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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-08-31

WE ALSO HAVE CONSTANTLY
w In store, Buckets, Tubs, waSh boards
Bro0ms, Essence Coffee, Extract Logvood, Mad
der. Indigo, Cspperas, Blue yitriol. Alnm, Pop
per, Allspicc, Cinnamon, NutInsgs, Cloves, Mus
tard. Ginger. Bcarb Soda, Sal. Soda Rabbits
Soap, CoIgate's soaps German Soaps, Family
Lye window Glass, Lead, Shot, Gun Caps. Pow.
der Cotton Yarn, Cotton and Flax THibss.
Candle Wick. Batting Wrapping Papcr, 20
MAXWELL q TTEGLE.
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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-08-31

The Act further authorizes them to issue an
equal amount of their own First Mortgage
Bonds of corresponding denominations, tohieh
shall be The first claim upon the irhOle railroad prop
erty, aud 20 tohieh The lien Of the Government shall
be subordinate, as q means Of more readily secur.
ing the remaining half of the capital for the con.
struction; the equipments, &C. being provided
out Of the capital stock subscriptions and other
sources.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-30
An AnecdOte of General Grant.

EDITORS ALTON TELEGRAPu-Ded
Strs: AT this time, when the opponents
of General Grant are charging him with
being ambitious, and only striving to gain
the Presidential chair to assume military
dictatorship, wish to relate an incident
in the early military career of General
Grant, which fully illustrates all his subse-
quent course:
When the 21st Illinois infantry, which
had become unmanageable by their first
appointed Colonel, was placed under the
command of Colonel Ulysses S. Grant, and
ordered to Quincy to take part in the cam
paign in Northwest Missouri, it was my
fortune to make the greater part of the
march with Colonel Grant and his COM
mand. On going into camp about six
miles from Springfield, at the close of the
first days march, the men, after stacking
arms, and while awaiting the arrival OF
the wagons, scattered and invaded the
gardens of the citizens living in that
vicinity. TWAS but a few moments before
a lady presented herself to the group of
officers gathered around Grant, and in
quired for the Colonel. Colonel Grant,
who was reclining on the ground, at once
arose to his feet and asked her errand.
"Colonel, your men are taking all my
onions, randishes, peas, beets, etc, and |
wish you would have them stopped"
81 will. Adjutant, call the officer of
the day." When that officer came for
ward, Colonel Grant said "Captain, take
a squad of men and arrest all men found
in the neighboring gardens, and bring
them to camp" The order was promptly
executed, and soon the Sfflcer returned,
having under gusrd some six or eight
men.
"What were you doing in those gar
densY" fI.'UE .ff|f f7t
"Why, Colonel" said the spokesman OF
the party, " didn't know it was agin or
ders to go in there"
"If you had been a citizen passing
along this road, would you have thought
you had any right to go into one of those
gardens and have taken whatyou wanted ?"
"No, sir"
"Well, then, learn now and forever, that
you have no rights as soldier that yOu do
not possess as q citizen. Captain, tie these
men up to tree for one hour"
NCNDonnnNr
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-30
Tie Friends Of the Constitution.


In Mr.. Beecher's admirable address in
the Brooklyn Academy he made great fun
of the new defenders of the Constitution.
And it was well timed. Nobody, it seems,
understands the Constitution but those
who struggled night and day TO destroy it,
Nobody is to be accounted friend of the
Union but those who fought to dissolve 1t,
or helped the fighters, or who have how
combined to overthrow its reconstruction
by armed force. Nobody is to be consld-
cred conservative but those who, after the
cancer has been cut out, are zealously
striving to put as much of il back as pos.
sible In the good old days, they cry, was
there not one of the completest cancers
ever seen consuming the bosom of our be-
loved country; and how, pray, can our
beloved country ever be again what Ahe
was unless we restore that cancer?
But to recall yesterday is as practicable
as TO make the country what II was, or 10
restore the old Union. The old Union Is
impossible without slavery; and since that
is gone, all that belongs to 1t Is gone with
it. When emancipation was declared
equal rights were assumed. Nc great
multitude of native male adults Ia this
country can be held in kind Of purgato-
ry between citizenship and non citizen.
ship. When they cease 10 be slaves they
become men, When they become men
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-30
Grants Policy and Practice.

