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National Bank Notes.

WASHINGTON, March l9.-'rhe amount
of national bank notes in actual eircu-
lation up to March 10th was S299, co., 500
of the following denominations: One dol
lar notes, S5,43l, $50; two dollar notes,
S5,66S ,030; five dollar notes, SIP ,969, ,5S3;
ten dollar notes, 81 ,730, ,722; twenty dol
lar notes, S43,673 1925; fifty dollar notes,
Sl6,977 ,595; one hundred dollar notes,
SIS, ,299, 700; FIVE hundred dollar notes,
$5,9i4.500; one thousand dollar notes,
So Ol9,0OO,
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NJ. Worms, who is playing the part
of Armand Duval in the play known as
Camille, at st. Petersburg, received re-
Gently a bouquet enclosing ring, a pin
and a set of shirt buttons, of the value
Of four thousand dollars, with note
saying only, "To Armand Duyal, from
his Margaret The actor sent them
back by the bearer, with the message,
81 am not Armand Duval, ] do not know
Margaret, and have wife," The send
erof the present was lady of high
rank, and NJ Worms knew whe she was
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The Charleston papers sag that crowds
of Northern tourists visit the ruins of
Fort Sumter almost daily A regular
packet runs from the city to the ruined
fort, and seldom fails of full compile
ment of Sightseeing passengers. Near
ly all carry baskets, in which they col
lect and carry away scraps of iron and
.ot Der relics. .-- H
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We recestly printed the unjust and in
sulting order issued by Grant during the
war, banishing Jews by name, from his
lines. The order did not express the
Generals whole opinion of the national
ity which he thus singled out for public
defamation. President Lincoln, az soon
as he saw the order, wrote to Grant di-
reeting him to recall it. In reply,
Grant wrote substantially as follows:
"In obedience to your instructions, the
order complained of shall be recalled;
but | take the liberty of saying that
these people complained of are the same
who orucifed our Savior, and from the
specimens of them here, | do not think
the race has improved any since then.
This letter has never been made pub
lie, but these are its contents, as related
by Mr.. Lincoln himself to several citi
zens of St. Louis.-St Louis Dispatch.
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The Mobile Register says q gentleman
of that city visited disreputable place
in the suburbs last Saturday evening,
was compelled to stand treat all
round, and having been compelled in
paying his bill to display a larger roll
of greenbacks than he considered
healthy in such q place, slipped cut
while the party were drinking second
time and hurried towards home. Noti-
cling something unusual in his pocket,
he examined it, and to his horror and
surprise drew forth q human hand. IL
had no blood upon it, nor did IL itpresent
any appearance of having been recently
severed. Upon one of the fingers was q
gold ring, and the hand bore some
Characters in India ink which may lead
to its Identification. The mystery can
not be explained. but it is probable that
he was made the scape-goat to bear
away from the den of cut-throats the
last evidence of some murder that had
been committed there. -
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VI s. Dawes of Saugerties, Ulster
sOI"ty' has lost very fine marc, val
N0u at $500, which died, as is sup
posed from eating the inner bark of the
.'euSt tree. 1t is an unusual case, as
'eN animals will eat the bark of the To-
iust IN y. which is said to be only poisonous
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DemocraIIc vietory in Crates.

URAFToN, W. Va, March II, 1867.
AOi'Or Of the Register:
'or corporation election passed of
Yesterday y. for Mayor and Councilmen.
We elected the Mayor, Thos. Smouse,
~ Iuu two Councilman out of three.
tSeIiocratic tSa gain Of twenty-four since
Tue last election. ' C.
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The largest pendulum in existence is
said to be that which regulates q new
clock at St. Georges Church, New York.
It is IS feet long, and vibrates in three
seconds. The weight of it is 800
pounds.
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a Duel.

: AUGUSTA, GA, March ls.-A duel was
fought this morning at Bondbar Ferry,
between Samuel Williams and ". Jor-
dan, both citizens of Atlanta. Nobody
hurt. v4 ..i ...f- ,..r... =. .,-.- -.
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THE MUTUAL
Life Insurance Company,
OF New York.
Assets over $22,OOO,OO0,
AND EXCLUSIVELY CASH.

