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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-09
Working up IA Sensation.

The Radical papers are eagerly seek
ing to manufacture sensation about
the alleged ku- kluxKlan in the South
attributing to them several OutrageS
which have recently occurred III that
section. and the late murder of Mr.. u.
w. Ashburu, in Columbus, Georgia, who
is said TO have been a member OF the
Georgia reconstruction convention.
There seems "a I've concerted sending
forward from the South to the Wash
ingtOn Chronicle OF accounts of outrages
attributed to the Kuklux, and the
Chronicle gives them telegraphlc i'm
petus through the North, accompanied
by the pious ejaculation, also sent by
telegraph, Lord! Lordi Oh Lord |!
how long mast the people wait to.
be rescuedp There appears to be
a strong desire 10 intiame the
Northern people afresh at this time
against the Sonth, making that whole
community responsible for the alleged
crimes Of very absurd organization,
and laying at the doors of that organi-
zation, every act of violence and
outrage which occurs in any part OF the
south, whether there is any proof that
members (real or imaginary OF the kn-
Klux- Klan had anything TO do with it
or not. Such a proceeding would be
about as just as to saddle the Loyal
Leagues, Grand Armies of the Republic
and other secret associations with all
the murders and crimes committed i'll
the North, of which there are quite
as many in that section as in the
South. We have before expressed the
opinion that the Ku-Rux is, It 1T
really does exist, like the Radical
leagues, a reprehensible organization
not that we believed it had any such
criminal and bloody. objects as are at
tributed to it, or that we supposed it
had a serieus object at all, but because
secret society in times like these,
playing on practical jokes, even if moth
ing worse, upon its political opponents,
would open a door to miscSnstruction
and injury of the Southern community
Just as we see is being attempted now
by those into whose hands the supposed
members of the Ku-Klux circles have
been thouyhtlessly playing.-SWR.
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An Odd Enough Adversisenaeas lof
1S24 Whom Viewed in the Light OF
what we see in 1850.

From the Free Christian Commonwealth
DEAR CoMMoNwEALTH:-W country
people are in the habit of preserving
d0SnInests which in the hustle Of q
great city like yours are destroyed.
While looking over some old newspa-
pers, found a copy of the WeSterR Mon
itor. published in Lexington, KY, dated
january %, 1924, which CONTAINS the
tfOlowin very singular advertisement ::
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
DAN AWAY FROM THIS PLACE ON
~ Saturday, December 90 a mnlItto man
PETER;
he calls himself Peter O'Banuon is about feet
) inches In height, very strong and muscular.
stoops, and has IN awkward gait in walking has
rather a handsome countenance, is intelligent
and it is believed he can read a letter. He took
hOrse, sacdle and bTidle and US is supposed
several articles OF clothing. He is believed 80
have directed his course 20 May ysville. - NC
The above reward will be given for him if
taken out Of the State of Kentucky and deliv.
cred at the jail in Lexington, or secured in some
other where the subscriber can get him: OF
twenty. five dollars if taken within the State.
R0BT j. BRECkENRlDGE =
December 3Jth, 1873. 4-tf
The editors OF ths CINCINNATI Giazette aud De.
tFOit GazettsswiR please give the above three
insertions in their respective papers. and for.
ward their accounts TO the office of tine Western
Monitor.
This sounds rather oddly in view of the
present position Of tue parties represent.
ed in the matter.
The general impression which prevails
in my region of country is, that the gen
tleInan who advertises and offers hun
'dred dollars reward for the recovery of
his runaway slave Peter, was quite as
hard n master as any of his neIghbors,
aud than he held on with a very firm
grip to his negro property. Sometimes
under very shadowystitle. Is n 80 =
And then to think that the Cincinnati
Gazette, that "trooly loil" sheet, which
has for many years past denounced
rybody as worthy of death or impris.
.onment, who would not indorse his pres
-eRt Radical Jacobinism, should have
been party to- the hunting down of
poor runaway slaves, who had escaped
from such . cruel task-master! Verify
this piece of buried history does look
strange when viewed in the light of
what is now the attitude of these
slave catchers of 1924.
But, dear Commonwealth, does not this
'substantiate what is a generally accept
ell truth, that the men who have been
the most cruel masters and slave hunt
ers, are the men who when they have
either sold their slaves and pocketed
the money, OF since they ceased to be
marketable commodity, are the men
who hate so intensely the system Of
slavery, and who NEST tiercely 'denounce
the men who treated their slaves with
kindness, aud humanity while slaves,
and whose hearts now bleed for them as
they behold them the dupes of such
demagogues. But this is another speci-
men of what you would call the "ad-
.vanced thought" of our times.
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ALL Fools DAY.-we begin April
with, let US see /:
1st. A falling off of 25 per cent. in
the income tax!
ID. Heavy decline in the receipts for
customs, and
Sd. An Increase in the public debt.
At this rate, with the spendthrift,
public plunderer's and revolutionary
party in power-where shall We be next
Ali Fools Dayi n Y. Express.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-09

