The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-21

party. or not be allowed to vote at all;
and we are not going to be surprised at
all if we hear that he offers bill Win
such provisions.
But don't You or your readers think
that the people of this county sent him
there. They did no such foolish thing.
He was not elected by the voters, and
he never can get votes enough to elect
him in this county, even by the strict
est party discipline; and by lies and de-
ception and every description of trick
cry, and by threats and brow-beating,
and other means, which only such men
can use. he run behind his ticket in ev-
cry township-behind near twenty in
his own township, where he is best
known, and received nearly a dozen
votes less than the lowest on the whole
ticket for the whole county. He got a
certificate by bluff-game which he I'M
derstands better than anything else.
With the assistance or connivance OF
the Board of Registration, 1t was ar
ranged that an incompetent township
registrar should omit part of his duty,
SO that after the election the whole vote
of that township GALL Conservative but
five) would be thrown out in the county;
and the Board of Supervisors had their
ears and heads SO stuffed with law by
sarrulous young sprigs thereof, that
they were cajoled into giving the GER
tificate to the wrong man, although
some of the members knew of the trick
beforehand. But, then--every dog must
have his day,
Quite an interesting and rather lu-
dicrous incident occurred few days
ago, in which this Colonel Carroll
figured. l must tell you, in the first
place, that a few weeks ago two good
horses were stolen from the premises OF
Carroll in Buffalo township in this
county, and taken away up Twelve
Pole to the farm of one Marcum, and
there concealed. They were tracked
and found and brought back. For some
reason, not now clearly understood by
the uninitiated, Carroll has tried tn
fastcn the guilt of the theft upon Bill
Smith, notorious guerrilla during
the war, and had procured the
official offer Of q large reward
for his apprehension. 1t wasn't n bad
plan, was iti suppose il IS expensive
living in Wheeling, and the pay OF dele
gates is not enough for festive life in
the city. But the three hundred dollars
offered for the capture of Smith would
be good thing in itself, besides the
glory of the achievement of capturing
Bill, who had caused so much cursing
and counselling, scheminS and skedad-
ding, blowing and laundering for four
wears, But then he was like the young
woman who wanted to make the par
fridge soup she must first catch the
partridge. He boasted again and
again, that he only wanted to
get his eye on him, and he should
bring him down ut once. The
achievement of Captain Scott with the
coon would he nowhere in com
parison with the ease and skill with
which he should lead the aforesaid
Smith a willing captive" after he had
once got his eye on him. Well, few
days .ago Smith was down in the neigh
borhood, and Carroll began to regret
his late boasting, and, like his ancient
name sake, thought he had better pluck
his tongue out aud put il into a butter
woman's mouth for prattling him into
such pcrils. But finally he got two
men to 90 with him, with the declared
intention of bringing Smith down and
taking him to Wheeling. Smith re.
turned leisurely towards his home, and
the pursuers went fierceiy after, over the
hills and valleys far away, till they
game To the hnnse where Bill was
resting. Without warnidg or notice the
party begun to shoot at Bill, but rs IT
was very cold weather, it is supposed
the party were all shiyering with cold,
and the dozen pistol shots scattered III
every direction, for Bill wasn't hit OF
hurt. But the point of the joke comes
in where Bill Smith turned upon the
would-be capturers with Gas they sup
posed) a pistol, and they all skedaddled
behind the house and the shrubbery,
and came back right quick without him.
Bill had a common hand-toom Shuttle IN
his hand , NAT.