The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-11-11
WHEELING WEST VA THURSDAY MORNING NOVEMBER IL 1869
THE NEWS.
The commission OF Assistant Treas.
ursr at New York, was forwarded yes
terday 10 Chas, ], FolRer,


ursr at New York, was forwarded yes
terday to Chas. ]. Folger.
Tuesday the detectives In Washing.
ton City dug upR cellar OF John Rip
pom, one OF the counterfelters arrested
In Brooklyn last week, where they
found large powerful press for the
manufacture Of coin and all the neces-
sary dies.
NJ. F. Jones, o Canadian burglar, shot
two policemen at Buffalo, Tuesday
night, woundlng them slightly. He
was caught burgEarlSing, and finally
arrested.
II 10 understood that the President
has rendered the appointment OF Judge
OF the new United States Circuit, en-
brRclug the State OF Louisiana, 10
Thomas J. Durant, formerly OF New
Orleans, but now OF Washington City.
II is considered doubtiul II Mr.. Durant
VIII accept the appointment.
A party OF engineers left New Or.
leans, Tuesday morning, 10 survey the
Memphis, Ell Paso and Pacific Railroad
route.
Ex-Governor Pratt, Of Maryland,
died Tuesday, aged sIxty.five.
Margaret Beck and four children
(coloredJ, were awarded seventeen
thousand dollars damages, yesterday
In Baltimore, against the Northern Cen
trail railroad, the husband and father
having been killed on that road.
Sixty immigrants from North Caro-
lima, consisting Of men, women and
children, passed through Baltimore,
over the Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad
yesterday, for Iowa and other Western
homes.
A special to the Gd:ette, Alexandria,
Va, from Charlottesville says that Jno,
Henry Salmon has been arrested, and
ls now In Jail, charged with the mur.
der OF his mother and brother. The
susplclOus circumstances are: the blood,
which was on his shoe, vas wiped from
his hand, and the preventing by him.
self OF the arrest OF u negro man last
seen at the house, whom the neighbors
threatened to hang al once II caught.
When his brother Luker was heard
groAning and brandy was given 10
stimulate him, John Il. Salmon would
not permit any more brandy to be ad.
ministered, and stood at the door To
prevent the entrance OF any person 10
the chamber. Salmon has heretofore
borne q good character. The prelimi
nary examination has been postponed
until next Thursday.
Gen. John E. Wool, OF Mexican war
fame, died at Troy, N. Y, yesterday.
Sixteen female clerks were sent from
the Treasury to New York Tuesday 10
count the bonds In the vaults OF the
sub-treHsury at New York.
J. A. Ware, solioitar of the Sixth
Auditors Office, who has for five years
conducted nearly the entire legal busl-
ness Of that bureau, and the Postoffice
Department, was removed on Tuesday,
because he demonstrated against being
docked OF his pay for certain days when
he was Blck and absent from his office,
and argued that such action was illegal.
Mr.. Ware conducted for the Govern
ment the celebrated postage stamp case
In Canada, when this first international
questions arising under the rebellion
were decided in our favor In foreign
court.
Judge Embry, OF Kentucky, has been
appointed Minister TO Ecuador, Vice
David A. Dunn, who declined the ap-
pointment. Mr.. Embry Ia a brother
in>law TO Senator Fowler, and figured
In Washington during the excitement
attending the impeachment as friend
OF Andy johnson.
A letter from Richmond, Virginia,
says the negroes are still on the move
southwark. Tho Virginia Employ
ment Agency there &dvertises for all
the able. bodied colored men OF the city
and country;at high wages. The agency
Is acting for Soutern planters, who de.
sign trying the negroes, II they can be
procured, before resorting 10 Chinese
Coolies. Cold weather and necessity
combined with other causes to make
them willing to respond to the demadd.