The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-07-28
cH1sEsE IMMIGRATION.

ohiNEsh iA%i'hAiios.
omcial returns made 10 the Bureau o.
statietlcs 81 snow sNn during lhe hscal year end
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,;oa ~ ~S"n o5o w.ro famsIas nns;n,
the CORES bonding period Of 1875 the total
Immigration to the United States from
China was lG,437. Of whom SO were
femnles
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count Oh iiiheSs'
THEsrEAMDoATBILL AGREED on.
The Senate Committee on Commerce
held q meeting this afternoon and took up
and agreed on the steamboat bill and di.
rectcd Senator Boutwell, to report 1t TO
the Senate. The Senate Committee has
entirely remodelled the bill and as it Is
agreed upon to-day leaves the law sub.
stantially as 1t now exists.
ADJOURNED WITHOUT AGREEMENT.
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sLuFoRp WILSON BEFORE THE COMMIT
TEE ON WHISKY TRIALS.
Bluiord Wilson, late Solicitor Of the
Treasury; appeared to-day before the
House Committee on Whisky Trials In
St, Louis, and gave In detail his knowl.
edge in regard 10 the late whisky prose-
buttons in the West aud particularly In
regard TO the connection OF General Bah.
cook with them. he related with great
minuteness the various conversations
which he had with General Horace Port
er, Mr.. Bristow, Attorney.Gener Pier.
repont, and finally with President Grant,
on the subject. It seems letter Of his to
the prosecuting officer at st. Louis, inclt-
Ing him to the greatest activity In bring.
ing to justice everybody from the lowest
TO the highest engaged In the conspiracy,
was obtained by Babcock and ialsifed BY
interpolating the letter W. H. SO as TO
make II intimate his belief in the partic-
ipa,ion Of the White Honse In the con-
spiracy.
This letter thus ialSified was exhibited
to Bristow, Pierrepont, and also to the
President. Although the press copy ofit in
Wilson's letter book was produced to
prove the forgery he seems to have been
unable to shield himself from the charge
Of having employed spies even against
the President. Wilson said there was no
lack Of cooperation on the part Of the
President In the whisky cases generally
till Babcock became involved, when .
coolness between the White House and
Treasury Department arose. he also
testified that in a conversation with Gen.
Horace Porter soon after the discovery
that the "Sylph" telegram was In Bah.
cocks handwriting, Gen. Porter gave an
explanation Of the dispatch to the effect
that 1t related to the movements Of certain
parties going to St. Louis on bridge bust.
ness, and said the signature arose in this
way: There was a certain woman who
had given the President much trouble.
Babcock and Med Donald, being together in
Washington one day, saw her, and Nc.
Donald recognizing her, exclaimed,
There is sylph" Babcock said, "Do
you know that womanP Mcdonald 70.
piled, u know her very WELL" "Then,"
SAID Bpbcock, VI wish You would get her