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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-29
Universal Suffrage i'm Europe.

The divine right of kings, and the
prerogative of the aristocracy, are soon
to be ideas of the past in Europe. The
day of deliverance for the Masses is at
hand. The lesson of revolution is learn
ing the whole mass. In the old as in
the new world, the people are to be the
ruling power. Napoleon and Victor
Emanuel have recognized the ballot,
and of the new order which the battle
of KGniggratz established in Northern
Germany, popular suffrage is to form q
part. Bismarck and King William
sanction it. A plebiscite is now more
authoritative than royal degree. The
draft of the electoral law recently sub
mitted TO the Prussian Chambers, and
adopted by them, provides:
First-That every Prussian of the age
of twenty-five years, not under tutelage,
not under Judgment of bankruptcy, not
a pauper assisted by the public authori-
ties, and not deprived of civil rights by
judgment of a competent tribunal, Is an
clectOr.
Second-Every Prussian elector hav-
ing been n resident in the county for
three years next preceding any election
is eligible as deputy.
Third-The right of election shall be
exercised by placing an unsigned ballot
in an urn publicly and under the inspec-
ton of persons specially appointed, and
who shall not be clothed with any other
official authority at the time.
Fourth-Every election shall be di-
rect, according to the absolute majority
of the ballots.
So you see universal suffrage has no
terrors for Bismarck or his royal master.
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4 Good idea.

Ahout forty members of Congress,
representative WHALEY among the rest,
are improving the holiday recess by
making sort of tour of observation
through the Southern States. They are
everywhere treated with distinguished
consideration and will probably come
back " ith more liberal ideas concerning
the '.bacbariIns" of the South than they
have heretofore entertained. Their OPP
portunities of investigation into the con-
di,ion OF the people Of the States
through which they pass will necessari-
II he very small, owing to the short
time they will he able to spend upon
their travels. but still they cannot avoid
learning much of which, judging from
their past legislation, they have here
tqATe 9gen GGExatirs,Shrsts MI hearty all
of whom are claSsed among the radi-
Gals, will return to Washington city
with more generous feelings toward the
South than they have heretofore enter
tanned.
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The Dead of the Wnr,

During the past year the government
has paid great attention to soldiers
graves and cemeteries. Everything that
patriotic respect for the dead could
suggest has been done. Every grave
has been carefully tended, and its occu-
pants name and rank put at the head
as we'll as on therecords Of the cemetery.
At first this was done on wooden head
boards, but desirous to perpetuate the
record of its brave soldiery, the govern
ment has now determined to make the
head-boards more lasting, and has
constructed them Of iron. The whole
number of bodies of Union soldiers re-
ported as buried is three hundred and
forty-one thousand six hundred and sew
enty, at an expense Of one million one
hundred and forty-four thousand seven
hundred and ninety -one dollars and six
ty-one cents. These are buried in cem-
eteries in the following military depart
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PENsIoSs.-It is singular fact that
although but one Revolutionary PEN
sioner-Samuel Owning, Of Edinburgh,
Saratoga county, New York, now sur
wives, there are not less than 93l widows
of Revolutionary soldiers still on the
pension rolls. The greater longevity Of
women will not account for this enOr-
nous discrepancy, and the fact that PEN
sioners and annuitants live long, seems
equally in favor Of both sexes. Ofcourse,
the widows of those killed in battle
swelled the proportion of female pen
sioners very largely, but this could not
have multiplied it nine hundred times,
hardly ten times. Probably in eonsid-
Grafton that "none but the brave de-
serve the fair mot to speak of the pen
sions, the surviving heroes were gener-
ally and even repeatedly blessed with
youthful and blooming brides. There
are now, in round numbers, 5000 in
valids. and 10000 widows and relatives
on the rolls, at an annual cost Of eleven
and half millions of dollars.
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Democratic Nominations for
Council.
FIRST WAgD.

