The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-10-28
FROM NEW YORK.

The East River Bridge Company
Columbia Insurance Company-A
PARTY OF Celebrities for Mexico
The Military 10 Assist in the Col
lection Of Tsxes--Pardoned-R Returns
Of the Cotton Crop-The surrat'
Jury-Bounty Frauds.
NEW YORK, October 26.-The special
committee of the East River Bridge
Company, appointed for the purpose OF
selecting an engineer and obtaining a
plan of the bridge, yesterday reported
In favor of Mr. Robeling's plan. That
gentleman was appointed engineerand 1t
was decided that the work proceed al
once.
A motion was made yesterday before
Jndqe Sutherland, of the Supreme
Cont Chamber, in the matter OF the
Columbian Insurance Company, to set
aside an order made by Judge Barnard,
on the ground OF irregularity. The or
der was made on the application OF Geo.
A. Osgood, Receiver, and 1t directed that
the trust funds, amounting to slo3,Ooo'
be transferred from the United States
Trust Company TO the Union trust
Company. This removal OF the FUNDS
ia resisted by Mr.. Cnrtis, company re-
ceiyer. and also by the creditors OF the
Columbian Company. One of the po nts
raised is that Judge Barnard had ne
right according to the ule IN this DIS
trfct to make the order he did. Decls-
ion reserved.
The Herald's special says: A large
marty of celebrities started for Mexico
ON the steamer Wilmington yesterday.
General Banks, and Governor Morton,
of Indiana, were expected but failed to
mt in their appearance. Senior Romero,
Mexican Minister to the United States,
will be ken OH board either at Charles
ton or Havana. Among the passengers
is General II. Sturm, Chief of Ordnance
of Indiana during the late war, and
since agent of the Mexican Government,
in which latter capacity lie has sup
piled the Liberals with over three mil
lions dollars worth of arms and ammu-
milton. All the munitions of war sent
from the United States to Mexico dur
ing the struggle, were supplied by Gen
eral Sturm. He armed and equipped
nearly the whole army of General DiaZ
in the last days of the struggle. Col
onel Mejia, of the Mexican army, Mr.. j.
n, Tiffin, of the firm of COrties " Co.,
General Babcock, OF Grants staff, MIR.
DeGoladO, an eX member OF the Mexican
Legation, Mr.. Stocking, and other mill
tarv, financial and commercial charac-
tiers, were OH board. The objects of the
party are various. General Sturm goes
TO settle with the Mexican Government
and to learn their probable future
wants. The others start principally
for the establishment of direct business
relations between New York and Mex
leo.
General Pope has ordered the military
to assist the civil authorities in collect
ing State taxes in Alabama and Florida.
The President has issued warrant
of pardon tn Henry Golfer, who was
convicted at Albany for cOuntcrfeitiHg,
and sentenced to five years imprison-
Iaent in the Albany Penitentiary.
The following is u return of cotton
crops for 1867, taken by the Bureau
statistics. The returns are from Asa di-
visions. Several yet remain to be heard
from and show that JOG, ,025 acres have
been planted in cotton. and that the es-
timated yield is SOS; 80 bales, OF $50
pounds each, equal to l,16i.4Gl bales, OF
400 pounds each, the latter being the
amount assumed in the census of 1860.
The yield of 1860 was 3.656,0S6 bales, of
600 pounds each. 1t is estimated by the
Bureau that the returns yet to come
will not materially alter the above fig
ures.
The Times special says: The public
will recollect that at the Surratt trial
the panel of jurors in the Criminal
Court here was quashed because the law
had not heen complied with. Today n
new panel was ordered and twenty-six
names were drawn. They are all white,
rs the law vet includes the word white
in its phraseolOgy. Congress tried to
change it at its last session, hut the
President pocketed the bill.
The World says the Government has
despatched Special Agent Speer to
Charleston, 5. c., to investigate the
bounty frauds upes cclored soldiers,
particularly those of Governor Fenton's
loyal bounty agents, Cook aud Sher-
wood. Ex-Adjntant General Irvine, OF
New York, has been here to help the
latter ont of their trouble, but he has
evidently failed, for the officers have
been instructed to proceed to prosecute
the cases with vigor. The Government
is confident of its ability to expose n
most gigantic fraud.