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RIVER NEWS.

WEATHER warm and pleasant. River
falling with seventeen and fourth feet
Of water in the channel.
The BGyard brought up il4 sacks of
corn for the Southern Relief Associa-
tion.
The Gipsey goes down the river this
morning on a picnic excursion.
Business on the wharf remains dull,
the local packets doing about all the
business.
A disconsolate poet has undertaken
to immortalize a recent boat disaster.
The following melancholy stanza tells
his version of the whole story:
She heaved and so,, And sot and heaved,
Aud higher her rudder tung:
And every time she heavcd and sot,
A worser leak she sprung.
Poole Bill, Mobile peet, when he
saw the above, scratched his chignon
fer a few seconds aud then scratched
his paper with the following:
The water rushed In thro' the leak,
As hard as it could tare;
And the csPting walked the biler deck,
A tarin Of his hair.
The captng walked the biler deck,
The boat she sunk aud shiyered;
Then down she went, and If she's stopped,
The stop amt been discovered
The capting to the top he ris
And as he riK he said: .
The boat may 20 10 the shades below.
But save my chambermaid :"
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Of their neighbors and learning some
practical lessons in the science of taxa
tion.
The Montreal Herald says: "The in
crease of expenditures entailed on the
country by the creation Of the new
kingdom will be immense. 1t is likely
that two million pounds will have to be
raised by direct taxation in Love Can
ada alone to sustain the local govern
ment, in addition to what will be re-
quired for the Federal government, and
for the prop osed Intercolonial Railway"
The expenses. of the other portions of
the kingdom, it is said, will be increased
in like proportion, but the ardent
friends of consolidation declare that
this increase will be more than over
balanced by the impetus given to'trade,
commerce and industry by the union of
the provinces under one common gov
ernment. - T..tsa ..rs
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Letters from the People.
FROM MONONGALIA co.

ARNETTsvIILE, w. VA, May "a, 1867.
Editor Of the Register:
1 have often thought to write to you
for little sympathy or perhaps advice,
for as you are doubtless aware, the peo-
pie of old Monongalia are under the heel
of negro despotism, established from
military necessity" by the "Union par
ty" during the reign of sainted Abraham,
and his Excellency A. /. B.
The inconsistencies of the party have
been shown too often for citation here,
and can be summed up only in the very
opposite of their every pretension, for
while they cry "save the Union" it is
plain they wished to destroy it. 1t
was treason formerly to criticise the
acts of the President; but it is now trea-
son to support him, which proves
that their boasted love for the
Union only meant party power.
Our election is now over and we have
had few specimens of their honor. In
one township of this ceunty (perhaps
more) the Democrats thought by all reg
istering they would be able to elect
their own township officers, but on the
day of election they found the Register
of last year furnished the inspector.
The result of the fraud though was most
happy, as the honest men of the party
bolted to sufficient number to elect the
Democratic candidates triumphantly.
In Marion county the list was curtailed
for similar purpose to like effect.
Their baseness is too palpable now for
the better men who have heretofore vo-
ted with them, and they will not longer
stand by and see their neighbOrs name
struck from the list of voters for the
single purpose of controlling the cleo
tion, and that, too, by men who an
nounce their platforms 'no taxation
without representation" which, with
such men1only, applies to the dear brud!
der of African descent. pa
Many thanks for your noble vindica-
tions of right and justice in the REGIS
TER, aud with wishes for its future sue
cess, | remain yours, truly,
~ ~ MONONGALIA.
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ur,dny Mossing,. May 80.
To Correspondents.


