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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-19

The tides come twice day in New
York hnrbor, but they come once in
seven days in Gods Harbor of the
sanctuary. They rise on Sunday, but
ebb on Monday, and are down and out
all the rest OF the week. Men write
oyer their store door, Business is bust.
ness" and over the church door, "Re-
ligion is religion" and they say to re-
ligion, Never come in here" and tn
business, Never go in there" "Let us
have no secular things in the pulpit" f"
they say; 1--WE get enough OF them
through The week in New York There,
all is being stringent and biting self.
tiehness and knives, and probes, and
lancets, Uud hurry, and work, and
worry. Here, we want repose and seda-
tives, and healing balm. All is prose
over there, here let us have poetry.
We want to sing hymns, and to hear
about heaven and Calvary, In short,
we want the pure Gospel, without any
worldly iutermixture." Aud so they
desire TO spend pious, quiet Sabbath,
full of pleasant imaginings and peace
full reflections, but, when the day is
gone. all is laid aside. They will take
by the throat the first debtor whom
they meet, and exclaim, PAY me what
L0Ou OWeSts II Is MOuuhys'' Apu Wneu
the minister ventures to hint to them
something about their duty to their
fellowmen. they say, "oh, you stick
to your preaching. You do not know
how TO collect your own debts. and can
not tell what u man may have to do in
his intercourse with the world" Gods
law is not allowed ~ go into the week.
II the merchant finds it in his store, he
throws it over the counter. If the clerk
sees il in the bank. he kicks IL out at
the door. If it is found in the street,
the multitude pursue 1t, pelting il with
stones, as ifit were n wolf escaped from
a menaRerie, and shouting, "Back with
you. You have got out of Sunday"
There is no religion in all this. 1t is
mere sentimentalism. Religion be-
longs to every day; to the piece of bu.
siness as much AS 10 the church. High
in an acient belfry there is a clock, aud
once a week the old sexton winds il upi
but II has neither dial plate nor hands.
The pendulum swings, and there II
goes, ticking, ticking, day in and day
out, unnoticed and useless. What the
old clock is, in It's dark chamber, keep
ing time but never showing IL, that Is
the mere sentimentality of religion,
high above life, in the region of airy
thoughts; perched up in the toy of Sun
day, but without dial or pointer to let
the people know what o'clock II Is, OF
Time, or OF Eternity.
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Tne Fntnre I'D the pemoeratic Party.

From NE NelO York TI5Ies.
The Democratic Parry Is beginning,
In many OF the States, to hold its State
Conventions and make other stir, pre-
paratOry to Fall campaigning. This
experiment at active life again will be
very curious-much more curious than
fearful. The old Highlander in Rob
Roy" when starting on new raid,
lost much breath in bawling for Archie
and Harrtsh, forgetting which OF his
sons had already been hanged. The
! Democratic Party will have the same
need of a sharp memory In rallying
| its old leaders and lieges, so many OF
whom have suffered the political death
due TO copperheadism or to treason.
Nor is This all. In the destruction OF
Slavery the party has lost ths right
arm of its power, that which alone en-
abIed it either to strike or to parry-we
might almost say the very back bone OF
its existence, that without which II
could never have held itself up at all.
Not since thirty years ago. when Mr..
Calhoun declared that the Northern
Democracy was "the natural ally oi
Slavery" has there been a single DEM
ocratic issue W hich did not bear directly
upon the interest nf"the peculiar lnsti
tutiou." Every Democratic President
since Jackson has been elected by Il
direct combination of the Democracy o:
the North with the slave power OF the
South and every great Democratic
measure which has passed Congress has
owed its success to just such a concert
of voting in the halls oflegislation. In
that identical way was carried the Re
peal of the Missouri Compromise, the
very measure which, as can be conclu-
sively shown, generated the rebellion
itself. And all through the rebellion
even after il had become perfectly aP'
parent that either Slavery or the nation
must die, the party resisted every
blow against Slavery with all
the energy of the instinct OF
self-pTPservatiOu. 1t struggled against
the Emancipation Proclamation and
every consequential enactment OF
Congress with the utmost pertinactty,
that its own life depended upon the
| life of slavery. II WAS that feeling
| alone W hiGh betrayed so many we'll
meaning men Of the party into opposi-
tion to the war and other unpaIrioIiC
conduct. The edebasement thus wrought
by the old party connections with
slavery was the only thing that made
itself was the only earthly thing that
made the rebellion possible. Even
now, the party shows the same spirit In
endeavoring to balk reconstruction,
which In any mode must settle the fate
of slavery forever. A national neces-
sity is sacrificed to what is regarded as
party necessity.
But this obstinate folly must have an
end. The Democratic party must yield
Just as its partner in guilt-Ihe South
has yielded, 10 the stern fact that
slavery is dead, beyond all possibility
of revival. The only real question
about this succumbing of the party is
the question of time and manner.
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y VETERAN OBSERVER.
Rebel Persecution of Prominent
southernerH

