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Who, for example, could have believed
five years ago, that heathendom would
ever succeed to Christianity in any part
of our own country . No one, save he
could look into the future far enough to
see an inferior race separated from the
protecting care ola superior, and then,
following the law of its nature, relaps-
ing into itA original degradation.
Southern correspondents of Northern
papers are sending up daily accounts of
too horrid religious condition of the
blacks since their emancipation. Away
from sight, in swamp or forest, they re-
vive the barbaric worship Of their
ancestors, and i'll this Christian land as
in heathendom, superstition mutters her
midnight mummeries and idolatory
tells off her fearful incantations.
Fetichism or Obi worship of Congo.
as now practised in Mississippi and
other Southern States, is thus referred to:
There are several various species, and
as many different ceremOHials. One
class pays its devotion by dancing a
wild dance, to witness which causes a
shudder; another class joins in forming
q large ring around priest, who sits
over a cauldron and boils lizards, while
he mutters in an inappreciable language
some jargon OF gorpher words, to which
the disciples of the new faith listen in
fear and trembling; but then, there are
so many different modes aud sects, and
their forms vary so much, that it is i'm
possible for me to give an intelligi-
bic and adequate exposition and
therefore will not attempt to pursue
the subject further. Pontotoc county,
in the northeastern part of the State, is
said to have had more of its negro pop
ulation relapse into this barbarism than
any other county in the South. The
superstition prevails there so generally,
and eXerts such an all-absorbiDg, all
controlling influence over the negro
population that all work has been aban-
doned entirely, and the medicine men,
as the priests are called, hold their per-
petual carnivals, the celebration of re-
ligious rites interfering with all regular
employment, and the farms going to
wreck as q consequence.
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SOUTHERN NEWS.

Egyptian cotton is being introduced
into South Carolina.
Que of the editors of the Rome (Ga)
Commercial has fought three duels.
A new tri-weekly paper called the
Mercury has just been started at Meri-
dian, Miss.
Senator Guthrie, who has been seri-
ously i'll in Louisville, is now able to
ride out daily.
A State Agricultural Convention will
be held at Nashville on the 18th and 1ith
instant.
The Masonic Sun is the title of new
monthly Just issued in the Masonic in
terest at Wilmington, n. C..
Not single person in Government
service attacked by yellow fever in
Houston, Texas, recovered.
The Democrats have invited George
H. Pendleton and John Quincy Adams
to visit that city.
Colonel w. II. McCastle, editor of the
vicksburg Times, has been placed in con-
finement by order of General Ord.
William 7. bowman, an ex-rebel Of
ficer, fell violently in love the other day
with young woman he met near Gal
weston, Texas, and learning that she
was married, blew out his brains.
The storm on Friday night last de-
molished tobacco warehouse and un-
rooted church in Franklin, Kentucky;
blew down the Baptist and unroofed the
Methodist Church at Greencastle, Indi-
ana, besides doing sundry other destruc-
tive freaks. damaging property to the
amount of S25, 900.
South Carolina will probably be safe
from fears of famine this winter. Let
ters from that State say that the most
abundant corn crop is now harvesting
known for many years. 1t is selling for
| fifty cents per bushei, but there is little
sale fer it, as few have money to pur-
chase with.
Lesnidas Moses, mail carrier in Ar
kansas, was assassinated recently by
some unknown person while riding
along lonely road. His body was not
found until eight days after the murder,
and all this time his mule stood guard
over the corpse. The faithful animal
had to 70 a mile and ahalf for water,
but invariably returned and resumed
| its singular vigil. 49,
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at'heslias gegistes.
Wednesday Morning.. November rs
A Proper Name for Improper Chnrac-

