The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-06

now Offering his house for sale, as be is
desirous of returning to his farm, near
Manassas, where the first battle of the
late war was fought, and as he only pur-
chased this place during the war, being
refugee from his home after the Bull
Run fight.
IRELAND is gradully becoming gra-
zing country, and the increase of late
years in the rearing Of cattle is remark
able. The decrease of land under crops
this year, as compared with last year, is
no less than 52s,725 acres. The pigs
have increased to the extent of ls7 900,
sheep 575, 600, cattle $4,000.
THE indianapolis Herald says there
were three thousand illegal voters who
cast fifteen thousand illegal rotes on cleo
ton day for the Radical ticket-an ex-
cess of three thousand over the Radical
majority in the State. To cover up this
scandalOus fraud, the Abolition papers
are charging that the Democrats poned
fraudulent votes.
A Mr.. BABARIN, of New Orleans, has
invented and patented a contrivance
for simultaneously lighting all the
lamps of theatre, hotel, or even of an
entire city. A machine, like an alarm
clock, can be set to any hour, at head
quarters, and when the appointed time
comes, all gas burners connected with
it are instantly set ablaze. The inven-
ton is to be publicly exhibited and test
ed in New Orleans, in few days.
II is related by an Edinburgh news
paper, that highly interesting Arches
illogical discovery particularly as re-
CARDS Christianity has lately been made
in the Holy Land, by n Scotch gentle
man, Mr.. Keith johnson. He has dis
covered in the village (now called Tell
Hum, ancient Capernaum) the syna-
gogue in which our Blessed Lord, Jesus
Christ, preached on one OCCASION.
Mr.. HENRY C.. JARRETT, having sur
feited the New Workers with the dis
plays of the "Black Crook" at Niblo's
garden, is to treat the Parisians with a
novel spectacle during the worlds ex-
position, next year. He has already
sent Trustworthy agents into the far
west to secure company Of 40 Indians
for term of four months. The agents
have reported that they have engaged
the number required, and the party will
be ready to embark from New York
early in April next. The natives are to
appear in all the panoply ofwar-paint,
songs, dances, their bow and arrow eX-
ercise-as well as in startling equestri-
an performances, it being well known
that some of them are the most skillful
riders in the world.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to establish
in the Episcopal Church in this country
the grades in the ecclesiastical hier-
archy which have heen disused since
the separation from the mother church
of England The Diocese Of Illinois,
in convention, have resolved that it is
expedient to re-establish the office OF
Dean; and resolution favoring what
is called the provincial system, was re-
ferred to special committee, with con-
siderable likelihood of being adopted.
The Norfolk Virginian says:
Packing Underwood arrived in
the eit, ycsberGay morning ara stopped
at the National. From his declaration
that he can pack jury to hang Jeffsr-
son Davis, we shouldn't wonder if he
was in Norfolk on the look out for fit
ting jurors, picking them from the gut
tiers of society with 4 hook, as a rag
picking beggar picks the dirty, pestif-
orous rags. Pity but that the hirsute
appendage of fJury-Packing Underwood's
phiz was of fuller growth, that it might
cover up his face, and with it the shame
that he must feel. if human still, and not
a monster damned"
OF the town Of Pontotoc, Miss, the
founder, Gen. Mackin, says -" In one
month after I laid off the town, sold
eighty thousand (s3O, O,OOO) dollars worth
of lots. In two months l put mp
hote.; good log houses, with brick
chimncys, to accommodate 400 persons
with board and lodging; stable-room
and lots to accommodate 400 horses. In
three months after the laying out of the
town, there were 45 stores and 33 gro
ceries. Property changed hands to the
amount of 100000 per day for four
years. Such place was never seen be-
fore by the eyes of man, and will never
be seen again.