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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-01-07
JOE LORYEA's ADVERTISEMENT.

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JOE LORYEAs ADVERTISEMENT.
CIR AN d
GIFT ENTERTAINMENT
$4,000! $4,000! $4,000!
FOR NEW YEARS, 1865 /!
MAGUIRE,s OPERA HOUSE,
Virginia.
49, 900 Tickets, at 81 Each!
~ FIRST PRIZE,
One 2-story Building, 20 roOms."".S11,5OO
SECOND PRIZE,
In Gold Coin. LOCO
THIRD PRIZEi
In Gold Coin 0OO
FOURTH PRIZE:
In Gold Jul
FIFTH PRIZEi
In Gold Coin ...... 200
SIXTH PRIZE!
One 2-stOry Building, rOoms,......... $500
U,HE HOUSE ON A STREET, WEST SIDE,
one door from Union, Is hard finished, % by
60, contains 20 rooms, all handsomely furnished,
now ..r-' s.-..i b..
Renting for $50 Dollars per Month
xThe House on Howard. east side. ohe door
from Union street. ia hard finished % by 49, con-
tanning rooms, and
Rents for $50 Dollars per Month!
FThe above Houses are open for inspection
until the Day of Entertainment, at II o'clock
each day, for one hour
THE REAL. ESTATE DESCRIBED
u.s.
Free from all Liens or Remembrance
TsThe Deeds, Policies of Insurance, and In
ventory of Furniture are In possession Of
.RUHLING& CO., Bankers,
Who will convey the same to the parties who
Ilhy uEhW tuo pii6cui uPod PASoSA-O
Tickets Containing the Numbers!
~ The money for tn. Tickets will be placed
in the hands of E. Ruhllng & Co., Bankers, until
the Drawing Is over.
FOR THE
FAIRNESS Of The ENTERTAINMENT
l refer to the following firms and gentlemen:
Louis Feusier g. Co., E Rubbing e. Co.
IT & King. of w F. g. Co, John Piper,
George F. Jones' D. Block & Co.,
w II. Bremen, Joseph Trench,
Joe CLARK, ". II. Howard
Isaac G. Bateman, y. w. Winton'
A Hirschman, George LOWE,
Rufus g. Arick, Joe Barnert & Co.,
I n Clark Dlghton Corson,
s. T. Curtis, Quint q HARDY
Capt. A. n. Smith, ). FranKsntnsi,
Capt. J. L. Moore, A. 4. O'NeIl,
A. Gindauer, Taylor & Campbell,
Alex. Coryell, G. H. Bryan,
Jacob smith, Capt L. Rawlings
TICKETS
WILL Be.
Rallied for Day and Evening,
AT
GEO. LEWIS SALOON.
south G street,
And other places, Of which due notice will be
given.
HOTOGR APHs
OF the Buildings can be seen at all the principal
Saloons and Bookstores.
E1pLADIES can procure Tickets at the lead.
ing Dry Goods Houses and Book Stores
r<The Drawing will be done by Commit.
tee selected from the Shareholders.
SA Liberal Discount will be Made TO
Wholesale Purchasers. ...
~SEND YOUR ORDERS la
JOSEPH LORYEA,
Virginia, N. T.
October 80. 1864. nol4 I'd
PostPonement.
TN CONSEQUENCE OF THE UNPRECE-
dented dull times, and extraordinary inclem.
emit weather, am very reluctantly compelled TO
postpone the drawing Of my Gift Entertainment
Wednesday, Feb. ~, 1868,
At which time 1t will positively take place at Ma
CURES Opera House.
jas JOS. LokfEA.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-01-07
Communicated
FACTS AND FIGURES.

As the question OF Consolidation Is one
of vast importance to every resident of
Storey County, and especially the tax
payers, I propose to discuss the financial
working of the bill and show the advan-
tase to be derived therefrom. will here
state that deal in no unreal figures, but
give them as made up from official records
and guod authority, and careful investi-
CATION of the consolidated bill. If I ex-
hibit any errors, in the views of others, I
hope they may be set forth, that the facts
may be arrived at, as only facts are what we
want under our present deplorable finan-
cial condition.
We will start out with the County In
corporation. 1t expended from the lst of
January 1864 to LIST January 1865, as fol-
lows:
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-28
News from New Work.

