The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-03-17

downward from the earliest period to the
latest public acts of his eminently useful
and honorable life. The work will create Q
SENSATION when published. sss
Gov. BRouoH has issued a proclamation
calling attention to the law recently enacted
by the Legislature prohibiting the sale OF
Intoxicating liquor on election DAYS The
penalty fer violation of which are finea d
imprisoDment.s 5@
E. tDowsEY and John Cameron, of the
.Corgs. d'Affique, have been tried at New
Orleaus before the Provost Guard on the
charge of having, when on picket duty, rob
bed the son of Dr. Oarradine, and to prevent
the discovery of the robbery, committed
murder by shooting him They were found
guilty and sentenced to be hung
Mr.. LINCOLN Is resolved 10 retain Hal
leck in spite of Congress, determination
equaled by the bagman recited in the lines:
ut was litter, litter of FIVE,
Four were drowned and one left alive:
And the Bagmap resolved Oh bringing
him up,
He was such dear little cock tailed pup.
THE Cincinnati Gazette ssys of the nomi
nation Of Mr.. LiacolR, in Indiana that
at was most unfair and shameless trick,
an outrage upon all parliamentary rules, up
on all precedent, a d upon decency itself, as
we'll as upon the feelings and rights of a
large number of delegates who were present.
The like, we venture to say, never was
known before IN respectable deliberate
body" . $3.50
TIE Richmond Wing, of the 9Th, says it
will take week more to rebuild the rail-
road to Lees army. Lee has sent out his
cavalry in all directions to seize every thing
in the shape Of forage and subsistence for
his troops: The circultous route that every
thing has to come over by railroad renders
it impossible for Lee to secure enough over
one hae to keep his army from suffering.
sTHR steamer Hillman was attacked by
guerrilles from the Missouri shore, while
wooding, at the foot Of Island IL on Wed
nesday, and one soldier killed seven woun
ded, and two captured. The boat escaped.
: THE steamer A. j. Sweeny, laden with
Government freight for Nashville, struck a
pier Of tho bridge at CIarhsville, and took
fire, and was totally destroyed. SIX thou
sand sacks of corn and thirty horses were
lost The boat was valued at $4,000.
The Journal OF Commerce says of the
Chase circular that, when it is remembered
that men have bren bauished from the coun
try, have been imprisoned in fortresses, have
been prosecuted and afflicted, for DO more
severe treatment Of Mr.. Lincoln's policy and
administration than is now commenced by
the friends of MIR. Chase, We may we'll be
lieve that times are changing, and that the
people will think. for themselves.
GEN. FISK, commander of the district of
st. Louis, has just returned from tour Of
inspection in South east Missouri. He re-
ports that numerous band Of guerrilas
have been committing depredatons in that
section and North east Kansas, and that
some bands are preparing for more exten-
sive operations in the spring. Energetic
measures will be taken to drive out or dc
stroy all such bands and establish law and
order throughout this department
necessity FOR fNCREAsED TAXATION
The growing feeling of the necessity and
policy of an increase Of taxation found eX-
preston on Friday last through Senator
Wilson, in his place in the Senate. He de-
clared that, in his judgement the tax re-,
cent laid on Whisky should have been ST.
80 gallon, and the tax On Tobacco been
double what 1t is, and that he was prepared
to vote for doubling the revenue duties upon
foreign imports.
TIE Dayton Journal says: "We have been
making investigations in the fruit business,
and We find that the grapes are net mach
injured; the APPLES and cherries are not hurt
near as much a. was supposed at first, but
the peaches are believed to be all killed -
The probability is that we will have toler-
ably plenty Of apples, cherries and lears.'
THE TRIBuNE ON FREE BLAcKs-The
TSibuas of September 22d, 1855 spoke thus
of the free blacks of the North:
Mine tentbs of the free blacks have no
idea of setting themselves to work except
as the hirelings or servitors of white men;
no idea of building church or other serious
enterprises, except through beggary Of the
whites As class, the blacks are indolent,
improvident, servile and lcentious, and
Gerritt Smith, in letter to Governor Hunt,
complained that the most of them preferred
rot both physically and morally in cities,
rather than become farmers and mechanics
in the country"
This is as true now as in 1885. aud yet
the Tribune proposes that the negroes shall
be made, rs far as law can make them, the
social and politicsl equals of white men.
"FRoM GREENLAND's Icy MOUNTAINS
The late Dr. Rafles in letter to DR.. Low.
ell Mason, gives the following account Of the
origin of tue Missionary Hymn Of Bishop
Heber, From Greenland's Icy Mountains"
which is now sung the world over" He
Der, then Rector of Hodnet, married the
dsug ghter of Dean Shipey, Vicar of Wrex
ham, in North Wales On q certain Satur
day be came to the house of bis father in
law, who resided at the vicarage, to remain
al 81.