A chiropodist, in Marseilles, displays
an immense picture over his door, in
which the Empress Eugenieis seated in
state upon a throne,in legal robes, pre-
senhng pretty foot, upon crimson
cushion, and holding in her hand a
bank note for FIVE hundred francs. The
Emperor stands sOlemnly at her side, in
full uniform, aud wearing the grand
Gordon Of the legion of honor. The
high dignitaries Of the court stand
around with ipperturbble gravity, anda
holy father, in clerical robes, raises his
fearful eyes upward and joins his hands
in supplication that the ordeal may be
happily passed. ~
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-09

The Empress of Austria's accouch-
meut will take place at the end Of this
month. Her majesty is uuder the care
of Hungarian physician, has chosen a
hungarian wet-nurse for the coming
Palatine of Arch-duchess, Hungarian
governess, and last of all, Hungarian
rdIet de chambre, formerly of HODved.
TIE Viennese are not over pleased with
these arrangements, but the Aagysrs
are half mad with >xultation and graf
fled vanity.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-09

A correspondent of the London Daily
Nelrs, who is making ajourney through
Central India, describes the opium fac
tory at Patna as "the largest poisoning
agency in theiwoTld." The opium pack
ing for 1867 was just over at Christmas,
and nearly $4,000 chests ofChiba opium
had been sent down to Calcutta, worth
E4,OOO, ,9O0.y Each chest contains forty
cakes. The dark, sticky stuff is inge-
niously enclosed in a coating of dried
poppy leaves, so that each cake (weigh.
ing lbs, presents the appearance ofa
Dutch cheese or a cannon ball.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-09

After having organized rs much as
possible her land army, Prussia is now
'aOorIng at All augmentation of her
navy. A company for the construction
ol large ships of war has been estab-
ilShed al Kiel, with the aid Of the Gov.
ethment, The famous Krupp is enlarg-
ing his immense foundries ut Essen,
80 as to be able 70 make the steel plates
necessary for euirassed vessels. By the
nlngs orders, two armor plated cor
' 'etteS OF eight and six guns have been
commenced in the docks at Dantzic.
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Rrnn -lndinnnpoIia.

ISp1ANAPoLrs, ISD., April s.-A man
named Timothy Murphy was accident
ally killed on the Bellefontaine Railroad
yesterday.
Two young men named Charles Leigh
and A. H.. Lindsay fought a duel at
Kokomo, Indiana, yesterday. After ex-
changing two shots their friends inter
fered aud stopped the proceedings;
neither party injured.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-09

The heirs of Robert Evans, one of
the founders Of Evansville, Ind, are
making arrangements for contesting
the title to q large tract of Land on
which the city now stands. A large
portion of the city south Of Main street
stands upon lots which were once the
property of the Evans estate. 1t Is
claimed that fraudulent conveyance
was the cause of the defect in the title,
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-09

In Knoxville, Tenn, a few nights
ago, a man attempted to kidnap his
own wife, who had left him On account
incompatability of temper. The wo-
man gave the alarm, and the husband
was shot and wounded in several places
by the crowd who came to the rescue OF
the woman. .a....- as
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-09

A dangerous, aud, as it is proved, ia
tai piece of amusement came off at Je-
rome, Phelps county, Missouri, on the
2sth ult. 1t appears party of men
ere scufiing, when to add to the
amusement, a sham battle was proposed
firing reviewers with powder and wad
at each other, in order that outsiders
might think a real fight was in pro-
gress. During the fight . pistol was
fred ut a teaDster named Charles d..
Holloway, the wad entering his body,
causing death on the next day.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-09

The RAIDS. Of Richlsnd county, S. c.,
have nominated negroes for State Sen.
ator aud Representatives. n. j.. Cal.
nap, the only white man nominated, do,
clined. .g-r-s F. ~. b
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BANKS.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK

