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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-09
A Wonderful Lund With Stone Trees
Six Hundred Feet Long. =

In the Eastern Slope newspaper we
find a report of the many curiosities
and the great riches Of the Black Rock
country, in the northwestern portion
of California. The reports of the sin,
gular features of that section are OF
many years standing, but are SO mar
velous that they have seldom gained
credence. Among the wonderful stories
that we have heard is one that there
| is petrified tree there seven hundred
feet in length! The present report con,
firms previous statements, and estab-
fishes the fact that Black Rsck is one
of the wonders of the Pacific coast, like
the. Yosemite, the Big Trees, the
Geysers, &c. Besides the suriosities
there appears to be an abundance of
silver at Black Rock, but the oreis said
to be of an unusual variety and very diff
ficult to work; but it has been worked
with very good results at the mills at
Washoe. The quantity of ore is SO great
that it is said it will justify the erection
of n thousand mills. A gentleman who
visited the section, has exhibited to the
editor of the Eastern Slope very many
natural curiosities peculiar to tho
country, strange petriications from the
ravines. curious water-worn pebbles
from the mountain tops; knives, arrow
heads, and daggers manufactured by
Indian skill from solid flint;
superior quality, apparently OF on
blacking, said to contain tha
bnndred dollars in silver. to the
nun 'i,h,o rim. with its curious trac- |
@ .om, INT admits no change OF form, !
and q thousand strange and new things.
The editor says: He also tells us of
many strange things that he saw but
could not bring with him, and many
stranger things he heard of but did not
see. Among the latter list of wonders
is n great basin that cOntainsa petritied
forest apparently hoated there, many !
vost trees of solid stone, rang |
ing from six to fifteen feet IN
diameter, and from three to six |
hundred feet in length. Doubtful as
this tale may appear, shall we dare to |
dispute its correctness when we know
this strange country has boiling spring
of fresh water, fifteen feet i'll diameter,
that can not be sounded, from which no
drop of water ever runs; that III the
same vicinity there is flowing stream
of cold and apparently good water, INC
drinking of which induces venereal dis
ease, and that any water found by dig
ging, is as salt as salt can make it; that
a half dollar deposited in the soil is
eaten up by the salt, and after thirty
days no vestige of it can be found'
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-09
A MEDICAL OpIsIox.--An unfortunate

/ A MEDICAL OPIsros.--An unfortunate
man, who had never drunk water
enough to warrant the disease, was re-
duced to such state by drOpsy, that a
consultation Of physicians was held up
on mis- case. They agreed that tapping
was necessary, and the poor patient was
invited TO submit TO the operation,
which he seemed inclined to do in spite
of the entreaues of Nilsson, bog ofsey-
en- years old. -F ~ -
ooh, father, father, do not let them
tap you,n said young hopeful; do any
thing. but do not let them tap your
"Why, my dear, it win do me good
and shall live loag enough in healti
to make you happy au
'NO, father, no, you win not; ther'
never was anything tapped in our hons
that lasted longer than week"
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-09

A FOREIGN paper publishes the fol-
lowing anecdote concerning the Empe-
ror Of Austria while out shooting:
His Majesty Is always attended BY a
Captain Of the Guards, whose duty it is
TO observe the effect Of each shot and
announceit. The Emperor, Tor <nstanee,
strikes partridge; ..partridge~ eries
the captain.t Next time IL Is buck;
t'buckl' shouts the captain. One dag
the Emperor fired, missed the game, and
wounded one of the .geatlemen of his
suite The latter On being struck ut.
tered an Exclamation. His HiBhness.
the Duke of Hackenberg~ announced
the captain without the slightest
change Of feature or tone.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-09
Woman md Marriage.

