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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-10

PRICES OF BEEF CATTLE AT THE MARKET
Very best ON sale tO-tlay.................S a &c,
MedtuIn or good fair quality........".6149 &c.
Inferior and lowest grades of Cattle,5 G51Sc.
General average of the market to-day re.
Extreme range OF priceS..................5 a &c.
Most OF the sales are from. q SC.
REMARKS ON HEEF CATTLE.
The receipts OF cattle during the week
amounted to 800 head, which compare with
800 received last week, and the sales for the
with 800 head last week.
The following comprise the sales of the
week TO Baltimore butchers:
To baltimore .672
To Farmers for grazing.
To washington and Annapolis butchers. 40
To GA. Murphy, Government contractor ~
$50
The market at tile beginning of the week
showed considerable animation, and drOveS
were sold to SpcCulatOrS as they arrived Mt an
advance of II ct per 10 over last weeks prices,
but subsequent arrivals proved too heavy TO
slightly.
To-day the market opened heavy and con-
tinued duh throughout, owing to the efforts
of SI|eCulntOTS to hold the market, which they
dlu 70 some extent, and the average advance
over last weeks quotations may be set down
Cattle for grazing are in demand, and far
InerI are buying nj 59G% ct 4 ID.
Tho market closed dull with but few held
over.
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,,;,,I0 t E, q u sOil % B0ol est IT
RI ctS. 10 Soi W. X,iii lang, nt '5sgS
I,aIG,.S' 80 ~ NIIsLut slSSIS uhu
nsIr Vs, ITT a; , Ml l At cts;
cts ~ c6InI1oIS Niort,Io1 , L., nE SzsG5o
l"SSI ts1,Ia Ia ~ 2 nj - INFERIOR E NARY
VOoti Ohio sieeTS TO- Stno IT, o9O o. $50 ~
Wis.
samuel Wlihelm d Co. sold - good Ohio
CaItie Ior y i, MGConnelI; at 6S1gSG,
Edward I. Holton sold a fair Virginia Val
icy , Cat!tS ioE 1O4h "; cooley NJ 6A9sAc;
o4e9o4C:
r.. -; Ilnker SOLO y common 70 fair West
' EI,, CatLe l0 DIV, ": Steaiey NJ 313So5Sc;:
vIT;inIS SiaeTs for ISe,r o,. .cS % .[ ,
SIC; % mixed Ohio cattle for Hiram j. ReH-
lex nj 7m9c
N. Lehman sold 52 good Ohio cattle for his
OWN occouht AT ht1SC9Sc: mostly Mt the lat
Yer hg1re; % mixed :. w. Virginia cattle for
goou WeS No ' lrginla cattle for Stealey & Ank-
IetvJa Nysc,u cold 90 ,,,o,,,,,, ,,,o,,.,. w..
Virginia cattle fol Bond & IazetT nj 26ESSIc.
II common West Virginia cattle for A. ATk.
rom at Csc: So me[lItinl West VIRGINIA cattle
for his own account at 51<6EIIc.
Tur surrp - 30,
Tho rocoIrtu o,,o no rolIo,,o,
At the C0lYertof, wards, ri
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RENAREs
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-10
REMARKS.

The market for hogs during the week has
been dull, and prices have declined, though
the receipts for the week have been light.
They are now selling at l49141Sc per
pound.
QUOTATIONS..
Mclelland & Logan reports salcs at lag
Ulery & shIery report sales at l4al41<c.
Gray 4 Judlk report sales at l4@II15c.
y. Wilhelm & Co. report sales at l4GIllsSc.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-10

We also have on hands large stock Of
Ready-made Clothing, and we are selling
these goods ~ low As any other house in the
city, without any exceptions
Special attention given To the nllIng OF
orders
mEbD-ly a. -. ADAMS 4 co.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-10

IsFsNEENTFTNE' VEN I5IsF.E CENIII4E
The receipts OF cattle during the week
amounted to 800 head, which compare with
800 received last week, and the sales for the
week amount to $50 head, which compare
with 800 head last week.
The following comprise the sales of the
week TO Baltimore butchers:
To baltimore butchers .. (y72
To Farmers for grazing ...,,......,..,lO2
To Washington and Annapolis butchers 40
To CA. Murphy, Government contractor u
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17
The Rebel Geld.

