The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-04-21
News frsm New York.


Eastport special saws: There has beel
no border war here No fights occurret
at Calais, nor did the Fenlans captur
any English flag, There is no excite
ment OIL this side of the boundry. Th
presence o. few Fenians organizing
Circles, coupled With Provincial confed
Grafton schemes, is the foundation O
the sensation, and the special dispatche
sent to the New York papers have beer
yillianously false, and they have drawn
hither many strangers, who came tt
join in the strife
General Meade, who arrived this even
ing, will officially explode the bubble.
From the British West Indies, VT
lave advices from Antigua, March oath
and Hamilton Bermuda, April 10th
The vessels of the English North Amer
lean and West India squadron were in
active motion to and from Halifax and
the Islands, and ships were expected
from England with marines and wal
supplies
The Colonial Parliament met in Ber
muda on the 10th day of April. Mr.
Bayne is to assume the government OF
Grenada Major Mundy is appointed
Governor protem Of British Guyana
Breadstuffs and provisions had ad.
vanced in the Jamaica market.
The Times Washington special says:
Yesterday morningan officer, apparently
of the staffot the Veteran Reserve Corps,
entered gun shop on Pennsylvania
avenue, near Twelfth street, and asked
to see pistol, saying that he wanted to
purchase one. The youth attending the
shop showed him large revolver, which
was loaded, and notified him that it was
loaded. The officer took it from the
counter, and placing his thumb on the
trigger and the muzzle at his mouth,
fred and fell dead instantly. The body
has been identified by several gentlemen
as that of Lieut. Louis Athens, of the
Veteran Reserve Corps of the Freedmen's
Bureau, and attached to General How
ards staff. He was native Of Hungary
and it is stated that he was Of noble
family He was recently on duty in
North Carolina and leaves a wife in
Michigan. No one is able to assign any
reason for the act but his friends say
that for some days he has threatened
suicide
The Tribune's Washington special
says; Detective Baker has made very
report in reference to bounty
jumping frauds perpetrated under the
calls for troops. He traces the jumpers
from the time OF being sworn in until
their reaching the field He shows that
of the FIVE hundred thousand men called
out and sworn in by the government
only 10000 reached the field as soldiers,
thousands of others received
their bounties. This wholesale system
of fraud is shown to have been perpetra.
ted in nearly every loyal State in the
Union.
The Senate committee OH Commerce.
to. day agreed to report in favor Of the
OF Z. N Parker as sur
veyor of the port Of New Orleans and to
reject Elmore as collector of Mobile
on account Of his participation in the
rebellion.
All payment of naval prize money on
lists upon which no sums have been paid
have been suspended for the present un-
til certain rules for tleir payment shall
be determined by the decision of the Su-
preme Court before which several prize
cases are now pending
The concurrent testimony OF the Gus.
tom officers stationed on the Canada
frontier, show that Notwithstanding the
predictions of many smuggling opera
tions, they have decreased since the ter.
of the reciprocity treaty.
The Worlds Washington special says;
The Ways and Means committee have
finally overcome the obstacles which
presented themselves in relation to i'm.
posing tax Of five per cent on cotton.
The bill was agreed upon to-day, and
will be reported as soon as it can be ar
ranged The difficulty has been in re-
gard to collecting the tax, bnt il has
been obyiated
The general tax bill, with ar It's re-
ductions and notifications, will not be
ready TO report before the first of next
week. 1t is very elaborate bill, and
has cost the committee = vast deal OF
time and trouble, and it Is made As near
peTfect as such measure can be.
Passengers who left San Francisco on
the 30th nit give further particulars of
the collision between the Liberals and
French troops. The French troops
marched out of the city 10 give the Lib
erals battle-fghting very severe, no
prisoners being taken on either side
the officer in command of the French
killed Last adyiCes from the seat of
war state reinfoTCementS enroute for
the French at Mazatlan The military
situation at Aculpaco remained M
changed The United states gunhoat
Saronas was lying in the harbor on the
9th.
The Cummercial'4 Washington special
saws The House committee on Ways
and Means had another stormy session
this morning on licenses. They will
probablv have to make majority and mi.
noritv reports on this and other portions
OF the revenue law.
Members of Congress ale quietly going
home on brief visits, which indicates a
desire to prolong the session.
The House Judiciary Committee are
investigating the charges against Davis
and Clay of completely ~ the assassi-
nation conspiracy
The Posts Washington special says
The Tax Bill will not be reported to
Congress this week The committee
this morning agreed to abolish the tax
upon farmers whose incomes are above
$1,000 for the manufacture of butter
and cheese
The strike Of the car drivers Is ended.
They are to receive two dollars for ten