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The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-09
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.


THURSDAY, Oct. 8, 1863.
The Senate was opened with prayer by
the Rev. Wayman.
A message from the Honse announced
the passage of bill to alter part of the d.
vision line between the counties of Writ
and Richie. Also bill appropriating
two thousand dollars for the purpose of pay
ing the expenses of the transportation OF
sick and wounded soldiers. X Al IL
On motion of Mr.. Maxwell, the Senate
insisted upon its amendments to the bill
pooviding how licences to practice the law
may be granted. ga a1
Mr.. Maxwell from the committee on
Courts of Justice reported bill giving the
Circuit Courts jurisdiction in cases relating
to masters and apprentices. Read first
time. t7.1> -Ea -
Mr. Stevenson reported back the House
bill altering the division line between the
counties of Taylor and Harrison. The bill
was passed. 5a sza
Mr.. Bunker from the Military committee
reported substitute for the House Militia
bill, which was read section by section fol
amendment.
The House bill providing how mini sters
or preachers may celebrate the rites Of mar
riage in this State was read and referred.
Adjourned.
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Dip TREY TELL THE TRUrH?-Wash.
ingtou said the triumph of a sectional party
would bring disunIon-did he not tell the
truth?
Webster said the triumph of aboltionism
would bring disunion-did not Webster tell
the truth?
Henry Clay said the triumph Of abolition.
ism would bring disunion-did not Clay tell
the truth?
Madison, Monroe, Wright, Pierce, Doug
las and every other Democratic statesman,
predicted that the triumph of abolitionism
would bring disunion and civil war-did
they not tell the truth
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Mr.. E. Nj. Norton Declines to be
Il Candidate for Congress.
A CARD.

To the Voters Of Me First Congressional Dis
trict:
Apprehensive that, by possibility, some
disaster night result to our Union cause it
[ should continue the canvass as candidate
for Congress; and unwilling to expose it in
the rem test contingency to injury, yield,
for the common good, whatever claims and
prospect have, by declining to be a can
dda'e in opposition to the gentleman sc.
lected by the convention which met in
Moundsville on the 30th ult
To my finds of all parties who have
manifested So warm an interest in my be
half | return my most grateful thanks, and
promise to repay them by continued exer-
tons To promote their welfare and happi
ness through perfect devotion to our be
loved country by strugg lin; always for its
unity, the preservation of its Constitution,
the enforcement of its just and beneicent
laws and the overthrow of all its enemies
E. NJ NORTON.
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The Shoddy Age Described by
u ShOddy Editor.
Firm the New York Herald.

The world has seen its iron age, its silver
age, its golden age and its brazen age. This
is the age of shoddy. The new brown stone
palaces on F .fth avenue, the new equipages
at the Park, the new diamonds which daz
zle unaccustomed eyes, the new silks and
satns which rustic over loudly, as if to de-
mand attention, the new people who live
in the palaces and ride in the carriages and
wear the diamonds and silk-all are shoddy.
From devils dust they sprang and unto de
wills dust they shall return. They live in
shoddy houses. They ride in snoddy car
riages drawn by shoddy horses, and driven
BY stoddy coachmeu who wear shoddy liv
cries They lie upon shoddy beds, which
have st come from the upho sterers and
smell of shod iy varnish. They wear shod,
DIV clothes purchased from shoddy mer-
chants, who have erected mammoth stores,
which appear to be marble but are shoddy.
They set or follow the shoddy fashions and
Imagine themselves a la mode de Paris, when
they are only la mode de shoddy. Thei
professions aud occupations are pure shod
dy. They are shoddy brokers in Wall
street or shodiy manufacturers of shoddy
goods, or shoddy Contractors for shoddy ar
tlcles for shoddy government. Six days
in the week they are shoddy business men.
On the seventh day they are shoddy
Christians. They ride luxuriously 20 a
shoddy church, where a shoddy Clergyman
reads to them from shoddy Bible and
breaches O shoddy sermon written upon
gilt edged paper; and, during the appropri
ate passages, this shoddy successor to the
old Apostles wipes his weak eyes with a
shoddy lace handkerchief as he mildly
pleads with his hearers, who are sleeping
soundly upon their shoddy cushions, and
begs of them to believe that the Savior was
crucitied with intolerable tormentS in order
that the shoddy aristocracy might be gently
waited upon the wings of shoddy angels to
a shUddy heaven Nor are their politics less
shoidy than their religion. They belong to
the shoddy party, which is always loyal to
sh0ddy, and they vote the shoddy ticket,
and support the shoGdy admins tration
which is conducting this shoddy war, not
for the obsolete idea of the restoration of
the Union, but for the profit and perpetua
ton of shoddy dynasty. Oh, for some
shoddy Junius, with pen as keen as shoddy
steel and words that barn like shoddy
"Greek fire." to write the history of this
shoddy age, and prophecy that downfall o.
shoddy which is to come Already shrewd
Daniels scent storm in the Babylonish
air; but still the days are golden and King
Shoddy marches on triumphaotly. Let US,
then, enjoy the present, the Park, the the
atreS and the opera, and leave the future to
take care of itself. That is the sum Of
sboddy wisdom, and we shall not question
such high authority.
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ssGOld Up."