Ii will afford us pleasure to publish
the communication of "Blue Ridge" i
the author will favor us with his name
The rule requiring the writer of com
munication to forward his name before
his article can appear, has been publish
ed so often and with so little apparen,
effort. that we almost despair of con
yincing the public that we will publish
as correspondence, no production the
authorship of which is unknown.
We desire also to make delicate sug-
qestion to some of our friends who seem
noetically inclined. There are some
popular Sielusions existing on the ques.
lion of poetry that we have not the
nerve to assail. In that department OF
literature we are rs meek and submis
sive as it is possible for tortured vic
Tins to become. We have long since
ceased TO require that homemade
poetical contributions, to be accept.
rd, must be actual poetry. We
don't even insist that they shall
contain good sense, or tolerable metre
If deficient in the former particular
they are not far behind the majority
of prose articles with which the public
is afflicted, and if the measure is faulty
we can generally leave out or add a
sufficient number of words to equalize
the hobble of the lines without materi'
ally affecting the sense. In the matter
Of rhyme, we have also made many
concessions. If the final words Of the
lines whose extremities ought to har
,nonize contain any vowels in any
place, which by any distortion OF
sound. or villainOus accentuatiOn, cal
he made to resemble each other we will
not mnrmer. In short, all the venera
Bile essentials of the poetry of former
days, have ceased to be considered a.
requisite thereto. Still there is on,
concession we are not yet prepared Il
make. This is on the question of au
thorship. If the "piece" is strange ol
doubtful we may give the aspiring
claimant the benefit of publication ant
the doubt, hut we do protest agains
The cruelty which would force upon u
onr early Fifth Reader favorites
as the progeny of West Virginia brain
and compel us to transfer our admira
tion for writers whose productions arr
the quoting stock of millions, to genius
of much later date and smaller fame
Cases of disputed authorship sometimes
arise between these two classes of wri
ters, but as tradition and popular preju
dice are decidedly in favor of the for
mer, we hope q recent correspondent
will excuse us for clipgins to our early
impressions Oh the subject.
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THE WHEAT.-While the ,s,sro,

THE WHEAT.-While the general ap-
pearance of the wheat promises flat
tering yield, We have been informed
that it will be by no means so abund.
ant rs was expected. An intelligent
farmer informed. us on court day that
the late sown wheat seemed to be rath-
or stunted in its growth. We met last
Monday q number of gentlemen from
Augusta, who assured us that the crop
in Augusta looks better than in Rock
ingham. We anticipate, however, that
when the harvest is gathered old Rock
ingham, according to the area Of ground
sown, will be up with her entsrprisins
and intelligent NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
(Va.) Register. .sgs.sF ..e
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Most people are hardly aware Of what

Most people are hardly aware ofwhat
they can do when their energies and
capabilities are put to the test. We
were reminded of this fact the other
day, when we learned what had been
done by an old Rockingham rebel-a
gentleman sixty years of age-during
the present season. Our excellent
friend Asher Messick, residing about two
miles from Harrisonburg, has done the
following work this spring, with nc
other assistance in the world than the
help afforded by his daughter and
another lady, who. assisted in planting
his corn: He has ploughed at least
twenty acres Of ground, (some of it very
rough, rocky and hilly,) sowed eleven
bushels of oats and. narrowed it in,
planted one and half bushels Of corn
(say fourteen acres put o quarter OF
an acre in potatoes, made 100 rails, and
put up about 200 panels of fence, be
sides attending to his other business,
such as sheep-shearing, going to mill,
to the blacksmith's shop, and to Harris
onburg to attend to his business in that
city. He has done all this work with,
out much extra effort, and doesn't look
as if it had hurt him a biz. Wecom.
mend the example Of this "old rebel
to some of our nice young men who
lounge around the towns doing nothing
because they are not able to do hard
work.-Rockingkam Register.
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Greeley on Proper Names

GREELEY's recent achievement IL
christening anew the Radical party il
attracting considerable attention. Al
one of the first and most faithful apos.
ties of Radicalism, he is admitted to be
the appropriate person to give a new
name TO the party which has worn out
and disgraced so many old ones. Ac-
cordipgly, when in "a flaming manifesto
issued against the New York organiza.
tion, of which he is a member, GREELEY
styles the late Republican party "block'
heads" his authority as well as the
fitness of the expressive title is gener,
ally acknowledged. One or two discon'
tented spirits have suggested that the
term "blockhead' is unsuitable, fol
the reason that it is not, dramatically
speaking, proper name. Literally
speaking, however, it is, without doubt
one of the most remarkably proper
names that could be selected, since 1t IL
not only finely descriptive of the party
itself, but has frequent and felicitou'
application to the individual member
ship.
The Ags says that "if the Democrat.
are called "copperheads," the late Re
publicans can therefore not object tG
being called "blockheass,' as the
founder OF the party has given them
this name. Let it be known, then, that
"blockheads" is to he the new name OF
the late Republicans. 1t will look vel
in print, that a meeting Of blockheads
was held, that the blockhead Senator
from Massachusetts offered bill tt
make negroes equal to white men in al
the States ''Blockheads.' that's the
name. IGtGtJf sTG5ET
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From the New York Tribune.
Remark able suicide-Jealousy the
Cause.

