The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-05-01
News liens.

c;tizen Of Nashville, on the 23d ult;, com
mitted suicide by cutting his throat az.
Financial difficulties are assisn'o % 49,
cause.
Tho popular actress, Miss Helen
Western. is playing successful ens"s0
mept at the Richmond, (Va.,) theatre
On wednesday evening last In negro sia
was arrested in Alexaudria, va, lol us .h"
o mSs 81 conduct. On being taken TO tne
70 the MAYORS Office he became very
violent. belching forth torrent Oh apuse
NIoa nII .;d~n Rebel s. of b-hs;"
Sa his right to enter every and
o Gee n1ocs he chose; drink in any Oh
aIS po 49, of a b-h restaurant he
thought proper. He boosted the civil
RIGHTS bill gave him the largest liberty
and he would "be ID if he wouldn't
use it :" he exulted over the fact that it
had been passed over the Presidents
veto, "d-n him" The bystanders
were so much enraged that it was with
the greatest difficulty they could be kept
from doing violence to the refractory
African. He was finally lodged In jail
So much for the Civil Rights bill.
On Thursday last a torpedo, when
had been sunk for three years ana one
month in Charleston harbor, exploded
off the beach of Sullivap's Island, near
battery "B" in about eight fathoms OF
water 1t is supposed to have been e4'
ploded by the dragging OF a yessels ca
bile It lifted an immense volume OF va
ter, and presented quite grand appear
ance.
The Charleston Nelrs contains the
charoe of a South Carolina Judge to the
Grand Jury, in which he instructed tnen EN-
that the military officers WITHIN Ine
Jurisdiction of his Court, who nave Deen
interfering with the civil authorities 10
the ADMINISTRATION of the law, must moi DC
overlooked.
Rev James G. Hammer, D. D., OF Bal
timore. has withdrawn from the assocla'
tion with the Northern Presbyterian
Church. giving as his reason that the
Church has become too much ldentlhed
With notifies. DR. Hammer Is native OF
Virginia, and will return to the South
John Davis. al overseer in factory at
Taunton, Massachusetts,, has been tined
for fogging a female operative, twelve
wears old, with q piece OF betting
doubled One of the girls eyes we're Sc
rionsEy iniured.-E1chdnge
From all accounts, it is becoming clear
that something like Freedman Blu
reau is needed for the poor white opera
tives of the New England States II
such an act as the above had leon perpe-
trated on ? negro in the Soul. IL would
prol ,bly have bsen punished With death
to tie offender, and been Iaraded in
Summers scrap book for t. ns&t i've
year.
TEs New York Nelrs suggt2rs concern
mo the radical scheme OF T2.anneHlng
AIevandria, Virginia, to the District OF
CnIn.nhia. that it would be capital
ideo to extend the bound hies OF the
District SO as to include all the LATELY,
rebe .ious States, and says. MS Wouiu
he concise, neat, simple, ina cheap
metI ID Of getting rid of all the compll'
c,ti,,,s wherein the reconstruction Hies
lion seems to be hopelessiV Antan|'"d'
ara ould doubtless secure the e.-r r.ort
nf ALI moderate aud reasonable men"
Allegro groggery in Norfolk has been
cloSrl bv the military authorities on the
GROUND of having furnished liquor to the
rioters on the recent negro jubilee day.
Toby, what did the Israelites do
when thew crossed the Red Sea 2 Il
don't know, ma'am but l guess they
! dried themselves.
Lat friday & fire occurred IN CIncin'
natl, burning q cluster Of ono and two
sforJ buildings known az Gocdhue'e
s2fttr cout. Some fifteen families were
road cd houaalcss BY the fire
II eccentric Lord Holland, 81 tie
Tcic" If William Ill, used to give his
hci: weekly concert In covered gal
iery ,,pecially erected for the purpose.
He Il aiutaiued that 1t chesred their
hearts, and improved their temper, aud
az eye witness says that they eeeped
delighted Herewith"
Probst, the murderer Of the Desring
family, was convicted IL Philadelphia,
CT Saturday,, Of murder in the first de.
gree Tts Court adjourned until Tues
DAY, hen ce will be sentenced. The
Jury was out about thirty minutes.
Trc residents of South Danvers, Mass.
hare scTned a committee of twenty-five
to sr-a2Cs for the reception of Mr.. Pea
body, On his arrival ID New York.
Tho iue steamer Cassaadra, Captain
Dauie Mclaughlin, arrived at Boston
on Mouday night from New Orleans,
having made the passage in seven days
ard ten hours from the bar. This is the
quickest time ever made between the
two ports
The freedvomen in Columbus. Mis-
issippl. 60 Shopping in their carriages
ard call out the dry goods clerks to serve
them.
1t is said that fifteen OF the judges Of
election in Somerset county, Md, have
been indicted for violation of the regis
try law by the grand jury at the recent
session
ASP cial to the New York Ereniag Post,
says the Committee of Commerce, of the
Senate on Saturday, agreed to report in
favor of the confirmation of Mr.. Smythe
for the New York CollectorshiP
Gen. Sickles has been nominated min
ister t" the Hague.
Gen. Grant IS to sit for bust &c
franklin Simmons, a young sculptor
from Boston who has studio in Wash
ingtQn
Judge Lucas P. Thompson, OF toe Tir-
ginia Supreme Court of Appeals. died at
Stanton, on Saturday