy.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, August la
man Cowan died here very suddenly,
yesterday, from an overdose of optum,
| which gave rise to report OF cholera
To-day, a laborer, who was cleaning
car-wheels near the railroad depot, was
run over by an engine and seriously if
not mortally, injured.
Denver correspondence, of the 18th
ult., says that among the passengers
| lust arrived is Orson Pratt, the Nor
mon Apostle, lately denounced by
Brigham. He is just from the mission
airy fields of Europe, on his way to
Salt Lake City.
Two coaches, over the Smoky Hill
route, arrived on the morning of the
9th, having left Fort aarker on the
l6th-the first coaches in since the 2lst
The Indians had attacked Powers,
| NeWman's and Parker's trains, from
| IeaYenworth, which were camped near
Monument Station. The Indians made
| efforts to capture the trains, and kept
up a fire for number of hours, when
Captain Schemmerhorn came in with
| howitzer and scattered them. 1t is re-
ported that ten to fifteen Indians were
killed, but no whites. The Indians
succeeded in damaging some wagons,
killing one mule and wounding others.
The expressmen complain of the mil
itary for refusing to aid or assist them.
MEMPHIS, August 1.-The election has
passed of quietly to-day. The city
presented the appearance of holiday.
Thousand OF negroes came in from the
country to vote. The polling places
were utterly inadequate TO receive the
large number of voters, numbering
about eight thousand The negroes,
almost to a unit, voted the Radical
ticket, The Conservatives, seeing this
made it their policy to make the chal-
longing unnecessarily strict and tedi-
Gus, thereby retarding the voting
greatly, and depfiving the Radicals OF
about fifteen hundred votes, at the least
calculation, in the city.
AT Chelsea, at least two hundred
negroes were unable to vote, all of
whom stood with Radical ballots in
their hands, ready and anxious to cast
them, and making anxious Inquiries
about the success OF the Radical ticket,
feeling apprehensive of the consequence
! II thew did not vote; and from their
questions, I judge they felt that their
privilege of voting was not safe should
| the Radical ticket fAil.
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