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MEMPHIS.

MEMPHIS, February lS.-The 1Ppcals
Jackson, Mississippi, special Of las;
night savs the trial Of Lee Bork, one oi
the Meridian prisoners, under the en-
forcement act, commenced yesterday
before Judge Hill, in the United States
Court. The past two weeks have been
occupied in preparation. The jury was
empanneued on Thursday, composed Of
seven negroes and five whites.
The first witness for the government
10 a niger, who has been on the stand
the entire day, undergoing a searching
examination by the prisoner counsel.
The testimony OF this witness is
most unreliable, containing successive
c Contradictions throughout. District
Attorney Jacobson represents the
90 vernment. At the present rate OF
progress, giving two days to each wit.
ness, it will require six months to CON-
plete the first case, there being Is wit,
nesses and $50 indictments from Meri.
dan also. Over 200 niggers are in
attendance from Meridian and other
points, who lounge about the Court
House, at night sleeping in any availa'
bic place, and subsisting in a manner
they can scarcely explain.
There has been no quorum in the
Legislature since Saturday last. The
members have been 70 New Orleans
and Mardi Gras, and drawing per diem
at a cost TO tax payers Of several thou
sand dollars.
A nigger child seven years old was
b armed TO death during the progress oI
a fire last night, which consumed the
int erior of the Goodell House. Several
Der sons were badly burned while es
capi ng from the burning building.
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NEW YORK.
Accidental Shooting.

New YORK, February lS.-Yesterday
evening, Afford Perry, while carelessly
handling a revolver, in a lager beer
saloon, No. % Chambers street, acci-
dentally discharged the weapon, the
ball lodging in Dsrl 0Connell's head,
fatally injuring him. Perry was ar
rested. and OCounell removed TO the
hospital. The two men were skylsrk-
ing at the time OF the accident.
Aquatic.
A match has been arranged between
the the Atalantas, Of New York, and
the London Rowing Club. The race
will be rowed on the Thames. The
Americans give the British crew the
option OF rowing with or without a
coxswain. Six men will be taken
over by the Albatross, two OF whom
will be in readiness TO row in case OF the
illness OF any one Of the four forming
the crew.
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CHARLESTON.

