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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-14

THE FREE SCHOOLS OF ILLINOIS,
The sixth biennial report of the Super
intendent of Public instruction of the
State of Illinois, for the years 1865 and
1896, has been issued, It is one of the
most interesting documents that has
been published by that State. We
learn from it that GA $50 scholars were
reported in all of the common schools
OF the Slate for the year ending Sep
tember 80, 1856. These were under the
tuition of6.S25 male. and l0,454 female
teachers. The number of school houses
reported is 9,753, an increase of $50 over
the previous year. The two-mill school
tax yielded $3.50. 1000. This tax for the
past eleven years has amounted to
81, ,794 5l; in addition to which up
wards of Sl3 600, 600 has been raised Tor
school purposes by local taxation. The
Congressional land grant for the pro-
motion Of agricultural and scientific
education gives to the State of Illinois
about five hundred thousand acres OF
land Na .'
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ruE srRAwnERRY cuLruRE.

There appears to be general disa
preetnent in relation to the culture OF
straw berries, especially as to soil and
manure.
A gentleman, an experienced fruit
grower, who called upon us few days
since, said he had come to the conclu-
sion that we made our strawberry beds
too rich. Hisgreatest success had been
when he planted in ordinary ground,
and did not top dress.
He, however, agreed with us in the
opinion that moist, cool situations, even
where there was little shade portion
of the day, was TO be preferred; also
that, as a rule, hill planting should not
be adopted, though with few yarie-
ties 1t might be the best. Planting
broadcast, as it may not be inhpproprl-
ately called, will in almost every in
stance give more fruit, and the beds
will last longer. 1t is true some grow
ers renew their beds every two or three
years; butif there is success in securing
n good bed, we should by all means ad-
wise 1t to be continued as long as il will
produce profitable crop. We removed
a bed of HoVey's Seeding, after bear
ing most bountifully for six years, and
have been sorry that it was not allowed
to go a year or two longer, as we have
not had a good bearing bed since, with
all the renewals.
In preparing new beds for planting
out, we think it can be advised with
the best effect to dig the ground deeply
and pulverize thoroughly, putting in
the manure that it is intended to apply
while the bed lasts, and the plant
should be set as deep in the soil as pos
sibIe. On the approach of cold weather
cover them evenly and lightly with
straw, which should be kept In place
by bean poles. When the covering is
removed in the spring, should the
plants have been disturbed by the
frost, pass over them a light roller, or
apply about an inch of fresh soil to the
whole bed. r... |.. ....a
1t will be found, we think, in great
| majority of cases of failure in cultiva'
ting the strawberry that the frost has
had much to do with it; and that on ex-
animation the largest portion Of the
roots are above ground, and afford no
support to the plants, which, as con-
sequence, are stunted in growth as
also is the fruit in size.
Some of our very best strawberry
growers have completely failed this
year, though every attention, according
TO their ideas, was given to the crop,
especially that OF hedUiLy cOUerin9 with
mdnIre in The fall.
Ifany top dressing is applied it should
be in the spring, and then there is moth.
Ing better than a light coating ofgTouHd
bones.-Germdntotcn Telegraph.
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-14

Democratic party is our foe. 1t sum-
mons us to new struggle, and along
its lines we hear the eSultant cries of
preparation. Let us spend the few re-
naming weeks in organization. Let
us above all things surrender no prin-
ciple-make no concession. Then our
triumph will be righteous as well as
sublime.-N. Y. Ift6lne. q
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WHY IS 1T THAT POTATOES YIELD LESS
THAN FORMERLY?