/ have speculated great deal on
matrimony. l have seen young and
beautiful women, the pride1of gay cir
cles, married, rs the world says well.
Some have moved into their costly
houses, aud their friends have all come
| and looked at their furniture and their
splendid home for happiness, and have
gone away and committed them to their
sunny hopes chccrfully and without
fear. 1t is natunl to be sangine
fer them, as the young are SOM
times carried away with SINH
lar feelings. ! love to get, un-
observed into corner, and watch the
bride in her white attire, and, with her
smiling face and her soft eyes meeting
me i'm the pride of life, weave waking
dream of future happiness, and persuade
MYSELF that it will he true. l think how
they will sit upou the luxurious sofa as
the twilight falls, and build gay hopes
and murmur in low tones the NOT now
forbidden tenderness; and how thrlIlihG-
" the allowed kiss and beautiful en-
iearments of welded life will make even
their parting joyous, and how gladly
come back from the crowded and empty
mirth of the gay to each others quiet
company. i picture to myself that
Young creature who bushes even now
at his hesitating caress, listening eager
" for his footsteps as the night steals
on. wishing he would come, aud when
he enters at last, and with an affection
as undying rs his pulse, folds her TO
his bosom. can feel the tide that
goes flowing through the heart, and
gaze with him on the graceful form as
She moves about for the kind offices OF
affection, soothing all his unquict cares
and making him forget even
himself in her young and un'
shadowed beauty. so forward FOL
years and, see her luxuriant hair put
soberly away from her brow; and heI
girlish graces resigned into dignity, and
Iioveliness chastened with the gentle
moekness of maternal affection. Hei
husband looks on with proud eye, and
shows the same fervent love and deli,
} cate attentions which first won herr and
|, her fair children are grown about them
, and they ,go on full Of honor. and un
troubled years, and are remembered
: when they die.-Irring, t.as
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-09

SHARP PRAcTrcE.-A Yankee having
a large family found it rather hard to
keep up the table and has adopted the
following plan: tt, -' -
At evening Just before supper he calls
his children around him, and addresses
them as follows: -G ..7
, Who'll take cent and do without
his supperr ...s..s. -r ~. - 90 -
81, /, Iw exclaimed the children, eager
to get the prize. -s.. i,.Ii..al. a.,
The old man pulls out boeket7book
full OF red cents, which he. keeps for the
occasion, and after giving them one
apiece, sends them to bed. .t
Z Next morning they all look liks stary-
y The old man then calls them around
him and with an air Of gravity asks 4
swho1i give a cent TO haye a nice
warm biscuit for bfeakfast's ti-
-Itis needless 20 say that the cents are
forthcoming. ~ - iI-r' ''.-a'a --'
That is what we would call sharp
nractice. .sss.sfs fr1r.-r- ?" -l-.SE7V r.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-09
: Au,horxhip Of the Rebellion.

& negro suffrage organ in this city is
we'd with an amount of presump-
ID which no limit seems to have
hxed. The journal that will in
6It fhe good sense of its readers, by
lions like those of the Iatelligeacer
- i've to the authorship of the rebell-
1rn<(u certainly not wanting in effront-
80 f<bwever much it may be deficient
in deceney or honesty. What fact has
61rr7e 7eteliigencer ever adduced to prove
aaoz the Southern rebellion was moth
- more nor less than a rebellion of
Democratic party' The wool-sack
rs full well that secession was not
1 <rty but sectional movement, and
lit found its apologists, advocates
champions in the ranks of all par
Southern Whiggery fought just
srd rs Southern Democracy, and no
party surpassed any other in zeal
the cause of the Confederacy.
& q was true of Southern sentiment du-
fhe war, was equally true of North
. entiment. 1t was undivided If,
IRtelligencer claims the Democratic
had co-operated with the rebel
That rebellion wonld have become
8 eess. So far from conquering the
4 in spite of Democratic resistance,
byernmentc could not have attempt
ercion without Democratic assist
Had the two Millions of Democratic
I'm the North actually and sincere
pathised,with secession, another
sadder result would have termi
the great struggle. Senator
&bs', mythical roll-call of. slaves
Bunker Hill would have
4 reality ere this, and the
= of the Intelligencer would hay,
and received from Southern gen
u the very mercy he now denies t,
6nquished rebels. These are fact
no candid man will deny and tn
suffrage editor only becomes ri
& Icus when he stills himself up t,
istorian's station and assigns witt
srayity of Gibbon the responsible
of rebellion which his own part
pred, and distributes the glories of
In which he participated only as til
pre- shares the battle.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-09
How the Tariff Works.

