The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-10-09
TELEGRAPH1C NEWS.
News from New York

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NEW YORK, October s.-The Herald s
New Orleans special says: This morn
ing's Times announces that President
johnson, over his own signature, has
authorized its editor to publish the re-
port of the Military Commission relative
| to the New Orleans riot, to appear to-.
morrow.
The Times severely ettacks Mayor
Monroe and other city officials, and is
evidently preparing for a change OF pol,
icy favorable to the constitutional
amendment.
1t is believed that in few days more
astounding swindles upon the Govern
ment will be exposed.
Gen. w. Fl. King, who has made four
months tour of Texss, represents the
people remarkably well disposed to.
wards the General Government, law
abiding and industrious.
The Herald's Buffalo special, of the 9TH,
saws: A prize fight took place yesterday
morning near Fort Erie, G.. W., between
Benjamin Hogan and Thomas Donnelly.
Thirty five rounds were Tough, :, resulting
in victory for Hogan.
J. Lowenthal, charged with On i'm
mense swindle upon the Government in
New Orleans, telegraphs to the Herald
from Charleston that he will bein Wash
ington on Wednesday to surrender him.
self.
The Herald's Washington special says:
Lieutenant E. P. Dougherty, of the
Booth capture notoriety, has just return
ed from o four months residence In
South Carolina, and gives rather dis
couragiDg account of the crops and the
general condition of the country. The
corn crop in that State is almest fail
! ure; almost all the plantations will not
WELD over two bushels to the acre, and
very few more than five. The cotton
crop was moderately good, which is all
| that the people have to rely upon.
The Herald says to-day: Col. Fernlza
leaves this city for Matamoras with
special instructions from General Ortega
One of the objects of Col. Ferniza,s mis-
sion is to receive consignments OF arms
at Brownsville, which have been dis.
patched from New York and Philadel-
phia. He is also directed to announce
the approaching arrival in that city OF
Gen. Ortega, who, it is said, will leave
New York for Mexico by the end of this
week.
The Times special says; BY direction
of the President, Lieut. C.. ?. Cramer, of
the 2fst New York cavalry, has been re-
instated, with the removal of the stop
page of pay and allowances. 1t will be
recollected he was dismissed in July,
1865, for allowing the enlisted men in
his command to violate orders. He has
satisfied the President of the ininstiCe of
his dismissal.
A World special says A Sunday pa
per here announces that the President
will write letter this month in reply to
an invitation to attend dinner to be
given by General Wool, in which he will
fully define the future policy of admins
Herald special says -, -, S-S -" rr,
vault at the Arlington National aCemetefy'
Virginia, the plan Of the monument mas
.rrIcs-uy S~~-- r-~r@-~~@~-'.t ts" u0 10 T UU
be commenced in short time. Ii VIII
stand on the top of the huge vault, which
contains the remains OF two Thousand
one hundred and eleven OF our heroic
dead. gathered from the Virginia soil
around Bull Run, Chantilly, and the
country bordering on the Orange u Alex,
andria RAILROAD, from Bull Run TO the
Rappahannock: M.
fact YVES developed on Friday morning
that the First National Bank of Var
mouth had been robbed of $4,000 by a
son of tho cashier of the bank. The
| facts, as far as they have transpired, are
az follows: 1t has been the custom of
the cashier, Mr.. Amos Otis, to keep cOu-
non interest notes and United States
bonds, belonging to the institution, in
tin trunk. His trunk was missing on
Friday morning last and with it the son
of the cashier, George Otis. The father
on discovering the situation, made all
haste to apprehend the thief and recover
the goods. Word was dispatched to
detectives in distant cities, and so thor
| ough was the search that young Otis
found himself prisoner the next day
at Plymouth, having travelled to that
place during the night. Hemade a clean
breast of the whole transaction. The
stolen funds were found secreted in the
bank shed by the cashier. The prisoner
is about twenty ,one years Of age. He
was employed in the bank. Mr.. Otis,
the cashier, is a respected citizen of Var
mouth. 1t is probable that young Otis
will be held to bail.
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