The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-12-22
= WEST TUESDAY MoRNINq DEcElfBER q 1865
NEWaYoRK.
NEW YoRK. December q.


Mr.. Van Wyck's1 report of the Com
mittee on Retrenchment on the subject
OF revenue frauds, Is printed. It says:
Continuing the Investigation, COM
menced more than a year ago, this Com
mitfee find many frauds,yet existing in
the Revenue Department, in kind, the
same as heretofore. but not to the same
extent, by reason OF the reduction OF
the tax on whisky, and making the
estimated capacity one of the tests Of
production, When the capacity sys-
tenn shall be improved and modified as
experience has already demonstrated
to be necessary, frauds will be lessened,
and the revenue Increased. The great
est want is undoubtedly; OF honest Of
ficials, bat no Improvements can be
hoped for in that direction, under the
present Executive, a fact which Con-
gress should have. realized and acted
upon long ago, and then devised sys-
tenn Which'h unnan Ingenuity could not
easily circumvent-sslf
The counsel Of MessEs. GnIteman
Bros. assert that hey, will be proved in
nocent of. the alleged smuggling ots silks
through the. custom house, when the
Mr.. Greeley has breecolumu letter
to Senator Morton on his recent speech
hpon~the resumption of7speOie pay
ments. Mr.. Greeley, differs from Mr..
Morton in. that the former believes that
present resumption is practicable, and.
argues upon that point at length. ,,l
In his speech at the banquet at PhilR7
delphiB, Saturday. night, Speaker Col
fax said, relative 10 the incoming ad.
minIstration, that it would expect the
most searchfne rstrenehtneIit, honesty.
efficiency and high character In an con,
nected with, the public service: rigid
Rnardiaus of the treasury against ruin
4 nj eaiaf ffNrn
ciAl policy which shall mRtntaIn opr
credit untarnished. appreciate our cnr-
rency, and place us onIths tirm rock of
specie payments. 49,
The HerdLd'S Washington dispatch
says there was a great bustle apparent
At the State Department yesterday,
notwithstanding IL being the Sabbath
day. The cause OF the unusual stir IS
supposed to have been the preparation
of dispatches for Minister Johnson. 1t
is suspecteds by members Of Congress
that the frm Of Laird d Co., builders ol
the Alabama, are trying To- obtain the
proceeds of the sale Of the blockade rum
| ner, which they are supposed to have
built, and which was captured during
the war and sold.
A clerk in the registers Office Of the
Treasury Department is missing, and
his aceouuts show a deficit OF several
thousand dollars. 4Hi - - if
Thomas O. Acton, President of the
Board of Police Commissioners, has
announced his intention OF resigning.
There ara more IumOrs Of an organt-
cation in this city TO aid the cnban in In
snrgents. -s-..i,-.,
The Congressional Committee on the
alleged New York election frauds, to-
day ex amIned District Attorney Court
ney, Marshall Murray and others
Report says the New York Central
Road will hereafter pro-raie with the
western roads in freights, close rela-
| tfous having been made with the MiChi-
gan Southern, Michigan Central, Lake
| Shore, Cleveland. and Toledo, the Wa
| bash and Northwestern roads.
| Gossip says that in inaugurating the
present bull movement, Broad street
borrowed from ten to twenty millions
1 of dollars in gold and exchange, on
stonk COllaterals, and sold 1t for curren-
cy, thereby putting themselves in q
| strong financial position to hold Their
1 Central stock. It is reported that the
gold and exchange are to be returned
In January.