Assets over S22,OOO,OO0,
AND EXCLUSIVELY CASH.
The Oldest aud Largest Life Insurance Co.
in the United States.
HIVIDENDSPA PAID ANNUALLY IN CASH.
insurance at less average rate than offered by
any other Company.
No Stockholders TO take the Profits from The Policy.
Holders.
DIVIDENDS To POLICY HOLDERS
For 1867 is $1,000, 900.
The entire surplus is distributed as a diridend
TO policy holders annually.
Particular attention called TO the ten year
life plan.
For further information, pOlicy-holders and
other persons interested in the subject of Lite
Insurance are invited to call upon the under
signed. W. Il. PETERSON. Agent.
Office Main street, next door TO Merchants
National Bank.
Medical Examiner GEORGE BAIRD, MI
nOvla-lm
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National Insurance Company
WHEELING, WEST VA.
CAPgTAL... -.....--..S2OO,O 900.
flee, 2i Monroe street, next door to First Ma
tioRal Bank.
0FFICERs
GEORGE X. WHEAT, Pregident.
JAMES MCCLUNEY, Vice President
JOHN BISHOP secretary.
e. II. COLLIER Assistant Secretary and Gen.
eTal business Agent.
DIRECTORS:
John f. Wilson, George X. Wheat
Jas. G.. Orr, Saml Harper,
John A. Armstrong, James McCuney,
A. G.. Quarter. Morgan L OFT,
George Adams
REFERENCES.
s. Brady Cashier Merchants National Bank,
Wheeling List, Morrison a. Co., Wholesale
Grocers, Wheeling; Pryor, Handlan & Co.,
Wholesale GrOeeTs, Wheeling; Michael Reilly,
Wholesale Grocer, Wheeling; Mcclellan &
Knox Boot and Shoe House, Wheeling; McCabe,
Kraft g. Co., Druggists, Wheeling; Geo. W.
Franzheim & Co., Wholesale Wines and Liquors,
Wheeling; Winship Woods & Co., QueenswaTe.
Wheeling; Lewis Baker. Pub. REGISTER, Wheel.
ing: L. C.McAfee, Notisns Wheeling; Camp
bell Frew & Co, Pubs. InteligsncsT Wheeling;
OFT, Son g. Co., Hardware, Wheeling; J. L.
Sands, Cashier First National Bank Fairmont;
X. =. Camden, Prest Nat Tx. Bank, Weston,
w. Va, Capt john Mcclure, Jr., Wheeling
may1
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ful, broken furniture, and fragments of

full, broken furniture, and fragments of
blood and bone, and great gaunt, fe-
rocious wolf, bitten to death by its COM
rades, lying stark and stiff, and the era
die and its torn and trampled pillows
and blankets. The four panes of glass,
that formed our rud0 window, were
shattered TO atoms, and the case
ment broken out, and through it the
wolves had escaped. / sat down on
broken chair, mute and desolate and
looked over the scene of the horrible
strife with a haunting fear, that l might
see something that would freeze my
life blood, and scar my brain forever.
Oh Daisy! Daisy my little wee helpless
one! Oh cruel mother! that had left
her to such fate! / felt sight and
sound going from me. tried to scream,
but my lips moved not, fearful, palpa-
BILE presence, seemed about to take pos
session of me, when suddenly to my
numbling ears, came sOund-a blessed
sound-a child's cry!
1t came from the bedroom-I sprang
thither in frantic haste-nothing but
the black room-I tore the clothes from
the bed, and shock them, as l had done
twenty times that night, in an agony
OF doubt. Again the cry, muffled, in
distinct, but cheerfully near. There
was a small space behind the bed,
scarcely thicker than crack, where /
had placed two blankets, folded length
ways, only the day before, now re-
membered. kneeled on the edge of
the bed, and peered into the narrow,
dark space. Oh precious, blessed sight,
that flooded my vision with rosy splen-
dor! There lay my baby! my darling
flushed with drowsy slumber-her
beautiful eyes upturned to mine, in
wonder at her strange bed. She was
frightened and distressed at the passion
of joy with which snatched her to my
bosom, as from sealed tomb, and
kissed her with lips that murmured
solemn prayers.
Oh! when it is all over, and could
think, wondered at my blindness, in
not looking there at all. / had been so
sure that had left her in the cradle, as
indeed did, getting up in my sleep,
and carrying her to her accustomed
place-that l had never once thought it
possible that she was otherwise than
devOured by the wolves. / had laid her
too far over in my sleepy abstraction,
and she had sunk down on the soft
blankets, and slept there the whole of
that fearful night, that made me lock
ten years older, and whitened my hair
at nineteen.
But l have been repaid. When Frank |
came home and told him as was able,
he did not seem to feel about Daisy as
did, for when l thought he was going
to take her from my arm in a sort of
rapture for her preservation, he only
folded his arm tight about US both, and
| felt the tears wet on my face. He
never left us alone after that. We lived |
there to see a town grow mp about us,
and the house built we had planned and |
another little Daisy is in our home to-
day, just such darling as her mother
was. All, my pet-my wee one-God |
keep you from the wolves of the fold
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MRS. c.. ZIMMER

