The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-28
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WASHINGTON, October "a.
Riot In North Carolina.
A dispatch from Goldsboro, North
Carolina, states that riot occurred on
the 24sh, in which one negro ana one
soldier were wounded.
Riot MTG oidsboro, N. Y. l.
A special telegram to the Wilmington
n. c.. Journal, dated Goldsboro, October
"a saws: Our town was thrown into
state of the widest excitement last
night by a riot which commenced early
in the evening and lasted until 10
O'clock, between United States troops
stationed here and negroes. About sew
enty FIVE guns were fred and one soldier
and one negro wounded. 1t is now y
hours since the riot and our authorities
have not made or attempted to make the
first arrest.
The Tobacco Crop.
Information received at the Depart
ment of Agriculture shows falling Oh
Of one-third of the tobacco crop in Vir-
GINA aud Maryland, and throughout
Kentucky and the West about one
tenth. 1t is reported that the frost last
night in the West will cause further
deficiency.
The tPresidens ON the Mis'''sipp'
Senator Thayer, of Nebraska, had q
conversation with President Grant yes
terday on the subject of the Mississippi
election. He called the Presidents at
tention to published telegram to the
effect that Judge Dent was represented
as saying that the President sustained
him as a candidate for Governor. The
President said he had himself seen the
statement, and had enclosed it to Judge
Dent, asking if he had been correctly
reported. To this inquiry he had not
as yet made reply.
The President further stated that in
August last he addressed Judge Dent q
letter, advising him not to connect him
self with the Conservative movement
against the party now supporting AL
corn, the former being, he said, the enc
mics of the Administration aud Govern
ment. While he was on good personal re-
latious with Judge Dent, he neverthe
less felt bound by public duty to oppose
h;a alaotinu and laaira the snccasa of
Alcorn. These views he unqualifiedly
and emphatically repeated to Senator
Thayer. He believed from what he had
heard that Alcorn would be elected.
.Csnversing on the subject Of the Fiji
teenth Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States, he expressed the
hope that the Nebraska Legislature
would be convened this coming winter
in order to ratify the Amendment. The
sessions of the Nebraska Legislature
are biennial, and the next regular ses-
sion will not take place till January,
1871.
An Earthquake.
Information has been received at the
Coast Survey Office of very marked
earthquake wave having been recorded
rruuvr9vvJ ---~-y. $500 n
P. NJ. The occurrence of violent
earthquake in some distant part Of the
Pacific Ocean may be inferred, of
which news will doubtless reach here
before long. The earthquake at Simon
da in 1854 and the one which occurred
in Peru in August of last year, were an
bounced i'll the same way. These way es
travel across the Pac ific Ocean at an
average rate of $50 miles an hour, de-
pending on the depth of water along
the track of the wave. From observa-
tions made on the occasions 10 which
reference is made, the average depth of
that Ocean has been been found to be
about 2O00 fathoms.i --.
General Order.
The following order has just been is
sued by the President:
EXECUTIVE ORDER.
All communications in writing in
tended for the Executive Department of
this Government, and relating to public
business of whatever kind, including
suggestions for legislative claims, con-
tracts, employment. appointments and
removals from office, and pardoHs, must
be transmitted through the department
to which the care of the subject or
matter of communication properly be-
longs. Communications otherwise
transmitted will not receive attention
By order of the President.
HAMILTON FISH, Sec'y of State.
WASHINGTON, ID. e., Oct. ~, 1869
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 1869.
Notice is hereby given to applicants
for office that there are no existing va.
cancies in the department either abroad
or at home. Vacancies hereafter occur
ring will be filled only on written ap-
plication addressed to the Secretary and
lied in the department. The Secretary
will not receive applicants personally.
No answer will be made to applicants
unless the applicant is appointed, and
In no case will papers filed in support of
an application be returned to the appl.
cant. Attention TO this notice will save
the applicants much Inconvenience.
lSignedl HAMILTON FISH.
Secretary of Stata