The bitter mRlignity which still hlls
the breasts of the masses of the late
rebels may be seen in the bigoted and
uuscrupulous persecution which they
heap upon such of their late leaders as
have had honor and manliness enough
to "accept the situation" in good faith
and to urge others to do so. General
Longstreet just now seems to come in for
the chief abuse of these unreconstruc-
ted tebels. The Augusta ChronicEs and
Sentinel, in its last issue, after likening
him to Benedict Arnold, for his swan
ton, wicked desertion of his friends and
his country" &C., &c, says that it
learns from distinguished Confederate
General, who has Just returned from
New Orleans, that the Judgment of
popular indignation upon this recreant
SouIherner has already been pro-
nounced upon him by his former
friends and associates in that city, and
that, SO strong and marked is their de-
uunciaIiOn OF his course. that he has
been compelled TO leave the place and
seek shelter in some interior village"
In one view we ought, perhaps, to
welcome just such displays of Tancor-
ouS Rebel hatred as are evinced in this
case. Such men as Longstreet can
but have their friends and their inhu-
ence. Denunciation will only serve to
separate them more widely from those
who still cling to the old idols of slavery
and a Southern Confederacy, and throw
them into more intimate association
with that rising power of genuine re-
pubIIcanism which is bound to become
dominant throughout the South. Ev-
eryLhing which breaks up the old
Southern unity is To be welcomed; and
nothing can more etiectuAlly do il than
such unjust persecution of men who
have heretofore achieved distinction AS
leaders of public sentiment at the South.
1t is not in the nature of high. spirited
and able men to sit down tamely under
political and social ostracism, when
they have on their side the intelligence,
the virtue, the moral power, and the
physical force of a great nation. The
elements OF powerful and ultimately
dominant Republican organization are
abundant in every Southern State. All
they need Is discipline and leadership,
and these they are likely soon to re-
ceive from men like Longstreet, whom
the old dominant element of the South
is isattempting to OstraciZe and put down.
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.FFou tse Watehman and Reaeetor,

From L1e Hdtcilu1dn ana 1GSJteetoT.
We ask the pardon OF the "medical''
for relating the following suggestive
anecdote, ut the same time we invite
fathers and mothers TO make u note OF
it,"
Harry was the son of physician,
and often amused himself by playing
doctor, compounding his powders and
pills out of the sand and gravel OF The
garden. One day, while thus engaged,
a large toad hoPPed near him, and,
seating itself leisurely upon its haun-
ches, proceeded TO open and shut its
mouth, as IL inviting the DOCTORS at
tentiOn. 1t was catching flies.
"Good morning, Mr.. Toad" said
Harry, delighted at the idea OF having
a live patient. "Come to be doctored 2
Got the dropsy, p'raps."
"Mr. Toad Winked and gulped, as
much as 10 say, Yes, sir, very bad"
Yes, yes, L understand your case
'zactly. You jes' please to wait u
minute, and I'll cure you double quick.
"Now it happened that Harry had
seen his father prepare some compound
rhubarb pills that morning, and 1t oc-
CURED to him that here was favorable
opportunity to test their efficacy. In
less time than it takes to write it, the
aspiring Young doctor secured one of
the pills and dropped Il into the open
mouth of the contiding patient:
"Guess I'VE fixed you now" solilo-
ouized the doctor. "When 1 cures, /
cures. and when I don't cures, kills" /"
Mr.. Toad gulped and swallowed, and
began 10 blOat and bloat, until Harry
thought he must be the very frog allu-
ded 10 in his reader, that tried to outdo
the OK. A moment more, and the poor
patient turned a liVid purple, gave one
last gasp, and expired. His tiy-catc1-
ing days were ended. His doctor had
killed mimi
Harry buried his dead patient with a
grave face, and sat down to mediate
Jipon the virtue OF compound rhubarb
pills, Whatever was his condition af-
terward, he could with difficulty be
persuaded to take his fathers medi-
cines, always objecting upon the plea,
"They killed the toad "
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coming down. Now. Congress must
let these boys know that the stones are
to be thrown, and they must come
down. But we do not propose to throw
any poisoned arrows or to deprive them
of food, or to treat them any worse than
foolish and obstinate boys ought TO be
treated. Let Congress say exactly what
they mean General Sheridan shall do,
and nothing else. Let them keep their
firmuess. This is the year in which the
American people mean to be good-hu-
mored, and it will be a happy thing for
our Southern people IL they will be
good humored tooi and let us all re-
member that amid the calamities of
war aud the follies of peace there Is a
kind God above us, who
"From seeming evil educes good"
4 VETERAN OBSERVER.
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a Mother and Child Nearly stranEIed
by n Snake
F5om Me NdriOH lohtOJ Mirror

