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Resolutions Adopted by the
Democratic state COnVen-
tiOn Of West Virginia.

|, Resolred, That we approve the platform oil
the National Democratic Convention, iateiy Us
sembled in New York, a. the true exponent oi
our political principles and pledge our near!
and united support TO the nomihees ',a VI vice
Convention for the othces OIL fresiaeh' 'An" NV
President of the United States. ..,.
. P,solprd, That we demand oil the Legtsia'
tnre of this State reduction oi the useless
swarm of officers with which we are ihiesteS'
and such other measures Of economy, rctrensh,
n,ent aud reform as will reduce the sut then oi
State and local taxation, when Is 'Nhaus''ns
the substance OF our people -,
a R,soIrsd That We demand the reform oil
the present system OF registration as unjust,
opuressiye upon the people, ana AT Narlahee
with the fundamental principles oil lice govern
ment. A. ,u,
4. ResOlred, That We denOunce the Radical
paIty of this State, because, with we" oi
perpetuating their own power, they nave re'
h,sed 10 permit the people to elect their own
Registers and have vested the power OF appoint
meut and removal in the Governor 80 that tne
upscrupulous purposes Gf the party may DO Dot
t.r .accompIished; and because, with the same
view, they have by recent legislation relieved
their KAzlsters, thus unfairly ana impropeiy
elected from either civil or criminal fesPohsi,
biity, ior even willi1l and corrupt violation oi
duty. .,u,.. .. ~
3, Resolred That while we are willing to nc,
cord 10 the negro the full measure oil legai
RIGHTS with ample protection OF person ana
property, we are unalterably opposed to negro
suffrage, negro equality, and Radical iesisiatsoh
looking TO that end A. r.H.o,
marty for having, through its repre- esentatives IN
CONGRESS, by the passage Of certain military re-
nstluction bills, declared null and void the
Government sf Virginia, which formed tne
state of West Virginia, thereby denying the
legal existence Of our new State
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the Southern States. 1.-The succeeds in the
rebel States, it will be bya mere form
al choice, unaccompanied by that vol.
untary action which makes free and
fair election. Even if those States
sheuld give him their vote, the manner
in which it is done, will rob the success
of half its value, and the success itself
will but ratify despotism which has
already been declared. s.F.-
Imagine a President of the United
States elected by the bayonet; the ne
gro and the carpet-bagger. What a
magnificent comment on free institu-
tions! What q glorious proof of the
capacity of this people for self-govern-
ment! Such result would establish
that the fitness of our people for free
dom had passed away, and that, come
when it might. they were ready for
that absolute tyranny which, having
helped to place it over their fellow-citi-
zens of the South, they were ready to
accept for themselves.
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TEXAS.
Jutlge Caldwell-The Texas Homi
cides.

Jadge CaldwelI-The Texas Homi.
cidcs.
To the Editor of the New York Uorld:
NEW YORK, July 90. 1868.
In your spirited journal of the 2lst
instant / noticed that Mr.. Wiley,
(Disun., w. Va Senator in Congress,
replied to Mr.. Davis, of Kentucky, by
reading a statement of tho reported
homicides said to have been committed
in the State of Toxas since the close of
the war.
The statement is signed by seven
members of the present Republican
Convention, and tho name of Judge
Caldwell, one of the Judges of the
Supreme Court of Texas, (military ap-
psintee,) as we'll as a delegate to the
Convention, heads the list.
This same gentleman is doubtless q
very fit champion of the cause he has
espoused, and, having committed n
most barbarous homicide himself, is
we'll calculated to head the list of warn
| ing to others. Let the following atfi
dayit tell its own tale:
The State Of Tsras Harrison County:
J.E. Hooper, of the county aforesaid,
being duly sworn, stated that he prac-
ticed medicine in st. Francis county,
in the State of Arkansas, from June,
l547, until November, 1851; during
which time lie was we'll acquainted
with c. Caldwell, now one of the Su-
preme Judges of the State Of Texas,
who lived in the same county, and q
part of the time in the same town with
affiant. That the said c. Caldwell had
the possession and control of negro
man who was owned, as it was said
and understood, by his brother, who
had purchased the negro in New Or
leans as an unsound negro. The fact
was notoriously and universally talked
of and believed in the community, and
which affiant believed to be true, that
the said C. Caldwell placed the negro
under medical treatment Of DIR. Will
burn, q young man who had been in the
practice but short time. Some time
after DIR. Wilburn had discharged the
negro rs convalescent, Caldwell call
ed on the doctor, stating that the
negro still complained, and said he was
not able to work, and requested him to
go and see the negro, and if he was
really sick to give him medicine, but il
he was not, to let him, Caldwell, know
it. DIR. WilbuIn, after On examination,
prescribed dose of fire hundred -lashts
for the negro, and proposed to Caldwell
that he would administer the first two
hundred and fifty lashes, if he, Cald-
we'll, would finish the dose. Caldwell
agreed to do so, and the Doctor gave
the negro tico hundred and fifty lashes
and Caldwell then took the cowhide, OF
whip, and while he was giving the re-
naming tro hundred and fifty lashes, and
before he had finished, the negro died. Soon
after this the Doctor went away, and
Caldwell went to Texas, leaving his
family in Arkansas, and staid about one
year. When the negro was whipped, as
aforesaid, he was tied up to the joists by
his hands. j. Z. HOOPER.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this, the 18th day of January, 1868.
/ j. w. SLATER, j. p.
Now, sir, permit me to add few
words in relation to the Texas homi.
cides. In the FIRST place, under the plan
of restoration originated by the lament.
ed Linceln, and inaugurated by Presi'
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The Mob Busiuess