Say the cost Of making yard of cot
ton cloth is eight cents the tariff is six
cents per yard. An English vessel ar
riyes In Boston freighted with cotton
cloth. The owner steps on shore and
inquiries what the duty is. He is told
that it is six cents per yard. This, add
ed to the original cost Of his cloth, makes
it cost him fourteen cents, and the ex-
penses Of bringing it across the Atlantic
one cent more, SO that when pa,sfh, be s"fna ne Is
a a.S,ise .n;d ed to charge fifteen cents per yard
to get his money back, and to make any
profit he willrhave to charge seventeen
cents n yard for his cargo. A. Lowell
manufacturer steps up and; offers his
goods, just as good, for fifteen cents,
two cents. less than the importer can
sell at; and the result is, the importer
withdraws his bills from the Custom.
house and departs with ahis cargo. He
pays no duty to the Government, and
vet the man who buys the Lowell mans
cloth pays seven cents per yard more
fbar, IL would have cost him had there
not been duty on IL. And the Lowell
man pockets the amount. He gets the
tariff, and not the Government. This is
no fiction; it is exactly the case. Hence,
WE derive no revenue from this class OF
goods, the duty being prohibitory; and
vet, the consumer-the farmer and Ia
borer-pay seven cents tax on every
ward of cotton cloth they buy, and ita
goes to the manufacturer. Hence the
high price Of cotton goods, and yet not
cent of this additional price goes to
pay the public debt. This will hold
good on nearly everything the farmer
uses-on all his implimcnts OF wood,
iron, steel and brass. Their prices are
enhanced, and yet no revenue accrues
to the government from them, because
the high duties exclude foreign compe-
tition. Thus it viii be seen, that in
addition to the $500, ,O00, 600 paid to the
Government, fully as much niorcis paid
to the Eastern manufacturers. i""
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-09

A CAUTIOUS YoUTH.-A widow lady
in Scotland had an only son. On him
she had expended much to enable him
to acquire an education. He was absent
from home for a long while attending
school. Having completed his course of
studies, he returned TO his good old
mother. ''I 81
"Come, John,1 said she, on the night
ofhis arrival home, aud when they were
about making preparations to retire,
"you,Se been long time away from me,
nv son, and havestidied mtch. / know
We are q good lad, but Inever heard ye
pray. Try il. John; for ye surely must
now know how, with oil the learning
ye have got.p s ,na'-n ..H
Accordingly John complied--made o
long, humble, and as he supposed, salts
factory acknowledgment of his sins and
general unworthiness, and of his great
Indebtedness to his Maker. .l. D. ~
"tWell, mother says John, Chow did
il suit your .... a. ........ -,...s. ~.
"Pretty welI--pretty web, john re
piled the old lady; "bR rky didRG ye gi'
tie old dell a slap or tiror -.....
"Ah~ said John, "not I-not ]; for
you know, mother, there's none Of US
knows wkose hands zee may Somc'imes fan
into"
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-09

LroSs EXTRACT OF puRE JANIcA GIN0Es---
for ndigestidn, Nausea, Heartburn, Sick Head.
ache. Cholsra sNiorbus Sc, where a warming,
aration aud entire purity makes II cheap and
reliable article for culinary purposes. sold ov.
erywhere, at % cents per bottle ~
Saratoga spring Water, sold by all
Druggists. febleow
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-09
RIVER NEWS.

The RIVER was falling last night
with about seven feet water.
B The fine steamer Hudson, Capt. Rus.
sell, arrived, with fair trip, from Gin.
cinnati. She leaves for that port this
evening. The clever and obliging wm.
NJ. List .presides in the office. 3rd q
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-09

s. T.-tT1-N .-Tho amouht oi Plantation
Blttcfs snld in one year il something startling
They would till Broadway six feet high, lipm the
Park to 9Th street brakes mandatory l. one
of the institutions OF Now IWh.S IL Ss said that
with his caliaiistic ~. lT--ier,--X..' and then
got the old granny legislator topssa lay ''prn.
venting ,Ilsnguring the face df naivTr which
ga,I. him a monopoly. Nc ho mt knDr how
this j.. bat We do know the Plantation. Bittefs
sgit a. ns other nrtir rlcs ever aid They are used
by all cllS,es of the coInmitpity hBd, arg death
on adyspcpsia-crrtnin They Hrr very fnyigor
atinE " hen anguh and vAak, and q great apPe
tiSeT, .lg 9..ul5tai l's8t
Saratoga sprisg Wafer. lseldJiby all
Drugafst4.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-09
'at'heeliug gegister.
A Pertinent Question.

