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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-29
Erom Alabama
CouRTLAND, LAWRENCE Co., ALA.
March 20, 1867.

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Editors Lnteui0eneer:
Open your columns, Messrs. Editors.
and let the following incident be re.
viewed by your readers, as illustrative
OF the anomalous condition of people
and thin.s in this section of Brother
Jonathan's possessions, with the same
impartial eye that witnessed the dra-
matte performance in this place a short
time since, aud make your own refiec-
lions from your distant standpoint. I
vouch for the facts, which require no
dress parade nor word painting, but
speak for themselves. The picture has
its lights and shades, a mixing up and
blending of black and tChite, delightful
to contemplate. An individual, from
some State North of this territory, who
had migrated TO the sunny South, as a
bird of passage, and located himself
temporarily in Huntsville, where he
announced himself as a member of the
legal profession, and there being no
use TO contradict or gainsay, had estab-
lished at least, the name. A new code
of law and ethics must be established,
and new order of things instituted in
this ltneiUiLi=ed and disorganized
countryn Our hero visited this
locality with a view to q mat
rimonial alliance with one of the
blacklist, latest, and purest Africans
in the valley. The agent of the bureau
here was informed OF the fact, and be-
set by a large number of outraged
freedmen, who cIamored, ragged. and
foamed with Indignation at the prospect
of such an innovation upon their rights
of person, and the possibility of such
performances becoming too common,
and trhite men supplanting them in the
affections of their fair companions de
eouLettr. They insisted on applying tar
and feathers, but the agent told them
he would see that justice was melted
out to all parties concerned, and admin
istered 6GstiHGdo with an occasional
Kick and sIedSe hammer blow to expe-
dite the movements of the gentleman
out OF town. o, temporal y, MosesI
Here the matter ended, but learn that
this knight of the pen and chevdtieT
d'tHduStFte has represented the matter
| in some of the papers at the North in
very different colors, and accuses the
citizens OF CORTLAND of having abused
him because he was u good Union man!
This community makes no distinction
between Northern and Southern men,
but does in regard to the question OF
color in matrimonial unions. This
beautiful valley of the Tennessee Is, in
my opinion, the finest agricultural sec
ton of the South, and offers more in
ducements TO new settlers than any
other portion of our whole country.
Land from ten to twenty-five dollars
| per acre, fine salubrious climate, and
convenient TO railroad and water COM
munication, and labor in abundance
and well organized. In a future letter
L hope TO present its attractions and
| advantages more in detail to your read
ers. VIAToR.
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IT is curious to notice that while the
English press, daily and weekly, admit
the wrongs of Ireland to be intolerable,
they all agree with equal unanimity
that nothing can be done for the people
of that unhappy country. The .Sutar-
day RtViet1 thus tersely sums up the
Irish difficulty:
Ireland, fertile in much besides, is
fertile OF nothing SO much as OF griev-
ances. There they are-jdmdMdunl notd
E III as the sea, the sky or the stars;
1,ut, IKE sea, sky, or stars, lending
themselves with plastic mobility 10 the
power OF the poet or the orator. a peO-
PIE Sanquished, but never subdued; ir-
rlIsteu, Dat never crushed; .maimed
ano Scared, but never extirpate d;
ullAeu, out never fused; conciliated,
put never reconciled; caressed, but
never soolhed; coaxed to forget injury.
but resenting imaginary insult. even
more than remembering actnaI ininrv.
more impatient Of tardy amends than
OF long oppression; two races on one
soil mutually repulsive, two creeds of
Incompatible character, two Churches
OF irreconcileable antasonism. two
classes dividing the land, the one ami
mated with the jealousy which posses.
sion, the other with the anger which
exclusion, inspires; in a word, all bnt
two hostile armies in two contiguous
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A BRIEF STORY FOR ROMANTIC
YoUNa LADIEs.-A few years ago soci-
ETY. in New York was agog over the
secret marriage OF the daughter of u
millionaire to her fathers coachmau.
The foolish girl-Minnie Boker-was
disinherited by her unforgiving parent,
and at his death she did not receive a
cent of his large fortune. BY selling
her jewelry and other personal effects
she set her husband up in the restaurant
business, but the vulgar wretch, find
ing he had drawn blank, so far as the
Boxer munPy-bags were concerned
abused and neglected the silly girl who
had risked everything To gratiIy a ro-
mantle. and therefore stupid fancy.
Last winter philanthrupic gentle
man OF Washington was called upon TO
assist u woman who was living in
squalid poverty IN that city. He found
her ragged, hungry and half drunk
Her breath was vile with the fumes of
miserable liquor. The poor creature
turned out Ia be Minnie Buker-whnt
was lett OF her He Induced a religious
Soclety to take her IN charge and give
her II home. About u month ago she
stole away from this retreat, and is
again II treQUenIer of the low drink
cries.
The comic and sentimental song
writer's struck a rich mine in the we'd
ding o. the deluded girl, but the humor
anu the sentiment seem to be pretty
wen exhausted, and the moral doesn L
Jingle worth a penny.
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INC FRrner,a Homo.

