The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-05-19
Miscellaneous Items.


TINES CHANGEs.-The whirligig of
| time has made some queer changes dur
ing the past fewlyears. Five years ago
| Andrew Johnson voted for John c Breck-
| infidge for President; now he is Presi-
| dent himself, and wiH hang Breckenridge
if he can catch HIM.
ANOTHER lot of rebel prisoners have
| been sent to Johnson's Island, near san
| dusky, Ohio. The arrivals and dcpar-
| lures about balance, and there is not
much Indication ola speedy breakup OF
the rebel prison at that place.
THERE is an immense sensation among
the pretty girls in Chicago. A lady's
| dressing case has been shipped from
| London to the Western Sanitary Fair. 1t
| is for the prettiest girl in Chicago. Its
| value is 81 900 in gold but the generous
donor proposes to have "the prettiest'
voted for, ballots 81 90. The party re-
ceiving the most, to have the dressing
case.
GEN FRANK BLAIR is in Washington,
and stopping with his father. He has
turned conservative" and | am not
sure that he calls himself il Republican
even. Gen. Sherman is very indignant,
at his treatment by the newspapers, and
it is said is confident ofcleacing himself
before the Committee on the Conduct OF
the War. He will sOon have an oppOr-
tunity to state all the facts within his
knowledge.
A SUCCESSFUL SwINDLEI.--George De-
| laney. recently fined S70,0QO. and imnri,
vneG Ior ten. years, for recruiting frauds,
has swindled the Government out of half
| a million of dollars. He was at one time
| a hack driver in Norwich, Connecticut.
THE proclamation of President Liii-
| colin to deserters and draft stockholders,
| giving them sixty days to return to their
duty, has lately brought large numbers
back with a view Of ~becoEling good citi-
| zens henceforth. The Office of the Pro-
| vost Marshal at Detroit is thronged with
these men Some three hundred were
unable to report in proper form. and are
compelled TO return to Canada.
EXTRA BILLY SMITn.-General Hal
leck, in an order dated Richmond, May
9Th, has offered twenty-five thousand
dollars reward for the arrest of William
Smith, rebel Governor Of Virginia" The
last heard of BILLY" he was in Stanton,
and stated to the citizens of that town
that he had appointed a committee of
two gentlemen to proceed to Washing
ton, in order to ascertain whether THE
present State Government" of which lie
still regards himself the head, was to he
recognized by the authorities at WASH
ingtOn The same fight, hearing that
our troops were approaching to occupy
the town, he left for parts unknown o.
Mr.. R. P. w. GARNET, appointed on
Saturday last to the lucrative position of
United States Assessor tor the first Dis
trict of Virginia, was a clerk in the Sixth
Auditors Office of the Treasury Depart
meut up to 1861. He resigned his posi-
ton to enter the rebel army; was Captain
of artillery at the battle of Bull Run,
l and was captured there; he was put in
the Old Capitol Prison and releasedon pa
roel; broke the parole and again entered
the rebel services; captured near Malvern
| Hill; he was again sent to the Old Capitol
Prison and released on taking the oath;
and appointed clerk in the Registry of
the Treasury. The House of Representa-
| tives, on motion of Mr.. FarnswOrth, Of
Illinois, asked Secretary Chase for infor-
nation. The Secretary replied that he
had been q clerk, but hadbeen dismissed.
A family Of seven persons were lately
murdered by four bnshwhackers at Baily
| Springs, Alabama. They consisted. of a
Mr.. Wilson two grandsons, two chill
dren, Mr.. Taylor, the operseer, his wife
and two daughters. These fiends pre-
tended to be in a Starving condition and
wsrsh Hospitality received into the family.
They practiced upon their victims the
most horrible cruelities. The military
are In pursuit of the murderers.
THERE has been considerable excite
ment in Wilmington, N. c., lately,ton ao-
count of rumors that the rebel ram Stone
wall was to make q rade on the place
and the garrison of Fort Fisher aud Ores.
we'll were reinforced in anticipations of
the attack. ~. : : ~
TRArToRs 10 BE TRIED IN MARYLAND
Judge Bond, of Baltimore, at the open
ing Of the Criminal Court in that city :
last Monday morning, chargsdthe Grand
Jury to indict, under the State treason
act, all who had in any way given aid
andcomfort to the rebels, since April 10,
1861 The Judge held that all such are
subjects or Indictment and trial under
the laws of Maryland. The Judge also
bcounsels the Grand Jury Ito indict the
members Of the Maryland Commission
for undertaking to trya and decide upon
cases which are purely civil or criminal
odences, reasonable; or othefwise,, kgiti|
imately cogizable by 1tthe State civil