The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-01-11
General Intelligence.

AT Denver, Colorado, apples of the
sss sss OF essnd @s5blGs b ss 4Fa SIg sseshii
dollars por bushel, or Ave dollars aud
fifty cents per pound.
Hon. Edwin Hammond, Of Middlebary,
Vt, recently sold his celebrated ram
Fortune" to three gentlemen OF Penn
sylvania, for the large sum o five thou
sand dollars.
1t il entirely a misapprehension to sup
pose that the United States eonscription
law provides for drafting men between
eighteen and twenty years Twenty IL
the minimum ago.
The pews in Henry Ward Beecher's
Church were sold at auction on the 2d
inst The premium paid on the first one
hundred pews was $4,000 The whole
sale amounted to $50 900, All increase OF
$4,000 over last year,
That gigantic piece Of fireworks which
was recently set Oti i'll the vicinity OF
Fort Fisher, contained five hundred and
twenty thousand pounds of powder, and
its aggregate cost to the government was
slightly in excess of quarter OF mil
lion of dollars.
The newly elected Governor Fenton, OF
| New York, was formerly Democrat, and
voted for his predecessor, Governor Sey
mour, three times for the same office Oi
Governor, and Sustained him during the
first two years of his administration.
The army correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Commercial says that General
Thomas was delayed three days in his
pursuit of Hood by the pOntOen trains
which had been ordered to follow uI
from Nashville at once, going or through
some uuaccountable blunder, on the road
To MuTfreesborO
The new Confederate conscription aci
e1empts zone editor for each newspaper
which was published at the time of the
passage of the act, and such practical
printers and pressmen as said editor may
certify OH oath to be indispensable 10 the
publication of such newspapers" Davi:
is more clever to the fraternity than
Father Abraham"
About ten thousand pieces of Roman
money, principally Of the reign OF Au
gustus, TibeTius, Claudius and Nero
have Just been discovered in the bed d
the Mayenne, at st Leonard Their
presence is explained by the fact Of 4
dangerous ford having formerly e1isteC
at this spot, aud the custom OF traveller
to throw into the river piece Of money
10 propitistion
! Major General q D. Howard, ws under
stand, is Ia take command of the Depart
meut of Missouri, and be will be succeed
ed in command of the Army Of the Ten
n.ssee by Major General John a. Logan
The latter is now IN New York, whence
he will proceed to Savannah. II an!
change OF commanders IL made IN Ken
tucky, it is understood that General But
ler win he assigned to that department
A Washington correspondent of tn
Indianapolis Journal says that Mrs
Hutchins, the fashionable RaltIAIOr'
rebel, was pardGned BY the President, u
secure the exchange ef Mr. Patterson
Allen, of Richmond, Of whose arrest bI
the rebels for "dislOyalty" our reader'
have already been informed. Mrs. Ailei
is said to have been rendered INSANE by
the cruel imprisonment to which she ha'
been subjected
A uLotoaraph Of old John Brown
wreathed in laurel, Is now hanging IN th'
narIor Of the mansion formerly belonging
70 n. A Wise, who hung the original II
another part Of the State The estate
situated about eight miles south Of Nor
folk, has been confseated by the govern
ment A plau Of secession drawn up By
Wise in 1857, and approved by Jsff
Davis, was found in the house
Here's An "oiI sforyr from the Werees
ter Spy.-Ths supply OF petroleum on
bids fair 70 DO in excess Of thedemand.--