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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18
+ Fresheis.

BUFFALO, March 17.-There is great
fleshet in this vicinity. The Lake
Shore, Erie and Central railroads are all
more or less injured. The mails are de
layed and telegraph communication with
the East interrupted.
CLEVELAND, March l7-There are tire
mendous floods IN Allegheny, Oil and
French creeks The bridge over Oil
creek at Oil City is gone, and commune
cation by rail with tho latter place sus-
pended. I
FRANKLIN. Pa March lG.-AWe are hay-
ing the greatest flood ever known in
this region. The bridge at Oil City and
the French Creek bridge at Franklin
were swept away. Miles of railroad
track are gone, and the telegraph lines
on Oil Greek are washed away. Houses
tanks. barrels full and barrels empty
cover the river The loss is estimated
by the million. The river is still rising
UTICA. March II The water in this
vicinity is three feet higher than ever
before known. The gas works are effect
ually stopped. Allthe fires arp out and
no gas can be furnished to our citizens
for days to come. The iron bridge across
the river, built by the U.-& B. r. R. Co,
was carried away about one o'clock :
Little Falls was the fartheSt point that
has been. reached to-day. There were
about two;nples of telegraph poles and
wire down this side of Little Falls
The extent of damage east of that place
is unknown.
ROCHESTER, March II, p. M.-There is
the greatest food in Rochester and vicins
ity ever known The water i'll the river
fills all the arches under the aquednct,
and overhows the railroad bridge. 1t is
several feet deep running down Ex
change street, and flows down Buffalo
street, near Arcade, filing all the cellars
aud covering the ground floors of many
of the principal stores. ----=
No trains have left the city eastward
on the Central or Genesee Valley railroad
since yesterday at : o'clock. The water
is still rising, but rs it has snbs1ded IN
the river at Mount Morris, it is hoped
that 10 great damage viii result more
than has already been done,
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18
WHEELING REGISTER
,rrRoAY MORNING, MARCH 49, i''''
T.,.a,,nhic summary.

1 o,d water conspired to make
,,rt telegraphic report this morning
r1o,d. ,r in various parts of the country in'
fly Sr,1 with telegraphic mattersfo an
'''" that interrupted communication
~ New York, aud We are without o"'
VIA an, commercial report by telegraph
Grant in an official communica-
20 tbe War Department, chronicles
w w., receipt of a letter from Sherman "a
~ ~ Fayetteville, 18th, describing the
in a fine condition, and meeting
'' .h no serious opposition. At Coium-
~" r,enals railroad establishments and
mon were destroyed, and at Chera"
,rse quantities OF war material snareu
SIMILAR fate sss-
General Grants ordersuspending trade
Its interferes with the calculations
many spectators. Heavy transae-
n. IN cotton, turpentine, tar, rosln ana
.rco are effected by it.
dispatch from Fortress Monroe ia
March 18th, says that Schoheld' with
=, cooperation of Couch, is fully pre-
ard to defeat Bragg.
IN the 10th, the New Jersey Senate
..isctpd the Constitutional amendment
.6olisbing slavery
IN the late encounter between KiIpat-
III and Hampton, the latter is said to
-, sr,nrised and captured nearly all
:, ..ms,,s staff The Federals were re-
%...d boweyer. aud the lost ground re-
captured. ,, .roon.
Owing to the heavy demand for troops
richmond most Of the newspapers
bova heen compelled to suspend and the
D;,ootcI only appeared on a half sheet
A dispatch from N9wbern' i'th' gives
..no,ts of Sherman's occupation OF
Goldsboro on Friday afternoon, and the
.,nture Of the 10th North Carolina rebel
regiment
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Movements Of Sherman's Army-OC-
cupatiOn Of GOldsbOro Reported.
Press Dispatch. !

