The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-10-17

hllCu, IS&iesSE III bohhAefsSy'
meeting OF the firms creditors will be
held on the fourteenth of November.
A large amount OF stocks were sold out
under rule to-day for the account OF
Grinnell Il Co.
Outside OF Wall street. matters con.
tinue satisfactory and ofairs are fully
as cheering and encouraging as any
time since the subsistence Of the panic:
Collections are coming in freely and
business is moving along comfortably.
At the Produce Exchange very
largo sales Of grain are reported,
Money in Wall street is still difficult oil
access and severe rates are charged for
call loans. The stock market is firm;
gold quiet and governments frmer.
Forelgn exchanges are weak and lower
under free offerings of commercial bills.
The rise in stocks to day ranged from
one to FIVE per cent and amounting to
as much as fifteen per cent on some
stocks from the lowest prices of ye,ter-
day. An evening paper commenting on
the situation to-day says the day
has been one Of unhealthy
buoyaucy at Stock Exchange, prices
having advanced 90 fast that it is appar-
ent spectators have been at work.
Tho Nathan Murder.
John T. Irving is still confined in the
police headquarters. and owing to the
time of the District Attorney being oc-
cupied by the Stokes case, it is uncer-
tain when Irving will again be exam
ined in relation to the Nathan murder,
Railroad Freight.
The effects OF the continued money
panic have been very seriously felt in
the transportation business. Railroad
freight on all lines from New York TO
the West, has fallen off since the be-
ginning Of the panic from Is to SO per
cent. The New York Central had Just
enlarged their transportation facilities,
anticipating larger business In Oct.
than was ever known before.
Senate Committee on Transporta-
ton.
The United States Senate Committee
on Transportation, met to-day, at Fifth
avenue Hotel, Senator Window in the
chair. Carlas Cobb, OF the Produce
Exchange, appeared before the Com
mittee aud made an extensive state
ment regarding the transportation of
grain to these parts. Cobb contends
that the storage capacity Of New York
is ample, and rates. as compared with
those OF western cities, reasonable.
women's Congress.
In the Women's Congress to-day
speeches were made by Mrs. Hooker,
Mrs. Savering, Mrs. Cady Stanton and
others, upon the duties of mothers.
Mrs. Churchill thought that one
cause OF so much corruption in public
affairs was attributable to immoral
mothers.
Mrs. Stanton thought there were al
together too many children and that
the majority Of women know they are
bringing into the world moral and
physical monstrosities, and that it would
be better if parents bad bnt one child
and bring it up properly than many and
rear them in ignorance. 1t was better
to produce one lion than four jackasses
Mrs. Churchill did not want it un-
derstood that Mrs. S. advocated infati' !
eide.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe did not
think an apology for infanticide should
90 forth from the convention.
Mrs. Stanton replied that she did not
offer an apology for infsnticide but
meant to assert that it was a prevalent
evil that could not be obliterated unit!
women became her own sovereign.