From the Enquirer.l
CHARLESTON, February IL.
The Constitutional Convention
to-day has been occupied with the
further consideration Of the questions Of
taxation and finance.
The Legislature
has been engaged on bills Of a local
character, and both branches have ad'
jourued over TO Monday, and will to-
morrow participate in an excursion to
Huntington by invitation Of the officers
of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad,
accompanied by Governor Jacobs and
the State officers.
Only q Kitten.
The complain ts Of fraud and OF over
charging by t be State Printer, mention
ed last night, is q small affair; the
amount involved as charged being a
trifle over a hundred dollars.
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The Custom House Site-FfoJecaeu
Ruildtnxs-Railroad Matters-The
Chicago Relief BilI-Rough on the
Observation-Disclosures
Birthday.
CHICAGO, February. lS.-The opinion
is expressed that the Government may
after all be unable to purchase the
Bigelow block as a site for the Custom
House, because it is partly owned by
several minor heirs, so that title can
be given. The difficulty may, perhaps,
be overcome.
The list of new buildings published
in the Sunday papers is enormous. 1t
includes several hotels, four or five
great theatres and opera houses, bust
ness blocks Of a most costly character,
many churches, &c. Fears that the
new buildings would be inferior in style
and material to the old, are being rapidly
dispersed.
1t is said that Marion Heizlett, Su'
perintendent OF the Pullman Palace
Car Company and formerly Superintend,
ent OF the Milwaukee and st. Paul and
Illinois Central railroads, is to be Gen.
eral Superintendent Of the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad in place OF John
C. Gault, resigned. The latter ls men
toned as Superintendent OF the Mil
YANKEE and St. Paul railroad.
A committee of distinguished citizens
appointed at recent meeting have
started for Washington TO urge upon
Congress the passage OF the Chicago
relief bill. All the heavy lumbermen
and manufacturers have advocated Its
passage
A bill has passed the Illinois House
by a large aiority, and will doubtless
pass the Senate, providing that all
keepers Of gambling houses shall be
fined for the first oflense not less than
800, second otfense not less than 500
and be imprisoned in the county JaII
not less than six months, and for the
third offense not less than $500 and be
imprisoned in the penitentlary from
two to five years. THIS prospect has
greatly excited the gambling fraternity
here, and the enforcement OF 1t will
tend to drive them out of the city.
Wachtel, having recovered his health
sings in opera four times this week.
Washiugton's birthday is to be cele
brated by the friends OF the new temper
ance law with a grand demonstration
embracing two public meetings.
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WASHINGTON February Is.
Appropriation for Louisville Canal
The House committee on Commerce
have agreed to report three hundred
thousand dollars for work on tue Louis
vile canal.
The Philadelphia CoIIectorship
The friends Of Ex-Congressman
ONeill, of Philadelphia, are pressing
the claims of that gentleman for the
vacant Collectorship at Philadelphia
with small hope Of success, as Grant Is
firm in his determination to steer clear
OF politics in selecting a person to fill
Forney's place. He is trying to secure
some prominent merchant who is ellgl-
BILE to the office, and at the same time
acceptable to both factions, and entirely
free from ring influence.
| The Alabama Claims.
1t is thought the Cabinet session OF
Tuesday will be one Of the most I'M
portant that has convened during the
present administration, as by that
time tbere is very fair probability that
the note of the English government on
the Alabama claims will have been re-
celved by Mr.. Fish and laid before the
President.
The Condition of Our Monitors
after their Ion G pickling in fresh water
has been a sub iect Of some considerable
interest in nava circles, and investlga-
tions show that hey differ very much
in their condition and formidablity oi
character. A letter from Norfolk says
that the Matopac sme out OF the dry
dock to day patched up. Her wooden
beams are all rotten nd her decks are
leakv. She has not iron enough on
her to prevent sixty p ound shot from
entering her. She may serve to bluff
the Spanish, bat Old England would
laugh at thousand such monitors.
General RansOm's Claims.
The Senate committee on Privileges
and Elections held meeting yesterday,
and it was understood that a majority
had agreed to report in favor OF General
Ransom's claim TO a seat as Senator
from North Carolina. The committee
stood five to two, Carpenter aDd Morton
dissenting, though it is not beiiev ed that
they will bring in a minority report IN
favor of Abbott.
The Clayton Investigating Com
still drags along with little hopes OF
concluding its labors during the present
session Of Congress. The testimony so
far is overwhelmingly against Clayton
and more than sufficient to warrant his
expulsion from the Senate. Clayton is
we'll aware Of this and is making every
effort to prolong the investigation until
after the adjournment OF Congress,
believing that if Grant is reelected the
Administration will be strong enough
in the Senate to prevent his expulsion
when the report is made. His attorney
has recently fled list Of four hundred
witnesses to be summoned from Arkan.
sas to testify in Clayton's favor. The
committee are now considering the pro-
priety of transferring their labors to
Little Rock in order to save expen,e to
tine Governwent.
No Interference.
There is the highest authority for
the statement that the policy to be
pursued by the United States toward
Mexico will be one of the strict neutral
ity, and that by neither word or act
will this government interfere between
the helligerents. ALrHA-
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THE CONVENTION.

We publish with pleasure the follow
ing extract from the letter Of q gentle
man Of great intelligence, a native o.
Hampshire county, West Virginia, now
residing in Kentucky, and addressed to
a member of the Convention from the
Berkeley district. We believe he has
formed a just estimate of the conserva
tive character of the Convention, and
Notwithstanding some very foolish reso'
lutions submitted in that body, which
will always be the case in such assem-
blages, we think we may fairly predict
that the work of the Convention when
COMPLETED will commend itself to the
enlightened and conservative sentiment
Of the State:
LoUIsvILLE, KY, February
at does my heart good to see that West
Virginia has so able and conservative a
body of men in convention to frame a
code of laws for her future government,
and feel assured that men who have
passed through the ordeal that most OF
them have been subjected Ito will avoid
all rocks upon which the ship OF State
NAV strike, and will make for her a
code of laws a model for these danger
GUS times. God grant It'll is the prayer
of one who expects to make 1t his future
home"
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The Weathe rToDay.

WASHINGTON, Febr uary IS, 7:30 P. N
-Probabiltie,.-No rtheriy winds and
clear weather will p robably continue on
Monday in New En- gland. Light winds
mostly from the ortheast, will prevail
in the Middle, Sou .thern and Gulf States
The lowest ba' cometer will continue
south OF Virgf ola and east Of Missis-
slppi,' with clor .dy weather. Dangerous
winds are not anticipated tonight.
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ILLINOIS.
Railroad Accident.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, February IL
A freight train coming east on the W
o. NJ. railroad collided with the No.
freight at Melmino station. Tony Fl
garo, a brakeman, had his arm broken
John Patterson had leg broken. The
engine and q number Of cars were
badly smashed.
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CINCINN NATI.
Pastor ispinstated.

