The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-18

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE impeach-
parchment project makes no progress.
The judiciary Committee have not yet
began the investigation. 1t is now ru-
mored that nothing will be done this
WINTER as an impeachment Dy the
House is impossible for want of time.
Brevet Maj. Gen. Rucker has been
assigned to duty as Acting Quarter
Master General.
Brevet Brig. Gen. Hays has been re-
lieved as Chief Quarter-Master, Depart
ment of the Lakes.
Brevet Brig. Gen. Horace Neide, Spe-
cial Inspector OF Colored Troops, has
been ordered to report to Brevet Mai
Gen. Scott, Commissioners for South
Carolina, for duty.
Second Lieutenant Hogarty, Forty
Fifth u. 5. Infantry, having passed a
satisfactory examination before the
Examining Board at Chicago, will re-
turn TO Louisville.
This morning, on motion of Repre-
sentative Garfield, John NJ. Langston,
of Oherlin, Ohio, q colored man, was
admitted to practice at the bar of the
Supreme Court of the United States
Commonore Alden has been detached
from the Susquehanna, and Captain
Fairfax ordered TO command her. All
the present officers are also detached,
and most of those on the Rhode Island
ordered to her.
U. S. Treasurer Spinner has ordered
that the disbursing clerk of the Post
Office Department, Colonel Olmstead,
be relieved of the responsibility of the
monies TO his credit in the Merchants
National Bank of this city at the time
of its failure.
The American Colonization Society
has nearly seven hundred applications
! for the spring expedition to Liberia.
During the past year about SlS3 900
I laTnSffaI fU,f tho Frran lNxr he
Patent Office. after paying all the ex-
| penses of the office. This makes the
! total amount now to credit OF the Pat
ent Office nearly $500, 200.
The receipts from customs for the
week ending January 18th were as fol-
S226, 327; Philadelphia, SlO5, ASS; Balti-
more, SlO9, 1857. This shows consider
able of an increase over the receipts for
some time past, owing, probably, to
the new tariff; the disposition being to
pay all duties before the changes are
made, particularly in cases where the
! duties are to be increased by the pro.
| visions of the new bill.
WASHINGTON, Jan. l7.-At meeting
of the Union National Committee to-
night there We're present, Gov. Ward, o
| New Jersey, the President; A. B. Cor.
don, of Vermont; VIM. Chatin, of Mass
achusetts; ]. r. Fowler, of Tennessee
t -
wood, of Iowa; H. w. Hoffman of Md
y. b. Smithers, ofDelaware; W. C. Coen
of Virginia; W. A. Window, of MINES
ota; DR.. Goodloe, of North Carolina
Thos. ]. Turney, of Rhode Island; anC
John ID. Defrees, of Maryland, the las
named being secretary. Horace Gree
ley, member of the Committee, is il
Washington, engaged in lecturing. II
the course of his remarks, calling tn
meeting to order, Gov. Ward said: Tn
faithlessneS of the President to the PEG
pie and policy of the party which elect
ed him, has rendered more difficult tn
work of restoring the Union on a basi
of loyalty and freedom; but those VIII
have conquered armed treason viii
prove equal to any remaining danger
Since we last assembled heloyal State
have attested anew their adherence t
the Republic creed, and their unwaveI
ing determination to build in the futur
"A nation on enduring basis of justice
He favored the carrying out of the pla
OF the Congressional RECONSTRUCTED
= Committee, and the extension of frar
chise to all men without regard to colo,
, and was content to rest the whole sui
: ject in the hands of the present an
/ succeeding Congress.