New YORK, Sept 27-The Posts
Washington special says it is believed IN
Washington that Howell Cobb has been
arrested on charge of participating in
the Andersonville atrocities.
The sale of naval vessels at the Brook
ly navy yard took place at noon i'll front
of the navallyceum. The vessels brought
unusual good prices and some of them
were sold for more than the government
paid for them.
Thirty-three of the crew of the ship
Calhoun are arraigned to-day charged
by the Captain with 'mutiny. 1t ap'
peared from the complaint that on the
2lst of Sept. there was aquarrel between
the cook and some of the crew. The
boatswain interfered toprotect the cook
and an assault was made on him, seeing
the excited state of affairs the boat
swain retreated aft, where he was join
ed by the second mate The officers armed
themselves and came back and after
warning the crew fired several shots
among them which took fatal effect on
two or three of them. The Captain came
out at this juncture and the crew at once
demanded that the officers should he put
in irons OF they would hang them. The
Captain complied with their wishes
The crew then took the officers and plac
ed them in the wheel house, keeping
guard over them tell they arrived at this
port. The crew on the other hand say
that they were most foully used and
kept short Of rations and what they die
have was badly cooked. The case wa:
set down for examination for Friday
next.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-28
The WirZ Trial.

The immense advantages of a trial be-
fore military commission, and its supe-
riority over the ordinary tribunals of
Justice are being daily eXempliiied in the
Wirz case. One man testiies that he
saw man who had been bitten by dogs.
OF course, it was not just as easy to find
the bitten man rs the man who saw him.
Another testilies that rebel told him he
got furlough of thirty days if he shot a
Yankee As great many Yankees are
said to have been shot, it must have been
very easy to have found one rebel who
had so earned furlough, and who could
tell how he earned it. Others testify
that Wirz personally and wantonly shot
men they give no dates, no names, moth
ing by which the prisoner can defend
himself from the charge or explain it,
or Justify the act Wirz may be very
bad man, may have done acts deserving
of hanging, but the mode adopted is
neither proper to prove him so, nor fitted
to enable him to prove himself not so -
In the French revolution there was a
very ingenious law as to the suspected,
which saved an infinite degree OF
trouble to any man who wanted the life,
or the fortune, or the wife or daughter OF
another Next to that law, n military
commission is the most ingenious ma
ohinery ofinjustice of modern times.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-28
WHEELING REGISTER.
ru, ,RspAY MORNING. SEPT. as, 1865.



Gold closed in New York yesterday at
sl4i.
Fourteen postofiices were opened IN the
South Yesterday, ten of them i'll SoutL
Carolina,
David Atwater has been sent to the
Auburn State prison, by order OF MAJOR
General Augur, for purloining rec"r"N
1t is reported that General Orteso, oi
Mexico, has succeeded in raising very
LARGE loan for the republican government
in Mexico.
About one thousand applications rof
clerkships have accumulated at the
Treasury Department.
SY Atlee, of the Navy Department,
has been inspecting the navy hospitals
and Will probably recommend the sale OF
all government marine hospitals and the
contracting with other hospitals tor the
treatment of government patients
Francis Smith, ESQ, of Alexandria,
Virginia, yesterday delivered an argu-
ment before Judge Underwood, OF the
United States Court of Virginia. to prove
his eligibility to practice law III any
court without taking the ordinary oath
prescribed by law.
The Comptrollers OF the Treasury has
dacided that in order to cntitle DIS
charged wounded soldiers to the whole
of their bounty, the wounds for which
they were discharged must have been
received during the term Of enlistment
which they were serving out when dis
charged.
The crew of the ship Calhoun, which
arrived at New York Tuesday, mutined
while on the passage, and in melee on
hoard one of the seamen was killed. The
assistance of the United States revenue
cutter Crawford was procured and the
crew placed in irons.
An exciting game of cricket was play
ed yesterday on Boston Common, be-
tween the Harvard and Atlantic clubs.
A New York dispatch states that it is
believed that Howell Cobb has been ar
rested on charge of participating in the
Andersonville cruelties.
A sale ofgovernment vessels took place
at New York yesterday. Some of the
vessels brought more than the govern
ment paid for them.
A gang of thirty OF forty guerrillas are
committing all manner of outrages near
Springfield, Tennessee.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-28

