New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.
GENERAL NEWS.

The trial o. John H. Gee Rebel coInmandan
,,the Salisbury PRISON. com nenced at Raleigh.
e. the 2st inst nj fu report OF the proceeding
ihus far will To onI; in the lete. OF special core
'pondent publs ed to-day.
Gen. Grant visici the Swamp on Satur
asy and was cord all receivcd by the leather dealers
After drive Though tie Five Points be visited the
Academy of Leuhand Penmsnship. He will return to
Washington to- aigLt
At special election on the 18th, held IN the
Marietta Ohio dis ri,t to fill vacancy in the lower
House the Repub candidate was elected by ma
FORTY OF about 40 gain o. IS over the majority Tor
Gov. Cox.
+ 4 man mar 20 Ceor e Peet has been arrested
near Auburn. y. Y. { Isl ioion OF having poisoned
his Wife, The wouun I'D cOnyulsons. aud Poet had
previously bought str,chnine at druggists in tie
yioiuity.
On Friday nj bit jealous husband, named
attempt to shoot bis wife, and commit suicide lie was
lasucccssiu IN 10th Instances. and has since been
arrested.
Later accounts from the steamer Winchester,
burned near East Liverpool Ohio. the sd inst state
HAT about Is persons were drowned Tho Lro org.
mated from cindcrs failing among some bales OF hay
tutuCIIuC al oiu AOSANAAo AZ
Rochester was burned to death the ed instant She
Said down on o lounge TO sleep with matches IN her
pocxst. and in moving about they isnteG.
Macmillan Shinbone, who robbed the Wal.
pole On H. Bs of et Sol 900 Nov. l9. 1861 was
ARRESTED lear Paltsburs on the 22d inst. But very
bitle Of the money has been recovered.
destructive fire occur ed in Louisville, KY,
IA Friday night DESTROY in the ests lshu ent OF New
ronb Buchanan Co. tie largest grocery house in
-iSe West. Loss over $4,000.
James G. Taylor. an cx-policoman, va,
srressed Sunday. charged with shooting Roundsmsn
Mccullough on The previous evening. The wound not
considered mortal
Four persons have been arrested on suspicion
Vt being cOncerI cd in the recent murder of private
Waterman in Thlrty.iflhst. The proof against them
Is s.roDg.
A terrible steamboat collision occurred a few
miles below Cincinnati TIE oath TIE accounts are
conflicting; out 20 lives at least. were sacrificed
The Georgia State Le slature has Endorsed
theroecnts1des Alexandria, Stephens, and ordered
IL placed on the Journals OF both Houses.
George Gam y of Liberty, Ohio, during a
quarrel recently. murdered Adam Derlpger, broakng
lis skull with stick OF " cd
tar. delivered BY DIR. o. B. rockingham in the Cooper
.lpstitlie last evening.
Five persons were burned 20 death in Balti-
more during fire on the 2itn inst their escape beng
an. OF by the flames.
S.giSmund Waltz, areturned soldier, commit.
ted suicide at the Grant HJu,e in tins city Saturday
The disbursements OF the Treasury Depart
rusn. last week amounted to G30295,9ss.
The Pittsburgh Congress of Fenians ad-
ioarned sire die on the 24th.
Ez-Sepatgy Wigfall escaped from Texas three
-eeissgp.
COZ sold at 1857 and closed at l1 Oh Sat
s,.d,y. Government socss we're without ''sh'a'
shame North srona and Missouri ts were quito se'i'e
.na the later Il per cheaper The miscellaneous shares
re,o s!eldy Railway shares opened lower and were sold
, freely AZ the Public 30 I'd the make, was higher upon
,. business but there Opposition to buy ior cash
r, l.r,o .ounts Al the Second tosrd Erie and NowYorf
<,.n.r h!u and tho OF the list week Money was
active a. De- cent on cal with gold ineres, in NUMEROUS
,,s Tie drain for currency to psy for gold hos obliged
,,me banks oveo sded speculative accounts to contract
s.sdy lie exchsnse nohin, doing Tho nominal rate for
bs, co day. s,erin io IT, week closes with al upsa
s.ory feeling 70 far the scneit trade the city s con-
cerned