The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-23
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WASHINGTON, April 81, 1861

WASHINGTON, April 81, 1861
NEW FOREIGN APPOINTMENTS.
Senator Sumner, today, called on the
Secretary of State and informed hin
the Senate Committee on Foreign Rela
tions had authorized him to report ad-
verselY on several nominations to for
elgn missions, among them Mr.. Pile as
Minister to Brazil, and Mr.. Carlile as
Minister to Stockholm, and inquired il
1t was his intention to send in others foI
those positions. The Secretary replied
he had decided not TO send in any more
nominations, but under these Circum'
stances the President would probably
t!ons.
NAIL CONTRACTS.
The Postofice Department has award
ed its new contracts for carrying the
mails in New England and New York,
and will at once examine those for
other sections. Prices are generally
about twenty per cent. higher than two
years ago.
BANK REPORTS.
The national banks throughout the
country were today called on to furnish
a statement OF their condition on last
week, Saturday.
PREPARATI ms FOR THE CITY ELECTION.
Registration, preparatory to city cleo
tion, begins here tomorrow. The Re-
| publicans in all parts OF the city are
| active, and efforts are making to heal
all the local quarrels, so the party may
go into the contest with solid front.
The Democrats are not doing much, and
evidently see that things are against
them.
VIGOROUS ENFORCEMENT OF REVESUE
LAWS.
In addition to the new regulations
already published regarding business
of the Internal Revenue Bureau, 1t has
been determined that no cases will be
compromised or dismissed except by
the decision OF the solicitor here, and
no Collector, Assessor or District Attor.
ney will be permitted to negotiate on
the subject. Compromises will be made
only where the evidence shows alb"
scence OF intent 10 defraud. In all 9TH
er cases the law will be vigorously en-
forced by tho newly appointed officers,
who will be dismissed upon the first
evidence of neglect of duty. No subor-
dinate in the Bureau here will be allow
ed to confer with claimants concerning
their cases.
NO EXCHANGE OF SECURITIES.
Secretary Boutwell, has issued an or
der directing that there shall be no eH-
change ofsecurities to insure the public
deposits in national banks.
AN INQUIs1TIoN.
Three correspondents have been
summoned to appear tomorrow before
an inQuisition charged with eXtOrting
confessions regarding the printing OF
Hale-Perry correspondence. The Prooa-
bilitieS are this farce will only last
day or two, as the session itself 1s NOM
inallY at an end.
AFTER INFORMATION.
About twenty Northern gentlemen
and capitalists, including some mem
bers of Congress, will leave this city to-
morrow for an extended Southern tour
for the purpose OF informing them
selves OF the present condition of the
Southern States, and the prospect :or
business the coming season. The par
ties will visit the States of Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Alabama,
Georgia and Louisiana, and may ex'
tend their trip to Texas.
THE MARY LOWELL.
The demand made by our Govern
ment for the surrender of the condemn
ed brig Mary Lowell will have to be
submitted to the home authorities at
Madrid before AN answer can be given;
hence an immediate reply is no: looked
for.
NOT TRUE.
The statement that General Steedman
had landed in Cuba with a party Of
men to join with the insurgents in the
pending revolution, Is evidently not
true. A number of gentlemen who
have Just arrived here from New Or
leans say that they left General Steed-
man there and, when they departed, he
had not the remotest idea OF leaving for
Cuba. They say. further, that they
neither saw nor heard of any expedi-
ditiOn being fitted out in that city for
the Spanish Islands.
GENERAL BUTLER
Returned here, Tonight, from Balti-
more, where he has been conducting
the suit brought against him by KIM
berly d Co. He wasI closeted with
Secretary Fish tonight.
SENATOR sPRAGUE
Went to the Senate chamber, to-day,
preared to make another of his late
series OF moral essays, but was headed
off, and prevented from getting the
floor by some of his brighter and
sharper fellow members.
SENATOR EYE
Has been threatening speech in reply
to Sprague's last, but has been unable
to secure the floor for that purpose. He
will make final effort tomorrow.
INDIGNATION AT GRANTS APPOINT
MENTs-soMETHING SPICY.
A good deal of the Indignation which
has been expressed in the Executive
SESSION. over tho "a
dent Grunt, found vent to-day in the
open Senate in the presence OF we'll
filled galleries. It arose on resolu~
ton offered by Mr.. Carpenter calling
on the heads OF Departments to furnish
at the next session the names OF all Of
ficials under them, when appointed, by
whom recommended, and the States
from whence they came, the object be-
ing to show the geographical distribu-
ton of patronage. In the course OF the
discussion, some of Grants appoint
ments were pretty roughly handled by
the Republican Senator'S. Cameron
said that not one OF the foreign nomi-
nations credited to Pennsylvania had
been recommended by himself or his
colleagues, and that had some of them
been referred to them for endorsement,
they probably would not have been
made. One Of these appointed, he said,
was a drunkard, and the other con-
stitutional thief, and 1t was with great
difficulty that he had induced the For
eign Relations Committee to reject one
of these men, and to have the other
Withdrawn.
RECENT Investigations in Germany
show, IL is stated, that the painful effect
of artificial light upon the eyes Is at
tributable to the great proportion of
non.lumiuous rays, or rays of mere
| ,o-;o baorjno No iIluminatio which