The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-09-22
News from New York.

New YORK, September 21.-A Td'
bune New Orleans special says:
I have received trustworthy informa-
tion that five men were hired to assassi-
nate Governor Wells when on his way
back to this city from a avisit to his late
home in the Parish of st: Landry. The
Governor having received information of
their designs, avoided them by taking a
circuitous route of over 400 miles:
Information has been received from
different parishes that bands of lawiess
men are committing outrages on white
and black Unionists.
The Academy of Music of this city
opened last Monday week. Every night
| that the national airs were played they
were emphatically hissed and groaned
down by the audience. :,
A Worlds special says: General Couch
was to-day appointed by the President
Collector of Boston, vice ex.VIce Presl-
dent Hamlin, resigned.
A Times New Orleans special says: Re-
ports from st. Landry and Rapides par
| ishes state that lawless bands of despe-
radoes, including in their number some
of the civil authorities, are committing
murders almost daily. The victims are
generally white Unionists and freedmen.
Stephens, the central organ OF the
Fenians, is receiving large accesslons to
his ranks in men, money, arms, and am
munition, every day. The arms are be-
ing shipped in mysterious packages to
Ireland.
A Herald special dispatch says:
Major General Wager Swayne, Assist
ant Commissioner of the FIeedmeh's
Bureau, in Alabama, few days since
telegraphed to the Commissioners in
reference to some erroneous statements
which had been given to the public
through the press, and stated to have
occurred in his district, he subsequently
addressed to the Commissioners letter,
in which he says:
beg leave to remark, that for some
weeks past the attention of parties here
has been drawn to the systematic dis
s,m;nation of items, in the North, ap'.
parentIy by one person, detailing all
sorts of sensational occurrences TO per-
sons of both sexes, the scenes are gener'
ally laid in Mobile, and the story uni
| formed without foundation.
Major General L. j. Wood, Assistant
Commissioner of the Freedmen's affairs
in Mississippi, reports to the Commls'
sioner that there has been considerable
mortality in the States from cholera,
which is owing principally to the want
of caution by the freedmen, among
whom the greater loss has been. The
disease is not particularly virulent, but
yields readily to treatment.
The cholera has appeared IN the DIS
trict of Jackson, and it is feared that It's
increase will be swift. The bureau sur
seon has been instructed 10 try every
means in his power to allay the suffering
of the afflicted, and to prevent the spread
| of the disease, The cholera Is also re-
| ported at Davis Bend, but is not lncreas-
| ing.
In reference to the crops, tho General
States that, notwithstanding the appear
ance of the army worm, he thinks there
will be fair cotton crop, but the corn
crop will be very poor. .
Major General J. c. Davis, Assistant
| Commissioner of the treedmen's affairs
| in the State of Kentucky, reports TO the
head of the bureau that in the month OF
August last there were $3.50 rations is
sued in that State, TO 469 persons. These
rations were issued to refugees and
freedmen in the State hospitals, and n
OF them received but temporary shelter
and care. The General reports that there
are no copfiscated lands in the State OF
Kentucky.
Florida papers say The island of Dry
Tortugas was recently fired upon by a
strange craft bearing the Confederate
flag, and DR.. Mudd, who is confined
there, was seriously wounded by the ex'
| plosion of q shell. The vessel was a
schooner rugged steamer and painted lead
color, with four guns on each broadslde,
which were all discharged at distance
of two miles from the island, The reve-
nue. cutter was laying in the harbor at
the time, but not having steam up was
unable to pursue.
By the Java we learn that a great
deal of rain con ntinued to fallin England,
and the still outstanding crops were
sustaining considerable damage.
A French agricultural journal sums
up as follows: The latest account OF the
harvest in France, there is neither the
ordinary quantity or quality of wheat,
and but for free importation a scarcity
would succeed the abundance of the
past three years.
England is Also beginning to complain,
not Of quantity but quality.
Russia has had an excellent wheat
harvest, as well as Spain.
Italy does not seem to be much more
fortunate than Peru.
The locusts have rsyaged Algiers, a.
to the United States the defects is still
greater than in France.
Northern Germany appears to.be dl'
yided
The Southern provinces Of Hungary
| houa Su{fara6 much