Gold has advanced another three per cent.
during the day. Foreign Exchange follows
ii the wake of that advance, as likewise do
the values of most descriptions of merchan,
die The Express market reports, on a
day like this, have an interest far beyond
the commercial circle. "Gold up" to the
Wall street speculator may mean the gain
or loss of a few thousand dollars in his Bank
accounts but to the mechanic, and laborer,
it means,--
Flour, 5alO3 higher.
Wheat, la2c higher,
Corn, 2a6c higher.
Pork, 25a5Oc higher.
Lard, &c per 10.
Dry Goods, general advance, and
an advance in tea, coffee, and almost all
other necessaries of life.
We may enact as much or as often as we
like, that paper is "legal' tender, but the
foreigners from whom we buy coffee, tea
etc, do not see it They must have gold,
and when debts are thus to be paid, gold
and foreign exchange will go up, up, up, in
spite of all the Opinions" of all the Repub
lican Judges in the land.-N Y, Express.
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HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
THURSDAY, Oct. 8.

Prayerby Rev. Samuel Barnes.
A communication from the Senate au-
nounced the passage of a substitute for the
House resolution providing for committee
to confer with Mr. Daniel Lamb, on the,
subject of codifying the laws of the State,
which was concurred in.
House Bill No. lOl, providing for the ad-
mission of the county of Jefferson into the
State, was taken up.
MIR. linn hoped the bill would not pass
From all he could learn, he was satisfied
there was not majority of votes, consid
ering the population, in favor of the propo-
stion. There were but fifty votes cast in
the county.
THE Speaker vacated the chair, and it
vas occupied by Mr.. Ruffner.]
Mr.. Van Wrinkle hoped the bill would be
passed, as there could be no harm in sub
hitting the question to the people of the
county. He was confident majority Of
the votes cast favored the movement. The
Butternuts and Secessionists of the county
did not recognize the authority of the new
State. and therefore did not vote. Some of
the prominent men of the county had as
sured Mr.. Van Wrinkle that the people Of
Jefferson county desired admission, Ac
coIding to Gov. Peirpoint's certificate there
we're 1G0 majority for admission, and good
portion of the county was then in the hands
of the enemy.
Mr.. Lamb thought the bill would sustain
no injury by lying on the table for few
days. While he would be happy to have
the county annexed, he was opposed to ad.
hitting it into the State by mere nominal
vote.
Mr.. Patrick (Speaker) was opposed to
the bill; heretofore there had been two
thousand votes cast in the county; were
we to take this vote, (Which might be mere
gossip as a crterion2 The few votes that
were cast, might have been poled within
military camp not mile SO uare.
Mr.. Hagan favored the passage of the
bill; every Union man in the county desr
ed admission, and every rebel opposed it;
which were we to favor? lie would vote
for admission.
Mr.. Bee also favored the bill; the loyal
men wanted to come in, the secesh did not;
for Lis part he believed the rebels should
not vote at all, and would favor a bill t.
dsfranchise them.
Mr. M'Grew opposed the passage of the
bill, as the admission of Jefferson county
might defeat Union man for Con-
gress in the Second District the Cooper
heads" might bring out candidate at this
late day, and elect him, if this bill passed.
This statement settled the matter-the
ghost of the anticipated "Secesh" Congress
man could be seen by many-the bill was
laid over until the Oath inst.
Senate Bill No. 26, an Act to give the
Circuit Courts jurisdiction in suits for the
maintenance of Legitimate children, was
passel |.
House Bill No. ~. declaring Dents Run,
in the County of Marion, public highway,
was passed.
Mr.. Golf offered the following which was
adopted
Resolced, That the Committee on Claims
and Grievances be instructed to enquire
into the expedlency of bringing in bill
authorizing the transfer of merchants Ii
ceases.
Mr.. Lamb presented memorial from
the School Commissioners of the city of
Wheeling.
House adjourned.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-09

