The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-03-31

$780,. 49, aSseeie.ef ee1seed.0epsR'
&c s. : new candidate for orstorical hcn-
ore anAs1As 0ySzcuse Journal says she
fully Gdstained the expectations OF ner
friends.
The death Of Owen Lovejoy was announc
ed In Tie House on Monday afternoon, and
appropriate sulogies were pronounced by a
'1sree nnmber 81 members from both sides
Of the House. Perhaps the most graceful
and tasteful IVES that made By George d.
Pendleton of Ohio. A. committee OF three
was appointed on behalf of the House, TO
accompany his remains to Illinois
An Engiishman proposes erial railway
loeomotion, or, in other words, balloons Mt
ted up for passengers, which are to be
drawn through the air from station to sta
ton by ropes worked and drawn in by sta
-tionsry steam engines. No grading, rails,
or iron, no earthly expense to be incurred
but for the stations and the balloons y
Tue N Y. Journal of Commerce CORES
pondt nj states that the great Mcclellan
meeting in that city has opened q great
many ~, in Washington. When the En-
pire C,iy speaks, through the rank and file
of the people, he says, the people through
out the country begin to consider. The
signs are promising, and it now look as if
party leaders everywhere were about to sgo
under" to that bourne from whence, it is
hoped, there will be no retArn. 4 big and
successful raid upon the army of dema-
gogues throughout the land is the first thing
that must be accomplished before we are
once more happy nation.
THERE is the bestauthorify for saying no
national banking association has yet been
authorized to receive subscriptions on
account OF the ten-forty loan. Letters are
in preparation, however, to be sent to all
national banking associations which have
been qualified and designated as deposito-
ries and financial agents, authorizing them
to act as agents in receiving subscriptions
for the l0-40 loan. The compensation al
lowed is one-fourth or one per cent, out of
which the cost of advertising and all other
expenses of obtaining subscriptions must
be betrayed.
A NEWSPAPER correspondent met an in
telligent amnesty oath takcr down South,
the other day, but concluded he was not
reliable, for reasons given in the following:
"His credulity is somewhat doubtful; for,
among other things, he told me that Con
federate money was above par in England;
that the Confederacy would bring eight
hundred thousand men into the field this
spring; that the people of the North were
starving and were almost ready to give up
the c0ntest?" Intelligent and we'll posted
as this fellow was on the status of the two
bellgerent powers, yet he could not read or
prite, and carried an onion an his pocket 10
keep of. fsUer and agrtc!"
The LEGS OF INsEcTs.-M. Delisle once
observed fly, only as large as grain of
sand, which ran three times in half sec,
ond, and in that space made the enormous
number of five hundred and forty steps IF
a man we're to be able to run as fast in pro
portion to his size, supposing his steps to
measure two feet, he would in the course of
minute, have rnn upwards Of twenty
miles, task far surprising our express rail
road engines, or the famous "Seven League
Boots" recorded in the nursery fable. In
leaping, also, insects far excel man, or any
other animal whatever. The flea can leap
two hundred times its own length; so also
can the locust Some spiders can leap a
couple of feet on their prey.
A story is going around Paris that is cred,
liable to the Emperor It is said that ri
ding one day IN the street, be nearly rode
ever little boy, and pulling up suddenly.
and ascertalning that he was not hurt ask
ed him good naturally if be would like to
see the Emperor. No replied the child,
for my father says he is a scounerel (qrc
din.) Indeed" said the Emperor, x am
sorry to hear that, but think your father
cannot be much of a Judge" "Oh yes'
said the boy, "he is SENATOR! upon which
one OF the Emperor's train asked his name,
but was peremptorily interrupted by bis
master, who declined to ask or hear it, an d
rode ON.
COUNTERFEIT treasury NoTEs.-A heavy
swindLe came to light at St. Louis, Satur
day, March 18th, by which large haul Of
counterfeit greenbacks was made. Thomas
Smith bought one hundred and ninety five
mules of Wolf & Peke, near Sedalia, last
week, paying therefor one hundred and
thirty eight dollars per head in 500 treas
ury notes. Smith subsequently sold the
mules to WIN. Jones, who brought them to
st. Louis, for Sis per head Welt &
Peke learning that the money received from
Smith was counterfeit, and not being able
to find him came here Saturday and repre-
scented the case to the proper authorities,
who ordered the arrest of Jones as implica
ted in the swindie, and took possession Of
the mules, the ownership OF which are to
be determined by law, The amount of
counterfeit notes passed on Wolf d Peke i;
S27 900
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