NEwBERN, n. c., March Il, ?. NJ.
Officers jnst from the front state that an
order was read to the troops on Saturday
evening last, from Maior-General Cox
commanding, stating that they would bo
joined by Sherman's army in three days.
which created the greatest enthusiasm.
A rebel surgeon came in this morning
and took the oath ofallegiance. He says
that Sherman's cavalry was in Troy, n.
c., few days since, and that one wing
of his army was moving on Fayetteville,
one on Goldsboro and another on Ra-
leigh.
Yesterday afternoon the MAYOR of kins
ton surrendered the city to our forces -
The bridge being burnt prevented our
forces from Gre ssing. PontOons were
sent up this morning for that :
The enemy retreated rapidly from Kins
ton to Goldsboro.
A report this morning states that Sher-
man is in possession of Goldsbnro, and
that the enemy are rushing back to
Kinston to prevent our forces from cross
ing the Neuse river at that point. This
is not official, however
The enemy left 700 of their dead on
the field before crossing the river, which
we buried; also many wounded, which
fell into our hands
The gunboat Shamrock has gone up
the Neuse to Kinston, The river is very
high
E. P. Gardner, Govt detective, has
lust arrived from the front and states that
he saw bearer of dispatches from Gen.
Sherman who told him that General Sher-
man was at Goldsboro at 2 O'clock on
Friday afternoon. The enemy. made a
charge on our works. which was repulsed
and we captured the 46th North Carolina
rebel regiment /. |,
No fighting of any account occurred
Yesterday OF today. There has beenno
rain since Thursday last The weather
is warm and pleasant and the roads good.
General Schofeld left for the front this
morning. He received a communication
Yesterday from General Sherman via.
Wilmington Sherman says he is all
right The negroes are being pressed
into work on the railroad.
Brigadier General Emery a brother-in-
law Of General Sherman, has just arrived
here with his staff, for the purpose OF
Joining General Sherman member OF
his staff says there is no doubt but what
thoy will join Sherman in few days.
The steamer Zodiac arrived Yesterday
at Morehead City, from New York, max
ing the trip in tOrty-tive hours, which is
the fastest time made since The war
The U. s. transport steamer RebeCca
Clyde and steamer New Jersey left here
this afternoon.
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The Springfield Mass lRepubltcan is

responsible tor the following;
Last week i'll village hard by,
where ministers are not so plenty as in
larger places, Squire IA Justice OF
the peace, a man of good common sense
and sterling integrity, remarkable for
bfuutness rather than blaudness of man
ner, aud whose literary attaiumcuts eX
tended to the writing of his name, was
called on bya colored family to make a
few remarks at the funeral of their son
in the absence of the only clergyman in
the place The weeping friends were
seated about the room, when he rose and
said: Its pretty bad; but, if / was you
Iwould'nt take on so. Its all for the best
S'pose he'd lived and grown to be fat
healthy boy-why, he'd never been moth
ing but id nigger anyhow"
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18

INFORMATION by telegraph from San
Francisco has been received i'll this city
that an oil we'll is reported struck, flow
ing two hundred barrels per day-the
existence of oil in abundance on the
northern coast of California being thus
abundantly demonstrated. This is un-
derstood TO he the first paying well sunk
in region where the existence of petro-
leum in paying quantities was first dem
onstrated, in December last, according to
a report a Professor Silliman.
The surface oil discovered is described
AS of the consistence of good sperm oil
in color greensh yellow and opalescent,
almost without odor, what it has being
rather agreeable than otherwise, and
somewhat resembling turpentine. Its
specific gravity is about 900. water being
the unit, which is not very different from
the density of average crude petroleum
It's boiling point is high. The excite
ment which, since the December discov-
cries, has prevailed throughout the Cali,
tornia region, will doubtless be increased
ty the announcement which isnow made
" \. UOrid ...Ta 1. ..I.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18

