The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-12-27
News from New York,

NEW YORK, Dec. 26,-Wm. h. Hupp,
the would-be murderer and suicide, who
shot Miss Fannie Dayton in Brooklyn ON
Saturday, is quite favorable and recov'
ering. Miss Daytons condition is very
low. She will hardly recover.
Generals Steedman and Whitacre have
arrived in this city.
Christmas was celebrated with great
fervor in this city yesterday. Christmas
dinners and presents were given to the
children of Howards Mission. and Home
for Little Wanderers, the Five Points
Mission, the Five Points House OF Indus
try and to the veterans in the Soldiers
Depot. Mr. c. W. Farmer opened his
doors to the widows and children OF the
dead union soldiers OF the war. Christ
mas dinners were also given by the insti'
tutions of charity in Brooklyn, Jersey
City and elsewhere.
MIR. Francis Smith, the merchant who
was shot at his residence in Brooklyn, at
four o'clock on Sunday morning last, by
a burglar, is in 4 comfortable, though
low condition last night. No positive
cline of the assassin had been obtained
up to last evening
DR. Christopher WeltZ, an eminent sur
geou aud physician, for many years con
nected with the coroner's office. died
suddenly at the New York Hospital, on
Sunday evening.
There is considerable excitement in
the city, owing to the PRONUNCIATION 10y
the senatorial party of Fenians i'll Ger.
tain documents bearing upon the present
Fenian troubles. A letter from Joseph
Stephens, obtained at the Dublin trial,
denominatiug O'Mahony 4 drag-chain
and stumbling block. The movement
for compromise is going on, and the
rank and file begin to favor the retire
ment of both O'Maheney and the Senate
The Herald's Vera Cruz correspondent
DATING the 18th inst, writes that the OLD
ImpeTialist rumor that Juarez had re-
stoned the Presidency Of the Mexican
Republic was again being circulated
| The story is cauard and intended, as IL
previous cases, TO affect the Mexican he
publican loans The lmperiallsts just
before the sailing of every Frenel
steamer hatch up and circulate some
ru,nor to foster up MaXimillan's cause IL
the mind of the public in Europe.
The Post says: The tone of confidence
which prevailed in Wall street last week
is rather subdued and modified this
| morning by variety of causes, A.
| most of these causes are temporary II
their nature the expectation is freely
| expressed by large number OF lntelii
cent business men that the present ant
prospective ease in money will give al
impetus to business early in January
The loan market is very easy at 7 pc
cent, and the accumulation OF capital
SO much increasing, that lenders In som lIl
cases are accepting lower rates. In
stock market opened dull and closes
heavy. Foreign exchange is quiet =,
The supply steamer Massachusetts, vii
leave the Brooklyn navy yard on Satul
day. with mails, passengers and store
for the Gulf and Atlantic squadron
patition is being signed IN tins cit'
nv msn who enlisted in the Union arm
after the beginning of the war oe1or
tne massage of the law granting larg
honpt;es and who have been discharges
on ascount of sickness, wounds lnJu
! ries, promotions, expiration OF term
service or ofre-enlistment, asking COZ
gress to give them bounties IN propol
ton to the bounties that were gwen Z
soldiers who entered the service aufin
the latter part of the war.