In the IRtelligeReer of yesterday we
observe some election returns from
Raleigh county, in this State. They
give WILLIAM S. DUNBAR, (Rad) for
Senator, 80 majority; JAMES SCOTT,
(Rad) for Delegate, 43 majority; CLARK
son PRINCE, (RadJ for Superintendent
of Schools, 81 majority. These gentle
men, We arc solemnly assured, are "all
unconstitutional Union men-none tine
tured with modern Democracy, &c"
We are inclined to coincide with this
opinion, at least as to the "unconstitu-
tionap element of their political COM
position. In common with many other
law loving people, we have conteuded
for some time that the party TO which
these candidates belong, so far as its
acts are concerned, is "unconstitu-
tional" to the utmost limit of tue term.
Adding the other term, we are will
ing to concede that its members are
accurately described as "uncoustitu-
tional Union men," The Union they
desire is one entirely "outside the Con-
s.itution," and unknown to its provi-
sions. As THAD. STEVENS said, they
"repudiated" that instrument long ago,
and we shall not take issue with them
for making that "opeu confession"
which, being "good for the SOUL" may
also be, to some extent, good for the
soulless. By all means then, let the
sppellatien be accepted. "Unconstitu-
tional Union monw That's the exact
title, fit, apt and expressive, fairly
earned aud honestly avowed.
The supplementary clause also suits
US. Men of the class referred to, never
are "tinctured with modern Democ-
racy." Tho two elements cannot CO.
exist. They are mutually Obstructive,
Democracy could no more abide in the
carcass of an Unconstitutional Union
man. than mercy in the breast ot
MoLocH, virtue in the constitution OF
an ourang-outang, or holiness in the
depths Of the Internal regions.
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A gentleman lately from Weston, in
formed US on yesterday, that WooBFoRD,
Democratic candidate for House of
Delegates from Lewis county, had been
declared elected. Upon count of the
whole vote his opponent, HAYDEN, had a
majority of seven, but in the returns of
two townships, which gave HAYDEN,
(Rad) u majority, some slight infor-
malities we're disclosed. We learn they
were of very trivial character. For
instance, a man whose real name was
JOHNSTON JONES would be registered as
JOHNSON JOKES, ana an individual re-
joicing in the plain tile of JACK SMITH
might be recorded by the Registrar as
JOHN SMITH. These are suppositious
cases but they illustrate the point.
With such Inaccuracies before them
the election officers thought they should
admit the parties to vote, although the
registration was not exactly accurate.
When the Supervisors came to
examine the returns, they found that
few parties had voted whose eract
names were net on the registry. They
declared that illegal voting had been
done. and they rejected, as We are in
formed, the entire poll of the two town
ships in question. thus electing the
Democratic candidate.
OF course our Radical friends will
think such conduct monstrous. 1t will
hardly mend matters to say that the
Board of Supervisors is Radical in poll
tics. It's act in thus ousting an elected
man will still be regarded as outrage
ous. We thought the same thing about
the course of the Supervisors of the
same county year ago. Then they re-
jected Democratic majorities for pre-
cisely the reasons that governed the
present Board in their course. Little
inaccuracies, such rs the omission of a dot
from an j, or cross from a t, or letter
from name, were held to render the
vote of the person whose appellation
was supposed to be recorded, illegal.
The rejection in the present case was
compelled by a decent regard for con-
sistency. The vote of the same town
ships was thrown out year ago for the
same reasons, and the Board was COM
PEELED to adhere to its own precedent.
Last year, this course elected Radical.
This year, it elects Democrat. Ad-
herring to our former views as to the
impropriety of such a proceeding, we
yet Accept the situation. Not that We
are governed by political prejudice, but
simply that it will teach our opponents
Q lesson in common sense and common
justice, do We rejoice that the Radical
axe has for once split Radical skull.
Hereafter it will probably be welded
with more discretion.
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CURRENT ITEMS.
Boston boasts Il murder o week.

