The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-04-13

Hang out your banners On your onteI
walls
Sing hallelujah
| Let the bird of freedom screech =.
Richmond is ours. .i3 , "
So is everybody and everything
The Confederaey has retired from bu,i-
ness.
Several sections of the backbone Of the
rebellion have been captured, and Will
he forwarded to the Historical Society
as relics ,iii#t@ii
fts last legs were retreating upon the
last ditch when Sheridan executed a
flank movement aud cut them oil just
above the ankles.
There is nothing left Of that interest
ing institution but "a pair Of boot legs
They ale expected to surrender at any
moment
Hnrrah Que more. ..t. -
There is some uncertainty ahout Jeff
Davis.
One report is that be came into onr
lines disguised as an intelligent co ira
band, and was sent to New York with Il
letter of introduction to Horace Greeley.
Horace told him to Root hog, or die"
Another account is that he came to
New York as Ticket Of Leave Man"
ana was Immediately sent back to Eng
land
Both these accounts may be equally rs-
lied upou. .,-4.1. 3
Some Of the contractors are blaming
General Grant for winding the war mp 50
suddenly, aud talk of slleing him for
damages.
It wasn't Grants fault He said he
was ready to fight it out all the summer.
1t was Shermau's doings. ..r.
Sherman took everything that wanted
to he taken in his department. and then
came on to say that if Grant didn't take
Richmond he would. .r
Consequently Grant had to do it.
NV friend A, Lincoln was Oh hand
when Richmond was taken, and was I'M
inediately inaugurated President OF the
Southern Confederacy
Andy Johnson didn't 80 to Richmond.
The price of whisky there is more than
he could stand
Ihave been taking Richmond all the
week with everybody know.
1t is il patriotic duty now tn take n'-
erything bat theplcdge, and get illnmin
ated every evening
When patriot meets patriot then comes
the fall of Richmond. ..
The popular form of cOnvivial salnta.
tiop now is: Lets take Richmond
Ialways take it with sugar, to encour'
age q revival of Southern industry.
Mr.. Beecher says we must now coatlli-
ate our misguided brethren.
Perhaps you didn't know that we had
any white relations at the South.
We have Mr. Beecher has just dis
covered that the white man of the South
is brother of ours as we'll as the colored
man.
He was identified by the usual straw
berry mark on his left arm.
Just see what we have gained by four
years fighting
Mr. Beecher is going Sonth to culti
yate the acquaintance of his newrelative
and assure him of his forgiveness
So am /.
We are going to raise the old flag over
Fort Sumter The identical bunting
that Major Anderson had to haul down
about four years ago when Beauregard
served him with writ of ejectment.
When Anderson moved he put the flag
carefully away in his valise, and brought
it on with his personal baggage. He has
kept it in camphOr ever since, and now 1t
is just as good as new.
Anderson is TO raise the fay MI Beech
er delivers the grafton, and | superintend
the job.
Mayor Wood is going with ne, and
who knows but we may strike lie down
there2 .sA..
We shall probably start a few petro-
leum companies IN Charleston.
We have chartered big steamer to 60
in, and sail on Monday with select
party. ...-.-.
shall correspond with you during the
voyage, having made arrangements with
the Union Ferry Company foI hafa doz-
EN- of their boats to accompany the
steamer and bring on my dispatches.
shall send on the oration as fast as
Mr. Beecher delivers il, so that you can
publish it next Saturday
The Grafton will he big thing.
Mr. Beecher intends to spread himself
en the occasion H-
He will extend the olive branch to the
Southern people, propose eternal friend
snip, duu OilcT tucm pc"o AL ~ hou'u
Church, on the usual terms
Mr. Beecher may be slightly inaccurate
about Good Friday, but on politics, and
the commercial interest of Plymouth
Church, he is eminently sound
The report that he intended ~ move
from Plymouth Church to Fort Sumter
on the first of May, is mistake
The Fort is badly out Of repair, and IL
difficult of access, and a fashionable CON
gregation couldn't go there every Sunday
at an expense of a hundred dollars head
After pacifying the South We shaii re-
turn to Brooklyn. ,L. .til
As MI. Beecher has informed his coz
gregation of his views on tue momen-
tous question of receiving our Southern
brother back to the family, lny congre-
CATION, represented in the numerous
million readers of the Eagle, may wish to
hear my sentiments lutT
Mr. Beecher and are in perfect accord
We understand each other, and shall
act harmoniously ---- . -
He has adopted my views int he has
different way of expressing them, be
cause my style is copyrighted, and l pat
a revenue stamp on every sentence 10
guard against piracy vy... :
In order that my readers may compre-
heud tue subject fnlly in all lite bearings,
| must refer to the past history Of this
great and glorious nation -.
The continent of America Was ,discov-
ered by Columbus in 1892 or 373 years