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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-01-10
PRUSSIA.
Satisfactorily Arranged.

HBERLIS, January 9.-The quarrel
between Germany and Brazil has ended
in a perfectly satisfactory understand
ing by the two governments. The
German squadron will probably be re-
called.
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The Presidential Fight
Speeches Being Prepared.
THE REVENUE REFORM.
The Free Coal and Salt Bill.
THE SPANISH DILEMMA.
Special Dispatch to the Register by the +
( A. Telegraph Line.
The Presidential Fight.

The Presidential Fight.
WASHINGTON, January 9.-The
Presidential fight will open lively in
the Senate next Thursday in this city.
Conkling promises to make a speech
against Summers one term resolution
He will take strong administration
groun Is and make a raid on the indie
pendent Republicans. Most Of the
Senators are preparing speeches on this
till and the indications now are that
the debate will be made Grant and
anti Grant affair, rather than discus
sion upon the merits Of the principles
inv olved.
The Revenue Reform
element is beginning to be regarded
with serious apprehension by the ad'
m;ui,tration, and the tariff men are
watching every movement made in the
direction OF reducing custom duties
with the vigilance Of paid attorneys.
The representatives OF the New England
manufacturing interests take every
opportunity to have the old familiar cry
Of British gold, and through this clap,
trap succeed in postponing any inter
ference with the tariff bill. There will
be a large outside revenue reform
element here this winter, and it will
have able and influential representatives
in both Houses Of Congress.
Coal and Salt Bill.
The Senate Finance committee are
endeavoring to smother the free coal
and salt bills under the pretense that
the Ways ard Means committee pro-
pose to shortly report a new tariff bill
placing these articles on the free list.
Senator Trumbull will make motion
some time this week to discharge the
Finance committee from the further
consideration Of these bills in order TO
get them before the Senate. The vote
on this matter will be test one as to
the strength Of the free trade in the
Senate.
The Spanish Dilemma
would be extremely funny if it did not
involve some serious consideration.
The conflicting stories on this question
undoubtedly grew out of the ignorance
of some members Of the Cabinet as to
what other members of the administra-
lion have done or proposed. Secretary
Fish" positively denies that his depart
ment has made any demands on Spain,
while those intimate with the President
are as positive the other way. The real
state of the case is undoubtedly this
When Sickles was here Grant gave him
10 understand that if the firing upon
the Florida turned out to be true, the
latter might consider himself authorized
10 officially demand an apology from
spain. The same thing in substance
va, intimatei to the Spanish Minister,
bat inasmuch as no statement has as
Vet been received from the officers Of
the Florida it may readily be seen how
premature all positive statements are.
KNowLToN.
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AUSTRIA.
Complications I'm the Cabinet.

vienna. January 9,-The recent
complications in the Cabinet have in
creased to such an extent that its dl6so-
luton is hourly expected.
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BUSINESS CARDS.
]. II. PESDLEroS. a. o. pAvKNPosr
PENDLETON a DAVENPORT.

TTORSE EYS AT LAW, FOURTH
n street, nbpve the ONCE OF Lamb q PAUL,
Wheeling. Practice law In all the Courts OF
Ohio and Marshall counties, W. Va, and In
he Federal Courts and County Appeala.
Also In neighborlng counties In Ohio and
pennsylvania. sepi
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-01-10
VANDERBILT EUCHERED.

Another incident in bis career illus.
trates his fertility Of resource when
closely cornered by a powerful oppo.
nent. Vanderbilt had grown jealous Of
Fisk and determined 10 crush him.
The readiest way to do that he thought
would be by destroying the business OF
the Erie railroad. With this end in
view be issued an order lowering the
rates on freight from Chicago and asked
Erie TO do likewise. Fisk assented
and cattle were consequently brought
from the West in great numbers snd
at email cost. BY special agreement
the rates on Vanderbilts line and On
Fisk's were made uniform. After q few
weeks, however, Vanderbilt showed his
hand. Giving the Erie officers short
notice he
BEoKE FAITH WITH YlsE
and announced that for twenty days the
freight on the Central railroad for cattle
from Chicago would be $50 per head
instead Of 81. he expected TO crush
Erie by this move, but reckoDed with
out Fisk. The latter made no altera-
ton in the rate on the Erie road, bat
quietly directed his agent in the West
70 purchase 10000 head OF cattle and
send them BY ysnderbilts route. The
cattle were soon purchased, and Fisk
had the pleasure Of seeing Vanderbilt
carrying freight for him for less than
the cost Of running the trains. OF
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STEAM WAS KEPT UP

