The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-05-11
M,sceIiaueous Items.

lspOlita1 railroad, for wnlcn d quarter WAS
given at the last session of the Maryland
Legislature. This initiatory proceeding
is under the guidance of MT. }. II. b. La
trobe. The work is i'll the way OF early
completion.
FINANCES OF REBEL OFFICERS.
the officers who were in the old rec ,lai
army complain that they are now bank
rupt. Johnston, Bragg and Beauregard
have nothing let but their swords.--
Hardee married during the ar very
wealthy Alabama lady Hampton has
exchanges on Enrope reported rs high as
one hundred aud fifty Thousand dollars
He lived the majority OF his life IN Eu-
rope, and it is said cares little what be-
comes of the people of the South
GIVES THEM A HINT-The Charleston
Courier of the 25th ult. says: THE juh'.
lations which the freed people OF this
section have indulged in on account OF
their release from bondage, was well
enough in its way, but it would be wise
for those same people to understand thaf
a continuous jubilee is not the lever by
which they are 10 provide for the sup
port of themselves and families"
A NATIONAL CEMETERY AT ANTIETAM.
The Maryland Legislature, at its last
session, passed IN act incorporating ma
tional cemetery ut Antietam, in imitation
of similar incorporation by the Legls-
latnre of Pennsylvania ut Gettysbnrg.-
Seven thousand dollars were set apart as
Maryland's proportion, and provision
made for the appointment of one trustee
from each State, condition of their
contributing an amount of money pro-
portioned to their representation i'll Con-
gress. Many of the States have desired
to do SO for long time, and will aid III
this patriotic enterprise. Thousands OF
our soldiers fell on this bloody field,
whose remains lie half buried over an
area of fifteen miles.
THE FENIANS.-Tho New York Herald
processes to give an accurate account OF
the Fenian Brotherhood, its organlza-
ton, numbers and objects. 1t estimates
the total number of members in the Uni
ted States at eighty thousand, Of which,
at last reports, there were l4,620 i'll the
army and navy In Ireland the mem-
bers number over siXty-fve Thousand
men, all able-bodied and sworn to mill
tary service and obedience In the Uni
ted States neither of these conditions are
requisite The organization was first
made in 1859 by Colonel O'MahOnsy, and
its object is the liberation of Ireland from
British rule. and the establishment of a
seperate nationality.
INGENIOUS CoNTRivANCE.-An iugen-
ious contrivance has been invented by a
Mr.. Adolphe Baab, to prevent robberies
from iron safes or other repositories of
property 1t consists of an electrical ap-
paratus which, by the ordinary system
of telegraphiC street wires, can be placed
in communication with the nearest po-
lice station, and which on the slightest
attempt to tamper with any part of the
safe, will sound an alarm, and not only
inform the police tnat robbery is in
progress, but acquaiut them, 10y means of
a number, with the precise safe that is
being attacked.-Foreiga paper.
WAsHINGToN, May 9.--The court for
the trial of the conspirators concerned in
the assassination of President Lincoln
and the attempted assassination of Sec
retary Seward convened to-day. 1t is
understood that the proceedings will be
made public by the official reporters,
none others being admitted. The court
room has been fitted up within the arse
nal walls. so that the prisoners need not
be taken out of the same building. Gen.
Hunter is President of the Court and
Gen. Holt is Judge Advocate. Colonels
Burnett and Bingham, of Ohio, will as
sist him. Payne, the assassin of Secre-
tary Seward, will be the first tried
Gov. PIERPofNT-A special to the New
York Post from Washington, dated May
9th, states that the Richmond Whig of
Yesterday says Gov. Pierpoint, of Virgin
ia, will issue procl amation this week
declaring vacant all civil offices in that
State, and order new election.
SETTLED question is decided
Even an unmarried woman may "wear
the breeches" with impunity. The po-
liceman who arrested Miss Harman in
New York for sporting male eontinua-
tions," has been dismissed the force, the
Chief deciding that woman has as
much right to wear pair of pants as an
overcoat, which every woman wears.
THE Boston transcripts Washington
correspondent says the Canadian author.
tiles have intimated that in the event of
demand by our Government for George
n. Sanders, Beverly Tucker and W. C..
Cleary, they will be surrendered to the
national authorities.
THE Grand Chapter of Free Masons of
the State of Maine, have voted the sum
Of three hundred dollars to DR. Mackey,
of Charleston. for his great service to the
Union prisoners during the war.
Gov MCGRATH has called the South
Carolina Legislature to meet at Green
vile, on Tuesday, 25th inst.