The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-02-19
News Paragraphs.

A MOSQUITO hotllla, Whlch has oeen pre-
paring for some weeks at New York, is sbout
to sail for New Orleans, where it will be di
yided into several fleets, to operate in such
rivers aud dungeons as are impossible to
larger vessels.
A BOG or marsh in England becoming
dry. the people were surprised at the sight
of square mile Of frogs moving across the
country, the old frogs with little frogs upon
their backs, and all led by huge old pad
docks emigrating to the nearest water.
SOLDIERS VorEs UNcoNsTIrUrIoNAL.-A
special dispatch from San Francisco, dated
the 9th states that the Supreme Court of
California has decided that the law permit
ting soldiers to vote IS unconstitutional.
THE OUorA OF New YORK ClTY.-The
Board of Supervisors of New York, at their
meeting on Monday, passed an ordinance
appropriatiug two millions of dollars for
tae purpose of procuring recruits to fill the
quota of the city under the Presidents last
call. The whole number Of men required,
it was officially stated, is trife over 5000.
THERE are only three men in Cincinnati
who are millionaires, ten who are worth half
million, and twenty-three vino are worth
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars or
more.
THERE were fifty five deaths of rebel
prisoners at camp Douglas, Chicago, during
the month Of January. One hundred and
eight cases of frost bite were treated among
the federal troops, which occurred while
reforming guard duty during the extreme
cold weather from the lst to the 9th Of the
month. ....-..
ACCIDENT AT NAsHvILLE.-An accident
occurred few days ago at Nashville, which
endangered the lives of some thirty soldiers.
1t was in the old Seminary building, and
was occasioned by the falling of porch
leading to the dining room, which fell
some ten feet upon the heads of some sol
diers of the 29th Ohio regiment.
4 WRITER in tue Quarterly Journal Of
Science estimates that there are in Great
Britain, within depth of 1000 feet from
the surface o3,544,00o,O00 tons Of coal
available, and that this quantity, divided
by the quantity raised in the year 1861,
would last about $40 years.
A. E. MILLER, of Charleston S. c.. has
published an Almanac for 1863, on heavy
yellowish paper. made at Greenvile, South
Carolina These almanacs are sold $50 a.
hundred, or 81 a sin"'a copy. Madame A.
D. V Chaudron, of !. Bile, has issued a
fist reader Cor primary scio us, on the
OlIendorfi' system.
The Richmond Enquirer depoun :es the
Virginia Legislature for attempting to in
terfere with the exchange of prisoners by
overlooking the outawry against General
Butler, which the Confederate authorities
have pronounced, and which they consider
a barrier against any negotiation with him.
THE special committee in the Senate are
going to egaze the President Emanc-
patton Proclamation, This is upon the idea
that oac illegality can support another
iliegalty The Senate ha, no more TO do
with slavery in the States than it has with
tho subjects of the King OF Timbuctoo.
The FENIAN BRorHERHooD.- Fenian
Brotherhood of Philadel phia have resent
ed, through public meeting, a recent at
tack of Bishop Wood on their organization.
They deny that the Brotherhood Is secret
society; adding that "the society have no
oaths, signs, or grips" Their constitution
and bylaws are free to inspection. Fifty
thousand men have subscribed their names
Of Membership in the United States, and in
the British provinces, aud in Ireland one
hundred and fifty thousand men are en-
rolled.
EUGENE AS A SKATER.--W oud our lady
ssaters like TO know how the Empress Eu
oan;s skates? One Of our Boston cotem>
poraries says:
A friend writing US from Paris, says the
Emperor and Empress and the Prince skate
almost daily on some Of the ponds in the
Bois de Bouogne The Empress skates
with grace but never alone; two gentlemen,
both fine skaters, take hold Of the two ends
of pole about seven feet long, and the
Empress takes hold of the center and moves
along like a swan.
RECRUITING OF IHE REBEL ARMY.-The
most reliable accounts from the South state
that the rebel army has been reinforced by
100000 conscripts in the last three months
and will take the tieid early in the spring
with from $4,000 to 100000 men in Ten
nssas, and Virginia. '
There is said to oe nothing like starya-
tion at the South, though the depreciation
of the currency renders the cultivators un-
willing to sell. They have abundance of
corn, and, as a general thing, they raise q
vast deal ofsweet potatoes, with which they
principally fed their army during last sum
msr and autumn aud this winter. . -
Tbs hardest fighting is expected to be in
Georgia in the esrly part OF the comPaign,
unless the rebels shall find an opportunity
to assume the offensive. .ss
WEST of the Mississippi the rebel forces
number about 35, 600 men, composed of l8,
900 Texans. and 5000 Arkansians. These
forces were under the command of Lieut.
Gen. Kirby Smith, with Lieut., General