The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-10-30

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Rankin, alias Finch, the counterfeiter'
was found guilty.
The Elizabeth City county cours Is In
session at Hampton, Virginia,
The rumor that our naval vessels are
To he mt in commission is untrue.
The President has not yet made a de
eision in the case of Henry Wirz.
Gov. Allen publishes card urging the
withdrawal of his name as gubernatorial
candidate.
Parties have for several days been cx-
ploring the subteraaean passages under
Nashville.
Gen. Muzzy, late secretary to the Pres
ident has been order to the command OF
his regiment.
Gen. Grant has purchased, and will re-
at for his winter residence, a portion OF
the property known as the Douglas Hos
pitAl.
President johnson has issued proc
lamation setting apart the first Thurs
day in Decembci ; a day of National
Thanksgiving.
It is reported that Caleb Gushing will
supercede Mr. Adams in England, and
that Mr.. Adams returns home to be Sec
rotary of State.
The United States steamer Rhode
Island sailed from Fortress Monroe to
Havana to convey the old steamer Shen-
andoah TO Washington.
The difference heretofore existing be-
tween General Burbridge and Governor
Bramlette, of Kentucky, has been ami.
cably adjusted.
The passengers of the North Star have
published resolution denouncing her
owners for sending her to sea in the con-
dition which they knew her to be.
An instruction has broken out among
the negroes ofJamaica. Four Spanish
war vessels have been despatched to aid
in putting the negroes down.
Edward B. Ketchum was arraigned in
the court of general sessions before Re-
corder Hoffman, and withdrew his plea
of not guilty, on the gold check indict.
ment for forgery in the third degree, and
put in plea of guilty.
There was seizure of alcohol in
Brooklyn on last Friday, for revenue
frauds, in which Custom House clerk,
. Virginia ex-rebel, and heavy Brook
Ign firm are implicated.
The Senate of the Fenian Brotherhood
held o session in New York on last Fri
day, and established Financial. Military,
Naval and Civil Bureaus. -,
The report that Geo. w. Gale, the Ala
bama lawyer, who offered 100000 re-
ward for the assassination of President
Lincoln, has been pardoDed, is incorrect.
Among the prominent rebels pardoned
on Saturday last were Henry M. Rector
Ex-Governor of Arkansas, andJ. p. San
derson, member of Congress, from Geor-
gial
The War Departure has promulgated
another list of volunteer organizations
which have been or are ordered to be
mustered out of service, not included in
previous circulars.
JEFF. Davis is to be a1raigned simply ON
the charge of treason, and Jas. 8. Speed.
Gen. Rosseau, John NJ Clifford, and VIM.
N. Evarts are retained by the govern
ment as prosecuting counsel, while Chas.
O'Connor and r. II. Gillett are for the
defence.
Intelligence las been received by the
government that an influential delega-
ton Of Canadians are shortly to arrive
at Washington to make efforts to estab-
1ish the treaty of reciprocity between
the Uaits9! States and Canada.
private dispatch from West Point,
Miss, Oct Goth. states that Gen. John
son has discovered most stupendous
frauds on the Treasury Department, and
has arrested Harrison Johnson, special
Treasury Agent at Columbus, and all his
sub-agents in three counties, and taken
possession of their books and clos ed one.
rations.
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