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The Confidence Game.

The report of the Judiciary Commit
tee in relation to impeachment is ex-
citing good deal of derision. Each
Democratic Journal has its comment (,
and some of tho criticisms are as point
ed and telling as the fruitful text will
Justify. The idea that a committee
made up chiefly from party, which in
LINCoLN's day held and insisted that
the President was the Government,
should now express "want of conf
dence" in the President Of the United
States, is regarded as supremely ludic-
rous. The journal of Commerce touches
up this part of the report in handsome
style. 1t says: "The Judiciary Com
mittee of the House of Representatives
report as the result of their la5ors 4
resolution that the President of the
United States is not worthy the conf
dence of the people. Now let us sec
the logic of this. We were taught by
these same radical men four years ago
that the administration is the govern
ment, and that President LINCOLN was
the administration. If any one sug-
gested want of confidence in him it
was pronounced treason. Now, if the
President is the administration, and to
express want of confidence in him is
treason, what becemes of the majority
of this committee' Or, worse yet, if
the Presiden, is the administration and
the administration is the government,
and the President is not entitled to con-
fdence, clearly the government is not
entitled to confidence, and what becomes
of our national securities' Radicalism
is getting muddle-headed."
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= Mr.. Geofgs Peabody has sent;tglcqn-
ductors Plaisted and Swszey, Of the
Boston ana 2Maine Srailfoad, cach a
handsome testimonial in the shape Of q
massive gold-lined goblet, suitably Ia
scribed, as On acknowledgement, as the
accompanying letters express it, of their
polite 'atten tions TO him while in this
country.
I a most Singular asht was presented
on Penn street yesterday afternoon. 1t
was a funeral procession, consisting OF
FIVE persona, a father, mother and three
children. But the strange part of the
affair was in that the coffin-containlng
the corpse of her youngest child-was
borne by the mother upJn her hlds
who with solemn gait and miep
ded the procession, followe LXMIl
father and children.-Ptt
June g. ''-- - y - "0' III Wy
q Horace Haines, who was eohS.;Il not
the murder of Hiram Sutliffe, in reid
and was returned from the Ohio peni-
tentiary where he had served nearly
thirteen years Of a. life term, on a writ
of error to Ashtabula county, Ohio,
was discharged under q nolle prosegu',
on Friday last. 1t was found that II
would be impossible to convict him on
a new trial, of even manslaughter..
Many of the witnesses were beyond
reach, and some were dead.
The latest development in the Cole
Hiscock tragedy at Albany, New York,
is the statement that Mr.. Hiscock re-
ceiyed note from lady, shortly be-
fore the murder, making an appoint
ment for him to see the writer. This
letter he did not get until after the
hour proposed for the meeting. 1t Is
believed the letter was from Mrs. Cole,
and that she had gone to Albany to
warn Hiscock of her husbands intention
to kill him.
By the explosion of kerosene lamp
in dwelling house in Springfield, on
Friday, Miss Eliza Taylor was fatally
burned. She was in her bedroom with
her neice, Miss Thompson, who sprans
to her aunt's assistance, and vainly en-
deavored to smother the flames, which
spread with terrible rapidity. Miss
Taylor, in the excitement of the moment.
seemed almost out of her head, and ran
through another room and down stairs,
Mt this time enveloped in a sheet of
fame. She was met by Mrs. Thompson,
who seized bed quilt and throwing it
around her put out the fire. Meanwhile
Miss Thompson, with great presence of
mind, extinguished the fire which was
set in two of the chambers, and thus
probably saved the house. Miss Tay-
ior was in some places almost roasted,
and in others her skin peeled of like so
much wet paper. Singular as it may
seem, she suffered little pain. AT half
past Z. Sunday morning, she died, being
conscious almost to the last, and resign
ed to her terrible fate.
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Letters from the People.
FROM BELMONT COUNTY,
BElLAIR, BELMONT Co., o.,
June 10, 1867.

