The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-01
NEWS SUMMARY.
nY TELEGRAPH.

Gold closed in New York yesterday
at llJt.
srow storm set in at New York at
On asrly hour yesterday morning
Santa anna was sent from Havana TO
Vss.au, on Sunday, on Spanish man
of-Tar.
Washington'S Birthday was comPh,
,,tad with q salute of twenty-one
inns from the flagship of the spanish
Admiral, at Havana.
I'll. baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Comnasv recently executed q mortgage
foT 4 -OO, OO,OOOtstsIlng : or 50 ,o52, OJO In goid
20 BarinG Bros, OF London.
Ssrvicss were held in each of the
wotsr street, New York, mission houses
-, Snnday. and crowds of passers by,
attracted ty the novelty, filled the
rooms.
At the great revival in the Methodist
Pniscopai Church, ,on Long Island, which
;ssIll in progress, one hundred and six
80 converts have been made and one
hundred and forty-fVe have Joined the
chuTcR.
The New York World'' Havana cor
resroodent writes that the assassin ot
Greengaldt has not been tried, aud that
bis accompliees have been helped TO ss'
cane from the Island by means Of
fand secretly raised by the volunteers.
Hon. William Fl. Seward attended di-
vine service at Trinity Church, New
York. Sunday morning. In the after
noon he visited Hon. Thurlow Weed, at
whose residence be dined. Yesterday
he received his friends at the Astor
House.
About twenty lottery shops in the
Fifth Ward, New York, were closed on
Saturday by order of Collector Pleas
anton of the Fourth District, on the
ground that the owners bad not paid
the special taxes imposed by the reye-
nue..
Havana letters state that sixty-two
Cuban prisoners, enlisted men, were
shot By the Spsnisrds at Clenfuegas,
and that General Jordan has publicly
announced that he would shoot eight or
ten Of the Spanish chiefs and officers,
prisoners in his hands.
The propeller New Jersey, which left
Baltimore on Friday for Norfolk, with
large lot Of freight, was burned to the
water off Sharp's Island, in the Chesa-
peake Bay. The captain and crew es-
capped in boats, and were picked up aud
taken to Baltimore by the propeller
Transit The New Jersey was valued
a, So 20; insured for $4,000.
The Rt. Rev. David w. Bacon, Catho-
lie Bishop of Maine, who returned to
this country from Rome at the close OF
last week, preached Sunday morning in
the Church of the Assumption, in New
York. of which he was formerly pastor.
The Bishop stated that he would return
10 Rome as soon as he could arrange
some matters connected with his do
Csc.
A letter from Rome says that the
Archbishop of Baltimore has formed
third party in the Ecumenical Council
in Rome. archbishop Spalding thus
heads the American Episcopal force,
intermediary between the extremists of
Italy and Germany on the infallibility
question and other vexed subjects. The
American prelates may thus carry of
the greater number Of the vacant scar
let hats.
On Saturday, officer Parsons, OF New
York, seized lot of gunpowder at the
Bridgeport docks, East River, which had
been shipped by Uriah Woodbury., No.
l2g Maiden Lane, New York city, to
the Winchester Arms Company, East
Bridgeport, CT, on the passenger steam
tr Bridgeport, as merchandise. The
powder was turned over to the Fire
Commissioners.
A bill passed the lower House o. the
Missouri Legislature, Saturday, almost
unanimously, requiring the School
Board to appropriate to every private
school, for a scholar receiving free
tuition in such school. 1t is said If this
bill becomes law it can be made to
almost entirely break up the public
school system. An effort will be made
TO defeat il in the House.
A special to the Chicago Tribune says
abont nine o'clock yesterday morning
the Illinois Female Seminary at Jack
sonville was discovered to be on fire,
and before the flames could be arrested
the entire main building was destroyed.
The building belonged to the Illinois
Conference of the NJ. +. Church. A
large wing of the structure was saved;
the furniture was all saved, but consid-
erably damaged. About $50 lady pupils
were in the building at the time, all of
whom escaped uniujured and saved
their wearing apparel, books, &c. Less
about $4,000, with an insurance of
S35,O 900.
For more than two months past the
people of Long Island have been in an
excited state OF mind over the success
of the Mormon bishops and elders in
making converts TO their faith. The
society which was driven from Freeport
the other day by Il mob located them
selves at Pachogue, where protection
was promised them by justice of the
peace. This action on the part of the
justice has caused much excitement.
Sunday a meeting was held at Chris
tan Hook and it was thought for a
time that serious disturbance would
occur. but the malcontents were dis
Suaded from making an assault. Elder
brewer, of Salt Lake harangued the as.
sembly. 1t is predicted that if the
aormors continue TO hold their meet
Ings and propagate their doctrines on
Long Island, soon disturbances will
0ccu' terminating in bloodshed.