Farmers wives and daughters can dc
very much toward making the toll.
some life of the farmer pleasanter
and happier one. When returning
from the tield, the barn, or the dreary
winters ride from the city, cold, hun
cry, and perhaps discouraged, Gas who
Is not at times). the cheerful greeting oil
a smiling, neatly dressed woman. and
more than all, the blazing fire, and q
well laden supper table waiting only
for father, will do much to tighten auy
burden, and inspire him with renewed
activity for business and life.
No good housekeeper, or duty loving
wife, delays the preparation of meals OF
;he day till after or Just before the com
ing in of the men from the field, How
tedious it must he for them to be Obliged
TO wait for the food which should have
been previously preparedI How un-
pleasant TO them TO move from this side
to that, and from that to this, that you
may get nearer the stove or the oven.
thus reminding them that they are in
the way, when the fault is really your
own.
Then IL You have had trouble with
your servants, or the children have
been unusually cross, do not weary
your husband with your frettinR and
complaints, and unless you are sick
enough to need his active attendance,
or the advice OF physician, do not tell
him of it; nothing weakens the strings
of affection sooner than a constant
fault finding disposition. Do not ex-
cuse yourself from the duty of making
home pleasant, because your husband
is cross and morose. May not YOUR
dilatoriness in household matters have
something to do with this2 AT any
rate, try the better way; make 6ome
cheerful and pleasant to your husband
and children, and at the same time you
will find that life and home will have
new char ms, and new comforts unfelI
before for you.
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DIR. schf ncik's Mandrake PMS. Asub.
stItute for CaIOmeL

Thee Pills are composed of various roots
having the power to relax the secTetionS ri
the liver as promptly and etIectualiy as blue
pills or mercury, and without producing any
OF those disslgIeeable or dangerous effects
which often follow the use OF the latter.
In all lliOus disorders these Pills may be
used with confidence, as they promote the
Discharge OF vitiateti bile. and remove those
obs ructiOnS from the liver and bi larry duets
which are the cause or bilious affections In
general.
SCHENCKS MANDRAKE PILLS cure
Sick He1fache, and al disorders of the Liver
Indicated by siillow skin, coaIed tongue @ =.
uveneSS. drOwsinesS, and n general feelIn. OF
wearlueSs and laSSitude, showing that Inc
liver j. in torpid or INSTRUCTED condition.
In short, these Pill, may be used with nd
vantage In all cases where n pur2aiiye or
Alternative medicine is required.
Please Esk for '.Dr. Schenck'5 Mandrake
Pills" and observe that the two IikeneSSeS
OF the Doctor are on the Government Stamp
One when in the last stage OF Con- um ption
and the other in his present health,
sold by all Druggists and dealers. Price q
cents per box. Principal Office, No. 10 North
9th street, Philadelphia, Pa
Genetal Wholesale AGENTS: Demas Blrues
3 Co.. q Park Pow, New York; 5. $. Hangt.,
lbs Baltimore st, Baltimore. Nd; John u
Park, n. T. cor, OF Fourth and alnnt StS
Cincinnati, ohio; Walker & Taylor lSi and
10 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill; Collins
BrotherS southwest corner OF Second and
Vine StS, st. Louis. Mo.
Observation-Disclosures
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NeHE and Gossip.