10y The Quincy street wool-sack Of yes.
~ ftrday is very anxious to know WHY
pny candid Irishman" should vote
if3SUith the Democratic party!" "What
food" it asks, "has it ever done him ~
~ good the Democratic party has done,
only for the Irishman, but for all
eeigners, may not be very plain
eyes that are blinded by passion
prejudice, but so long as. the mem
y Observation-Disclosures endures, so long
ii its destruction be regarded as the
<Eeat achievement of the Democratic
1rty for the benefit OF all our foreign
crn citizens. But for Democracy that
5 1rnicious organization would have tri-
phed over every right of every for
gper and purchased its perpe-
kty by the degradation of all
= - population save the natives.
Know w-Nothingism had its origin in the
~ party Of which the Iatelligencer is
<1@e representative. 1t was radicalism
q der another form. Its purpose was
qver, its principles were plunder, and
Z ~ means disfranchisement. 1t was in
fo1erant beyond degree: it prescribed
ere religious creed, and prescribed an
other; it fettered the operations of con-
31H9G4s and annexed the penalties of
dtn1ksnchisement to independence of be-
Hat II made the accident of birth q
te1tof citizenship, it degraded intelli-
Genee because it was foreign and PAM
<xH5d ignorance if it was only native.
~As aristocratic, bigoted, and anti
1srablican, and it assailed with terrible
tae@-@Dgy every element Of our Govern
a that was Democratic, liberal and
fhen this corrupt and dangerous or
\ cation was most defiant. threaten
HK and successful, the Democratic
fty becoming the champion
religious freedom, attacked the
kno wNothing prototype. Of Radicalism
6<@D1 crushed il forever. This was the
t51it did for the Irishman, and the
Irishn,an does not forget his friends
q Much less will he abandon them for an
Sllisnce with men whose faces are yet
4 dark with the dust of coal-bank con
1acknues, and the smoke of dark lantern
as, held to compass his political de-
tom of lio lib
y. Because man traces his ances-
line beyond the waters, it does not
ow that he is, as the Intelligencer
soD6opses, unable to discern his friends.
"a q Z3oormistake of Know-Nothingism was
Z 4 in undertaking the capacity Of our
1 x'C4}sn citizens, and the IntelHgencer
~ t1osts the error of its party when 1t
ppts to bamboozle the very men
"a ten years ago that party hunted
n bersecuted with all the bitterness of
Nothing intolerance.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-09

- y ItJ~ fil Z. hs' "fN
AGUA pE MAGsoLA.--Tllo prettiost thing. The
"sweetest thing" and the most of II for the
least money IL orercomrA Tho ador az fer,pir'
alton softrns and adds d.lioaqy 10 the slIin IL
y delightful perfumc.' nliays headache and In.
fammaiiOn, and is neossssry conIgtnion In the
sick room, in the nuTscry. and upon the toilet
sidcboard. IL can be obtalnrd everywhere nj
one dollar per bottle al q atm
!. sprnsogo sprin= WAFER, so,d ty all
Druggists. ", . .H. a. Ffr,E
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-09

L. i.s iUt TIIui . -i "a 81 iI9i1
Heimstrsets inimitable Hair Colssing has bces
steadily growing In favor for over twenty years.
Ii acts upon the absorbents al the roots Of the
hair and changes it TO its original color by dc.
grees. All instantaneous dyes dfaden and In
jure the lair. lIeimsssyss. = e. ,ss .,.ssh nj
T. q beautiful Hair DrcsAing. Prfce 81 rents and
ti oO. Sold By all dealen. ~, l..i
snrnfogn Spring Water, sold by all
Dealers.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-09
FOR SALE

I IN FOR SALE.
y fiFAMRgTfNo or THs STOCK
n sHOLDERS of the Whceiinx Frfjt Hosss
Asseciati0r, Il was rzclyed % ipcrezse the cap
aneuuf Of stock is row offered for sale In share<
OF Sl9a which nay Be had at the of.iee 81 the
Associztion, Eo. 81 Main Street
noyT-it Jos. sPEIDEL, seey.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-09

