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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-08-04
Report Of the steamer Erin.

New YORK, Aug. 3.-The following is
the report of the steamer Erin, which
vcssel brought the passengers and the
crew of the Glasgow to this city:
August lst. 1880 p. In, we saw a light
on lhe port bow, which proved to be
vessel on fire. At 1890 p. m we found
it to be a steamer OH fire, name unknown.
At 1850 p. IN. we stopped the engines
and sent boat to ascertain if there were
any persons on board, and found the
passengers and crew had left in the ships
boats, and that she was i'll tow OF the
brig Martha Washington, of Searsport,
from Boston for New York, on the 2nd
inst at a. m, we stopped to pick up a
boat with officers and men who reported
that they belonged to the steamer Glas,
gov, on fire, and all their passengers and
crew were there on board the barquo
Rosamund, then in sight We proceeded
to the barque and took off all the pas
.engers and crew belonging to the Glas-
cow, about twenty i'll all, and
brought them to this port
Among the passengers by the Glasgow
were Chas. 4. Sears, U. S. Consul at Ma
leira, wife and daughter; Edward
spencer, of Cincinnati.
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SOMETHING OF DGsAPPOINTMENT.-
The Staunton indicator is responsible
for the following:
During the course of the war citizen
of Delaware saw and admired II damsel,
who had left the South, alienated from
her fathers roof OH account of her
Union" sentiments as she stated, said
father being wealthy resident of Stann-
ton. He sympathized with her in her
exile for opinions sake, and with the at
traction of money ahead, courted and
married her.
The war having ceased few days
since he arrived in Staunton and re-
paired TO the parental domicil to make
himself known as the son-in-law and to
get share of the fathers wealth (his
right in hand.
Reader, we leave you to imagine his
chagrin when he was informed that, in
stead of being the son-in-law, his wife
was Of negro extraction and had only
been the former servant of the gentle.
man, and that his experiment in the
marrying line had resulted in practical
miscegenation instead of fortune. He
left these parts suddenly, sadder but
doubtless wiser man.
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From New Orleaus-Steamboat Acct
dents-Steamer Robbed on Yazoo
Riyer-General Shelby.

New ORLEANS, Aug. 1.-The steamer
Lille, with 700 bales of cotton, was
burned on the river. No lives lost.
The steamer Joseph Pierce exploded
twenty miles below Vicksburg. She sub
sequently caught fire and was burned to
the waters edge, killing and woundlng
twenty eight. The scalding steam pass
ed through every part of the boat For
a few minutes it was almost impossible
to breathe. The air was iiiled with
pieces of flying and falling timber
boards, bricks, &c.
The steamer Dove was boarded by rob-
bers on Yazoo river on Sunday afternoon
and robbed of $4,000 and other valua-
bles. They opened an indiscriminate
fire on the passengers, wounding the
mate and one passenger. The passengers
were stripped of their valuables.
Gov. Hamilton reached Houston on the
Goth enroute for Austin, meeting with
warm reception.
The Houston Telegraph of the 27th
mentions the arrival of officers Of Shelby's
party. Shelby encamped near Monterey
with four OF five hundred men.
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Suppressisn Of Newspaper.
HKADQ'Rs DEPT OF NORTH CAROLINA, }
ARMY OF THE OHIO,
D.x-xo,x NJ n InIx, On IOce L

General Order No. l11.-The publication
of the Daily Uniox Bonner, at Salisbury,
North Carolina. will be suspended until
further orders, for the publication, on the
18th day of July, 1865, of an article
headed, THE Freedman" containing
matter disloyal in spirit, and also tbe fol
lowing paragraph, which is in substance
false:
General Ruger, General Howard, aud
Generals generally, are Eliminating their
peculiar views If these gentlemen are
to fix the status of our cOlored fellow
citizens of African descent, where then
the necessity of holding a convention2
The same power that gives them the
right would entitle them to say what we
should do in every other relation of life
they have already assumed the power
to say what we shall drink and wear"
An order, prohibiting the wearing of
insignia and badges of rank, by persons
lately officers of the insurgent forces, and
one for the prevention of the sale of
liquors, as police regulation, cannot
honestly be considered as assuming "the
power to say what we shall drink and
wear"
Brevet Brigadier General G. w. Sebs-
field, commanding first division twenty
third army corps, is charged with the ex-
ecution of this order.
By command of Brevet Major General
Ruger.
GOfficial CLINTON A CILLEY,
Major and Assistant Adj't General.
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The Cattle Plague.
GREAT DESTRUCTION CT ANIMALs-THE
BLACK GNAT THE FoERRUNNER OF