The INDIAN WAR AS a number OF
tribes are combined, the Indian war III
Colorado may be prOtracted, interrupt
ing trade, and involving the destruction
Of much property. The wintercampaign
has thus far been i'll some respects disas
, tOus The Indians swarm on all the
fads have destroyed forty or fifty white
ben and women, captured and burned
number of emigrant trains, and closednp
the overland mail route, thus isolating
tha people of Colorado and Utah, Mon
Dana and Idaho, New Mexico and Arizo-
la compelling them to pay eXorbitant
zfuces for all the necessaries of life. The
FlT against the Indians is a process OF
determination, and il unavoidable by
feaSon of continued outrages on their
part, will be earnestly prosecuted. We
Observe statements in the Western press,
gwen with much detail, represent
nng that the Indians were forced into
= hostile attitude by military plumbers
ll ls64 64twoexpeditions were sent into the
INDIAN country, with little effect, till,
y the friendly intervention of Major
Nynkoop. several prominent chiefs were
4nduced to deliver up their arms and
fruSt to the protection of Fort Lyon,
Eth the assurance that they should not
te molested In November they OBJ
fained permission togo forty miles from
fhe fort to hunt buffalo. On the 29th of
That month, while encamped on Sand
freek. they wore attacked by ten compa-
pies of the Sd Colorado and two battal-
2onS of the 1st Colorado. in all nearly soc
ten. commanded by Colonel j. NJ. Chev-
hgton. In the official report of this bat
fle Col C.. says ut may, perhaps be
Unnecessary for me to state that cap
tured no prisoners. Between FIVE and
N hundred Indians were left dead on
Pie field. About FIVE hundred and fifty
pieces, mules and horses were cap
ured. A writer in the St. Louis Repab-
<tcan OF the lith instant states, on good
authority, that when the attack was
nade White Antelope advanced, hold
ing in his upraised hands paper signed
by Majors Anthony and Wynkoop. piedg
4ng to him and his band the protection
pt the government, and requiring officers
Commanding troops TO give like protee
fion. Finding that no attention was
owen to his proposals for protection, he
Folded his arms, and, standing erect, was
kllled by hundreds of balls"
II lfthe Indians areuo combined, ,wreak-
Dug their vengeance on every helpless
fraveler, they only obey the instincts of
their wild nature-but the end will prob
|tbly be their annihilation.
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From California.

SAN FRANCIsCo, March l6.-The steam,
ship Sierra Nevada, from Poland and
Victoria, brings nearly $4,000 in golG.
The emigration of Chinese is lowing
into British Columbia
An expedition for the cod fisheries OF
the coast of Sitka had sailed from Vic
toria. Other vessels are preparing to
follow The coasting trade of Victoria
is thrown open to foreign vessels on equal
terms. -
Severe weather still checks mining
operations in the North.
Arrived, ship Archer Boston.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18

WE learn that loyal man under
took to read Washington's Farewell Ad-
dress on the 22d OF February. He read
silently and sullenly for some time. AT
last he rose from his seat, grated his
teeth, and threw the book down in j
passion why, John" said his aston
isbed wife, what on earth ails you y
'Why," said John, "Ill be cussed if |
sit still aud hear the YooHSun party
abused even by old Washington himseltl'
The good woman knew he had good cause
fol- anger, and she chided him not, but
commenced singing the baby to sleep
with the National Hymn-"John Browns
body" etc, etc. The.whole family are
loyal - ChrIeiiNe Teleqraph.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18
: DRUSxrS Men IN PUBLIC LIFE,-It is

DRUNKEN Men IN PUBLIC LIFE,-lt is
time to speak The scandal of tins
country is drunken men in public life
The disgrace makes onr cheeks tipgle,
makes us blush, makes us hang our head
and sieken at heart A drunken man on
the street is humiliating spectacle
The eve of the least sensitive self respect
turns away i'll disgust from it But a
drunken man in public life is public
miliation-a humiliation that involves
nation. 1t travels to the end of the
wires. Every eye everywhere is wit
ness of the shame We are pilloried by
it for the scournful gage of all the good,
of all the world.-Chicago (Rep) jour.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18
=. WHEET ING. w Y. SATU RDAY MORNING, MARGH l8 IL
lTheI.acshie ssyle.

