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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01
The National Debt
4 Extract from Hon. John L. Hofman's Speech
at Stamford, Connecticut


at Stamford, Connecticut.l
That national debt is now 8, 700, ,OOO,-
600, two-thirds of that of Great Britain.
We have bsen six years in making ours;
they two hundred years in making
theirs. Why in Gods name are ten
States kept out of the UniOni Was not
this immense debt incurred to keep
them from going outi Why are our
national expenses say nothing of our
local expenses-so Target In 1861,
time of peace, the cost of the army was
81, 100000. In 1868, also a time OF
peace it is $S3, 100000. In 1861 the navy
cost Sl2, ,000, 900, now it costs S3l ,O0O, ,OOO.
What is it all fori We are not at war
with any foreign power. We have no
war among ourselves. 1t is done to
maintain the supremacy of par
ty, and to prevent that glorious OBJ
ject, the preservation OF the Union,
and the authority of the Constitution,
for which SO many of our people sacrl-
feed their lives. The civil expenses OF
the Government in 1867 were S170,OOO,-
600 more than i'll 1861. Do you realize
the magnitude of these figures! Can
you grasp them We used to be alarm
ed at a debt of so, O00,000, now our civil
expenses are increased Sl70,0OOOOO in
six years. What is the condition of our
securities? The country is great
country. 1t is mighty in its agricultu-
raj and its mineral resources, and in an
energetic people; yet go into any of the
European markets, and you will fXd
United States bonds paying 6 per cent.
interest in gold, selling for II cents,
while 8 British bonds, bearing
bat 3 per cent interest, sell
for "a cents to % cents. A
Canadian bond pays premium of 4 per
cent; a New Zealand bond is werth
1881; o Massachusetts. bond 81, while
the bonds of the United States are only
~. In the United States gold is at q
premium of 40 per cent; in Russia it is
only IA, aud IN Austria %. Is this
proper condition of thingsi Who is re-
sponsible? 1t is not the largeness OF
the debt; it is not that the people will
not pay their taxes cheerfully; 1t is not
that the resources of the country are not
ample; but the people of the Old World,
locking calmly on at US, see that we
have divided country, and that its af-
fairs are in the hands of partisan gov
ernment bent upon power and gain, in
stead of being in the hands of wise
statesmen and honest patriots.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01
The Repeal OF Manufacturers Taxa
Tariff Offset.
Correspondence Cincinnati CONNER ciall
WASHINGTON, March, 1868.

Correspondence Cincinnati CONNER cial
WASHINGTON, March, 1868.
The bill repeating the internal taxes
on manufacturers has passed both
Houses, and in few days will have be-
come law. At first glance this may
appear great measure OF relief to the
country at large, and people may be
led to expect a reduction in the prices
of manufactured articles, equal to the
tax removed. A very short time will,
however, grove. the -fallacy of such
hopes and expectations. To reduce in
ternal taxes without reducing the tariff
to corresponding degree Is only, in
effect, to increase the tariff, and to add
to the strength and thickness of the
Chinese wall of protection" so-called,
but prohibition in reality, that already
renders manufacturing an oppressive
monopoly in this country. The only ap
preciable result of the bill will be to
increase the already large profits of
New England factories; prices will
still be regulated by the tariff, as they
have been ever since prohibition was
enacted into the law. Under the pres
ent tariff system the cost of maDufac.
turing an article in this country is no
criterion for its price to the consumer.
The matter is settled entirely by the
rate of import duties-and the manu-
facturer pockets the difference between
the cost to him and the cost under the
high tariff system. The bill referred to
was passed to help the Connecticut
elections. In that remarkable State
there are some manufacturing interests
which have been suffering under the
oppression of internal taxation to such
an extent that their products have not
exceeded fifty per cent. per annum late
ly, except in the case of the New Eng
land Wood Screw Company" which, by
close economy, has been enabled to de-
clare dividend of a hundred and sew
enty-five per cent, or thereabout This,
and few other cases of the kind, are,
however, exceptions to the general rule
of Not more than fifty yer cent. profits.
Hence the loud cry for a reduction of
internal taxes, to be followed very
shortly by demand fer an Increase of
the tariff.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01
4 aOu..,;ouabIe Compliment.