The Radicals are trying to get mp {
sensation ovor disturbance which il
said 10 have occurred at church IN
Monongalia county few days since
In labored attempt to make politica
capital out Of the affair, they put forth
the usual stuff abont the Ku Klux Klan
and other palaver common in that con
nectiOn.
without inquiring how far the dis
turbanco partook of the serious charac'
ter which is ascribed to it, it is safe tG
state that whatever lawlessRess pre-.
walls in Monongalia county is the sole
production of Radicalism. Ever since
q gong of Radical ruffians mobbed Col
b. II. SMITH in Morsantown, public
opinion has been we'll settled as to the
political status of the outlaws in that
region.
1t i'll becomes the disciples of Radical
ism in this State to charge anybody else
with breach of the peace Ever since
the war their practice in this regard has
been so uniform as to give them pre-
eminent prominence as the true moboc-
racy, with whom there is no competing.
People have not forgotten their infamous
outrages perpetratcd upon Democratic
meetings at Buckhannon, Harrisville,
Ravenswood, Morgantown, and many
other points in this State during the
campaigns Of 1866.
Those outrages were planned ana in
cited by prominent Radical leaders
they were the representative acts of the
party, and having endorsed them, its
organs should have more aecency than
to attempt show of indignation Over
similar acts, real or fancied, from other
quarters. Talk as they may, the Radi-
cal elements Of the State are its lawless
elements. From the ranks Of Radical
ism come the violent outbreaks. Its
leaders violate the laws which they
were elected to enforce, aud their fol-
lowers naturally become the enemies
and disturbers of the public peace.
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In time of peace, that is the kind OF
peace Grant and his party propose to
give to the people, several citizens OF
Columbus, Georgia, have been on trial
before o Military Commission for sup
posed completely in the murder of one
Ashburn, who was killed one night in q
negro house of prostitution. After sub
jecting these citizens to measures OF
extreme cruelty, they have finally been
turned over to the civil authorities for
trial, not, however, until every effort
had been made to murder these men
under military authority. General
Meade offered the extraordinary sum OF
1000 as reward for proof that would
convict these men. Whose money did
ho offer Is he rich enough to offer
from his own private pocket so large a
sum for testimony with regard to the
killing of an obscure man in q negro
bagnio. Nearly every negro in Colum'
bus was ready to perjure himself for Il
portion of such prize but under even
a',oh indncement, proof that could stand
on one leg was nov forthcoming. Tax
payers Of the North! it is your money
which is thus offered in magnificent
sums to suborn negro testimony
Uorld
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A Despe, for Pre.ident. {.