It will be remembered that af-
ter the surrender of Gen. Lee the
military in Georgia captured $780,
900 in gold, which was claimed by
the Farmers, the Exchange, and
the Bank of Virginia, in Richmond.
Recent investigation of the fact,
however, shows that few weeks
before the evacuation of Richmond
the Legislature Of Virginia passed
a law authorizing said banks to
loan the Confederate Government
upon the faith of the State, $780,
900 in gold, to purchase supplies
for Lees army. This sum was
placed by the respective banks to
the credit of the Rebel Govern
ment, and before the surrender of
Lee $4,000 was paid, leaving
$4,000 belonging to the
Rebel Government with these
banks at the time of the evacua-
ton. The Government, therefore,
claims not only the 100000 cap
tured in Georgia, but also the
$4,000 additional in the custody
of the banks. This is the present
condition of the question. The
notes of these banks have been
bought up with the expectation
that the Government would relin-
quish its title to the S240,000.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17
legislative.

In the House, on the 9Th, the
Committee on Elections reported
in favor of the admission of Mr..
George D. Foster, the member
elect from Hamilton county. The
report was concurred In by the
House, and Mr.. Foster was duly
qualified and took his seat. Mr..
Duggan's bill disqualitying all reb-
els from holding Office in the State,
was passed, as amended, on its
third reading. The amendment
provides that nothing m tire act
shall be so construed as to prohib-
it any person who may be a quail
fled voter under the Franchise
Law from holding Office, if such
person has never made any speech
es in favor of the rebellion. Mr..
Mulloy's bill imposing a fine and
imprisonment on persons presum-
ing to assess or collect taxes under
an act passed in May, 1861, to
"raise and equip provisional
force" passed its third reading.
The bill amending the Constitu-
ton, by exempting free men of
color from military duty in time
of peace, and imposing poll tax
upon such persons, passed on its
third reading. The remainder of
the day was consumed in the pas
SAGE of unimpOrtant bills.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17
The "Last Ditch"

The terribly belligerent phrase
"dying in the last ditch" origina-
ted with Brute Brownlow, the
crazy Governor Of Tennessee. 1t
will be found at p. 3l4 of Brown
lows onslaught on the Baptists, en-
titled, "The Great Iron Wheel
Examined" published inNashville,
in 1856. The passage in which
it occurs, reads as follows:
''In our Southern States, where
negroes have been set at liberty, in
nine cases out Of ten their cendi-
tons have been made worse; while
the most wretched, lazy and dis
honest class of persons to be found
In the Southern States are free
persons Of color. /, therefore, go
against the emancipation of sla-
very altogether, unless they can
be sent to Liberia at once. l take
my stand with the friends of the
institution of slavery in the South.
Connected with this question, /
will go as far as the next man
even dying an the last ditch"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17

A negro woman employed on
the plantation Of o Mr. Welsh, in
Pontotoc county, Miss, recently
turned up missing, and upon search.
ing her residence the corpses of
her aged mother and four of her
children were found. They had
starved to death. The fifth child
was at the point of death, but
with proper care recovered. The
mother was arrested and turned
over to the Freedmen's Bureau.
She said she was tired of support
ing the brats, and had taken this
means of getting rid Of them.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17
FAYETTEVILLE, TENN:
Thursday Morning, May II, 1866.
The Freedmen's Bureau.

The Freedmen's Bureau.
A commission consisting of
Gems. Steadman and Fullerton,
have BEEN appointed to look into
the affairs of freedmen in the
South Here is one they got in
Richmond, as detailed by a Rich
mond correspondent of the Nation
al htelligencer::
Among the first persons consul
ted on the subject was venerable
darkey, in a Joseph's coat of many
eolors, and no breeches or hat to
speak of, who, pausing in his la
Dor of clearing among the debris
of the great fire to have a look at
the Yankee strangers, was accost-
ed with the inquiry, "Well, uncle,
how are you getting along?''-
'Berry well, massa, berry welll'
"Plenty of work, eh?" "Well,
ga, there's work sure enough for
them as likes to do it." "Well, do
you think you freedmen can get
along without any assistance ~
"No, sa, [ don't" "Then you
think it necessary the Freedmen's
Bureau should continue?" "Not
by a damned sight!'' returned the
venerable darkey, and without
further loss of time resumed bis
shovelling.
Aside from the profanity, the
opinion is very correct one.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17

