The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-05-06
BY MAIL.

I'morninR about four miles from Youngs-
town, Ohio, between two Welch knights
of the ring, Phillips and Nanty Whis.
tie, for five hundred dollars side.
Thirty-eight rounds were fought in one
hour and twenty minutes, when Phil
lips was declared the winner. About
four hundred spectators were present.
Both had been training about six weeks
for the occasion, and 1t was generally
known throughout that section the
fight would come off, and no arrests
were made.
Wooster, Ohio, has small poX.
Greene county, Pa, has just in
creased the salary OF her school super
intenden from $500 to $1,000 per annum.
The first brick for a new Cumber-
land Presbyterian Church were laid at
Washington, Pa, Tuesday.
Gen. George n. Thomas, accompa-
MED by his personal staff, will leave
Washington to-day for his command in
California.
Governor Wells, of Virginia, has
prepared letter taking strong grounds
against the test oath provided by the
State Constitution. He thinks the time
has come for the Republican party In
the South to take this position, and
feels confident that the Radical party in
Virginia can win and control the State
ny ILLS COuLsos
Tuesday night the locomotives on
the two approaching lines of the Paci-
fic Railroad were within six miles OF
each other. Two hundred passenger
cars and thirty locomotives are on the
wav from the East for the California
branch ofthe road.
Gen. Fremont sailed for Europe,
Yesterday, on business connected with
the Memphis and Ell Paso Railroad, ex-
pecting to be absent abo9t six weeks.
The company interested in the line are
going to build about one hundred and
fifty miles this summer, and will try
again next winter to get from Congress
the right of way through to the Pacific
coast. They do not ask any subsidy
either in lands or money.
1t is learned, both by private and
official letters received at Washington
that the upper house of the Bogota Con-
ship canal treaty by 16 TO O.. on tne
ground that it was very prejudicial to
their country, and wholly In the lntcr-
est of the United States. There was a
good deal said in debate about propo@
sails which 1t was asserted England is
ready to make. The lower house soon
afterwards took up the matter ana pass
ed favorablY upon the treaty, and lis
friends at last advices were hopeful that
the upper house would reconsider lts
action. It is stated in this connection
that while the treaty was under debate
at Washington last month, the argu-
ment against it was that it seemed to be
wholly in the interest Of the Govern"
ment OF Bogota.
Gen. Robert E. Lee Is spending n
day or two at Alexandria, Va.
The various Committees and Sub
committees OF the House OF Represen-
tatives, charged with summer work,
have made the following drafts on the
contingent fund: Schenck, for Ways
and Means Committee, $40 900; Paine,
Committee on Elections, s.. 600; Btng-
ham, Judiciary, for the Busteed case,
s3. 900; Lynch, to investigate the
causes of the decline in American snip
building, 81, 600; Banks, Foreign Affairs,
So 600; Garfield, Subcommittee on Cen
aus. $3, 900; Subcommittee on Retrench-
ment, 81, 600, or in all S2S, ,000r leaving
81 600 10 the credit of the contingent
fund. In connection with the money
drawn by Mr.. Banks, Mr.. Judd wrote
him that he saw no necessity for the
nse of this money, and he wished 1t IN
derstood that he did not desire to be
responsible for 1t.