The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-15
BY TELEGRAPH.
Washington.
Preparation for Election in Texas.
The J. D. G. and G. A. and N. o.
Gone up.
Wholesale Dismissals Of Clerks,
Anticipation of Interest on Govern
ment Bonds.
Two Cubans Taken From an Amer
ican Schooner by a Spanish
Frigate.
Preparation for Election in Texas.
Wholesale Dismtssals of Clerks,
The Decision in the MoArdle Case.
WAsH1NaroN, April IA.

WASHINGTON, April ID.
The President has directed the Secre-
tary of War to order Major General
Reynolds to proceed with the registra'
ton in Texas, preparatory to an early
election. 1t is expected similar orders
will be Issued to the commanding oth-
Ger in Virginia and Mississippi. The
President will avail himself of the
opinions of the commanding Generals
before issuing the proclamation author
ized by the act of Congress, with refer
ence 10 voting on the Constitution of
these States.
Many Senators are of opinion that
the extra session will close this week.
There is list of 1872 clerks whose SER
vices will be dispensed with. This list
includes all Democrats. members Of the
johnson Departmental Club. and Con-
servative Army and Navy Union. The
notices of dismissal will be sent out in
a day or two. A large number OF female
clerks will be discharged from the
Treasury, tomorrow.
It Is not~probable that the President
will take any action in regard to Vir-
ginia, Mississippi and Texas TIL the
business OF acting on nominations by
the Senate shall be completed.
The following was issued to-day:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, April II, 1865. !
Notice is hereby given that the inter-
est coupons payable on the 1st day of
July next will be paid on presentation
at the proper Office, upon a rebate of
interest at the rate Of 6 per cent. per
annum.
ISignedl GEO. S. BOUTWELL,,
Secretary Treasury.
Rear Admiral Thomas 7. Craven has
been ordered to the command of the
Mare Island Navy Yard.
Lieut.. Commander Fillebrown, of the
U. S. Steamer Narragansett, reports
under date of the 7th instant from Ha.
vana. He gives particulars of two pas
sengers, Cubans, having been taken
out of the American schooner Lizzie
Major, ten leagues from the coast OF
Cuba, by the Spanish frigate Ferdinand
Catolico, and imprisoned. The two
persons were named D. Santiago A.An-
nible and Don Ramon s. Rivas. 1t
seems they took passage on the Lizzie
Major at Havana, for New Orleans.
The schooner touched at Remedias, took
on a cargo and sailed on the Goth March
for her destination.
She was boarded the same day by the
Spanish frigate as above. The prison.
ers were carried back to Remedias and
incarcerated. One is a lad about ten
years of age. They were visited IN
prison by Mr.. Stone, United States
Consular Agent at that port, who
made demand upon the commandant
of the Province for their release. This
he did not feel authorized to do without
orders from superior authority. The
case having been known to Mr..
Hall, United States Vice. Consul Gener-
al in Cuba, he has ordered a thorough
to be made. The ground
of the arrest Is said to be that the names
ofthe passengers were not on the mani
fest of the steamer.
The decision of the Supreme Court,
dlsmissing the McArdle case for want
OF jurisdiction, is founded on the act
passed at the last session of the Fortieth
Congress, repeating the act authorizing
appeals from judgment of Circuit
Courts to the Supreme Court; the Court
decides while appellate Jurisdiction Is
derived from the Constitution and not
from the acts of Congress, 1t is conferred
with such exceptions and under such
as Congress may make: 1t
is hardly possible to imagine a palmer
instance OF positive exception. -.