3'V"I 4's n -V' 'O7' NN''''OI 11"'V1'
Mrs Richardson, near this town,
missed her little boy, yesterday, and
went out in the garden 10 hunt him.
To her horror she saw the little fellow,
oped in the folds of monster snake.
She heroically seized the snake in her
hands and tore it loose. No sooner was
he loose, however, than he made Tor the
mother, ferociously, and cOiled himself
about her person, attempting to stran-
gle her as he did the boy. She agRin
disentangled herself from him. and
killed him with an AK. The little child
swelIed up for several days, but has
finally recovered. The snake is what
is called the "blue racer," which does
not bite, but strRngles. II measured
ten feet.
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ausaraure.
Franklin Insurance Company
or WHEELING

TIL Logan, 7. p. shnIlcrO-s, ]. 9. Rhodes
Geo. Mendel, J. h Hobns, SArnl- Mc(iel-
Ian, G. W. FranEhetn, Jas n. Vance, Alex
LAughltn-
UyHIS COMPANY NOW HAVING BEEN
OISaniEed four years, and In that time
done 4 successful businesS, Is still prepared
to take risks At fRiT rates on Buildings OF all
kinds, Merchandise, misunderstanding Estsih-
IiShnents Furniture, Steam BOs.t- and Car
goes on the Western Rivers and Lakes
ThIscompRny offers superior Inducements
to Farmers, whereby they can 6e insured on
Dwellings, Furniture. Barns and contents, toE
or years at reduced rates
This being home Institution, with the lar
gest capital and surplus OF any company N
in the state and composed oI some
nIneIy-fOur GtOckhnldeTs, most ofWhOm are
among our DeSt business men, recommends
itself to the favorable consideration OF the
tnsuring public, and sOucits their patronage.
Applications for insurance will be promptly
attended to by the Secretary.
Ofhce - Monroe street.
MACARTHUR, Secretary.
BAM'L MCMILLAN, President
GEO. MESDEL., Vice President
c. N. COES, Special Agent ocl6
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Kentucky State
LOTTER Y
GLASS o.
To BE DRAWN AT COVINGTOS. Ky.
JULY 81, 1867.
$4,000: humber. and zss Prizes.
$4,000 $4,000

755 prIFes, RmountlnE 10 t25o.55O
whole Tickets sI2, Halves so. quar-
carve would cali particular attention 10
the above MAGNIFICENT SISGLE-SUSBEB
LOTTERY, which will be dra~n IN PUBLIC
in CovIN6ToS. KY, By SWORN CoasIs-
sIoHEHS at ONE o CLOCK, +. NJ, Rt the corner
OF fOURT,t and SCOTT Frs The public are
Invited TO witness the drawing. The Ken
lucky State Lotteries are no ,SiiL EnterpTi-ess,
but responsible Money Lotteries, that have
been conducted success ully Tor the past
thirty years and are drawn under The
authority O. n Quarter from the Stale, and
bond to a lanSe amount are given Tor the
payment of all pIlZeR. the drawings are
Published in the New York Herald and CIn-
cinnati Commercial.
Circular. OF Lotteries drawing daily cent nee
by application to the Managers
Address all orders for tickets TO
MURRAY, EDDY q CO..
COTInEtOn, ny.
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We have also on hand 5000 worth OF La
dies and Childrens' Boots and Shoes, at lower
prices than ever was seen in the State. II
you want Bargains in Boots and Shoes, go TO
GRriiner's New Store, cor. Main and Union
streets and get them H-
Every pair OF Boots and Shoes sold at this
establishment Is WARRANTED, and In
every case will be mended nee OF charge.
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a SAN FRASc1sco letter of June Goth
says: "During a residence in the State
of nearly seventeen years never saw
SO many evidences of permanent pros
perity and active business as may now
be seen in few days rambling around
San Francisco. Twenty corporations
doing business in this city have paid
dividends on their capital since Janu-
airy 1sti aggregating S2,94I, 900, while
the profits OF private companies ana
firms have been larger than usual.
The income returns, which are nearly
completed, show a general increase on
last year.
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oFFIcERs:
10. K. WHEAT. President.
AMES McCLUkEY, Vice President

