The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-04-25
BY MAIL,

"A Washington dispatch says Gov
ernor Peirpoint was in that city Thurs
day on his way to his home at Fair
mont. He predicts the defeat OF the
Virginia Constitution.
"A dispatch from General Candy to
General Grant says the majority ior
the Constitution in South Carolina will
reach at least 10000.
Chaplain LoZier, Indiana agent oi
the Sanitary Commission during the
war, having been charged by the Cop
perhead papers there with appropria;
ting the collections TO personal and
political uses, sued the indianapolis
Sentinel for libel. The suit has just
been compromised on the following
basis: the defendants pay all costs
and all of LoZier,s expenses for law
yer's fees, etc., and to publish state
ment in the Sentinel and other papers,
generating him from the charges, and
declaring themselves satisfied that the
agency was faithfully conducted.
The facts regarding the course ta-
ken by the Government to secure
longer time In which to pay for Alaska,
are said to be as follows: Secretary
Seward and General Banks, the latter
as Chairman of the House Committee
on Foreign Relations, addressed sepa-
rate notes to Baron Stoeckle, the Rus
the Impeachment trial 1t was impossi-
BILE to obtain proper legislation for aP-
propriating the money due for Alaska,
and asking that the time be extended
from April 20, which was the last day
OF grace. The letters did not mention
the length oftime required. The Rus
sian Minister fayorably Endorsed them
and transmitted them at once by mail.
He feels confident that the Russian
Government will grant the extension,
though nothing has been heard as yet,
In reply.
1t is reported that one of Mr. John
son's Cabinet expressed the opinion
Thursday, that his official functions
would cease in less than ten days.
"A great fight Is going on at Column
bus. over the bill granting the right to
bridge the Ohio at Cincinnati. It is
particularly lively in the lobby. The
contesting parties are called short
span lists" and "long span-ists"-some
wanting a bill for a short span and
others for long span bridge.
Dispatches received 10 Washingto ton
up to Thursday night, indicate the de-
feat of the reconstruction constitution
in Georgia, at the election which closed
Thursday. Advices from North Caroll-
ma TO the same date state that the Re-
publIcans have lost 5000 votes
on the registration so far, which leaves
the adoption of the constitution in that
State in great doubt.
1t is understood that some of the
railroads which had been expected to
furnish free tickets to delegates to the
Chicago Convention, have declined to
do SO, but nearly all OF them adhere to
the original agreement, or rather UNDER
standing.
.-Auotber lot of German immigrants
have arrived at Baltimore, on the new
Bremen steamship line, and over a
hundred of them passed through Wash
ipgton on their way to Yirginiai where
extraordinary inducements are heId
out to them.
The Republicans at Washington
construe the closing sentences of Judge
Nelson's speech into determination
ON the mari of the Presidents counsel
to look to the Chief Justice for some
Very important rulings on the law OF
;no,5aacbn1 n1ent. There was something
in the speech squirting that way
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