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The Oil Regions

Relative to oil development in West
Virginia, the Parkersburg Times says !:
We have now reliable information TO
the effect that the Sand Hill oil field is
a positive success. The burnt well of
General Warner is now flowing about
two hundred barrels per day and an
other well belonging to the same par
ties has commenced to flow within day
or two, but in consequence of want of
tankage to secure il the flow was tempo
rarily stopped by screwing cap on the
mouth of the tubing, That this locsli-
ty is an admirable one for the produc-
ton of illuminating oil no one who is
posted entertains a doubt. A number
of leases have been taken, and several
new wells have already been commenc-
ed. The Ford and Clark we'll has pro-
duced about thirty barrels of oil per day
during the entire spring, at shallow
depth. 1t will soon be deepened with a
view of securing a flowing we'll. The
owners of it are already boring a new
we'll on the hill side.
The development has thus far been
confined to the property of the Volcanic
Oil Company, but other tracts are now
looming into favor, and during the sum
mer fall and we may expect to see an act
oil business carried on in this region
Major Sterling, the interchangeable man
ager of the Volcanic Company, has in
progress pipe to connect the Sand
Hill oil field with the receiving tanks al
White Oak, and thence by rail TO mar
ket. At present the pipes will be only
about two miles in length. One great
advantage Of this new region 10 anG
will be, its situation within a couple O
miles Of the Laurel Fork and Sand Hill
railroad, by which travel and trans
portation will be furnished at all times
and while operators can rely upon get
ting prompt return for their produc
tion, they will not be worn out ani
wearied witk efforts to reach an mac
cessible point as Q field of labor aud o
of self-denial. -,
1t is thus again established and recon
frmed that West Virginia Is rich in OF
resources; and ali that is needed to de
velop q vast extent of oil territory i
the furnishing of the necessary induce
ments to encourage labor and capita
in puncturing the bosom Of mothe
earth and drawing therefrom wealth
equal to that of the California mines.
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hH.U. Gran, n Drunkard

