The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-09-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
Resumption Of Specie Pay
Trial of JEFF. Davis-Ahnirs sn
General Pope's District.

NEW YORK, September 2S.-The Her
AIDS Washington special says u plan
has been transmitted to the Secretary OF
the Treasury, which it is understood
meets the approval OF bankers and IL
mancial men. who have conferred on the
.nhiert. of New York. by means OF
which itSwill he practicable to accom-
pliSh the resumption OF specie payments
IN i've years: Retire all the National
Rank carrency HOteS within ninety days,
substitute greenbackS rs the sole cnr-
rency of the country; give commerce ana
The west ninety millions Increased bank
circulation i'll greenbackS and reduce
the coin interest debt S3dO. HOOOO, ana
nil in Il manner satisfactory Ia the bank
,u.c and financial interests of all Sec
lions.
\ Boston paper recently published a
,.leurom o the effect that Secretary
ucGnllocb was short of currency funds
and wonld consequently throw twenty
millions of gold on the market. The
Secretary says there IL no truth IN such
a report. He has forbidden any one
ubout his office from furnishing lnfor-
nation to newspaper correspondents III
,nture, except heads OF bureaus dcSlS-
mated by himself
II noW appears that the Farmers and
ritizens' National Bank of Brooklyn
wos seized under y misapprehensiOn OF
facts.
An inspector has just returned to
make his report to Commissioner
Rollins, aItera six months tonr through
the South and Southwest. He repre-
l, int nj roy
enue in the tobacco business as scarcely
inferior i'm extent and enormIty to the
whisky frauds. His attention was Iii
rected to the tobacco trade exclusively,
and he states that in the brief time he
has been away he has discovered frauds
10 the amount of half million OF dol
lars. These were mostly brought to
light in st. Louis, Cincinnati, Louis
vile. Cairo and Memphis. The stencil
marks used by the tobacco inspectors
of the several revenue districts are fire.
uuently counterfeited and used, the to-
bacco thus marked End sent out of
the district and sold elsewhere, thus
escaping the attention of the regular
inspectors.
Judge Underwood and j.. ii. Chand
Ter, United States District Attorney for
VIRGINIA, are here in consultation with
the Attorney General in relation 10 the
trial of jeff. Davis IN November. Mr..
Chandler, who is the prosecuting officer
in the case, will, il is understood. be
governed in his action entirely by the
advice of Mr. Stanberry. Judge Under
wood and Mr. Chandler are both of the
opinion that sufficient testimony can
be produced TO convict Davis, provided
the ease is allowed to take the regular
course without anJ interference from
the authorities here. The friends of
Davis, including his bondSmen, assert
that he will put in an appearance ut
court when wanted. and that he is not
only willing but anxious to go through
i regular trial on the indictment against
him.
Collector Boot has seized Il large vim
egar factory on Elm street, owned by
j. Helper, for disabling whisky with
out license.
The Times special says official dis
patches from New Orleaus state that
Generals Wheaton and Graham and 9th
or officers sick with; yellow fever were
doing well Yesterday. There have been
several deaths ut Greenp0int, of what
is positively stated TO have been yellow
fever.
The Worlds Washington special says
Official information has beea reeeiYed
here that judicial steps have been taken |
in General Pope's district to secure the |
right of suffrage by the recent amnesty !
proclamation. Several citizens of Ala |
bsma who have been pardoned by this
proclamation have been before tle /,
Boards of Registration. which are now
revising the lists, aRd demand the right
to be registered.
General Pope instructed the boards to
refuse to register them and they were
refused. Hon. -. +. Rice, of MOntgOm- I
cry, an ex-JuQge OF Ala, who was Que .
of the parties. went before the United
States Commissioner and made affidavit ,
of the fact with view of testing in the
United States Count the constitution
ality of the military reconstruction
laws and the powers conferred by an
Executive pardon. Similar movements
will be made i'll all of the Southern
States where registration is not closed,
and il legal redress fails before Judges
Busted and Underwood in Alabama and
EirginiG, his honor Chief Justice Chase,
ran look at his Presidential prospects
over decision Of the military act in
his Circuit Court ia North Carolina.
This important Royemegt is exciting
deep interest in 0tioisl circles here.
Virginia state JCsxVsetiep.