GREAT DESTRUCTION CT ANIMALS--THE
BLACK GNAT THE FoERRUNNER OF
PEsTILENCE:
The Memphis Bulletin, of the 25th, has
the following, in relation to the cattle
plague heretofore briefly noticed:
I'VE learn from gentleman who has
just returned from Phillips and Critten
den counties, Arkansas, that the planters
in the Mississippi bottoms have been, and
are still, suffering severe loss by the
death of their horses, mules, cattle and
hogs, by a singular disease. which is car
rying them off in great numbers.
I'm the early part of the summer an
incredible number of black & ats made
their appearance in the bottoms, and at
tackled not only cattle and horses, bDt also
birds, wild turkeys, deer and other game
with such ferocity as to kill, in a short
time. quite number of them After the
disappearance of the gnats. disease
broke out among the cattle, horses and
hogs, and has been raging for some time,
and is still prevailing, though the indi-
cations now are that the epidemic-fOr
such it appears to be is abating. This
disease resembles very closely erysipelas,
the attacked swelling up, sometimes nm
der the breast, at other times on the side
but more frequently under the throat,
and dying generally in from twenty-four
to forty-eight hours after being attacked.
"Our informant conversed with several
intelligent planters who have been great
sufferers by this strange disease, among
them physician eminent in his profess
sion, and all of them concurred in the
opinion that it was closely allied to cry
sipelas and also that the visitation of
the gnats in the early part of the sum-
mer had some influence in producing the
disease.
1T is thought that the great amount
of poison which was nescessarlly alb
sorbed into the system by the bite of the
gnat--which is most poisonous insect
is developing itself in the disease which
is now ravaging the whole animal race
in that region. Some cases, when taken
in time, are cured by precisely the same
treatment practiced in cases of erysipe-
las, painting with anodyne the affected
parts having fine effect.
"The loss of stock, especially of hogs,
has been very great. One planter in
Walnut Bend has lost over two hundred
hogs and seven horses and mules, besides
oxen and milch cows. Another, living a
short distance above the one named, has
lost thirteen mules and horses, and hogs
and cattle in proportion. This is only
two of many similar instances of losses
sustained"
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Destruction OF an Oil Well.

PIT HOLE, PA, August 2.--The we'll on
the farm on Pit Hole creek was destroyed
by fire about seven o'clock this morning.
The we'll was finished yesterday and was
flowing about 200 barrels. and no tanks
being up, the oil was allowed to flow on
the ground Some twenty persons were
standing in and around the derrick, some
of them it is feared were unable to escape
for the ground forty feet around was one
sheet of flame in moment. Three men
are known to be seriously injured, and
only saved their lives by jumping into
the creek. The we'll is still flowing and
burning
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MaximiIiau,s Confidential Agent md
the British Government.

New YORK, Aug. "a London news.
paper states that Eloin, the confidential
agent of the Emperor Maximilian, had a
conference with Lord PalmerstOn during
his recert visit to London, but failed ell
tirely in his efforts to induce the latter
gentleman to alter the Mexican policy OF
the English Government. Lord Palmer
ston is represented as telling Eloin that
England would continue to stand aloof
from Mexican entanglements and that he
could do nothing which might be regard
ed as unfriendly by itheIGovernment of
the United States.
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Treasury Department-Negro Troops
Rebel Omcers Tendcring their Ser
vices 20 the Mexican Minister.