Designated Depository u. s.
Capital, = $2OO,OO0.
Surplus, $4,000.
NCONEY RECEIVED on DEPOSIT.
WI Exchange bought and sold.
Collections made and proceeds promptly re-
.miTted.
Interest paid on special deposits at the rate
of four per cent. per annum where the deposit
remains six mouths and nee per cent. If for one
year.
Accounts of Merchants. Manufacturers Bank.
ers and others solicited.
Revenue Stamps for sale in sums 10 suit
4 constant supply Of new Fractional Curren-
cy and /, . 3 and 5 cent coin, kept for the ae-
cOnRlodatiOn of depositors and the public.
GEORGE ADAMS Cashier.
GEORGE X. WHEAT, President.
marl3ly
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JoHN TEEcE

,MALsTkR AND HOP DRALRR,
Virginia Highest cash price paid for Farley.
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JAnEs paula.
LAMB & PAUL.,

A TTORNRYs AT Law. WHEEL
n ING, WEST VA, will practice In the
courts oFOhio County AMI adjoining C0untlss.
Ofice on East side Of Fourth Street. near ths
Court House OctlQ
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T. II. LOGAN, THOs. =. SHALLCRCss,
Ci. W. FRANZHEIM, j. Y. VANCE,
j. ii. HOBBS, MICHAEL REILLY.
LOUIS G. STEEL,
rINHIs COMPANY NOW HAVING
/ been organized five years, and in hat time
dono a successful business, il still prepared 70
take risks at fair rates on Buildings of all kinds,
Merchandise, Manufacturing Establishments
Furniture Steamboats, and cargoes on the West
ern Rivers and Lakes. This company offers
superior inducements TO Farmers, whereby they
can be insured ON Dwellings, Furniture, Barns,
and contents, for three or five years at reduced
rates. This being State company, with the
Largest Cash Capital
paid in and surplus Of any company in the State,
and composed of some ninety.fOur stockholders
most of whom are among our best business ndn,
recommends itself to the favorable considera.
ton of the insuring public, and sOlieits their
patronage Applications for insurance will be
promptly attended to at their office No. -
Monroe street. or at their several agencies
throughout the State.
y. c. ARTHUR, Secretary.
SAM'L MCCLELLAN, President.
GEO. MENDEL, Vice President
G. NJ. COEN, Asst Secretary.
feb2O-d&w
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National Insurance Company
WHEELING. WEST VA.
CAPIFAL..-...-...- -S3OO,OOO.
flee 2f Monroe street, next door to First Ma.
tiOH9l Bank.
OFFICERS.
GEORGE X. WHEAT, President
JAMES MCCLUNEY, Vice President
JOHN BISHOP 'eeTstdrV.
{. II. COLLIER Assistant Secretary and Gen.
eTal Business 4 gent
DIRECTORS:
John T. Wilson, George X. Wheat,
JAS. {. Orr, Saml Harper,
John \. Armstrong, James McCluDey,
4. &. Quarrier. Morgan l. OFT
George Adams.
REFERENCES.
S, Brady, Cashier Merchants National Bank
Wheeling: List, Morrison & Co., Wholesale
GrOCers Wheeling. Pryor, HandlaI T. Co..
Wholesale GrOeers Wheeling; Michael Reilly,
Wholesale Grocer, Wheeling Mcclellan a.
Knox, Boot and Shoe House, Wheeling; MCCabe,
Kraft & Co., Druggists, Wheeling; Geo. W..
Franzheim Co, Wholesale Vines and Liquors,
Wheeling. Winship. Woods 4 Co., QueenswanG,
Wheeling. Lewis Baker. Pub, REGISTER, Wheel.
ing: 7. c. MCAfee, Eotisns, Wheeling, Camp
bell. TSrew & Co, Pubs TjItelligsrccr, Wheeling;
OFT, Son e. Co., Hardware, Wheeling; j. T.
Sands, Cashier First National Rank, FairmOnt;
L. L. Camden, Prc3't Nat. TX. Bank Weston
w. Va. Capt John Mcclure, Jr., Wheeling
may3
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-14

chosen this year and Allen G. Thur
man will misrepresent the State in Mr..
Wade's seat for six years from next
House. 1.-THE Republicans chose Gen.
R, B. Hayes her Governor last year by
2,973 maiority.) We presume no more
need be said as to her vote for Presi-
dent this year. Grant will walk over
the course.
Indiana has been rendered doubtful
by enormous naturalizations and by
heavy importations from Kentucky.
Despite the sanguine advices of our
correspondents, we apprehended dis
asterons vote along her Kentucky
border, which threatened to swamp our
State ticket, though we confidently ex-
pected to carry the Legislature giving
U. s. Senator in pla,e of Thomas A.
Hendricks, Dem. and majority of
the Representatives in Congress.
Vague advices thus far Il A. NJ indi-
cate Republican triumph throughout,
though we presume by small aggre.
gate majority Y Tribune.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-14
Newark.

