The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-03-16
wHEEI1NG W. VA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1870.
News Of the Dsy.

John ". Collins, q clerk in the office Of
the CITY Treasurer Of Boston, has been
convicted Ofbefng q dcfaulter to the treas
ury in several thousand dollars, and sen.
fenced two years and Ghalf To- tho States
prison. .E1F5 o. tt3 tH
Minor Richardson alias Th0S. johnson,
colored, ono Of the InurdererS OF William
Saylcs, in Prince Georges county, Nd, in
IS66, has been arrested in Boston and sent
to Maryland. & Two Of the murderers, Of
whom there were five, have already been
executed.
A ginsY, named Andrew Marshall, was
killed by lightning, three miles from In
iiauapolis, on Saturday night, while stand.
ing under a tSlltree His clothes were set
on fire. -... ....a ...
A resolution paying the family Of E.
NJ. Stanton a years salary US Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court, passed the
House Of Representatives and will pass
the Senate. l5|I f9.E
Butler, Of Tennessee, Is to be censurcd
for his Connection with the cadet busi.
ness. The evidence shows that some timo
after he appointed a cadet he received sew
cral hundred dOllars from the party who
received the appointment, which sum lie
spent with Republican papers In Ten
nesscc opposed to ScntGrS election for
Governor.
The Treasury Department is nov, try
Ing 3 pIan that is expected TO render coun.
tcFfeidng tile currency almost impossible.
It consists in covering the bill with print
ing so finely executed that Counterfeitcrs
can not afford to copy it In one case one
word was repeated on adollarnote thirty
two thousand times. .
y The Superintendent Sof the Treasury
Printing Bdteau Il now engaged In ma
king designs for the new issue Of bonds
provided for by the Funding Bill which las
lust passed the Senate. ltisthC intention
Of Secretary Boutwell, to place tho loan
on the market on the shortest notice atler
the bill has passed the House and Is
signed by tho President. The Secretary
fSs no doubt thAt tho bill will pass the
House in its present Shape, and the Prcsi-
dent has said that he will sign 1t.
A rcmonslrancc was, lately presented TO
the Common Council OF Chicago, stating
that bank stock was assessed at It's face
value, whereas other property was assess
ed ut about ono. third Of its value. The
matter came up before the Board Of Su.
pervisors Monday, and 1t was determined
that this was against tho provision Of the
Constitution requiring equality In taxa
ton, and Il was ordered that the assess
ment be corrected accordingly.
Another great scandal Is agitating the
upper tendon in New York city. a lead
ine lawyer on entering his house ut late
hour on Sunday night found q usurper, an
cx.G General in The volunteer service, in
rather too close proximity with his wife.
Tho Gx.GGneral upon being caught. in
fa0rlHtB delieto, drew q revolver and was
about to discharge It at the disconsolate
husband, when the latter overpOwercd
him md ,felled him to the ground and
succeeded in attracting the attention OF
the police. Both were arrested and taken
to an uptown statiOn.h0usc, where the
LAWYER refused to make charge, so as to
prevent scandal and avoid publication. He
hGs been married fifteen years, and has
two children. The iaithless wife has been
sent back to her parents, and It Is doubt
full If any further measures will DO taken
to. punish the too gallant ex-General,
.Thc coming speech BY Senator Revels
promises to be the event Of the season ut
| Washington. The papers therc announced
that he was to speak on the Georgia ques-
tion Monday. This filled the galleries TO
a JAM with the most noted md at the
same time most nondescript crowd that
has ever been seen in the Senate wing Of
the Capitol Tho Diplomatic Gallery,
which was crowded by tho foreign minis
listers and tho ladies' Of their households,
resplendent In gay attire, was the only
place sacred from tho presence Of the col
ored man and brother, his wife and chill
dren, There has never been moro
amusing scene than was presented. Be-
side ladies Of the most fashionable set
were the burlicst sort Of negroes and ne
gro women, dressed in all sorts OF COS
tunes, many Of them presenting anything
but a tidy md attractive appearance: The
whole ctrclo Of the galleries looked like a
mammoth mud.puddle, speckled with
blackberries. The visitors remained
quiet for an hour or two, when 1t WIS
whispered around tliat Revels would not
speak, and the crowd melted away
The Prussian Reichstag have enacted
that political offenses arc punishable only
when criminal purpose is demonstrated.
Austria offers to assist rs IN indepen'
dent power Mt the international Congress
| QIVneatNd, ,hV President. Grant for the prO