iu a personal concerning Hon. c.
d. HUBBARD, the IntelligeRcer notes
that his latest vote in Congress was in
ravot of passing the Supreme Court
BIZ over the Presidents veto. We
rather doubt whether Mr.. HURBARD
will relish any congratulation upon
shat score. 1t is hut charitable TO think
that he voted for the measure under the
pressure of party necessity, and would
gladly have it forgotten.
Ii is admitted that upon the constitu-
tionality Of 5lilitary Reconstruction as
involved in she McArdle case, the Su-
prelne Court stcsd six TO two. the ma
iority being adverse to the validity OF
bayonet Government in the South. A
Radical Congress owed to the Radical
party the disagreeabIe duty of prevent
lug the announcement of that decision
Hence the passage of the Bill to
take from the Supreme Court
all Jurisdiction over the case. Any
representative who voted to pass that
Bill has certainly deserved u higher
compliment from bis party organs, than
that which is implied in n reference to
snch vote He is at least entitled TO
the charity of silence, in his own house
hold. It's bad enough for Copperheads
10 discourse of these ugly but necessary
services, bnt for sloyaltyr to be re-
minding its apostle of bis sins in its be-
half is ut once cruel and ungrateful
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01

THE New York Herald says: "The
President of the Senate and prospec-
tive President of the United States is
from Ashtabula, Ohio. Edwin NJ. Stan
ton is from Steubenville, Ohio. The
Chief Justice ef the Supreme Court is
from Ohio. Jay Cooke is from Ohio.
Senator Sherman, of Ohio, is chairman
of the Senate committees on Finance.
Bingham, of Ohio. rules the Radical
wing in the House Of Representatives.
These facts speak well for Ohio politi.
clans, and are otherwise suggestive"
The Herald might add that the three
prominent candidates for President
Grant, Chase and Pendleton-are all
0hioans-
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01

The innocent Kukluxes of Tennessee
complain that all the scoundrels of that
delectable region now ply their rascally
avocations in the sanity livery of the
K. K. K. The Memphis appeal furnish
es the following satisfactory information
as to the origin and significance of the
mysterious name Of these martyrs: 'Ku
Klux Khan is a Hebrew term, and, if
not found in the Talmud, is met with
in a very old Jewish work entitled "A
True and Authentic History of the
Great Rebellion of the Hebrews against
the Ancient Egyptian King Phsrosh,
B. C. 200O.' In this work the orthO-
graphy Is thus: Gu Clux Clam and is
interpreted in the English language, the
Straw Club which is supposed to al
lude to the fact that Pharoah required
the hod-carriers to furnish their own
straw, and also to the proyerb. known
to be of ancient Hebrew origin, 'Straws
show which way the wind blows.'"
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01
a NLnYnI,, Consiifniion

A correspondent of the New York
Uorn thus describes the Congo Consti-
tuition framed by the late North Carroll
ma Convention:
Among the features of the proposed
Constitution are the following:
That whites and negroes shall he
forced to attend the same schools.
That whites and negroes shall be
drilled together in the militia-proba
bly, whites ofliccred by blacks.
That white children are to be appren'
ticed 10 negroes.
That marriages between whites and
blacks are to be legal.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01
AN exchange says that

1.-THE Cynecephalus, an animal of the
saboon species, trained to perform on
horseback, ike circus rider, has recent
'ly arrived in New York from Paris and, !,
II it said, will appear in Chicago early
this season, in CONJUNCTION with al ex-
tensive circus troupe"
All of which means that the Radicals
have imported a candidate for the Vice
Presidency. - Ct-
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01

A NEGRO named HARRIS, q Radical
nominee for Congress in North Carroll
na, has been bought off by loyal" pur-
chssers at Washington, for one thou
sand dollars. That's about the old
price for field-hana.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01

TINE Radicals of Connecticut have been
trying to induce Dem cratic laborers to
accept employment in New Jersey
cranberry patches" so as to have them
out of the State on election day. They
succeeded in employing sirteen men, fif-
teen of whom have already given mp
"cranberrying" and returned to take
part in the "black-burying" to come off
next Monday.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01

THE chap who wrote the following
manifests what BILLINGS would call
tho premonitory symptoms Of id
fool"
There is sulphurous volcanic cloud
rising over the northern land; and by
the lurid light that CLEANS along Its
borders We can see houses in flames,
and fields dssolated, and outraged wo-
men flying with disheyelled hair to
hide their shame, and mastless bulks
with blood-staincd decks drifting rud-
derleSs, whitened no more forever with
the caRvass-wings of commerce, and
cities of the dead whose smoaldering
ruins would topple over and fall with
the jar upon the air of single footstep
upon their sidewalks, but the footstep
Is rot there"
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01

