The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-06-23
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what it is to have a form pied next No
vember."
I 1t is rumored in Baltimore that Gov.
Swami has offered Steakle Wallis the
United States Senatorship in Reverdy
Johnson's place, but he refuses it.
+ The report that Judge Chase has
strong Democratic leanings, it is TO be
hoped, is true. If true, we may expect
Judge Chase's influence and vote in IA
vor of Mr.. Pendleton.-ChicdgO Times.
The Radicals have about reconstruct
ed the South after their fashion, bring
ing in the carpet -baggers, negroes and
all the ignorance, filth and barbarisn
possible, while the intelligent whites
are excluded.
The largest saw-mill but one in the
United States is located at Clinton,
Iowa. IL is worked by an engine OF
nine hundred horsepower, and when in
full operation would furnish employ
ment for 1000 men.
A Charleston paper reports that Mr.
]. c. Derby, the well-known New York
publisher, who purchased farm near
that city last year, for $1,000, has
fair prospect of paying for it with the
peach crop of this year alone.
The,Chairman of the Louisiana Radi-
cal State Executive Committee, who
has lately issued an address there con-
graduating the faithful on the nomina-
ton of Grant and Colfax, is o. j. Dunn,
bogus Lieutenant-Go -Goyernor-elect and a
negro. Ekal rights
Massachusetts, school marms. from
Dixie are passing through our city 81
most daily, on their way north to pass
the heated term. One from Georgia,
with a negro husband, passed through
Yesterday. She seemed to be very hap
py.-OhiO Statesman.
The Post AYERS that the reason why
the people do not toss up their hats for
Grant is that General Grant is not in
the haUIJ VI VVooI"s -r IL hat 4"
Possibly the Generals freedom from this
habit may give color to the report that
he carries brick in his hat betlmes.
We want no Chase, or any other man
who has spent his life in opposition to
the principles of Democracy, and only
had his eyes open to his duty to the
Constitution and the country, when he
was thrown overheard by his own
party on account of Grants availabill-
ty.
Ex-Governor Seymour has arrived at
New York, aud is already working up
Convention affairs with Mr.. Belmont.
Mr.. Pendleton is expected here next
week, positively, and it is said he will
be rendered breakfast by the Manhat-
tan Club in order to get little speech
out of him.
Radical reconstruction is not peace
and prosperity. 1t is wnr-war and des-
potism, which may last for a while, per-
haps antil the people fully comprehend
its foul hypOcrisies; but which is as
certain to be overthrown as the contln-
uance of free government in the United
States.
Beecher, in last Sundays sermon, de-
clared he did not believe in Church
creeds or special forms of worship, ex-
cent so far as they made men better,
and that Church should be estimated
according to the number of good men 1t
produces, which is the only test of its
excellence.
Mr.. D. L. Way, junior editor of the
Cincinnati Republican, appears to have
"a way of his own" In making the an
nouncement at the head of his local col
umn of the arrival in his household ola
81 pound chunk Of humanity, he COM
mences
This is the WAY long have sought.
Negro rule can only be army rule. The
peace of Congressional reconstruction is
the peace of the sword. 1t is not the
peace of States: but the peace OF prov
inces, under military rule. 1t is not re.
constructing the Union of the United
States. 1t is abolishing it forever, by
abolishing the States.
The Louisville Courier says Gen. Buell.
and John Quincy Adams would un-
questonably make very strong Demo
cratic ticket, as Gen. Buell. as a soldier
and statesman is the peer of the best
man in the land, while Adams is more
generally spoken of, for the second Of
fics, than any other gentleman.
Alta late dinner in North Carolina,
there sat down to table three ex-Goy-
ernors. an ex-Justice of the Supreme
Court, two ex-Members of Congress,
and some other men Of honorable dis
tinction in their State, and the only
person in the room who could vote or
hold office was the negro who waited
on tie table. Such is reconstruction.
The Columbus (Ohio) Statesman says
that "if matters come to the worst, if
our people, instead of receiving relief
from their tax burdens, shall be yet
further burthened, they will relieve
themselves through repud;ation. The
tendency of tho times is in this direction,
and he is wilfulIy blind who will not
see il
vallandingham says of an article on
Buchanan and Vallandingham, publish
ed in q "first-class7 evening paper in a
large Western city: "Eyidently the
writer expects a reply; he is ambitious
of a kick. He will be disappointed. He
is not the first little yellow dog which
has barked from the other side Of .
worm fence at an honest passer-by and
received no notice"
Msnton Marble, the accomplished ed
itor q the Forld, is stricken down with
grief over tho early deBsise Of his
lovely wife. Endowed with rare
talents, and. an ardent sympathizer and
Ihelp-mate in all the plane and aspira-
tioss of her husband, her less will in
deed be terrible affection to him.