A CURIOUS THEORY OF THE DURATION OF
THE WAR.-Tbe Rev. John Gilbert, Of
Clay county. KY. writes to a friend in
Frankfort, giving curious theory with re-
gard to the duration of the war. In his let
ter he says:
During the revolutionary war corn blades
bad ssren points to them; that is, the blade
grew in such manner as to have seven
distinct points or ends corresponding with
the sharp point of the blade. These seven
points indicated the duration of the revolu-
tionary war. Now there is but three seper
ate and distinct points to many ofthe blades
and this indicates, very clearly to my mind,
that the duration CT the present war will be
three years the points of the blades rep
resenting years"
it can scarcely be matter of surprise
that llliterate people should be confirmed in
any superstitious notions they may enter
tain, while ministers of the gospel ventilate
SUCH frivolous conceits as the above. The
old notions about comets being the hardin
gers of war are respectable compared with
it; and even the super serviccable efforts of
barn-door "bddies" laying eggs on which
some rustic wag has figured big "W"
would no doubt form suitable text for a
discourse by such reverends as the above.
The mischief of such publication as this
''corn blade" prophecy consists in the posi-
biHty of the war ending in three years
which, grateful as it would be to every
heart yearning for peace between our estran-
ged brotherhood, would leave npon the
minds Of multitudes conviction that corn
stalks had something to do with it.
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The PROPOSED New DRArr-Th

The PROPOSED New DRAFT.-The Wash
ington correspondent Of the New York
E0sntng Rost has the following in reference
to the statement that the President propo
SEES another draft:
g. The statement in the correspond. anna
that the Government was about to ,,rdo. y
new draft is very generally denied Nv IN
formation was obtained from the oft,cs -
the Provost Marshal Gensr.,. and II will N
probably soon be found taat the informa
d sloa was correct. Instead of making the
poned six weeks. poS''
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The PEyNsYLvAN1AAND ONO ELEcr1oSs

The PENNsYLvANIAAND ONO ELEcTIoNs
The republicans of Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania are stralning every nerve to induce
citizens Of those States in Washington and
elsewhere to return home and participate
in the approaching elections. Leaves of al.
sence have been granted to the clerks Of
the departments appointed from those
States, and free passes have been given over
the railroads to those from Ohio Fifteen
days are given to the Pennsylvania clerks,
and tax Of one per cent has been laid up
on their salaries to detray expenses. In
consequence of this exodus from several
bureaus, much of the public business has
come to a standstll.- Wash. Cor ~ p
Herald.
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Speech of POstma ster.GeneraI
Blair.