day and night, and everything was kept
in readiness for start across the At
lantic. Days went by. and still the
steamer lay quietly in the harbor Of
Halifax, awaiting the expected message
from Fisk. At last it came. II James
Fisk, Jr., had tried his best he could not
have indited a shorter dispatch. II
was dated at Boston. signed Fisk, and
con tained but one word
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the running of with the money in dis
pute to Jersey, the issuing Of new
stock, the locking up of currency, the
consequent excitement in Wall street
and all over the country. The details
Of all these transactions are stil fresh
in the public mind. Suits and litiga-
tons almost without number have
grown out Of bic mauipulatiops, and
there is probably not court Of record
in New York and few in New Jersey
where the name Of James Fisk, Jr.,
does no; appear on the records in from
one to hundred cases, in which the
Erie railroad is involved as plaintiff or
defendant. Lattsrly be has had TO
fight his opponents in the courts with
Jay Gould, the President Of the road,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-16
VIRGINIA NEWS

The Farmers Meeting in Petersburg was
largely attended Yesterday The committee on
fertilizers, to whom was referred the address of
Mr.. Drumgoole, Of Brunswick made a report
The committee endorse the recommendation of
tie speaker that lime should form the basis Of
all permanent improvement, as not only ogi-
caly true but emnently SO in practical point
of view, as proven by the long and carefully
conducted experiments of Mr.. Drumgoole.
The Fredericksburg Tax Bill for the current
fiscal year proposes poll tax of SO cents on
each male citizen over 81 years of age and a tax
offs 80 on every hundred dollars worth ofrcalty
and personally. Bankers Brokers and Raj
Estate Agents arc taxed 80 per cent on the
State License tax. All others not taxed by spc-
clal ordinance to pay - per cent on the amount
of their State tax Male dogs are taxed 81 per
head and female ditto 81
Judge Cox, ofthc Chesterfield County Court,
has decided that eonstables still have the power
to serve civil processes and to collect sums
under $50 The power thus to act had been
disputed and on appea! to His Honor the con.
stable IN question was sustained
The Grand Grove of Druids Of u S. which
has been in session at Richmond, adjourned
"Wednesday night, to meet in September, 1873,
in ST. Louis Mo- The session was harmo.
NOUS throughout.
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The Virginia Debt.
RICHMOND, August

RICHMOND, August Is.
MessrS. Editors Baltimore 4naerican ::
A recent communication to the Baltimore
SUI in the form of letter purporting TO have
been written here contains the following
The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals,
after a long session at Abingdon: has adjourned
without giving any decision in the public debt
case, which last winter agitated the public
mind to such an extent. 1t is now believed
that no conclusion will be arrived at for
wears" x
This intelligence is entirey new to the un-
dersigned, who are of counsel Tor the plaintiff
in the case above referred to.
In the first place, there has been no SESSION
of the Virginia Court of Appeals at Abingdon.
Tie Court held session of about six weeks
duration at Wytheville, where they had a large
docket and little time in which to dispose of it.
The public debt case, as it is called, was not
then decided because it was DOT argued, aud 1t
was not argued because We were given to know
that there could be no decision until the Court
met here in November, there being no library
at Wythevillc to enable the Court to make the
necessary investigation We are satisfied the
case will be tried here in November, at very
early day of the term, and that it will be de-
cided by the Court without delay further than
may be required for its due consideration.
We beg to add that our clients are English and
American bondholders, many of them original
subscribers to the loan, who have held their
stock for more than thirty years They are not
Shorts PAGE & MArRY,
OuLD CARRItTTON,
BRADLEY r. JOHNSON.
CouuseIorS, &c.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-16