The AYmy and Macy Journal has an
article about General Grant, as President,
from which we make an extract. 1t says:
We may safely predict that the great
word of the hour, the great feature to
strike all observers, rs soon as General
Grant has been month in power, will be
the confidence inspired in people ofall par
ties and all political creeds.
Grant, as a soldier, understands we'll the
bounds of coordinate and subordinate au-
thority. Congress will not be suffered to
encroach upon his prerogative as the Ex-
ecutive, nor will he attempt to encroach
upon Congress as the legislative depart
ment of Government-distinct simple
enough, it would seem to be. A soldier
is both used to command and obey-an
admirable training, say what civilians
will, for any administrative officer, from
poundkeeper up to President.
We shall make bold to predict that he
VIII realize, more than any man who has
sat in the Chief Magistrates chair since
Andrew Jackson, the eTecuti0e idea, which
should be the central idea connected with
the Presidency. The truth is, that of late
we seem to have gone into wrong notion
of the Presidential office. Men like Bu-
chanan and johnson have so perverted
the public mind, that when General Grant
announced that, if elected, he should have
no political policy of his own to follow
out, even his supporters were little con-
fused, and his enemies broke out into
storm of rage. What? no poLicyi What
does the man meanY Never was such a
thing heard Of
But General Grant was right. The
country has twice been nearly luined by
its Presidents devotion to some pet polit-
ical theory. A man with theory is
dangerous felloW-hunc tU Romano edUetO.
Buchanan had political doctrine that IL
the Union should be smitten by South
ern State on the cheek, its costitutional
duty was to turn and beg Northern
State to smite it on the other. Rather
than give up that theory, he saw the
United States disunite under his own eyes,
though he was the guardian of the Union.
General Grant has got tired of the pirate
about policy" and proposes to introduce
us to little practice" His past is a
guarantee of his fntuFe
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-30

OF his own property on equal terms with
his neighbor, because his color differed.
You would sell the labor of colored
man on the auction block, as a punishment
for not working when you would not give
him employment. HiIN .
You "fired the Southern heart" anew
against the loyal North.
You confer the highest honors on the
fieroest and most brutal rebel Generale.
You falsely assail the hero to whose en-.
ergy, sagacity, bravery and skill we owe
the existence of our country, as q brutal
butcher" miserable drJGokard," {" con
temptible liar" q "miscegenationist" and
scoundreln
The man most warmly welcomed by
You, In National Convention-Napoleon
Butcher" Forrest--dishouored flag of
truce, and shot down his begging victims
in cold blood
The pavements of New Orleans are
stained with the blood of the white and
black victims Of your hellish malignity.
You have rejected every principle the
Democratic party formerly cherished
You propose to trample in the dust, by
revolutionary means, the laws Of Con-
gress.
Riot, rapine and revolution are the
weapons with which you propose to over
throw all opposition TO your will.r a
You trampled on the ballot.box In 1860,
and for five years thereafter, aud you
threaten to do 1t again.
The war was your war, begun by you,
conducted by you, prolonged by you.
Thousands OF homes in our land were des-
olated by you. Hundreds of thousands of
graves were dug by you. Aflliction, desc.
lation and death followed in your train.
Debt and taxation are the fruits of your
treason.
You boast that your triumph would be
the triumph of the Lost Cause"
You avow policy of reputation.
fon propose an irredeemable paper
currency. q"
You propose to refuse to pay interest on
the public debt.
You propose to tax "every species of
property" the poor man owns.
You turn out Inspectors of Election,
forge naturalization papers, and issue
them criminally, and by violence seek to
pervert the voice of the people.
The fact that Republican meeting is
to be held, in many of the States of the
Union, is deemed by you of sufficient rea-
son for shooting down those who attend.
Southern Republican editors are none
too good for meroiless castigation at your
hand, and an excited people are murdered
in their fear
Fort Pillow, New Orleans, Camilla,
Opelousas--these are your victories.
You court or crush the colored man,
just as he accepts or declines your offered
political alliance.
You turn into the streets, 10 starve and
die, every colored man who will not vote
a rebel ticket
Reconstruction has been delayed by
you. You would have no reorganization
that did not place the old lash in your
hands, and enable the masters to wreak
vengeance on their late slaves.
The future you would give us is a future
Of terror. Civil war, business prostration
and oppressive taxation are all you
offer us.
The past warns us of you. The grave
holds up its hands against you. The fu-
ture implores to be saved from you.
The people heed the supplication, and
hence you are rejected, Albany Journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-30
A Weather Prophet.

