The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-01
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| News Items. ...
New YORK, April 30.-A meeting
was held in the Coopers' Union Hall
last evening to give impetus TO move
ment for the settlement. by arbitration,
OF all disputes between nations.
John F.. Poole, dramatist OF some
note, has been missing from his home
several weeks.
James Machenry, an English opera
tor in Erie, arrived to-day from Eng
land.
The liabilities OF APPEL, the graln,
dealer who failed yesterday, are s'a'ea
to be $4,000.
James Jones, F. Gibney and r.
Campbell, while walking this morn
ing on the steamship Ocean Queen, fell
into the dock and were drowned.
| The Committee appointed by the
Produce Exchange to receive subscrip-.
tiops for the relief OF the mississippi
sufferers, have collected over s2,OOO
to-day.
Tomorrow the wages OF the work.
men on the Camden and Am6oy diSi-
zion of the Pennsylvania Railroad
will be restored 10 the rates paid before
the reduction.
The government sold to-day one
million OF gold at from ll2! to ll3'
Detective Leahig. tried Tor killing
Mcnamara by shooting through door
while the officers were searching ior
Dutch Herman, was acquitted this
evening.
The President on Finance.
| A dispatch from Washington says
that allusion having been made TO
President Grant about a compromise
on the finance measure that would be
acceptable to both sides, the President
replied that he did not know what
force it was intended to apply to the
term compromise" unless it was an
agreement to carry out the pledges Of
the country. That might be considered
a compromise by those who originally
defeated every proposition offered dur
ing the discussion in Congress, and by
so agreeing, have reason to believe that
such legislation would meet his approv-
al 1t has been eaid that he promised,
i, his last annual message, to heartily
SUPPORT any measure that Congress
m;,ht dec cide on. He did not
intend any such construction to be put
ON his language. II be had not made
himself understood, the more recent
message would clear up anything like
ambiguity. One thing that he had
endesvored to make plain during hls
administration had been, that lie was
tor carrying out tue solemn pledges OF
the government at the earliest day pos
siple, ,.on a specie basis, aud the estab-
. lishment OF our currency in gold and
silver had been uppermost IN h's mind.
Whenever he sent to Congress his an
nusl messages he had not said what
kind OF q bill he would approve. 1t
was his earnest hope that Congress
would dispose OF the question. The
I redistribution OF twenty-five million
dollars OF banking currency, with five
. million dollars OF notes belonging 10
broken banks and banks in liquidation
in the south aud west, ought to furnish
for the present all that was asked tor,
and he had been assured since the
veto of the finance bill that the
New England banks were AK"
ious TO reduce their clrCula-
ton, inasmuch as the bonds now
held for the circulation would lie re-
leased and furnish them with a larger
currency capital than they now had,
while our securities were worth IN
legal tenders sixteen and seventeen
cents above par and National banking
notes were bound to be secured under
the existing law. With such sacr;'
flee TO the banking capitalists he didn';
wonder that he New England banks
were anxious to cancel their notes and
get their bonds. In fact this suggestion
came to them early last fall during the
stringency in the money market and he
thoug ht it worth calling the attention
OF Congress 10 it in his lsst message, AND
since then he had heard nothing tc
change his opinion on this point.
The Steamer Europe.
First officer Buck, formerly OF the
steamer Greece, arrived yesterday. He
told a friend that with an ADEQUATE
crew of disciplined men, be could have
= taken the Europe around the world
The men sent from the Egypt to aic
Buck, all went down 10 the cabins pre-
viously occupied by the officers auC
broke open casks OF liquor found ther
and became intoxicated and uncontrol
J able. These men were, therefore, NOR
= o. hindrauce to the officers in charg
q than an aid. Two OF these men wer
j in such a condition when the boats LEI
the Europe with the salvag
crew, that they remained II
ignorance of the facts until the boat
had arrived alongside, when they wer
missed. The crew OF one OF the boat
then went back for them aud foun
them belplessIy drunk. Buck said, a
q he passed under the stern OF the steam
/, er in the first boat which left tn
Z Greece, in answer to the signal Of die
tress, be saw officers rmnniug sbou
the quarter deck covered with corI
VI liie-preserver.. He called out to tn
!. French Captain who was lesnIn
y against the rail, and asked what va
. the matter. Captain Lemaire replie
that the vessel was sinking. Buc
= shouted back that the Europe did nc
y look like q sinking ship.
l. LOUISVILLE.