4 WASHINGTON correspondent who
admircs Gen. Grant, writes: "Gen.
Grants face is study to me always,
wearing its look of pain, as if an invisi
BILE world pressed him down from above.
He always walks as if steadying him.
self under this load.'
The "load" part is right enough, but
we doubt the invisibility of the world"
The general impression is that it's "beR-
zine" very frequently.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01

SOME Buckeye "loyalists" having re-
solved that "STANToN is a true son of
Ohio" the Buoyrus Forum. moves to
strike out the word "Ohio" and amend
according to fact.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01
Comm under ofthe Fifth Military Dis.
tricl

Brevet Major General Buchanan,
Colonel of the lst United States Infan-
try, now the commander of the troops in
Louisiana, and at the head of the
Freedman's Bureau in that State, has
been assigned to duty according to his
brevet rank of Major General. This
will place him IN command of the Fifth
Military District in the absence of Ma
ior General Hancock. General Rey-
nolds was left in command by General
Hancock, but General Buchanan ranks
him both by seniority and by brevet.
He is an old officer, having entered West
Point in l626. His record of military
service is good.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01
Chase n. n Democratic Candidate.

Chase NJ u Democratic Candidate.
The IatslliseRcer wants to know the
REGlsTER's opinion of the Radical pro-
gramme to make Chief Justice CHASE
the Democratic candidate for the Presi-
deucy. We think with the Tribune that
he is abOut as likely to be nominated by
the Democratic Convention on the 4th
OF July, as PENDLEToN is to be nomins-
ted by the Radical Convention on the
10th OF May. CHASE rs q Democratic
candidate is an absurdity that would
not be SURPASSED were SATAN to aspire
to rule the Kisgdom of Light.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01
National Insurance Company
WHEELING, WEST VA.

WHEELING, WEST va.
CAPHTAL........... $500, 900.
flee, 2G Monroe street next door to First Ma
tiOnal Bank.
eFRCRRs
GEORGE X. WHEAT, PreSideHt
JAMES MCCLUNEY, Wee President
JOHN BISHOP NecTetdTy.
Z. II. COLLIER. Assistant Secretary and Gen.
cTal Business Agent.
DIRECTORS:
John T. Wilson, George X. Wheat,
Jas &. Orr Saml Harper,
John A. Armstrong, James McCluney,
A. &. Quarter. Morgan L OFT,
George Adams.
REFERENCES.
s. Brady, Cashier Merchants National Bank,
Wheeling: List, Morrison & Co.. Wholesale
Grocers, Wheeling; Pryor, HandlaI & Co,
Wholesale Groeers Wheeling Michael Reilly,
Wholesale Grocer, Wheeling Mcclellan &
Knox Boot and Shoe House, Wheeling; McCabe,
Kraft & Co., Druggists Wheeling; Geo. w.
Franzheim Co., Wholesale WiHesand Liquors.
Wheeling Winship, Woods & CO., Queensware,
Wheeling; Lewis Baker. Pub REGIsrER, Wheel.
ing; L. C.McAfee, Notisns, Wheeling Camp.
bell. Frew & Co, Pubs IHtSligsIeeT, Wheeling;
OFT, Son & Co., Hardware, WheeliBg j. T..
Sands, Cashier First National Bank, FaiTnont;
L. J. Camden, Pres't Nat. ES. Bank, Weston,
W. Va, Capt. John Mcclure, Jr., Wheeling
may3
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01
WILLIAM HARE.

DRAUTICAB PLUMBER AND
i GAS FITTER, No. 3 Monroe ~, Wheel.
ing, W. Va.
~" Orders from the country attended 70 81
short notice. sspB
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01
German Fire Insurance Go.

OF WHEELING, W. VA.
Incorporated May II, lsG7D
CAPGTAL........... 1OO, 900
.rs OFFICERS
JOHN OSTERLfNG, President
AUGUST WIEDEBUSH, Vice p, rsidcnL
ANTON REYMANN, treasurer
JOSEPH SEYBOLD, Secretary.
HENRY A. KNAPP, Asst Secretary.
WILLIAM KLEylS, J..
PHILIP SCHUEHLE, Surveyors
AUGUST WIEDEBUSH
DIRECTORS:
Christian Hess William Klovis,
Benua Hammer, John Osterlng,
John Pfarr, John Roemcr,
Anton Reymann, Philip Schueble
August Wiedebush.
THIS COMPANY, NOW FULLY ORGAN.
i lied, is prepared to insure Buildings, Fur.
mture, Merchandise and other personal prop
Crty at favorable rates.
losses after due adjustment will be promptly
paid.
Applications for insurance will receive imme.
diate attention from the Secretary.
COmpanys office at Bank Of Wheeling, No II
Main street. je39iy
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01
AhKs YaUtI
.GSIRL LAMB.
LAMB & PAUL.,

