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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-06
Letters from the PeOp,e,
FROMLEwIs COUNTY.
Radical Churches md Radiea
Preachers.

Radical Churches and Radical
Preachers.
Editor of the Register:
No careful observer can be ut loss
to perceive that many of the churches
have become potent engines in the
hands of unprincipled politicians, by
which they elevate themselves to posi-
tions of trust and cmolument and per-
petnate the iniquitous reign of Radi-.
calism. That the churches should so
far forget their heavenly mission as to
become the menial tools of a political
party, is much to be regretted.
There is number of religious denom-
nations in the United States, (if reli-
gious they can be called) that have
converted, the pulpit into political
rostrum, and their church journals in
to political organs, and their whole
influence il exerted for the purpose of
keeping q Goddess, Christless set of
fanatics IN power. Ministers of the
eospel whose theme should be divine,
enter the. sacred desk with their sscer-
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Carious Case.

A Boston savings bank has lately had
a strange case of mistaken identity.
About four years ago q one-armed man
called, saying he wished to draw money
deposited there several years before,
but had lost his bank book. The
treasurer asked him if he could prove
his identity, and he said that he had
formerly driven n cart for well-known
coal merchaRt in the city, and in his
employ had lost his arm. The coal mer-
chant was summoned, and at once said
he recognized the man, although he was
somewhat changed in appearance, and
that he was all right; and signed a
bond In the claimants favor, who de-
parted with his money. Nothing more
was heard of the matter till about n
month OF so ago, when another one
armed man claiming the same name as
the first, entered the bank with his
book in his hand and demanded his de-
posit. He told the same story as to
his identity as the first, said he had
been in prison these many years, and
again the coal merchant was summoned
to decide. At once the merchant said
TINT before he had been deceived, that
the other man was an impostor, but
this was the right man, and with the
utmost good nature paid the bond he
had signed four years before; and a
second time the money was paid. The
explanation probably is that both these
one-armed men bad been in the same
prison together had talked and planned
together, and together had been sue.
cessful in their swindle. H..
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Iniempcrate sons Of. Temperance.

