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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-01-13

THE Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company have found quarry of first
class etone-on McMahon's Creek-to
build the piers in the river for their
Bridge at Bellair, and have already COM
menced QuarrYing.
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NOTICES.
Administrators Notice.

late Col Joseph Tboburn desire 70 notify AL
persons having claims ag9fnH said estate, 20
hreseut the same 70 me duly certified to Cor set
Gement. Persons knowing themselves 20 be IN
dsbted TO aid estate viii please call and settle
ptDH ufins hi. last visit 70 Ii. family Colonel Tho
burn made out bills against those indebted to
him for medical attendance Those biIls are nov
in my possession. win retain them for . rea
sonable length Of time 10 give an opportunity
for such as desire TO do 90 70 settle their biIls
without unnecessary cost either 30 the estate OF
themselves. JAMES WILSON
dec2o-lm t..f ga go.
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Seventh Ward Ticket.

Counel-FSrst Branck-JOHN MgLRLNE.
COtineil-Seeond Branck-HCGH MEGAW
School Commissioser-J. NJ BICKEL
Scieol Trustees-JOHN B LUKENS;
S.FFARIS
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-01-13
. For Sale.

i HOUSES and Lot No. 90, corner -
Roff streets. Centre Wheeling. wiz ~
whole together, or each separately, 10 ~ |
chasers. Also, part Of Lot No. 9, sqpiSer.
joining Mrs. DR. Tanners residence Ia n
a good substantial dwelling house. lcT..'
Inquire of z. JACOB NJ 4"
dec9u d .'i or ALEX. MlN,,
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-01-13
BOOTS AND SHOES.
SIS, 900 AT STAEI


--.Il- AT NJ i76 MAIN STREET,
(Next door TO Stone & Thomas Dry Good NJ
TIFTEEN THOUsA AND peI
L LARS worth OF Boots and Shoes OFF,
purchasers at their own prices.
The subscriber havin.. bought an Hnu,u
large Stock just before the advance AY,r
July and August, II now prcparf-
the same ut much lower prices tlnn AZ
house In the city ....
The attention Of al both great and Ca
invited 70 my stock Call early ANA sscrr b
gains. Quick sales and small profits az o.
to adopted st this esta blishmeni
No trouble 10 show goods,
JOHN HNOI
octl0 I76 Nam Street, Wl,,.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-08-04

Bay~ The commencement exercises
of Union College at Schenectady drew
crowded houses and enthusiastic lis
teners. An unusually large number
of graduates was in attendance. The
grafton before the alumni was deliv-
cred by the Hon. Charles A. Phelps,
of Boston, his theme being "The Rela-
tons of the Patriot Scholar to his
Country" A copy has been solicited
for publication. 1t is significant
fact that many public men in New
York at the head of whom stand Sec
rotary Seward and Senator Harris are
graduates of Union College In look
ing over the "roll of honor" it was
found that about three hundred of the
sons of Union College had gone forth
to the great work of maintaining the
Union Of the States Twelve generals
twenty colonels, and over fifty cap
tains, with many other honored names
between, will henceforth grace ant
adorn the annals Of the institution
Not few of these were present.
AS the procession moved to thu
church a touching incident occurred
Leaving the main walk, the long lint
wound round through the yard o
their aged and beloved President DR.
Mott that, in passing, they Nigh
pay their respects and look once NOR
, upon the face of him they had SO lonI
! revered and loved Without stopping
t each lifted his hat, bowed, and passe'
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Death OF Hon. Richard S. Fay.

