The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-09-27
FROM GRANT COUNTY.
Location Of the County-Crop Infeiit'
gence-Paying Taxes-Politics'
GRANT COUNTY, WEST Va,
September %, 1866. J
Editors of tie Registt

Owing to absence from home and
other circumstances, have been unable
to let the world know, through the col
umns of the REGISTER, what has tax On
place in the lonely mountains and fert lie
valleys of Grant county, which you viii
see, by reference. to the map OF West
Virginia, lies along the eastern base Of
the Allegheny mountains, and as q
natural consequence, has a great deal OF
undulating land within its boundaries
With the exception of Patterson creek,
Luney's creek, the two Mill creeks, the
North Fork and South Branch Valleys
the latter being cut into by division Of
Hardy county, the county is composed
entirely of mountains and slate hills, sep.
Grated by little summerfailing streams,
watering, as they do, small slate stone
valleys. This county is better adapt ed
to stock raising than grain raisir g.
owing to the changing of her climate,
which is so frequent, sudden aud irregu-
| lar that fruit seldom, if ever escapes the
spring frosts. With the exception OF
the South Branch Valley, the grain crops
are always more or less exposed to he
spring and fall frosts. This year the
| fruit crop is almost an entire failure.
| Our wheat crop along the South Bran CD
was good, but no place else. Our corn
| crop is generally good all over the
county. Much activity exists among our
farmers in regard to stock feeding.
Many hogs will be corn.fed, and also
some few cattle.
Our people, generally, have met aud
| paid their taxes 1t was humiliatipg IN
| the extreme to see some of eur best CT IT,
zens paying the tax gatherer from three
| hundred to FIVE hundred dollars for the
support of a government which denies
them the right of suffrage. More than
two thirds of the taxes in this county are
collected from just such persons as these.
The tax question Is mt tho Introduction
of its kinsmap- politics
The Radicals opened the canvass in
this Senatorial District by the nomira-
tions of two of the most notorious scoun-
drels in the district, viz: Dolley and
Carscaddon. The conduct of these cat
tie and horse drivers and bushwhackers
is as familiar 20 the people as house
hold words. Their moral and mental
qualities if any hey have, are so bestlal
and low, to say nothing at all of their
political conduc,. as to render them OBJ
iects of ineffabo scorn and detestatiOn
by every decent man, without regard to
politics at all | hold that Senator
should be decent and respectable man
even if he don't ill all the Requirement is
of the old Roman Law. If any one will
say that either IF these characters can
establish any protension to be a gentle.
man, rs We understand the term to i'm
ply, they can say more than any jury or
court would Like to believe. A party
that puts such landard bearers forward,
around which centre tho intelligence
and patriotism of the people, prove a
wickedness, a MORAL dePrs~ity ana I"
party extremI :, which should. alarm
every good citizen as to the danger OF bis
country. Dolby was regular guerrilla
throughout tue entire war, and his home
was III the brush. AS to Carscaddon, the
people along Paterson creek require no
more information. He acted the part
more of a bandit than any other char
acter. These are the two men that
the voters of his district are asked
TO send to the Senate OF West
Virginia. Can it be possible that
tbeV will do lt2 We think not
Ofour county nominations, | have some
thing to say t." A Pennsylvania law
yer. Nv the name of Osborne, is the
Radical candidate for the Lower House
of the Legislature when he first came to
Hardy county he palmed himself off as
swamp hating" and Conservative
loving fellow. But the social climate OF
Moorriield did not agree with him, the
atmo phere Of Greenland, Grant county,
prom ted his y .litical health better, and
to il ne soon I,paired. His nomination
was ne result We will see if he goes
TO Wheeling tbs wiuter, or not. George
Harmtn. Esq, IS his opponent, he had
bette: look or for breakers ahead,-l
mean poor Oob rae had.
When the people of Hardy and Grant
have 10 90 t. / ansylyania for member
Of the Legislature of West Virginia, they
had better bt annexed to the State Of
YIN y ~ >ihA--'
The Boremal machinery Is at work
again. IN tn county, III the way
Of new instru, .ons to the registrars
Bohemian an Parson Brownlow ale
Jolly tellows, ell met; for instabce,
at IL negro Invention at Phlladel
pLia, here va most too much Of sambo
there ior Bore. an, but not enough for
Brownlow.
OF Smith, f. Governor, and Andre y S,
for Congress, sc will say this much,
they will get very Conservative vote,
and could all he people vote, Smith
would be the nrxt Governor, aud Major
Andrews cur ext member of lDgress.
Twill give IL, lie details as the canvass
advances. Me. sis. Michael and Pendle
ton are our >tandard bearers III the
Senatorial cont st, and Of their election
we entertain J., doubt; for we cannot
believe, for on, moment, that the people
of the District will disgrace themselves
By electipg s. ch men as Dolly and
Cuscaddon. Ii would be terrible indeed.
A LOCKER ON,
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