ri.
RIof AT A During the. far at
Danville, Kentucky, recently, an affray
occurred between some negro soldiers
and the citizens, which for atime created
a great deal of excitement. AT the am-
phitheatre, on the fair grounds, four ne
gro soldiers were promenadipg around
among tho white people, The marshall
named Moore, returned Confed crate,
went to them and told them to 80
around and occupy q place amongst the
negroes on the premises Three of the
/, four started willingly, but the fourth
grew somewhat stubborn : and was being
pushed down stairs by Moore and another
gentleman, when the negro drew his pis-
tol and Ared, shooting the, gentleman IN
the breast The negro got with the
other three, and by this time the citizens
grew excited, and hunted up the ne.
'groes. They found them, and general
fight ensued. Thenegroes emptied theiI
pistols at the citizens, but they were
each of them shot, and it is said were
dangerously wounded.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-28
A Reminisccnce of 1S37-An Ameri
can Exile.
fU.o,,, Ala Irt;oa Uerald
From the Utica Her.

Not long since an elderly man, bent al
most duublc with age and work, and III
garments tattercd and torn, whilst pass
| ing through Rome, n. Y, stopped at one OF
| the stores and asked for food or money.
He volunteered the remark that he was
ashamed to beg, but stated rs an expla-
nation and in cXtenuation, the following
as the canse of the necessity. His home
was Saratoga, and he chanced to he III
Canada at the tiine of the rebellion in
that 'country iIfiS3. He was charged
with being engaged in that outbreak,
was tried and convicted for being in
completely with the Patriots" and SEN
fenced to Van Dieman's Land for life.
He says he was not guilty, but that feel
ING was so stI ong against the yankees"
at the time of his trial, it required but
slight evidence to convict.
He was then 81 or % years of age; he
was taken to that penal colony, and
there subjected to the seyerest drudgery
and the most inhuman treatment; he,
with other convicts, was compelled to
draw the plow and cart like oxen, and
to labor early and late and treated not
much better, if any, than dumb beasts.
Thus were twenty eight years of life
passed, never hearing from friends or
home, nor allowed to communicate there
with. He, with others, was finally par
doned, and allowed to reach home as
hest he might. He left the country a
hale and hearty youth, erect and full OF
life and vigor; he returns to it after
nearly 30 years absence d0cfepid old
man, bent over with age and work, and
with shattered health and broken
constitution The narration he gave of
his life there, and the details of histreat-
ment, fully impressed his hearers with
the truth of his statements, and that he
was no impostor. He was on his way
home, not knowing as he would find a
being who knew him when boy
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-28
yIutiuy nj Sea.

New YORK, September 26.-The ship
Calhoun, Capt Page, from Liverpool,
August 18th, with merchandiSr and -
passengers arrived yesterday. While
lying in the. river Mersey, Charles A.
Grua, steward, committed suicide by
taking poison and was buried at Liver
pool; September lst, Fred'k. ,Jargensen
committed suicide by junVing overheard;
September 10Th, Francis Williams second
officer died of brain fever September 2lst,
the crew in n state of mntiny mad" Il
combined attack on the cock of the ship,
and during the .melee Joseph Malone,
Seaman, was shot: September 26th, en-
gagged the tug Seth Low to 90 for naval
assistance, she returned at ; o'clock 7.
NJ. with the u. 5. Revenue Cutter Craw-
ford, Capt Kellum, in charge of the vessel
and found the ships crew in state oi
mutiny, and two of the officers in state
rooms, around which the crew had
guards stationed. He immediately re.
leased the imprisoned offices and placed
all the crew in irons, and remained by the
ship till she arrived up to the city, aud
had the men put into the hands of the
proper authorities
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-28
Dcpreda,ions by GuerriIIa..