FIRST wAED.
Vrs, Br,Hch-Willam I. Wilson.
!N,,...d EruRch--JOhn Hughes, Thomas Wheel
or Francis \. Ebert and Thomas. I. COcaynt.
SECOND WARD.
FIST E,tucI-Peter L. Zinn.
S,,and BraHeh-T. L. Shallcross and Simon
k,Im.
THIRD WARD.
EIyg. Rrrrch-G. W. Fran2heim.
Ss,1sH BrqIch--S. Brady, j. &. AchesOn, e.
W GTpckUnicr John Nolan.
FOURTH WARD.
Fat gr7nch-I. NJ Ewing.
S,-yHG BrrHch-JOhn hamilton, James Il.
AcL,- William ". Miller, John Amick and
Grvrsc l. TIu.!e.
FIFTH wAED.
First B-Gucb-Audrcw Wilson.
S.rJri ErdHch-B. NJ. Eoff >. u. Dsrrah,
Ja,rcs G.. Whyte and John NOckler
SIXTH wAl:D.
Fat iBrqrch-Samuel j. Alexander.
Ss,oHG BrgEck-Lcwis luuCkc, j. II. Clark
Az i:-guard Stanley.
SEVENTH wAED.t
F.rt, Errnch-JaoOb Berger.
Ss:y-.d BrGHcL--,I. B. Sheppard.
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Missouri.

WHY don't the radicals exclude from
Congress The representatives, of Missouri
and reduce that State 10 a territorial
condition There is no State in the
Union worse governed than Missouri;
no other State where life and property
are so insecure: no other State where
political outbreaks so frequently occur;
no other State where the presence
of United States troops is ac-
tually needed to rcIrcsS disorder.
There are more disturbances OF the
peace in Missouri than in all the cx-
cluded Southern States together, and
vet no committees of investigation"
are appointed by the radical Congress to
report upon the condition of affairs III
that State, and there is no talk of re-
duciug the government of Missouri to
territorial form. Senator's and Repre-
sentatives from Missouri occupy seats
in the National Congress and their ex-
clusion is not even threatened.
The State government of Missouri is
not republican in FORM" either accord
Ing to the meaning of the Constitution
or the radical Interpretation of the
phrase. BY proScriptive enactments,
the majority of the citizens of the State
is disfranchiScd and only the minority
is permitted to have any voice in public
affairs. 4 mere faction, comprising less
than one-fourth of the people, makes
laws for the State. Certainly, the
men who framed the Constitution of
the United States did not mean to
authorize such an oligarchy rs exists in
Missouri and Tennessee and West Nir-
ginia when they made it the duty of
Congress to guarantee to each State a
republican form of government" But
even according TO the radical idea of
what constitutes republic, neither
Missouri nor ninc-tenths of the
other States of the Union, has
government that is repub-
lican in form. Negroes are not
permitted to vote in Missouri any more
than they are in South Carolina; and
we all know that when the radicals in
Congress speak of compelling the South
ern States to adopt - republican form
of government" they mean simply to
force them to enfranchise the negroes.
So that, even according to radical in
depreciation, the State government OF
Missouri is no more republic than is
the government of any of the excluded
States.
Then, if there were anything Ike
consistency in the demands of the radi-
cal party in Congress, if they would APP
ply to all the States the rule
they are enforcing against the
South; the Senators and Represen-
tatives of Missouri should be eX-
cluded from Congress and the State re-
yerted into territorial condition. All
the reasons urged for territorializing the
Southern States apply with equal, ifnot
greater force to Missouri. 1t is one OF the
peculiar features of modern radicalism,
however, that it gives only partial
effect to laws which, if they are worth
anything at all OF founded upon any
good reasons at all, should have a gen.
l.
eral operation. While pretending TO
legislate for the nation at large, it legis-
lates only for party advantage and only
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executes the laws where some party
benefit is to be gained by their enforce
ment.

Our neighbor of the Intelligencer "re-
news the ancient query, quid est re''itass"
We congratulate his readers upon the
entirely new direction which his re-
searches are taking. If there is any
subject upon which he needs informa-
ton, all will admit it to be that in rela-
ton to which his inquiry ispropounded.
In view of the candor with which he
has asked "what is truth !" we will
consent to tell him, if he will agree to
tell it. We know the condition is. a hard
one for kim, but it is his own fault that
he did not and cannot learn younger.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-29

The Texas Senators have conclIdedto to
return home, as longer sojourn at the
capital promises no benefit to their con-
stituents. They complain that while
the mass Of their people are qnietly pH-
suing their business, and endeayoring in
good taith to live up to all their legal
and constitutional duties, every act OF
evil disposed persons is reported and
exaggerated, and the whole community
taxed with blame.
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RIVER NEWS.