A TTORNEYS AT LAW. wHREL-
"a ING, WEST VA. will practice In the
Ohies on East side of Fourth Street, near ths
Court House octlO
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01
JOHN TEECE

NALSTRR AND HOP DEALER,
M Water Street. Centre Wheeling, West
Virginia. Highest cash price paid for barley
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-01

"Mack's" last letter to the Cincinnati
Commercial contains the following para.
graphs in relation to impeachment and
the Supreme Court Bill.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-02-19
From Johnston.

JoHNsoNYILLE, Feb. II, 1865.
EDITOR CHRoSIcLE:-The excellent
sleighinp which we have been enjoying
during the past few weeks, has not been
u~nimDroyed, and Johnston has been pro
life Of sleigh-rides, parties, etc. A dona-
tion marty was held a. the residence Of
Mr.. !. n. Hull, on Thursday afternoon
and evening, Feb. 18th, for the benefit OF
Bro. Hodgkinson, the pastor OF the Meth
odist Church in the Fast part Of the town,
known as Mt. Pleasant. The evening
was spent In q very pleasant manner, with
q fine company present, and a handsome
donation was presented to the Reverend
gentleman.
An organization of the young people,
known as the Johnston Literary Asso-
ciation," has been in successful operation
! during the winter, and they propose to
give 4 public entertainment on the even
ing Of March 4th. They have met regu-
! larry each Wednesday night at the Town
Hall, during the past few months, and have
| conducted an institution creditable alike
to themselves and the place, and n that
should exist in every town.
Our schools are all drawing to a close
and as far as heard from, have been very
| successful in their operations. Many o.
them are keeping four months. Our teach
/ ers are anxious TO know if the "Institu;e'
is to be held in Warren in March, as an.
nounecd last fall? Let IL hear from soma
one on this subject, as it Is hoped n viii
be held in the Spring.
Much sickness prevails at present, an
/ DR.. Mayhem is kept busy attending to thu
wants Of his many patients. L.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-02-19

The attention of Union men is earn
estlv directed to this call. 1t is the be,
ginning of the Presidential campaign
of 1868 in this county, and the imPor'
lance of beginning any thing Alright
has passed into 8 proverb "Wen begun
Is half finished" Let Union men then
see that the campaign be well begun.
The eleven Delegates from this coun-
ty to the State Convention, not only
have to nominate, in conjunction with
others, State officers, but to select four
delegates to the National Union Con-
yention, two electors for President and
Vice President, and also to meet with
The delegates from the other counties
in this Congrst ional District and select
tho delegates to represent this District
in the National Union Convention.
The imoprtance of having good men
n discharge these duties need not be
dvelt upon. It is apparent. TheWay
IN sacure them is for Union men to at
tend the Primary Meetings, and secure
good, reliable men, as delegates to the
County Convention.
JOHN N. STULL, Chm'n.
JOIN C. HUFoHISs, Sec'y.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-02-19
-NeIghbOrhOOd News.

