The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-06-17
8 wHEELING WEST VA THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE II, 1869


opized for the insult to the French
Secretary OF Legation.
Capt. Jas. 81. Pennell, who was re-
Gently tried in the United States Dis~
trich Court In Baltimore, on a charge of
having wrecked the brig Montezuma,
and acquitted by the jury, has brought
suit for $1O0, 600 damages for false i'm
prisonment against the United States
insurance Company.
The practice squadron from the
naval academy at Fortress Monroe,
leaves on a cruise in few days.
The Board of Managers of the Ma
tional Cemetery, at Gettysburg, invite
all soldiers who were in the battle OF
Gettysburg to participate in the cere-
monies Of the dedication of the monu.
ment on the 1St Of July. Senator Nor
ton will deliver the GRAFTON, Bayard
Taylor the poem, and Henry Ward
Beecher the prayer.
"A Swedenborgian Convention is
holding sessions in New York. Re-
ports were read from Maine. New
Hampshire, Massachusetts,. Delaware,
Missouri, Illinois and New York, all
showing progress. The treasurer'S 8
report shows $50 900 in the treasury.
BILE amount of first class rifled ordnance
was purchased in New York city Tues
day, which is to leave Within fort
night with an expedition for Cuba.
The, Republican State Convention
of Vermont, met at Portland, Wednes-
day; 304 delegates were present. Gen.
Peter p. Washburne was nominated
for Governor; George w. Bendle. for
+ To- n
Stale Treasurer.
The Supervisors of San Francisco
have appointed a Committee of their
BODY, to meet William 81. Seward. on
his arrival. San Francisco tenders him
the hospitalities Of the city.
By MAIL.
In consequence of his ohiclousness
in declaring that the United States
owed England more money than the
Alabama claims would amount to, Mr..
Henry Howard, one of the Secretaries
OF the British Legation at Washington,
has been relieved and ordered to the
Spanish Court. Mr.. Howard has been
Washington for many years, and Is
averse to the change. He is son-in-
law of the banker Riggs.
Ben Wade and his excursion party
were at Salt Lake City Tuesday, and ex-
pected to return to the Pacific track and
resume their westward journey next
day.
The aggregate receipts from inter-
nal revenue since the first of the
month. are Sll $50. 600, or about one
million for each day excepting Sunday.
The disbursements from the various
departments of the Government have,
thus far, been very light, as the appro-
priations for the fiscal year just closing
are about exhausted. The accumula-
ton of currency in the Treasury will,
therefore, continue until the 1st OF July.
Secretary Borie, whose classic lore
aud remembrance of mythology had
become somewhat rusty, has availed
himself OF the leisure furnished at the
Navy Department to recuperate. Dis
gusted at the names given by his pre-
decessor to the vessels OF the navy,
taken from American history and made
especially dear to the officers and enlist.
ed men OF the navy because of the VIC
tories of the vessels under their old
names during the war. Mr.. Borie has
issued an order changing the names of
forty-one vessels as follows: Agamen-
ticas to Terror, Canonicus to Scylia,
Casco to Hero, Catskill to Goliah,
Chickasaw to Samson, Chino to Orion,
Cohoes to Chary bdis, Elijah to Hecate.
Kalamazoo to Colossus, Kickapoo to
Cyclops, Klamoth to Harpy, Koka to
Argos, Mahonac to Castor, Manayunk
to Ajax, Manhattan to Neptune, Mari
eta to Clrce, Medoc to Achilles, Ma
hant to Atlas, Nantucket to Medusa,
Napa to Nemesis, Naubuc to Gorgon,
Nausett to Etna, Neosho to Vixen,
Passaconaway to Hercules, Sandusky
to Minerva, Sangsmon to Jason, Sau-
gus to Centaur, Shakamaxon to Hecla,
Shawnee to Eolus, Shiloh TO Iris,
Squando to Erebus, Suncook to Spttfire,
Tippecanoe to Vesuvius, Tonawanda to
Amphytrite, Tunxis to Hydra, Ump.
qua to Fury, Wassuc 10 Stromboli,
Warsaw to Niobe, Winnebago to Tor
nado, Yazoo to Tartar, Yuma to Tenn
pest.
"A steamer of nine hundred tons
burden Is being fitted out at New York
for the Cuban insurgents, and will
sail near the end of the week. She
will carry about $50 men, one half
Americans, with several e1-rebel army
officers.