THE river is falling rapidly. We have
only about eight feet of water now.
Business, on the wharf, is over for the
present.
The Leonora passed down yesterday
no other boats took leave.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-29

Hrimstreet's inimtable uair Colorins has been
steadily growing in favor for over twenty years.
Ii acts upon the absorbents at the roots Of the
hair, and changes IL Ca its original color by de:
grrcs. AL instantaneous dyes deaden AMI in.
iurc the hair. Heimstrccts Is not a dye, but
certain in its results, promotes its growth, and
is beautiful Hair Dressing. Price ~ cents and
81 W. sold by all dealers
Saratoga spring Water, sold by all
Dealers. r....
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ALI BURNETT will give an entertain
ment at Washington Hall tonight for
the benefit of the Odd Fellows Associa-
tion of Wheeling. An entire change of
programme from last night.
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WHAT DID Iri-A ysung lady, returning 70
her country home after 4 sojourn Of . few
was hardly recognised by her frtcnds.
IuoS- cs.h6 &c AwI.sn annS.ttaA. Sis-sMss, nncsA
and instead of -, she really appeared but IT,
She told them plainly she used Aasan's Magno-
liza Balm. and Moala Qak Aa.s< itteafzHcs yery
much by using this article. 10 can IN ordered
of aly druggist for only 30 cents.
Saratoga Spring Water, sid by all
Druggists.
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AGRA pE MiGNorIA-The pretticst thing, the
sweetest thing and the most Of II for tho
least money. lt overromcs the odor Of pcrspir'
alton softens and adds delicary Ia the skin II
a delightful perfume; allays headache and In.
hammation. aud is a necessary companion In the
sick room. in the nursery. and upon the toilet
sdcboard. II can bc obtained everywhere NJ
one dollar per bottle.
snrntogo spring Water, sold by all
Druggists.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-29

All who value beautiful head Of hair. and its
preservation from premature badness and turn
ing gray, will not TAIL To see Lyons celebrated
Kathairon. II makes the hsir rich soft aud
glossy. crldicates dandruf and causes the hair
to grow with luxurious bean =. sold every
where. L. THOMAS LYON.
Chemist. Sew York.
Saratoga Spring Water, sold by all
Druggists.
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"In lifting the kettle from the FIRE / scaldsd
my self very ssycrrly-One hand almost 10 o
crisp. The torture was upbearable.
Tn" Mexican Mustang Liniment relieved the
pain almost Immediately. 10 besl.d rapidly.
and left very little scar.
CHAS POSTER,
10 Broad Ht., Philadelphia"
This II merely sample Of what the Mustang
LiDimcBt will do. II IL invaluable In AL cases
Of wounds, swcllings, sprains. cuts, bruises,
spaviBs, etc. either upon man or beast.
Beware Of counterfeitS. None 10 genuine m.
less wrapped In fine steel-platr cngrayings. bear.
ing the signature Of q. w. Westbfook. Chemist,
aud the pirate stamp Of DENAs BAKSKs & Co..
New York.
Saratoga Spring water, sold by al
Druggists.
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st'heeline geaister,

The Register has a Larger
c;r,uiafiOu. by so per cent,
,,uu a,iy Oi;,cr E'aperpubiisi,-
.Ji;; West Virginia. Its value
- un Advertising Medium is
,n.ref0Tc Apparent.
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lNSUR NCE.
Fire & Marine Insurance Go.
OF WHEELING.
INCORPORATED IN 1881.

FAKES RISKS AT THE LOWEST RATES
Son Buildings Of all kinds, Steamboats,
Furniture and Merchandise, and against all
dangers attending the transportation OF goods
on rivers seas lakes canals and railroads.
II. CRANGLE, President
JOHN c. HERVEY, Secretary.
DIRECTORS:
Robert Crangle. John Reid
Robert Morrison j Dalzcll.
= Brady Wm.G Battelle,
John DOnlOn, j. ID. Du BOis.
ry~ The company has removed tO the office
Up STAIRS-in the Insurance Building,
next door To the Merchants National Bank
Applications for insurance will he promptly
attended TO by the President or Secretary.
noyI5dly
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-29

LYONS EXTRACT or Pure JAMcA GNGEs-
for Indigestion, Nausea Heartburn, Sick Head
ache, Cholera Morbus, &C.. where warming
genial stimulant is required. lts careful prep.
aratiOn and entire purity makes it q cheap and
reliable article for culinary purposes. Sold ev.
erywherc, at - cents per bottle.
Saratoga Spring Winter, sold by all
Druggists. febi-eow
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MEDICAL.