Intelligence of the very sudden
death of the Hon. Richard Sullivan
Fay, of Boston, the elder brother of
the Rev. DIR. Fay, of ST. Adams, was
recently brought by the steamer Afri-
ca. Mr. Fay was at the Adelphi Ho-
tel, Liverpool, on the 9th of July, pre-
paratory to embarking on the steamer
for Boston, in apparently perfect
health and in very good spirits and
while talking with Mrs. Fay in their
room was suddenly seized with the
heart-disease and fell upon the floor.
A doctor was Immediately in atten-
dance and restoratives were applied,
but to no purpose. In the arms of a
devoted wife and daughter, he en-
tered into the rest of another life with
ont sign of pain.
The deceased was the eldest son OF
the late Judge Fay, of Cambridge
Massachusetts, and was a graduate
of Harvard University in the class OF
1925 in which his classmates were
such men as Charles Francis Adams
now minister at the Court of st
James; Professor Frederick III. Hedge
of Bangor; Rev. DIR. Samuel X. 10th
rop, of Boston; John l.. Sibley, Lii
brarian OF Harvard College, and others
of note-wo thy attainments.
After his graduation he studied Law
but, not relishing the practice, became
an opulent merchant and successful
manufacturer. He married Miss Pick
man, of Salem Massachusetts, an'
leaves a wife and large family o
children to lament the loss of GOO
and tender husband and father L
the latter part of his life, he wa
. greatly interested in sheep husbandr
I and was prominent member of til
q Massachusetts, Board of Agriculture
g Upon his beautiful farm near Lynn h
/ devoted his attention to arboricultui
o and sheep husbandry and brought ii
wealth of a richly endowed intelle'
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and a generous heart, to the improve
ment and adornment of his well APP
pointed homo. "Linmere" was the
country scat of an American gentle
man of the noblest type. Well edu-
Gated, well skilled in the use of his
pen, industrious in his efforts to do
good and to promote the happiness
of others, the death of such n chris
tan gentleman, at the age of sixty
years, may well be regarded public
calamity, which we, even at this dis
lance, can properly appreciate and de-
plore.
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ls,,- We learn from the ST. Adams
TRANSCRIPT that there are twehty-four
persons and firms licensed by the L.
S. Assessor to sell liquor Mt retail IN
that village That they all sell an un-
limited quantity and that others also
sell we have no doubt, and yet the
sale of liquor was stopped elioctually,
throughout the day of the 4th of July,
by order Of the town or village author
tiles Notwithstanding this satisfacto-
nv demonstration that the law can be
enforced. citizens will croak about the
inefficiencv of the statute and that it
is idle to attempt to stop the sale of
liuuor. Now we have an idea that if
the law can be enforced on certain
day of the week or month, it can as
easily be enforced on any other day,
and that all that is necessary to insure
its enforcement is determination on
/ the part of town and county officials
or Of few citizens that its provisions
shall not he disregarded withimpunity.
In ancient times, the safety Of the city
Of Sodom was assured if ten righteous
men could be found within its limits.
An equal OF less number of righteous
and determined men may save st. AL
bans from the moral destruction which
awaits it, if the iniquity which is daily
enacted within its limits is not speed
ily lessened. As a native Of the place
we have a great degree of pride in its
remarkable growth and material pros
perity, but so far as its morals are con
ccrned we should Judge from obserya-
ton that they have deprecated in ex
act ratio with the advance Of the place
in other respects, and we tremble
when we know that God is just.
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DEg~ The death of Mrs. Celia Sophia
Bin, of Burlington, aged As years,
for many years an obliging cabin-maid
on the line boats ON Lake Champlain,
is announced as having taken place
July 10Th, 1865 Mrs. Bin had a
large circle of friends acquaintance
in the valley of Lake Champlain who
will read this announcement with re-
greet.
Although occupying subordinate
position, Mrs Bin, by her obliginq
courtesy to thousands of lady passen-
gers, has contributed as much as any
other individual to render the route
through Lake Champlain, as popular
as it deservedly is.
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The Case OF Miss Harris.