BELLAIR, BELMONT Co., u,
June 10, 1867.
Editor of the Register:
The poet spoke great truth when he
said.
Mans inhumanity to man,
Makes countless thousands mourn"
The first mental, moral and social in
spirations into the natures of the youth
of the North, are studiously and pur-
posely founded Oh bitter and uncOm-
promising hatred of the South.
The result of this system of educa-
ton has left as an imperishable monu-
ment in attestation Of it's deplorable
working, more than half a million of
slain op the many sanguinary fields of
battle, where fell those who ought
to have been. and would have been
brothers, but for the universal teachings
of this spirit of foul fanaticism, which
has held and still holds spell-bound the
Northern mind. The spirit which gave
birth to the intestine war, which has
filled every community with widows
and orphans which has filed every
city, town and village in the Union
with limbless, deformed and helpless
men, still rules the land and nation.
We ask, "Oh Lord, how long, how long
shall these things bew The time is
coming, and fast, too, when these things
will cease to be, and must give way to
the irresistible force of events, which
are clearly portended in the indications
as at present seen, for coming events
cast their shadows before" them always
Our ouly hope (politi'ally speaking) is
the steady triumph of Democracy.
As an humble citizen of Virginia, but
now sojourning in Ohio, l thank you for
your noble efforts in behalf of justice,
truth, and humanity. My observations
here, demonstrate to me most emphati-
caily, how true have been the accounts
which have so often read in the REG
IsTER, and other leading Opposition
/ journals of the North, in regard to the
ideas and feelings of the people of this
section, towards the Southern people
aud +hile such ignorance continues to
occupy their minds, there can be no
rational hope for better state of things
than is ut present existing. In this vii
lage find some unflinching Democrats,
who>ale opposed, and will oppose ne
gro suffrage. a,.,-
This allusion to the negro compels
me to notice him and his ner and fast
friends in another relation, to-wit las
employer and employee. %.
The Black Republicans charity is
only measured by the use, they can
make of it in deluding the poor unfor-
tunate African to do their dirty work,
while they take all the good things
unto themselves. The negroes here
seem to be in q very destitute condi-
tion, and many Of them are unemployed,
and in their rags and filth. One would
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ceived, it rather dispels Coles charge
against HIsCoCK Of constantly persecu-
ting and annoying his wife with his
indecent attentions. "a ii
But it is not our object to anticipate
the details which are yet to be brought
out on full trial of General COLE.
We only desire to, call attention
to the general tone of the press
in view of the Shooting. 1t is
almost universally in favor Of having
the law take its course, without any re-
mission of penalty inyiew of the alles-
cd prOvOcation. 1t is claimed, and with
great reason, that the habitual acquit-
tai of men for murders done because of
grievances of the kind in question, is in
effect the offering of a. premium on
crime. Men of revengeful disposition
will fabricate the excuse of domestic
disgrace to palliate their L. nurderous
Deeds and man need only say of his
"he has dishonored me-" to be
justified in that neighbor's butchery.
On the other hand, as one of the results
of the war, the country, especially in
the large cities, has many women ofap-
parent respectability, but actual infa-
fanny, who would not scrnplc to bring
a charge of seduction or violence
against their gentleman friends" to
shield themselves from the consequences
of detection in their guilt. Such
women are oftener the seducers than
the seduced, and to hold all husbands
guiltless who attempt by murder to
remedy the frailties of such wives is to
break down the legal restraints against
the taking of life, and to encourage
bloodshed and slaughter. For these
reasons, as. well as for the sake of the
law itself, the press Of the country is
demanding that General COLE shall
not have the benefit of any such mawk-
ish public sentiment as would acqnit
him in the face of the law and the
facts. The SICKLEs acquittal was suf-
icient to disgust the common sense of
the people, especially when it resulted
in the renewal of marital relations
with the woman whose shame the blood
of her husbands victim could not wash
out. Such farce should not be re-
peated.
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Killed ou the Rniiro ~ d.

There was a fatal accident on the
Northwestern & Virginia Railroad, just
east of the Clarksburg station, on Sum
day morning before daylight. A man
by the name of Simms was run over by
a tonnage train and horribly mamsled.
He was intoxicated and laid down on
the track. A man who was with him
WIS unable to move him off, and went
to house near by to procure help, but
while he was gone the train Pnssod ovor
him.
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Musical Mule.

A mule with large ear for music, at
tached to dray, baked i'll front of the
Grant House yesterday, and every
means was resorted to to induce the an
imal to move on in the even tenor of his
way, but all to no purpose. The cause
of his mulishness was soon discovered
to arise from the fact that one of the
Grant House boarders was discoursing
sweet strains upon flute in second
story window. The bOarder's mouth
was Immediately stopped, and the
musical mule moved on.
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To pre,en, and Csre DrunLenne...