NASHVILLE, Sept. 27.- A gang of thirty
or forty guerrillas near Springfield, Rob
erts county, yesterday, commenced indis-
criminate robbery and murder upon
residents in that locality, Thomas j
Payne was killed, his house robbed aud
family outraged at Adams Station, on
the Edsfeld andsKentucky road. They
plundered all whom they caught Rob't.
Dorsey was hanged to tree, then drag
ged on the ground until one eye was torn
from its socket VIM. Adams was severe
ly beaten by the robbers. The exact
number of the band is not known. 1t is
believed that Harper, who has for some
time past been in that vicinity, is their
leader
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-28

contemplating the grant of limited pow
ers, and distributing them among various
functionaries, {officers) that whenever
any question arises as to the exercise OF
power, by any of these functionaries, It Is
of NECESSITY, that such .faRciioRdiieS mast
in the FIRST INSTANCE, decide upon the
constitutionality of the exercise of such
power This may arise in the course OF
the discharge of the functions of any one
or of all the departments of government,
whether executive, Legislative, or judi
cial. The officers of each of the depart
ments are equally bouud by their oaGhs,
TO snpport the constitution, and are
therefore conscientiously bound ID alb
stain from all acts which are inconsis-
tent with the. constitution. UheRerr
therefore they me required 10 act IN a case
not hitherto settled By any proper authority
these fanctioRaIieS (officers) must IN the
FIRST INSTANCE decide each for himSeg,
whether consistently with the constitution
the act can be done"
Thus if Judge Story had been writing
n letter to the judges of the election
themselves, he could not have heen more
plain and direct in telling them they
must now observe and follow the consti-
tuition, and not the act of the Legisla-
ture, the two being in conflict.
1t is not the rigid observation of con.
stitutions which leads to rebellion and
crime, it is the refusal to observe them.
The argument OF the Attorney General,
that all laws are presumed TO be constl-
tutional, is mere begging of the ques-
ton, q mere unworthy dodge. For pre-
sumo it will be admitted, thai the cor
stitution is to be presumed to be right,
and the supreme law of the land. Then
it follows that when statute of the Leg
islature and the constitution are in con-
fict, contrary one to the other, we are
brought back to the question, which is
the higher law and which is to prevail,
aud all the authorities say the cOnstitu'
ton, of course, PHILo VOTER.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-28
Anew York paper commenccssaede-
scription of the fashions IN the following

Anew York paper commences asde-
scription of the fashions IN the following
style: u 'fazo %
Splendid August, poppy. crowned.
kissed the eyelids ofthe cool September,
and stole his sceptre while he lay snpine
in her sultry and slumberous presence.
''In the fields, where the late corn RI
pens, and the grapes still fill their purple
chalice with the sunbeams, these days
are the crowning gift of all lavish ma
turc. Among the hills they keep then
shining procession, mutely wondering at
the absence of the lnvely urban visitors
who fed as samnns waned., and thereby
missed theiy beauty. Over the beaches
they pass with noiseless feet, for the echo
of the summers mad gayety is IN their
ears, ard the endless melancholy OF : he
ocean. Yet from their purple presence'a
glory streams over sea and land, sncn as
the vanished season knew not in her
prime -9u.
"Only here is the exotic splendor OF
the time bane and blunder. Torrid
Broadway is ablaze as the central fires
seem to ooze from every crack OF her
pavement. The mountains of the Gold
en- Dustman might be rcbuilded from the
debris of this suffocatiug city. The OF
fence of the cutters is rank, and smells
to Heaven.
'Yet back to this Paradise of i'll odors
comes the gay world, and mildly limiting
10 its autocratic cook, what shall we
eat and what shall we drink y yUnc-
mently demands at the point of its para
sol .wherewitball shall we be clothed ~
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-28
Belmont County Fair.

Through the courtesy of the operators
OF the U. s. Telegraph Company, we have
received the following special dispatch:
ST CLArRsvILLE, Sept q.
The opening of the Belmont County
Fair took place today under very favora'
BILE prospects.
The entries number nearly twice as
many as at any former exhibition. A
number of very fine horses are already
entered and good sport to the lovers OF
the turf is promised. The display OF
agricultural products is also large and
very fine. The halls and whole ground
present very fine appearance.
Nothing of any consequence transplred
to-day. The principal occupation being
the entering of various stocks and anti
cles for the exhibition. The horses eX-
hibited this afternoon were very tine
ones Attendance rather small
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-28

