The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-09-09
FROM NEW YORK.
Elections and Riot In Canada-Rraud
I'm the Revenue Department-Adair
in Observation-Disclosures Eieciions-
Railroad Accident in Connecticut
aRenort of Secretary McCnIlOch.

Railroad Accident in Connecticut
aReport of Secretary SlcCniloch.
New YORK, September IA dispatch
from Montreal to the Globe last even
ing says Cartier is elected for both
houses by majority of35O.
The majority for MCGEE at the close
of the polls was 271.
After the announcement q mob of
about 200 of the Devode party arrived
opposite the Merchants holel, and tore
down q statement Of the polls and then
threw a shower of stones at the hall
which broke the windows in the front.
There was q free fight in the street.
! The mob was kept out Of the hall where
MCGEE was by-revoivrr shots from the
. inside.
At the entrance the guards charged
? on the mob and put them to flight.
The Herald's Washington special
SAYS: The Internal Revenue Depart
! ment has received information of grave
import regarding certain alleged heavy
frauds in the whisky revenue of New
York and Brooklyn, in which are i'm
plicated, among Others, FIVE revenue
collectors,
The Metropolitan Board, after inves-
tigating the matter, has requested the
Department. to interfere judicially,
which suggestion will probably inquire
the early arrest and trial of the sus-
pected officers.
The Herald's City of Mexico letter
dated July 29th, says: Juarez has COM
menced the formation of his new Cabi-
net.
M. ...Lo1o oorot,,- 10 70 ha laid o&
into districts, to which DiaZ, EscObedo,
Corona and Alvarez have been assigned
to command.
On the 18th of July the President was
accorded an Informal reception, which
was rather an Indifferent affair, the peO-
pie being conspicuously wanting in the
usual Mexican enthusiasm. A youth
named Macmillan read a poem dedi-
Gated to Juarez, and little girl named
.Carlotta presented him with golden
crown.
- Diaz and Juarez had almost had a
rupture on the subject of the expected eX
ecutiOn Offourteen more prisoners ofwar,
and it was thought that it was by the
efforts of Diaz they were respited. He
is reported to have threatened JuareZ
with the -forcible Intervention of the
army which he commanded unless the
sentences were suspended.
Carlos Miramon has 2600 men in the
mountains, and recently shot ninety
Liberals in revenge for his brothers
= death.
The Times special says the result of
the California elections has produced
much good feeling with the President
and his immediate friends of the politi-
cal firm of Black.
Mr.. Johnson looks upon the election
as an endorsement of his position, and
as marking the ebb tide of the Radical
flood. Its effect will be to cause him to
persevere i'll his present course.
General Griffin, now in command of
the Fifth Military District, has asked
and received permission to Tx the head
quarters temporarily at Galveston, ow-
ing to the fact that he has but one staff
officer fit for duty, that the surgeons are
all sick, that his only child is at the
oint of death, and that to proceed to
New Orleans under these circumstances
would seem almost like deserving his
post in the face of the enemy.
Phe friends of Fred Douglass, whose
name has been mentioned In connection
with the Commissioner of the Freed
mems Bureau, assert that he would not
under any circumstances accept the po-
sition at tine hands of Mr.. johnson.
Douglass is anxious for the retention of
General Howard.
The Worlds Wa erbury, Conn, spe-
< eial has the following additional par
ticulars of the Naugatuck railroad acct
dent yesterday: among those who are
missing and supposed to be lost are
John Seaftly, foreman of the Eastern
Division of the road; Lucius Skinner,
Messenger of Adams Express company;
John Canty, trackman, from Winsted;
Quinn and Mckee, trackmeB, from Win
stead, and another trackmaA from VOL
cottsville; also boy, name unknown.
All the mail and express matter were
lost. Six bodies have been found at
different points on the river between
the place where the accident oc-
CURED and Terre's factory, about 90
miles below. Que boy who was lost
was q son OF hlr. Il. Sherry, ofWolcotts-
vile, formerly of the Hartford byittania
works. His body has been found; four
others are missing. THe stores and fac.
tories in Thompson are closed, and all
are engaged in searching for the bodies
efthe dead.
The Tribune says the forthcoming re-
port of Secretary McC ulloeh will show
: that over s120,W0,00O of our public
debt was paid off Ge last year. At this
rate 1t would allbe paid off by July
1887.
The President has pardened William
Scushman, rebel postmaster in Lou
isiana.
Z General n. b. Buftrd has been ap-
pointed to examine the section of the
Union Pacific railwayih place of Frank
p. Blair.
New York lisms.