The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-07
FROM WAYNE AND LOGAN
COUNTIES.
The Elections-Court in Wayne md
the JudRe-Loxnn County Recon
strucfed-The Supervisors and the
Contesied Electiou-GinsengT Trade,

i SEhEDoy DcCCmuCi - iSOO'
Editor of the Register:
Well, the election is over, and we ar
t beaten by foul means and not by a
honest expression of the voice of tn
people. Two hundred and sixty voter
were swindled out of the right to yot
by the township Registrars and tn
county Board of Registration. In OF
township the Registrar "forgot" to tax
the oath, and all that he registered wer
cut from the list, except such as woul'
be certain to vote the Radical ticket
They could not be registered by tn
County Board because one of the mem
bers was mean enough to have th'
bellyache when he ought to have beer
at the Court House attending to his du
ties; and another had business of ny
own" to attend to, after he had sworr
to perform the duties faithfully and i'm
partially, and sit until all the business
before them was completed" In an
other township the Registrar refused tt
register any one, saying he had orders
from one of the Board of Registration tt
that effect. After being told that he
had the law to govern him, and moi
"orders," he wrote down the names Of
those who claimed the right to be reg
istered, and afterwards went before the
grand jury and swore that he was ain
undated" And so on, to the end oi
the chapter, all too tedious to detail
At the election in one precinct, the In
spector who received the votes passed
them under the table to the other Inspec-
tor. don't know how many Demo-
cratic votes the Inspectors took out OF
their 'butes." In short, with all ouI
labor and watching, the RAIDS swindled
US in the election, and the result is
that j. G. Wheeler, of odorous memory,
is to be Prosecuting Attorney, and Car
roll, the dauntless, delegate to the
lower House.
The November term of our Circuit
Court was in session last week, Judge
Gillespie on the bench. Several men
who yelled for Seymour and Blair, in
Ceredo, too loud to suit the minority
party in that township, were indicted
by the grand jury. AS the Judge had
charged the jury to look after the Off
GERS of the late election, witnesses
were sent before that body to testify to
the gross violation of law, and failure
TO do their duty, by township Regis
trars, but it was of no use; everything
of that kind was smothered up. No in
dictments of Radicals could be made
for any violation of law whatever.
James III. Ferguson was elected Judge
of the Twelfth Judicial District. As
Mr.. Ferguson is counsel in large num-
ber of important cases on the docket,
it is believed he will exchange with
Judge Gillespie and preside in the other
circuit for few months. 1t is remark
ed bJ many that we have had very few
criminal cases in our county lately.
Except one case of 4 young man who
stole cattle, there have been no crimi
nal cases of consequence for two years.
Logan county Is reconstructed ana
the citizens are all happy All the
Democratic candidates in this county
wore slectad.-P p. II. Hanlan, of Browns
town, is elected Prosecuting Attorney,
aud entered upon the dHties of his
office at the last term of court, the Sec
ond week in November. Some of the
township registrars were indicted by
the grand jury for willful neglect of
duty, and three or four persons were in
dicted for selling liquor without license.
There is yet squad of soldiers at Lo
~ I of
ant Batenan. They have nothing to do
and nobody to help do it. Soldiers have
been there now for two years, and have
never yet been called upon by the civil
authorities to do anything, and proba-
bly, never will. The nearest they ever
came to be of any service was to squelch
a rebellious Radical, who bad got the
idea into his head that the soldiers be-
ing there gave him the right to do as he
pleased, regardless of law or the rights
of others. His overheated loyalty was
cooled off by sudden bath in the Guy
andotte river. He has been reconstruct
ed since that time.
The Supervisors of Logan county are
honest men. They had been notified
that one of the Democratic officers
elect should not hold the office to which
he had been elected, for the reason that
in some of the townships the Inspectors
failed to sign the poll list, and the Rad
cal candidate for that office wou.d dis
pute the right of said Democrat to hold
the office. The Supervisors agreed that
if it was shown that the officers con-
Quoted the election fairly, every voter
had a chance to express his preference
by ballot without fear, &c, and the re-
turns of the election appeared to be
fairly and honestly made, they (the Su-
pervisors) would not throw away a
whole township for slight informali-
ty. In pursuance of this resolve the
certificate was given to the Democrat,
and the Radical spent his money and
had all his trouble in the contest only
to learn a wholesome lesson. The Rad
ical party in that county is dead and
buried, and will be heard of no more
forever.
Ginseng diggiEg and the trade in it
has been lively the past summer and
fall. One man has taken in 500 pounds,
another $500 pounds, some 1900 pounds;
in all, 1900 to $1,000 pounds of dried
ginseng for this one season. A consid-
erable quantity has $50 been dug on the
northern border of Wyoming county.
The prices paid by the merchants were
thirty to thirty-fve cents for green, and
eighty cents to one dollar for dried.
Lucky for the poor people in the noun
tains that they could find "sang" in the
wild oods, for it is about the only ma
tive prodact that will bring them money
or buy their coffee and boots and shoes.
There is plenty of timber, and good
deal is tioated out OF the creeks and
down the Gayandotte avery year, but
it requires capital and credit TO carry on
the business, and is a very uncertain
way of making money. There was a
time when great many cattle were
raised in Logan county every year, but
the people have not recovered from the
effects of the war, and it will be some
time before they can do as much in that
business as before the war. II the Guy
ondotte river could be made navigablt
as far as the Court House, then the GOA
and iron and lead aud timber would be
valuable to the land owners. The Tins
is not far distant when the natura
wealth of the county will be developed
and then there will not be so many
, bears to steal the farmers corn as now
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