New YORK, August 3.-The Times
Washington special says 8. N. MKinney,
chief clerk in the Office of the Solicitor
of the Treasury, yesterday received the
appointment of acting Solicitor of the
Treasury during the absence of Mr.. Jor-
don. Mr.. MKinney at once entered up
on the discharge of the duties the Of
fee.
The Herald's Washington special says
Adjutant General Thomas estimates that
there are one hundred thousand colored
troops in the service. At the close of the
rebellion there were one hundred and ten
thousand, which number was reduced by
the muster out of State organizations.
Many rebel officers arereported to have
rendered thei services and influence to
the Mexican minister, Senior Remro,
within few weeks, for the expulsion OF
Maximilian from the continent. A di.
rect acceptance was not expected OF
course.
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The AssAssINs AND ATTORNEY GEN
ERAL SPEED.-It is said that Attorney
General Speed is preparing and will
shortly premulgate. an opinion as to the
legality of the trial by military COM
mission of the conspirators against the
lives of the President and Cabinet, in
which he sustains the Government in its
action urging in justification that at the
time of the commission of the deed we
were still at war with rebels against the
lawful authority of the Government,
and that the District of Columbia was,
and still is, under martial law, from the
fact that the order of 1861, issued just
after the battle of Bull Run, has never
been revoked.
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WHEELING REGISTER.
FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1865.
TeI.graphic Summary.

Gold closed at theregular board in New
York, yesterday, at Sl.444. and at the
evening exchange at Sl.44s.
majority of the negroes in the vicin
ity of Shreveport, Louisiana. are working
for their former masters under contracts
General Candy has beon petit'oncd to
move the garrison atFort Henderson
to prevent the congregation of negroes
The gunboat Port Royal is the only
vessel guarding the port of Galveston.
General Brown has not sent troops
across the Rio Grandc to assist the Re'
pnblicans in Mexico as reported.
Adyices from MatamOras say the re-
lations between the United States offi-
GERS and soldiers on tho east side of the
river, and the Imperialists on the oppo-
site side, are amicablo.
The steamer Glasgow was burned at
sea OH the 3lst ult The passengers and
,rew were saved and transferred to the
baroue Rosamond, and afterwards to the
steamer Erin.
The steamer Joseph Pierce, recently
exploded below Vicksburg, killing and
wounding twenty eight.
The steamer Dove was robbed on the
Yazoo river OH Sunday afternoon.
1t reported that some seventy bands
4 4 l,.,N-
Rio Grande aud joined the Mexican ser
vice. under the lead of General shelby
Wade Hampton is also expected to join
them.
The mysterious prisoner who was re-
uort.J to be John II. Surratt is said to be
a man named Fuller wao dctrauded the
Repubhcau Executive Committee last
fall
The grand lodges of odd Fellows in
northern and southern New York are to
he consolidated.
A two hundred barrel oil well on Pit
Hole creek in Pennsylvania took fire
Yesterday and caused great destruction
and probable loss of life.
The total receipts ut the national
treasury, during the quarter ending with
March were S90,0O0.0DO. The cxpendi-
cures during the same period were $685.
100000
S. NJ Mckinney has been appointed so
licitor of the Treasury Department.
General Thomas estimates that there
are one hundred thousand negro troops
in the service.
A number Of rebel officers have ten
dcred their services to the Mexican min
ister to aid in expelling Maximilian
from the county. 1t is said that the
agent of the Mexican Emperor met with
10 success or encouragementin in England,
A child of Governor Curtin's, OF Penn
sylvania died yesterday.
Ii is believed that General Butter is 10
De assigned to new command.
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NOT One.

The New York Tribune, referring to the
condition of public sentiment at the
South, employs the following emphatic
language:
1--WE believe" it says, "there is not a
single State (in the South) wherein q
majority of the people are not hearty
Unionists"
This is true, in all it's length and
breadth And, what is more, their is not
now a single practical disunionist in a
single State in the South. Those who
,cere disunionists and secessionists are
cured of their folly, and snly ask pormis-
sion to live in peace and security. as 10y
al and law-abiding citizens of the Gov
ernment Of the United States.
We can assure the able and venerable
editor of the Tribune, that there will be
nothing hut hearty Unionists" in every
ueighborhood in the South, if kind and
sonciliatory policy shall characterize the
conduct of our rulers.. Richmond Wig
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Promo,ion-The National Revenue.

WASHINGTON, August 3.-Brevet Brig
Gen. Mussey, Military Secretary to Pres
ident johnson, and Captain in the 18th
infantry, has been promoted to Colonel in
the regular army for meritorious and val
liable services, while serving in the South
west.
1t appears from official dates that the
receipts from Customs for the quarter end
ing with March were $20,5l9,OOO; inter
nal revenue $65, ,262 900; sales of public
land $4,000; direct taxation $52,7OO;
miscellaneous "a, $4,000. Total in round
numbers, exclusive of loans, S9O,0OO,OOO.
The total expenditures for the same time
W ere 1858, 100000.
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THE SOUTHWEST.
The Freedmen of Louisiana.
The Latest from Matamoras.
Freedmen ms Affairs I'm Louisiana Mil.
itary Collection Of Taxes in New Or
leans NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of the
Blockading squadron OF Galveston
Amicable Relations. between United
States Omcers and the Imperialisfs-
Adyices from Matam0ras.
IDraou n;anofch 1
Press Dispatch.)

