The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-02
General Dick Taylor succeeds him in

The War Department has no informa-
ton of any movement of General Sher-
mans column in the Direction of Au-
gusta.
Of the reported raid towards Weldon,
they say that the route taken is the most
direct by land, but there is no doubt OF
ample dispositions having been made to
check it.
Acollision occurredlast Thursday even
ing between the fag-of-truce boat and
the small steamer Torpedo, in which the
Torpedo was sunk. Lieut.. Armstrong, OF
the Navy, was drowned The rest OF the
crew were saved.
The Dispatch announces that largelo lot
of blankets, boxes, &c, were yesterday
delivered to the Federal prisoners con-
fined in Richmond II says: "Brigadier
General Hays reached here on Thursday,
and superintended the. delivery of the ar
ticles, and will remain until the distri-
button is completed, when he will proba-
bly proceed to other parts OF the Conted-
eracy where Yankee prisoners are con-
fined, in order to supenntend the further
distribution Seventeen hundred pack
ages, and large letter mail, were sent
down to Colonel Mulford for the Conted-
crate prisoners in the North"
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25-The Richmond
Whiq of January Doth says:
THE NAVAL FAILURE.
The statements this morning in sew
eral of our contemporaries to the effect that
our iron clads had passed the Yankee OBJ
structions at Trent's Reach, and were
moving down James river, have doubt
less created anticipations OF exciting
news to-day from our fiotilla; but the fact
is, only the Fredericksburg went through
or over the Instructions, and when Lieut..
F. Z. Sheppard, the commanding officer,
discovered that the cOnsorts OF his vessel
were aground, he returned to their as
sistance The rising tide lifted the Nlr-
ginia and Richmond from the bars upon
which they stuck, aud the tlotilla then
returned to the vicinity of their former
position; where, at last accounts this al
ternoon, they were still remaining. The
Drury was blown up, as stated tins
morning; and Fort Harrison was not re-
taken"
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
CHARLESTON, Jan. A.-The enemy
have made no advance movement
Scouts report that the railroad between
Salkehatchie bridge and PocotaligO has
been destroyed, the ties burnt, and the
iron taken away. The enemy's pickets
extend short distance this side of POGO
taligo.
From the Richmond Examiner, Jan. 26.l
MR.. BLAIR. .-.@
l,o,,.;, ID Dlo;,. Lvax NJ. nnlarStanH
left Richmond yesterday for Washington
city. Mr. Singleton also left by the same
boat. Whether this mysterious passing
to aud fro will result in good or evil time
will disclose.
FAST DAY.
President Davis has issued proclama-
tion appointing Friday, the 10th day of
March next, as day of public fasting,
humiliation and prayer, with thanksgiv-
ing, for invoking the favor and guidance
of Almighty God, and does earnestly in
vite all soldiers and citizens to observe
the same in spirit of reverence, peni-
tence and prayer.
CONFEDERATE FINANCES.
The Examiner says panic continuesin
the gold market, which is partially attrib-
uted to the scarcity of Confederate notes.
Confederate money is i'll great demand,
which is daily becoming more stringent,
the ultimate effect of which must be to
establish some well defined relation be-
tween paper and specie, and overrule the
combination of brokers to put up gold to
speculative figures. Gold sold Monday
at 80, and Yesterday the market price,
was so uncertain as to be nominal. 1t is
known that the Government has accu-
mulated at Richmond, within the past
few days, large quantity of gold, and it
is surmised, to the great terror of the en-
grossers of specie, that the Government
may throw some of it OIL tire market, if it
has not already done So and put the price
at its own figures. The Yankee Govern
ment has sustained its finances because
it has been the great operator i'll the gold
rooms of New York, and is always ready
to "bear" the market when emergency
requires There is no doubt that our Gov
ernment might control, almost entirely
at its pleasure, the price of gold, cOnsid-
ering the limited amount of it i'll the
hands of private parties for speculation;
far too limited to make it a matter of
"bulls and bears"
MILITARY ITEMS.
Lieutenant General S. ID. Lee is at Co
lumbus, Ca, wounded. He received
pretty severe wound in the foot during
the last fight in Tennessee. Major Steele
was captured in Kentucky recently, and
carried to Louisville, where he is confined
with ball and chain. He is a sOn-ln-law
to Dr. Robert Breckenridge.
General Beauregard has made demand
upon some of the counties OH the Georgia
railroad for one thousand slaves, to re-
pair the road from Greensborough to At
lanta.
General 8. r. Glst, of South Carolina,
fell into the arms of member of his
staff Lieutenant Trenholm" lie said,
take me to my wife," and instantly ex-
pired.
A furlough of thirty days has been
granted to all West Tennessee troops.
Lieutenant General d. III. Hill has
reached Augusta, for the purpose OF as
suming command of the troops in that
vicinity