Miss Mary Harris was tried at
Washington lately for shooting man
named Burroughs a clerk in the
Treasury Department. The occurrence
took place last fall, and the facts were
that, Miss Harris, a girl Of about
eighteen, lived in Chicago, and there
became acquainted with Burroughs,
also a resident Of Chicago, and Bur
roughs fell in love with her, and pro
fessed as the letters produced at the tri-
alshowed, the strongest attachment for
her, and promised in most unequiyo-
cal terms to marry her. She was a
bright, spiightly, intelligent girl, al
though in humble life. The affection
on the part of Burroughs soon cooled
and without notice to her he married
another woman. Miss Harris followed
him to Washington and lay in wait
for him at the door of his Office in the
Department, and shot him dead.
During the trial the sympathies of
thousands of people were strongly
enlisted in her favor, and the defence
of insanity was set up which was pro-
we'd to the satisfaction of the jury.
She was acquitted last week after the
jury had been out only ten minutes.
She was very excitable girl, and the
argument was that at the time she
committed the act she was controlled
by an insane impulse SO that she was
not an accountable agent. In com
menting on the accquittal of Miss
Harris, the N. Y. Times says
"The verdict only furnishes new
illustration of what must be regarded
as a settled principle in American law,
that any woman who considers herself
aggrieved in any way by member OF
the other sex, may kill him with i'm
punity, and with an assured immunity
from the prescribed penalties of law
The man may really have been guilty
neither of a crime against her person
an assault upon her honor, nor an
offense against her feelings, if she is
seized by fancy that his course o.
conduct towards her is not such as she
had anticipated from his addresses
she may kill him upon notice or with
out notice. Ii man is murdered by
a member of the opposite sex, in any
Of the cases supposed, or in almost
any supposable case whatever, she il
almost certain to escape, not only the
extreme penalty of the law, but any
penalty whatever. 1t were useless tC
find fault with this state of things L
is peculiar to America, and people il
general are decidedly proud of it
There is no reason, in the nature O
things, why criminals of one sex should
be treated with such exceptional anc
, dubious honor; but who shall argu,
with the feelings of jury, backed NJ
by public sentiment and by custom
1t is well enough, however, that ever,
man should always bear the fact il
r mind, so that he may, on all occasions
so comport himself in the presence o
the sex as never to give any of then
either a real or fanciful pretext foI
taking him off untimely"
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-08-04

Rag- The Chandler family, of Ran
dolph, Vermont, consisting of five
sons and two daughters from different
parts of the United States, recently
met their parents at the old homestead
after an absence of nearly twenty
years. One of them William W.
Chandler, Esq late of Cleveland and
now of Chicago, from being success
full and popular teacher of penmanship
hereabouts over twenty years ago, has
we are glad to know, become manager
and chief owner of popular through
line of freight cars plying between
Chicago, New York and Philadelphia
having achieved success by ability, tact
and fidelity to all of his engagements
united with an inexhaustible supply
of good humor and energy.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-08-04

Ra5-The Franklin County Democratic
Convention will be held at Barrs
Hotel, Sheldon, August 18th, as will
appear from the official advertisement
in another column The County Con
yention Of the supporters of the adj
ministration of Andrew Johnson in
Grand Isle county will be held at the
Court House in North Hero on Satur-
day, August 10Th, 1865, at IL O'Clock
A. NJ. as Indicated by the official cal
printed elsewhere. A report of both
of these Conventions will appear il
the TRANscR1pr.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-08-04

Day-We invite attention to the adver-
tisement of James Morrison & Co., OF
Montreal, which appears in this week
TRANscRIPr. We evoke the special no
tice of our readers, because it may be
of decided benefit to open and main
tain a trade with our nigh city neigh
bors in Canada, and the advertisers
named will undoubtedly be pleased
to give good bargains to any Vermont
ers who are in want of the goods they
have for sale.
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peg- The New England Agricultul

H@g- The New England Agricultur-
al Society, will hold their I'd annual
Fair, at Concord, n. H., ON the 9Th,
9th, 18th and Sth days of September
next A great effort is being made by
the trustees to render this exhibition
worthy of the Agricultural and Me-
chanical fame of New England.
The large sum of eight thousand
dollars is offered in premiums.
Among the novelties already secured
for exhibition is steam plough in
vented by New England Mechanic.
Any information concerning the fan
and copies of Premium Lists may be
had by addressing Col. Daniel Need
ham, Boston, Massachusetts,, who is
the Secretary of the Society.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-08-04