Is Hiram Ulysses Grant drunkard.
The question would be quite unimport-
ant If he were an obscure tanner in an
interior town in Illinois, or even if he
were the General of the Army in time
of profouRd peace, and his office de-
manded little more than the mainten-
ance of such state as an orderly at his
door aud another orderly in the rear OF
his children ON the way to school. But
Grant is more; Radicalism has made
him the CommaRder-in-C Chief of five
military Satrapies which rule millions
of white citizens by means of the bayo-
net, and in this com maud he is even lr-
responsible to the superior officer whom
the Constitution of the United States
puts over hisihead. With such absolute
power, the people would like to know if
the man who wields this power has at
all times absolute control of so compar-
atiyely Insignificant matters as his own
senses. Still further, now that party
has presented Grant as candidate for
the highest office in the country, the
people have the right to know, and they
demand to know, if this man is drunk
ard. AS yet, the bulk of the testimony
which has been made pubic is from
,prominent Radicals and Radical sheets
like the Independent and the AHti-Star-
cry Standard, while the Tribune has Civ
en- circulation to more or less of the re-
ports about Grants habits. Wendell
Phillips repeats the rumors, from differ
ent and trustworthy sources, that Cen
ersl Grant has been seen unmistakably
drunk" in the streets of Washington.
Tilton telegraphssto his paper that "Oc-
casionally Presidential candidate is
seen fuddled in the streets" The RerO-
luton declares that General Grant is
drunk half the time" Wendell Phillips,
in the Comeeuters' Convention, in BOs-
ton, alludes to Grant as man "who
cannot stand up before glass of liquor
without falling down." and the Presi-
dent of the United States tells the
Washington correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Commercial that Grant has been
in the Executive Mansion $50 drunk
that he couldn't stand straight or his
legs" Now statements like these, II
they are ISLANDERS, should be known to
be slanders. The testimony is too !
strong, too direct, to be thrust aside,
and the present position of General
Grant as an applicant for very high |
position warrants, demands the strict
est Investigation into his private habits
in respect Of ebricty. Once more, is
Hiram Ulysses Grant drunkardH IfI
he is, he is unfit for even his present
position. If he is not, his friendsshonld |
expose as ISLANDERS the statements
which Phillips, Tilton and others have
made.
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4 Senate, bill No. 20 was taken mp and
referred. "a ~
Senate bill No. 81, relating to the re-
lief of John Burke, came up on its sec.
ond reading and was ordered to be en-
crossed.
Senate bill No. "a, relative to the es.
4 tablishment of permanent seat oi
government, as amended and reported
by the committee locating the capital
at Monndsvilie on the lands of james
Burley, and recommending its passage
was accepted. After. lengthy discus
sion the subject was deferred to Mon
day. the 10th of August next, at eleven
o'clock A. NJ. .. .... .....,
The Senate took q recess till two
o'clock p. NJ
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Senate convened in pursuance to ad-
iournment, and it being the hour for
the special business of the day-tbe
further consideration of the third chap
ter of the Code, it was moved to take
it up.
Mr.. FARNSWORJH offered a joint
resolution relative to the report of the
com mittee appointed to investigate the
affairs of the West Virginia Hospital
flor the Insane, at Weston, and asking
an extra per diem allowance for the
members of said committee, whereupon,
on motion, the rules were suspended
and the merits of the resolution discus
sed.
Mr.. MARTIN opposed the resolution.
He was opposed to the appointment Of
he committee. The committee went
there with the expectation of merely
receiving their per diem allowance, and
new the Legislature wanted to give
them two dollars per day more. The
Legislature had announced that it was
for Fentrenchment, but every act went
to increase the expenses and thus in
crease the taxes. The people would not
stand such expense. He was opposed to
the whole proceedings.
Mr.. FARNSWORTH said the COM
mittee had worked hard and were enti-
tied to extra pay. The amount pro-
posed was nothing in comparison to the
services rendered. He felt, for one, like
allowing them something extra.
After considerable discussion, the res
olution was passed.
The special business of the day being
again called MP, Mr.. FARNSWORTH
moved that the Senate resolve itself
into committee of the Whole for the
consideration of the subject.
Mr.. WILSON demanded the yeas and
nays, which motion was sustained,
whsreupOa the motion to 60 into a
committee of tbe Whole was with
drawn. !
On motion tue rules were suspended
to take action on the joint resolution
relative to taking recess till the 18th |
of July next, as sent in from the House.
The Senst to rejected the resolution,
Several bills were introduced on
leave. .,r .-a.
Mr.. YOUNG renewed the motion that
the Senate resolve itself into commit
tee of the Whole.
Mr.. WILSON renewed his motion for
the yeas and nays, but the motion was
lost.
The Senate being resolved intOa a COM
mittee of the Whole, the considertion Of
Chapter 3, of the Code, was taken up
and Sections 80 (33 was rejected entire,
"a, 80, 30, 81, Al, 43, Al, 46, 81 and %
were discussed and amended.
The comnlittse reported progress ana
sundry amendments, and asked to set
again, which was agreed to. The coIn-
mittee then arose, and
On motion, Senate adjourned to
Wednesday, ut . o'clock, ?. NJ.
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A sTABBING APFRAY occurred in the
little town of Scwickiey, Penn, on
Thursday last, Mr.: Haekett and wife
and man named Neuman beating and
stabbing a Mr., Welsh nearly to death
Phe parties were arrested after some
difficulty, when It was ascertsined that
they were all drunk, and had purchased
their liquor of man named Hackett
As this individual had no license to sell
liquor, the citizens went to his place
and destroyed four barrels of bad whis
ky, and then proceeded to break up one
~ twn other unlicensed places where
liquor was tounu. Two hundred citi
zens were engaged in this destruction
of fluids, aud they threaten to break NJ
the liquor traffic in that town.
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West Virginia Legislature
TEXTRA SESSION.
WEDNESDAY, June "a, 1868.
SENATE.

