The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-12-16

otabeS gives notlce ny aoNoiuisohnoho' io-
questing the holders Of the seven'thirty
bondsto hand in the coupons on the
same that are due and payable Oh the
| 18th instant The amount of loans on
which interest is payable in December
and June is three hundred millions, and
the interest to be paid on the same du-
ring the present month, commencing on
| the 18th, will amount to SIC, $780, 900. 1t
is also announced from Washington that
the Secretary of the Treasury will give
| notice in asfew days, of his readiness to
anticipate the gold interest due January
lst, which ~ i'll amount in the aggregate
to Sg735630 The Treasury is abund
antly able to meet these demands at
once, as the balance on hand on the first
of the month was upwards of S9l 900 900.
1t is understood that the Secretary is
now supplying the market with gold,
with a view to provide currency for the
interest falling due on the 18th, and this
fact will of itself account for the falling
off in the price of coin.
A ROD IN PICKLE-A Washington dis
patch says: Gen. BUTLER writes to
friend here that he has rod in pickle for
Gen. GRANT" An exchange thinks that
should he he foolish enough to take his
road out of pickle and attempt to use it,
the Lieutenant-General will bottle him
up in a way that no cork-screw will be
able thereafter to relieve him.
THE move OF H. J. Raymond, in the
House, to get the case of Tennessee
placed first in the list to be considered
| by a Joint committee, is said by the
] friends of Mr. Raymond to have been
done at the personalrequest of President
Johnson
| EXCITEMENT IN PETRoLEUM.--The
steamers news has produced considera-
BILE excitement in the petroleum market,
and prices have advanced three cents a
gallon for crude, and FIVE cents for re
| fined ~Those who had stocks on hand
were fortunate: The large receipts at
this point for the last two weeks were
principally to fill contracts, so that the
stock on hand was not large
THE Mobile Register of the 9TH inst, in
speaking of the National Thanksgiving,
says it will be very generally observed
! in all the churches of the State except
ing these of the Protestant Episcopal
As those are running under military au-
| thority alone, it is optional with the
commanding General to undertake to do
| the praying for that church or not as he
may see MT
BRECKINRIDGE.-1t was stated some
time since that Mr. NJ c. Bruce, former
Iva member of the rebel Congress from
Kentucky, now commission merchant
at Augusta, Georgia, had given the sum
of one hundred thousand dollars to Cen
eral John G.. Breckenridge. Mr.. Bruce
publishes a card in the Augusta Consti-
tutionaltst, in which he says he didn't do
anything Of the sort, and that General
Breckenridge is now living comfortably
in Canada, and is not in need of such
gift.
GENERAL GRANT, according to the
Washington correspondent Of the New
York Herald, has reported, as the result
of his observations in the South, that the
majority of the negroes are in compare
tive idleness and will not work, believing
that about Christmas there will be n di-
vision of the property among them. He
says the whites are anxious to resume
their old relations to the Union.
SOMEBODY proposes to name one of the
Western Territories Lincoln. They had
better call it Douglas, after a far ADLER
and better man.
GENERAL BUTLER, i'll revenge for a
slight from General Grant, proposes to
write the latter's biography. He wants
to take Grants life
A C0NTEMPORY remarks that the
Southern States are Gin the Union" for
all practical purposes, such as amending
the Constitution, and they are I" out Of
the Union" for all political purposes, such
rs taking seats i'll Congress 1t makes
a difference what YOU are doing or try
ing to do, whether you are in the Union
or not If you have great big armies
fighting like thunder against the Gov
eminent and showing their battle flags
in sight OF Washington, YOU are still
part of the Union and never can be any,
thing else but If those armies have sur
rendered and laid down their arms, you
are out of the Union without the hope of
g citing in again.