The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-11

plight, and presents fine appearance
and we have no doubt will do valiantly
when the occasion requires. They mum
Der we believe about sixty men, and art
qusrtered in the sold Tavern" J
HIGHwAY RoDBERT IN TUCKER CouN'
TY.-Qn Wednesday evening. 9th ,ult,
between 6 and 7o'clock, Jacob Dumire
ESQ, sx-deputy Sheriff Of Tucker coun
ty, was returning from . collecting tour
in the Laurel Hill section Of the county
and when near to, bis ybrDther,in,lsy's
Mr.. Andrew Pifers, twhsre he expected
70 pnt up for the night,) and about one
mile from the Barbour county line, two
meif IN disguise appeared in the road
before him. ope seized the bfidle rein
and presenting fire arms demanded his
mopsy,. Mr.. d :, being ,uparnaed il isgre-
sumed, and seeing no means OF evadlng
the scoundrels, forked over his pocket
Book, they took His money, some $3.50,
handed him his pocket book, and using
so,ne pfofane language left him.. This
is the first occurrence of the kind that
has, eyer occurred. in, that county. The
most profound indignation is manifested
by the whole community, and the hope
expressed by all that the scOuntlrels may
be detected and receive the severest
punislihpent due to their crimes. Thus
far 10 clue has been had to the robbers.
The Chairman Of the late committee
on Farguson's, thieying propspsities,
Tom. Harris, should iapeach "a. Marion
Melhorne, formerly ]. p," for the follow
ing: .-f .fE
j. see that John II. Surrntt has been
captured, and brought back to this conn
try for, trial. The uprderers OF his
mother are still at large-large as life
and ENJOYING the hOspitalities Of the
season. They'll probably be tried by
''the whirligig" some time, where per-
iury and loyalty will be ruled ont rs
dA-n poor excuses for killing an lnno-
cent woman. ....-. ...
To BE HUSG.-Chas. Younger, man
who distinguished himself by his brutal
loyalty, and marrying two wives, while
in the Federal army, and numbering one
of them (who formerly resided in this
city, soon after leaving the service-a
full account of which We published last
Fall-was, last week, found :guilty of
murder in the first degree, by Mason
county jury, at Point Pleasant. AS an
act of clemency it Is understood that he
will be hung instead of being condemn-
ed to a seat in the West Virginia Legis,
lature. The Judge has not yet fixed the
time for his execution.
TIE Buffalo Independent says that
"last Friday night our chicken coop
called Putnam Jail, yielded up its in
mates to the mercy of freedom again
and Young man named Wetzel made
his escape. This makes several times
ohr iail has done this trick, and we be
gin to think the young men do tins
thing inst for the sake of having thell
namo appear in our popular paper"
THE LATE LEGIsLATURE.-Several OF
our exchanges pay their compliments to
the Legislature of this State. The
Lewisburg Times congratulates this
body Oh its candor in admitting that il
was no better than JIM. FURGUsoN, AZ
follows:
The committee in the case of Furgu-
son, reported that he was indicted fol
theft and pardoned through executive
clemency, and recommended his resign
ing. He told the House that he would
not resign, and the House then rejected
the report. So Mr.. Furguson remains
in statu quo. We rather commend the
action of the House, for its candor,. in
admitting itself to be no better than
Furguson. We despise hypocritical
pretensions, of all kinds, and would
have thought less, even of the West
Virginia House of Delegates, had it SET
up the ridiculous claim of being too
good to associate with its leader.
While the Clarksburg Conservative
congratulates it upon being no meaneI
than it's predecessor, it says:
The recent Legislature has been weak
enough and mean enough i'll all con-
science, but it was an Improvement on
its predecessor. The former Legisla.
ture kicked Colonel Hounshell out of
its halls for preferring charges against
Judge Nat. Harrison, alledging that it
was q base attempt to slander a loyal
citizen; the present Legislature ap-
pointed committee to investigate the
charses against Mr.. Ferguson, who, il
he did steal Mr.. Burns carpet-bag and
overcoat, is a much better man than
Nat. Harrison, and the committee re-
commended him to resign. 1t is true
that the House laid the report of the
committee on the table and nothing
was done with it, and it is believed
that the head of the committee was ac-
tuated more by desire to rid himself
of rival, his superior i'll virtue and III.
tclligence, than TO meet the ends OF
Justice or preserve the honor OF the
House of Delegates; but still it was an
improvement upon the last. .i =,
Editors in West Virginia are under
the ban of the Wheeling Legislature. A
bill has passed one House providing
that factions for libel founded upon
ANYTHING published in a newspaper may
be broug ght, prosecuted and maintained
either jointly OF separately, against the
author of the libel, the editor, assistant
editor, publisher, and owner or owners
of such newspaper" and that "no recoy'
cry, with or without satisfaction against,
or accord and satisfaction with, OF TO-
lease of any one or more persons charg.
ed with such libel, shall be u bar to a
recovery and satisfaction against any
other person Herewith"
All this because the Conservative pa
pers had proved the leader of the House
to- be d carpet-bag thief and pardoned
felon.-Richmond Dispatch.
The Marion (Ohio) Democrat refers to
the fact of the loyal leader Of the West
Virginia House of Delegates being a
pardoned thief and adds that q great
many Republican leaders are thieves
who are not otpardoned.
How the Treasury IL Robbed.
One of the last acts of the House Of
the late Rump was to allow the mem