Senate called to order by the Presi'
dent. Prayer By the Rev. Mr.. White,
of the South Wheeling NJ. 4. Church.
The Journal of the preceding day
having been read and approved, the
Senate proceeded to the transaction OF
business.
Communication were received from
the House announcing the passage OF
several bills and several chapters ofthc
Revised Code, asking the concurrence
of the Senate in the same.
Mr.. HOKE, from the Judiciary COM
mittee, reported several bills with re-
concentrations that they pass.
Mr.. PRICE, from the committee on
Finance and Claims, reported bill fol
the relief of John Burke, and recon-
mended its passage.
Mr.. WRIGHT presented bill on
leave. Granted.
Mr.. CHAPLINE offered a bill or
leave. Received.
Mr.. HOKE offered bill on leave
Granted.
Senate Bill No. %, relative to the
building toll bridge over Twelve POLE
creek, in Wayne county, came up FOL
second reading and amendments. Reat
| nv sections and recommitted with In
structions.
On motion the special order of the da!
was postponed to IL o'clock, A. NJ
Agreed to.
Mr.. HOKE moved to suspend the rules
| for the purpose of the first reading o
Senate Bill No. %, relative to the sail
of property belonging to the West Viz
yinia Agricultural College. Agreed to
On motion of Mr.. FARNSWORTE
the rules were suspended to read th'
bill the second and third time and pu
it upon its passage. Agreed to- .a.s B.
Bill read and passed with its title.
Mr.. CHAPLINE moved to suspend tn
rules to take up the bill relative to tn
navigation of the Shenandoah river
Agreed to-. Bill read second tim
for amendments and ordered to be Of,
Mr.. CARSkADoS moved to suspend
the rules to take up the bill relative Il
the protection of religious assemblies
Agreed to. Bill read second time ant
amended. Ordered to engrossment.
Senate bill No. l6, relative to ineor
porating the Pan Handle Railroad Com
pauy, came up for tho second readinI
and amendments. Ordered to engross
ment and put on its third reading
On motion, the rules were suspende'
to offer a jeint resolution relative Z
publishing the report of the lnyestl
gatiag committee on the Insane Asylum
at Weston Ordered that FIVE hundre'
copies of said report be printed. 80
Mr.. SLACK asked that the rules b
: suspended to take up Senate Bill No. Is
: relative TO incorporating the West Vii
ginia Land Company. Refused.
Senate bill No. Ii, relative to inceI
porating Raymond City, was taken u
) and read second time for amendment,
, Amended and ordered to be engrosset
On motion, special order Of the ds
was postponed to q O'Clock P. III.
, Senate bill No. IS, relative to record
ing certain dsedin Tyler county. R'
ferred.
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Sorue nj Barracksville-Aa OK 60
he Roasted Whole.

,nr Democratic and Conservative
,,.oIs of Marion county, have no idea
.u,.brating the Fourth of July in
n, halfway manner. They have issu-
,.,sters for grand mass convention
~ held at Barracksyille on that day
~ .hirh they expect to have at least a
Z, . an able speakers and an OK roasted
rlar Trey expect. and we are sure
-, will have, glorious time"
r,.ryhoiy is Invited, and we hope the
.;,a.iou will be accepted.
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SAN Francisco, June 23-The steam
ship Sacramento arrived from Pans-
ma this evening. ss,s.r.9
Later adyices from Arizona render
probable the electioH Of Mccormick,
Union, delegate to Congress.
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GRAFTON,
1T ~ o'clock, Il. H.,
Thursday, July I6, 1865,

1uuhSu"Nf Suiy Nv, AoV'S
To nominate two Senatorial Electors
of President and Vice-Presidert Of the
United States, and TO select candidates
to fill the following State offices:
GOrerTor;
.1uditOr;
attorney General;
Secretary Of state;
1reasWerj
Tie ratio of representation will be ::
Ten delegates in the Convention for
each member of the House of Delegates
to which the counties respectively are
entitled. Is y
This ratio gives to the counties res
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Democratic Conservative
State Convention.

In pursuance of a resolution passed
by the State Convention held in Wheel
ing, on the Sth day of January last,
there will be a State Convention of the
Democratic and Conservative voters of
West Virginia, at
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National Insurance Company