Postmaster- General Blair made speech
on Saturday, in an adjoining county OIL
Maryland that is attracting much attention
to day He denounced what he termed the
revolutionary scheme of tho aholitoDists to
obliterate the States of the South, and de-
clared that it was now the manifest duty
of the President to steer his course through
the strong conflicting tides of two revolu-
tionary movements-that of the nulifers
to destroy the Union and set up the South.
ern Confederacy, and that of the ultra
abolitionists. which has set in to dlsfyan
chise the South on the pretext of making
secure the emancipation of the slaves II
is not improbable, he said, that the latter,
though aiming at different results, will be
found co operating iu the end with the con.
spirators of the South and their foreign
allies. They may prefer, he added, parting
with the South to partnership and equality
with them under the Constitution.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-09

THE Concord IN. Il } Patriot saws: "If
Rosecrans had the thousand. of soldiers
scattered over Ohio, Iud', ana and other
Western States, engaHr,, ID in miserable DO.
litical work, he VIC. MD not have been de-.
leated. On tp''e contrary, he could have
easlIy 1slSe' Bragg's army before him, even
70 the or IF of Mexico. But party vic
tory ". State election is regarded by the
gov ernment as far more important tnan a
.lctory in the battle field; they look more
to tue overthrow of the Democratic party
than to the overthrow of the rebellion.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-09

SENATOR DOUGLAS ON "a. LINcoLs."-Ip
his speech at Norfolk, Va, delivered ju't
before the Presidential election in 1860.
Senator DOUGLAS expressed sentiment.
which prove that he would now be, had he
lived, very disloyal "copperhead." Lei
DOUGLAS Democrats ponder upon thest
words:
aHence, ! say, whoever may be elected
President of the United States, he must b
sustained in the exercise of all his Just ano
constitutional prerogarives and powers. !
he halscends them, punish him aoih all Tho
rigor of the 'laaos, as you punished John B, oson
avhen he Violated your la0s. A storm Of ap
plau.e. |, for one, will sustain with ali
my energy the President, whoever he be,
in the exercise of all the powers conferred
upon him by the Constitution but l would
take as much pleasure in hanging him If he
transcsaded Mosspowsrs as l. felt pleasure in
k,,owing you hanged John Broom vheu he
qcas gui'ty Of murder and treason against the
State of Virginia. renewal of storm. p"
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Mosr of the money which is used in get
ting up Broush meetings comes from the
sboddy contractors who have made their
millions by fraud in this war, out of the
hard earnings of the people. They have
coined into gold the peoples blood and the
peoples treasure -c-
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ROSECRANS' ARMY.
UnimpOrtant Results of the
Rebel Raid i'm his Rear.
SPECIAL TO THE N. Y. HERALD


A : NASHVILLE, Oct. 6-8 Pm.
have Just returned from Murfreesboro.
Everything in a military point of view was,
at the time | left, of highly encouraging
The railroad and telegraph lines are not
materially injured, considering our ability
to repair them with despatch. The railroad
line will probably be open by to morrow
aight; the telegraph line sooner. To-day
railroad communication only extended t.
Murfreesboro. Atthis time heavy force
is engaged in repairing damages to both the
railroad and telegraph lines.
1t is now evident that the enemy made
this raid with the view of delaying rein,
iorcements reaching Rosecrans. In his de
sign tb, enemy has signally failed. This
Interruption to the railroad will not en-
jarrass the army for supplies. Mark this
We have the force to keep the line Of COM
nunication open, and we are going to do it.
At least such is the present determination.
A small party of rebels crossed the pike
between this and Murfreesboro at an early
aour this morning. The crossing was made
near Smyrna. The enemy made more
nasty than elegant retreat when pushed oy
force of Wilder's Union cavalry. TIL.
,nemy's force engaged in this raid moved
owards Shelbyvile.
To-day the authorities at Murfreesboro,
up to the time I left, had no reliable news
rom the front or Chattanooga.
Col. Edwin McCook, commanding cav,
airy brigade, killed and wounded l2O of the
enemy in his attack on the rebel force that
made the demonstration ON McMinnville
He took one colonel prisoner; also two ma
ors, nine line officers and 81 privates. H.
captured 900 mules and all the plumber the
rebels had previously taken from US. One
f the captured majors was chief of the es'
cort Of the rebel General Wheeler. The
other major was chief of staff of the rebel
General Morton
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-09