SENSIBLE MEN.-The sensible,
wide awake merchant who wishes
10 succeed in business always pa
tronizes his county paper. The
Lawyer, Physician and Mechanic,
will also be found giving their sup
port and countenance to their
home paper. And again, if a
sensible man wants q county office
he of course takes his county paper
and endeavors to.induce others to
do the same, or, if he wishes re-
nomination and reelection, he not
only takes his county paper but
bestows upon it whatever patron
age is within his gift, and we
might properly add that a sensible
editor supports only that class of
men.-SSgoa'7aey Me,cs.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17
The Tennessee Radicals.

ON. Tennessee legislative radi-
Gals have been making themselves
intensely obsequious to their
Northern masters. But they have
not secured their respect thereby,
rather their contempt. For IN
stance, the Philadelphia North
American has all article on the
subject of franchise in Maryland,
West Virginia, Missouri, Arkan-
sas, and Tennessee, States in
which rebels are DISTINGUISHED.
1t is dissatisfied with the condi-
ton of affairs that exists, and insists
that suffrage must be universal,
adding:
Gas for the disloyal population
who are now DISTINGUISHED, we
would as lief trust them with the
franchise as the negotiating white
loyalists who have been SO mean
about even conceding civil rights
to the poor blacks"
So you see, Messrs. Radicals, al
though you have made yourselves
lick-splttles, you are not regarded
as any better than the rebels
whom you have disfranchised.
Your Northern comrades under
stand you. You have failed in
your efforts to deceive them.
They know that you have disfran-
ichised the great majority of the
people of Tennessee, not for the
public good, but to promote your
own interest, and that whatever
you may do for the negro is forced
from you. If you would be men,
hold up your heads, be honest,
and bid adieu toradicalism. If you
do not, in few years your names
will be a Kissing and scorn through
out all Tennessee.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17

Judge Busted, of the United
States District Court at Mobile,
has rendered an important decis-
ion. Ayoung man, a minor, while
a passenger on board one of the
Mobile and New Orleans steamers,
engaged in cards and lost, as
charged, to professional gambler,
q considerable sum of money, re-
ally the property Of his mother.
1t is also stated that the suit has
been instituted for the recovery
of the money, not against the
gambler, but the captain of the
boat. The case has been heard
and decided in favor Of the plain
tiff.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17

Chief Justice Bigelow, of Mas
sachusetts, made short work with
a divorce case which came before
him a day or two ago. 1t was an
application of a wife for divorce
from her husband, on the ground
of extreme cruelty. Itcoming up in
testimony that the woman had been
beaten and otherwise ill-used by
her husband, the judge at once de-
cided the case in her favor, taking
occasions to, remark that in case of
any violence by a husband to the
wife, he should not hear all the
points before deciding in favor of
the latter. The woman might
forgive cruelty toward herself, but
the court would not.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17

1t is asserted that during re-
cent storm in Wisconsin the light
ming was seen to strike into the
lake iu the vicinity of Madison,
and masses of ice, two feet in
thickness, were hurled hundreds
of feet into the air, and the latent
heat, set free by the change of
vapor to liquid, was SO great as to
raise the temperature from below
the freezing point to that in sum-
mer (seventy-two degrees), and
preserved itthere for nearly twen-
ty-four hours.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17

c. L. Perry, an old resident of
Mobile, has just returned from a
nine years CT uise, and finds his
wife married to another man and
keeping house with the children
of Perry. The wife repudiated
the long lost husband, and instead
of throwing open her arms and
fainting, as is the custom of the
country in such cases, she deliber-
ately chucked her truant husband
out of doors. Perry kicked the
door open and forcibly took pos
session of the house, for which he
has been arrested and brought be-
fore the Mayor. He states that
he has only been absent five years,
having responded to the call of
his country in 1861, and tells a
very plausible story. The case
was postponed for further investi-
CATION.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17