To Prevent ana Sere DruhAe'"e'
Nine hundred and ninety-nine street
drunkards in every thousand, having
indi yidual vigor enough TO stand the
vital reactions needful to make them
sober. can be restored to usefulness by
a process as simple as it is efficient.
This process is to control their food and
table drinks. Make any man eat right
Ily at table, and avoid all beverages be-
fore or at or after eating but liquor or
pure soft water; make him to foreso the
1se of all condiments, Of tobacco and
drugs, and he can no more remain n
liauor drunkard than he could become
one under like conditions. Given vital
ity whereby to get we'll, the law curs-
tive is as efficient as the law preserya-
tive. Noliving man ever saw drunk
en- man made so by voluntary use Of al
coholic liquors, who never ate fesh
meat, nor spices, nor salt, nor animal
oils. nor drank tea nor coffee, nor used to-
bacco. nor narcotic medicaments. Nor
will such q man ever be seen, for the
thing is pdthologicdlly impossible. To
prevent drunkenness, control the food
and table beverages, condiments and
drug medicaments of the sober. To cure
il. do tue same thing. Drunkenness
begins at the domestic table and ends
in public gros shop. To close the
grog shop, take care of the table at
home.
Take any drunkard and deprive him
of all food, but let him have liquor to
his utmost desire, and if he does not
break his neck or cut his throat, or die
nv extreme exposure, he will, in the
course. of four or five days, begin to
elamor for food. Tell him liquor is his
food. and offer him some, and he will
refuse it. How true nature is To him in
his degradation. She never forgets
him: nor turns her back upon him IN
contempt. She lifts his insticts on to
tine throne, and for the time makes them
supreme. He wants food. Give him
none, and he will die before he Will
drink again. Give him all he wants to
eat. and he will be dead drunk in three
hours after it. l have had 1nany a
druukard whom have saved tell what
a horrible disgust against liquor ne had
when, after q drunken debsuch, the
sense Of hunger returned. He would
have given ali the liquor in the whole
universe then for food enough to satisfy
bis hpngera asax saaRGzE . 81
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RishinR Excursion.

A hale and hearty company started
Yesterday on the steamer GAINESVILLE for
a fishing and hunting excursion down
the river, in the vicinity of Fish Creek.
They intend returning next Saturday.
Judging from the goods things taken
aboard, the sportsmen will not starve
nor dry up.
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City Council.

City Council.
There was not n quorum present ut
the Council Chambers last night. The
FIRST BRANCH
adjourned to meet on Tuesday even
ing next. and the City Sergeant was in
structed to request the President Of the
Second Branch to extend the time OF
that same until Tuesday evening. In the
SECOND BRANCH,
there being no quorum present, the
Clerk was instructed to serve Rules
upon absentees, requiring them to be
present and show caus. for absence,
ETC., when this Branch adjourned until
Thursday evening (to-morrow).
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RIVER NEWS.

The RIVER was falling last evening,
with, seven and one half feet water in
the channel.
The steamer Potomac left last evening
for Cincinnati, with good trip.
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In Had Condition.

In Had Condition.
The side walks in some places on the
West side of Main street, between
Monroe and Union, are awfully out Of
repair. Our worthy Street Commission
er should have property holders make
the necessary repairs.
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/; also Pretenses.

John A. Miller was yesterday brought
before Justice Johnson charged with
obtaining goods under false pretenses
from Thomas Hughes. Miller was COM
mitted to Jail for trial before ths Cir
cult Court.
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Cooking Stove Emporium,
I05 MAIN STREET.

DERs0Ns WISHING An A NO: L
i Cooking Stove. VIII please call at los Main
Street where ahcy can select any Stove made In
the city as log a. the lowest and - good A the
best. Amone our stock may be found the Honi-
tor, Standard. Piuts, IndianolA, Crescent, &c,
Tor either wood or coal We have . large and
ven selected stock Of Copper, Tin and Sheet
Iron Ware. wholesale and retail
msria-3n GEO. W. JOHNSON.
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Larceny.
James Lee was yesterday arraigned
before Justice Johnston on q charge of
stealing copper from the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company, and was COM
mitted to Jail for further examination.
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JACOB. - AsBURY CLARK
JACOB & CLARKE,

A TTORSEYS.ATs LAW. WHEELING, W.
IA Va, WIN practice IN tbs Courts Of Ohio
eOunty and adjoining counties. Particular at-
tention Will be given 70 collections. and TO -Op
veyancing. oHice near the Court Hoase and
Joining the Office Of Judge Good.
March o. 1867. -
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Mistake.
We were misinformed yesterday in
relation to the Anchor Base Ball Club.
No meeting was held last night, the
Club was not disbanded, and mary"
ice cream was served.
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Police C0nrt.

