The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-03-14

regaling his readers with ponderous and
powerful articles in favor of negro suf-
frage, not adulterated, qualified or mod
fled, but the immediate, complete, and
universal enfranchisement of the unmit-
igated African. For his boldness, man
illness, fortitude and philanthropy he
has been Landed and encouraged BY ihe
whole negro-loving fraternity Of the
State, and it would now appear that
the enconiums have incited him TO 2
more practical, though less Pubhc
application of another text from the
same creed. Having preached the God
given and heaven sanctioned equality
of the irrepressible darkey as o matter
of theory, he has been illustrating the
beauty and holiness of the doctrine by
the living light of personal example,
and while serving out to his readers the
abstract truths of miscegenation as a
science, has himself been making a
practical application Of its principles as
an art. Of course his practices, like his
precepts, have been prompted solely BY
q love of truth, and have undoubtedly
cost him many sacrifice of taste and
inclination, but it must be said that as
n martyr to truth he appeared to be as
willing q soul as ever suffered. A few
days ago he consented to the departure
of the wife of his bosom, who proposed
leaving him lopely and disconsolate for
a brief season, untilshe had paid long
promised visit to some friends in Ohio.
In the midst of his solitude and desola-
ton, it was but natural that he should
seek some solace for his sorrow and sad
ness at her departure. While rejecting
upon his griefs, it occurred to him that
an amiable lady of his acquaintance
had been left like himself to mourn the
temporary loss of q partner in the joys
of life, and to her he turned for sympa-
thy and besought her to console his
sffiiction and pour into his wounded
heart the balm of pity and compassion.
She consented to sympathize; she con-
soled; she poured. Need speak of her
lineagei She was of mixed Ethiopian
extraction. Her fathers peddled clocks,
clans, and Goldfish, and hailed from "the
land of steady habits while her
mothers took in washing and ironing,
and were numbered among the ebony
daughters of Ham. Her complexion
was q charming compromise between a
new saddle and a cOal-scuttle.
Her eyes dark charm 'twere vain to tell,
But gaze on that Of the gazelle,
It will assist thy fancy well,
Her name was Lucy, and her husband,
noble boot-blacking son Of Africa!
LOVED her both dearly and constantly,
And thought her quite faithful to George
Mckee"
But alas for the frailty of Georgie's
expectations! also for the frailty of his
spouse. In the hour of his loneliness
and sorrow, the eye of the grief-stricken
Quill l-driver fell upon her tawny COM
plexion; his nostrils inhaled the fra
GRANGE of her presence; he loved not
lightly but to smell.
Like him Lucy was lonely; like him
she needed sympathy; the friend OF hu-
manity weeps over the result. The
wronged and ruined husband, returning
to his home, in happy expectation OF
sweet welcomes, finding no waiting low
ing wife to greet him, turned his step
sorrowfully toward the home of the de-
stroyer of his peace, seeking the con-
firmation of horrible suspicion. Loud
ly he knocked, long he fingered, and
heard at last the sound Of footsteps
fastening to answer his summons. The
revelations of the opening door were
such as to thrill with keen anguish
Lis manly breast, and in his own words,
"destroy his confidence in niger vim
men forever" The guilty Lucy was
before him, and in what a garb! The
Columbia lady with her garter and
hair-pin was well clad compared with
the form that met his gaze. Inpuris Af-
ricanis ct fagrante delicto is the descrip-
ton of the situation given by classic
friend.
The indignation of the outraged Afri-
can knew no bounds, and the kicks,
cuffs, blows, scratches, wounds and
bruises which testified his wrath, speed
lily assured the SHINING syren that
when niger woman stoeps to folly
Shell some day find II don quite pay
The prompt appearance of the police
put an end to his angry demonstrations,
and the next scene Of this interesting
domestic drama was enacted in the
court of our worthy Mayor. The chief
actor in the whole affair, the prime viii
lain of the plot, the betrayer of Ethio-
plan innocence, the high priest of the
gospel Of miscegenation, the junior ed
itor of the Times, had meanwhile borne
his sins, his conscience, and his carcass
to another State, and left the sun
Drowned partner of his guilt to meet
and bear alone the penalties of their
frailty and folly. The dauntless
Lucy appeared before the municipal
Cuort on Saturday. Her bearing through
out tho whole of the proceeding was
defiant, and when at last, in obedience
to the sentence of the Court, the officer
attempted to remove her to prison, she
resisted vigorously and flercely. Her
cOwardly abandonment by her fair-skin-
ned and foul-hearted paramour, and the
thumps administered by her irate
spouse seemed to arouse her to madness.
She remembered that she was moman,
nay, a woman wronged, and when the
sex from injuries take fire, their soft
ness turns to malice, and all their
thoughts are bent on vengeance and de-
struction.
Earth hath no rage like love to hatred turned
And he'll no fury Ike woman scorned"
WuctucI ouo thouShe VI oAA .hio v.
not l don't know, but she acted rs if
she did; knocked over the stove, upset
policeman, intimidated the recorder,
cleared out the bystanders. and ad-
iourned the Court in less time than it
takes duck to gobble q June-bug. She
was soon overbowercd by reinforce
ments and borne to her cell, still saw
age and undismayed. The regret seems
to be general that the Times man, her
partner in iniquity. could not be over
taken and made like her to feel the pen.
alties of violated law and outraged
public opinion. KANAwHA.
The Late Rlosd.
A recent number of the Evansville
Journal SAYS: It Ia really painful to wit