A correspondent in late number of
your paper, wishes to be told why the
Yield of potatoes is less than formerly.
The reason is not difficult of discovery.
1t exists as a law of nature, embracing
animal as we'll as vegetable organisms.
These all have excretory as well as Sc
cretory functions. All throw of etfete
matter, and this effete matter Is hateful
to the secretory vessels on which Vege-
tables depend for their development.
II many crops in succession, OF the
same vegetables. are grown, the effete
matter Increases in proportion to the
uutTiIive, and finally overcomes all
efforts at successful cultivHtion. The
1ood decreases and the poison increases
with every crop. II manure, general
or special, is added to the soil, It in
crsases the food, but not necessarily
diminishes the poisonous etfele matter.
One hundred years ago potatoes were
were left fresh for their produc-
tion. Then and long afterwards
400 bu shells WIS not an eXiraor-
dinary yield. Now the increased
taste Tor It's use, and the great augmen-
tation of our people, in number and
ability to purchase, have made 1t neces-
sary that great breadIhs OF land should
be used for its growth. In consequence
OF this mueh5o of the land has become
weakened to a degree that Invites de-
structive enemies to feed on its sub
slance-to take advantage OF its weak
ened organization. Hence the rot, so
called, and other ailments. Mother
earth is a good mother. but like her sex
generally, she has a taste for variety in
other adornments. She Will change her
dress.. even the most durable of her
fabrics-her forests. These are ever
varying in composition, and finally
thrown off altogether in grasses. These,
ag lin, have their round OF varieties,
and in Il long. course OF years give place
10 other plants. Mother earth viii
have her way, and those of US, her
children, who best understand her re-
quirements, will psrtake most largely
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A Bro CoSrRAcr.-oakes Ames, OF
North Easton, Massachusetts,, has con-
tracted to build nearly the whole of the
remaining portion ofthe Union Pacific
RaiIroad-soms six hundred miles
passing through the Rocky Mountain
regiou-receiving therefor over forty
seven million dollars,
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Wehave 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
Gnrdiners New Store, cor. Main and Union
streets and get them.
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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Tuition $50 per session. Boarding nom s.
observation-disclosures s. per session TO each
Free tuition to sons of Ministers OF the Cos
pei OF ali denominations.
For particulars, apply for catalogue TO Prof.
@. L. LIooS Secretary, or TO
W.. PESDLEroN, President.
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THERE is an engraved topaz in the
Paris Exposition upon which twenty
years Of labor were expended.
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Prizes amounting to $3.50, $50.


