The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-24
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NEW YORK, June 22.-The Herald's
Louisville special says: A New York
National banking house recently sent
circulars assessing all the National
Banks one-eighth per cent on their capi-
tai to form fund to buy up Congress
and defeat the opposition of the mem
beers. Should all the banks respond the
fund will amount to over two million
dollars. ! have seen the circular.
Bankers here who hold balances against
the First National Bank of Nicksburg,
have intelligence that it has suspended.
Ii is reported that the officers of the
bank ascertained that if they could
borrow $4,000 they could meet their
obligations. A capitalist offered to as
sist them, but upon examining the condi-
ton of the institution refused and COM
mon report says they have suspended.
The President, in reply to an address
presented by committee of the Con-
stitutional Union men last evening said:
Gentlemen, return You my sincere
thanks for this cordial welcome. think
| know how to appreciate wei
come of this kind from my fellow citi-
zens. and would be doing injustice to
myself to say that could be indifferent
to the cordial reception given HE on
this occasion. Accepting the allusion
to myself, will say that think that
in my past conduct, both in my acts and
measures, have reciprocated and an
swered to every principle you have put
forth"
Mr.. Seward -"That is the true way to
do it,"
The President continued: And this
makes it unnecessary for me to assert
farther that my past conduct shows that
! assent to everything. 1t would
seem that through my whole life have
made it my object to pursue those prin-
ciples and to act up to them, and in so
doing / could not do wrong"
The Heralds New Orleans special
says: Mr.. Otterburg, just appointed
Minister to Mexico, last fall made q
special journey to Washington, Ostensi-
bly, to confer with the State Depart
ment, but in reality to negotiate for
the recognition of Macmillan, for
which, it is stated, he received hand
some sum from the Imperialists.
The total cost of registration i'll LOui-
siaHa to the present time amounts to
$4,000.
The President has requested General
Sheridan, by telegraph, to extend the
time for registration in Louisiana to the
LIST Of August. General Sheridan pro-
posed to close it on the 10th of July. |
Sixty nine thousand black and white
voters have been registered I'm the State
at last advices.
The total number of voters registered
in Louisiana up to the 10th inst, the la
test date received here, is GILL, of
which 44,779 are colored, and Ia, 525 are
white. This number largely exceeds
the vote polied in that Southern State
ut the presidential election in ls6o.
The Tribune special says: General
Beauregard, in conjunction with the
First. National Bank ring in New Or
leans, and few of his personal friends,
has been attempting little game OF
sharp practice on the government,
which has fortunately failed, owing to
the vigilance of the officers of the
Treasury Department.
Among the assets transferred to the
government to secure 1t against loss !
from the Whitaker sub-treasury defal- |
cation was the New Orleans and Carroll
ton railroad, of which Whitaker held
large amounts of stock and which is
now under the superintendent of Beau
regard. His friends offered the govern
ment S24O, 900 for it, but rs it was val |
ned ut S40O, 900 the bid was refused. In |
the meantime the Creole General wrote |
tn the department repeatedly, depreci- |
ating the value of the road and stating |
that the bid was too high. But the
government special agent in New Or
leans saw through the game and blocked
it.
The Times special says: The author
tiles here have received from General
Mower, commissioner of the Freedmens'
Bureau in Louisiana, q copy of an i'm
portant order issued by him, which is !
as follows:
The civil authorities having in many
instances failed to arrest parties who
have committed Outrages upon the per-
sons of freedmen, all sub-cOmmission-
ers and assistant commissioners of this
bureau in this district are hereby or
dered to arrest all such offenders in all
cases where the civil authorities have
neglected to perform their duty, and
will call upon the nearest military COM
mander for troops to enforce the prompt
execution of this order. In cases of
murder the names of the murderers and
names and atfidavits of witnesses will
be immediately forwarded to these
headquarters.