The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-04
NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH.

Henry Spring, Of New York, one OF
the Herald editorial staff: is dead.
The steamship Columbia from Glas-
COW arrived at New York Saturday.
The Petersburg, Virginia, iron works
we're burned Saturday morning. Loss
100000.
Jamss Gordon. Ben ett, Jr., sailed for
Europe Saturday in the City of Brook
lyu, toIp7epare for tho yacht contest.
A great number tf changes of subor
dipates in the New York Custom House
have been ma 70 during the past week.
The oolo,ed people of tls Pacific
coast are arranging ~ celebrate .appro-
priately the adoption of the Fifteenth
Amendment
Joseph Bartlett, editor of the Bangor
.JsJersouian, aud Register Of Probate for
Psnobscot county, Me-, died Friday
evening, of consumption. = ....
The remains of General Thomas pass
ell Cheyenne, Wyoming, yesterday sFen-
ing. The military paid appropriate
honOrs, heavy sraln storm prevailing.
The internal revenue receipts of the
First Louisiana District for the month
of March were S25i 600. During the
same time last year they weye Sl7l LOO
Iii, understood from official sources
that the President submitted 10 his
Cabinet oa Friday his proposed message
to Congress suggesting general am
nesty. 81.
A locomotive on the Boston and
Fitchburg Railroad exploded on Friday
at Know Nothing crossing, IN FITCH
burg. The engineer and fireman were
probably fatally Injured.
The case of Buckhout, the Sleepy Hol-
low murderer, went to the jury FRIDAY
evening, but at a late hour they bad not
reached a verdict and there was intense
excitement in regard to the affair in the
village of White Plains.
The ship Eastern Star reports that
- her only chronometer stopped Jaruary
2Sth, and she was compelled to depend
on lunar observations the remainder
of her voyage She signaled six ships,
but none took notice of her. r.
Hon. Cassius NJ. Clay. has written a
letter in reply to Governor Palmer OF
Illinois, in which he puts some severe
structures on the Governors reasons for
declining to act 4, Vice President of the
Cuban Charitable Aid Society.
The rumor gains strength that Grin
nell will soon resign his position as
Collector, and General Merritt will retire
from the Naval office. Steps are being
taken to abolish both the Naval office
and the Office of Surveyor. They are
generally regarded as unnecessary.
The steamer Fidelity arrived at San
Francisco, Saturday, from Santa Bar
bara. bringing the remaining paSsen,
gers aud all the baggage and treasure
saved from the wreck Of the steamer
Golden State. The steamer Serano
visited the scere of the disaster.
The Executive Committee of the Gen
eral Republican Central Committee OF
New York, elected the following officers
for the ensuing year President, Ben
iamin Z. Manierre; Secretaries, George
+. Cushman and Abraham Brown, both
reelected. The General Committee
will be at Albany on Thursday next.
Two passenger coaches and caboose
emigrant train from the west due at
Corinne, Utah, att Friday morning,
was thrown from the track down an
embankment short distance from Pro-
montory at . o'clock P. NJ. The road
master, conductor of the train and four
male aud lady passengers were slightly
injured. The wounded were brought to
r. medical fraatmnDf Causn
of the accident unknown.
At l1;5O Saturday morning q sharp
and wicked shock of earthquake was
felt at San Francisco. The duration
WAS six seconds. The direction north.
east to north. west. No damage was
done TO life, limb or property. There
was intense excitement for few min
utes. The animals were terribly fright
eped, and numerous runaways was the
result. The City Hall, where court was
in session, the Merchants Exchange,
Mercantile Library, Custom House and
other large buildings were instantly
vacated, and panic was created. The
hotels aud streets swarmed with people
in a moment. 1t was raining at the
time and prior to the shock. The barome
ter fell rapidly.
District Attorney Garvin will call the
Mcfarland trial in the Court If General
Sessions to-day. Messrs. John Graham,
Charles Spencer and Elbridge T. Gerry
will appear for the defense. They keep
secret their defense. Over six hundred
petit Jurors have been summoned. The
prosecution has called as witnesses to-
G. nfh
Messrs. Whitelaw Reid, Samuel Sim
clair and John F. Cleveland, of
the Tribune. Daniel j. Fropman,
Juuius II. Browne, George King,
David Watson, DR. Sayre, Mrs. Richard
SON. Mcfarland and Police Capt. Allen
have also been summoned. Revs. Henry
Ward Beecher and rockingham have
received subpenas from the defense.
Some party East has been selling
forged drafts purporting to be drawn oy
Sam A. Gaylord IL Co., OF st. Louis.
One draft, drawn on the Central Ma
tionsl Bank, New York, for $500 was
ssntby the York County, Pennsyl vania,
National Bank to the Bank of Com
merce of New York, for collection, but
not paid, the fraud being discovered.
Another, drawn on the Continental,
National Bank, New York, for S25o0.
was sent to the National Park Bank,
New York, by the Miller River National
Bank, Atioe, Massachusetts,, for collec-
tion, and the, payment refused. The
latter draft was paid 70 o shoe manu-.
featuring house, ct Atioe, for shoes, but
whether MONEY was obtaihed on tbc
first mentioned draft is not known. No
clue to the forger, but it is sspposed 60
be the same man who recently had
printed at Baltimore o quantity Of
fraudulent blank drafts and checks on
Barthelow, Lewis s. CO., st. Louis. It
is not unlikely TINT other forged drafts