MANUFACTURE ALI kINDs
M OF CRACKERS, CAKES, BREAD, &c.,
No. l62 Market Street East side a fsw doors
south of the Market House Wheeling. W. Va
janlU
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National Bank Of West Virginia.
Merchants National Bank
OF WEST VIRGINIA.

VINHIS BANK SUCCEEDS TO TIIR
i business of the Merchants and Mechanics
Bank of Wheeling" 1t is Designated Deposi
tory and Financial Agent of the United States
and is prepared TO do legitimate Banking busi
ness.
PREsIDENT-ROBERT CRANGLE.
DTRsCToRS-Thomas Sweeney l.. S. Delaplain,
Jas. G. Acheson, John DonlOn, Jacob Berger, A.
Allen Howell, j. Nelson Vance, James Dalzell.
janl7.ly s. BRADY. Cashier
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The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-02-13
7 For the Democrat.
Nv 4 Ely.
JONATHAN SMITH

We understand that quorum of the
registers of Green township failed to meet
at the time prescribed by law to register
the voters of said township. Some indi-
viduals seem disposed to censure those
who were appointed and tailed to attend to
that business, for dercllction of duty. We
have taken some trouble to ascertain who
was at fault, if any, and from source en-
titled to credit we have the following facts:
That on Monday, the Sd inst, the time
appointed by law for the registers to meet
and make out q list of the voters of the
township, Mr. Hughs, the trustee. went tc
the place of holding elections and remained
there until he became satisfied that jacob
Siplc and Isaac Rutler, who were appoint
ed registers, would not be there. On
further inquiry we learned that Mr.. But
Ter left his home on Saturday mornin Q
and did not return until Monday evening
the day that the law required the regis
tering to be done. His appointment al
register was eft at his house on Saturday
after he left home, but the first he knew
OF his appointment was Monday evening
after he returned, when it was too late
Mr.. Siple's apology for not attending, a
we have been informed was that some per
son told him that the first Monday il
March next, was the time for them t
meet. Mr.. Hughs was on hand in du
time. Mr. Butler did not get his appoint
ment until it was too late; consequent.
neither of them was at fault.
The registers are to meet on the 4tl
Tuesday in March to correct the list 70
the April election, but when they NEE
they will have no list to correct TIL
question before the house is can they hol,
legal election in that township on TIN
LIST Monday in April next? If they can
not the present trustee, constable, and su
peryisor, will, under the law, hold over.
Nc
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-02-13

A Young Mems Christian Association has
been organized at Madison We hope it will
furnish the Courier with some items prepar-
ed" ETC.
Heart disease seems to be very prevalent
thro' out the State. Within week we have
noticed more than a dozen deaths attributed
to that cause. The latest cases reported are
those of Jacob Vogt, OF Ripley county, and
Thomas Harvey, of Grant county, both Of
whom were in perfect health.
The centenary returns of the Methodist
Episcopal church foot up total Of S.
241 900.
A fire at Yorktown, on Sunday. destroyed
property to the smount of 81 200.
White gunpowder is made in France
which leaves no trace in the gun.
THE number of deaths during 1867, in
New York City was 23,710.
THERE are twenty-seven lodges Of the
Independent Order Ut Odd-Fellows In ac-
tive operation In Cincin natl.
MILWAUKEE, forty years ago, was .
wilderness; now it has population of SO.-
900
WHAT is the difference between bar
Der and a mother? Que has ra2ofs to
shave, and the other has shavers to raise.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-02-13
SERGEANT BATE,S