The Charter Election ct Newark yes
terday, resulted in victory for the Re-
publicans. At the last charter election
Quimby (Rep.) over Klaem Dem for
Water Commissioner, had majority OF
21O. Yesterday he received a majority
of S18. The Republicans elected ten
out of the thirteen Councilmen, and
eight of the thirteen School Trustees.
First Ward, Crane (Rep.) 1879; Sec
ond Ward, not heard from Third
Ward, Stainby, (Rep.) 472; Fourth
Ward, Starr Rep) 93; Fifth Ward,
stickhaus dem. ga; Sixth Ward, not
heard from Seventh Ward, Teller,
Dem. 2S8: Eighth Ward, Flentiff
dem. | 70; Ninth Ward, Baker, Rep. ]
Ats; Tenth Ward, Slaight Rep. 8;
Eleventh Ward, Cain Dem. 81
Twelfth Ward, O'Bourke [Dem 4s;
Thirteenth Ward, not heard from. -
The three Wards which had not sent
in their returns are likely to give small
Democratic maiorities.
The Democracy tried nearly every
system of fraud to win the Charter
election at Newark yesterday. Coloni-
cation, bogus tickets and illegal voting
were the plans upon which the Copper
heads worked. A number were arrest
ed yesterday for fraud-all being Dem
ocrats. The most noticeable instance
is the arrest of George Clemens and
Charles J. Sode, the latter being the
Captain of the Ninth Ward Jackson
Guards. Clements was employed by
Sode to vote in different districts, and
had succeeded in voting in the First
District of the Tenth Ward He was
in the act of casting his ballot in the
Second District of the Tenth Ward,
giving his residence as being at No. 2Ol
Railroad avenue. when he was over
heard by the real occupantof the house
who happened to be present, and the
arrest followed. John H. Brown was
also arrested, charged with voting in
both districts of the Tenth Ward.
The Republicans have carried the
city by nearly 400 majority, showing a
gain of $50 on last years election. The
State is good for Grant and Colfax in
November.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-14
THE FIVE FORKS" OF 1868.

1t was universally felt, and virtually
confessed, that the partisans of Sey-
mour and Blair must triumph in the
State elections held yesterday or aban-
don all hopes of success. Every table
they have yet made of the probable
vote for next president by States claim
Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Nebraska
as certainly and Ohio as probably for
Seymour. The most ingenious among
them could not make up list OF States
expected to vote for Seymour sufficient
to elect him without including all or
most of those above named. They
had thus advertised their followers that
they must carry those States i'll Octo-
Der or confess themselves beaten in the
November struggle.
In Pennsylvania, the desperation Of
their fortunes impelled them to super
human efforts. They fabricated bogus
Naturalization certificates by the ream !;
they imported roughs and repeaters in
regiments they poured out their mon
.ey without stint and organized fraud
enough to fill at least twenty of the
largest State Prisons. Determined to
win at all hazards, they spared no eff
fort and left no trick untried whereby
they could hope to falsify the iudg-
ment of the Great Central States. That
they cheated Ms more than Ten Thous-
and votes in Philadelphia and it's neigh
borhood alone, we have no shadow of
donbt
But they cheated in vain. Their iu-
dicial notification of the Registry
oct, their manufacture OF spurious
Naturalization papers by the ream.
their importation of blacklegs and bull
lies, their conspiracies and rascalities,
have all availed thom nothing. A mag
nifcent day and "a crate struggle
brought ont by far the largest vote
ever polled in the State, with result
that shows her for Grant beyond con-
tingency. His majority may be fgur-
ed down to Ten Thousand now, but il
will be more than Twenty Thousand in
November. We have probably two
thirds of the Representatives in Con-
oyess with both branches of the Legis-
lature, insuring Republican q. S.
Senator for six years ensuing, in place
OF Charles r. Buckalew, Dem. Nobly
done old keystone /!
Ohio we have at no time doubted.
though certain injudicious nominations
exposed us to notifying local disas-
tiers The Legislature holding over
from last vear) is Democratic in either
brarch. as 4 would not begin to he II
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-14