Mr.. Peabody goes to Europe LIST OF
Carl schurz is reported as about to
quit the Detroit Post.
Oranges retail in New York at %
cents per dozen. Very choice ones at
cents apiece.
-Tennyson'sn new farm is seven miles
from everywhere. He means to shut
out the world.
-Anti-high rent mass meetings are
being held in New York.
The funded debt of Philadelphia is
Railway 'Jams" are anything but
preserves. '.....
What is better than a promising
youngsman? A paying one.
Be temperate in diet. Our first
parents ate themselves out OF house
and home.
"A calm man is like schoolmaster
because he keeps cool.
"A Richmond thief lately stole
eight thousand dollars in Confederate
money. It was the pettiest kind of
larceny.
New married people who advertise,
NO Cards" may be sure to have play
ed all their cards before marriage.
-"None but the brave deserve the
fair" No, and none but the brave can
live with some OF them.
"A man writes from Pixies Peak
that the miners are nearly discouraged.
They are Obliged to dig through a vein
of solid silver four feet thick before
coming to the geld.
An unwashed street boy being asked
what made him SO dirty, his reply was:
81 was made, as they tell me, of the
dust of the ground, and reckon it is
just now working oGt."
LET me alone, You good for moth
ing fellow" exclaimed a bright girl
seated by the side of dull lover.
"Why, amt Il touchin' ofyou," pro-
tested the astoniShed youth.
"Well, you might have done tiff
you liked" was the suggestive reply.
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Tho OLD Debt OF Virginia and west
VirEfafu

Tho ola Debt OF Virginia and West
VirEiaiu.
We published a few days ago an arti-
BILE from the Wellsburg Herald, in
regard to the joint debt of Virginia and
West Virginia, which squinted strongly
in favor of, If not absolutely advo-
eating, Reputation. The Cincinnati
Commercial Of yesterday remarks upon
said article, as follows:
The wellsburg Herald urges the re.
pudiation of the Old state 1eDt OF
Virginia, 1t is an apparently easy
yr1y Of relieving the people of a heavy
hnrIen hut il would sink the credit OF
the slate so low that no capitalist here
aftsr would touch her bonds or loan
her dollar, to save her from perdItion.
The old debt OF the State was con-
tracted for legitimate purposes, and
"A good deal of the money obtained on
credit was used in the construction
of public improvements OF which
the people enjoyed the full benefit,
at least mp TO the beginning of the
late war. But even had they not had
the benefit of these improvements, had
the money been squandered as doubt
less much oft was, in corrupt ways,
the loans were made upon the credit
of the State by the authorized repre-
sentatives and agents OF the people
themselves, and If the debt is now re-
pudiated they cannot hope TO escape
the odium which always attaches to the
repudiator OF Il just claim.
1t IS no argument to say that the peo-
pie are too poor to pay the matured
debt. All that creditors will probably
demand is the payment of all or por-
ton OF the accrued interest, and a re-
newal of the bonds, adding unpaid in
poor now, but with her vast resources
her fruitful soil, her propitious climate
and untold mineral wealth, the day will
come, under better dispensaIion 4hau
that of slavery, when she will take rank
among the wealthiest States of the
Union
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THERE is curious controversy about
ice, going on in Galveston, Texas. An
ice dealer who imports two or three
thousand tons of lee from Boston, is
charged with refusing to supply small
Quantities. The Bulletin, in arguing
the claims OF the small customers, SAYS |:
at is not the twenty-five ton Gus
toners that we are looking after. They
can take care of themselves. II ia the
little hSh, the i've aud ten pound fellows
that need attention. 1t may ali be true
that whisky shop, taking two or three
hundred pounds II day, is IA more profit
able customer than the poor mechanic
taking hvs; but still, the poor man has
a. much Interest in getting his luxury
as the saloon keeper in getting his.
We should like to see all parties served.
aud not so soon as ice becomes neces-
sity have the poor, and those in mod
crate circumstances, cut Oft from their
supply. Will the writer promise to
furnish daily tn all customers who en-
gage to take five pounds during the
entire season."
With our mode of getting ice from
dealers here, it seems little strange to
have the newspapers pleading for the
''hve and ten Founders"
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GEN. GRANTS penchant for fast horses
Is well known. His liking for good
game Of billiards, either as spectator
or contestant, is scarcely less, although
few persons are aware of the fact. A
day or two since he called at the estnb.
lishment of Phelan, the veteran bill
HARDEST, wishing to purchase a table,
and at the snme time renew an acguaint-
ance which was formed many years
since on the Pacific Coast. Phelan was
engaged when the General entered the
Crosby street ware room, and paid no
more attention to the latter than if he
had been Il common mortal. Having
looked about n little, the intending. Gus.
tomer stepped up to the head of the es-
Enlistment and said. "How do YOU
do, Mr.. Phelau2" The latter returned
the greeting, but It was still evident
that he did not recognize his visitor.
The General then said, az see YOU have
forgotten me, Mr.. Phelan," adding with
his characteristic mOdesty, AZ used to
play billiards in your rooms in Sun
Francisco. AT that time they called
me Capt. Grant, and now they call me
General" The surprise and grutitica-
ton of the billiardist may be Imagined.
and need not be described.-NcIgY York
Times, I'D.
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LExrNoroN. MISSOURI. NAV "a. lsgs,