New YORK, August 3.-The Herald's
New Orleans correspondent says the
regulation of freedmen's affairs and the
adjustment of difficulties between the
planters and the colored people, of course
still engross large portion of attention
on the part of the Government officials
and the public generally in Louisiana.
The Assistant Superintendent Of Freed
men at Shreveport gives very favorable
statement, representing that majority
of the negroes in that section OF the State
and now working under contracts with
their former masters.
Some of the planters in the vicinity OF
Fort Henderson have petitioned General
Candy for removal of the garrison at
that place, on the plea that the negroes
are neglecting to work and f1ocking
thither. The General has referred the
matter to the Freedmen's Bureau, but 1t
is not likely that the garrison will be re-
moved The General has recently issued
an order terminating the collection OF
taxes in New Orleans for municipal pur-
poses by the military authorities, the as
sessment now provided for by the State
law being considered ample.
On the Goth of July all but two of the
vessels of the late blockading squadron
remaining off Galveston were ordered
North, and in a few days after one of
them, the steam sloop of war Oneida, also
took her departure, leaving only the gum
boat Port Royal to guard the port.
Tho Herald's correspondence from Ma
tamoras and Brownsville shows the fall
sity of the silly stories published in some
of the papers Of Washington aud other
places to the effect that General Brown
has sent United States troops across the
Rio Grand to assist the Mexican Repub'
licans against the Imperialists.
Advices from Matamoras are to the 18th
of July, up to which time the most amic-
able relations prevailed between our own
officers and soldiers on the east side OF
the river in Texas, and the Imperialists
on the opposite side. Movements on the
other side of the stream give every indi-
cation of the design of maintaining there
a permanent military establishment OF
considerable strength.
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ANOTHER CASE.
HEADQUARTERS DEPT OF GEORGIA,
OFFICE PROVOST MARSHAL GEN,
AUGUSTA. Ga, July %. 1865.

HEADQUARTERS DEP T OF GEORGIA,
OFFICE Provost MARSHAL GEN,
AUGUSTA, Ga, July %, 1865.
General-The Major General commaud-
ing directs me to call your attention to
the following article, published in the
Macon Journal and Messenger, of July
26th, 1865:
ALoYAL CITIzEN-If subscribing to
the following document constitutes one
"loyal citizen" we, the editor. belong
to that happy class. AS a public jour
nalist We are unwilling to counsel 9th
ers to do that what we would not do our
self. Hence we have availed ourself of
the first opportunity to take the amnesty
"oath," and thus qualify ourself for ac-
tive duties of citizenship. We had to
fortify ourself for the occasion with an
extra amount of Dutch courage" but
by no means recommend. this as ncces-
sary preliminary to taking the oath"
Here is the form of the document:
United States Of America, State of Geor-
gia, County of Bibb Il, Augustus p. Burr,
of the County of Spalding and State of
Georgia, do solemnly swear, or affirm, in
the presence of Almighty God, that l
will henceforth faithfully defend the
Constitution of the United States, and
the Union of the States Hereunder, and
that will, in like manner, abide by and
faithfully support all laws and proclama-
tiOns which have been made during tho
existing rebellion, with reference TO the
emans patton of slaves. So help me God
(Here our autograph.)
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
this 18th day of July, 1865.
TSigned1 &C. GREENE,
Mai. and Prov. Marshal C. c. NJ ID. NJ.
Immediately after the above perform
ance we Smiled" and we were fortified
in front and rear"
The writing and publishing of this
article, under all the circumstances, is "a
high crime against the United States
Government, now seeking every possible
Cancellation to re establish the civil law
in Georgia. 1t is in spirit, if not in
words, an open violation of the oath
taken by the editer himself, and it is cal
culated, and doubtless designed, to him
der and deter the people in their efforts
to comply with the generous terms Of
fered by the President of these people.
The editor is necessarily bad man
incendiary in his character, and well
calculated, if permitted, to do great evil,
the consequences of which will rest upon
Others rather than himself
His words is worthless, and his oath
not to be trusted To prevent the recur-
renee of such publications, you will cause
the immediate arrest of -, the edi-
tor, and place him in close confinement,
and not permit him to either converse or
write upon political subjects. You will
seize the press, type, aud entire material
of the paper, and not allow its further
publication upon any condition what
ever
You will cause report Of your action
in the premises to be made to these head
quarters.
l am, General, very respectfully, your
Obedient servant,
C.. III. GROsvENOR,
Brevet Brig. Gen. and Pro. Mar
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ITsrrIrI SprrELTha New Orleans Pic

