The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-02-18

,cJpHN, BoEpE, for many years an oticls'
Sflaf priest Of the Catholic Church in Louis
y1lSe. died recently in that city from tntens-

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The CLERK of the jefferson County Ky.
DIT iss6ea sietesa marriage licenses dur
ing the week ending Feb. IL.
o9xaE1, farners, and planters are to De
03jApt nom oonscription BY paying 20 per
cent additional tax for army supplies
a-faf GRIMM newspaper at Indianapolis
ads0cstes the election of Fremont to the
Presidency. .a zlaegs'
.ssssW Essr Of the Mississippi river the rebels
have 5000 men. .....,...
8atnasIo f Income Tax must make re-
.turus to the Assessors before the first day
&c May, or they will be liable to extra
assessment. gr.f
.,,lAsogr one thousand dollars was stolen
from various parties in the Elliston House,
.Csvington, by burglars last Wednesday
night
The prsrLs have tried several times
lately TO reinforce the exhausted garrison
Of Fort Sumter, but have failed. Our guns
command al the approaches.
:A1NrrRNAL machine, shaped like cigar
came out from Charleston harbor, Feb. l,
for the purpose Of blowing up some of the
boats of the blockading feet. It sunk,
however, before it could be brought into
action.
Tag ovrRsEERs of the Harvard College
have raised the price OF instruction in the
under graduate department to one hundred
and four dollars per year.
10 BnHop CoLENso has been deposed from
oflcs, for heresy.
IA COMMITTEES of the Kentucky Senate
has been appointed for the purpose of %.
taining life-size portrait of HENRY CLAY
for the Senate Chamber.
80 About eight hundred recruits were sworn
in in New York City last week.
The DUKE OF ATHoL: since lS43 Grand
! Master Of the Fresmasons of Scotland, died
Jan. 16. 49,. ~ g.. ,.at f. .5rre,
' An Eastern Coal Company has offered
Sl5oO0O for the privilege of mining the coal
underlying the city Of Steubenvile.
The average weight Of the human brain
i 3 80 ounces in the male and A in the fe-
male. CuvIER's brain weighed GA ounces !;
,ABfRcxoMsIE's, 60; BYRoN's, 81; THAcK-
ERAY's, 5s3. >.4
GENERAL HOOKER calls his battle horse
.s'Lookout."
TEE APPROPRIATION BILL for the sup
port Of the army during the year ending
June 80 1865, approprates $52s,52l,O86.
A PARTY of robbers attempted to blow
open the vault ofthe Dedham Bank, Mass,
with gunpowder one night last week, but
che explosion damaged the building and
sscased the neighborhood. The robbers
left without their booty.
THE CLEaoYMEN of New York have pub
lished protest against rafting at the Fair
for the benefit of the U. s. Christian Com
mission.
Dispatches from Vicksburg state that
he towns of jackson and Yazoo City are
in the hands of Gen. SHERMAN, after slight
stirnish attended with little loss.
y MUCK sickness prevails in the cnntraband
camps on tho Mississippi, ard the small pox
is making fearful ravages.
3 Ma. CHASE says there are $25,000,O 600 in
gold in the Treasury and he proposes to sell
$4,000 900 for notes to pay the expenses
Of thu war.
The q. 8. steamer, Pequot, reports the
., estruction of four blockade runners.
The SUPREME Court on last Monday
refused the writ of certiorari applied for in
the case Of Mr.. Vallandigham on tie ground
Of want of Jurisdiction.
In the House of Representatives on last
Aepday, Mr.. Arnold, of Illinois, offered
resolution declaring" That the Constitu-
ton shall be 80 amended as to abolish and
prohibit slavery wherever it exists" A
motion to lay the resolution on the table
M lost: Yeas, So; nays, 10.
"A MAN in New Orleans was sent to the
vorkhouse the other day for merely declar-
ing his intention to be neutral in the ap-
psosching election.
6Ir is generally thought at Washington
city that the present session of Congress
will be short.
The QUOTA Of men from Rhode Island is
full under every call for troops.
nou of Nou York hoe STONED