MESSRS. J. n. HARRIS & co:
DEAR SIRs-I have made ALIENS LUNG
BALSAM pretty well known in our city and
country, and have sold about all the four
DOZEN bottles sent me in March last; and
nnd that persons who try the BalSam once
come back again for more, as IL gives them
satlstactioni and recommend it in prefer
Colds. PleaSe Aend me six dozen bottles as
soon as possible am. yours, &C..
THOMAS j. FLErCHEE, Druggist.
p. s.. sell more Aliens Lung Ralsam
than all other Cough Remedies together. and
H. gives general Satisfaction. go
Sold by LAUGHL1S, SMITH & CO
And by all Dealers in Family Medicines
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a CAnD JNyALID.

A Clergyman, while residing IN South
America as missionary, discovered safe
and simple remedy for the Cure OF Nervous
Weakness, Early Decay, Diseases of the Uri-
nary and Seminal Organs, aud the whole
train of disorders brought on by banefuI and
vicious habits. Great numbers have been
already cured by this noble remedy. Prompt-
ed by desire 70 benent the afflicted and un-
ing and using this medicine, I'm a sealed en-
yelope, to any one who needs II, Free OF
Charge. ~
Please enclose a postpaid envelope, ad-
dressed to yourself. Address,
JOSEPH t. INMAN.
dclI-1yd
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The Gin cinnai papers of last night
are pretty well burdened with particu-
lars Of the recently discovered whisky
frauds in that city, in which Collector
MeG.oarty and deputy collector Joe
Oarr are considerably mixed up. Col.
Darr's defence, which is published at
length including numerous testimo-
mas as to character received during
and since the war from parties in
wheeling and elsewhere, is, that he was
simply leading on the would he a.
LauaeFs In the line OF his duty with a
view to their complete expose.
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AT the present time, making allow
auces for natural increase on the one
hand, and the effects OF the war on the
other, in these ten States, in cutting
ohthe whites and in increasing the
blacks by accessions from Tennessee.
Kentucky, Missouri and MARYLAND
brought down for security as slaves
dnriug the war, the aggregate popula-
n9n Is perhaps now about 1, 500 900
NM NI against $3.50, 600 blacks. The
CAROLINA, Mississippi and louisiana.
ana they are probably equal in mum,
oers 70 the whites in Georgia. Alabam
and Florida; and with universal LIscI
Suffrage they form strong balance Of
power In the other four States.
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THE INCOME TAX AND GOVERNMENT
EMPLoYMENr.-The following rules for
the deduction of the revenue tax from
the salaries of government employees
was published to-day by Hon. j. NJ.
Broadhead, Second Comptroller of the
Treasury:
To conform TO the act of March 2.
1867, and to correct errors in the practice
or some disbuTslng officers in deduct
ing tax on salaries of persons EMPLOYED
by the day, and to produce uniformity
in this regard by all, the following rules
have, upon consultation with the COM
missioner of internal revenue, been
adopted, and will govern in the revis-
ion of dtsbursing officers accounts in
all caseS arising after the LIST day of
March, 1867: When persons are em-
plOyed by the day, the salary tax should
be withheld from the excess OF 50 20 for
each calendar day (twenty-four hours)
employed. For example: 4 has been
employed but one calendar day in any
given month. He may have worked
twenty hours in that calendar day, and
thus have earned two government days
pny; yet the amount OF So 20 is exempt,
and no more. b has been EMPLOYED
twenty calendar days in any given
month. IL Is immaterial how much he
mas eHTned-the amouueof twenty times
$500 (s6i) is exempt, and no more. C
has been employed thirty-one calendar
days III any given month. In his case
S99,2 Is exempt. d, by working over
time, makes forty days government
time during one calendar month. He
is, nevertheless, exempt from tax on
$3.50 only for each calendar day eui-
ployed. When persons are employed
by the month, the amount of SS3, 80 per
month will be held exempt from tax.
This circular is intended to supersede
that issued from this office on the same
subject on the 4th day OF December,
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a FATHER queer occurrence is rela