$4,000 Numbers and zss Prizes.
Tickets SIP, Halves ss, Quarters ga.
ES-The above MAGNIFICENT SINGLE-NUM-
BER LOTTERY VIII be drawn IN PUBLIC, in
CovTSGToE, KY, BY SWORN CoHMISSIoSEsTeS
at oSE O'CLOCK p. N, at the corner OF Fourth
and Scott SITS. The Kentucky State Lot
cries are no 9ift Enterprises, but responsible
Money Lotteries, that have been conducted
for the past thirty years, and are drawn
under the authority OF n charter from the
state and bonds are given for tha payment
OF all prizes. The drawings are published IN
the New York Herald and Cincinnati Com
mercIal.
The above scheme Will bs drawn the middle
aud last of g each month during 1867 and 1883
Circulars OF Lotteries drawing daily kent
by application TO the Managers.
Address all orders for tickets to
MURRAY, EDDY q CO.,
CoVinEtOn, Ny.
sPAGENTs WANTED.
augZ7. 7.d6WlY
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We find the following concerning the
potato rot, which is now doing much
damage in Maryland, in the Lancaster
CPa. Examiner ofthis week:
Asthere is great deal OF complaint
about potatoes rotting in the ground, l
thought it probable that most farmers
would take them up earlier than usual
which renders them very liable TO rot
il great care is not taken. l have a
plan that I got from practical farmer,
and l tried il several years on my pota-
to crop quite satisfactorily. After tax
ing them out of the ground, which
should be tolerably dry so that it does
not adhere to the potato very much, L
select all the unsound and bruised ones
and on some dry floor, such as a barn
floor, I spread thin coat of good wood
ashes and then a layer of the sound pO-
tatoes, and 80 for every layer of pota-
toes a larger Of ashes; but not many
layers should be placed on top of each
other, as they do not get the air so
we'll.
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A WE'LL attended meeting of Irish ser
want girls was held last Sunday in
Troy, n. Y. Their object was TO protest
against the appeal made by the Fenian
Congress in Cleveland for more funds
to carry on the war against Great Bri-
tain TO free Ireland. From the resolu-
lions passed, we should say that they
have learned wisdom from sad expe-
rience. The chambermaids resolved as
follows:
FIRST. That they had no interest in
the capture of Canada, and could not
see iIw IL would benefit Ireland if it
was captured.
Second That they had given their
earnings for years, and nothing came ui
it but senseless military campaigns
without prospective success.
INiTd. That the money already paid
was criminally diverted from its pur-
pose.
Fourth. That they would contribute
no more until assured of success.
The above contains the gist of the
resolutions. Considering the elements
assem- bled, it is wonderful that every
thing passed of hurmoniously. 1t is
proposed at II future meeting to adopt
an address in answer to the one to be
sent ont by the Fenian Congress now
assem- bled in Cleveland.
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L the following schedule on and after May
5, 1857. -
Leave Wheeling Leave Baltimore
daily at. 5:lO p m. daily at..--5:2O pm.
Arrive washington--4:S0 "a
Grafton.-.----- 1900 Auives-
ParkensburE $50 am. HRTpers F'y-8:SO F"
Cumberland 400 Cumberland IS am.
HaIpers Ferry T:l5 I" lGraiton-..---. SO -
Baltimore .---lO.0 tWheeliuR---.l0.I0
Wash'n City ll:S5 oIncludinR Sundays
"Including Sundays.
EXPRESS TRAIN.
Leaves Wheeling Leaves Baltimore"
daily at 7;55 am. daily at $40 pm.
Arrives Wash'n City-S:45 "a
Grafton .--.-- LIS pm. Arrives
Parfersbury 7,0 HaTper's F.y-I.sl am.
Cumberland 7:25 CumberiAnd-I:s0 =.
Harpers F'yl2-SI Am. GrRfton..---I IZsOS pm.
baltimore - i;5l wheeling. 6.0S ="
WaSh'n City. 5c2O :" Except SUNDAYS.
Except Sundays.
MAIL TRAIN.
Leaves wheeling Leaves Baltimore
daily at----&l0 pm. daily At----S:E5 I'm.
Arrives Wash'n City-7:4S -
G5rAftO n ---...-- 40 a m. Arrives
CumbeIland-7:40 ' HarPeT's F'y-l10 pm.
HRrper's F'yl2s4O D m. Cumberlano-6:fO e
Wtnchesler.-..2=60 g iCirafIon---..--ll=sO -
Baltimore ---.-bs0O WheeNDK---.-.4sIOR q. m,
WaAh'n C1ty.-6s5O Except SATURDAYS,
Except Saturdays.
BESWOOD ACCOMMODATIONS.
To connect with @. o. r. r. Dtvtdon.
Leaves Wheeling st-.--- ass0 a. m. 400 p. m.
Tickets TO all principal points in the East
West and SOuth-wesG can be procured at the
Companys office ...-
JOHN L. WILSON, ltaster of Transportation
H- K. 7. DEVRlES
my7 General Agent, Wheeling.
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INTELLIG ENGER JOB 0FFiCE,
No. IS Quincy st4eet.
.lIAY TICKEIS AND BILLS OF LADISG
PROGRAMMES AND POSTERS.
CHECKS, NOTES. RECEIPTS.
SHOW BILLs for Country Merchants.
CARDS AND BILL HEADS neatly printed.
MANUFACTURERS LABELS.
ASSURANCE POLICIES AND BLANKS
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FACULTY.

OF Mental, Moral and Political Philosophy
and Bellies Letters.
H. ". HARDING. POf OF Mathematics
j ]. 7. BaRCL&Y, Prof. of Natural Sciences
B. T. JONES, Tutor.
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Educational.
Bethany College.


rINHE TwENTY-SEvENTH SESSION OF
i this well known SCAT OF learning Will
commence on
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l4O Main Street,
Bargains in Boots 6 Shoes


That never. have boen. nor never can:oe beat.
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Grauspor1attpa.
BALTIMORE & OHIO R.R COMP
SUMMER sCHEDULE-

PASSENGER TRAINS WILL RUN BY
L the following schedule on and after May
8 1871
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AMPLE ACCOMMODATIONS

are provided both for PURLIC and PR1-
VATE BOARDING. and unfurntshed rooms
VIII be let to students who wish 10 board
themselves.
An experienced and able corps Of Protss-
nIeIe and thorough course OF fnSfruc-
ion will ba furnished to the student.
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and terminate ON the 18th June. ls6S II Is
romantically situated In the midst OF the
beantlful and healthy hill country of the
"Pan Handle OF West Virginia, and easily
accessible by Rail koad or River, and sur
rounded with the most favorable Influences
for student life.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28

