The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-03-16

w IlEGkAANO3s VaIAASI1A
A LEXINGTON, Mo-, paper says Missouri
is quieter now than 1t has been at any pre-
vious time since the war begun.
THe interest in the whisky debate ia
Congress looks like there is more devotion
in this country to the god of bottles than
OF battles. Q9 - ct}
ONE Of the charges against Admiral
Wilkes Is disrespect to Mr.. Welles. 1rrey-
erence would better express the treatment
of .theSold lady.
The importing business is reyiving in N.
Orleans. 0argees Of lemons have arrived
from Sicily, enough to give tho trade lit
tie lemon aid. M sE&
Grn. lBuRsRDos has ordered the arrest
Of Col Frank Wolford fer the disloyal SEN
timeuts uttered in speech at the sword
presentation to him st Lexington on Thurs
day. 81 ,
Iris stated that Gen. Halleck has been
offered the command of any department. he
chooses, and it is even intimated that there
is some danger that his choice may fall
upon the Department Of the Ohio.
CHARLES DICKENS second son-an officer
in India-is dead While his father stood
q chicf mourner by the grave of Thackeray
almost at the very hour, his son was dying
on the other side of the world.
The oyster schooner Julia Baker was
burned by the rebels Saturday morning up
the Nansemond River. Her captain and
crew were captured with two thousand
dollars. The crew were asleep when cap.
tured
A CONVENTION of editors of weekly pa
pers met at Milledgeville on the 22nd of
March, and resolved to raise 1.-THE price Of
subscription to weeklies to ten dollars per
annum, and advertising from ten to twelve
dollars per square.
s IT is understood that the Secretary of
the War Department has reversed the de-
cision of the Provost Marshal General,
that districts which had not filled their
quota must stand the draft, even though
the State had in other districts raised
moro than enough surplus to fll this de-
6ciency.
The want of operatives of all descriptions
in the mills and manufactures of New
England is beginning to be severely felt,
and as the plan of an emigration isociety
has fallen through, some of the manufacto-
ries are sending agents, and even their own
partners, to Europe to obtain hands.
ABE L1NcoLN's FLORIDA CONVENTION.
An officer in New York regiment (says
the Buffalo Daily Courier, engaged in the
recent Florida fight, writes as follows to a
relative in this city:
| have had my foot shot off and may lose
part of my leg, all for being a delegate to
the FIRST political Convention Abe Lincon
has held in Florida.
GEN. LEW. WALLAoE's assignment to the
command of Gen. Schenck's late depart
ment, the final orders for which have been
placed in his hands, seems an indication
that Gen. Grants influence in the appoint
ment of commanders, is not likely to be so
controlling as had been expected. Wallace
has hitherto been kept out of commanding,
not less by Grants hostility, than by that
of Halleck.
GEN. FITZPATRICK has arrived in Washing
ton and is in good health, though somewhat
worn by his fatiguing trip through the de-
fences of Richmond. He attributes the
failure to capture the city wholly to the
treachery of the negro guide hung by Dal-
gren. The negro was perfectly familiar with
the country west of Richmond, and was
sent to Colonel Dalgren from Gen. Meade's
headquarters, with the note dated just pre-
vious to the departure of the expedition and
found in Dalgren's person. 1t is believed
that upon approaching Richmond the ne
prou's cowardice induced him to direct the
command above Goochland, with the view
of avoiding fight.
AN official report from the Provost Mar
shal General gives the number of enlist
ments in the United States between Janu'
ary l, 1853, and February 28th, 1864 as
follows:
From JAM l, to Nov. /, 1868 $4,000
From Nov. l, 1868, to Jan. 81, '64 10000
From Jan. 81, to Feb %, "a $4,000
Add product of the draft Of '63 10000
Add deserters returned 2o,OOO
Invalid Corps 25,OOO
Re.enlisted veterans lOO,OOO
Add black troops 10000
Total $4,000
A RELEASED prisoner, who left Richmond
on last Monday and arrived at Annapolis
on Wednesday, report that on the previous
Friday, daughter of Mr.. Seddon, the rebel
Secretary Of War, visited the prison hospi
tai and asked to have Lieut.. Harris of the
5th Michigan Cavalry, who was wounded,
aHd taken prisoner, after passing the outer
line of fortifcations, pointed out to her,
approaching the cot were he was lying so
severely wounded ip the shoulder that be
could only move at all in the most excru-
ciating pain, and furiously shaking her fist