Police Conrt e.aE E1
In the Police Court, yesterday morn
ing, Homer Bush6eld was finei live
dollars and costs for fast driving. Ea
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iADDITIoNALsL L OcAL.t

b - q t4-fl = 49,
strawberry Festival
The ladies OF. the island NJ. +. Church
will give a strawberry festival on Fri
day night of this week. 'l-'~'.
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Well Done.

Well Done
The net profits of the picnic excur-
sion to Cresap's Grove on Monday last
amounted to over two hundred dollars.
coodE 'yNsErFh- -rrE ra- e
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! AMAN in Hartford found it impraeti-
cable to domesticate young alligator
sent him as present from Florida.
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How Farmer Woods stumps were
Pulled Up by Farmer Osborne.

About forty years ago there lived in
Western Pennsylvania two farmers nam
ed Wood and Osborne, respectively,
They were near neighbors, but inveter-
ate enemies, and it is said they lived al
most within sight of each other for
fourteen years without speaking to each
ether. Wood one day went out with a
mattock to dig up half dozen stumps
that had never yet been removed from
his meadow, but finding it pretty hard
work, he gave it up and returned to the
house. On the way it occurred to him
that by cunning device he might in
duce his unfriendly neighbor to uproot
the little annoyances. Acting on a
bright idea that occurred to him, he en-
tered his house, got his writing materi-
ais, and in a disguised hand wrote:
Mr.. Woop: am on old man, fast ap-
preaching my end and l cannot 60 to
my grave without revealing to you a Sc
cret. When was young man l help
ed to rob your grandfather ola large
amount of money. i and my partner in
crime buried $4,000 of it under the roots
of n tree in the meadow that now be-
longs to you. No doubt those trees
have been cut down by this time but
the stumps may still remain. He was
soon after hanged for murder he COM
mitted, and Twas sent to prison for
highway robbery. was but lately re-
leased, and wish to do all l can to
atone for past nisdeeds. / send you
this letter by person who says he
knows where you live, and he will
throw il into your house.
A REPENTANT CRIMINAL.
Mr.. Wood sealed this bit of fiction,
addressed it to himself, and when
night came crept stealthily to
Osborne's door, opened it a
little way, tossed it in, and ran
away as though Satan were after him.
On reaching home he retired to rest, and
reposed sweetly till morning. When
he rose he cast glance toward his
meadow, and to his satisfaction discov-
cred that every stump in his meadow
had been dug up during the night and
pulled ont by the roots. After break
fast he went coolly to work and rolled
them together in pile, in order to
burn them. And imagine Osborne's
bitterness of heart as he passed by on
his way to the village next morning,
saw Wood thus engaged, and knew how
he had been duped by him.
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FAST IINn
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Parkersb'g :. $50 AN. Harper's FRY asorx
Cumberland. 500 Cumberi,nd 10 rIx
Harper's Fry s:l5 Graftou. $40
Raltimore .Ie3O Wheelng ,S.to
Wash'u CITY. .ll,a5 .Includiny Sunday.
.In,ludins Sundaya.
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VIoOd.
Va
-al Grant

-al Grant
'Han, = pected to arrive in this city over
Mes Pittsburg road on the eleven o'clock
n.rain, and leave for Washington, Pa,
on the Hempfeld road at one o'clock,
p. NJ.
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BANKS.
Merchants National Bank
OF WEST VIRGINIA.


rI'HIs BANK sUCCREDs TO THE
i brsiness Of the Merchants and Mechanics
Bank of Wheeling" II IL q Designated Deposi
tory and Financial Agent Of the United States
and is prepared 10 do . legitimate Ranking bust.
ness.
PREsIDEST-HOBERT CRASGLE.
DKEcToRs-ThomAs Sweeney, l. :. Dviaplain.
Jas- Z. Aeheson, John Bonlon, Jacob Berger A.
Allen Howell, j. Nelson Vance james DalSell.
jani7Iy 5. BRADY. Cashier
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s. c. BAKER, JP. FITZGERALD, mo. W. CARROLL
Baker, Fitzgerald & Co.
STEAM BOAT AGENTS,
FORWARDING & COMMISSION
Il Merchants 10 y. Commercial Street, st.
Louis, Mo. janls-6m'
INSURANCE.
National Insurance Company
WHEELING. WEST VA.