VIZ want the Constitution as we had 1t
before the rebellion. If we are to have "a
new edition amended and improved" we
prefer that the amendments aud improve
ments shall be made in the calm and quiet
of peace and not in the midst of the wild
and fierce agitations of war.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-09

One who accompanied Burnside writes /:
"The old flag has been hidden in mattresses
and under carpets. 1t now floats to the
breeze at every staff in East Tennessee
Ladies wear it-carry it-wave it; little
children clap their hands and kiss it''
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-09

MORE ScHENcKIsM.-One night last week
a lot of fellows were arrested in Baltimo re
while in the act Of drinking this toast
Damn the goose that grew the quill, that
made the pen, that wrote the proclamation
of emancipation
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-09

AN Administration paper is out with a
to double the salary OF t e Pres
ident. Certainly. Double Forney's too
and the profits OF all the contractors.
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DIED.

On the stb inst, atll O'Clock, Hartman Hess, aged
39years.
The funeral will take pace from his late residence on
Wood run on Saturday, the 10Th inst, at O'Clock P
NJ The friends of the family respectfully invited
to attend
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-09

Toe Nashville Press of Saturday says.
that, for the first time, on Friday, regi.
ment of negro troops paraded through the
streets If that city. They were ofhcered
by white men, and EARNED and equipped as
the law directs"
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-09

We are not fighting the Southern States
or any States. We are fighting rebels
That's ALL
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Some of the Abolition Editors are so cram
ed in their views that we susp ect they
never write except when they have the
Granny.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-09

The State officers of Massachusetts, take
an oath of allegiance to the State, none tc
the United States.
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Mrs. Tom Thumbs not-what her friends
confidently expected
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The Presidents Proclamation.

On monday morning, last, we printed in
our telegraphic columns, the Thanksgiving
Proclamation of President LINCOLN
While we hail the purpose of the Proclama-
ton with most cordial approval, and ear
nestly hope it will be observed, religiously,
throughout the land, we cannot help men
tioning the validity of one allegation in it
1t will be remembered that by recen
Proclamation, the President substar talk
put the whole country under Martial Law.
by the suspension of the Heabeas Corpus
yet be alleges in this Proclamation that,
"order has been maintained and o6eyed, ana
harmony hasprecailsd ere'y'ohere, except H.
tie theatre Of military conflict"
Our President is certaialy good on q joke!
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NOTICE.

V'HE tenents Of the Gregg farm and what is known
i as the homo farm, belonging to the estate of the
late Hugh Nichols, and all other persons interested
are notified that neither Hugh r. Nichols nor his
father George W. Nichols has any right to collect
receive any of the rents profits of either of said
farms Such rents and profits are only payable me-
octt5:3 ISAAC COTS.
Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1863-02-12

Of loyalty furnished. and pr ty conveying
the same TO pass the line to point fol which
the same are destined. Such pass is to be
endorsed in writing on the permit, and sign
ed by the officer giving the same.
These regulations are to apply to articles
transported TO points within the district ma
mel. for the private use of soldiers OF the
United States, stationed sout Of the Potomac
river, and to authorized suffers goods trans
ported for any regularly and lawfully appon-
ted sutler OF any regiment: but such articles.
supplies, stores or goods shall be permitted
to pass upon satisfactory evidence given Of
their character, and Of the auth rized char
acter OF those for whom they are intended.
But ifany officer, soldier or s'tler shall be de-
tected in trading or making resale to citizens
of goods sent to or conveyed by him. he
shall be Immediately arrest for punishment
and his case report to these headquarters.
I. Major William NJ. Este, A. d. C. at
these headquarters and Brigadier General
Kelley, commanding at Harper's Ferry, or
such commissioned officera as he shall desg-
nate at the Point of Rocks, Berlin, Harper's
Ferry, Williamsport, Hancock, Cumberland
and New Creek, are alone authorized to ex-
anime permits and endorse upon them the
required passes.