The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-25
BY MAIL.

August Belmo ont has gone to Europe.
Registration in Virginia closed last
night.
Gen. Meade will unveil the Gettys-
burg Monument.
Gen. Butterfeld has been appointed
United States Treasurer ut New York.
The headquarters of the Fifth Cav
airy are to be transferred to the Depart
ment of the Platte.
The Germans of Pittsburgh will cele-
brate tho Fourth of July on Sunday
despite all opposition.
The bill to repeal the Usury Law OF
Connecticut was lost, in the House, yes
torday, by vote of - yeas SO las nays
The jewelry house of Mcssrs. Mayo,
in Chicago, was robbed, on Tuesday, OF
case containing ffty-siX diamond
rings.
The taveru.keepers of Pittsburgh are
still urging the rigorous enforcement of
the Sunday laws against all classes Of
business.
Captain Donaldson, of the Great Re-
public, tried at st. Louis for the murder
of a negro named Anderson, has been
acquitted.
A white man named Holland shot and
mortally wounded a negro, at Franklin,
Va, on Tuesday night. The friends of
the latter sought revenge by burning
the saw-mill of Neatly Bros.
A son of J. w. Young, a farmer living
about fourteen miles from Davenport,
Iowa, was instantly killed by stroke
of lightning last Friday morning. He
was standing by his fathers side, who
was seated III the kitchen during the
storm.
The Board of Trade of st. Louis have
sent Captain Joe Brown to New York
to perfect arrangements for dispatching
a steamship to st. Louis, direct, for a
cargo of produce. st. Louis is iubilant
over the prospective success of the en-
terprise, and the discontinue of Chi.
cago.
The planters of West Tennessee, and
the States adjoining, are alarmed for
the safety of their crops from the lack
of laborers. A convention of those in.
torested is called to take steps for meet.
ing the wants. If other means fail
immediate measures will be taken to
secure Chinese labor.
A writer in the New Orleans SundG.
Times saysSf Mrs. Gaines, (and we would
believe it all, if we could,) that hel
form is petite and beautifully proper
toned. There is a rare elegance in IA
cial contour. No one ever listened Il
her courteous and polished discourse
without being charmed by flashes OF
wit, Just and fanciful observations on
life and manners, and a vein of cheerful
ness highly agreeable. The strength
and lovelineSs of a dark eye in i woman,
as described by Byron, is finely illus,
trated in her case, and altogether she is
woman of whom any country might be
Justly proud.
Senator Brownlow stated to csrres-
pondent the other day that 1t would
take two or three years to remove the
disabilities of rebels in Tennessee. he
says also that it must come, sooner or
iater, IN any event-the position taken
10y General Grant, and the tone of the
Northern Republican papers foreshad-
owing what the Republicans of Ten
nessee must eventually do. He admits
that under the present Issue East Ten
nessee, which, he says, is welded to the
franchise law, will give a majority for
Stokes, unless some radical change in
Senter's favor should take place be-
tween now and the election. He antici.
pates, however, that wherever Joint
canvass is made Senter's cause will gain
largely. Senator Brownlow claims That
Stokes is the enemy and Senter the
friend of Northern men.