1t has been estimated by a
shrewd statistician that our streets
are the receptacle of $4,000 in
missing money, jewelry, and so on
lost by different parties every
night. Somebody, or several some
bodies, must find these $4,000,
and grow rich in consequence.
The police naturally think they
are as well entitled to the chance
as anybody. else. We used to
know a man who made it q point
for years to rise before daylight
every morning in order to prom
enade Broadway by the first CLEANS
of morn, pick up lost articles, and
watch in the newspapers to see if
they were advertised. He assured
us that he made, on an average,
$4,000 a year by the operation,
and lived in ease and idleness all
the rest of the day. In Paris and
in London men pursue the
same business regularly, but the
police interfere seriously with
their profits, as no doubt they
would much interfere now with
the profits of those who might
pursue that business here.-Me,c
KorA; paper.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17
A singular and fatal accident

A singular and fatal accident
occurred during a recent heavy
thunder STORM in which a little
daughter of a Bohemian family
living in Shakope village, Minneso-
ia, was instantly killed by light
ming while sleeping in bed with
two other children. The light.
ming entered through a whole
pane of glass, not making hole
larger than a rife bullet. The
little girl that was killed lay on
the side of the bed next to the
window, and the child lying upon
the opposite side of the bed was
badly burned, while the youngest,
sleeping in the middle, did not re-
ceive the slightest injury.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17

When Gen. Butler was recalled
from the Department of the Gulf,
and superseded by Gen. Banks in
the command of New Orleans, the
Mayors office was rendered to him
to take his congo of such persons
as felt DESTROYS of paying their re-
spects previous to his departure.
Among them were several Hiber-
MAN ladies, with their babies, who
came to shake hands with the gen.
eral. One Irish woman handed
her baby for kiss and taking the
general by the hand, addressed
him as follows: "Good-bye, gen.
eral; I'll say this for ye-that We
never stole anything from me-
Goodbye, general"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17

The editor of the Nashville
(Tenn Dispatch asserts that he
knew personally a man, Miles
Darden by name, whose height
was seven feet six inches-two
inches higher than Porter, the
Kentucky giant. His weight was
a trife over a thousand pounds.
He measured around the waist six
feet four inches, and it took one
hundred feet of plank to make his
coffin. He was fifty years old
when he died, full of humor, and
possessed of fine sense, though
very sensitive on the subject of
corpulency.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17
A Very Curious incidents

The Baton Rouge Advertiser re-
lates the following strange incident
of the fight at Port Hudson:
s:That our fire was not without
effect was evident from the man
ner in which their batteries kept
shifting position. On one occasion
this change ofquarters was brought
about by themselves in rather
an unusual manner. Capt. Ccffin
having received instructions to be
very economical in the use Of his
ammunition, had loaded and aimed
his "a pound gun, and, leaving it
to wait for the enemy to show
themselves, he sat down behind
the parapet' and became engaged
in conversation with some other
officers. Suddenly he heard the
report of his guns discharge, and
looking up with some anger, called
out to know who had discharged
that gun, supposing that his gun
ner had touched her off without
waiting for orders.
"He saw, from the recoil of the
gun, and from the smoke lowering
over the vent, that the gun had
been fired, and yet the slow match
was quietly burning in its position,
and not q man was standing in
the battery. Just then an Off
Ger of light artillery, who had OBJ
served the whole affair, called out
to Captain Coffin that the enemy
had fired his gun. On examina-
ton it proved to be SO. A Parrot
shell OR shot had come right over
the gun and grazed it on the up
per part of the scratch. The
friction which this produced had
been sufficient toignite the printing
powder at the vent, and had dis
charged the piece. Itnow appears
the projectile could not have been
thrown truer than it was, making
its way directly into the battery
from which the shot had come,
and the Federal gunners, probably
supposing we had got exact range,
and intended opening upon them,
limbered up, and speedily changed
their locality"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17
A man went to an insurance

A man went to an insurance
Office in Paris and insured a guam
tity of cigars against fire. Some
time afterward he made a claim
on the company for compensation,
the cigars having been burned.
He admitted that he had smoked
them, but claimed that, as they
had been destroyed by fire, he was
entitled to claim for them. The
parties went to law, and a verdict
was given for the plaintiff; where
upon the defendants Immediately
threatened to indict the man for
arson, he having set fire to property
which he had insured. The scamp
was only too glad to let the matter
drop.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17

A border ruffian has turned up
as an editor in Kansas on the
Brownlow patent. In his denup-
citation of Senator Lane, of that
State, for his vote against the civil
rights bill, he says: sPoor, God
forsaken wretch, may bells hot
test hole receive him seon.'" If
this fellow was in Tennessee he
would get to the Legislature.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17
The Policy Of Humanity.

