The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-07-15
BYMAIL.

-Telegrams from New YORK snow
that somebody made good deal OF ex-
citement there Tuesday, by circulating
story that the Secretary OF the Treas
urV would not pay above certain hg-
ure for the bonds he had advertised TO
buy next day. Inquiry of the Secretary
shows this story to be entirely I'M
founded. He goes into the market
Just as other buyers do, and expects TO
pay market rates for his bonds. he
expected they would advance on his
order to purchase so heavily, and re.
CARDS the fact that they do advance as
q cheering sign of the times. He hopes
they will further advance till they near.
ly or quite equal gold, so that he can
initiate arrangements for new bond
at a lower rate of interest.
Attorney General Hoar, in his let
ter to Secretary Boutwell, on the ques-
tion about the Union Pacific Railroad,
law and is OF opinion that the line be-
gins, as the railroad company have
contended, at the one hundredth meri-
dian. the line from Omaha to that point
being treated as one OF the branches.
The Treasury had declined issuing any
more bonds till this question was set
tied.
One of the colored church societies
in Alexandria held q meeting Monday
with church members who voted the
Conservative ticket in the State cleo
tfon. The church treasurer was among
the offenders, and was punished by re-
moval from office. A long and excited
debate followed on the question of
turning all offenders out of church.
Action vas not reached.
"A Joint meeting OF all the Trades
Unions of Washington city is soon to
I,o tn foEr
the great influx of. Chinese emiRrants
to this country. The officers of the Ma
LIonal Workingmen's Union have late
ly addressed letters to various Trades
Unions throughout the country, CALI
ing their attention to the matter, and
asking advice. ss-,l ra,s .a..l-'.
Several deaths bave occurred in
New York in the last few days re-
sembling cholera, but they don't call 1t
by that name. The mortality report
shows an excess Of one hundred COM
pared with the previous week.
The heavy purchases by the Gov
ernment of its own bonds produces q
scarcity of bonds on the markeE It is
expected, however, that the advance
will be checked by . return Of bonds
from Europe, where the market is over
stocked. The rise is most marked In
the new Issues, in which there Is re.
ported to be a large short interest, and
the shorts are scared into sharp cover
ing. - tss-. eE fJsFs ~ 81
Secretary Boutwell, expects to take
two weeks leave of absence In August.
The whole receipts from cnstoms and
internal revenue have not thus far been
very heavy this month; still Secretary
Boutwell, expects to show at the end Of
the present month q very handsome re-
duction in the amount of the public
debt. -,
by a vote of 116 yeas to ss nays, on
Thursday last, the Connecticut House
OF Representatives passed q bill to
strike out the word "white" from the
suffrage clAusein the State constitution.
The work Of reducing the force In
the War Department and the various
bureaus thereof has been finished, and
about one hundred and fifty employees
In the several bureaus dismissed.
On the 2d day Of November, an
election will be held In Florida, by
proclamation of Governor Reed of that
STATE, to take the sense of the people Of
west Florida on the question OF annex.
ing that portion Of the Stgte to Ala.
bama.