CINCINNATI, February lS,-Reverend
Stephen Morgan, pastor of the Baptist
Church, who was convicted some few
DAYS since OF stealing books from the
public library and fined SO, made con-
iession in his church to-day and was
reinsta,ed as pastor 10y a vote OF 80 to
5 church members.
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Man Drowned.

vASsvILLE, February 1.-The
,Jo,,,r al has note from New Harmony,
saving, that David Wiley, who served
throup h the war in the Fret Indiana
CavalT y, was drowned below that place
on Thr arsday, by breaking through the
ice on hs Wabash.
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COLUMBUS.
Ohio Legislature.

COLUMBUS, February lin the
House to-day a petition was presented
from VIM. Kleinen and 249 citizens OF
Cincinnati, also from VIM. Glenn and
nine other business firms, against the
passing of Falls bill repeating the
Southern railroad act.
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CONGRESSIONAL.
WASHINGTON, February II.
SENATE.

SENATE.
The Senate having yesterday adjourn
ed over till Monday, there was no ses-
sion OF that body to-day.
HOUSE.
The House met for general debate as
a'committee of the Whole, Mr.. Mckee
in the chair.
The committee presented the usual
Saturday appearance of empty seats and
deserted galleries. A few speeches
were read, or filed for publication in
the Globe, and then the House ad,
iourned.
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VsTryG BY BALLOT. are glad
that the Constitutional Convention has
left the system Of voting intact. We
are satisfied il is wise measure and
will meet the appreciation OF a great
majority Of the people Of this State.
Voting yivd voce will DO in some sec
tions, but il would never have suited
the people Of this State, and would, in
some degree, have robbed many Of
them OF their independence -Nev
Cresk TriJunr.
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SIOUX CITY.
Macy Persons Frozen TO DcRfh
During the Late storm.

Sioux CRY, February lS.-Twelve
men were frozen to death in the terrible
storm OF Monday night in Dixon
county. In the Winnebaeo agency a
large party were gathering wood on
Monday, when the storm suddenly set
upon them. Of these, seven are dead
and missing. A man and two boys
were caught by the storm near Ponica
and frozen TO death. Several other
deaths are reported Men who were in
the storm say the snow was six
inches thick all over their heads and
that they could with difficulty keep an
opening through which to breathe.
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z CASES MONITOR NAVY, HALF LES.
y 10 HE Butts Monitor Navy, Half Lbs.
% CASE AMlgwam' y. q smoking. "
t~ r. REILLY.
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G.. III. 0UIMBY,

DEALER IN BOOKS, PERIODICALS,
Stationery, Albums, Pocket Books,
Toy Books, Games, Stereoscopes and Views,
&c. All the popular Periodicals furnished
by single number, year and To clubs. Also
New York, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Gin.
cinnati Dailos 90 mail and city subscribers
nj publlshers' prices. Market street, between
Quincy andJohn, Wheeling, W. Va Jal
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Wholesale GroCers
PORK PACKERS,

Corner Main ard Quincy Stresn,
Wheeling. W. Va
We offer at very low rates:
30O hays prime 10 choice lilo ConeA
100 Barrels New Orleans Molssscs,
81 Barrels choice sugar Syrups,
" Hhds. y. o., Cuba and II. u. busasS.
5HhdS. fancy DemarRra Sugar.,
100 Barrels Refined Sugar.
81 Half Chests q. T., Y. ii. and osissl
Teas,
80 Barrels Mess Pork,
lOJ Tlcrces prime Lsaf Lard,
100 Kegs Family Leaf Lard,
- Casks Clear Bacon Side,
81 Casks Bacon Shouldern,
~ Tierees Sugar Cured Hams.
1900 Barrels Flour,
30 Bags Timothy Seed,
% Bags Clover Seed,
100 Boxes Goshen Cheese,
Nackerel, Lake Fish, Nails, BrsSos,
Spices, Dye Stuffs, Wrapping Paper. 4
large line selected Chewing Tobacco, Smoke
Ing Tobacco, Cigars, etc, etc, etc. Ageae
for Miami Powder Company;
LIST, DAVENPORT a PAKkB,
WHEELING, Octobs 8, ISL. Oo4
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CHICAGO.

The Custom House Site-Projected
BuiIdfngs-Railroad Matters-The
Chicago Relief Bill-Rough on the
GambIers-wach achtel-Washtngtoh ton
Birthday.
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BY TELEGRAPH.
Exclusively for the Register.
nv the Pacific and Atlantic Line.
ONCE, IOs Main Street.
Saturdays Dispatches
NEW YORK.
Colored Convention.