The town of Stanford, Duchess Coun-
ty, was thrown into state OF excite
ment Tuesday morning by the report
that q well-known citizen of the town
of Washington had shot himself in the
former village. The particulars are as
fellows: Edmund J. Underhill, the sui
eide, was about 80 Y ears of age and has
brother residing Mt Hartsville. He
had lived wretched life OH account of
the infdelity of two wives. Twice he
had been divorced because of their con
duct. Notwithstanding his experience,
Mr.. Underhill again married, shortly
after he was divorced from his second
wife. his third wife, now his widow, is
well known in the eastern part of the
county and has always borne q good re-
putation and was looking upon ms a
lady in every SENSE of the word. Late
ly. however, it is said that tndcrhill
had entertained an idea that she too
was untrue, the assertions of his many
friends to the contrary Notwithstanding.
On the day of the fatal affair Under
hills wife was visiting at the residence
of Egbert Tripp, Esq, in the town OF
Stanford.
Between 9 and 10 o'clock in the morn
ing Unaerhill was observed in the vii
| lage by number of persons, but no i'm
pOrtance was attached TO his presence.
| He was armed with revolver and after
being in town but short time proceed
ed to Mr.. Trips house where his wife
was staying. She seeing him coming
and observing his singular expression
of countenance, became frightened and
rushed mp stairs into a room, locked the
door after her. He followed immedi-
ately, evidently intent on shooting her.
Arriving at the door of the room and
finding it locked, he became excited,
and Immediately seated himself on the
steps or floor, and taking out memoir
andum book, wrote few lines with a
lead pencil to his brother, the purport
of which was that he had with him S2SS.-
80 toward the payment of certain note
of 800. He alss requested his brother to
take good care of his little girl, and
stated that that would be the last COM
munication he would make Of earth.
Having thus briefly closed up his
worldly affairs, he deliberately drew his
revolver, and placing the muzzle
against his breast, pulled the trigger, the
weapon going off instantly, and the ball
entering the heart of the suicide, he
falling over on his face and dying al
most instantly. The Justice of the
town held an inquest, and the jury rem
dered a verdict that the deceased came
to his death from a pistol shot fred by
his own hands. The remains were then
placed at the disposal of Mr.. Hiram I'm
derhill, brother Of the dead man, and
by him taken to Hartsville, where they
will be inferred tomorrow. The sui
eide and his circumstances during life
being we'll known, the affair has caused
profound grief. He was a sober, honest
and industrious man, possessing some
means
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A MATRIMONIAL CLUB.-Funerals in
Paris are all conducted by the Com
pagne des Pompes Funebres. We'd
dinCs are henceforth to be celebrated
by the Societe des Pompesr Matrimoni'
ales. There are three classes. lou, an
aspirant TO hymeneal bliss select your
grade. You are Duke--suppese it for
a moment. The society will supply you
lin case your private carriages have
gone to pawn-with caleches, on patent
Springs; mass at the grand altar, chairs
ofcrimson velvet, wax lights, ddtibitnm,
postchaises and horses to convey yon
and your bride to the Pyrenees or else
where. and even furnish forth your nup-
tial chamber Well, but if you are not
a duke, for instance-alas for you! The
society can only marry You at side
altar, supply you with limited num-
ber Of tapers, and dispatch you, per
railroad, to Versailles or st. Cloud.
Now, if you be an honest workman, this
is what the society will do for y0u. 1t
will order you wedding breakfast, at a
rsstaarant outside the barrier, and en-
cage pipes and fddlers to perform the
merriest of valses and qusdfilles, and
you and your bride win dance away
with your friends till the small hour of
tue morning, and be far moreiolly, take
nv word for it, than "his grace" in
the splendid chariot travelling away to
Italy. ,r
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FASHION many be a tickle dame, but
her sway is absolute. Decry her man.
dates as we may and ridiculeh her latest
moods, we yet adopt them subservient-
ly and are 10th to consider ourselves
"out of the world" The raid on La
Criuo1ina, bitter and unrelentingly as
it ragged for successive seasons, only es-
tablished more permanently the reign
of that fashion queen, until now the fiat
has gone forth from Paris that hoops
and trains for parlor dresses are indis-
pensabIy tasteful. A grenadine or or
CANDY musline without train and a
"duplex elliptic" would be vulgar at
tire, although these be the most attract
i've summer dress goods. and offer the
greatest variety.
So with the waterfall; il was sailed
at, caricatured, and formed the sub.
ject of VIII and romance, yet. on its
heels came Modification which deiies
ridicule from its saucy impudence, and
the modistes applaud it, the bequ moude
wear it, and the ladies generally spend
half their morning honrs in twisting it
mp.
We like short dresses, however,
Petite feet will adopt them. They aid
pedestrian locomotion wonderfully; and
in n crowd or in street travel no appre-
hension need be felt Of torn-tramping.
II IL. e.. 70,
general acccptation until we run op-
posite the Chinese taste and locate
beauty in the medium-sized foot. La
dies wearing "child's sizes will hasten
TO adopt it; misses under the tutelage
of economizing and cOmfort-prcparing
mammas may submissively join it; but
large feet will continue to be conceal
ed under long skirts and trains to
match.
But the chignon loosely matte and the
chignon smooth are now the rage. In
the first the front hair is wreathed in
rows or waves down to the ear; in the
second little curls dangle down the side
of the fore head and are filed in rows
behi nd the ear. Streaming down the
side of the head in each instance comes
the long curl or massive plaits. How
We initiate the Chinese in fashion. The
plait in vogue is lineal descendant Of
their long caes, and small feet arc so
lovable among them that infants nm
dergo system of torture to procure
them.
Postage stamps" for bonnets are un-
dergoing improvement or modification.
Bonnets are growing in size. Pearls
in fringe and dangling in beads are
the popular trimming. We saw one
but recently, where serpent, in ena-
mel. raised its head from boquet of
field flowers.
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state Of West Virginia.

