The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-27

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Wilmington, Del, to appoint delegate
to the Border State Equal Rights Con
vention, which meets in Baltimore oil
the 18th ofSeptember.
Late Denver papers report Forts Ren'
and Phil. Kearney in state of seige
All small parties leaving then: are i'm
mediately chased back, and their stool
stolen. Colonel Greer lost one hundred
head of stock in one day.
"a convention Of engineers met in st
Louis on Wednesday to consult in ref
ference to the construction cf a bridg,
across the Mississippi at that point
The bridge is to be about two Thousand
feet long, and will cross at point neal
Carr street. -. .s -. r.-. a.
The cholera is raging in the north
western part of Gallatin county, Illinois
Thirty cases and twenty deaths have
Occurred already, and the people arr
fleeing from the country. Death usually
ensues in twelve or six hours.
In st. Louis, on Wednesday, wild
steer escaped from one of the city
stockyards, and went tearing through
town at n terrible rate, and gored boy
named Marshall, who is since reported
dead. The animal was finally killed by
the police.
Mr.. Denman, Superintendent Of II
dian affairs of the Northern Superinten-
dency, has just returned from confer
ence with Spotted Tail and other
friendly bands of Indians. Spotted
Tail feels certain of bringing the hos
tile Indians from the war path.
DIR. J. NJ. Gregory, President of the
Illinois Industrial University, having
returned from q somewhat extended
tour through Minnesota, expresses the
opinion that the wheat crop of that
State will reach surplus of fifteen to
twenty millions of bushels.
The laborers of the Mobile and Ohio
railroad have struck for the payment of
their back wages. Some of them have
not been paid in eighteen months. They
have stopped all the trains at Jackson,
Tennessee, swearing that the road shall
not be used until payment is made.
Other laborers who attempted their
places were driven of. A company of
soldiers have been sent to protect them.
2. w. McManus, who recently killed
Mr.. Johnson, at Leesburg, Salmon river
mines, was accidently shot by his own
pistol falling out of its scabbard, as he
was riding in the northern stage, above
Malad City, on the evening of the 9th
inst. ..
The most important feature in the
action of the National Labor Congress
at Chicago Thursday was the adoption
of a report, after lengthy and spirited
debate, embOdying resolution calling
upon the National Government to gire,
not sell, the public lands TO actual set
tiers.
A new Confederation is likely to be
formed in Germany, out of the South
German States, with Austria at the
head This is designed, no doubt, to
offset the aggressive policy of Prussia,
or what is known as the North German
Confederation, and is probably another
result of the Salzburg Conference.
Secretary McCulloch has prepared an
other brief letter, denying the charges
brought against the Treasury Depart
ment in the matter of over issue Of
bonds and currency. The committee
appointed to make thorough iLvesti-
CATION into the charges will make their
report in few days.
General Sheridan, when he was in
formed that the order for his removal
had been issued, is reported to have re-
ceived the news very coolly. He thought
he had "simply" done his duty. 1t is
said he will remove one more "unrecon-
structed" before he retires, the present
sheriff of the parish of New Orleans.
The reason assigned for the nor-com-
pliance with the order frem the War
Department annuling General Sickles'
order No. 10, staying process of the Fed
eral Courts in his command, is that at
his request the instructions are tempo
rarily suspended; in order that his views
might he first known Mt Washington.
A member of the Special Indian Com
mission, just returned from Fort Kear-
ney, confirms the report of 4 desperate
fight between a handful of United States
troops, under Major Powell, and 5000
Sioux. The Major fought them for three
hours under cover of corral of wagon
beds, with the loss of one officer and
five men. Two hundred redskins were
killed.
The navy department has received
lengthy dispatches from Admiral Bell,
of the Hartford, giving the details of
the late operations against the piratical
sayages of Formosa. The Admiral
states that no sailors or soldiers ever
displayed a better spirit, but that in
such a country, with the thermometer
at 81 they were unable to cope with an
artful and skilled enemy. A number of
huts were destroyed, and the savages
were pursued until the chase had to be
given up. Lieutenant Mckenzie fell
mortally wounded while leading n
charge, and fourteen marines were sun
struck-four Of them dangerously.