Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-06-14

An election las recently taken place IN
Wee, Virgins, the results of which would
indicate, though unheralded by kilograms.
that proscnptiye radica,ism Is rapidly on
the decline in that quarter. The days OF
b pdsgo have been 10 z and dark there,
and /. tie hour of de,ivcrance cometh, it
may 10 syn Of more that is to come else
wh,re. The election was wholly local
oic. being for county officers, but may be
none tho les, significant on that account.
Tho wh, cling Reqister says:
The re,,-traton frauds, with whose de>
to Is the state has rung, have been rebuked
The ties, oat,i denominations have been spit
upon. The whole system OF prospective
10 -isia,ion has been terribly judged by the
people. Tho details Of the elections last
thursday week show that n remarkable
revolution is taking place in the sentiments
Of the people Of Vest Virginia. The ex-
prsssion is general and emphatic.
We have already given the returns from
Ohio and Brooke. showing the complete ac>
feat Of Radicals ia these tw0 counties. Wc
have also information OF handsome gains in
Marshall, the Democrats having carried at
least two townships IN the county which
has heretofore gone Radical by largo major
ties In Mononsahela county the demo
Gratis have not been idle. They have made
handsome inroads upon their oppon en,s IN
various parts Of tina, hitherto hopeless coun
~ the gain OF one township alone amount
ing TO one hundred and twenty >hve.
The Clsrksburg ConSei rat,ce says that
in Marion county, which has hcrei o; re been
entirely Radical, with the exception of two
townships seven of the townships, not>
W thstsndlLg The Board Of rcgi tra,ion
struck oil, as they thought, enough voters
An QUO OF the democratic townships to give
them clear majority. Yet IN this very
township the Democratic ticket was elected
by larger majority than ever.
A correspondent states that in TAYLOR
county 1.-The Democrats have elected a large
maj 'rlty OF the board OF Supervisors aud
other township officers, and have carried
several townships which the Radicals have
heretofore controlled Jefferson county
whlca was regarded as Radical beyond res
demption. has also gone back. A large
number of the citizens OF Ca houn county
were stricken from the Registrars books.
The unlawful despotsm has had its effect.
Al the recent election the Conservatives
cvrricd every township in the county
The election has taken place in Doddridge
county also. Last year the Radicals car
ricd It. and this year il goes Conservative.
Rudolph county whore were struck of %
Conservatives from among the best men,
has elected five or six Conservative super
visors in the nine townships Other re.
ports OF similar purpart, though Tess minute
reach w from other quarters of the Stntc.
The <f'fcsf Ssriic of Humanity.
Tho eldest rcmnan, Of mortality extan, is
the Skeleton Of one e tie earlier Pharaoh
encascd IN is original buri,l robes ana
wonder ally perfect, considering its age,
which was deposited, about eighteen o,
twenty months ago, in the British Museum
and is justly considered the mos, valuable
ofall ITS archie ,icgi al treasures. The I'D
Of the coffin, which contained the roya
mummy, was inscribed with the name OF
its occupant, Pharaoh Mykerimus, who sue.
ceeded the heir of the builder of the Great
Pyramid about twenty two centuries before
Christ. Only think Of it; the monsrch
whose crumbling bones and leathery inte-
ruments are now exciting the curiosity and
wonder of numerous gazers IN London, res
isnei in 4, vpt before Abraham was born,
AMI only about two centuries or so after
Mz,nim, the grandson of old Father Noah
and first Of the Pharahcs. had been gath
erei to his fathers Why, the tide>marks
Of the deluge wou' d scarce have been obli>
tsrased, or the gcpher>wood kree>timbers
OF the Ark have Iotted on Mount Arrarat,
when this man Of the early world, lived.
moved aud had his being. His flesh and
blood we're contemporary with the rroren
itoss Of the great potriarch his bones and
shrivelled skin are co'cmpory with the nine
tcsnth century and the date Of the Cruel,
61ion is only about midway between his
era ard ours.
What gulf Of time is br,dgcd,' - II
were BY those Wondering relics or oil
the resurrections effected By the archs,l
g,sts. that Of Pharaoh Mykerimus is un.
doubted'y the most extraordinary and in>
tsresting. When the flourished "remote
antiquity" had jurs begun.