A PLEASANT anecdote is told of Par
fridge, the celebrated almanac maker. In
travelling on horseback into the country
he stopped for his dinner at an inn, and
afterwards called for his horse, that he
might reach the next town, where he in.
tended TO sleep.
ali you would take my advice, sir"
said the hostler, as he was about TO mount
his horse, "you will stay where you are
for the night, as you win surely be over
taken by pelting rain"
Nonsense, nonsense" said the alma
nae maker; "there is sixpence for you
my honest fellow, and good afternoon to
you"
He proceeded on his Journey, and, sure
enough, he was well drenched In heavy
shower. Partridge was struck with the
mans prediction, and being always intent
on the interest OF his almanac, he rode
back on the instant, and was received by
The hostler with broad grin.
"Well, sir, you see l was right after all 1"
"Yes, my lad, you have been so, and
here is crown for you, but give it to
you on consideration that you tell me
how you knew of this rain"
"To be sure, sir" replied the man.
"Why the truth Is, we have an almanac
in our house called PdrtTidgsS Almanac,
and the fellow is such a notorious liar that
whenever he promises us fine days we
always know that 1t will be the direct
contrary. Now, your honor, this day, the
21st Of June, Is put down In our almanac
indoors as settled fine weather, no rain.
looked at that before | brought your
honors horse out and so was enabled to
put you on your guard"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-30
Address OF the Wisconsin State Central
Committee.

The following is the address of the Re-
publican State Central Committee of Wis
consin, issued on the 22d instant
To the Republicans Of Wisconsin
The victories Just achieved in the great
central States Of Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Indiana, are such ss may well cheer every
patriotic citizen. Following the successes
already won in Vermont, Maine and Con-
neeticut, they conclusively indicate the re-
suit Of the Presidential canvass.
There remains but one source Of appre-
hension on our part; but one possible
ground for hope on the part of our oppo-
nents. II Ethis; that the Republicans, re-
garding their triumph as already substan-
TALLY won, may relax their efforts, and
omit the work by which alone the dnal
victory can be assured.
Let us beware of such folly. The aus
picious successes already achieved should
stimulate as TO renewed exertions instead
of lulling us into dangerous and inglori.
Gus repose. We have an enemy TO CON
tend with, always on the alert, and always
quick TO take advantage of any lack Of
vigilance on our part DO not for Q mo-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-30
Rejected-And Why z

