The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-26
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NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New York yesterda
at 1871.
They have a volcanic eruption in Co
ina, Mexico, the first since 1860.
$4,000 worth of smuggled cigars wei
seized at New York on Thursday.
Several additional Cuban leaders wer
arrested ia New York on Thnrsda
night.
The Congressional committee Of Way
and Means reached San Francisco o
Thursday.
The first grain elevator on the Pacifi
coast has just been put in successful
operation at Vallejo.
Commodore Vanderbilt aud part
reached Detroit on Thursday by specia
train from Chicago. Running time 81!
hours and forty minutes. rr-S
1t rumored in Ottawa, Canada, tina
the Queens proclamation, authorizing 1
transfer of the Northwest Territory
will be issued in month or six weeks.
A Quebec dispatch says that the az
rest of man st st. Henry and his beiDG
fined six dollars on the complaint OF a
priest that he was selling the New Tes'
lament, is being Investigated.
Recent Cuban advices state that a
considerable number of Spanish sol
diers have deserted to the patriots.
There is crest sickness in the Spanish
army. The Republicans have received
large quantities of arms and munitions
OF war from Mexico.
The propeller Aspinwall, which left
Charleston, :. c., OIL Sunday, with dis
patches for Hayti, carried also number
of volunteers for Cuba. Some of them
were residents of Charleston, but a
large portion were non-Tesidents and
seemed TO have gone there by appolnt
ment.
There were twenty graduates on
of Il class Of thirty at Williams COlleg'
Commencement on Thursday. The de
gree of Doctor of Laws was conferred
Ua Judge Benedict of New York, Presi
dent Elliott of Howard University, Rev
John Bailey of Carlisle, Illinois, anC
Rev. F. Smith of New York.
A fire occurred yesterday afternoon
at the corner of Sixth and COlumblS
streets, Philadelphia, which destroyed
McDavid's glue factory, Cannayan''
wool pulling establishment, and some
ten or fifteen frame and brick buildings
taverns &c. Loss very heavy, and VII
amount to at least 500, 900.
Worknen are engaged on the pave
meut fronting Independence Hall, Phil
adelphia, preparing the foundation fol
monument TO Washington, which vii
be erected on the 5th of July. The base
will be surmounted by a handsome
statue of Washington, presented to the
city by the children attached to the
public schools, who alone contributed
to the expense Of the monument.
Hon. George NJ. Robson, the newly
appointed Secretary of the Navy, is a
son of Judge VIM. p. Robson, of War
reu county, n. j.. and formerly promi-
nent and leading Wing. Upon the cleo
tion of Mr.. Frelinghuysen as Senator in
1867, Mr.. Robeson was appointed by
Governor Ward as Attorney General,
which position he resigns for his new
duties He is about fOrty-ene years of
age, and Justly holds high rank in his
profession. He is strong and decided
Republican.
Dispatches received from Minister
McMahon cover from early in January,
when be arrived in Lopez's lines, down
to the 2lst of April. The dispatches
shed much new light upon the affairs IN
that quarter. Lopez still maintains u
warlike atti tude, and is determined tc
resist to the utteTmOst. Several com
munications from Lopez to McMahon
are transmitted. Mcmahon makes nc
allusiOn to his recall from which, as in
n former letter, the news reached him
It is supposed that the flag of truce
which brought these dispatches through
the lines of the Allies took back dis
patches that were awaiting trausmi sion
10 him. There is no longer any doubt
that the Allies has been the cause of the
cessation of communication.
Marshal Barlow positively denies that
any expedition left New York either
Wednesday or Thursday night, and is OF
opinion that no other expedition has
left there, except that by the Pevit. He
has no doubt that cargoes OF munitions
OF war have been taken to Cuba, but a
there was no legal proof of their rea
destination he could not interfere. Pei
contra, about 800 Cuban tillibuster,
were Quartered in Cooper's Hall, Jersey
City, on Thursday evening, were sup
piled with IatiOus, came over TO New
York in small squads and have since
disappeared. There were forty or fifty
men about the New York headquarters
in Houston street Thursday. Colonel:
Currier and Michael Oriski and Captain
Clancy, who were arrested Thursday
night, have been released on bail to an
swer indictments found against them
The search is continued for Col. Ryan
bat no clue to his whereabouts has been
discovered.