The Warren" Division, Sons of Tenn
perance at their hall in Bunker Hill
street, Charleston, Mass, Shades of the
revolutionary fathers! there's bunch
of hallowed "reminiscences y, diversified
their regular proceedings on the even
ing of the 11th inst. by q free fight.
For q cold water combat, it was lively.
Telegraphic reports says that " nearly
fifty were engaged" that "kpives were
drawn and clubs freely used;" "half-a-
dozen Sons were badly pummeled'-and
"two or three of the Daughters of TEN,
perance (shame! shameD received
bruises" The difficulty, continues the
narrative, originated in personal
matter between n couple OF the mem
bers. 1t must be q high state OF in
fammabilty, when q trihing dispute
between a couple of gentlemen sets fire
to q room full of people. Irish whisky
could do no more than that-nor so
much. 1t is not the usage at Donny-
brook Fair to strike the girls. Their
heads are exempt from the proverb
about hitting. If such are the effects
of cold water peaceable people would
prefer to have that beverage qualified
by something else not SO pngnacious In
its tendencies. The suggestion may be
made that the Warren Division, Sons
of Temperance" meeting on Bunker
Hill street." is only lot Of hard drink
ers in disguise, slowing away quarts
of whisky under their emblematic
aprons at nightly sittings. This is a
good guess. The direct effect of the
law in Massachusetts, is to make hypo-
critics. But man may become frenZied
without drinking a drop of liquor.
Some of the widest, most quarrelsome
people that we meet with are reformers.
Fourth proof brandy cOuld not make
them crazier, for all practical purposes,
rhan the unchecked indulgence of their
ferocious desire to force other persons
to think and act just as they do. In
temperance in the use of liquors
may lead to- good humOr, some
times, but intemperance in the
use Of language, such as many re-
formers are addicted to, can only result
in i'll feeling; and from that to blows
the transition is easy. The broil of the
Warren Sons and daughters, is not in
consistent with teetotalism. All the
ice water in the world cannot quench
naturally bad passion; hence the folly
of magnifying total abstinence from
liquors into the greatest of all the Vir-
tues-so great, that it may be substitu-
ted for the rest of them. One point
more. Are "knives" and "clubs" a part
of the regular apparatus of Temperance
Lodges !-JourRal Of Commerce
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dotal robes besmeared with the mu6
and mire of politics, and dsnounce the
christian virtues of mercy and forgive
ness as cowardly vices, and expatiate up
on the beauty of Radical principles. Itis
true that some of these clerical dema'
gogues are too "sharp" thus to desecrate
their high calling in a Conservative
community; but around the tiresldes oi
their hearers in a claudestine manner,
they will disseminate their Pernicions
principles and poison the minds OF the
people. If their hearers will take the
pains, as some here have done, to attend
some of their Radical appointments,
they will very readily detect the du-
plicity of their preachers.
Ii is to be found that q, large number
of the clergy of the present day are
abetters and hirelings of the insidious
organization in our midst, whose object
and aim are to destroy constitutional
liberty and establish reign of tyranny,
unprecedented in the history of the
civilized world. How unlike the teach
ings of the humble Nazarene are the
tenets of the Radical party. He taught
meekness, mercy, and forgiveness; Rad
icalism teaches hatred, malice, and
revenge. He made it the duty
of men to love their enemies and
pray for those who despitefnlly use
them; Radicalism teaches men to hate
their enemies and curse them who
despitefully use them. He taught men
to return good for evil; Radicalism
teaches men to return evil for evil and
railing for railing. Christ says:
'Whosoeyer exalteth himself shall be
abased, and he that humbleth him
self shall be exalted. Radicalism
says: "He that exalteth himself shall
rNle Wih rod Of iron torerer, aud he
that hunbleth himself shall be ground
into powder." Christ taught men to
pray, " Forgive our debts rs we forgive
our debtors" Radicalism teaches men
to pray, Forgive our debts, but damn
our debtors" Iu fine, all of the teachings
of this Radical party are diametrically
opposed to the benign doctrines
of the Gospel; and yet strange 30 say,
many professed Christians are identi-
fed with this party. rs .TF~.I
Through the instrumentality of po-
litical preaching, our land has been
rent in civil feuds and drenched in fra
terual blood. The Legislative councils
Of our country are full Of these political
babblers, who have stolen the livery of
Christ to serve the devil in.
Now, | maintain, that no patriotic
Christian gentleman should attend on
the ministry of these Radical dema-
gogues. Shall we strengthen the arm
and sharpen the dagger that is to let
out our life's blood' God forbid! Let
them preach; but let no conservative dis
grace himself and his cause by helping
to swell their congregation. Let them
preach to Radical hearers or empty seats;
and let them live on Radical pay or
stare. .'.t -hs
We do not wish to be understood as
referring to any particular denomina-
ton; but to all churches and all min
listers who work for Radicalism instead
of God.
Lewis county sends her best respects
to King Arthur, and hopes his Royal
Highness is in the enjoyment of good
health. Live forever! o, King!
A LoYALIST.
LEWIS Co., W. ", July 81, 1867.
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A Bsld Raid by The Indian.:

NEW YORK, August 5.-The Times
Fort Harker special says : The Indians
killed seven men yesterday, six miles
from here. The men killed were rail-
road laborers. After scalping two men
the s.vages proceeded to Big Creek
stage station and ran off 200 horses and
mules. This was in daylight and while
exposed to the fire of fifty infantry and
a dozen stage employees, three hundred
yards from them. 1t is considered the
boldest raid the Indians have made.
Captain Ames started Immediately in
pursuit and overlook the Indians last
night, but found them too numerous to
attack with his forces and sent back for
relnforcements, which were forwarded.
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S. :. S.-Schultz's Star Soap.