USEFUL SPrTE.-The New Orleans Pic
aynse says that ION account of the demor.
alization of negro labor in many parts of
the State the white population have Wig
orously and industriously taken hold Of
the work themselves, and are producing
some of the best crops now growing
The people are beginning to see that un-
der the new system Of African labor, or
rather want Of systen, no further depen-
denoe is to be put in that race, and they
have resolved to do their work them
selves" Nobody win be found object
ing to that. When thewhite mon in the
South go to work, The South will know
what real prosperity Il
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JUDGE WALKER AND GENERAL But

JUDGE WALKER AND GENERAL But
LER.-Judge Walker, q prominent resi-
dent of Louisiana, who before the war
conducted the Delta newspaper and for q
long time the Cincinnati Enquirer, was
one of the most active members of the
convention which passed the ordinance
of secession, for which he voted. Butler
on his arrival sent him to Fort Pickens
and afterwards banished him from the
city. which favors the Judge reciproca-
ted by writing up Butler's doings at his
leisure. The manuscript is nearly ready
for publication, has been in fact sent on
to New York where il made considerable
stir among the publishers, and will prob
Ably soon see the light.
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sentence Commu,ed-From Canad,

New YORK, August 3-Sherff Boyer
arrived in Brooklyn this morning, with
an official order from the Governor
committing the sentence of Michael Ken
nedy, who was to have been hanged to
morrow for the murder of John Raven
burgh, to imprisonment for life. The
prisoner will be conveyed to the State
Prison as soon as possible.
The Commercials Quebec special says
the funeral of Sir Etinne P. Tache, late
Prime Minister of Canada, took place
Yesterday, with impressive ceremonies
The appointment of new Premier ex-
cites great interest. There will probably
be a reconstruction Of the cabinet
Messrs. Cartier and Mcdonald are spoken
of for the position; also Mr.. Cauchon.
The appointment is likely to turn on the
question Of confederation. 1t is known
no effort will be spared to render the
cabinet unanimous and effective on this
mint
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Late News from Mnfamoras.
Press Dispatch.]

New YORK, August 3.-The Tribune's
Matamoras correspondent, writing on the
14th of July, says he has learned from a
good source that some seventy lands OF
Confederates have lately crossed the Rio
Grande with the view of entering the
Mexican service, and that General Shell
by is charged with the organization
Wade Hampton, who is at Comargo, with
six hundred men, is to form part of the
force. General De 10 Portilla has come
to this point by order of his Government
to grant land to exiles and give them ev-
cry facility to settle upon them, admit
ting free of duty agricultural imple:
ments, minerals, &c.
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A correspondent of ne Philadelphia
Inquirer denies that tbs colored schools
at Richmond, virginfAs have been closed,
adding that he has .sst to meet the first
man or woman in RIehnond who now
objects to negro ednention. Whatever
the people of Virginia nay be politically
they are not fools, sad Knowing that sla-
very 10 dead they can lilly realize that
the more intelligest - Tree negro, the
moro valuals hs % q - kboesr.r
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General RutIer-.Thc Prcsident.

The Posts Washington special says it
ia believed that Gen. Butler, who is there
is about to be assigned to new com-
mand.
The President is only receiving q few
officials to-day. W..
Ex.Gov. Wickliffe, of La, is in wash
ipgton. on pardoning mission.
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Odd Fellows in New York-Counter-
feits in Circulation.

NEW York, August Sat the meeting
of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows yes
terday, the proposition to consolidate the
Grand Lodges of Northern and Southern
New York was adopted.
An attempt was made to put in circu-
lation, last night, counterfeit SIS on Clark
j. Co.'S bank, of Pulaski