The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-04
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NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-Rumor in Wall
street has 1t that a crisis of a threaten
ing nature hangs over many of the In
suFance corporations of the city, owing
10 the unprecedented losses by fires
and marine disasters during the past
year. Yearly statements were publish-
ed by some OF the most prominent conn
panies yesterday, by which II appears
that many of the companies cancel
all their capital represented by scrin-
Navigation on Long Island Sound is
completely closed. Fifteen miles of Toe
extend TO the right and len OF FroeSs
Neck, and heavy wagons cross from
New Rochelle TO the City Island.
The Herald's Danbury, Conn
special says: The two Adams Express
robbers were aided in escaping from
the Jail there by the wife of the prisoner
Allen and an actress named Miss Anna
Marsden, who visited Wells as a lover.
The Senate kilograms and other off,
cial communication relative to the mas
sRcre of troops by the Indians on the
2lst of December, near Fort Phil. Kear-
ney, and the report of Gen. Cook shows
that three officers, 1t. Col Fetterman,
Capt Brown and Lit. Greenwood, and
90 men We're killed. Lieut.. Gen. Sher-
man, In forwarding a partial report of
the commanding General, says he can
make no recommendations for court
martial until he receives the sub-report
"a I'll. ana Gen. /" GSSel.
On the 18th of January, Gen. Sherman
forwarded to Gen. Grant an extract
from private letter received at his
office from the Sergeant at the Fort, de-
scribing the horrors of the massacre. II
represents that no one escaped, that all
We're butchered and scalped, their
bodies gashed and chopped with knives
OF dress, shot through and through with
arrows. The writer complains of the
conduct of the Indian Commissioners,
and says they are furnishing the In
dams with guns and ammunition to
hunt with, and they are using them to
murder the white men. The official re-
port estimates the nun Der OF Indians
that attacked the massacred party at
500. Ihere are detachments of six
companies with five officers at the post.
Their numbers are deemed too few and
Inc W Gather too intensely cold to admit
OF aggressive operations at present.
Numerous daring robberies have
lately taken place in the llth Ward, the
perpetrators of which are still at large.
Eight houses were plundered on the
same night.
The Herald's Washington special
says: A council of the general officers
OF the army has been called by General
grant IN Washington, to confer upon
matters concerning the army, and par
tlcuLary in reference to maintaining
garrisons in Southern States.
The Fenians, it is now said, have de-
terInined TO retain the arms they offer
ed for sale. They expect something to
turn up soon-a war between France
and England, perhaps, on the larmar-
indie case,
A new ten dollar counterfeit on the
Flour City National Bank, of Roches-
ter, is in circulation.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-The Western
Union Telegraph Company is now pay
ing its January dividend, at the office
of the company, las Broadway, instead
OF sending out checks to the stock
holders, as has been done heretofore.
Payment is made on the orders OF draft
through banks or otherwise upon the
Treasurer oftbe company. The change
made was necessary in consequence of
the losses and miscarriage of checks
through the mails and the frequent
change of residence, without notice, in
a class of stockholders so large and so
widely scattered.