BooKFARAIING is simply the best
farming put in bOoks-yOurs, reader, il
it is the best. A fool cannot write a
book; an able man must do it-not a
man of mere accomplishments or learn
ing. hut one versed in the business he
writes upon. 1t is thus that we have
books by the best men in all the de-
partmen's. These men make our litera-
ture-and to be opposed to them, is to
be arrayed against knowledge, against
schools and newspapers, What is
thought OF the man who opposes educa-
tioni And what is education but Ia
learn to know thing! If the preju.
diced reader (prejudiced against book
farming) knows how to trim his vine,
he is the man, fhe has words for it, to
write book on the subject-the very
man We want, for we are after facts, af-
ter the best mode, And yet this wonld
be called 'bookfarming." 1t is mere
prejudice, depend upon it.
But there is one evil which gives
rise to this very prejudice; bad books
are foisted on the public. These are
read-and they lead into error; and
forthwith good and bad are condemn.
ed.
Our best men certainly are not the
fools. Our ablest men, who lead in
their departments, are men qualified, il
any, to impart instruction. Shall we
heed themf or shall we follow after our
own half-formed; inexperienced notions!
We have our prejudices, and they
make us believe we are right, without
consulting the facts of the case.-RTdj
T0rld.
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Dus tnundrea Ililen Buried Alive.

The columns of the German papers
are filled with the particulars of the
greatest disaster that ever dcsOlated
any mining district. On the lst of July
inst. the wooden framework of q one
thousand five hundred feet deep pit of
coal mine, in the neighborhood of Lu-
qua, i'll Saxony, gave way. blocking up
with an impenetrable massOf timber
and rock the pit at depth of about
three hundred ellis from the top. At
the moment of tho disaster one hun
dred and two men, nearly all ofthcm the
supporters of large families, were work
ing at the bottom of the anime. Their
provisions were only calculated for one
day. On the 5th of July, the date of
our latest news by mail, the place
where the fallen masses had stopped
the pit was of such solid structure
that the water was standing on it many
feet deep. From all sides the NEST
available help was offered, but the
conviction that nothing could be done
soon enoughto save the unfortunate
miners, weakened, as it seems, any
energetic efforts. They were doomed
todie of starvation and want of fresh
ains Onthe 4th of July all attempts to
reach the bottom of the mine by any
quick process were abandoned, and a
slow but sure plan was devised, by
which, at least, the corpses of the per.
ished could be extracted Iron tubes of
about two feet in diameter were to be
sunk through the obstruction down to
the bottom of the pit. Among the dead
are forty-four married men, one of
whom had wife and nine living child
rem. The scenes at the entrance of the
nit are described as lamentable with
out a parallel. One hundred and
thirty-seven children filled the air with
their woeful cries, whilst The superin-
tendent of the mine, to whose negli-
gence the disaster was ascribed by the
people, could only be saved from be-
ing mobbed by his sudden imprison-
ment.
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The PIe-Baid Convention at Rich
mond

From our best information as to the
late Radical Convention at Richmond,
il resulted very unhappily for all con-
cerued save the HUNNICUTT faction.
Upon the day of assembling a gang of
Richmond negroes, headed by HUNNI-
CUT and others of his stripe, took pos
session of the African church in which
the Convention was to assemble Az
ter an hour of wrangling and confusion
the motley crowd adjourned to the Cap
itol square, where they proceeded to or
sanize the Convention on q purely
HUNNICUTT basis, all other factions be-
ing ignored and excluded. HUNNIcUTr
dictated the organization, engineered
tho appointment of the same officers
that presided over his Convention of
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From the Cincinnati Enquirer, July 3.I
Terrible Warming 10 Railway Travel