Gilbert H. Bates, an individual who is
walking" into notoriety with flag in
his hand down south, is native Of Dane
county, Wisconsin. As many of our read
ers do not know the circumstances of the
case, We copy the following particulars:
At casual meeting of friends and
neighbors on the 18th of December last
a declaration was made that the people OF
the south were not to be trusted and that
if the troops were withdrawn they would
tear down the 1ag,-that they were as re-
belIious to-day as during the war. &c. In
order to demonstrate the absurdity ofsuch
assertions, Sergeant Bates proposed to
walk from Vicksburg to Washington bear
ing the United States flag, providing the
parties with whom he was conversing
would obligate themselves to pay his fami-
ly 81 per day. The proposition was ac-
cepted, and writings entered into to con
firm it. He was advised that it was O
hazardous task, and that he should have
his life insured, but he would rely for his
insurance, upon the good sense and loyalty
of the southern people. He believed tina
the people of the south would respect the
flag at any rate. he would attempt to q
through, be the consequences what the,
may. He stated that he was not actin,
for any party-for the flag only.
So far the sergeant has been greeted a
every point by crowds of southerners, VIII
thank him for the faith he has in them
that they are not all set Of murderer
and cut threats.
The following letter explains itself:
"ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. /, 1868.
4" Editor Cairo Democrat:
81 have seen it announced in your pa
per that Sergeant Bates was about to tra'
ell through the south, carrying an Unite
States fog.
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MRS. Perry.-The President and
Congress-.

The suit recently commenced by Mrs. Per
ry, known as the Washington woman"
against Henry A. Smythe, collector Of the
port of New York, to recover large amount,
of her share of Smythc's sale Of the genera
order business, for $4,000, has been quietly
settled through the Intervention of President
Johnson, whose friendship for the lady has
secured her a small fortune from the govern
ment patronage. Smythe positively refused,
it is said, to part with even one of his green
backs for the benefit of Mrs. Perry; and he
was, it is further alleged, the poSsessor OF
secrets i'm parted to him by MI. Johnson which
mvsteriously secured to him the sinecure he
now holds. The Washington woman, how
ever. was memorable; and, about the time
when Smythe was cited to appear before the
supreme court, the president nterfered, and
thus prevented a trial, which would have been
one of the most remarkable, if not the most
scand.,lous, on record. A verbal message
was sent from here to one of the federal of
fire-hoders in New York to raise the amount
ofsubscriptions from the heads of the revenue
and other departments. in order To appease
Mrs Perry and, of course, the needed sum
was at once furnished, and the legal proceed
ings at once quashed. The sequel to the case
has received Collector Smythe from a curious
and unenviable dilemma, and has made the
president happy.
When congress several goes steps further
and purpose to strip the president of his just
powers under the constitution, and to confer
them upon dictator-when they seek prac
tically to overthrow the sapreme court--it IS
quite time, Mr.. Johnson thinks, to take up
arms against this sea of troubles, and, by op-
posing to end them. The programme is
distinctly marked out Johnson will not fight
on the tcnure-ofoffice bill he will not quar-.
rel with congress, rs they wish him to d., on
any minor matters by which they try to in
suit and degrade his high office-but submit
he will not to the dictatorship bill. The fur
Their steps in the programme are apparent.
When he rcsists, as resist he viii, the execa-
ton of this OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and presi-
dent -dishonoring bill, congress lie prepared
to promptly kick him out of Office. Your
readers have read in the daily papers the pro-
visions of bill, introduced by Mr. Edm unds
i'm the senate, which it is intended 20 pass.
This bill provides all the machinery for get.
ting Johnson out of Office in case Of his inn
parchment After the first steps Of the i'm
parchment programme, he ceases to be pres :
dent, and Wade becomes virtually the presi-
dent ofthe United States. Both congress and
the president are now tolcrally in earnest !:
and month cannot pass without a direct
conflict between those high aniberitics,
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-02-13