General Frank P. Blair, of Mis-
souri,, one Of the few Republican
politicians who distinguished him
self by personal gallantry in the
war, has lately written a letter to
a meeting in st. Louis, in which
hegives utterance to the following
magnanimous and generous senti-
ments. He says in speaking of
the Radicals:
Such persons are most persist
ent in urging measures of unneces-
sary harshness and indignity, in
order to irritate and goad our van
pushed opponents into acts Of re-
sistance which will justify the in
Fiction of still greater cruelty
If those brave and unfortunate
people could only be driven by
their insults and oontumely to
such acts, it would fill the soul Of
their malignant prosecutors with
unspeakable JOY and satisfaction,
because it would afford the pretext
they seek, to deny to the South
ern people the rights of freemen
and free States. These Jacobins
feel and know that it is necessary
to disfranchise the white race in
the South as afording them their
only chance of retaining power
and position.
What civilized nation on earth
would hesitate an instant, if the
opportunity offered, to incorporate
with themselves the brave and he
role people of the South, whose
fortitude and endurance, in a mis-
taken cause, challenge the admira-
ton and respect of the world p
Would France or England, or any
other civilized power, hesitate to
give such men the full and equal
rights accorded to all other citi-
zens2 Would not these nations
be most happy to claim, as their
own, such men as Lee and John
ston, and a host Of others, and to
confer upon these living heroes
the rewards which genius and
courage always commanded p
Would they fail to honor and cher
ish, as a part of their glory, the
memory of that illustrious throne
of the dead, led by Stonewall
Jackson? Their fame belongs to
our name and nation, and their
survivors, animated by an equal
courage and devotion, and inspired
by what we hope and believe is a
better cause, will hereafter con-
tribute equally with the noble
spirits of the North, to the renown
of our great Republic.
Fellow-citizens, those who wish
we'll to the country, and would Sc
cure its greatest happiness, can
have no higher aspiration than
that the peace you celebrate may
beperpetual. With respect, yours,
FRANK p. BLAIR.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17

The symptoms of the approach
ing Of Cholera are manifesting
themselves in the cities on the
coast, and adequate precautions
are being adopted to guard against
its spreading. The cities are being
made as clean as possible, free
from filth, houses cleansed, venti-
lated, and all cause OF disease re-
moved. Cleanliness, temperance
and freedom from excitement are
preventives.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17
A homeopathic physician of con

A homeopathic physician of con.
siderable celebrity says ;--"The
surest preventive of cholera is
sulphur. Put half teaspoonful
of flour of sulphur into each Of
your stockings and 60 about your
business: never go out with an
empty stomach; eat no fresh bread
nor sour food. This is not only q
preventive in cholera, but also in
many other epidemic diseases.
Not one of the many thousands
who may have followed this, my
advice, has been attacked by chol-
era"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17

A party in New York purchas-
ed over year ago three hundred
and fifty bales of cotton, for which
he paid some 81 80 per pound.
That cotton was kept until lately
when it was sold at thirty-seven
centsper pound, inflicting upon the
owner the terrible loss of two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17

At a ball given in the city of
New Orleans a short time since
by the milliners and modistes, the
dress of one of the dancers caught
fire. The Star of the city says
"Some idea of her style of dancing
may be gathered, when it is known
that the dress caught from one of
the chandeliers overhead"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17

It is announced that at the late
election in GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin,
(Which State has recently enacted
universal suffrage aradical repub-
lican was run for the Office OF
constable against a black man, and
the black man was elected by a
large majority. The successful
candidate intends to qualify and
perform the duties of his office.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-17

A boy brought an egg to school
lately in Linn County, Iowa. The
teacher broke it over the child's
head, and told him to go home and
have his mother wash his hair.
Boy did so. Mother came with a
club, hit the teacher over the head
and then closed one eye with her
fist.