The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-05-04
WHEELING WEST VA; TUESDAY MORNING. MAY

The call of General Robert E. Lee
at the White House Saturday morning
caused good deal of commotion
among the usual crowd in waiting
Two Senators and number OF Office
seekers had already gained admittance
| to President Grants room, when Lees
card was sent In. The President had
made special appointment with Lee
| for a certain hour, and the latter came
promptly on time. The President i'm
mediately asked those present. to ex-
cuse him, telling them of his engage.
ment. or course they left at once,
though some of them were ill-bred
enough to talk loudly around the Pres
| ident's ante-room of a rebel being re-
ceived before themselves. The inter-
view lasted only fifteen minutes, ard
does not seem to have been of any
special significance,
"A woman who for eighteen years
past has peddled matches In Detroit
has educated three children and bought
herself a home.
Chinese Coolies, who have lately
been employed on the Pacific Railroad
have got as far east as Philadelphia.
The dispatches received in Wash
lngton last Friday, from Minister Rose
Grams by our Consul at Mexico, seems
to relate to the loaning of money and
acquisition OF territory. Gen. Rosecras
thinks we ought to aid Mexico with an
advance ofseveral million dollars, or an
Endorsement OF her paper, and in re-
turn for this service he says he believes
Mexico will give US a mortgage on So
nora, or perhaps sell US the territory at
a reasonable figure. He would like
to remain down there long enough
to carry out this scheme, to which
of course our Government will not give
its assent, and our new Minister, Nell
son, of Indiana, leaves for Mexico about
the middle of this month. The State
Department says these dispatches are of
no special consequence. Rosecrans is
not in any sense representative of the
present Administration, and the views
of the President and Secretary Fish as
to the acquisition of territory are quite
different from those held by ex-Secreta-
ry Seward, on which Rosecraus acted.
He represents the government of Jau-
rez as in great need of money, and
thinks he might make a bargain with
1t OF very advantageous character.
His idea, SO far as can be ascertRined,
is to buy the whole or part of what Is
called Lower California, or loan money
to Jaurez and take mortgage on that
territory. The whole scheme is regard
ed as Quixotic in the extreme.
Private letters from Paris say the
French Atlantic cable will be finished
and on ship aboard by the middle of this
month. It is regarded by persons COM
petent to form judgment as superior
in many respects to the cable between
England and the United States. The
intention is to have it in working order
by the fourth of July, ifsuccess attend
the effort at putting it down.
1t has been recommended to the
clergymen Pennsylvania, that SER
mons on temperance shall be pronoun-
ced on the Both of May, from every pull
pit in the commonwealth.
The work on the projected railroad
from Decatur to Montgomery has been
let out by contract, and will be COM
menced on Immediately. The contract
ors are principally northern capitalists.
a great number of Pennsylvanians
have invested largely in the lands along
the line of this road.