a FATHER queer occurrence is rela-
ted by the Toledo Blade of Wednesday
evening last, in regard to young girl
from Ohio who had been attending
Rev. Mr.. Pershing's Female College, at
Pittsburgh It seems that during the
late session she had been unusually
popular among her teachers and class
mates on account of her marked pro-
tciency and good conduct. ON coming
back to the institution, however, few
days ago, after the vacation, to COM
mence anew her studies, she was,
much to her surprise, refused admit
tance, on account, as is stated, of the
discovery made in the interim that she
was zone thirLy-second part Ethiopi-
an" circumstance that had entirely
escaped attention during the late ses-
sion. The girl, chagrined and disap-
pointed, returned home, and an excite
lnent has arisen in consequence among
her friends and portion of the outsid e
public The Blade makes the following
comment on the affair:
NEGRO blood in such diminutive
Quantities as to require persevering in
qulry TO make sure OF its presence,
ought not, it would seem, to perjudice
the standing ofau Innocent girl of six
teen. Bat Pershing chose rather to
initiate the action of the sharp-nosed
old maids Of whom we read, who com
PINNED to a magistrate that parcel of
naughty boys were in the habit of bath
ing in certain pond, which violation
OF law shocked them
why" said the astonished squire,
THAT pond is two miles from your
house How do you know that the
bAtbers are boys ~
"oh !" quoth the eldest, tive were in
doubt for a week, and to settle it sister
Lucy borrowed Captain Smiths tele-
scope"
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Mr. bingham. of ohio.

OF this gentIeman-now more con-
spicuous than ever-the Washington
correspondent of the Boston Traveller
says: "Mr. Bingham is almost as
marked man in appearance in his
way, as General Butler himseif-oi
middle height, thin and spare, with a
finely shaped head, long hair and of
that peculiar grey which sandy hair
acquires in age, high and broad fore
head, clear grey or blue eyes that with
the long aquilipe nose give the man an
irresistible resemblance to a hawk, and
an expression full OF pain, half OF mel
anchoiv, on the finely chiseled lips and
chin. This man evidently suffers in
the body, and spends half the session
wandering Testlessly about the cham
her, up aud down the area in front OF
the Speakers desk, rarely Pausing TO
speak to any one, and rarely leaving
the room, AS only nervous ana sick
men do. He Is all alive, however, TO
whatever is going on about him, and
when he speaks combines the diTectness
of the lawyer, the el0quence of the ora
tor and The sarcasm OF the satirist, as
these qualities are mingled in few other
speeches in Congress"
The correspondent of the New York
Times says that Bingham's recent re-
marks upon Butler, were the most ter
rible excoriation ever administered on
the floor OF Congress.
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THE New York Sun, u democratic pa
per. endorsed not long ago by the Day
ton Empire, YuIlandigham's organ, as
Zone OF the best informed and most
moderate papers in New York, has the
following paragraph:
'If there were enough vitality in the
Democratic party TO grasp the present
opportunity, il would now go in strong
ly Tor negro suffrage North aud South,
ant thereby secure the colored vote,
which is strong enough to turn the po-
Itical tide OF Rddiculism."
Charles Anderson, the famous stump
err and late Governor of Ohio, some
months ago made the remark that the
Democrats. in the event OF negro suf-
frage, would take advantage of it, and
secure the vote by ''swearing that they
had negro blood in their veins" The
durkies couldn't resist such an affecting
appeal for fraternity,
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