The Washington correspondent Of the Balt-
more Sun says that the President, in converse
ton with his friends, yesterday, expressed
his entire confidence in his reelection in Nov
vember, and declared that he was assured of
enough democratic disaffection to insure tina.
result. 10 other words, he seemed to continue
to be impressed with the idea he has held
since the commencement of the campaign, that
all the loss he will sustain from Greeley rcpub
licaus will be made up by votes for him, or
the refusal OF democrats to vote for Greeley,
from dlsattected element of that party. While
the President did not SO state, those near him
declared that he had sufficient evidence in his
possession to warrant that conclusion This
assurance, such as it is, has been probably de-
rived from responses to the Blanton Duncan
circular sent out by the republican committee
in session at the Capitol The State of New
York is even claimed by the President. His
confidence, however, is rot shared by men in
the republican party, who it must be admitted
are equally as good politicians
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.
40 sho,o the very age md holly Of the Times


James II. IngcrSol who made chairs for
Tummany, and fortune for himself. has sue
cccdcd for three quarters of year in eludng
arrest, but at last he has been captured lie
nesday evening and locked up. Yesterday he
was presented on two charges of forgery, and
gave bail of 50 900 in each He was released
but immediately rearrcsed and held to find
bail of half million dollars in civil sult-thc
same as those against Tweed, Connolly, &c.
Mr.. T.. W. Wallan, of the firm of IL. n.
Stalcy & Co., Chicago, having left home on
private business, Il report was started that he
had atlScondcd He heard it, and has tclc-
yraphcd that he would immediately return and
make it even with his defamcrs
The example of the Southern Indians seems
to be injecting the Indians of British North
America. The trouble out by the Purtagcs is
not serious by any means. yet beng exceptions
al it is looked upon as grave matter.
The President yesterday extended Executive
clemcncy to David Collins, VIM. Teal, Amos
Owen and VIM Suugg, men convicted OF
ku kluXiSm aud confined in the Albany l'enl-
Tertiary.
The Honduras Government is upset again.
The i'll usage of foreign Consuls by General
Sanchez will probably involve that worthy IN
trouble.
The Pennsylvania, the pioneer ship Of the
Philadelphia and Liverpool line was launch ed
yesterday from Cramps shipyard, Phladcl-
phia.
Gen. Ord has changed his mind about charg.
ing on the Indians. and will leave the troops
behind, visiting Io with only his staff
The Northern Pacific Railroad is going west
three miles day The surveyors are on the
Yellowstone.
Mr.. VIM. Pope, the artist, was stricken with
paralysis in his studio, in New York, yesterday
morning.
Providence Rhode Island, had terrible
thunder storm yesterday morning; houses
struck by lightning; no casualties
Vouchers amounting to $40, 1000 have been
lost on their way from the Comptroller office to
the Auditors 10 New York.
The fighter Mace is in New York, the fight
er O. Baldwin is in Philadelphia; tits said there
are no prospects Of a fight.
The people of Santa Fe, New Mexico, do
not take much stock in the diamond discoveries
reported.
President Grant will probably accept the in
vitaton to visit Chattanooga.
Mrs. General Sherman is residing in st. Al
bans Vermont.
The Germans are going to retain possession
Of Belfort.
The casualties from lightning reported yes
terday are unusually numerous
1t is said that all but three of the yellow fever
patients from the Numaucia will recover.
Two more vessels with yellow fever on board
at New York
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-16

THE BALLOTS. gave yesterday the pro-
ceedings and result Of the balloting Of the Con-
gressional Convention of the eighth district,
held here for the nomination of candidate for
the House Of Representatives. In the hurry
there occurred several inaccuracies which have
been carefully corrected, and to-day we publish
in detail, the ballots.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-16

The New York Times states that information
has been received from good source that
Dr. Livingstone is so disguised with the neglect
he believes he has received from his own coun-
trymcn, that he intends, upon leaving Africa,
to come out to this country and settle and be
natualized This is his own statement, made
10 private letter.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-16

At the annual meeting of the British Asso-
citation for the advancement of Science, which
opened at Brighton, England, on "Wednesday
evening, Mr.. Stanley, the New York Herald 5
correspondent, was "lionizcd." In his open
ing address the President of the Society aIlud-
ed in terms of praise to MIR. Stanley, at the
mention of whose name the audience chccred.
Mr.. Stanley was twice obliged to recognize
their interest before quiet was restored. Proml-
nent among those who applaudcd was the cx-
Emperor Napoleon.
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$4,000.