To the Leaders OF the Democratic Party; s
Your rejection by the people is decided
and emphatic. WhyI
You encouraged the South toinitiate Sc
cession. .s .r...H aal itE
You pronounced coercion equally revo-
lutionary with secession. I|tl
You assailed the first call for troops as
unconstitutional
You refused to vote either men or money
to carry on the war.
You bid the Southern States depart in
peace HgI IHt.. ~
You declared that il slavery must be de-
stroyed to gain the Union, then the Union
should perish.
You declare your preference for the
rebel constitution, as against your own.
When it became apparent that to pro-
claim universal liberty would weaken
the enemy and reward the true friends of
the Union, you nevertheless opposed it,
You stoutly contended that the rebellion
would never be suppressed, and trium-
phantly quoted every reverse to our arms
as demonstrating it.
You urged the abandonment of the war,
and the resort to negotiation for the best
attainable terms.
In our gloomiest days, and when no po-
litical campaign was pending, you sought
to inhame the passions of the people
against tine only Government we had, or
could have.
You assailed President Lincoln as des-
pot. HL-.tL.}
You denounced the Government as rev.
olutionary.
The Boys in Blue were termed by you
Lincoln hirelings and dogs.
You opposed allo wing the men who were
perillng their lives for our country the en-
ioyment of the elective franchise.
You opposed filing up our armies by
DRAFT.
You incited Tiotous and bloody resist
ance to the laws Of the land. t
You pronounced ths war failure, and
called for its abandonment
You urged the South TO reject the most
magnanimous terms ever offered TO con-
quered rebels t.Irh
You passed laws imposing on freemen
the most CALLING and unjust discrimina-
tions, in the halls Of justice, on the fields
Of labor and In the resorts Of trade.
You would not allow man equal JUS
tice before the law, because serVile blood
flowed in his veins.
You would not permit a man TO control
his own labor who had once beea a slave,
OF MAS the child Of q slave, .
! You would not allow man 70 dispose
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-30
Ruttry.
"LET US HAVE PEACE
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leader, '''N'''
OF let rs have peace tbrouohont our broad iard,
Let us have pesce Is the wish Of All nstS,o.s ,su
For then will our nation in glory expand.
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Icy us nave peace Tor blood hath flowed freely,
ana patriots nave died for our Union and laws (;
inc ''N "i'O"S' anu 'PnSn7 "o mourn
The martyred defenders OF freedoms grand
n -
W. let us have peace for wars dreadful footprints
arc stained with the blood of the true aud the
Who so nobiy have died meath our br,obt .,.rrv
hammer NN "'"'" Vu' Oiisu'' s'ar'y
Our freedom and Union. and copntrv 20 sac.
q, =. -'''' ""N 'Vun''J W SNfe'
" set us nave nave peace, tor wars desolations
NNVohu htough the length and the breadth OF
our AnQt
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-30

money, furnished with his watch and
purse, reached home at a moderate trot.
made visit this morning to thy faith
er, said he TO Edward, whom he per.
ceiyed entering with him al believe we
shall now agree
Two hours af(crward Weresford arrived
at the house Of Toby, and taking him
apart, said
Honest Quaker, your proceedings have
deeply affected my very soul You might
have dishonored me--dishonored my son /;
ruined me in his estimation, and caused
the misfortune of refusing him your
daughter. You have shown yourself n
man in hand and heart. shall not again
blush in your presence. Take these
papers Farewell you will never see me
again" And he departed
The Quaker, left alone, opened the
papers. They showed obligations Of con-
siderable value on the first bankers of
London, with a long list OF names, and op-
posite each name, in figures, the sum
greater or less in amount. A billet was
added, wherein the Quaker read as fol-
lows:
"These are the names of persons who
were robbed; the figures are the sums
which ought to be restored as to the
money with the bankers, in my name, let
1t go to the strangers, but make the resti.
tuition secretly yourself What remains
will be my legitimate fortune, and your
daughter will some day possess my es.
tate" aI'
The next day Weresford left London,
and everybody was certain that he had
gone to spend his fortune in France.
On the day Of the marriage, the Quaker
brought together a company Of merry
friends, among whom were noticed num-
Der oS persons enchanted with the con-
duct of the robbers of London, who,
through the interposition of Toby, had
made restitution of their lost capital with
interest.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-30
Johnny Shrimp's Composition on Going
TO School.

