The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-04-19
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ON the call for five hundred Thousand
men New York. Br, oklyn and Staten Isl
md are in excess of the quota. In the
Tenth district ALTO there is an excess Of
seventyssix.
THr' partlsans of General Fremont are
Offering the Lincoln men two bets, even:
l. That Lincoln will not be elected; and
2. That Fremont will be the next President
the two to he taken together.
Two negro soldiers, wounded at Fort Pillow,
were buried by the rebels, but afterwards
worked themselves out of their graves.
They were among those brought up in the
Platte Valley, and are now in hospital at
Mound City.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred on board
the United States gunboat Chenango Satur-
day. While going down the bay she explo'
ded her port boiler, killing several and scal'
ding about thirty persons. Some of them
will probably die Of their injuries.
DURING the past week bids have been
opened at the Chief Quartermaster's office
for furnishing the government with ten
thousand bushels Of potatoes, all OF which
have been rejected, in consequences OF the
high prices demanded.
EpEs SARGENT's novel "Peculiar" is sneer.
ed at by the London Revie,c, and seems to
have dropped out of sight in this country
as such poor trash ought The Atheneum
says after reading the book ''there seems
no salvation for any unfortunate born south
of Mason and Dickenson's line"
The farce of an election has been gone
through with in Maryland. Baltimore, as
pro slavery city as Richmond, polled
only forty odd votes against unconditional,
ucompensated emancipation. The negroes
of Maryland will be freed, no doubt but at
the fearful cost of the civil liberty Of the
people of that State.
The Baltimore American has letter from
Point Lookout, which says General Kinks,
commanding the post, returned on Thurs
day from an expedition across the Potomac
into Virginia, having captured Fifty thou
sand dollars worth of tobacco on its way
from Richmond to, Baltimore, and also
having taken prisoners gang of blockade
runners.
ARRANGEMENTsh have been definitely made
for the meeting ola popular convention, in
Guiding delegations of the republicans dis
satisfied with the present administration, to
be held at Cleveland, Ohio, about the 10th
of May next 1t is proposed to nominate
then and there candidate for the presiden-
cy. The peculiar advocates of the re-elec-
ton of Mr.. Lincoln are much more alarmed
at this movement than at the prospect of ei-
Their financial Or military disasters.
The House is determined not to pass the
Senate amendment to the Montana Ter
ritorial bill allowing unbleached Amer
leans to vote at the elections in that Terri
tory. Several of the republican members
voted against agreeing with the report ofthe
Committee Of Conference striking out the
"white" from the suffrage clause. As the
Senate declines to agree to another Confer
ence Committee instructed not to agree to
any proposition to strike out the word
"white" there is probability that the bill
will fail altogether, in which case the gen.
tlemen who have been felicitating them
selves on appointments in the new Terrific.
~ will be left out in the cold.
On Sunday, the I'd inst, Captain Smith,
with thirty-two men of the Fourteenth
New York cavalry, while scouting near
Barrancas, Fla, met squad oftbe Seventh
Alabama (rebeD and fight ensued. The
enemy lost heavily. Five are supposed to
be killed, and ten or twelve wounded
Terrible prosecutions are said to be
inflicted on the Southern people in Alaba.
ma who try to evade the CONSUMPTION.
Hundreds of men, women and children are
concealed in the swamps, and numbers die
of starvation.
THE gold bill unexpectedly failed in
reaching final vote in the Senate Friday
in consequence of the remarks of Mr. Cola
mer, and it is believed that another pro-
tracted discussion must ensue before the
ultimate result is attained The session
was extended until near night, with the
hope of disposing OF the subject this after
noon but the views of Mr., Collamer, in
the opinion of some, requiring q reply, the
Senate adjourned till to morrow, refusing
to entertain proposition to observe the
usual Saturday holiday During the de.
bate Mr. Chandler took great pains to vilify
New York, declaring that JEFF. Davis would
receive more votes in that city than any
ether man, and that the spectators as
body were rebel sympathizers, keeping up
the price of gold from reasonable motives.
His views upon finance did not seem to
impress the Senate to any extraordinary
degree, attention being directed to those of
financial ability and experience.
Launching Of the Iron Clad
"CataWba'' at Cincinnati.