New YORK, February ia meeting
of the colored citizens is to be held at
the colored Methodist church on Mon
day evening next, for the purpose OF
electing delegates to the convention OF
the representatives of the colored race,
both North and South, to be held at
New Orleans on the 10th of April.
The object of the convention is to pro-
mote union and harmony among the
colored citizens throughout the coun-
try
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Sundays Dispatches.
WASHING GT0N.
The Philadelphia Collectorship'
THE ALABAMA CLAIMS.
Condition Of Our Monitors
North Carolina Election Case
The Clayton Investigation
The United States and Mexico
The Philadelphia Collectorshlp
THE ALABAMA CLAIMS.
Condition Of Our Monitors
North Carolina Election Case
The Clayton Investigation
The United States and Mexico

rspecioI dispatch to the Register by the T.
q A Telegraph Line.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-07
rELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

Late advices from Bombay report that the
cholera epidemic il appearing.
Acting Commissioner Thacher has decided that
Masonic symbols cannot be used as trade marks
The Government has taken no recent action
under the KauI v complaints which Eoe have authorized
having been received
q. "A large number of miners have returned to san
diamond 6elis their expedition being uuae-
eeafuL They donouuce the diamond excitement - Gsut
Advices from Auckland state that the Nogel
nl,v Lsl hen defeated o Of ooBaene the resou-
ton being ee BY the OppoaOa aer pToifeie dhs1e BY ma
iony oftwo ,
The Cincinnati Exposition closed Saturday the
recepts hang aronuts $lOl0 III proposed - rs ,so
as uu,e. aa or the Exposition Of 1915 tor which $1,000 has
alTtaly been subscribed
Acting Secretary Richardson has directed the
Assistant Treasure a. Nes.fors buy T500 Of bas aud ei
G5OO0 of iodaT subject the usual CONDITIONS 81 s moh9
purchases Of bonds snd q le Of gold
... The whaling schooner +. ii. Hatfield OF
Poyncooen arrived st Newport Saturday nhi With iO barrels 81 OIL
90 sept mate Craig % sosh Boston and 0eoe l. stone
Of Athol Mass. were kinei BY whale
The forty-secOnd Semi-Annual Conference OF
Chnrch Chhs Of Latte Day saa began yes 81 sss
Tabernacle crowded With mcinbers OF t 'hH'
ali parts Of the Territory resiieai smith and apostles F.' % @
IIyde which there notbng stirling IAe
CobirTeEes eoBtlss gDtl fndy
New-York tribune., 1872-10-07
HONESTY BETTER THAN BRAVERY.
From ps CineinnaH Commercial


Z" IL is well known that Hartranft was holding the
At Autetam wh Bnckslew resisting vigorous
o o The Can loyal PeRnsyvsnAns hestae between these
men Pi--l NeD York Commercial Adrerhser.
There Is a man well known iu New-YOfk, wh0 some
wears ago was bold and intrepid fireman In the days
OF tho Volunteer Fire Department he was foreman OF
famous engine company, known as the Americns.
When the alarm bell sounded, this man was always first
10 spring 10 the OF danger and the foremost IN
struggling subdue the ames. He obeyed the call by
dey or night In storm sunshine, whatever might De
the business he engaged in. OHtimes Ills
trumpet woke the sumbeung citizens. and when
tney reached their windows they could see MN,
In his red shirt and hTeman's hat, rushing through
te streets az the head OF his engine, reckless OF fatigue
or danger and eager only the lives anu property
of his Imperled fcowctizens Otimes has he rescued
poor woman from flames by leaping into tnem himself
Ofttmes has rushed up ladder TO the fourth or nh
story window and saved chd's life AT the risk OF MS
own His deeds made him the hero OF the town. aud ms
naine-Oh bis name IL Boss Tweedl When such n
man ran for office, could New-YOrkers hesitate Ihey
dd NOT They elected him Boss of New-York, and, as
SUCH quickly achieved fame as the monumental thiet
of the nineteenth century Harrant held the bridge
at Antietam" during the war. Why, Boss Tweed has
held a hundred bridges during his lifetime, and has
waded through fire and water a thousand times III
artranf should DO elected GOyernorof Pennsy
was shame " drive Tweed from Bic place as Boss Of
New-YOTk
New-York tribune., 1872-10-07

