The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-12-13
FROM THE CAPITAL.
skNsATIoN IN TAE oUIrEAu rRIAL.
A R.aIui.s,nss sftAs DARK Days Of the R.bsllIOnD
Changes Ia the State D'partaSnt-BIg Deed
Recorded ia this BtAtS-RaIIrOad EATER
prizes Changes II the TaEla.
special Dispatch to the IntsllIg0nesr.

Special Dispatch to the IntSllIssnssF.
WASHINGTON, D. O., December l2,-Th'
! Guiteau trial was made decidedly sensa
tional to-day by the testimony Of DR.
Spitzka, OF New York City, young bu
eminent specialist in the matter Of cerebra
diseases, spitzka was subpGned early ii
the trial, but refused to come until writ o
attachment was gotten out for him, and .
marshal sent to bring him over from New
York. His testimony was strong and tc
the point, and showed him to be thorough
y Conyersant with the subject Of which he
treated, He was submitted to a most
thorough Cross.examination, in which he
several times very neatly outgeneraled both
Corkhlll and Dayidge. He yesterday Wis
tied the prisoner in the Jail, and to-day
gave 1t as his firm belief that Guiteau was
insane, He based that belief upon the
ground that the prisoner has malformed
brain. He does not enter upon the subject
OF responsibility.
A REMINIsCRNCR OF THE DARK DAYS.
Senator Cameron, Of Pennsylvania, pre-
sented an interesting memorial in the SEN
ate to-day, It's signed by Admiral John L.
Warden, and recites how hel left New York
on the old Monitor, March Q, 1862, and, after
perilous experimental voyage, arrived at
Hampton Roads in time to learn that the
rebel iron clad Merrimac had destroyed the
United States irigates Cumberland and
Congress, and was preparing the next day
10 destroy three other frigates and the gov
ernmeAt shipping in the harbor. He relates
in few words the action in which the
Monitor annihilated tho Merrimac, and
asks that Congress grant him, the officers
and crew Of the Monitor, as prize money,
the estimated value Of the Merrimac. In
support OF the claim he recited the action
Of Congress in granting TO the officers and
crew Of the KearSarge the value OF the
sunken rebel frigate Alabama.
OFF WITH THE OLD AND on WITH THE NEW.
The nomination OF ex-senator Freling.
huysen, Of New Jersey, to be Secretary Of
State, was sent by the President to the Sen.
ate to-day, and confirmed, A few days will
probably elapse before Mr.. Frelinghuysen
assumes the duties OF the Office. Mr..
Blaine has put the State Department in
order, and It will be ready for the occupa-
ton Of his successor whenever he chooses
to enter,
The ex-Secretary will reside heie during
the winter. Washington has been his
winter home for many years. Mr.. Blaine's
new residence, near the British Legation,
Is almost completed, but he will not occupy
1t until next spring.
Ex-senator bancroft Davis, as stated, in
these dispatches will succeed Mr.. Hit as
First Assistant Secretary OF State, and 1t
Is said that Walker Blaine will soon resign
his position to run for Congress in his
fathers old district in Maine.
BIGGEST DEED on RECORD.
A Post Richmond special says one OF the
largest deeds ever admitted to record has
been recorded in the town Of Charleston,
West Virginia. 1t Is a decd from the Bal.
timore, Cincinnati and Western Railroad
Company, TO the Mercantile and Trust
Company, Of New York, the consideration
being the sum Of eighteen million dollars.
II Is deed for lands, rolling stock and
franchises Of said road. 1t has also been
recorded in Ohio, commencing at Cincin-
natl, and in the several counties through
which the road will pass in West
Virginia and Maryland to Baltimore.
A NEW ROAD.
In the same connection, after some COM
inent, the special says the articles Of incor-
poration Of the Cincinnati, Virginia &
Carolina Railroad Company state that the
route Is designated TO run through North
Carolina, commencing at Wadesboro,
thence through the counties Of Stanley,
Cabarras, Davy, 1redell, Wilkes and Ash,
in the old North State; through the counties
Of Grayson, Smith and Tazewell in Vir-
gnia, and the counties Of Mcdowell and
Mercer, dividing the line Of both Wyoming
and Logan, or both Lincoln and Kanawhu,
to Charleston, W. Va. 1t will penetrate
immense fields ot coal and iron beds, mag.
nifcent timber and grazing lands. The
construction Of the two roads will give EN-.
ployment 10 large numbers Of skilled labor.
erS and artisans. The last named road Is
already in course OF construction from the
North Carolina end Off. 1t will also give
an outlet to inexhaustible quantities Of
coal limestone, iron, copper, lead, gypsum
and the finest Of timber
PRESIDENT oARFlELD's DOCTOR BILLS.
Senator Edmunds introduced into the
Senate to-day bill to provide for the pay.
ment OF the bills incurred by President
Garaeld's illness. This will In no way in.
teriere with Judge Taylor's bill to be intro
duccd tomorrow, as the mea ure Is in the
nature Of an appropriation, which the
Senate Is forbidden by the Constitution to
incept. OF course the old question Of the
right Of the Senate in this matter will arise
and be debated, but will be decided in the
Usual way against that right
PERMANENT APPROPRIATIONS.
Senator Davis, Of West Virginia, rointro.
iuced his bill Of last session TO place the
permanent appropriations in the hands Of
Congress and subject them 10 annual &C.
lion.
IMPORTANT CONTEMPLATED cnAxaE IN TIE
TARIFF.
Congressman Mckinley will introduce
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