The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-02

ment ammo unces that the Government
cannot protect. the owners Of coupon
bonds, payable to bearer, lost through
their own fault or negligence. Pay
ment hereafter will be made to the par
ty presenting the bonds.
lAdvices from Forts Riceand Sully, =
month later than the reported Fort bo'
ford massacre, make no mention r'SpsA
ever of any trouble in the upper cotin-
try. The account of that affair is con-
sidered a canard at Yanktown and 9th
er points on the Upper Missouri. ,'
The city Of Philadelphia owns the
gas works, and claimed that the gas
manufactured for consumption in her
public lamps should be exempt from
Government tax. The Supreme Court
of the United States, in an appeal IN
volving this point, decided against the
city. FEt.TT 1Tp ~
George Mackenzie, of New York, and
G. c. Reichelm, Of Philadelphia, have
made a chess match for the cham
pionship of the United States. The
meeting is to take place in the Phlla.
delphia Atheneum, and the winner OF
the first seven games 10 be declared
the champion, -
The New York Times says: "Any sort
of political enterprise that aims to use
the freedmen as voting class-wheth-
er that enterprise is in the hands OF
Gen. Wade Hampton or Senator Wilson
will begin in their corruption and end
in their political and social destruc-
tiOn." .rfa'
Sir Archibald Alison, the historian,
recently said in speech delivered in
Glasgow: at is doubtful whether our
royal navy az yet equals that of America.
If forest of hostile iron.clads appear
off Spithead G6f Plymouth, vain will be
the forty or fifty noble sail of the line
lying in our harbor."
A poultryman of Boston recently sent
to Manchester, NH, Iair of Bramah
fowls colored beautiful crimson, and
they were passed off as just imported,
at great expense, from Japan. The
beautiful birds caused o sensation
amongst poultry breeders, and their
eggs sold at fabulous prices-it is said
as high as s4 an egg.
A Maine paper says that notwith-
standing the vigilance displayed by the
officials, as much liquor is drank in that
State as ever, and the effort to more rig
idly enforce the laws only causes deal
ers and consumers to, use more cIrcum-
spection. The Massachusetts Rcp1b'i-
can says: That's Just what's the matter
in Massachusetts,
G. A. Sherman has obtained verdict
of Sc, 900 damages against the Western
Stage Company for the loss of his wife,
child, and mother, who were drowned
by the upsetting of one of the compa-
ny's coaches while crossing Boone river
in Iowa. The trial took place at Lin
coin. An appeal has been taken to the
Supre me Court. ...
The New York Times states that the
reports in regard 10 the health Of Hon.
E. b. Washburne are not as reassuring
as his friends could wish. His disease
is one that affects the spine, and its
treatment is necessarily very difficult.
At the latest advices he had gone to
Germany to try the effect of the miner
nj waters.
An immense porpoise, measuring nine
feet in length, was captured one day
last week OH the mud flats about half q
mile east Of Bridgeport, Connec lent.
1t came in with the tide, and was left
high and dry when it ebbed. These
creatures are seldom caught, and they
arc valuable only for their oil, which
brings good price.
Greeley tinis.-Mr. Weed has proved
too much for the philosopher. ''H. g."
TINS alludes to "T. w." and gives up
the ghost :-"With so impudent and un-
priucipled juggler, who never hesi-
tates to substitute n statement that
suits him for one that he finds it diff
cult to deal with, propose to have no
further controversy
From statistics recently published it
appears that during the first eleven
months of 1864 France exported books,
engravings, and Autographs of the
value of S3,546,OOO In 1865 the aggre-
gate fell to S3,45O,OOO. In lS66 it rose
slightly--that is during the frat eleven
months of the year S3,514,000 worth of
books, prints, and Autographs were pnr-
chased by foreign customers. OF this
sum, 3, ,3s7 100 were expended on hooks
written in Freuch.
The New York youraai of Commerce
says: The creditors of Mellen, Ward 4
Co. had o meeting last Wednesday,
when a list of liabilities was handed in
amounting to about n million and a
half. The Trenton journal says it is
supposed that the entire assets of the
firm are held by various creditors as
collateral security, and that the estate
will pay but small percentage upon
tue ''''''' W.
The commercial editor of the Boston
WatchmdH and Reflector, in a report of
the Lynn shoe market: notices as a Gu
Iions fact the difference in shape requir-
ed by various sections. The Southern
ladies wear boots cut very high in the
ipstep; the ladies of California and the
W$tern States lrednire . ibroad, wide
boot, while for the trade of the New
England cities very narrow. delicate
shaped boot is demanded"
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A Extraordinary Fish.
A French journal emulates Victor Hu-
go in the production of fish story.