The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-05-27


named Crawford, on Detective Hender-
son. 1t appears that Henderson had
arrested Vanderbilt colored coachman,
for having forced a white woman into
the Commodore stables, when Craw-
ford nterfered and fired two shots from
his revolver. One took effect in Hen-
derson's thigh, and the other in the
knee OF man named Ducles, who
WAS passing 10y. Crawford then es-
capped and has not been captured
The Eight.Hour System.
The most brief and successful of the
late strikes has been that of the Ger
man house. painters. These men, who
are about 80 in number. struck for the
eight.hour system on Thursday, and
Yesterday they were all again employed
on their own terms.
Keeping n Gambling HOuse.
Charles Moody and Samuel Brigg.
were held in five hundred dollars bail
at the Jefferson Market Police Court,
Yesterday, for keeping a gambling house
al 1882 Broadway. \ few nights ago,
it ia said, prominent citizen of Ulster,
and President OF the Ulster County
Bank, was enticed into the place and
robbed OF eighteen thousand dollars.
The House TariH Bill.
The HsralFS Washington special
SAYS: The Finance Committee. yester-
day, completed considerable OF the
House tariff bill, and i! is reported that
it is so much changed that an agree
ment between the two Houses will be
absolutely impossible The whisky tax
has been consolidated, so that the spir-
its tax paid by receivers is included in
the general tax, at the rate Of seventy
cents per gallon, thus relieving the re-
ceiver of the tax of one per cent on
sales amounting TO fifty cents per bar
rel. and reducing the value OF the rec
titled stamp from twenty-five TO ten
cents. \ uniform rate has been fixed
for the tobacco tax, al twenty-five cents.
The bill is so cut up as to make a
conference committee absolutely neces-
sarv: and ii is useless 10 base any cal
culations Of final results from the bill
as reported, as it will certainly be so
much changed in the conference as to
make almost new bill.
Crawford BaiIed.
Robert Crawford, brother-in.law to
Commodore Vanderbilt, charged with
shooting officer Henderson, was brought
before Judge Leonard, in the Supreme
Court, this afternoon, under writ of ha-
beas corpus, and was baIled in the sum
OF $1,000, Augustus Schell and Horace
7 Clark becoming suretles.
Twenty Thousand Immigrants
landed at Castle Garden this week, the
largest number on record.
The Quickest Passage
Of any steamer across the Atlantic. was
made 10y the Adriatic, of the White
Star Line which arrived this morning,
having been only seven days and a halt
out from queenstown.
Deaths from smallpox during the
week ending at noon to-day, were fifty
three.
Among the departures for Europe,
to-day, were Mark Smith, the Countess
Van Devigen, and Agnes Ethel.
Carl Vsgt.
In the case of Carl Vogt, the Brus-
spls murderer, whose release was sought
to-day in the United States Court on
\ writ Of habeas corpus. he having
teen extradicted, the judge decided to
dismiss the writ and remand the prls-
ourr. Vogt would have been taken
to Europe to day had not the writ been
ISSUED.
A Cargo OF outlaws for the United
Tne Anacona Jo'rnal, just received
here by the foreign mail, states that
the Italian bark Agelman, bound for
Falmouth and thence to New Orleans
has on board number OF Greek
hrigands, pirates and murderers, who
have been released on the condition
hat they would go to the United
States. They were taken from the
senal colony on the Island Of Corfu,
ON the 9th of April, and shipped for
the Cuited States
Gallant Conduct
The Herald publishes this morning a
long special from London, giving full
particulars of the gallant conduct of the
officers and sailors OF the American
squadron at MarseilleS in the latter par'
OF last month, by which the city was
saved from destruction. The American
squadron, consisting OF the Wabash,
Congress, Brooklyn. Plymouth, Shen-
audoah, Juniata and Wachusetta, un.
Ter command OF Admiral Alden, were
lying in Napoleon Basin, surrounded by
almost inuumerable merchant vessels,
when at midnight terrible explosion
occurred on board an Italian ship just
arrived from Philadelphia, loaded with
petroleum, which in some way got
ablaze. The French inhabitants and
sailors were completely psrslyzed with
fright, but the Americans Immediately
took measures to secure the safety Of
the city and the vessels in the harbor.
The flames spread rapidly, and only by
the most strenuous eXertions was the
danger averted. The American seameu
boarded the ill.fated vessel and pierced
her timbers to insure her sinking, and
then fastened hawser TO her bow and
attaching it their boats towed her out
OF the harbor. The gratitude of the
residents was intense. and the Ameri-