The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-17
FROM NEW YORK:
H,vaua Csrrespsudenecl-La Latest Mex
lean lntelligenee.

Havana Cerrespeudenee--La Mex
lean Anteiligcnee.
5 NEwsYoRK, April 16.-The Herald's
Havana correspondent says the report
was current that the Liberals had occu-
pied Siseal. Two schooners ana
steamer had been purchased by the LIP,
erals to blockade Vera Cruz on the Guif
side. Deaz is said by the lmPeriallsts
to have met with some disasters ut
Puebla, being forced to fall back on
0,Jooa 81 ga. e arltTI H. y .-. ill
General Ortega recently made an un-
successful attempt to escape from
prison. :,
The Menerve also says that steps are
to be taken in England to buy the
Northwest territory, in order to con-
meet by this belt of land British Column
bia with the eastern part of the Confed-
GRAFTON.
o A passenger on the steamer St. John
at the time of the accident says the
walking beam broke, and but for the
timely discovery of the accident one OF
the heavy shafts attached would have
been precipitated through the bottom
of the boat. -----
The Times, correspondent at Panama
denies the report of the arrest OF Cen
yress by order of Mosqnera. Inc lat,
ter had informed Congress that ne did
not consider it o legal body, alleging
that il had admitted members not quail
fled by law. The quarrel, however,
had been settled, and Congress contln-
ued its. sessions Is usual. 30 ys. trsfsf
.Er New York Items. &
New YORK, April I6.-Mayor Hoffman
received q draft Of half a million for
for the postoffice site. -
The National Academy of Design was
opened to-day, until the LIST OF July.
The Great Eastern sails tomorrow
morning. Among the passengers are
Admiral Fegethoff, Commodore f. A.
Stevens and Rev. Henry NJ. Field.
Gotfield Weibel, residing on James
street, murdered his wife last night by
cutting her throat from ear to ear. lie
is not yet arrested.
By the explosion of a torpedo at No.
Is Christie street, three persons, Ernest
King, Edward King and Henry Scherer,
we're severely burned about the head.
A little girl named Mary Truesdale
supposed to have been kidnapped, has
been found. She was traced to the IN
tellipence Office and found in D family
in New Rochelle, where she had hired
out.
ing the Board of Metropolitan Ponce
power to organize military brigade
not exceeding eight hundred, who WI,
be drilled in the manual of arms and
disciplined in movements adapted to
military service in cities. Such organ
ization, however, shall not interfere
with the proper performaneeof Poilee
duties.
The strike in the Lehigh coal regions
so long existing, has terminated, the
men acceding to the reduction of wages
Active operations will at once be com
Imenced in the Schuylkill region.
New strikes have occurred at some o.
the collieries during the week, while al
others operations have been recon-
menced.
A Washington telegram says it is ru'
mored that the President will recall the
nomination of Raymond to Austria, al
Raymond's request.
Hon. Charles King, a former Presi'
dent of Columbia College, was danger,
ously ill at Rome, March 26, with small
hopes of his recovery. - b.
John Penn, great grandson of William
Penn, died in London on the 29th ult.
A letter from Havana, April 10, states
that rumor prevails that the steamer
R. r. Cuyler, sailing under the flag o.
Chill, had captured the Spanish steamer
MOntezuma.
A marble bust of Charles OConner
executed by j. W. Mcdonald, was to-day
presented to the Supreme Court OF this
State ....r