"a German, very intemperate in his habits, was
found dead his shop, his lips entirely burnt away,
leaving ghasy hole; his tongue char1ed to crisp.
His nose was also burned, as if by fire coming out
of his nostris, and his clothes were burning when
found. No other part of the body save the air.
passages were burned Physicians who examined
the body pronounced it clear case of spontaneous
combustion 1t is supposed that the fire was COM
municated by attempting to light cigar.
Strong as the radical party is in the present
Congress, it will be much more powerful IN the
next, which meets on the 4th of March. In the
Senate there will be but five democrats proper;
Messrs. Salisbury and Riddle, Of Delaware; Mr.
Hendricks, of Indiana; Mr.. Guthrie, OF Kentucky,
and Mr. Buckalew, of Pennsylvania. The demo-
Gratis, on national questions, will, however, be re-
inforced by seven conservatives; Messrs: johnson
and Swami, of Maryland; Davis, Of Kentucky;
Norton, of Minnesota Patterson, OF Tennessee !;
Doolttle, of Wisconsin, and Dixon, OF CONNECTICUT,
making twelve in ALL The radical strength will be
forty, and adding Nebraska, forty two, thus giving
them much more than three-fourths majority
In the house, which, excluding the southern States,
is composed of l91 members, there will be 29 va
cances in consequence of no elections having as yet
been held in several of the States. 1t will stand
on the 4th of March, 12O radicals to 81 democrats,
giving the republicans more than three fourths
vote and if the present representation IN the States
to elect is not otchanged the radical strength will not
be diminished It will thus be seen that the radl-
cal party for the next two years will have absolute
control of the government Wilmington Dispatch.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28
IMPORTANT DECISION.

We learn from Mobile paper that Judge Gates
Of Louisiana, has rendered decision which may
be Of importance to many former shareholders
should it become precedent for the courts in 9TH
States. He says that the logical sequence of the
action of the State in emancipating slaves must be-
that hen the right of property in that which had
heretofore been treated as such by the laws is des
stroyed, the laws to regulate the rights of parties
to that property, and to enforce payment of obi
tons given for it, must follow the fate of the prop
erty ITSELF and all contracts based upon these laws
be annulled.
The Judge further holds that the tenure BY which
this species Of property was held, was different
from that by which all other property is held. It
was not based, he says, on natural law; and the
right Of liberty was a pre-existing right which be-
longed to the person held as slave, however much
public policy and the supposed interest of the coun-
try may have prevented the enforcement of that
right by the person claiming it. But when the
sovereign power Of the State intervened to recop.
nize and enforce that right it cannot be said that
the property was destroyed by any fortutous event
he adds, that Governments cannot saw tract of
land which is property by the laws of nature, shall
no longer be property, but that slave once eman-
cipated, can, by no subsequent act of the Govern
ment be legally held as slave. If this ruling pre-
walls throughout the courts of the South, notes or
other obligations given for slaves will be knocked
into q cooked bat
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28
Joseph Is ALIVE.

Ex-Governor BROWN of Georgia, the veritable
JOSEPH E., whose name used to gil our newspa-
pers, in war times, as the great soldier friend,
ever anxious to do something for them, has turned
up again. He had SO entirely disappeared beneath
the surface Of political affairs, that he was gener-
ally supposed to have been efectually demolished
by the overthrow of his little throne in Miledge-
vile. This is mistake. He is out in three-col-
umn letter, in the Atlanta papers, advising the
people Of Georgia to accept the terms offered them
by the Sherman bill ...
Phis is the same man who gave aid to the enc
my throughout the war, by his vigorous opposition
to every measure of the Confederate government,
on account of his fiery zeal for State-Rights. We
have not seen his letter. nor do we care to peruse
it, nauseated as we once were with his egotistica
productions, but we confess to little curiosity to
know how much of States Rights JOSEPH dscov-
ers in that BILL He ruined his State once by his
incessant brayings in favor of the doctrine; now
he recommends an abject swallowing Of dirt to get
out of the difficulties into which his efforts, and
those of similar demagogues, have brought us. II
is to be hoped thatmen of this class have lost Their
influence in the South. They might atleast, wait
till those in whom our people have confidence, have
spoken, before they volunteer their "advice y
This is no time to listen to the voice of small-fry
oracles; we want to hear from our best and wisest
men on this question, and JOSEPH cannot fairly
be counted among their number. ..... ...
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28
A REMARKABLE LETTER.