Boston boasts Il murder o week.
Coal in Walrussia is good for nothing
after all.
There are $4,000 blind people in the
United States.
Calf skin hats, with the hair on, are
worn in Paris.
The Mormons endeavored to get n
Masonic charter and failed.
Strikes are prohited by law in Austria
Imprisonment is the penalty.
A Maine base ball club has received a
challenge from Hamburg in Germany.
Fanny Fern has made over 500, 200 by
her writings, most Of them for the
Ledger.
The seasonal allowance Of members
of the Canadian Legislature is only
$500, and they ask $500.
A reporter in the Office of the Bath
(Me.) Times ran nine miles in one hour
and two minutes the other day.
A little girl at st. Clair, Michigan,
was attacked by ferocious dog, and
rescued with difficulty. Her face was
nearly torn off.
Chicago threatens to ruin New York
by establishing nearer route to sea at
the mouth of the James river.
Four men recently cleared over one
thousand dollars each from a claim ut
Gold Run, California, in twenty-foul
days.
The Iowa City First National Bank
recently paid $4,000 for a bag of brass
and copper filings under the Impression
that it was gold dust.
The spire of the French Cathedral in
Montreal, when struck by Lightning the
other day, was lifted perpendicularly ID
the air, aud than tumbled through tn,
roof.
The Nashua, New Hampshire, Iror
Company have lately commenced, will
good success, the manufacture of stee
tires for locomotives, hitherto done only
in England.
Beer was brewed in Philadelphia be,
fore the Revolution, and Calcutta mer
chants ordered porter from the Quaker
merchants, as far back as 1890.
A Reverend prohibitor il Massachu
setts, tenderly observes in q sermon thai
Governor Andrews had not died sooI
enough for his reputation.
A Confederate blockade running pro
peller, shaped, like cigar, has beer
bought in Washington, to be split il
two and used as two ferry boats.
The only fruit which grows in every
climate is the strawberry. 1t is the only
fruit which somewhere on tho earth il
picked every day the year round.
A clerk in the yincennes, Ind, Post
Office has collected from the letter:
which pass through his hands fifty-siS
different modes of spelling the name OF
that city.
1t is stated that all the sleigh bell!
made in the United States are manufac
tured iu Chatham, Conn. There ard
seven factories in that town devoted t.
this branch
The distance from Windsor Castle t.
Balmorai is six hundred and two uailes
aud it costs about ten Thousand dollars
for the Queen aud her attendants &c
travel over that space. ses
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Horrible AGnir nt Greencnsiie juno
tien, lud.-An Old Lady Knocked
Down md Outraged by In Party Of
ReuRhs.
From gentleman connected with
the Louisville, New Albany and Chica-
go Railroad, we learn the particulars of
a most horrible outrage that was perpe.
trated on Monday night last at Green
castle Junction, aud which is likely to
result in the death of an old and highly
respected lady.
IL seems that about six o'clock on the
night in question Mrs. Purcell, q widow
lady, aged about fifty years, accompa-
MED by little daughter aged twelve
years, stepped off the train of the Louis
willie, New Albany and Chicago Road,
at Greencastle Junction, Intending next
morning 90 go to her home i'll Manhat-
tan, some eight miles distant.
| Soon after entering the station
house, lot of drunken roughs also
came in, and blowing ont the lights
commenced using the most vulgar and
profane language. Mrs. Purcell left the
station Immediately and went to several
houses, into none of which could she
gain entrance 1T entertainment for the
night. She then went back TO the sta
tion-house, got her raveling basket and
walked out upon tae railroad track, de-
termined to spend the right in the open
air rather than remain among the
brutes who had taken possession of the
station.
With her little daughter, Mrs. Pur-
cell had walked some distance from the
station, when she heard the drunken
men pursuing her. She endeavored to
escape them, but in vain. They soon
overlook her; and one of them knocked
her scnseless to the ground. Four of
the villains then outraged her person,
compelling her little daughter to stand by
and witness the horrible barbarity. After
accomplishing this horrible act, the
tiends fled, and none of them have yet
been arrested.
Mrs. Purcel's daughter, as soon as
daylight set in, notified the citizens at
the junction of the terrible affair, and
Mrs. Purcell was carried to one of their
houses, more dead than alive, where she
sti remains, not expected to recover
from her injuries. She is a lady of the
highest responsibility, and the diabolical
affair has caused the most intense eX-
citeinent in the neighborhood. 1t is
believed ifthe scoundrels who commit
ted the fiendish act are arrested, they
will be hung by the indignant people.
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CENTER DoRsEr.l
DORSEY This Is the state of man; To-day he
puts forth
The tender leaves of hope, to-mor.
row blossoms,
And bears his blushing honors thick
upon him;
The third day comes a frost a kill.
frost,
And--when he thinks good easy
man. full surely
His greatness is ripening-nips
his root and then he falls as do.
RIcHARp':-Attend. This holy fox,
Or wolf, or both flor he Is equal
ravenous
As he is subtle) like glass
Did break i the rinsing.
EoRsEY:-o ye gods ye gods! Must 1 endure
all thisl
RICHARD An thisi Ay, moro. Where is the
Flanders mare
You stole j the armyi
DoRsEY:-A loyal eye could never see such
faults.
a. CENTER HALLJ
HALL:-Here is the noblest Roman Of you all,
'Sblood, am
As.melanchOly as Glib cat, or lugged
s-t bear AVA
IAN old lion, or the drone of a bag.pipe.
BOYD Peace ye fat. .kidneyed rascal. What
A bawling dost thou kept How long
is't ago
Since thou sawest thine own knee
Ifaith
Not since the election.
HALL:-Aiine own knee. When I was about
thy years
John, I was not an eagles talons in the
waist.
plague of signing and grief it blows
q
Up. ike bladder. There's villainous
news
Abroad Fairmont, Glover's Gap and
Mannington- .
All are lost.
DORSEY For Gods sake convey me hence
For tears do stop the food-gates OF
mine eyes.
have lived long enough; my way of
life
Is fallen into the scar, the yellow leaf.
JONES Go fetch me quart of sack. An 'twere
Not as good deed as drink to leave
these
Rcgues and turn true man. am the
veriest g
varlet that ever smoked stogy.
BOYD Il am dying, Egypt, dying.
GRAND cHoRUs-SyHphOnia Asinorun,.
o wish l had never joined the Republicans,
Joined the Republicans, joined the Repub.
licans,
I wish never had Joined the Republicans,
Down in Alabama.
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p I A ~ O S !
GAEHLE'S
Piano Manufacturing Company