oFFIcERS:
GEO. <. WHEAT. President,
JAMES McCLUsEY. Vice President
JOHN BISHOP, secretary.
CHAs- WALLACE, state Agent for West
Virginia and Maryland.
DIRt tCTORs:-JOhn f Wilson, Jas. @. Or,
John A. Armstrong, A. {. QuRTTieT, Geo. X.
Wheat, Samuel harper, James McCIuney,
Morgan l.. Ott, Geo. Adams.
REFEREN CEs: y. Brady, Cashier Merchants
National Bank, Wheeling; List, MOTIisOn q
Co., Wholesale GIOcers, Wheeling; Pryor.
handlan & Co, Wholesale GToeers, Wheel
inSi Michael Reilly, Wholesale Grocer,
Wheeling: Mcclellan & Knox. Boot and
shoe house, Wheeling; McCabe, KTan s. On.
Druggists, wheelIng; Geo. w. Tanzheim q
Co., " hoiesaIe Wines and LiqI oTs, Wheel
lngi ~inshlp. Woods q Co., QueensWaTs
Wheeling; Lewis Baker, Puo. Hegfster,
Wheeling; T. o. McAfee, Notions. Wheeiingi
Campbell, Ersw Co., Pubs. lntellIgt ucs r,
Wheeling: Ott, son Il Co Hardware, Wheel
ing; J. T. Sands, Cashier, First NRi. Bank,
ERlrnont; h +. Camden, PTest- Nat EE-
Bank. weston, w. Va; Capt. John McLuIo.
JE., Wheeling. aPr4S
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TIE female skull, according to Week
Ter, is smaller than that OF man, both
as regards horizontal lcircumierence and
internal capacity, and the weight OF
the brain is correspondingly less. It
may be said that the type of the female
skull approaches in many respects that
OF the infant, and in still greater de-
gree that of the lower races. With this
is connected the remarkable fact that
the difference between the sexes, as re-
CARDS the cavity OF the skull, increases
with the development of the race, SO
that the male European excels the fe-
male much more than the negro does
the negress. Such are the utterances
Of science through one OF its present
e1pounders, DIR. Vogt, in his lectures
on man.
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HONORARY DEGREES are conferred in
such great numbers by our colleges,
that it is doubtful IL they are OF any
advantage. Hardly day passes with
out a new crop of a. BIS and a. MIS-
from one of the hundred American col
leges, and the total number conferred
is getting to be enormous. We believe
the rule to be, to confer A. B. on every
full course graduate, and, after three
or five years, to give the higher degree
of A. NJ. provided suitable diploma
fee is paid. If the fee is not forthcom'
ing the diploma is not given; so that
the matter simply resolves itself into n
question of dollars and cents. As men
in business or professional life never
use these honorary degrees OF A. b. or
A. M, save in the cases of authors and
instructors, it would, perhaps, be better
to do without them. They add moth
ing TO merit or usefulness, aud the di-
ploma comforting them generally rots
in some obscure closet. 10 have these
pairs Of letters dangling on the end OF
ones name, is no doubt, very pretty,
but this prettiness is generally only to
be Obtained at the expense OF modesty.
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THE suffrage question has been agita-
ting the New York Constitutional Con-
vention for some time past, and has
been the cause of an immense amount
OF speech-making. The particular
point now considered is, whether the
people in voting on the new Constitu-
ton shall or shall not vote separately
on the clnnse providing for colored
suffrage. The Republicans are opposed
to separate submission, whilst the
Democrats favor it, and as the former
are in the majority they will probably
triumph.
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A TUNNEL under the Atlantic, accord
ing to the Home Journal, is seriously
proposed. The tunnel boring company
is already making plans for organiza-
tIon according to that paper, and the
modest capital of g, SOC, 900, 900 is to be
raised for that purpose. We suppose
that a country that was able to raise
g., 700 600, 900 of debt in four years is
abundantly able to raise this small
capital for bearing under the bed of
the Atlantic.
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TIE South, although no longer In
danger of suffering from absolute star
y alton, still contains many poor people.
It appears from the statistics compiled
at MiIledgeville, the capital of Georgia,
the number OF paupers In that State
has Increased to 10000.
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In a letter dated at Louisa Court
House, and published in the Richmond
Dispatch, of Wednesday last, we find
the following paragraph:
An old negro not long ago applied to
Judge Nelson, living below Frederick's
Hall, to write him a letter to n fellow
freedn an. Requesting to know the
nature of the missive, the Judge was
informed that the party had been loan
ed 500 ain nice, slick, shiny Confed-
crate money jes before de war close,
and sence den de niger aint said nuE-
fen bout paying dat ar money back.
Now 1 wants, you, Judge, jes to tell
him II he come forward remejitly and
nay me fifty dollars in green6acks we
can be squared. II he fails TO comply
wild dat compromise. end If he amt
willing to dat, let him jes meet me at
de next sueing." TheJudge wrote the
letter.
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THE neigh6orhood of hills and noun
tains, permitting great change of air,
with little travel, is great advantage.
The decrease of heat and atmospheric
pressure. when we ascend, are physical
elements of which the effects are unde-
niable. Rosseau says: "It is the gem
eral impression of every person that in
the mountains we feel more felicity of
respiration, less heaviness of the body,
more clearness of the mind, the pas
sions become more moderate aud less
sensual and the meditations more tran
quill. II appears that when We elevate
ourselves above the common dwelling
place OF man we leave there all low and
terrestrial sentiments, and that the
nearer we come to the ETHEREAL Rpace the
spirit OF man obtains more of the celes-
tiaI, unalterable purity. We become
serious without melancholy, quiet with
out Incidence, satisfied TO exist and to
think" He adds: II doubt if any vio-
lent agitation, any hysterical disease
could possibly persist during long
residence in the mountains, ana IHm
surprised that baths of healthy noun
tain air are not OF the greatest remedies
in medicine, and oftener prescribed"
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CARD.
B. F. CALDWELL,