General GRANT has been invested
with absolute power over the Southern
States. Through liberal exercise OF
that power he expects to become Pres
ident of the United States.
The influence which his position will
enable him. to WELD in coercing the
votes of States should not be lightly es-
timated. Hc is superior to every law,
Court and Government in the South.
He can make and unmake officers at
his pleasure. He can remove Governors,
displace Judges, dispense Legislatures
and compel Conventions to do his bid
ding. Not a dollar of public funds
can be expended, except by his
permission. Not a single criminal can
be tried and punished by civil tribu'
nal unless he SO will. On the other
hand, he can and does organize military
Courts for inquisitorial trials, withou,
hiudrance or responsibility. The terri.
BILE cnormities perpetratcd by his sub
ordinates in the trial of the parties
charged with the AsHBURNE murder
and the unquestioned freedom with
which they tortured their victims, is 9
single proof of the absolute control
Lorer Southern life aud destiny with
which he is invested. In the matter o
electi he is supreme to the extent Of
omnipotenee. His minions conduct al
elections, have charge of all ballot
boxes, count all votes, make up all re-
turns, rejecting without opposition such
as may displease them, and announce al
results, not SO much in accordance with
facts, as with their own whims and
desires.
Already q despot, General GRANT is
to determine whether the people Of the
South do, or do not, desire him fol
their President. Whatever they may
say, it will be in his power to proclaim
what he pleases as the result of thei'
vote.
If defeated in the South, it will re
main with him to say whether or not
| he shall announce that he has carried
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THE Revolutionists of the Rump and
their supporters at the North already
begin "to howl with anguish" The
letter of Frank Blair, which brands the
anarchists as they deserve, has provoked
a general ululation. They gather to-
g0ther their infamous enactments for
establishing military despotism at the
South, and negro supremacy and car
pet bag oligarchy in power over tho
North, and lift up chorus worthy OF
defenders of ruined constitutions. All
their lawless schemes the people will
blow to atoms next November; and as
for the bowling, it can easily be chang
ed to dulcet silence by cutting of the
tails of the howlers close behind their
ears.
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The Tax Bill

Has finally passed. The following is
a rsumc of the leading features of the
bill:
The sections taxing national bonds,
rs passed by the House, are wholly
omitted, and no changes in the old law
arc made in this particular. The tax
on whisky is fixed at fifty cents per
gallon, but on all whisky in bond an
additional tax of four dollars per bar
rel is made, with q drawback of fifty
cents per gallon for expectation The
time in which all whisky must he with
drawn from bond is extended to nine
months.
Petroleum and mineral oils are re-
leased from all taxes, except the tax on
sales.
The tax on Wholesale liquor dealers
is reduced, but they are required to
pay q tax Of one per cent. on sales.
The tobacco tax is fixed at sixteen
and thirty.two cents for the two kinds,
and one dollar and fifty cents per thous-
and on cigars. The plug tobacco man.
ufacturers, warehouse is abolished. The
tax on all kinds Of cigars is fixed ut five
dollars per Thousand.
The tax on dstillers is so arranged
as not to include brewers, who pay n
lesser license.
Wholesale dealers pay 500 on annual
sales not over Sc, 900; one dollar per
$1,000 on sales in excess of that limit.
and one per cent. on all sales. Retail
dealers pay twenty-five dollars. Taxes
are collected at the distillery. Distil-
leries pay four dollars per day while
running, and two while work is sus-
pended. There is to be one or more
storekeepers for each distillery, besides
twenty five Government detectives at a
salary of 5000 annually each, all to be
paid by the Government.
This item alone (the twenty five de-
tectives) will add the SUM of SIS, 900 4
year to the expenses Of the Government,
besides keeping open the old corrupt
system for government peculation, and
adding these twenty-five new thieves
to the forty thousand heretofore in
their avecation of robbing the people.
Crisis.
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Communicated

