The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-13

A clear-hcaded correspondent Of the
Wcl,Sburg Herald furnishes the follow.
iug commentary upon the style in which
the Radical authorities are managing
affairs in connection with our State
Penitemtiary. AS the Herald and its
correspondent are both of the opposite
party, neither can be accused of dislOy-
atty in placing before the public the ar
ticle to which we call attention. While
adniring the boldness and ability with
which the author points out and de-
nounces the outrages to which he refers
: Wa cannot understand why he and
hundreds of others of like superior in
ieliigence will support at the ballot-box,
tue very men who are heaping up their
great wrongs upon themselves and the
country. If the Radical leaders were
once given to understand that the sup
port Of the thinking and well-meaning
portion of the party depended upon
prudence and honesty in their manage
mrnt Of public affairs, great reforma-
tou'of long standing abuses would
speedily be effected:
EDITOR OF THE HERALD: see by the
Wheeling Ints,ligencer of the 5th inst,
hat the Board which has charge Of the
frnltentiary, after advertising in that
paper alone. presume, as have seen 1t
III no other for ten days only, for sealed
Proposals." to furnish 10000 perch OF
sione-mct on tho 81 of the present
month, and awarded the following con-
uhcts, viz: to Edward Lewis, of Mar
,'aIl county, 1000 perch, 300 rubble, ut
: per perch, and 200 do, dimension, at
s,|. ToJ. W. Hobbs L. CO., Hancock
county, l5,0O0 perch, 375 rubble ut ~,
aud ,l25 do, dimension, at S9.4 per
perch. Linlc 4 Wilton, of Marshall
county, 800 perch, 15 rubble, ut ~,
aud ,l25 do, dimension, ut $o.S per
perch, amounting in all TO 5000 perch,
and to cost S42, ,a26.l5, An average OF
s'l1 per perch. 1t does not appear
IN the advertisement nor statement
IN the Intelligsncer, whether the rub
Die stone is to be "cOursed' or "uncours-
ct, which, understand is n material
difference, the former being guaged ana
dressed with the hammer, while the lat-
irr are neither assorted nor dressed. IL
STATED in the same article in the Ih'
''iigeHcsr that il is estimated that o.,
Wu perch of stone will be required to
complete the, building, which at like
rate will cost one hundred, forty g-HiHt
'soasGpd, foar hnRdred dollars, nearly a
half million for the stone alone, which
canuot constitute one-half of the entire
Cas-; of the penitentiary Our poor lit
lie safe, the child of the storm, rent
aud impoverished as she is, thus eom-
nences her career by putting one million
man undetined and chaotic pile of stone
atWeston, dignified with the name OF
an insane hospital; and another mitlios
IN another pile equally underlined and
lndeterminate as to cost for aught that
appears at Moundsville to be dignified
With the name of Penitentiary! Wha,
a future this portends for he three hun
dred aud forty thousand inhabitants
what recommendation to 60 abroad
IL is a ptty all her proposed puoiic
buildings were not underway In the
different sections Of the State 50 as to
give all her people an extra chance "a
Toll up their sleeves and pitch in and
hhlsh the poor thing at once, while the
bankrupt law is in force. Think if the
gentlemen comprising that Board had
been about to expend az, ,sS6 Is of their
orn money they would have awarded
such contracts upon 30 short and limit
ea advertisement when only half Of
what they had advertised for had been
.akeni Stopped it would seem in or
Isf TO reserve the balance for the fu.
.afe enjoyment of tho same PARTIES at
1ae same price, in imitation Of thu
nospital. If there had been present
want Of material, why did they not ad
Sertiss earlier = Il.
The township of wellsburg recently
contracted for the stone, including di
'nsnsion and rubble, for the foundation