Ohio County Circuit Court, .ipiI Rales,
1s6. fFF ~ u f|F
Henry Otto and Rachel
Otto his wife,
sam1 NJ. Bell, VIM. p. ~ Y
Hubbard and Jacob
Liencke.
rt'HE OBJECT OF THIS SUIT Is TO RY
i Join the said defendants from selling or sx
posing 70 sale, lots IS and e6 In the village Of
Triadeiphia, Ohio County, until the further er-
der Of the Circuit Court of Ohio Cs,'nty, in
junction having been granted, and IN, plaintiff
having given bond in the penalty Of two hun
dred dollars with security conditioned according
tn law.
And Il appearing from m AFFIDAVIT fied In this
cause. that Jacob Lieneke and Samuel n Bell
are not residents Of this State. on motion Of
eomplainAnts, By their attorneys, it l. ordered
that the said defendants do appear hsIs one
month after the fourth weekly publication and
the due posting Of this order and attend 20 their
interest In this cause.
A copy. Teste. MICHAEL J. BREIyIG.
CHANDLER a DayEyPokT. Clerk.
: apr3o-oa wit Att'ys for ComplaiDsuts
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p g.f"t - q e
A Scottish religious body called the
Original Secession Synod have resolved
to sell their stock in the Scottish North
Eastern railway, in consequence of
trains now being run upon that line on
the Spnday.
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1t is stated that in his forthcoming
book, jeff. Davis will expose all the
facts connected With the invasion of
Mexico by France and the grounds of
hope for the success of that policy fur
nished by the late rebellion.
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The Canadian Kiuxd.m Come