or white lrt each man stand mp IN the image OF his
Maker and discharge his highest trust his Govern
Inent for The official his conscience dictates 10
lin Is the pest man Tor the place. tApplause.I
Gov. Curtin then left the han only to be greeted by the
dense crowd that blocked the street without with dim
Guilty he was taken carriage and amid the huzzas OF
thousands driven 10 Germantown There he addressed
an opcn-air meeting which covered an immense area,
and where his reception equally enthusiastic
He spoke FOR hour, saying that. had ne
been in sufficient health, he would have taken
the stump in Pennsylvania for Buekalew ana
honesty the day after he landed in this country At
Concert Hall Gen. Fitzpatrick followed Gov. Curtin In
Germantown Col. Mcclure, the Hon. Richard VauX,
Judge Casey and Col. James Of Bucks County spoke
This practically ends the labor OF this great campaign
On Mouday The day will be generally devoted to organ
izing for effective work Tuesday.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-07
THE GEORGIA ELECTION.
NINFTY-NINE COUNTIES GIVE LIBERAL NJ
JORITY OF 400l3

NINETY-NINE COUNTIES GIVE A LIBERAL MA
JoRITY OF 400l3.
ATLANTA, Oct. 5.-The official reports of 30
counties show "a majority for Smith Democraticl OF
.oo3 Thus far 129 Democrats and six Republicans are
reported elected as Representatives.
NO TERRORISM AT THE POLLS.
To the Edftor Of The Trtouhe.
SIR: There is no atom of truth In the stories
of terrorism at the polls though the negroes and Custom
house people tried TO provoke difficulties. Here In sa
yannah Atkins, Collector, tried TO raise question about
poll tax invalidate elections that was all At Macon
Jef Long negro, provoked riot by attempting with
negroes 70 exclude white men from the polls, In which
one white and two blacks were killed. Inaps all.
Sgranunb Ga Oct. 8, 1872 4. L. DE LEON.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-07

and Cambridge City, Ind The 81 inst, being received
with great enthusiasm By the Liberals both places.
The Hon. H. B. Fouke of Iowa and Col.
Tsoae p Gray spoke at the Liberal meeting Versailles,
Ind, on the 81 inst.
The Liberals of North Vernon, Ind, fred 600
guns over the ne ews from Georgia, on the Sd inst
The Hon. Judson Harmon of Cincinnati adj
dres,ed a Liberal meeting at Lawrenceburg Ind, on
Saturday night
private letter from the Hon. VI. {. Kerr,
dated Oct tNew-Albany, Ind closes as foio"S' our
prospects arc exceedingly hopeful and are improving
vii xin the ngnt in October and that win settle NO
Vpmler.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-07
FOREIGN NEWS.
FRANCE.

RELIEF FOR EMIGRANTS FROM ALSACE-RE-
PORTED TROUBLES WITH RUSSIA.
PARIS Saturday, Oct. 8, 1872.
The journals in this city have opened sub
scriptons for the relief of the Asatans who have left
their homes and retained their French citizenship.
LONDON, Saturday, Oct 8, 1872.
The Paris correspondent of The London
Times teeaphs that the Russian ambassador in that
city has received from Taneie the Secretary OF
the Emperor's Prvy Council Withdrawing the congrat
ulations which the Emperor had rendered TO d. Thers
and expressing the dissatisfaction OF Russia at the ag
gressive attitude of the Radical party of France.
New-York tribune., 1872-10-07
VIEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
WHAT CAMERON EXPECTs-THE LIBERALS CogFI-
DENT OF VICTORY.
iBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rmBUSE.I

lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE fklBUREl
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.-The interest i'll tho
Tuesday elections has become intense that all public
business Is at a stand.st Aduces from the headquar
ters OF both the political parties at Philadelphia
wtre received yesterday and to-day, and they give
confidence TO both the Administration and its
opponents. Senator Camerons calculations as given IN
letter Just received by friend OF his, do not harmou
ize at all with the Grant Congress Committees arrange
ment OF majorics According TO the latter Hartranf
to receive majority OF at least 12OOD In Philadelphia
ana one OF from 1000 to 1900 in the State Cameron
however, contents himself with but 60O0 majority In
the city and additional in the state. prominent LID
Crl Journalist who has Just from Philadelphia,
where he has been In close consultation with the LDea
managers, that Messrs. Randall, Mcclure ana tOr
ney positive To Buckalews election. HIS own OD-
scryatOns confirm their statement tnat no amount on
fraud the Philadelphia Grant majority aboVe
s,O0O aud that Buckiew VIII come to the city with at
least $1,000 The dcections in Lancaster, Aeghany,
ana Luzerne Counties calculated to make the latter
estimate sc. la LuZec it is stated that schels de
chnaOn i'm OF Buckalcw has had the effect OF add
ing at least 1909 TO the Liberal vote.