From the Cincinnati Enquirer, July 30l
Terrible Warming TO Railway Travel
.FF4'. t.H lers. ..
One of those lamentable and nm foresoon
accidents which verify the old proverb
that "in the midst of life We are III
death, - occurred on Sunday last in the
following manner: As we had anuounc-
ed in onr Sunday edition the American
Protestant Association, or at least n
large number of them, of Cincinnati,
Covington, and Newport left the city
bet wecn l and 2 O'Clock on that
day for Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio,
to Join in the celebration of laying the
corner store of the new church that is
in process of erection in that city.
Among the party was Mr.. Henry Gerke,
of Storrs township, accompanied by a
female acquaintance whom he had in
vited to partake of the enioyments of
the trip. They were there, they saw the
laying of the corner stone of that church.
which was to prove such fearful re-
membrance to the friends Of both the
lady and gentleman, and then they got
upOn the cars with hundreds of others
to return. On the passage back the
heat was oppressive, and Mr.. Gerkc,
without any apprehension of danger,
hoisted the car window, ut which he
sat opposite, to snuff little fresh air,
and unthinkingly put his head out. 1t
proved fatal moment for him, as the
cars just then entered bridge. one of
the side posts of which struck him upon
his head, making a complete decapita-
ton. 1t was fearful and terrible in
terruptiou to the pleasantly that per-
vaded the company at the time, as it
was a terrible bereavement to the
young lady who sat beside him, and to
whom, as we loarn, he was betroth-
ed. The body of young Gerke was
brought along, and left at the residence
of his father.
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Il0nHN Taxation.

The IatellgcRcCr evidently has Democ-
racy ou the brain. Last summer 1t
attributed the numerous fires. then
occurring, to tie COpperheadism that
had survived the rebellion. More
recently il has been afflicted with sore
misgivings as to the friendship Of the
Democrats for the new State. Its latest
manifestation is an article referring the
high taxes TO the naughty "Conserva-
tives." Its next freak will probably be
10 hold the Democracy responsible for
the Luuatic Asylum corruptions, the
Asiatic cholera, Governor BOEEMhN and
other heavy Affections.
We think our ncighbOr's leader Of
Yesterday was written i'll instruments,
rhr intervals Being Tiled with afternoon
maps. whose cOnSeq urnt dnllness disih-
clined the writer tOreview and harmon
i've his entire production. In one para
graph we are informed that 'our local
taxation is no political in its character,
aud 40 capital of that sort can be made
ont of it," In the concluding sentence
we are gravely advised that whatever
may be- the weight of our taxation on
ihr shoulders of the people, they have
the Democratic party, III very large
measure, To thank for it," The refer
.ur. her. is clearly TO local taxes. but
49, opr c,t.mporary AYERS that no polit.
zeal r,ritu can be made from that
.,ur.. co., ,,ruot understand the pur-
,,o.. ,r his cI,sinr oIlnsion.
o.,.r,,nl,t.do nm IN. fact that
,ox.s ,rdar D.mocratic rule
,.u.. ,, tho bundr.d dollars.
',.I, =, ,L,., ,r1or Radical govern.
:, eo -, .b. hnpdred
nah n,ort,.d :. nroqress in
- -. ,,;..,.;,,,ni :. r;sibla IN Radical
,,,. % urs C,unIp would
49,. 10, othinr 70 do with il.
aConsorvot;yesr
.,., .h,+ oor b;ob t,xes are IN be
fh.. Of hOUntles
...,. Tba rtroct in vesterday's
-, s., IN. Co.seryot ire IN re-
,,,,,a,,,t, oo,.,,, ,ox,t;on nre-
-'... ,ar,. Ligsr.n+ state of facts.
The RATE of taxation in that
co,n.v h,f,re the war for all
nrroos.s WIS fifty cents on SlOO.
Now tits ~ 40 ON the slOO. The coun.
~ 10 constructing no public buildings,
b,iIdiYo ND brid0cs. doing nothing to
ody,nc. tL. interests of its citizens, and
Is mamma NO BOUNTY" We presented u
statement short time ago, showing
that the YEARLY expenses of Harrison
,ounty. exclusive of bounty, and for
local purposes alone were $4,000,
against 5000 for similar purposes be-
fore the war. These facts completely
defeat the effort To throw the RESPONSE
bility of high taxes upon those who are
falsely claimed to have prolonged the
war. for they refer entirely to expendi-
lures with Which the prosecution of the
war had 40 connection.
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HOTELS.
House Reopencd.