OF Baltimore, Md.
EROOMS-Northeast Corner OF Eutaw
and Fayette Streets, and No. l5 II, and
10, North Entaw Street.
THIS COMPANY HAVING Or.
i CANNED in April, 1884, in conjunction
with the well known firm Of GAEHLE 4 CO.,
as a Joint Stock Company, exclusively Of prac-
tical Piano Makers who have held prominent
positions in some of the best establishments in
this country and Europe. .r
This Company claims thnt their Pianos com.
bine all the excellencies Of all the
Latest improvements;
And 1t viii be apparent TO all that men who's
skill and abilities have been approved by th.
best manufacturers, viii not be less successful
when their own interest and reputation are in
volved. As testimony to the above, they were
awarded the first premium over all competitors
by the judges of the late exhibition held ct the
Maryland Institute, of baltimore, Nd, in Octo-
Der, 1855.
These instruments being sufficiently intro.
duced IN this city, and having proved equal, II
not superior TO any heretofore known. ThAse in
want of frst-class Piano, manufactured with
the greatest care and of the best material, viii
save dealers commission, which only makes
Pianos more costly bat by no means more val
liable, by sending orders directly TO the Factory,
as above directed or by applying az Prof HER.
MAN KRYTERS. No. i63 Market Street, for
further information. A guarantee for five wears
is given as regards durability of construction of
every instrument, and will be kept IN tune for
one year free Of charge.
Old Pianos taken in exchange IS feb2i
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State Of West Virginia.
Ohio County, Vest TirgiHia, October Rules
1261
ROBERT HAMILTON , Attaehmen.

MARTIN CHISNELL } Assuupsit.
tvI'HE OBJECT OF THIS SUIT Is TO RE-
i cover of the defendant, Martin ChisneIl
the sum Of $780, with interest from the i6sh day
Of February, 1866, and the cost of this suit.
And IL appearing from an affidavit fled in tbs
cause that the defendant Il net n resident oI
this State, and an attachment having heeu
issued aud served upon the National Savings
Bank OF Wheeling. therefore il is ordered 6y
the plaintiffs attorney that the said defendant
Martin Chisnell, do appear here within ON,
month after due publication, and posting OF hi.
order at the fros door of the Court Houso d
Ohis county, and do what ho may deem Al Il
preteSt his interest in the ab0ve cause. II (,
-}t MICHAEL j. iBREISIG, Clerk.
A copy. Test: :
-.-,-.--.l -- MICHAEL J. BRELNIG, Clerk.
CHANDLER & DAVENPORT.
nov5oaw4t Attorneys for PiaintiH
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The Prince of Wales has q smoking
room attached to his box at tho theatrs
and no is attached TO The smoking room.
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National Insurance Company
WHEELING. WEST VA.
CAPITAL....-...-.- S3OO,O 600.
flee, 26 Monroe street, next door to First Ma
tionRl Bank.
oYFICERs.
GEORGE K. WHEAT, Presidsnt
JAfLES MCCLUNEY, Wee President
JOHN BISHOP secretdrY
CHAS. WALLACE, State Agent for West Va
and Maryland.
DIRECTORS:
John Z. Wilson, George X. Wheat,
Jas. &. Orr, Sam1 Harper,
John A. Armstrong. James Mckinney,
A. Z. Quarter. Morgan Y Otth
George Adams.
REFERENCES,
rs. Brady, Cashier Merchants National Bank,
Wheeling; List, Morrison Co.. Wholesale
GrOcers, Wheeling Pryor, Handlan & Co,
Wholesale Groeers, Wheeling; Michael Reilly,
Wholesale Grocer Wheeling; Mcclellan 4
Knox, Boot and Shoe House, Wheeling; MoCabe,
Kraft & Co, Druggists, Wheeling; Geo. w.
FrapEheim & Co, Wholesale WinesA and LiQuorA
Wheeling; Winship, Woods & Co, Queensware,
Wheeling: Lewis Baker. Pub. RsGIsrRR, Wheel
ing I. C.McAfee, NOtisns, Wheeling Camp.
bell, Frew 4 Co., Pubs. HIteliigeneeT, Wheeling;
0tt Son 4 Co, Hardware, Wheeling: J. L.
Sands, Cashier First National Bank. Fairmont;
X. p. Camden, Pres't Nat. E1. Bank, Weston,
W. Va, Capt John Mcclure, Jr., Wheeling.
may3
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Fancy FlourS