As applied to epistles and telegrarns
this is excellent A husband telegrsphed
tohi wife, 'What have you for break
fist, and how is babya" The answer
came "Buck kwheat cakes and the meas
les" IT ~ y IILaf rtH b. Ha'
The cheapest telegram ever sent was
by an rishman-Said to the tele-
graph operator, -,Dp Soueharge anybody
for the address in q message Me-
replied the OPERATOR, And do you charge
for signing his name. sir r. No, sir. -
Well thin, will We plase send this I
jist want me brother TO know I'm here -,
handling tthe following: TO JOHN Nc
Finn = at New York-{signed)--
PATRICK McFLINNr5 The message was
sent and no charge made. :
Humphreys, the boxer. after he had
conquered Mendoza, the Jew wrote Il
"DEAR JoHN I've done the Jew.
-7 a Yeurs, ~ ~'' T. HUMPHREYS"
Everybody has heard Of the famous
letters which passed between the adverse
chiefs Of Sir. O'Cenyen and Tyrone: 4 =
PAY me my tlibate, or if you don't
JSaaF.is s1Sq }TE7 SaEGocosSELI't = -
- Il owe you no tribute, and if / did
H'.ha 80 = ~ ~ .O'NEILL."
After Keau's performance of Abel Drug
ger, fofsI his own benefit, at Drury Lane
Theatre, Mrs Garrick, with more SINGER
'ity than politeness, wrote as follows:
Dear Sir: You can't play Abel Drug
ger. Yours, s-saS GARRiCK"
ITO EDMUND KEaN, Esq '
To this the modern Roscius laeonically
replied: s.srL ....- "a e..
Dear Madame: I know it.
Yours, ..ig E. KEAN"
"To Mrs GARRICK."
The celebrated Foote'S correspondence
with his mother is equally pithy;
'"Dear Sam: Pm in prison.
Your loving mother A. FoorE."
Dear mother: So am |:
Your affectiouate sou,
.. til..i SAM FOoTE."
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18
Gen. Grants Order suspending Trade
Permits.

New YORK, March i6-The Boston All
vertiser's special says of Gen Grants or
der suspending all trade permits: The
order, it will he seen, strikes down at
one sweep the whole brood OF cotton, to-
bacco, tar and turpentine speculators,
setting aside alike the permits OF special
agents, cabinet ministers and even ofthe
President himself. Official records show
that it will affect jobs covering over half
a million bales of cotton, 5000 barrels
of turpentine, 1000 barrels of tar, 1000
barrels of rosiu and 100000 boxes of to-
bacco.-
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18
From Canada.

QUEBEC, March ls--It is expected that
Parliament will adjourn tomorrow, when
the delegates from the Canada Govern
ment Will proceed Immediately to En-
gland to confer with the Imperial Govern
meut in relation to the questions OF de-
tense and OF commercial relation with
the United States and other Important
matters
MONTREAL, March FIT is expected
that the court will resume its sitting on
the ST Albans raiders case on Monday.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18

A few days ago man was found sus-
bonded by the neck in the moose of rope
hung to a peg in a barn in Quincy. He
PTas cut down unconscious. On being
festored and questioned as to why he
pas in that position, he replied that he
Pad been thinking about a man that
Rung himself, and thought he should like
know how it would feel to be hung,
Pat the rope was not so long as he thought
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18
Gold and stock Market.

BUFFALO, March iT.-The following
gold aud stock reports have been obtain
ed from parts who received private
messages from New York via Montreal:
Gold opened at 81 675, fell TO 81 63i
reached 81 6e5 and closed at 81 654 at 5
p IN. 5-2O's 81 Us; 10 4O's 944. Pittsburg
691 Fort Wayne S4t
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18

CANADIAN ANNEXATION. - Hon. NJ.
Dorlon, i'll the lower house of the Cana
dian Parliament, on Thursday last made
a strong speech in favor of annexation
to the United States 1t is deemed some
what significant that so prominent
Lnwer Canadian Liberal as Mr.. ID. should
have taken this position so quickly on
the heels of the failure Of the Confeder;
alton scheme -...r ., .s ...
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18

A MoNsrRoUs QuAcK There is man
in Chicago who is doing large business
in healing the diseased by simply touch
inp them The hall in which he manip-
ulstes is daily crowded BY hundreds
afflicted by all the ills that flesh is heir
to. His patients profess to believe them
selves cured.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18