Kingdom come" is no lougsr o phrase
of indefinite meaning to the Canucks.
They and their dominiens are finally
and actually monarchy. By proclama-
ton of Queen Victoria, Upper and Low
er Canada, Nova Scotia and New Bruins
wick, have been united in one govern
ment. The new kingdom has terri
tory of four hundred Thousand square
miles, with population of S,3l9, ,s3s
souls. The following are the census re-
turns for each province:
Upper Canada 4. .-..-.!. !. :. >. - L3os, 81
Lower Canada ...-.-..tS S2O'3l'
New Brunswick ,:--.-.-.-.- 2o2,Oi:
Nova Scotia -..- -..--.---- -3oO 80.
New Foundland. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Ill, ,6S
Prince Edwards Island sasS'
The papers of that region are cack'
ling over the new kingdom with all the
vigor and effect ofa pullet over her first
egg. Each has its suggestion TO make,
and its condition of success to propose,
and the amount of hitherto latent states.
manship, now developed, passes alum
derstanding. Financial. questions ap-
pear to. present very many and very se-
nous obstacles to the progress of the
new government. The Canucks have q
iAlr prospect Of sharing the experience
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Last year. widow lady and her
daughter. doing brisk millinery busi-
ness on one of our leading thorough
fsres, returned very handsome income
10 one of the assessors. The other day
the daughter, a neat bit Of femininity,
called at the same Office with the in
come report for the present year. The
report was neatly made ont perfect in
firm. but showed that the millinery
business had not paid; indeed, there
vas dead loss of $500. The lady gave
10 the return and sat down. The asses
sor and his clerks kept on with their
slsiness. After long wait she tim
;dly asked if she :. should get it now, or
gould it be necessary TO call again o.
Alt p inquired the assessor, II .lon't un-
derstand you Why said she, 'the
1890 the Government owes MAJ J She
had to be cruelty undeceived. LOWS
.iIie paper.
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A young lady and Good Templar i

A young lady and Good Templar in
California town entered into lively
discussion, in the lodge of which she
was member, ON the subject of cider
drinking. She was very fond of sweet
cider, and on no account could she be
persuaded to shuns it. Addressing an
anti-cider drinker, she said " love ci-
der; it is necessity with ME; L must
have it-I will have it. IL this lodge
decides we must not drink it, shall
eat apples, and then get some good
looking fellow to squeeze me-for tell
you can't live without cider"
In gossipping circles l learn that a
rich Cuban planter of this city, well
known in the United States, has lately
mcs with one of those misfortunes
which will happen occasionally, at
least in this couptry, seven in the best
of regulated families" 1t appears that
daughter of said gentleman became
enamored of a Spanish army officer,
whose proposal for marriage was agree
able to the young lady, but strongly OBJ
jected to by the parent. 1t is usual in
such cases, when the lady is determined
to have her way, to apply to some mag
istrate or other authority, who, finding
no moral objections to the suitor, con-
fides her to the guardian care of some
female friend or any other lady of un-
doubted respectability, to the satisfac-
tion of such authority. A day is fixed
for the nuptials, and the marriage is
duly solemnized. The couple alluded
to followed this ancient custom to the
letter. 1t is further said that the young
lady, in moment of excitement at her
fathers objections, went so far as TO de-
liver up to the justice some private pa
pers, pertaining to the parent, thus at
tempting to denounce her own father
as political enemy of the State. In
consequence ofthe above circumstances,
it is further rumored, the gentleman in
question has made certain provisions
regarding his estates which, under any
circumstances, will render his property
inviolate, and at the same time cut off
the daughter from her share.-Hdrdna
Cor. Y. Y. Herald.
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INSU nee.
Fire & Marine Insurance Co.
OF WHEELING.
INCORPORATED IN 1881.

.i'AKEs RISKS AT-ThE LOWEST RATES
| on BaiIding- sl an kinds Steamboats,,
Furniture and MsrrhandiA, and sgaInst ali
dangers attending the transportation Of gods
on rfyeus, seas, lskss. eanals and ,ailronds. 80
II. CEANGLE, PTssgdsut-
J0HE G. HERyEY. Secretary.
Robert CranRs JOAN Rcd.
Robert Morrison. ]. DalbeLl
\. Brady. VINO Baftts,
John p0nlOR. .. D. Dz bSts.
E Tie e0l8pzny nas removed 70 tns sssoe
next door 70 ibs Merchants National E4nk. 4
Aptlioafl0ns Ia Insurance WI n promptly
attended % by The President oT SECRETARY. pF
n0yI5dIy .. "a
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Prentice uses emphatic language
when ne says "Brownlow ought to
hell.D
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BANKS.

Merchants Bank or Charles.
frg ton, .~af
|. u ANAWgHA COUNTY, WgsTvgR
N giDls, will make collections and prompt 20
nltiance. hr JANIS ". LATDLEY,
suay3dImo #-.. Al Gsshler
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What with erevssses, want of labor
and money, much of the land in Louisi-
ana is going back TO jungle a