The Radical party say that the Demo
cratic party has swallowed up the So
cession element of the country. This is
not true. for the reloubtable Judge
Nat. Harrison, of Black Crock nctori.
ETY. in this city, was at one time-and
during the re6ellion-an humble petit
tioner in the city OF Richmond seeking
for Office under Confederate authority
at the hands of jeff. Davis. Failing to
get Office there, he applied to and Sc
cured from one Arthur 1. Boreman, of
negro equality fame, the Office of Judge
in the Ninth Judicial District, upon the
promise on his part that he would oxer-
else his Judicial influence to elevate
the negro and degrade the white
man, q promise which he has most faith
fully fulfilled.
The charge is false for the further
reason, that one Cline, n rebel SOL
dier of the county of Doddridge, known
by the Board of Registration to be such,
was registered as voter without being
required to take the iron-clad on the
promise upon his part to vote with the
Radical party. e-
And the charge is false for the still
further reason that X. S. Brown, Elec-
tor at large for the Radical party in
this State, who voted for the ordinance
of secession, was taken into full men,
bership in the Radical Sanhedrim with
out being required to take the oath.
And the charge is false for the still
further reason that one Joseph E. Brown,
the most rampant and merciless rebel of
the State of Georgia, and q thousand
and one other kindred spirits of the
same rebellious proclivities, are today
foremost in the work oc persecution
against the men of their own race.
But suppose the charge were true that
the Democratic party had swallowed
up the entire secession element, we
could very easily offset this by charging
and proving that thousands of men,
who swindled the Government, are
without one exception members of the
Radical party, and that the hundreds
of them who have been sent to the Pen
of the Northern States are
members in good standing in the Grant
and ColfaX organization.
To sum NJ, for every lrebel found in
the Democratic party, felon North e'
n negro South can be found cooperating
with and adhering to the Radical clc.
ment of the country.
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MR.. McCULLoCH has, under Congress
sional instructions, converted about all
the currency interest bonds into gold
interest bonds, and that, too, not only
without oXacting a premium on such
exchange, but absolutely paying u con-
siderable premium, in the shape of ac-
crued interest and otherwise, till the
Government is now paying in gold in
tercst "a large portion oft to go abroad
to foreigners) something like q HUN
DRED AND THIRTY-Two MILLIONS (Sl32,
OOO,OOO) a ycar-but little less than
double the annual gold product of
the entire United States, Territories
and all, and but S39,000,0 900 less than
the annual gold product of tho entire
world! Sothat the holders of Federal
bonds already handle and control the
entire gold product of this continent,
and for the most part that of the world.
Crisis.
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second Senatorial District.

Editor OF The Register
desire to present the name of Fon
tain Smith, Esq, as q suitable candi
date to represent the Democracy O
the Second District in the Senate O.
West Virginia. Mr. Smith is the choice
of the people. His eminent fitness in
every respect makes him the foremost
man for the place. understand thai
he declined nomination upon the State
ticket. The people will not accept q
second declination. MARSHALL.
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ONE CALLICoTT, n notorious loyal
scoundrel, now serving his time i'll the
New York Penitentiary for crimes Of
which he was fairly convicted, is still
Government Collector for the Third
New York District. The reason is that
the loyal Senate Of the United States
will not permit the President to ap-
point a successor. Thus the Senators
and the penitentiary birds play isto
each others hands-a very proper asso-
CiatiOn.
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A sad Backdswu.

We regret to learn that K. s. BROWN
the secession candidate for State Elect
or upon the Radical ticket, has retract'
cd his charge of "compounding Q fel
ony," made against Judge JACKSON
and Colonel b. II. SMITH, at Parkers
burg, some days since. This is an un'
lucky incident. We learn that the
Democratic Committee were about te
open negotiations with him to repeat
his Parkersburg speech in every coun'
ty in the State. He has missed an en-.
gagement by swallowing himself.
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ANOTHER Southern "citizen" appears
in the reconstruction of willard Warner
as an United States Senator from Ala.
bama. Warner is not only citizen oi
Ohio, but he was actually member OF
the last Legislature of that State. The
Radical members Of that Legislature
hoped to re-elect expectant President
Wade to the Senate, but miscalculated;
and since citizens Of Ohio are eligible
to election to the United States Senate,
why was not Wade run 1t was crnel
for q Radical member of the Legisla-
ture that defeated Wade to beat him
again in Alabama.
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GREELEY says that having "for
wears, exhorted and entreatsd every
one who could 10 subscribe for or pur-
chase the bonds of the Government"
his "personal honor is involved" in
having those bonds paid iB gold. With
the same propriety he might say that
having "exhorted and entreated" the
people to allow the Southern States to
secede, his personal honor is in
volyed" in making secession successful
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WHO demand the payment of Gov
ernment bonds in goldf STEVENSON
the Radical candidate for Governor, ant
MCGREw, rich bondholder and th'
Radical candidate for Congress, in the
Second District.
Who demand the taxation of thes.
bonds, and their payment in greenba
JOHNSON N. CAMDEN, Democratic can
didats for Governor, and WILLIAM G
Brown, Democratic candidate for Con
press i'm the Second District.
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Third congressiounI District.