\ WoMAN's DEscmPTIoN OF Mus SuR-
RAFT. Now that Mrs. Surratt is dead,
and what is said or written about her
cannot effect the trial Of the criminal,
Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm refutes the
false reports concerning Mrs Suratt,s
appearance and conduct IN court
at is customary to represent her as
a monster with an unlimited amount
of cunning and cruelty in her face;
but she is simply a representative
southern woman, no better OF worse
than the majority Of southern women.
| know those who have known her rs
the belle and beauty Of her county,
the petted, spoiled favorite of friends,
the idol of parents, husband and child
rem. Her face, and indeed her whole
figure, while on trial, was soft, round
ed, tender and motherly, Her large
gray eyes alone gave indication Of re-
served strength. Her behavior, dur
ing that long and terrible ordeal, was
full OF dehcacy and dignity. She
made no scenes, as a weak or vain wo-
man would have done Whom her
daughter came into court, and, with
quivering lip and streaming eye, APP
peared on the point of breaking down
with gesture of command and entroa
ty she restrained her, All the long hot
days she sat, with her heavy mourn.
ing veil down, and large palm Leaf
fan held between her face and the
crowds who gathered and crushed and
struggled to gaze at her, as if she had
been an alligator hundreds of per.
sons in these crowds making the most
insulting remarks in her hearing.
During all that time she Leaned
her head YEARLY against the wall, anC
by changing hands kept her fan stead
NY before her face and every few min
utes a low, stifled moan escaped her
Men and women stood a-tiptoe, anC
stretched and strained, or having
gained entrance, stood coolly anC
made such remarks as Where's Mrs
Surratt I? i want to see her p 'Ol
goodness, just look if she isn't pre-
tending to be modest = 4 wish
could see her face better! Isn't she
devil 2 She looks like devil
Hasn't she a holrid face? j hop,
they'll hang her-tee, hee, heel al
these remarks and more such, some o
them again and again, and often &C
companied by coarse laughter, / hear,
during the two hours and half | sa
near her, and she must have hear,
them as distinctly rs ! did, The,
were evidently meant for her
ut appeared to me so cruel ant
eowardly thus to insult a prisoner il
chains that / could not refrain from
answering, and several times said
She has not a bad face She has
good face, and if she had not, it j
cowardly to insult her 2 She dropped
her ian and looked at me with sucl
expression of gratitude as / shall new
en- forget. j looked full into her eyes
NINE were not dry, while hers file,
with heavy tears Several asked M
II was "a friend of Mrs Snrratt, s,
strange did any pity for her appear y
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Introductory merely.


The first edition of the Daily Times
is handsomely printed and well edited
in the city of Burlington. The second
edition re-appears with tolerable regu-
larity when the clements nro propi-
tious, at twilight in the village Of st.
Adams. The second edition does not
look like the robust one Of the morn
ing which is sent forth with the first
appearance OF "the rosy fingered
daughter of the dawn" but wears a
thin, pale and haggard look like one
well nigh gone with the consumption.
The twilight edition with the wan and
sickly look is hawked about the streets
of St Adams with decreased news ana
an increased price, and is furnished by
newspaper vendors at four cents a
copy under the name of the st. Al
bans Daily Messenger.
We do not mention it as an historical
fact that it is a literal reprint of the
Burlington daily Times. Better far if
it were; but the T,cilight edition con
tains substantially the same items
which have been scissorised from the
Times of the morning with lot of
telegraphic news and local advertise
ments, often so confused as to be
amusingly meaningless. Now and
then, they are SO geographically and
orthographically dislocated as to give
one an idea that the types had partak
en-, for their 'deserts,' too freely of zip
seq pudding
Aside from this noticeable peculiarly
the st. Adams Messenger has apparently
acted upon the belief that it owned the
exclusive monopoly or right of printing
n paper for Franklin and Grand Isle
counties. And so it has regarded the
Vermont TRANsCRIpT as an interloper
q disturber of this exclusive preroga
tive, and has never condescended tC
notice it. Not only so but has whining
ly complained when others have paid i
any sort of compliment or attention.
At last, after seventeen months o
inward suffering and prudential 81
lence, it has descended from its higl
seat in the synagogue and come down
to EARTH and spoken aloud of it
"neighbor, the Vermont TRANSCRIPT"
To be sure it speaks of it in terms
of invective and, what Artemus Ware
calls, "sarkasm," and with an air of viz
tuous indignation pounces upon it
neighbor with n column of three speci
fcations which are evidently prepare
by the three writer's who compose it
. editorial staff 1t is a source of livel
pleasure that the TRANscRIpr ha
y aroused the energy of the whole edito
rial corps of the st, Adams Messenge,
r and that the sum total of the Tran
/. SCRIPTS offending is brought directly be
fore the public by the formal indictmer
' which the tri-headed Messenger ha
6 drawn up with so much feeling an
particularly.
/ We are so elated with this "frs
d rate notice that we take the first Es
If press train to announce to our reader
e what honor has befallen the IRA,
t. SCRIPT. The subjects of the counts
to the Messengers indictment, we sha
discuss hereafter under three distinc
re i've heads: LIST, Corporation Toade,
of ism; I'd, Cruelty to Prisoners; an
Or Sd, Village Economy. All of the.
IL shall be duly considered as we fin
d. leisure and inclination for the anus
rs ment.
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BasrA gentleman has Just returned
from Canada who has been long and
intimately acquainted with Beverly
Tucker Sanders and that crew. San
ders, always loafer, is still SO. He
is broken down man, shabbily
dressed and complains Of want
Tucker says that Immediately on the
announcement of the assassination of
the President, Thompson made his es-
cape for Europe, taking with him
S1500O0 in gold and leaving his con-
federatcs destitute. He speaks with
the utmost contempt, as do his assoc
ciates, Of jeff. Davis OF his imbecility
and cowardice at the time of his ar
rest, and say he escaped the chance OF
going down to posterity as hero by
fighting it out rs Booth did to the last.
Tucker justified the raids into Yer
mont, but denied any knowledge Of OF
completely with the assassination
He complains that the leading people
of Canada snuL him and ASSOCIATES,
and states that the rebels only came
to Canada to create muss ana in
volye the Canadians i'll trouble with
the United States. The whole party
are sadly in need Of cash, and are q
stencil in the nostrils Of the people
He Complains that he can get no an
swers to the letters that he writes
from anybody. He complains that
his house is strongly guarded IN Rich
mond by strong force that his fam
lily can neither 90 in or come out, and
that no letters can reach them. I'm
like Mitchell he would know what &c
do with the pardon if President John
son should offer him one Beverly
begins 10 find out that the way Of the
transgressor is hard.
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NEWS SUMNrApv
Barnum will open this vsA
Winter Garden. New worL "''l

