The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-21
FROM Sc. LOUIS.

ST. LOUIS, July 2O.-A Denver dis
patch saws the Pacific Railroad Com
missioners excursion party have re-
tnrned from Central City aud the gold
and silver mines and left, last evening,
for Cheyenne.
A Santa Fe dispatch says the Demo.
cratic Convention, after stormy SEES
sion of two days, nominated Resute
Romero for delegate 10 Congress.
A Leavenworth dispatch says the
Evening Call of last Saturday has an
article in which il is stated that the old
Indian ring has transferred operations
from the Indian Bureau to the military.
Ii claims that at the recent letting at
district headquarters at Chicago, of u
contract 10 supply the Indians OF
Dakota, with beef, Feuton, the
partner of ex Governor Carney, was
awarded the contract at 81 A., when, as
the Call claims, Mr.. Matthew Ryan, of
this city, had bid in at 1919 aud ID.
ii. Mitchell \ Co. at 50 % per hundred
pounds. The Call also claims that MIR
Ryan, as an inducemeut not 10 take the
contract at S275, was taken III As a
partner by Carney, aud ID. II. Mitchell
Il Co. were paid eight thousand dollars
To secure the same object. Fcnton,
Carney's partner, of course got the con
tract. The article eNCites considerable
comment.
A Quincy, Illinois, dispatch says the
late rains have so damaged the Hanni-
bal aud st. Joseph raIlro Il between
Hannibal and Palmyra that trains have
ceased running between those places al
present. Between this place and Pal.
myra large part of the country is in
undated and railroad trains run with
difficulty. The Toledo, Wabash and
Western railroad is much damaged anC
no trains left here this morning and nc
trains arrived from Friday night (
Sunday. Over 80 feet of the Chicago
Burlington and Quincy railroad be-
was carried away Tear Augusta. vi
Saturday night the passenger tram mar
rowly escaped running into the break
where the water poured through IKE
river. Large quantities of wheat IN To-
shock have deem carried away by hlgt
creeks in Adams county. South Hannl
bal is inundated aud over 10000 feet o
lumber have been washed away.
The new iron furnace at Carondolet
belonging to the Kinpling Iron Works
was started last evening In the pres
enoe OF quite number of citizens inter
ested IN the enterprise. The second
furnace, belonging to these works, will
be hghted in about week. Wher
these two furnaces are in successful Cd
GRAFTON, the company design TO erect
two more of much larger CAPACITY. They
will also build aslarger rolltur min an5
carry on the manufacture of iron nm ;
very extensive scale. The ground wa,
also broken for the er' elton of tv,
first-class furnaces by the St. Louis Iror
Company, of which James Jordan, re
Gently of Pittsburgh, is President.
The County Court yesterday ordere
the stoppage of work on the artesia
well at the new insane asylum her,
The well has reached the depth OF nearl
5000 feet, but the court has conclude
that there was no prospects ofprocurln
tue kind and quality of water desired
The we'll will probably be plugged
the depth of about 1900 feet, abou
which point, tits thought, with aid of
force pump, sufficient pure water can b
obtained for the use of the asylum.