National Insurance Company
WHEELING, WEST VA.
CAFBTAL L---.-.--.--.-.-.- -.--..-SSOOpOOO'
flee, 26 Monroe street, next door 10 First Ma
i tioRal Bank.
OFFICERS.
GEORGE X. WHEAT, President
JAMES McCLUEEY, Vice President
JOHN BISHOP secretary.
C.. II. COLLIER, Assistant Secretary and Gen.
eral Business Agent
DIRECTORS;
John L. Wilson, George X. Wheat,
Iaa e, Orr Saml HARPER
John A. Armstrong, James Mckinney.
A. c. Quarter. Morgan l. mi,
George Adams.
REFERENCES.
s. Brady, Cashier Merchants National Bank
Wheeling List, Morrison & Co, Wholesale
Grocers, Wheeling Pryor, Handlan & Co,
Wholesale GrOeers. Wheeling; Michael Reilly
Wholesale Grocer, Wheeling; Mcclellan &
Knox, Boot and Shoe House Wheeling; McCabe
Kraft & Co., Druggists, Wheeling Geo. w.
Frauzheim & Co., Wholesale Wines and Liquors,
Wheeling; Winship, Woods K Co., Queensware,
Wheeling; Lewis Baker. Pub. REGISTER, Wheel.
ing; I. C.McAfee, NOtsns, Wheeling; Camp.
bell Frew & Co, Pubs. InteliJenGsT, Wheeling;
OFT, Son e. Co., Hardware, Wheeling; j. Z.
Sands. Cashier First National Bank, Fairmont;
X. p. Camden, Prest Nat. Ex. Bank, Weston,
W. Va, Capt. John Mcclure, Jr., Wheeling
maya
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SATURDAY, JULY 4th, 1869


Ii is also recommended that
the Delegates from the First and See
ond Congressional Districts in attend
ance upon the State Convention nomi-
nate a Congressional candidate and a
Presidential elector for each of their
respective Districts, BE;, .'t q T
The possibility that, ewing to their
lremoteRess, some of the counties of the
Third Congressional District may not
be fully represented, has induced the
Committee to leave the selection Of the
time and place for making their Con-
gressional and Electoral nominations
entirely to the discretion Of the Demo
cratic and Conservative voters of that
District.
Fellow Democrats and Conservatives
Your political brethren in all parts Of
the country where elections have been
| held within the last twelve months
have achieved magnificent victories,
The great reaction which is to redeem
the nation from tyranny and misrnle
he's fairly set in. In other States, its
progress is irresistible. Let MS, too
press forward in the work OF
| redemption. Net one moment
should be lost-no exertion spared
County, Township and School Distric;
should at once be com.
plsted, and every man who can be
moved to espouse the right, should be ap.
preached, informed and iHcited to ac.
tien. The work Is in your hands. Il
! You are true to yourselves, your STATE
and your country, yoU cannot fail
Success will crown your efforts, and the
blessings Of good Government, so Ions
unknown in West Virginia, will oBct
more bring to her people peace, prosper
ity and happiness.
]. W. GALLAGHER,
,z W. G. HAGDLAN,
W. W. MILLER,
nD0 % .
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,,,;sua, csnysa,isa

,3soa,es to the National Democratic
..ntinu, which meets in New York,
-. uh are already arriving in that
l1I HN...- = D.. FfHH
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The west Virginia delegates have On
,.J quarters at the Fifth Avenue Ho-
- II understood that every dele.
3. from this State will be present. 3
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1t is respectfully suggested that, as
far as may be practicable and conve-
nieut, the Delegates be ,chosed by Town
ship or County Cony entions, on
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j. w. GALLAGHER,
W. G. HAGDLAN,
W. W. MILLER,
GEO. r. TINGLE,
LEWIS BAKER.

Democratic and Conservative State EIecH-
. tire Committee. 1r
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-17

