The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-10-26
CURRENT ITEMS.

! Inc Telegraph VIII De opened 10 St.
Augustine, Florida, in November.
f. Halt & Co., dry goods house, Phila-
delphia, recently failed. Liabilities
from $500, 900 to S350,0O0.
McIlvaine Bros, merchants, 80 Broad
way, New York, have failed, their lia-
bilities amounting to 100000.
There were 2Ol deaths in st. Louis
last week, of which % were of cholera,
12 of cholera infantum, and of cholera
morbus.
The Wabash is lower than it has been
for many years, and is now fordable by
wagons at nearly all the ferries.
Cotton is selling at Atlanta at l2t to
l2c, tax unpaid. 1t cost the grower
from IL to l5c, where labor was hired.
There are only two friends of the
white race Of Alabama, elected to
Pope's bogus Convention of that State.
The rest are negroes, or worse.
The Spirit, of Jefferson, states that the
fish trap" near Mr.. Manning's resi-
dence, on the Shenandoah, produced as
many as one thousand eels in one night
last week And it wasn't good night
for cells, either.
On Tuesday night Of last week, fire
at Lake City, Florida, destroyed the
Courthouse and all the county records.
This is the third Courthouse burned at
that place within the last twenty years.
The "right hand power of the Democ-
racy," is the fact that they are the
friends and supporters of the Constitu-
tion, and such laws as will best protect
the colored man, and at the same time
advance the best interests of the dOmi
nant race of the country.
The BODY of Nathan Goodhue, citi-
zen of Atlanta, was found dead in
railroad cut near Miledgeville on We'd
nesday morning of last week. He had
been murdered the night before for his
money, it is supposed, as he was known
to be in possession of considerable
sum.
A French pamphlet" the authorship
of which is attributed to "great per-
sonage," was published in Paris. 1t
foreshadows the approach of q general
European war, by which the treaties of
1915 will be torn, Belgium be annexed
to France, and the French frontier rec
titled to the Rhine.
Capt. John r. Sanders, an artist of
genius and extensive fame, died in
Memphis OH thu Sth inst. His wife died
in less than a week afterward. The
Captain was from Columbus, Mississip-
pi, but had spent several years in Eu-
rope, aud returned highly proficient in
his profession. Many of the choicest
paintings to be seen in Nashville and
Memphis are the work of his pencil.
Emigration from Liverpool continues
in greater numbers than ever. During
the three months ending with Septem-
ber, a,7l5 emigrants left Liverpool, an
increase over the same period last year
of 6l57. Last month thirty-two ships
cleared for this country, carrying 756
cabin passengers and 1856 in the steer
age.
Forney says all that is necessary to
make rebellion honorable, aud to sur
render the Government to it; to confirm
the usurpations in Maryland, Kentucky,
and Delaware; to encourage the perse-
cutions of the freedmen and white
Unionists in the cunreconstructed States,
and to stimulate Andrew Johnson in
his continued war upon Congress, is for
the people of the old Free States to rOte
against the Republicans party.
Some calf at Fort Valley, Georgia, ad-
vertises for wife, lady of good fam
lily, and one that possesses good dispo-
sition; she must possess all the accom-
plishments that finished education can
give; she must also be good house
keeper, and not afraid to work Beauty
no recommendation without the above
named qualities" He must be q great
fool 10 think any such woman rs he de-
scribes would want him. He is either a
officiating boy, badly ribbon, struck, OF
stingy old bachelor who wants a ser
want.
As the negro mania declines, the rest
less agitators of the country are looking
about for some issue to take its place,
and act as an irritant upon the passions
and prejudices of the masses. The
Church Union has hit upon one expedi-
emit, and declares that Romanism is
shortly to become the right hand power
of Democracy. This is the old appeal
which maddened men in 1874, and lit
the sky with the flames of burning
churches and buildings devoted to the
alleviation of human sufferings.