The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-11-09
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POLIFTcAI NEwa..

1
sion Is that after few days session Il
Will adjourn until January.
The report on freedmsn,s affairs In
Texas just made by GeneraI Reynolds,
shows the startling fact that there have
been reported TO the end of September
1858, since the close OF the war, 76l mur.
dersi and that thepunishment of daath
for all this crime has been inlicted
upon, only one person, and hea negro,
Only 6 whites were killed by negroes,
while 464 negroes were killed by whites.
Two hundred and fourteen more were
shot or stabbed, but not killed, and l5S
more whipped. II does not need the
Language OF General Reynolds report 70
prove that the utmost lawiessness
exists IN nearly all parts of the State,
that schools are broken up, school
houses Eburned, and teachers either
murdered or driven OF. The report
shows that the negroes are mostly self.
supporting-the value OF rafions issued
during the past year being less than one
hundred dollars. The total expenses oil
the Bureau for the year were about
ninety.one thousand dollars.
The Paris papers, one and all, look
on the election of Grant as having
strengthened the Great Republic be.
yond danger from any possible ahock
for years to come. Americana abEoad,
without distinction OF party, are proud
and delighted.
The Democratic journals and po-
liticians at Washington still keep up
their pleasant billing and cooling about
General Grant. Two OF the Baltimore
papers Friday morning have articles
very complimentary OF him, and the
Evening b;EdTeSS, has several pleasant
little paragraphs about him, and an
nounces that it will hereafter rather
esehew politics. 1t is also noticed that
the original simon pure Jackson Dem
ocrat Law Association, at meeting
Thursday night, came to the conclusion
that General Grant is after all the very
fellow, and one member made The sug-
geston, iocularly he said about going
over to the Republicans, while the Pres
ldent himself defended one Of the lead
Ing members who attended Repub biz
can meeting on Wednesday A serious
suggestion was finally made that 1t
would be eminently proper for the As.
ISOLATION 10 join in u welcome to Gen.
Grant on his arrival in this city, Sew.
eral members objected to this propisit-
ion, on the ground that they would
have to march in procession with ne
groes. a suggestion afterwards made
that the Association proceed in body
some evening 10 Grants residence and
tender him their compliments, met
with approval of all present, after
which he Association adjourned under
the conviction that there was no need
to have another meeting.
The official majority for Grant in
Allegheny county, Pa, is 10 SI6. The to.
tai vote of the county ia 40. 15S; increase
over the vote of October 1855; increase
in Republican majority 1850.
The Chicago Tribune says It is
worthy of note, as matter of fact and
as a matter of justice, that the election
mr. 1nnaadnry L.,
body of e1rish- born citizens of Chi
cago abandoned the Democratic ticket
TO vote for the Republican candidates.
The Chicago Times surrenders grace
fully, and does not ask the usual cour-
tesy rendered TO prisoners ofwar, who
are allowed their side arms. It says:
sour radical opponents have got things
all their own way. The emigration to
Salt river leaves them q clear field.
We leave them, at the moment of adieu,
our blessing, several thousand torches,
u quantity of benzine suitable fol illu-
minating purposes, and a quantity of
other traps and 5paraphernalia for
which we have no further use. The
uplands of Saltriver afford no employ
mulated during the late canvass"
Returns from q counties Of Ohio
give Republican gain over the vote in
October of 22,732. II the counties not
Ee6rd from voted as they did then
Grants majority in the State is II, liz.
-Missourihas voted down the negro
suffrage proposition by large majori-
~. It received It's greatest majority in
the strongest rebel counties, mainly be-
cause 1t is in those counties the Union
men desire the vote of the black man, to
overcome that of the rebel when the
Acknowledgement acts are repealed.
The With District of Kentucky
has elected Barnes, Republican, by a
good majority.
The Indications now are that Grant
will have5 600 votes in Kentucky, while
the Democratic majority will be 1000
less than that received by Stevenson
for Governor.
"A Nashville despatch says that as
reports come in 'front.' the different coun-
ties Of Tennessee the evidences of Dem
ocratic violence accumulate. In Obion
county of 800 registered voters only 200
voted. The remainder we're kept from
the polls by terror and force. The Ku-
Klux went round the night before the
election threatening TO take the life of
any freedman who should vote for
Grant. Mr.. Hewitt, the REPRESENTS
and compelled, the night after the cleo
tion, to leave his house and sleep out in
the woods.
Foil reports from AZ counties of
Iowa, give Grant 80 .623 msj0rity-a
gain of l5,0S7 on the vote of October.
The same counties give negro suffrage
majority of %, SOS. The fifty counties
yetunreported are expected to swell
Grants majority to 5000 and the ma
ioritY for negro auffraRa to 10000
The Mariaetta Register of last week
says: "Colonel Chas GburloW, Judge OF
Probate of Limestone county, Ala
bama, and formerly of Cold Ron,
Washington county, Ohio, was shot at
Huntsville, Alabama, last Saturday
morning, in the Kn Klux- raid upon a
Republican mass meeting at that place.
AdIspatch from Huntsville, this WED
nesdayl morning, from his son, d. B.
Thurlow, says: Father died at fifteen
minutes after O'Clock, this moring.
His remains Will be expressed to MARI
etta.' The Masons will receive his re-
mains when they arrive, and will at
tend his fnneral, OF which notice will
be given"
-Horatio Seymour has been badly
"out up" by the people, but his name
being reconstructed constitutes the slg-
nificant anagram: 80, your at home,
sir"
The Columbus Statesman of Friday
that was traitor to the Democracy
hang theNeW York World.o It blamea
the World for the Democratic defeat,
and exclaims in emphatic capitals,
LET its circulation cease"
Seymour did not carry Galena, Gem
eraI Grants home. Though Grant car
ried Utica.