Anew York paper thinks Andrew John
son needed little stimulant to bear up
under the excitement OF the Inaugural
ton, and that owing to his feeble state
of health a small quantity had a power
full effect. There is no doubt about the
efect-the quaAtiy. is debstesble fact
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18
WAR BULLETIN.
Letter from Gen. Sherman.
Suspension Of Rebel Papers.
The Captures at Columbia, CheHaw
zJhT and F Fayetteville.
-y JI2 -.t Press Dispatch.I

cl6uot WAR DEPARTMENT,
- - WASHINGTON, March 16, $50 P Ms
fs Major General Dir: .-- ..r
The following, dispatch has been re-
ceived this evening at the Department:
- W airH Cry PoINT, March l6
Hon. G. " Dana; Assistant Sec'y Of Waf:
| am just in receipt Of a letter from
General Sherman, dated 18th, from Fay
etteyille He describes his army as in
fine health and spirits, having met with
no serious opposition. Hardeeo keeps in
his front at respectful distance. AT
Columbia he destroyed immense arsenals
and railroad establishments and 43 can
nom At Cheraw he found much machi'
merry and war material, including 20 can
non and $500 pounds of gunpowder In
Fayetteville he found 20 pieces of artil-
lery and much other material. He says
nothing about Kilpatrick's defeat by
Hampton, but the officers who brought
the letter say that before daylight on the
10th, Hampton got two brigades in the
rear of Kipatrick's headquarters, and
and captured all the staff but
two officers, Fitzpatrick escaped and
forming his men, drove the enemy with
great loss, recapturing about all he had
lost Hampton lost Sc left dead on the
the field
Sigurd L. S GRANT,
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18

A GREAT ARMY OF, DEAD MEN.--7A
Washington correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Gazette states, upon authority Of
official information gathered at the War
Department, that the number of soldiers
who have lost their lives in the service
since the war began reaches fnAy 24o,-
900 Whereupon the Enquirer remarks;
This does not, of course, include those
who went home stricken with fatal dis
ease and died after their term expired =
Soldiers-espeeially such as are bred in
cool climates and serve in warm ones
when returned TO peaceful life, die faster
than citizens. Five years after the war
in Mexico more than half OF those who
served in it as privates and petty officers
and returned were in their graves The
statistics from the War Department,
therefore, startling as they are, do not
tell the whole story-do not, by any
means, make the grim picture complete
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18

BREAD FOR THE PooR-Loaf-giver
ia the old Saxon. loft dag-applied TO
those females who displayed their chari-
ty by distributing bread TO the poor
aHd by the mutations of language, lotf
dag has become lady. How many OF the
ladies ofour day are loafgiversl
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The River at Pittsburg.

PTTTsBURG, March l7-Midnight.-
River at IL O'clock 90 feet and rising at
the rate of inches per hour 1t wants
only 1s inches of being TO the flood
here in 1862.
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The New Jersey Senate Rejects the
Coastiiutiona1 Amendment.

TRENroE.N. J.. March l6.-After able
speeches by Messrs. Buckley, of Passaic,
and Covell, of Camden, the constitution,
al amendment for the abolition of slavery
was lost in the Senate by vote OF " to Z.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18

The Courier dss Etats Unis "dehes the
most skillful translator to bring the po-
htical biblical sentences Of Mr. Linco In
within the comprehension OF common
mortals." How about the Vice Presl-
dents speechi
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18

THE President has appointed Brigadier
General B W Brice of Ohio, Paymaster
General U. 8. A., to date from November
18th, 1894, vice Andrews retired
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-18

Ir is reported that "Old" Blair intends
TO convert his Silver Springs residence
into a. Cure" for tue treatment Of pile
bians" troubled with incoherence. Ref.
erenee: Hon" Andy johnson, Vice Pfssi
dent of the United States.
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L. S GRANT,
Lieutenant General.

Another telegram from General Grants
headquarters reports that the Daily Dis
patch is the only paper issued to-day in
Richmond. 1t says: The Dispatch is
published this morning on half sheet
only, because of the fact that all the
employees, printers, reporters and clerks
are members of military organizations,
and were called ont yesterday morning
by the Governor to perform special ser
vice fora short time. But for the kind
hess OF few friends who are exempt
from service, and who volunteered their
aid, the half leaf presented would OF
necessity have been withheld In few
days at farthest our forces will return to
their posts, when we hope to resume and
continue uninterrupted our full sized
sheet
There is no other news Of moment
from amy qusrter
Signed {. A. DANA