,.ad, ~ baa 90 tff5
.s ..H s.E srrl fe-.g i9 ICfpID
.-t. DO ~ .rf ri F! la.1i
In liftiDg the KETTLE fsoIs. tie ,Srs Issfslded
myself rrry severrit-one hand slmG,, % a
crisp. The torture Wls unbelrAbIs 49,
The Mexican Mustang Liaimcni relieved tho
pain almost immtdIaieig. II beAihd rapldly.
cTrAs FOSTER.
q, IsD Broad IT., pLilAdslphis."
This T. mrrrly 1sfapr of Wlrsf the Mustang
Linimfnt VII do. 10 i Invaluable ia ~ cases
~ woHnAa dwellings spTlins sTtfs. brnisss.
splyia4, Gtc., either gpo1 niaD or 1ssst -
Bfwarc 0f eaunfeTisIts, None IL gsnuiBe nm
lcs vTappsd IN fasaaei.platce etirrr y1ry. bear.
ing tho signature Of g.. Y.AgsSibtE,k, Chemist.
and the pirate stamp ofDtNAs BAgsgs & Co,
W" 'o'A' .ssn7e 81 - rrFraN
Saratoga Spring Water, spJ esy all
Druggists.
- .-s F.rsFa. s15Gu 6tlN
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-09

WHEN is the best time TO read the
book of nature When autumn turns
The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-30
Gen. Grant not a Radio
al. but q Democrat.

Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts,,
closed his speech in opposition to the
President, a few days since, as follows
"Two years ago, in trying hour OF
the country, we placed a great soldier
at the head of all our armies: and he
lead the armies to victory,$f and the
country to peace. Perhapsa patriotic
and iberty-loving people, if fdisappoint-
ed in their aspirations and their hopes
may again turn to that great captain,
and summon him to marshal them to
victory"
This does not imply threat on the
part of Congress to use military force
against the Presidents Mr.. Wilson is
merely looking about for PRESIDENT,
ial candidate in 1868; and he looks OF
course, into thsBemocratic ranks. Mr..
Wilson is the only New England man
that will venture to place at the head
of affairs O representative man OF the
Northwest, and the only radical who
will look for candidate among men OF
Democratic education and anteeedents'
Think of Chase, and Stanton, and but
Ter throwing up their caps tor Grant
Albany Argus.
The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-30
@In Call Around and
Pay"

What q world Of woe is contained i'll
thesr few words to the poor altizau aud
mechanic! "I'll call around aud pay, y
SAWS the rich MAJ, to avoid the trouble
of going to his desk to get the necessary
funds, and the poor mechanic is obliged
to go homo to disappoiut bis workmen'
and all who depend upon him for their
due. 1t is an easy matter to WORT; the
only real glory in this life is all indepcu
dent Idea Of being able TO sustain your
self by the lalo, OF your own hands,
and it may he easily imagined what
crushing force there is in, "l'lI call around
and pay" to the laboring man who de-.
penis on that pay for subsistence. If
:hose who could pay would pay at once,
it would place hundreds and thousands
in a condition to do likewise, and would
prevent much misery and distress.
The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-30
A most::remarkable Case
"A Bodywhich has been
in the vault for a Month
Still Warm

The following is undoubtedly one Of
the most remarkable cases that we have
heard Of, and is creating considerable
excitement among parties who have
witnessed what we are about to- relate.
On the 5th Of February last Michaal
King, about seventeen years Of age,
was killed at Oakland, by. being struck
on the head with q stake which was
drawn from the ground by an unruly
horse. Two days after. the fatal acci-:
dent and when the body was about,to
be buried, the relatives Of King thought
that they noticed evident signs of life,
and the body was removed to the house,
where it was kept for: several days. 4:
report got into circulation at the time:
to the effect that the body had .comsto
Life. After keeping the body several
days it was removed to tie lower grave
yard and placed in a vault, whore Il,
now is, and it has been visited by hum
dreds Of our citizens. The body retains.
its natural appearance is timber and
warm, aft. being dead and in; the
graveyars! one month. i We have heard
no reason assigned. for this strange.
phenomenon.-Louisoils DenomGt!
The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-30
Monthly Statement j,
Treasurer Spinner.

The statement Of Treasurer Spinner
for the month of February, which was
sent to the Secretary on Saturday, e1-,
libits the total amount standing to hh
credit in the Treasury and with the sey.
eral Assistant Treasurers and designated
repositories TO be as follows:
Amount on deposit in coin, $75.s7o.-
s7s.ls; total amount on deposit, $685.
s7s,237.99; drafts drawn and payable,
but not yet reported paid, Sl0,e25,5S7..
II; balance subject to draft, $l56,s67,-
366.Il.
Tie statement also shows that the re-
ceipts of the Government from all sources,
during the month of February, were
S8s, ,408. 8.O94.50, while the disbursement
amounted to s52,ll2,772.l9, leaving an
available balance over and above expcnd-
itures of So, ,ss5,s22.3l.