Capt. Geo. D. Wise, recently nominated as
the Conservative candidate for Congress FROM
the Richmond district, is native of Accomac
county, His father was sccoud cousin, and
his mother sister of Gov. Henry \. Wise. lie
resided several years ago, for few years, IN
this place, holding State appointment Du'
ring the late war he was gallant soldier,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-16

President Grant, accompanied by Gen. Por-
ter, returned to Washington yesterday. lie
soon thereafter issued commission authoriz-
ing Charles Chesley, Solicitor of the Internal
Revenue Office, to act as Commissioner during
the absence of the Commissioner and Deputy
Commissioner.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-16

ARREST OF GARNER. 1t was stated ycStcr-
day morning that man named Garner, who shot
and killed Mr. Enos Gwynn, near New Rich
mond, on the Chcsapeak and Ohio railroad,
was arrest ed Tuesday morning at Dublin depot,
by Mr.. Cecil, the telegraph Operator at that
place. Garner does not deny the homicide,
but claims that it was done in scltdefeuce. He
says that Mr.. Gwynn, the murdered man, snap
ped double barrel shot gun at him, when he
drew his pistol and fired How this may be We
know not, and give the statement for what it is
worth.
Garner, we learn, is about - or % years Of
age. and is native of Bedford county where
his father now resides His family is said to be-
very respectable -Lw.chJug Ncws.
PROFESSOR MINOR -Profcssor Charles J.. &.
Minor, formerly of this city, has been elected
President of the Virginia Agricultural and
Mechanical College at Blacksburg. We but
express the sentiments of all who know Prof.
Minor when we say that better selection could
not have been made and we congratulate the
Board of Visitors and the public generally upon
the Fortunate selection of an accomplished
scholar aud genial gentleman, by whom the
interests of the College will be alb y and faith
fully guarded. -Ly"chbury Republican,.
The newspapers in the North and West give
accounts of severe storms of wind, lightning
and thunder n different portions Of those sec
tons. There has been an extraordinary cleo
trical condition of the atmosphere. At the
towns along the Hudson at Norwak, Conn,
at Lynn, &c, &c, the lightning did much
damage.
Friends have subscribed cI4,000 to REIN
burse Captain Nolan in his contest for the rep
resentaton of Galway in Ireland.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-16

The report of the Trustees Of the Peabody
Education fund states that Virginia has
al lO4 children between the ages of five and
twenty. one years Of these $50, 400 attend the
public schools which have been organized with
marvellous rapdity and success since 1870.
The cost of the system was for the year,
1887 ,472. Received from the Peabody fund,
sof u1n
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-16

Mr.. Grceleys mauly speech at Portland,
which we published yesterday, will attract at
tcntion and make him many friends.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-16

A SLEEPING BEAUTY.-A correspondent Of
the Louisville Courier ournal has been to see
the sleeping beauty Of Tennessee. at Union
City. He says of her:
''She has slept for twenty-three years, is
awake thirteen times in twenty four hours, re-
manning awake only seven minutes each time,
and no power Oh earth can force her to remain
awake one second longer. She brcathes only
at Intervals of five minutes, and at such times
she seems to do so with great difficulty, only
drawing two or three respirations, then falling
back as though she were dead While awake
she eats, drinks, and talks for few minutes
She is as white as the whitest marble, and is
perfectly beautiful. She has no education.
All the medical skill Of the country round about
has been batflcd as to her case, and she has
been sent to st. Louis and examined by the
most prominent physicians there, but they have
not been able to solve her case. She is now on
exhibition at the Southern Hotel, Union City,
Obion county, Tenn. She is thirty-onc years
old, and was sprightly girl up 10 eight years,
when she was stricken, and has remained ever
since as she now is.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-16

The famous SiamcSc twins are still living il
North Carolina. One Of them is reported II
be ycry i'll
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-16