,,,. i'"i iiu'ii VIII open this vel
Winter Garden, New work WE
Mayor Gunther of New vail.
ports an income of S4O,647
Tile seven-thirty subscrin.io,.
Monday amounted to $5.6G35OO
Ella Tuttle lately died A. lo.i
New York, from the effects ~ y, .. y
sive laughter. ''''
The absorbing question No,
Albany and Troy is whether lar@
is intoxicating or not. "
The sum subscribed FOR lbe =.
coin national monument at Snrin,s % h
Ill, now amounts to $685.
The census of Iowa show, ., \
crease of 6 per cent. since 1850
-Pennsylvania mourns M j
pressed condition of her iron hal.
The laying of the Atlantic n
is ominously called a great mdgnl
ing.
Advice to Mr.. McCunocb-gI
heed that the Republic receir.
more debt-riment.
John NJ. Bolts is said to lru,
allied n large fortune during M
bellion from tobacco speculatim
General Roddy is an srrs
for pardon. Gen. Shoddy haai
Piled, though he's the greates r
of all.
Notwithstanding the nuns
sales Of horses and mules BY g,r.n
ment, meat does not fall material.
price.
Miss Harris's acquittal IS
strued as a license to ladies to III
lady-killers.
The decaying carcasses q
sheep sacrificed at Courban Bir
caused the cholera in Egypt \
sum appropriated for Their burial u
stolen by an official.
Official inquiry ELECTS tie
that JEFF. Davis's health is a good
ms it has been Mt any time sine
Imprisonment at Fortress Nom
Most of the correspondence dated
that place relating to DAVIS IS
nounced by the authorities to be
gus"
Adiutant General Thomas
mates the present strength Of ia'
gro troops now i'll service at
less than one hundred THOUSAND
Just previous to the close Of ils
these troops numbered about one
bred and ten thousand men y
has been reduced by the dlscla'f
State regiments where terms o.
have expired. 1t is a rcloarAas
that the proportion oil coiol'l
who desert is fifty per cent les
among the white soldiers
Miss Clara Barton, who
panied the party sent to Andel'
to select a site for Natol&
terry and to properly inter ll'
of our soldiers who died tneN
The grounds for the ceI''I
been selected and the WORK q
ment is going on. Two huIa"
seyenty-six bodies OF SoIa.s
were murdered for stepFgg
the dead line in search Of l~
; water were disinterred IL ~
} They were buried on the 81"
they fell"
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on-many with fearful eyes, expecting
to see that face no more Dr. Not'
sat bolstered up, and waved his hand
in acknowledgment of the salutation
But great age (past ninety and mucl
suffering have told fearfully upon that
once noble form. But what mighty
work has he been permitted to accom-
plish in his day What a power o
perpetuation has such life