MANUFACTURER OF COPPER. TIN
NJ and Sheet Iron Ware, and dealer in
Cooking and Heating Stoves, No. IL Main
Street, Wheeling, West Virginia.
l would respectfully call the attention OF
the public to my large and select stock OF
Copper Stills, Copper and Brass Kettles. Also
Fruit Cans and Can Tons.
Job work OF all kinds will receive my per-
bonRl attention.
iyas saw B.F. CALDWELL.
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FEET were intended for use, and yet
immense numbers of sensible people
seem to think walking on them Is a
hardship. Those who ride in carriages
habitually have degenerated limbs.
The muscles become attenuated in con.
sequence of not being constantly active.
Rope. dancers, horseback-riders, and
indeed all who are using their legs as
they were designed to be, have them
finely developed. The more they ARE
exercised the stronger and more sym
metrical they become. But another
great gain results from walking more
than one rides. 1t brings into harmo-
nious play the whole muscular cordage
of the body. A healthy condition OF all
the Internal organs follows, and the se-
cretions are admirably conducted by
pedal exercises. 1t is a pleasant condi-
ton of eminent civilization TO ride any
way, but particularly luxurious to
bound of in ones own soft-cushioned
carriage; but there is a penalty posi-
lively following too much comfort of
that kind. Digestion becomes impair
ed, the legs diminish in size; and the
individual who rides when he can, and
rarely walks, is soon weary when the
attempt is made. Longevity is the
compensation for free outdoor walking,
without much reference to weather,
when business or duty requires it. We
were created for use, not altogether for
ornament.
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p. G. HILDRETH & BRO.

% Main 61reet,
WHEELING, W. VA.
"HOLESALE DEALERS IN NAIL ROD
w Bar Iron, Nails, Sheet Iron, Wire, Cast
steel window GlRks, Printing Paper, Wrap
ing Paper, Plaster Paris, Land Plaster IA-
msnt, MaIyland Lime, Common IIme. Flour.
Shanghai Matches Salt, Wooden WARE 6r.
Agents for Howes Improved Counter and
Platform Scales :.
1ns htghest 'SdTket pEIes pad for Raos, Flo d
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THE CROPS AND THEIR INFLU.
ENCE ON MIND.

The Why of Mems HearIs---Ynst Crops
of ISs7---GreAL Honey Talue...Infin.
ence ON the Country-.-The Republf-
can Party VIII Accomplish It's Mis-