INHE UNDERSIGNED LAYING PCR.
/ chased and thoroughly renovated and newly
furnished this old popular House, ON Water St,
he is now prepared 10 entertain the public in
the best manner No effort will be spared to
make his guests comfortable.
apr9Iy LOUIS LINGAMAN.
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HOWARD HOUSE,
Nos. ) q Z North Howard ~
TWO DOORS FROM BALTIMORE sTEEET.
HULL d SRWELL, Proprietors.


BULL d SEWELL, ProPrietOrs.
BALTlMoRE, March l. 1867.
WE HAVE LEASED THIS HOUSE AND
w have enlarged the Office, introduced Steam
throughout the house, renovated and remOdeleC
the Water Closets repapered and repainted the
Rooms and furnished them with new carpets
furniture, &c. We have, in fact, made the house
entirely new inside.
We have also a telegraph office in the building
with wires running To all parts of the United
States, Canada and Europe.
Our Tables will at all seasons be abundantly
supplied with all the market affOrJis
We have also attached to the Hotel an elegaL ,
Billiard Room, furnished with Tables made ex
pressy for us by the celebrated manufacturers
Mrssrs. PHELAN COLLENDER Of New York
Our Bars will be supplied with the best OF
Wines and Liquors.
Servants attentive and polite, and every at
tention will be paid to the comfort Of the Guest
and Patrons of the House which will be made ~
HOME like a. possible.
Stages will be at the Dcpots on arrival Ui
trains also at the steamers on their arrival to
convey guests and their baggage To the House
BULL g. SEWRLL,
maFs2-'iin PrOprictOrs
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LEWIS Co., W. ", July 81, 1867
From the Nashville Banner.
Pcriious Lem.

The Sheriff of Marion County, accom-
ponied by n posse of six men, got on the
northward bound train on the n. and
c. Road, at Bridgeport, last Tuesday,
in charge of two prisoners, who had
been sentenced by the Criminal COnrt
of Marion County to the Pcnitentiary
for stealing. As the officer had not
been able to procure handouts, the
old-fashioned method of securing the
prisoners was resorted to, viz: fasten-
ing their arms to a stick placed at the
back. .a.
Feeling confident that the cOnvicts
could not effects their escape while the
train was in motion, the drowsy Sheriff
and his assistants had, before II o'clock,
sunk into sound slumber. The con-
ductor noticed glances andlkeys passing
between the prisone ers, and suspected
that they would attempt to escape. He
therefore woke up the Sheriff, who, how
ever, contented himself with giving n
grunt of intense dissatisfaction, and re-
lapsed into the dreamland. This was
repeated two or three times.
The prisoners had i'll the meantime
succeeded in untying themselves, and
as soon as quiet was restored, ran 10 TIE
front end of the car hut found the door
locked. They then rushed to the rear
door, intent on getting ont of the
clutches of the law at any risk. The
Sheriff awoke, but too late to prevent a
result clearly brought abont by his own
culpable neglect of duty. He shouted
to the rascals to stop, they answered
with yell and jumped off the train.
At this time the cars were running at
the rate of fifteen miles per hour. As
the convicts were seen to fall on their
heads 1t was at first supposed that were
both killed. The conductor ut once ran
the train back TO the spot, but the
Sheriff, after seaching the bushes for
few minutes, came to the conclusion
that the Penitentiary had effectually
been cheated out of two inmates, and
that their custodian was likely to get a
thorough rating on his return home.
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SWAMI HOUSE.
PARKERSBURG, W. VA,

PARkERSBUKU, ". VA,
TDHE ONLY FIRST GLASS HO.
i TELin the city, and the most conveniently
located as to the Railroad Depot and Steamboat
Landing. This House has been recently en-.
larged and newly fitted up. Water Is drawn
from the Ohio River by Steam suction, forced in
a tank on top of the building, from which the
House is supplied with PURE SOFT WATER
1t is heated throughout with steam, and all the
modern improvements attached.
Bills MODERATE, and attention THOROUGH.
marl4.ly j. J.WM DENT, Proprietor
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Drowned.

BUFFALO, N ~, August 5.-Charles d.
Degerhard, well-known musician and
organist of this city, was drowned on
Saturday while fishing.