THE Sil sensation of the day is tho
purchase of the Pithole property by Chi
cago parties. The transaction was made
by Messrn Wright & Chittcnden. The
purchase is understood to be for one mil
lion and half dollars, for which sub
stantial sum Messrs. Prathe e. Duncan
have parted with their entire land inter
est at Pithole, and it is now the proper
ty of the above named gentlemen. II
includes the land interest in the great
flowing wells whose net income 10 Messrs.
Wright & Critendcn is some four or five
thousand dollars per day These wells
include the United States well and its
greater and less neighbors, and the whole
of Pithole City With leases To the
amount of $50 900 annual rental, togeth-
er with the depot grounds. One hundred
and thirty wells are going down on the
property, Of which the present owners of
the farm bold the one quarter interest -
Oil at Pithole is selling at two dollars
TO haul it to the river OF railroad. With
in month the railroads will be finished
20 Pithole city, and the cost of forward
ing the oil will fall to fifty cents per bar.
rel, adding handsomely to the income oi
these wells. 1t is only necessary to add
as a matter of history, that other Chiea-
go parties have been in treaty for this
great oil farm, and claim that their ac-
ton lies in damages against the former
owners for breach of contract We give
the whole facts as received here, aud the
current topic of discussion among oil
men.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-28
Tho senth Carolina Convention.

New YORK, Sept. 27.-Charleston pa
pers of the 23d are received The follow
ing is the clause of the Constitution as
adopted by the Convention by vote of
"a to 8. "The slaves in South Carolina
having been emancipated by the action
of the United States, neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude, except as punish
ment for crime, whereof the party shall
have been duly convicted, shall ever be
re-established in this State"
An ordinance to repeal the ordinance
of secession was then ratified. At the
session on the 22d vote was taken on
the proposition to make the basses of rep
reseutation of the State rest upon the
whole population irrespective of color,
snd ii was rejected by a large majority
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-28

In answer to the charge that the large
mortality among the negro population
South is caused by brutal treatment, the
Louisville Journal says:
That there has been frightful mortali
ty among negroes i'll the South we know
Every man acquainted with the State
knows il. Ii is greater among them than
il was before they were set free, and we
have not doubt that it will continue to
be greater, for a while ut least. The ut
most exertions of the freedmen's bureau
and all the the philanthrophy of the
country will not be able to prevent it,
This increased mortality is incident TO
the change that has taken place in the
negroes status. Those who did not an
ticipate this only betray their ignorance
of the nature of the negro. He cannot
bear up under difficulties and changes
like the white man. When ut home with
regular employment, food, and hours, he
moved along and kept we'll bnt all this
has been changed, and the irregularities
to which he has been subjected cause him
to sicken aud die. This change is now
fixed and unalterable We must accept
it and do the best we can. For while
it will be worse for the negro. The
Southern people cannot if they would
help this. Ii is inevitable. 1t is useless
TO abuse the inhabitants ot the South in
consequence of it, and it is base and vii
lainous to misrepresent them.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-28
City GalRnOn.

1t isn't every day that the Greasy Mon
arch steps down from his throne to at
ford us as good laugh as the Erie Dis
patch sends us here:
About the funniest speculation in oil
we know of occurred in this city last
week. Mr. Jacob Althotf, of the Althoff
well, discovered a few days since, that
his cellar was partly filed with oil. He
always thought his land was good oil
territory, but had no idea it was so near
the surface. However, Jocob is prac-
teal man, and without speculating much
as to whether the oil oozed through the
earth, or whether veritable oil spring
had broken loose in the cellar, he sets to
work pumping out the oil. Thirty-two
barrels of good quality petroleum were
thus secured. David Kennedy & Co.,
have a large oil refinery just across the
road from Althoff7s. and also an immense
underground tank, holding some eight
hundred barrels. Althoff showed them
the oil, and they bought the thirty-two
barrels at about six dollars the barrel
quite a reasonable price-and thought
they made a good little'spec. They con
tracted for all of Jacobs cellar oil at the
same rate.
The latter waited patiently for more
to collect Meanwhile Kennedy & Co.
had occasion to examine their under.
ground tank. Near the top was found q
crevice, and they smelt something be
side oil. They soon found that when the
tank was filled up to this crevice the oil
found its way ont the tank and pene'
trated into their neighbor's cellar. They
had not only lost considerable of theil
oil, but had bought back thirty-two bar:
rels of it at over six dollars barrel! D.! and
had contracted TO keep on doing so =
The leak was sstopped instanter, and Alt,
bofi"s cellar is not so valuable as it was
We undersHpd that Mr.. A. intends to
send in bifl Tor damage done to his Gel
lar by filling it with Petroleum. The
money so far received he of course re-
| tains