The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-11-20
Wanted,-..A Pruning Knife.

Wanted,.--A Pruning Knife.
The papers have good deal TO say
about "Gen. Grants successor" as
General of the army. ne trust there
Is to be no successor. The rank of
General was created to do especial
honor to Grant. Now that he is pro-
NOTED TO the higher one OF President,
why shall the costly rank of General be
kept up and conferred on some ons
else? We trust every ono who means
that the national debt shall be honestly
paid VIII set his face like steel against
any action by Congress enlarging ex-
istipg salaries, creating new Offices or
maintaining any that may be dispensed
with without detriment to the govern
ment. no matter whether they be mill
tary or civil.
The army ought TO be reduced to the
lowest standard OF numbers and ex-
peuse just as rapidly as possible. Such
an army as Republic ought to main
tain in time of peace, needs no such
rank as General, nor Lieut.. General,
nor half so many Major Generals, as
we now have. Military establIshments
are enormously expensive. No one
understands this better than Grant;
and although he Is Irregular army
man. and although regular army cffi-
eerEgeneEally-ho hold as the cardinal ar
,licle of their faith that the country is
made for the especial purpose of sup.
porting military establishment, we
hope when he gets inthe Presidential
chair TO see him, as far as It is his
province, pursue the course of reduction
and retrenchment inaugurated by him
In the war office. Congress, too,
Will have a very important part in this
work; II 1t is to be done. The civil list
needs cutting down rs mush as the
military. We trust that Congress will
have the courage TO cut and pruue re-
morselessly, unInflueuced by personal
considerations. until with the co.ops.
ration of the new President, the now
enormous machinery OF the Govern
ment will be simplified and cheapened,
down TO the ssverest standard of sim
pllclty. We trust, too, that either
Jencks'or some other system of civil
service. whereby honest and capable
men only will be employed by Govern
ment, will be speedily perfected and
adopted by Congress; SO that the Gov
eminent revenues that now go to en-
rich thousands OF Official thieves will
go directly into the treasury and be
applied to the payment of necessa-
~ and legitimate expenses and to the
reduction Of the debt.
II General Grant and Congress are
agreed on general publication in all
branches of the Government, and If
they have the honest resolution to do
what ought to be done In that direction.
Grants administration will be success
ini and popular, and the. country will
speedily recover from the calamitIes OF
the war. AS 1t is, the country is gov
ernpd too much; the machinery is too
ponderons; there are too many thou
sands OF useless offices, and too many
thoussu6s OF idle people filling them,
Substituting on the excessive revenues
which have to be- raised to support
them, when they ought 10 be engaged
In some productive labor, manufacture
ing or farming or mining, thereby adj
ding to the national wealth instead of
consuming the productions of others
aud producing nothing. The country
needs more expenditure OF muscle and
Less ofred tape. =
a FIRST CLASS Country Newspaper,
the Vest TSgtnia Journal. located az
Charleston, KRnRwha county, w. Va,
- for sale or rent, on account of the
impaired eyesiEht Of the editor. TIE
Journal has large circulation, excel
lent advertising and job-work patron
age, and altogether, is the best position
fora country paper IN the State. Ad-
dress: Editors Journal. Ranawha, @.
H, W. Va.
SOUTH CAROLINA contains nineteen
million acres OF land, of which only
one;fourth is under cultivation. The
remainder, come IL, COO, 900, is mainly In
primeval forest. Fully half OF the
4,oOO.0OO now under quasi cultivation is
LoE SAFE, some oft even as low as 81 per
acre ana ranging from that mn to 500
3ood farms have Within the wear snid
as low as $ per acre, and, in certSif1
cases, even below that. - 2
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THE BALTIc, in the neiShborhona of
SStons.adt, according TO the Journals Of
,nas port recently presented the sinEu-
Ia. pnenomenon OF an extraordlpsrv
su"siuinK 81 the water, The surfscs
commenced to tAll about evening, tSs
wind being fresh aud bloNIn. slts. .Se
southwest; the sinking nbtiss, t .5oIn the
ing change OF the wind 70 Inc = ne-
east. continued until two o'cioS,, no IN
next afternoons when the deprsssS tne
reached three feet two inches. The W y
ter then began to mount rapidly, ana
during the night exceeded its ordinary
level by foot. Nearly all the steamers
plying between Gronstadt and ST
Petersburg were aground, circum-
stAnce almost unprecedented. The
cause ofthis phenomenon cannot be AS
c1rtained the uHu nj Z, \ ffny, Z, Az