II Gen. Mcclellan desired to do all
the good he could to Gen. Grant, he
has taken the best possible course to
accomplish it. II he had come out
openly and avowedly in favor of Grants
election, it would have been imputed
to disappointment at not being renom-
mated himself. Democrats would have
said, "Oh, he has gone over" and that
would have been the end Of it. But
Gen. Mcclellan does not separate him.
self from the Democracy, that is from
the Democratic "cause. However, he
damns Seymour with faint praise, and
Blair with no mention at all. In no
other way could he have helped Grant
so much.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-14
THE THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DIS
TRICT-OUR CANDIDATE.

The Third District has been consid
cred so thoroughly Democratic that il
is difficult to make our friends believe
that we can carry it. Let this delusion
be dispelled at once. Nothing is i'm
possible to resolute men. The district
can be carried if our Republican friends
will work as they ought. In every
Congressional election for the past six
years the majority has been reduced
about 1000, so that only abont $500
remains to be overcome. A change of
1,400 will do it. What with the influx
of Republican voters, buying property
and settling in this district during the
last two years, and who will cast their
first vote in New Jersey, this fall-the
large number OF Jerseymen who are at.
tanning their majority and will cast their
maiden ballot on the Sd of November,
of which number nearly three -fourths
are Republicans-the vast number of
changes we hear on every side-the
apathy of our opponents and the reso-
luton of Republicans. We say the
district can be carried. Amos Clark,
Jr., can carry this district if he is prop
erly supported.
He is man, worthy of the position,
and should be elected because
First-He is self-made man.
Second-He is consistent Republi-
can.
Third-During the war he gave his
country his undivided support.
Fourth-He has been the friend of
the soldier.
Fifth-He is honest.
Sixth-He is capable.
Seventh-He cannot be bribed.
Eighth-He is eminently practical.
Ninth-He more thoroughly under
stands the financial question than any
other man in the district
Tenth-He has clear record.
Eleventh-He is popular.
Twelfth-He represented Union coun-
ty in the State Senate for two years and
That man does not live who can breathe
a ward against his open, clear, consist
ent record.
Republicans of the district, resolve
that Hon. Amos Clark, Jr. shall be
elected; but resolves without effort
amount to nothing. Therefore work.
Have you friend who is lukewarm, or
doubtful, or preiudiced, we say to you,
it is your duty to go at once to that
man, change his mkewarmness into
heat; make him determined in place of
doubt, and remove the uncalled for
prejudice. Do this and you will have
done, and nothing more. your duty.
In honoring Mr.. Clark you honor
yourselves
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-14
PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO, INDIANA, NE
BRASKA. NEWARK AND RAILWAY
Vote for Grant & Peace
OUR COUNTRY STILL SOUND TO THE
CORE I!
PENNSYLVANIA.

80 State prayer-foundered! never hung
Such choice upon peoples tongue
Such power TO bless or ban,
As that which makes thy whisper Fate,
For which on thee the centuries wait,
And destinies Of Man
"Across thy Alleghanian chain,
With grosnings from a land in pain,
The west wind finds its way:
Wild wailing from Missouri's flood,
The crying of thy childrens blood
Is in thy ears to-day!
"And unto thee, in Freedoms hour
or sorest need, God gives the power
To ruin or to save;
To wound or heal. to blight or bless,
With fertile field or wilderness,
A free home or grave!
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-14

HAVANA, Oct. l:

HAVANA, OCl. 10.
Additional advices from Mexico have
been received. Col. Padills, reputed
agent of Santa Anna, had been cap
tured with documents on his person,
showing that he intended to excite a
revolution. The official organ at the
capital says the public works will now
be pushed forward, especially the COM
pletion of the railroads from the CAPT
tal TO Tolucs, and from Tlalplan to Gu
ernavaca. A bill had been introduced
into the National Congress providing
for jury trials. public education, and
general reform,
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-14

RAILWAY, Oct. Is

RAILWAY. Oct. 10.
Mr.. Bebal has been elected Council
man in the Second Ward of Railway,
over Williams, Democrat, by IL major
ity. The Ward was never carried by
the Republicans before. In April,
1868, the Republican vote was So, and
the Democratic 1877. In October, 1858,
the Republicans have 1877, and the
Democrats 145.