Inn BARRELS WASHINGTON Mills !.
1Vv l0o do Pollock Q fInGianal- Mills. -
lected white Hhoat. just received aud f,r saIS
~ e lactu n REILLY,
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EVERETT HOUSE.

EVERETT HOUSE.
North Side OF Union Park, N. Y.
n HIS HOUSE Is KEPT ON THE EU
i ropean plan it is within three minutes
ride (by horse cars) of the New Haven
Railroad Depot, convenient to all the principal
places of amusement, and for Summer travellers
VII be found the coolest Hotel in the city.
Every room Is provided with running water.
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"oLD WORDS TO A NEW TUNE,
The Lasi siEhs OF the HeIgrar,iics

ScEyR-Tedette Office, FdiTmont. .TIME-Ni5'
After Election.
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HOTELS.
SWAMI HOUSE,

PARKEKSBURG, W. VA, :
THE ONLY FIRST CLASS HO.
L TEL in the city, and the most conveniently
located as tn the Railroad Depot and Steamboat
Landing. This House has been recently en-
larged and newly fitted up. Water is drawn
a tank on top of the building from which me
House is supplied with PURE SOFT WATER
1t Ia heated throughout with steam, and all the
modern improvements attached.
Bills MODERATE, and attention THOROUGH.
,marl4ly9s J.WM. DENT, Proprietor.
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University of Virginia.

J'HE NEXT SESSION OF THIS INsTITU
] tisn will begin ON the first day Of October
1867 and end on the Thursday preceding the
Ith Of July, l5C5.
To be admitted a. = student, the applicant
must be sixteen years Of age. There 10 no pre-
scribed curriealrIH Of studiesin this instltu,ion
Every student may select the schools he will at
tend. but in the Academic Department be must
attend at least three unless by leave Of ths
Faculty he be allowed 20 attend leas than three.
The method Of instruction is by leetnres aud
tsxt~bOoks, accompanied by daily examinations,
The University & divided into three depart
ments:
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i. Academic.

VIM. Z. Peters. A. n. Prof Of Latin.
B. l.. Gildsrsleeve, Phi D. Prof. Of Greek.
II. sehele De We're, LID, Pref Of Modern
Oh. S, Vsnable. A. II, Prof Of Mathematics
LeOpcl2 j. BOeek.. Aajet Prof sf Applied
Francis II. Smith. A. n, Prof Of Natural
& Msnpin. A. n. Prof. Of chemistry.
'(Ts be appointed Sept. Ith,l Prof. Of TeehnOl-
ozy and A grieuitnral Science
W. Il HeGuhey, DID,, LID, Prof Of kotsl
Geo Frsd Holmes. LID. Prof. Of History,
Literature and Rhetoric.
III. Law.
John b Miner, LID. PraE. Of Common and
s. o. SSathaiI. Prof Of Constitutional and In
tsruGtiozJ Law. AeFcautiie Law and Equity.
HI. Medical.
.(To be appointed Sept Ith.l Prof Of Medicine
5. Z. ca5sn, NJ d. Pref Of PAy.ioIqy and
). s 64yis. NJ D., Pref Of Anatomy and Ma
terra Nsdica.
S. MAupin, II D., Pref Of Chemistry and
J. Z. ch.sceror. NJ D.. Demonstration Of
Ths as-r,1,.. eIpeases ef the stassnt, for the
session SY nine tnOutha, exclusive d textbooks
slsthiRg aud pockst n0neJ, WI Ss s0out - iet'
r For tbe Aeadrmis ssudeat, sttsnding
NJ FSr De I1s stadeat, st4sndiag the fun
Ell III , Tsr de Nedlesl stu1ent. attending the
fall Medical eoarse, 900.
no win be reqnireain advance, and tbs balance
= fhe frrnZress Of TIC snIsion.
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From the New Albany QndJ Ledger Cd
Horrible AGair nt Greencnsiie juno
tien, lud.-An Old Lady Knocked
Down nnd Outraged by la Party Of
RouRhs.