The Hon. George s. HiIard having been solicit
ed to deliver an opinion as to the policy Of Demo
cratic Convention, replies in letter full of wisdom
and sagacity Few will fail to recognize its pith
and pungeney its crisp language and compact
thought. We take great pleasure in reproducing
lit:
Boston, January 90, 1867.
My DEAR SR:-I have received your letter on
the proposed Democratic Convention, and will say,
in reply, with entire fankness, that am not In
favor of the proposed Convention, and will state
some of my reasons
In the first place, think the Democratic party
has not the confidence Of the country; whether
rightfuIy or wrongfully, do not say but of the
fact, there can be no question.
Second have no faith in Conventions. They
are generally controlled by the least wise among
their body. They are excitable mobs, and in every
Convention there are few men who are wiser than
not control Thecourse of the Democratic Conven-
ton in 1864, in my judgment, lost Mcclellan his
election. The Convention last summer at Phila-
delphia, did no good at all, to say the least And
the dangers of Conventions are increased in times
so. excitable and electrical as ours ..
"Non tGLaI tai. .os. aurIls, non deensOhDus i''Is
What we need now is patience, infexible, invin-
chile patience, that endures and waits. The coun-
try is sick with the disease of Radicalism and this
is what the faculty call self-imited disease and
must run its course and cannot be checked by med
icaments My Life upon it, should this Conven-
ton meet, it will not part without doing or saying
something to give aid and comfort to the enemy.
The country now is too prosperous for any change
in its policy. Nine men out of ten have no other
test Of the wisdom of any set of public measures
than its effect upon their pockets. When the tide
shall have turned from food to ebb-when the
seven years of plenty shall have been succeeded by
seven years of famine, we may hope for better
day, but not till then. Yours, faithfully,
G.. s. HIIIARD
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The Eliot bill for the government Of Louisiana
and the Stevens Reconstruction bill have both
been supplanted by the Sherman bill, which has
passed both houses. As a matter Of vital interest
to our readers we give it in full elsewhere. 1t now
only needs the approval of the President to become
law, and failing in that twill certainly be passed
over his veto. The opinion is beginning to gain
ground, that Mr. JOHNSON will not refuse his sane
ton to this measure. The correspondent of the
Charleston Ncacs asserts that the President will
not only sign this bill, but will also entirely aban
don his reconstruction policy and sustain that Of
Congress. 1t will be heavy loss to the South, il
her chief bulwark against Congressional aggres'
sions should desert her at this perlous crisis. The
Supreme Court, however, yet remains as the
last breakwater to resist the food fanaticism but
that may be also swept away by the still rising
tide The prospect of re-establishing the Union,
upon the basis of equality and solid peace, is now
darker than it has ever been, since our armies laid
down their arms.
The impeachment furor has almost died out,
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THE BANKRUPT BILL.

In our last issue, we published this bill as it pass
ed the House of Representatives during the last
session of Congress. We now give place, in anoth-
er column, to the same bill it recently passed the
Senate The latter is voluminous document Of six
ty-eight pages, and would occupy too much of our
space, if printed in full We, therefore, take from
the Charlotte Times condensed synopsis of its con-
tents. Neither of the bills can become law, as
the matter now stands; for the reason that neither
of them has passed. both Houses. A committee of
conference has been appointed to adjust the differ
ence between the Senate and the House. The re-
suit will probably be modified form of the bank
rupt bill, combining some of the provisions of both
the now conflicting bills. Congress has but short
time lef to act upon this matter; if the bill does
not receive the sanction of both Houses by the Sd
of March, the bankrupt bill will be dead, unless
the new Congress takes it up from the beginning,
and passes it. "