The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-03-22

all such will be reported to headquarters
for dismissal. The name OF one officer has
already gone forward to the Department
under this decision.
AT the request of General Butler, Presi
dent Lincoln has granted free and full
pardon ia Cincinnatus w. Newton, Of Nor
folk, one of the electors from Virginia, who
voted, in the Confederate electoral college,
for JEFF Davis for President of the South
ern Confederacy. He is brother OF Maj.
General Newton of the Federal army.
The imports of wool into New York for
the year 1862 were 37,347 ,5l3 pounds; for
the year 1869, 1881 ,36l pounds; from De-
cember % 1913, to January IS, 1864,
4,22l ,239 pounds, and for the month end
ing February 22d, 1864, 6,456,379 pounds
A sEARGEANT, who was With Col. Dal-
gren. states that on Tuesday night, after the
main column fell back from Richmond, he
was near enough to hear the enemy cheer
as they charged into our camp. He says
that after Col. Dalgren was killed, Major
Cook ordered them to disp ,rse. This ser
ieant belongs to the Fifth Michigan cavalry.
Three other men of his regiment, with one
of the Second New York, escaped through
the assistance Of negroes.
A large number of the ministers of the
NJ. E. Church South met at Mexico, Mo. on
the lst, as representatives of the Missouri
Conference of said church, to take into con-
sideration its condition and arrange for Sc
lecting counsel to defend their church prop
erty from centiscation. The valuable prop
erty of the church at Nashville is now un.
der trial for contscation.
IT is stated that the commerce Of the
world requires 100000 able bodied men
to be constantly traversing the sea. The
amount of property annually moved on the
water is from fifteen hundred to two thou
sand millions of dollars; and the amount
lost by the casualties of the sea average
twenty-five millions of dollars.
Niger AHEAD.-The Twentieth regi-
ment United States niger troops of New
York have been presented with fsg by
the miscegnation women White men by
thousands have left New York for the battle
field, and veteran regiments, decimated by
scores ol fights, have returned; but the first
to receive an emblem of lOue and honor from
the daughters of the Metropolis are the
blacks
APOLOGIES are offered for the conduct Of
the War Department in. Withholding from
the public moro than ten months the Court
of Inquiry's verdict acquitting Gen. Buell.
We guess that if the verdict had been one
of condemnation, the Department wouldn't
have kept it back long enough to make any
apology necessary.
The rebels need not hope for recogni,
ton of their independence from any change
Of administration in the United States No
mat er who may be elected to the Presi-
dency in November, he will be under an
inexorable necessity of encouraging or
countensncing no peace except upon the
basis of the restoration of the Union.
JOHN G. WHITTIER, the poet, says that
while William Lloyd Garrison was in prison
in Baltimore, in 1880, Henry Clay wrote
from Lexington, Kentucky, to friend in
Baltimore, "directing biM to pay the fine
and costs and liberate Mr.. Garrison" This
fact has not been publicly known until very
recently.
SUNDAY ALwAYs.-By different nations
every day in the week is set apart for pub
lie worship-Sunday by the Christians,
Monday by the Greeks, Tuesday by the
Persians Wednesday by the Assyrians,
Thursday by the Egyptians, Friday by the
Turks, and Saturday by the Jews, Add to
this the diurnal revolutions, and it is ap-
parent that every moment is Sunday some
where.
RELIGION IN THE SoUTH.-A correspon-
dent of the Chattanooga Gazette says:
The traveller over Dixie can but remark
the total suspension of religious services
He hears Of no exciting camp meetings, no
class meetings, no celebration of the Lords
Supper, no baptism. All demonstrations
are one and the same-a total blank.
Before the war, we had host of Sunday
christians aud Monday devils all over the
South; but now every man is devil on
Sunday as well as on any other day. This
is the result Of secession. IL is an evil
morally as we'll as politically.
AT 2:3O o'clock on We lnesday evening,
March 18th, terrific explosion occurred in
the cartridge mandatory of o. ID. Leet q
Co., on Market street, Springfield, Mass
Forty persons, mostly females, were en-
ployed in the factory, of whom seven were
so much injured by the burning powder and
the conclusion of the explosion that their
recovery is considered doubtful. One young
woman from West Springfield, who made
her escape, was rendered insane by the
shock. The cartridge factory was connect
ed with the pistol mandatory of Smith &
Wesson.
A WASHINGTON LETTER says the House
had good joke, and the joke soon turned
into general roar of laughter, when Mr..
Schenck, of Ohio, introduced series of
resolutions which everybody voted for, the
concluding one of which was, that the cause
of the rebellion should be put down. TIE
Republicans voted for It, on the yeas and
nays, because slavery, in their eyes,, is the
cause Of the rebellion; the Democrats all,
because In their eyes, Abolition was the