The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-11-29

THE population Of Chicago is 10000.

S250,000 WORTH Of watch springs may be
produced from bar of iron originally VAL
ued at five dollars. .' '"''
Col ROBERT BRECKINRiDGE, . rebel sno
OF Rev. DR.. Breckenridge, lately led party
of raiders into Williauistown, Ky.,h and
carried of So, 600 worth Of goods. 9c.l
ONE Herr Endres, Of Mayence, has dis
covered machine which will write down
music as fast as it is played, thus entirely
doing away with the great labor Of COM
posing. "' "''
LARkIN G. MEAD, Jr., the young Yer
mont sculptor, has recently sent 70 this
country from Italy q statue Of Echo"
which those skilled in statuary say Is an
extraordinary work Of art.
ALE1rER writer says of Cairo, ILL.,, is
without exception the filthiest hole in ex-
istence. 1t is the end Of the world, the
tail of creation, the tinis OF the sphere, the
dirt box of the globe" ,..r. 80
A Sr. LOUIS paper says: "There are not
less than 5000 persons In Missouri at the
present time who are paupers in everything
bat name, not knowing where to get food
to maintain them during the winter"
AvAGRAsr in Springfield, Mass, broke tho
glass of jewelers. show case the Othor day
for tho purpose Of being sent TO the House
of correction. He was sent up for four
months, at which he was very jubilant.
MORE than seventy nine thousand trees,
shrubs, and herbaceous plants were planted
in New York Central Park last year. The
carriage drive, now completed, is shout
eighty miles in length, and the wslks
twenty miles. NJ
SOUTHERN papers state that on the 18th
Of October eighteen thousand pairs OF Shoes
and twenty-seven thousand costa and jack
cts were issued to Hoods army. Most Of
these, it is claimed, were captured in North
Georgia from the Fcderals.
A COPPER statue Of Buddha, seven feet in
height which was discovered while exca-
waiting for railway in India, has jast
reached Birmingham, England. This stat
ue is said by antiqnarians to be two thou
sand five hundred years old. -.-..-
A VIcKsBURG paper says that the, cotton
crop on the plantations worked by the
freedmen will fall very far short Of the most
moderate calculations. The army worm
has destroyed it. Four hundred acres Of
land yield but twenty bales -"f cotton,
while the yield should have beep from ono
to two bales per acre.
SOMEBODY, who thinks he is right, says
that only hose who habitualiy breathe
through their mouths instead Of through
their nostrls, arc ever in danger from yel,
low fever TIE same is the fact II, regard
to all infectious diseases and palMoaary
complaints. nC'-.
A NOTORIOUS bushwhacker named Buck
Holmes, was shot and killed in Tennessee
last week by James SkiIrs, Federal scout.
The encounter was desperate one, Holmes
fighting to the last. Skiles escaped With
out wound, while Holmes received eigh
teen pistol bullets in different parts Of bis
body.
Ina speech iu New Orleans, recently
Jacob Barker mentioned, incidentally, that
when Robert Fulton's machinery for the
first steamboat came from the mandatory
10 England to New York it wss cOnagpad
to him, and that it actually remaiasd ia bis
commission warehouse six months before
the money could be raised TO pay the
charges OF importation.
THOMAS s TOWNSEND, Of New York, has
written out in detail, history Of the re.
belIion from tho fall Of Sumter 10 the pros
eDt time. Every circumstance 10 record.
ed, with the greatest accuracy, and the
immense amount Of labor which Mr. Town
send has bestowed upon its compilation
may be imagined from the fact that upis
this time fifty large blank iedgHsy have
been required to contain the matter, nd.
| LYscHIEG IN IsDIASA.-In the nsighbor.
hood of Golconda and Metropolis, Indiana,
there is congregated daring gang OF vil-
lians They have robbed and murdered as
will so long that they have become insblcnt.
The people resolved, however, to rid tissm
selves Of them, and on Wednesday Two, Of
the desperadoes were arrested at MsGopo
lis, taken to q tree, and hung without fsr-
ther consideration. Two ,otheEs ,wers ar
rested on Friday by the citizsps sf GSeon.
da and served in the same madAr bss ~