The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-02-25
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Refugees who have arrived. at Washing
ton report that the rebel authorities hav
seized all the meat in the Richmond mar
kets for Longstreet's army. The necessit!
for such q step is very plaiuly shown D!
the confessions Of q secret circular issuet
by Major White, the Commissary GENERA
of Florida, to the thorough going secession
lists of the State. He tells them, and pub
fishes eonfrmatory extracts from the com
munications of otner Quartermasters, tha'
Bragg's army 10 on half rations, and must
be on none at all unless Florida comes te
the rescue; that at Charleston there are but
10000 pounds of meat and 4O,000 persons
to be killed for food, and that at Savannah
and other points the same state OF things
exists. This important document was
captured by our troops in their recent ex'
petition into Florida.
THE CAMPAIGN In FLoRIDA-CURioUs
REvELATIoNs.-It is stated that curious
development of Executive intermeddling
with military movements has been devei'
oped by inquiries about the recent Florida
expedition. 1t is said that upon hearing oil
it General Halleck was quite taken by sur
prise, and wrote to General Gilmore to
know what he was doing at Jacksonville, 9
place that had been two or three tunes 10
our possession, aad vas not considered
worth holding, and asking how he came to
go there, not only without orders but with
out the knowledge, AID contrary to the
positive instructions OF the Secretary OF
War and General Halleck In reply Cen
eral Gilmore is said to have enclosed LETT
ter Of instructions from the President,
to him by Mr.. Hay, late Private
Secretary of Mr.. Lincoln, directing the
to be made Since this state
ment has been in circulation it is rumored
that. the expedition was intended simply
for the occupation of Florida for the pur
pose securing the election of three Lin
coin delegates to the National Nominating
Convention, and that Of John Hay to Con-
gress. The cost of the operation to the
government is estimated at about one
million of dollars.
SHERMAN's progress is exciting great
alarm among the rebels, his expedition be
ing declared by them to be the boldest
dash yet made. A Mobile dispatch men.
tlons his arrival at Quitman, Miss, on the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad, twenty-five
miles south of Meridian The rebel forces
at the latter place have retreated, taking
with them, it is claimed, all the Oonfeder-
ate stores. Quitman is only lO9 miles
from Mobile, being situated in Clarke, one
of the eastern line of counties in Missis,
sippi. The Mobile papers talk quite loudly
of the intention to defend the city to the
last, and say it cannot be taken. In the
meantime, Admiral Farragut's feet has ap-
peared off Mobile Bay, and an attack from
the Gulf is expected, though the rough
weather had prevented any offensive opera
tions up to the 10Th, the date of the last
dispatch which we published Whether
Sherman intends to attack Mobile in the
rear, or merely to operate against the rebel
forces which would otherwise 60 to its re-
lief the prospects of the place are far from
agreeable. Governor Watts has issued
ordering all non combatants
out of town, and the authorities are pre-
pairing for the worst. The rebel papers
place Shernan's force at about 10000.
Forrest was last reported at Oxford, face to
face with 5000 Union troops.
LOVE AND MuRDRR.-Frederick Eichler
German about forty years of age, and mar
risd man, loved and lived with German
widow, whom he promised to marry as soon
as he could procure divorce from his
wife. The widow, however, probably aware
of the uncertainties and delays of the law,
shook off her paramour, and some five weeks
married q man named Maen. Being in
q miserable frame of mind, Eichler deter
mined to kill the faithless woman, her hus.
band and himself. Full of this intent, he
invisited the Maen family on Thursday last
and in the kindest manner RECALLED them
with couple of bottles of wine, into which
he introduced quantity Of arsenic. The
poison failing to do its work, Eichler dis
charged pistol at Mr.. Maen's head; but,
excepting that his face wss somewhat burn
ed by powder, the intended victimreceived
no injury. Eichler fed from the house,
and on the same night took lodgings at
Clark's Hotel, in Chatam street, Whee his
dead body was discovered on Friday morn.
ing. A dose of some corrosive poison had
put an end to all his troubles
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