The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-09-26

they get keep the itinerant miscegens
together. He says they co not pay o
cent wherever they 60, and have receiv-
ed gifts of money, clothing, shirts and
shoes at several places. He describes
Randolph, the negro, as the smartest OF
the band, and says he has collected a con.
siderable sum under the preteDse OF aid
to black churches and schools IN The
South. Hunnicutt, another of the sturdy
beggars, solicits subscriptions every
where for his paper, and contrives to
sponge a trifle here and there out OF his
dupes. MIR. Norton refutes all Jack Ham
ilton's statements about the condition OF
Texas, and asserts that he is kept away
from that State; not from fear of assassi-
nation, but of indictment
The deserter tells number of hard
stories about his late associates, and
says that Hunnicutt, after preaching IN
Troy last Sunday, wasin very un-preach-
erlike condition in Albany in the even
ing. This is of course the statement of
man who, as an associate of such COM
pany, may well be open to criticism, hut
his story at least shows enough to prove
the real character Of the miscegen cam
paigners to induce decent men of all par
ties to avoid association with them.
On tho morning OF the Goth, We be-
lieve, the following card appeared in one
of the Cleveland papers, but we never
saw it until yesterday. NoKToN wa'
probably disappointed by not meeting
with as cordial reception as he expect
ed and so attempts to take it all back.
CLEVELAND. Sept. 10
To the PdbIic-The report in the Albany
A rguS of the 18th is false. have never
deserted the loyal Southerners, and God
forbid that ever shOuld.
II. G. NORTON.
Finally we commend to the careful
consideration of the editor OF the negro
suffrage organ the following article from
the Cleveland Herald, which we find re-
published in the Pittsburg Commercial
of yesterday morning, both of which
papers are as loyal to the negro as is
the negro suffrage organ in this city
A POLITICAL CONFIDENCE MAN.
Mr.. II. G. Norton, who created such
enthusiasm in the Johnson Soldiers and
Sailors Convention recently held here,
by sending telegram from Albany stat
ing he had lett the Southern Loyalists
and would be in Cleveland the following
day to expose them, has turned out to be
the most accomplished confidence
man ont of Jail. He represent
ed to the Southern Loyalists
that his home was in one of the
counties in Northern Texas, where it was
unsafe for Union man to express his sen
timents above whisper, and that he was
authorized by secret Convention held
there to come North and join the COM
mittee appointed by the Southern 10y
! alists Convention to stump the Northern
States in the "circle of the President
Judge Sherwood. Of Texas, did liza not no
although they believed he was swim
dler, because he never appeared at the
| Philadelphia Convention, TO remain with
| them until his conduct confirmed beyond
a doubt their first suspicion. At Albany
| he was ordered out of carriage that was
| to convey the distinguished SOutherners
to the residence of prominent citizen,
and on the same evening he was de-
nounced in their apartments at the hotel,
as bogus representative, and was Or
dered to leave the party. He begged for
money to carry him away from the city,
which was very properly refused.
This so exasperated him that he sent
the telegram referred to to the Cleveland
Convention. He did arrive in Cleveland
the next day, according to promi:e, but
never opened his head about the matter,
except to authorize a cOtemporary to de-
ny the statement that he telegraphed.
He pronounced the dispatch bogus and
SO gulled the aforesaid paper with such
a plausible story that it was led into an
editorial favorable to the course of this
accomplished confidence bird. Mr.. Nor
ton was playing big game, but the long
ears would stick out. He is probably on
the scent for other game, and it would be
well for all parties to expose his conduct,
as he cannot possibly be of any benefit
but burden to all.
"Adieul a heart. warm foni adieu."
We hope it will not be considered
cruel in us to ask the negro suffrage
editor if he has anything to "bet' on
NORTON.