The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-01-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
Congressional Proceedings
LATE MEXICAN NEWS.
News from New YOgE.

NEW 1ORk, Jan. SU.--1 eotSludS Iu
ward O'Brien was arraigned in Esse,
county court of Oyer and Terminer anc
plead not guilty to two indictments TO
manslaughter, in causing the death o
Mr Gordon and the boy Britt at the tim
of the recent railroad accident at New
ark
The Herald's Washington special says
Telegraphic dispatches of the 18th inst
from General Sheridan, at New Orleans
disowns all knowledge on his part ofth
fllibustering attack on Bagdai, ant
states that his orders to subordinate OF
fcers is to preserve strict neutrality, III
disbelieves the popular account OF th'
affair, and considers it sensational sto
n.
The execution Of Martha Grinder al
Pittsburg yesterday: is described by the
Herald's special as an awful scene. The
wretched woman fell a distance of about
three feet. Owing to an oversight in
adjusting the rope, connected with the
upright under the trap, her fall was not
sudden the neck was not dislocated
aud she slowly strangled to death By
her contortions and writings the knot
too, had slipped and the circulation OF
the blood in the right side of the neck
was wholly uninterrupted. Her death
vas literally hard one.
The cashier Of the Farmers and Citi-
1ens Bank, Broeklyn. modifes the state.
mont that their messenger boy was rob
bed of S70G00 in checks. 1t was $1,000,
making the amount stolen $4,000.
The Worlds Washington special
says Virginia is today as quiet as the
State ofNew York OF Massachusetts, and
the people, white or black, suffering
FROM nothing but poverty: All the in
situations about tie virulent antagon-
ism between the whites and blacks, and
all the hidsous illusions to negro insur-
surrectjop as the result of the oppressive
measures Of the whites toward the
blacks are ali sheer wicked inventions.
Gentlemen from the interior declare that
never were the negroes more quietly
disposed towards those who were their
former masters, and never were the lat
ter more kindly disposed towards those
who were so totally dependent upon
them The negroes are gradually giving
up ali notions Of the millennium that
was te come on New Years day. and are
seeking and obtaining work as rapidly
as the impoverished landholders are able
to employ and to pay them,
Charleston dispatches. dated Jan 18th.
SAYS Messrs. Hilton 81 Co. Of this city
suspended payment yesterday
Communication between here aud Coz
umbia by railroad has been reopen ed,
aud trains passed over yesterday for the
first time since the advent Of Shsrman's
army.
NEw YORK, Jan. 2i-The Herald's
Montreal dispatch says The bridge Of
St. Lawrence having been fred at all
points, has led the commander, Sir James
Mitchell, to look after the state of the
forts The fort at Prescott has had new
guns mounted. and heavy Armstrong
guns are being placed in the battery at
Quebec
It's stated that great quantity OF
lumber is changing hands at Ottawa,
that it may gofree into the United
States while the treaty is III force A
Boston firm is making terms for the car
riage OF three hundred car loads before
the 18th of March
The Heralds Toronto special says; The
Canadian Bank Review processes TO
know 40 government Our government
has consented TO renew the Reciprocity
Treaty if Canada will raise the provision
al excise duties to the American stand
ard, admit certain manufactures free and
enlarge the canals, the United States
bearingpart of the expense, thee whole
matter to be arranged by the respective
legislatures, without treaty
Capt. s s Smith, an ex-coufederate Of
fcer, is under arrest at Toronto on the
charge of robbing an old man Of "a 900 i'll
United States bonds, at Windsor, where
Smith keeps hotel
John A, Cooke. late cashier of the Cat
skill. (N y National Bank is reported
defaulter to the amount $4,000 The
directors of the bank it is added have
obtained collateral securities enough to
cover defalcation