Mr.. Leverett Grover, of Windsor, Ash
tabula county, recently slaughtered a hog
seventeen months and eight days old, that
dressed six hundred and four pounds.
From it he got one hundred and one and
a half pounds hind lard. This shows an
increase of pork of over eight pounds per
week.
MIR. VIM. NJ. Hull, Of Williamsaeld,
Ashtabula county, writes the Sentinel, that
he has been feeding some nice cattle, two
pairs of which ne has just weighed one
pair of twin steers two years, the Goth of
last May, weighed twenty-nine hundred
pounds. The other pair, two years old
last April, weighed thiriy-two hundred
pounds.
"A. w. Jones, Esq, Of Youngstown
has been appointed by the United States
Court for the Northern District of Ohio,
United States Commissioner for the coun-
ty of Mahoning. Mr.. Jones is a lawyer
of ability and well qualified for the posi-
ton
The Commissioners OF Columbiana
county offer a reward of 500, and the
Town Council of the incorporated village
Of New Lisbon one of $500, making, in
all, a reward of 800, for the arrest and
conviction of the person or persons who
assaulted and robbed Postmaster John
r Obertson, of that place, on the night of
the 10Th ult.
There were issued from the office OF
the Probate Judge of Summit county, 399
marriage licenses during the year 1867.
"A friend informs US that the Congre-
g%ational Church in Thompson, Geauga
County, wa destroyed by FIRE on Wodnes-
day evening last, 18th inst, with its con
tents. There had been a meeting that
evening and the sexton, as usual, had
covered up and fixed the fire. The frst
intimation the citizens had of the fire was
to see the Building in flames. The amount
of damage is not reported.
From the Geauga Democrat of last
week, we learn that on the 9TH inst, three
men entered the residence of Mr.. Jesse
Rocker, of Hambden, in that county, while
the family were eating supper, drawing
revolvers and demanding Mr.. Rs. money.
Mr.. r. demonstrated, when he was knock
cd down and bound. -Four others of the
family were also bound, and Mrs. r. was
ordered to divulge where the money could
be found, or she would be placed upon q
hot stove. But little money was found
The robbers were oYertaken and arrested
the next day, by the sheriff of that county
and lodged in jail. A grand jury was
empaneled and they were bound over to
appear at the next term of court.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-02-19

CASE IN PoINr.-Wefnd in Sir Waite
Scott's biography of the late Duke of
York, the following anecdote, which
affords an illustration of the case be-
General Grant and the President
relative to the Var Office:
st the table of the commander-in-
chief, not many years since, q young
officer entered into a dispute with Lieu
tenant Col9nel-upon the point to
which military obedience ought to be
carried. The young gentleman was at
the time of life when soldiers are apt
to carry a sense Of military duty to en-
thusiasm. eff the commsnderin-
chief said the young officer, ike a
second Seid," should command me to
do a thing which ! knew to be ciyilly
illegal, l should not scruple to obey
him, and consider myself as relieved
fror, all responsibility by the orders OF
lmy military superior" $50 would not
- returned the gallant and intelligent
officer, who maintained the opposite
side of the question; 81 should rather
prefer the risk Of being shot for dlsobe-
dience by my commanding officer tina
hanged for transgressing the laws end
violating the liberties of the country.
you have answered like yourself"
said his Royal Highness, whose atten-
ton had been attracted by the ViVacIty
of the debsteJ aand the officer would
be as unwilling to execute an illegal
command as l trust the commando erin
chief is incapable of issuing one."-
Scots Prose Works, vOL. l, page 24O.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-02-19


E-The following is the letter from
SecretgSy Seward to Gov. Hayes, rela-
tive 10 the withdrawal of the assent Of
this State from the proposed Four
tenth Article of the Constitutional
Amendment. The Governor laid it be-
fore the Senate, but no action was had.
The letter e~xplaines itself:
DEPARTMENT OF SqATE,l
W~AsHISGToS. D. c., Feb. ). 1858.
To His EzceIleacy. B, B. Hayes. Governor Of
Ohio:
S1R:-I have the honor TO aeknow-
ledgs the receipt of your letter of JAN
uary, 1868, transmitting a joint resolu-
ton relating te TIE withdrawal of the
assent of the State Ct Ohio from the
proposed fourteenth article of the Con
stitutionsl Amendment, adopted by
the General Assembly of0hio. January
18th. 1853, the letter with its enclosures
having been referred to this depart
ment by the President, q resolution of
the General Assembly of Ohio fellow
ing that above referred to and a copy
of which is authenticated by the sigma
ture Of the Speaker OF the House of
heDlGBSlbdk1RGS duO tue 4lcsiNSnE Vi
the Senate, requesting the President
to cause to be forwarded to the COVER
nor of Ohio any and all papers Oh file
in the Executive Departments Wash
ington, certifying to the ratification by
the General Assembly of Ohio of said
proposed Constitutional Amendment.
Upon this I am instructed to say
that the Department Of State is organ
lied, among other things, for the safe
keeping of the public archives, and
that there is no Law permitting the Sec
rotary to withdraw therefrom any doc
ument which has beeL committed to
custody, whether st the request of an
individual or of a State. The resolu-
ton ratifying the proposed constitu-
tional amendment, and that rescind-
ing it and withdrawing the ratification.
will, therefore, remain on the files of
this Department, and have such effect
as they may respectively be entitled to.
l have the honor 10 be; very respect
fully, Your obedient servant,
(Signedl VIZ. II. SEWARD.