School has begun again. goto Thir-
teenth Street School every day. 1t is a
good school. They won't let you play
there The boys arc not allowed to whis-
per more than forty times day. The
teacher says l am q very good boy, l
think so, too. To be good is not to be
found out. Peter Snutfins was good boy,
because he could whisper without moving
his mouth. l used to call him Mullins.
He has left school, and works in butcher
shop. He's going to take me to the
slaughter house some day
learn good many things at school.
Before / went to school | didn't know
half as many tricks as do now. I have
learned how to fight Bill Stubs said l
was gump. said he was another. Bill
give me hit. He called IL swat" l
give him two. He tried to knock me
down, and l did tumble. Just then q cop
came along. If it hadn't been for that
cop I'd have licked Bill The boys said
Bill licked me. But it wasn't so l slipped
down on an orange peel. Besides that, /
didn't want to hurt Bill like to fight
with boys that can lick. Boys that can
lick me don't get into muses. with. l
amt afraid of Bill Stubs. ttiEHF
/ learned some grammar at school, and
goggerfee. But learned to play marbles
good deal quicker. Pa says boys
ought to learn only what they've got
taste for. I've got taste for taffy and
chewing gum. I've learned good deal
of 'em.
Ma says we boys are worked too hard at
school. She says her children shan't study
when they have headaches. She gives
me an excuse when have headache.
often have headache, if the lessons are
hard.
1 am in class 0, section Q. In few
months / go to the college. We used to
call it the Free Academy. | want to go to
college, because the boys there carry
canes and have fun, and don't speak to
little boys, and can go in the torchlight
professions.
I've been to good many schools Some
way, change schools very often. The
teachers think change is good for me.
Ma says the New York schools are very
poor, and boys don't learn much in them.
l think so too. i'll didn't have headaches
so often might learn more. But know
a good deal after ALL l want to go In
store. Pa says shall Ma says shan't
Ma calls me her precious darling, and
says must have an education. I'd rather
have a rowboat I'm sure if had row.
boat and went out every day to Hoboken,
l wouldn't have headaches so much /
tell ma that schools are very bad for the
head. Now want to ask ma for an ex.
cuse. We have long lesson in compound
multiplication tomorrow, and my head
begins to feel quite bad. am
JoHE GEORGE WASHINGTON SHRIMP.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-30
The Flaw Hunters.

THERE are people who have a prefer.
natural faculty for detecting evil, or the
appearance of evil, in every mans char
acter. They have fatal scent for carrion
Their memory is like museum / once
saw at medical college, and illustrates
all the hideous distortions, and monstrous
growths, and revolving diseases by which
humanity can be troubled and afflicted.
They think they have wonderful knowl-
edge of human nature. But IL Is a blum
der to mistake the Newgate Calendar for
a biographical dictionary.
A less offensive type Of the same ten
dency leads some people to find apparent
satisfaction in the discovery and proclama-
ton Of the slightest defects in the habits
of good men, and the conduct of public
institutions. They cannot talk about the
benefits conferred by great hospital
without lamenting some Insignificant blot
IN its laws, and some trifiing want of pru-
dence in its management. Speak to them
about man whose good works everybody
is admiring, and they cool your srdor by
regretting that he is 80 rough In his man
ner or so smooth-that his temper Is 80
hasty, or that he is so fond of applause.
They seem to hold a brief, requiring them
to prove the impossibility of human per-
fection. They detect the slightest alloy in
the pure gold of human goodness. That
there are spots in the sun Is, with them,
something more than an observed fact-it
takes rank with a priOri and necessary
truths.
There are people who, if they hear an
organ, find out at once which are the
poorest stops. II they listen to great
speaker, they remember nothing but some
slip in the construction of sentence, the
consistency of a metaphor, or the eyolu-
tions of an argument. While their friends
are admiring the wealth and beauty of a
tree whose branches are weighed down
with fruit, they have discovered a solitary
bough, lost in the golden affluence, on
which nothing is hanging.
Poor Hazlltt was sorely troubled with
them in his time. Littleness," he said,
"is their element, and they give charac-
ter Of meaning to whatever they touch,
They creep, buzz and fly-blow. 1t is much
easier to crush than to catch these trouble.
some insects and when they are in your
power, your self-respect spares them."-
Good Words.