Are the primary cause Of one half the siefne
among the children. A great want has thai
fore been felt for
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-07-18
Reads Read ~

Read the following article from the Esc-
ming Post, a Republican paper, edited by
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, and until very
recently Radical and firm supporter of
the Rump Congress. Read what he says
in this article, entitled
IMPRUDENcE OF THE PRoHlBIrIONIsTs.
The majority in Congress are, under the
dictation of Messrs. Morrill, and Stevens, en-
gagged In passing tariff bill, which, by the
acknowledgement of its most determined
supporters, sacrifices the revenue of the
United States for the sake of protecting
few wealthy manufacturing capitalists,
The arguments used to justify this afro
cious act are SO weak that they move to
laughter those who hear the speeches of
Mr.. Morrill, and Mr.. Stevens Mr. MorriPs
strong point is that this country is greatly
deficient in laborers, and that therefore it is
highly necessary to provide employment for
American workingmen. Mr.. Stevens's
strongest point is that the proposed tariff
is not nearly high enough, and is, in fact.a
free-trade measure.
We cannot doubt that the President will
veto this oppressive bill. He is too en-
lightened a statesman. and TOO impartial
lover of the whole country, to give his con-
sent to scheme whose effects will be, as
we have frequently shown, to cripple our
foreign commerce to increase the present
high prices of the necessaries of life; to
retard the progress of the country to
grant monopolies to few manufacturing
capitalists, and to seduce the scanty labor
ing force of the country from profitable in
to improbable employments,
What is needed is vevenue tariff and
we hope some members of Congress will
take the trouble to frame bill to that end
and propose it. In the meantime we trust
the members from southern states who can
take the oath will be admitted to their
seats.
We warn the prohibitionists that they
ride too high horse for safety. They
are trying to force most hateful and wick.
ed scheme upon the country. That is bad
enough; but they are at the same time
keeping out the representatives of the
southern states. Are they doing this in
order to make sure of their own schemes !?
Is it to secure the passage of this prohibi-
tive and destructive bill that they refuse to
admit the southern members? 1t would
seem SO, from their highhanded course. -
The country will believe it, and they will
only ruin themselves by such q course,
which heaps injustice on injustice, and com
mits one wrong in order to facilitate the
committal Of another-just as highway
man mains his victims in order the more
easily to plunder their persons.
The American people will not tolerate
such legislation they will sweep away, at
the first opportunity, men so faithlesss to
the general warfare there are already
signs to show that the men who vote for
this tariff, especially Under the aggravating
circumstance of the exclusion from debate
and vote, of the southern members, will
be left in small minority in the next Con-
gross.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-07-18

gratitude :" those "enduring tokens Of affec.
ton 5" those "bonors and emoluments -
which were to be lavished in such profit
sion upon him at his return, it seems, were
as empty as the heads that uttered them.
This is the requittal the wounded soldier
gets at the hands of these fat, sleek home
guard office-holders,
This "meanness and usurpatlon = this
'outrage beyond the reach of charity -
this robbery of Mr.. Loomis of his Office"
which the President has been guilty of for
it was he, who did all these things-con-
sists in the removal from Office of man
who vilifes and traduces him without stint,
and who, during the war by the industrious
circulation of protest prevented his own
ship from raising bounties to gil its quota
of men; and the appointment By the Presi-
dents, in his stead, of an ardent supporter,
Mr.. Burr, whose mangled arm at the bat.
tie of Fair Oaks and whose unfinching val
or on many a bloody battlefield attest his
devotion to the Union of these states, but
not to the cause of negro equality, or black
republican dlsunionism. All, there's the
rub /! There's where the shoe pinches!
Another act ofinfamy and outrage
Oar friend, DIR. Palemon John, our Rev.
enue Assessor" the very embodiment oi
"justice" has been robbed of his or hel
(the creatures sex is left doubituD dues
Boo! hoo !! hoo!!!
"This was the unkindest cut Of ALL"
What a poisoned chalice is this to Bill
Iy's lips? What bitter dregs for such ten
der palate ? His own dear Godfather, upon
whose paternal breast he had rested his in
FAINT editorial numb-skull, upon whose word:
of political wisdom he has fed, and grown
eloquent in the use of terms in which tc
denounce "Copperhcads,' and above all, the
man under whose political coat-tail he shell
tered himself whe n there was reign Of
drafts. The man who writes such affection
ate love letters for the President (see letter
in another column) who p.> misses such faith
full support "if the Offices arc not taken from
VS." This man, this paragon of perfection
and political integrity, he too has gone the
way Of all time e-serving mendicants and
spoils hunters. Great God! Whose turn
will come next? Don't you begin to fee
sick, Billy? Old Thad. thinks there are
earthquakes about, Guess so too.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-07-18