C.P.T. MOORE, Esq, of Point Pleas
ant, has received the nomination as
Democratic candidate for Congress in
the Third District. This is a splendid
selection. Mr.. MOORE has fine natural
ability, is a first-class stumper, we'll
posted. plucky, active and withal inn
mensely popular. We predict his tri-
umnhaut election.
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Isit Trses

Is it true that the Legislature has re-
lieved the Registrars of all responsible
ity, civil or criminal, which they may
incur by disfranchising qualified vstersi
Their last registration law was passed
without being printed. Why is it hid
den from the public eyer
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Is IL True.

Is it true that Hon. w. +. STEVEN
son declared ut Hessville that the ne
gro was made, by the lith amendment
TO the Federal Constitution, "the equal
of the proudest white aristocrat in the
country %
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LET us have peace" says General
GRANT, and forthwith the negroes are to
be armed for prOmiscuous murder and
pillase throughout the South. Truly
this is the "peace that passeth all uA'
dcrs landing"
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L. IL TrueS

Is il true that Hon. w. f. STEVENSON
told the people at Hessville that if the
bonds were taxed by the Federal Gov
ernment, their lands and other property
wonld he taxed by the same pOwerf
Where is his authority for this state
mentP
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CSuhrmed.

WASHINGTON, July H.-The Senate
confirmed Chas. C. Wilson, Of Illinois,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court OF
Utah; z. s. Spslding, Of Ohio, Con.
sui at Honolulu, and w. w. Wilcox,
Deputy Postmaster ut Mattoon.
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RADICAL bondholders say exempt
the bonds from taxation and pay them
in gold" Democratic bondholders say
tax the bonds and pay thcm in green,
backs"
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Whssliua Reelster.
Tuesday Morniag,
STATE TICKET.

FOR GOVERNOR,
.sJoHNSON n. CAMDEN, of Wood.
FOR AUnTOR,
DANIEL MAYER, Of Kanawha-
SECRETARY OF STATE,
YANTIS. Of Jefferson.
FOR TREASURER,
GEORGE j. WALKER, OF jackson.
ATTORNEY GENERAL,
W.P. WILEY, of Morgantown.
JupGE OF COURT OF ArrEALs,
MATTHEW EDMIST0N, of Lewis.
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National Insurance Company

WHEELING, WEST VA.
CAfIE Al. -SxOO,OOO.
fTlce % Monroe street, next door to Frst Ma.
tioAal Bank.
ePFIcRRs
GEORGE X. WHEAT, President.
JAMES MCCLUNEY, Vice President
JOHN BISHOP Secretary.
Z. II. COLLIER, Assistant Secretary and Gen.
eral Business Agent.
DIRECTORS:
John F. Wilson, George K Wheat,
Jas. q. Orr, Sam'l Harper,
John A. Armstrong James Mckinney,
A. q. Quarter. Morgan L OFT,
George Adams.
REFERENCES.
s. Brady, Cashier Merchants National Bank,
Wheeling; List, Morrison & Co., Wholesale
Grocers, Wheeling; Pryor, Handlaa & Co.,
Wholesale Groeers, Wheeling; Michael Reilly,
Wholesale Grocer, Wheeling; Mcclellan &
Knox, Boot and Shoe House, Wheeling; McCabe,
Kraft a. Co., Druggists, Wheeling; Geo. W.
Franzheim & Co., Wholesale Wines and Liquors,
Wheeling; Winship. Woods & Co., Qpeensware,
Wheeling; Lewis Baker. Pub REGISTER, Wheel.
ing; 7. C.McAfco, Notisns, Wheeling; Camp
bell, Frew g. Co, Pubs. InteHi1encey Wheeling;
OFT, Son g. Co., Hardware, Wheeling; J. y.
Sands. Cashier First National Bank, Fairmont;
T. p. Camden, Pres't Nat. Ex. Bank, Weston.
W. Va. Capt. John Mcclure, Jr., Wheeling.
may3
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equal to something more than 4G per
cent. of the whole amount paid by the
consumers, or &c per cent. upon the
amount received by the Government.
The same calculations also apply to the
internal revenue, except that no i'm
porter's profits are to be charged.-Cri-
sis. .fif ....'
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Cenyressional Tickets.
la Di.triet-HENRY 5. WALKER, OF Ohio Co
ad Dis,rict-WM. G. BROWN, OF Preston.