The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-02
New York Items.

New YORK, March 1.-The tin box
stolen from the Park Bank of Brooklyn,
Saturday, was found by some children
among some loose hay in basement in
Adelphi street yesterday. The bonds
were missing, but numerous other pa
pers of value to the bank and none to
the thieves remained.
Whites stable was burned ia Thirty
eighth street last night, together with
ten horses. Loss $4,000. Insured.
George MCGEE was fatally stabbed by
bartender named Reilly, Saturday
night. Reilly has been arrested.
Duff & Co.'s paper factory and Atle-
burg's piano factory, on the Bowery,
was burned yesterday. Loss $4,000.
Insured.
a Washington dispatch says: At a
meeting of the members of Congress
from Ohio they agreed to support Mr..
Blaine for Speaker, and will present the
name of E. X. Eckley, of Ohio, in the
caucus, for Clerk.
The Herald gives tho following &C
count of visit of Senator Stewart to
General Grant: Senator Stewart said
he had come to know how General
Grant stood on the constitutional
amendment giving universal suffrage,
North and South. General Grant re-
piled that he understood the amend
ment and hoped the States would ratify
it. He believed the Republican party
were bound to see this conclusion real
lied. This statement, he desired all
the gentlemen present to understand,
was not for their private information
alone, but for the whole country to
hear. Senator Wilson, on learning this
announcement, put his hat on and went
off in great humOr, saying, at last be
was satisfied with General Grant.
The reported sale of the Newport line
of steamers to the Bristol line is I'M
true.
The Hudson river is again closed by
ice.
The Eagle Zouaves, of Buffalo, left for
Washington to-day.
Postmaster Kelley has been directed
to send all mails for California and the
Pacific coast by steamer to-day and to
retain all subsequent mail matter until
the 18th and 2lst iusts.
Nathaniel Oakley, a counterfeiter,
sentenced to three years Imprisonment,
received the Presidents pardon to. day.
" ~ INOuluoOlJ VI buO III VI 'OOu
& Robinson, stock brokers, reported to
have absconded on Saturday with
large sum of money, returned to his
office this morning.
The Rev. L. Dewitt Tallmadge, one of
the famous preachers of the Reformed
Church, has accepted the call of the
Central Presbyterian Church in Brook
Ign, with a salary of $1,000, and declined
that of Calvary Church, Chicago, TO
which salary of $1,000 is also attached.
A number of Cubans, who are tempo
rarily stopping in this city, held au in
formal meeting at the New York Hotel
on Saturday evening, to take into con-
sidoration the propriety OF holding a.
public meeting at an early day, with a
view Of asking aid for the Revolution
lists. Another meeting will be held this
week, when the final arrangements will
be made.
Commodore Vanderbilt, having COM
PEELED the transportation companies
over the Erie and Pennsylvania Cen
trail roads to come TO his terms, to-day
put the freight charges to Chicago back
to the old rates.
The representatives of twenty-eight
vocal and instrumental societies be-
longing to the Northeastern Sanger
bund held a meeting. yesterday alter
noon to make arrangements for attend
ing the Eleventh General S;engerfest,
TO be held in Baltimore next summer.