A Few PLAIN TRurHs.-We copy the
following plain talk from the Quincy Ql-
linois) Herald:
The taxes paid by the people of the
United States to the Federal Government
exceed those paid by Great Britain by
about one hundred and seventy millions OF
dollars year; and yet the British debt is
the largest owed by any government in the
world except our own. A few years ago
our public speakers and newspaper editors
used to point TO the system of taxation pre-
vailing in England as the most burdensome
and grinding that afflicts any people in the
world and now we are more heavily tax
ed than the English people. Ours is now
the most burdensome and exhaustlng sys-
tenn of taxation endured by any people in
Christendom. England was about two
hundred years in accumulating debt as
large as our own; bnt it took our 'rulers,' u
as they call themselves, under republican
domination, only four years to contract a
debt about as large as that of England. All
this debt was contracted. as we were told,
to restore the seeding States to the Union;
and put the party who contracted the debt
for this pretended purpose, now refuse to
restore these States, when every obstacle to
reconstruction is removed. Does such q
party deserve the countenance and support
of the people,? Is it not time we made a
change in the men who control the affairs
of our government? A change cannot
make matters worse, and unless we have a
change for the better, we shall rapidly de.
generate into nation Of tax-ridden white
slaves with lordly non-tax paying bond-hold
ers over us. -.
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-07-18
.aThat letter"
BLoeMsRuRG. March. 2.

Hon. III M Culloch. See'y Of The Treasury:
SIR 81 inc lose you q copy of my issue this week
have likewise addressed n copy to the President
You will see that the charge that am opposing him
is false.
If I am sustained by yourself and the President ;
those who oppose US, zoe shall be able to make oul
vigorous Union organization a unit and TRIgM-
PHANrLY SUSTAIN THE ADMINISTRATION.
Respectfully, PALEN0N JOHN.
Assessor Thirteenth District Pennsylvania.
The Bloomsbury Columbian in commen.
ting on the above letter which appeared in
the last number of the Republican says il
was written, as the reader will observe BY
its date, to the Secretary Of the Treasury
long after the veto OF the Freedman's Bu-
reau Bill, and subsequent to the twenty.
second of February speech. The speech
as well as the veto settled with great Ger.
tainty the Presidents position, and his fix
ed determination to maintain it. Yet with
these facts staring the Assesser in the face
he gets up copy of his paper which by
implication he admits was cheat, and so
intended, and forwarded the same to the
Secretary and the President with the let
ter above. 1t would no doubt crafty pub,
lie curiosity to know how much ofthe Pres
ident's time was consumed in the reading
of the Republican.
We confess this letter took us BY sur
prise, and we are sorry that in this we were
alone. We were stranger in this COM
munity. and the character of the writer un-
known to use. We did not then for mo.
ment suspect that the love of filthy lucre
had eaten out and consumed whatever Of
manliness and decency nature had origi-
nally bestowed upon him. The letter
speaks for itself, and the character of the
writer is summed up and epitomized in his
prayer TO the Secretary that the patronage
may not be taken from him. He says he
he sent to Washington for copy OF this
letter. But why? Upon information re-
ceived by him that it had been generally
read by Senators, and that every Senator
looked upon the writer with the loathing
and disgust which such letter must in,
spire in the breast ofevery honorable man,
he sent for copy; and we strongly sus-
pect that his moral sense has become so
perverted and depraved by greed for gain
that even now he cannot appreciate the
baseness of his present position. Indeed.
this may be clearly inferred from the pub
lication OF this letter in his own paper
While his friends blush for very shame at
its perusal, he gives 1t to the public with a
bravado becoming to him alone. The un-
animous confirmation of Mr.. Clark by the
Senate, and the refusal of that body to re-
consider the same, was, no doubt in great
part due to the contempt of Senators Of
Radical proclisities for the present incum-
bent.