Mr.. Bates will meet with no unkindness
from the late rebels on the contrary, he
will be received with marked kindness and
consideration along his whole route.
regret, however that he has uuderta-
ken the trip. The negro bureau and Yam
kee parsons will not let him pass through
safely. To make point against the reb-
els, they will procure his murder on the
route. just as sure as Cairo is at the
mouth of the Ohio river will this unfortu-
nate young man be murdered by the above
agencies, tor the purpose, as l say, to make
point against the rebels.
/ write this that you may make pub
lie notice of it.
l know of NO effective plan to prevent
the murder of Mr.. Bates by the radicals
1t is an opportunity for them of which
they will be sure to avail themselves.
Very respectfully
JONATHAN SMITH.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-02-13
CHICA GO CORPESP ONDENCE
CHICAGO. Feb. 10. 1868.

ED. Observation-Disclosures boarding
houses afford some queer adventures, and
those which occasionally crop up to the sur
face are not always the most noteworthy
A couple Of recent disclosures are. howev-
err too rich in comedy to be quietly passed
over. On Saturday night last, young
man named Crowell, boarding at a Mrs.
Lannon's on Kinzie street, got somewhat
berry, and on going home accidently en-
tered the wrong room. Instead OF in the
sanctlty of his own apartment, he began
disrobing in that belonging TO Mr.. and
Mrs. Adams. Mr. 4. had not returned,
and Mrs. \. believing the INTRUDER to be
her husband, began soundly berating him
for staying out until so late an hour.
Aghast at hearing woman's voice from
what he believed to be his virtuous couch,
he stammeringly demonstrated. e beg
your pardon, ma'am, but don't you think
you've got into the wrong bed ?"-scream-
ing. general rush of boarders in disha-
billie to the scene, were the consequences
of his innocent suggestion. Suddenly MIR.
A. appeared upon the scene, and in the
unhappy inebriate he saw, as he imagined,
the destroyer of his domestic peace.
Crowell was thrashed badly, and Mrs. A.
had narrow escape.
A funnier incident than that, but one
which for obvious reasons has been hush
ed up as much as possible, is related as
follows Mrs. Ii g., a buxom boarding hous c
keeper was approached one day by her
chambermaid, who formally complained
that Mr.. II. soft in the Silly night"
stole along shed roof to the window of
her room, which he entered, ETC.. and the
more he did so the more she thought it
wasn't right, until she had resolved to ex-
pose him. Mrs. H., bent on vengeance,
said g tonight you shall sleep in another
room; | will take your bed, just let me
catch him, that's all !" The arrangement
thus proposed was fully carried out, 50 far
as the women were concerned. Mr.. IL.
being Of cornwall nature, sometimes re-
turned home at very late hour The
wife 10 the girls bed heard some one
stealthily come to the window, raise it and
enter the room. She was silent. The
party who entered remained for some time
and what transpired in that tire is left tc
the imagination As he was about TO re.
tire by the same way he had come, Mrs
III. hastily struck match and lit the gas
near the bed Horror of horrors Ii
was not Mr. Ii. but one Of the young men
boa, aers. Let us drop over the sequel th,
mantle of silence, which, but for the your,
mans indiscretion would have covered al
the foregoing.
The insurance companies have resolve,
not to apply their increased rate to sucl
risks az were before under extra charge
Some of the members Of the board of I'm
derwritcr's were decidedly opposed to al
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-02-13
IMPEACHMENT AGAIN.

The movement to impeach the president
is taking a new lease of life. The i" I'm
perial Soft lmpeacher," Ashley, has prob
ably struck new trail, and if congress
does not refuse to come down with the ne
eessary amount Of cash with which to pur-
chase evidence, the prospects are favorable
for success. The presidents late difficult
~ with Grant, in which the general is
placed in the unpleasant position of will
full falsifer of his word, is the motive for
the present movement. The congression-
al heart has been fired by the peculiar po-
sition in which their pet automaton has
been placed, and what they lacked in
courage before, they will gain in despera
lion now. The public need have no fears
but that congress will accomplish theil
infamous designs in this instance, or il
any other one that will in any way further
the interests of mongrelism.