The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-14

WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator Sum-
ner and Representative Ashley have
received dispatch, signed by two
hundred colored citizens of Colorado,
asking the admission ofthe State under
Mr.. Edmund's amendment.
The District Supreme Court affirmed
the Judgment of the Criminal Court
over-ruling the demurrer in the case OF
Sanford Conover, for perjury before
the House Committee on judiciary on
the Investigation of the question of the
completely of JEFF. Davis in the assas-
sination conspiracy.
John a. Harris has been awarded
$3.50 damages in suit against the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for inju-
ries received in a collision alleged to
have been caused by negligence. On a
former trial 500, 600 was awarded.
The Treasury received from the prin-
tiers during the week Si31, 49S in frac-
tiOnal currency, and shipped to the
Assistant TreasurerS at New York,
$3.50, 600; U. 5. Depository, Cincinnati,
500, 900, and the National Banks, $3.50,
500.
agreed to report Mr.. Ashley's bill, es-
tablishinG Territorial Government in
the South.
The gunboat Swatara, with Surratt,
is expected in ten days.
The friends of Colombo say the pres
without reference to the State question,
and that the action of the House, tele.
graphed yesterday, is but little more
than Governor Cummings opposition.
The actual amount of National
bank currency in circulation is SOS,
Cos, 500. The amount of securities held
by the Treasury, in trust for National
banks, is SS79, 269, 100. The disburse-
meut of the Treasury for the week was
$, 426, 4i2, including s., 926, O6l for the
War Department. The receipts of In
ternal Revenue for the week were S345,-
ia, O67.
The Commissioner of Patents viii
issue 1888 patents on the 22d inst.
WAsHISGToS, Jan. ia strong eff
fort is about to be made to secure the
aid OF Congress in constructing n Pa
cific railroad from point on the Gulf Of
Mexico, by an air line route, only one
! thousand, two hundred and sixty-eight
miles long, to the Pacific. An associa-
ton of capitalists has organized in con-
vention, with Ex-Governor a. J. Ham
ilton, of Texas, and other Southern
loyalists. They propose to introduce a
DILL at an early day, to carry out their
idea. These gentlemen claim that if an
annual Government expenditure be
made along the line of their proposed
route, for military purposes, and the
bonds thus created shall be loaned 10 a
railroad company, as the work pro-
presses, such an arrangement will give
the country the required road withou,
n dollar of expense, in addition to what
must otherwise continue to beexpend-
ed for generation to come, in giving
military protection to the region through
which the road is to pass.
The opinion of the Supreme Court OF
the UEited States, TO be delivered to-
morrow, Is based on the cases, ex-parte,
of Mari, of Louisiana, and Garland, OF
Arkansas, who having participated in
the rebellion, ask to be admitted TO the
bar of that tribunal, involving more
particularly the Constitutionality Of
the law extending to attorneys, in the
] {. s Courts, the provisions 9th aci
of July, 1852, which requires the test
oath of the civil, military and naval
officer, with penalties for perjury.