WASHINGTON ITEMS Mr. John T. Ford
who has two theatres in Baltimore
Grand Opera House and the Holiday Street
Theatre has arranged fully with MIR. Thomas
Berry OF this city, to have an elegant tirst-class
modern Opera House erected on the site Of
Walls Opera House, destroyed by fire, and
the large lot adjoining, lately purchased by Mr.
Berry.
The President will leave tonight for Loag
Branch, it is expected.
Three hundred and fifty dollars conscience
money was received at the Treasury Depart
mcnt o-day from an anonymous correspondent
in New York.
At Trinity Church, this morning, Father
VIM B. Ceary, Washlpgtouiau, Bernard
Toae, assistant pastor at Alexandria, \. Sa-
betti, G. p Balkan, A. j. Tisdall, =. NJ.
Schlenter and S. Damprer took the final VOWS
of the Society of Jesus. These VOWS arc never
taken until after seventeen years connection
with the Society.
Gregory Ennis one of the oldest and most
esteemed citizcns Of the District, died last
night.
Joseph Campbell, the colored man who, was
chased by Kate Randolph, with a knife in her
hnad, into the machinery of the stcamcrE.xprcss,
while on an excursion, died last night of his
Injuries Kate Randolph has been committed
to all, charged with the homicide.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-16

ALEXANDRIA AS A MANUFACTURING CRY.
The Alexandria Gazette in recent issue
calls attention to the expenditures for some
articles which mi ght be manufactured at home
Its article was in the right spirit, and it nj ght
have extended greatly the list of possible man
ufactures
We have on several occasions called attention
to the superior advantages of Alexandria as Il
manufacturing town She must be that or
nothing. Lying at one of the natural doors to
the great coal and iron region of the Appalachian
range with the splendid food producing region
of Piedmont Virginia immediately behind her,
with noble river open to the largest seagoing
vessels, giving her ample roadway to the sea,
she possesses every natural advantage for the
conversion of raw material into manufactured
products. She has one of the best concentrat-
ing and distributing locations on the continent
The vast trcasure-housc ofnature is open to her
and everything invites to occupy it Rtctnaond
State JouIuul.
PHnADELplIIA.-Th city is being improved
with fine buildings of every kind, both by public
and private enterprise. Row alter row Of sub
stantial dwelling houses are taking the place of
truck farms and wheat fields that have formed
the suburbs. Vast hoows are being filled up
on the northern part of the city, streets laid out
and what was deserted ground made alive with
the sound of the trowel and the hammer.
Splendid stores are going upon the central
street and active efforts are being made to
erect new and handsome structures for various
literary and benevolent institutions, and another
hotel and a new theater are talked about. The
city is building magnificent City Hall and the
Postoffice Commission has selected Ninth and
Chestnut streets as site for the Postoffice, and
soon the United States will commence fine
Improvement. Whichever way we turn there
is every reason to feel satisfied with the internal
development ofthc city.-PhHdLhia Post.
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FINE CRoPs-A gentleman who has recent
" travelled extensively in the Southwest IN
forms US that the crops of corn IN all that sec
t;nn are really magnificent, and if no unforeseen
accident occurs the yield of corn this season
will be sufficient for the next two years.
LmctJmg Ncus.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-16

The camp meeting at Vienna station closed
to day.
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-22
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1t North WatertOwn, Feb. F, Newton Ensign. aged = years.
 At Cornwall, Feb. 6, Mrs Susan Clark, aged Ss years Al WOloottyille. Feb l2, of chronic con- sunr1SOu. Patrick Foley, aged 9. A-a
 At Wstang. Feb. l, Mrs. Hattie E. Wzrd. aged . years. s.s.. At Ore Hill, Feb 2, Lemuel Gibbs, aged Sl years a A sat s
 At Falls Village, Feb. II, Wm. Preston, aged 5O yearx. s slAAEt-
 At Cornwall Bndge, Jan. l5, Newton J., yoHmeeSf snn of Smith w. and Cornelia I- Merrifefd. aged years.
Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-22
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N{TILL bs sold at Public Auction, Thursday,
 " March ?th. 1872. at the farm of Charles l.. Thrall. the following property, viz: 12 good Dairy Cows. Tearling Heifer. Breeding SOW, Horses Harness. both single and double, sey- eral tons Of Good Hay, one seat Wagon, Bug gy, Team Wagon. Sleigh, Robes. Bells &c Moving Machine. Horse Rake. Hay utter, Fan ming Mill, Stone Boat, Sleds, Flows, Cultiyators, load Scrapers, Chains Crowbars; Augers, Bitts, Plains. %cythes. Forks, Grind-* tone. Dairy Uten- sils Household Furniture, &c. Sale to commence at 9l o'clock, A. a. If stormy. the next fair day.
 4G-3t r. M. HALE, Auctioneer.