National Insurance Company
WHEELING, WEST VA.
CAPITAL.....-.-..- .SSOO,OOO'
Office, 26 Monroe street. next door to Ma
tional Bank.
OFFICERS.
GEORGE X. WHEAT, President.
JAMES McCLUNEY, Vice President
JOHN BISHOP, secretdry.
CHAS. WALLACE, State Agent, for West Va
and Maryland.
DIRECTORS:
John E. Wilson, George K. Wheat,
JAS. Z. Orr, SamI uarper,
John A. Armstrong. James McCluney,
A. e. Quarter. Morgan l.. OFT,
George Adams.
REFERENCES.
S. Brady, Cashier Merchants National Bank,
Wheeling List, Morrison a CO.., Wholesale
Grocers, Wheeling Pryor, Handlan & Co.
Wholesale Grocers, Wheeling Michael Reilly,
Wholesale Grocer, Wheeling; Mcclellan &
Knox Boot and Shoe House, Wheeling; McCabe,
Kraft g. Co., Druggists Wheeling; Geo. w.
Franzheim & Co., Wholesale Wines and Liquors,
Wheeling; Winship, Woods g. Co, Queensware,
Wheeling; Lewis Baker Pub. REGISTER, Wheel
ing; T. c. Mcl fee, Notions, Wheeling; Camp
bell, Frew & Co., Pubs. Intetlig,ncer, Wheeling;
OFT, Son e. Co., Hardware Wheeling; j. 4.
Sands, Cashier First National Bank, Fairmont
r. p. Camden, Prest Nat. Ex. Bank, Weston,
W. Va; Capt. John Mcclure, Jr., Wheeling.
mays
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TRANSPORTATION.
Baltimore & Ohio R. r. Co
SUMMER SCHEDULE.

OFFICE BALrNokx 4 Ono RAILROAD Co,
wmKLua, Nay 4, 1857.
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DEPARTING AND TUNING OF PIANOS,
II Organs, Melodeons, Accordeons, Flutinas
and all Musical Instruments prOmptly and care
fully attended Ia, at WILLIAM II. SHElBS
Music Store
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SECOSD HAND PIANOS OF VARIOUS
- makes, for sale low at WIN. II. SHElBS
Music Store
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SEASONABLE sUCGEsTIONs.

Winter, in this climate, is trying Season Its un-
steady temperature greatly aggravaies dyspepsia,
and very unfavorable upon that sensitive organ
the liver. 7 he alienation OF frost and thaw keeps
the pores Of the body continually opening and
tracing. and the result is condition Of the syste
favorable the action of the atmospheric virus
which produces intermittent feyers. Hence
IEcr1vE mEnIcrsE like HoSTETTERS STOMACH
BITTERS is especially needed in the winter months,
The effect Of Tins great CoNsTITurIoNAL ISvISoRANT.
in rendering the feeblest frame impervious TO
all malarious influences, is grand fact demonslra
ted by the uniform 1erience Of quarter OF
tury. As stomachic, ambitious mediciHc, and
a preventive and of Fever and Ague, il is the
THING EEDTrL, which none who val ue tie pres
ervatiOn rf health can afford To do witho1t.
THE SICK, WHEN AT DEATHS DOOR.
regret that tney did take the right anide the
right time ThGu=ands who now suffering from
the carly twnses Of the liver complaint and dyspep
sia, VIII be PROSTATE iCkbeOs month hence, if
they do not arrest the mischief Nothing
more easy. course OF the puTest and bestve
bic tonic and aiteratiFe known in modern pharmacy
-HOSTETrEIsS STOMACH BITTERS-wili
store the digestve organs their full vigor, aud
heauh, ccTtainy sunshine diss pates the morn
iBg Fever aud Ague, too is at once broken
up by this powerful anIidote all m iasinatc dseas
es. Strengthen the system with the BITrERS. and
you defy ali the comp which prevail at this
sci