The colored men are imitstive, but they
COPY, as nearly as possible, the defects of
the superior race, and not their higher
attributes. A few days ago an instance
occurred at Savannah, Ga, illustrative
of the fact. The Repu6licGr of the l4th,
furnishes the particulars, from which 1t
appears that Jackson Brandt is presiding
officer Of Baker Council No. 9, Union
League of America, was Bradley
was Secretary. The famous notice to
the Republican, we are told, THAT unless
that paper should cease the course 1t was
pursuing, " 20, 900 loyal men would take
the lawful means to suppress it, was
signed by Brandt at the instigation Of
Bradley. So many dissensions occurred
among the members Of the league, Baker
Council fell to pieces. At the late elee-
ton Brandt co-operated with the Con-
servatives and was elected President Of
Club, of which one Eugene Morehead
was a Vice-President, an ice cream
dealer In the city, who had always sup
CAhoC VI AhO IANO
quarrel springing up between himself
and Brandt, he charged the latter with
gaining the confidence of the whites, to
play the traitor and deliver them to the
tender msrcies of the Radicals. Brandt,
~VIlIjDg to rest under the imputatioD,
u. - other was id liar. a chal-
shlu In >as CONSEQUENCE. and a duel
Ienge was = the parties met, with
The next morning =. -, 5,,,tI.
their seconds. The weap- s .o,
barrel shotguns, each bari 81.
with sixteen buckshot-the distanc, W..
fifteen PAGES. At the word =" fire."
Brandt fell mortally wounded. Both
guns went off simultaneously, but More
head was unhurt. Both behaved with
cool bravery, and showed good tghting
oualities-whether indicating higher
civilization, is another matter. Both
parties had been slaves, formerly.
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member had been bribed. Radicalism
has made votes cheap, and the market
is well supplied. Knowing this, Butler,
Stevens, Boutwell,, Bingham and Logan
cannot conceive how one Of their own
faith could possibly have had the courage
to brave the anger Of his constituents by
voting to acquit the President, unless he
had sold his vote for money and so
Radicalism is zealously engaged In the
business of bIackening its own character
by endeavouring to prove that the votes
of Fessenden, Trumbull, Grimes and Ross
were so sold.
Why should they not have been
What was the law which lately relieved
the manufacturers of eighty millions Of
dollars of taxation, but huge bribe to
buy their votes withal, for the nominees
of the Radical Convention?
As to the incapacity of the chiefs of
the party, 1t Is enough to point to the
whiskey tax and its results. What man
of common sense could help knowing
that tax so enormous as two dollars
per gallon on common whiskey would
operate as premium for illegal distilling
and frauds on the revenue, and return
less into the Treasury than tax of
twenty five cents per gallon2 A bushel
Of corn will make, we believe, two gal
Ions and a half of whiskey; and we
have known Cincinnati whiskey sell at
nineteen cents q gallon, In Arkansas.
To lay tax of two dollars on liquors,
was to kill the goose that would have
laid the eggs Of gold.
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MINIyG UNPROFITABLE.


In the account Of recent debate in the
House Of Representatives, we find the
Towing:
iO Vigby addressed the Committee
Mr.. N 70 the views put forward
IN opposite ~to The availability of the
by Mr. Wood a. tho country for the
mineral resources o. Ve begged mem-
Oers to strip themselves OF = paving
mining business was better "ed
business. On the contrary, he decI~-
from eighteen years experience, that no
business, agricultural, commercial or
manufacturing, paid SO poorly as the
mining business. The population of the
mineral belt Of country ia California was
decidedly the poorest part of the popula-
ton of the State. No legislation could
be more fallacious than that which was
based on the idea that the mineral in
terests of the country were the most val
uable. The idea should, therefore, be
dismissed of the Government paying its
debt by any such means. 1t costs more
to extract gold and silver than the pro-
duet was worth but the benefit was
that gold and silver were the grand stim-
uisnts of all other enterprises. Most OF
the mineral counties in California were
Mr.. johnson indorsed the statemen ts
of his colleague, (Mr. Higby) taking the
position that the Government should
neither tax the miners nor work the
mines.
Mr.. Wood reiterated and supported
his proposition in reference to the Gov
ernment's working the mineral lands.
He was willing to admit that the gold
products of California had cost as much
az they were worth, but he did not pro-
pose that the Government should carry
on the business in such an effectual way,
but In herculesn style such as would
produce thousands of millions of dollars.
He held that the proposition was en-
tirely practicable and could be carried
| out.
Mr.. Highly said he had always found a
great facility among men to build up
| theories, but it was different thing to
carry them out. II the Government
could accomplish those great results, why
could not private capitalists, with the
gentleman from New York among them,
do the same thing?
The question is worth examining,
whether the production of cotton is not
as Improbable, in the long run, to the
planter and the country in which it is
produced, as the business of mining for
gold. Is not the planter simply an over
seer for those who buy his cotton, to sell
it again, or to manufacture it? We have
often said so, and we believe it and we
do not doubt that this year again the
price of cotton will be low until after the
planter has sold all, and then rise to
benefit the speeulator.
The measure of the prosperity of an
agricultural country is not what it pro-
duees, but how much of what 1t produces
its people can afford to consume. Neither
the production of gold or cotton en-
riches country. 1t costs too much to
produce the one and to extract the other /;
and both flow out of the country that
produces them, to enrich others. It is,
at least, positively demonstrated now,
that the country cannot flourish which
produces only gold or cotton and pur-
chases its provisions.