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Going Back on the Darkey.

We have frequently expressed the
opinion that the desire of the Radicals
to enfranchise the negro was due en-
tirely to their belief that they could
control his vote. So little of actual
principle is there involved in this mat
ter that some of the ultra advocates of
negro suffrage are beginning to back
down from their high ground, now that
they have seen so large portion of the
negro vote cast against their candidates
in Virginia. Convince them that they
can't control the black vote and they
cease to want black suffrage. Assure
them that negro suffrage will ultimately
become Democratic weapon, which if
forced upon the country, it certainly
will, and they go heartily back upon
their Radicalism, allowing all their de-
votion to equal rights" to go for
naught.
The Richmond State Journal, the organ
of the WELLS wing of the Republican
party in Virginia, says:
We think the Enquirer and other con.
servative journals give the Fifteenth
iAmendsent too much Importance. 1t
may not be so strongly the policy of the
Republican party as some people sup
pose. Universal suffrage will fast lose
its popularity with the Republican
party in the South, especially if the
voters are TO be controlled by the old
slave oligarchy ana by the capitalists.
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The Pnrkersburg Gazette.

Major WILLIAM 2. COOPER, formerly
editor and proprietor of the Clarksburg
Conservative, has purchased the Parkers-
burg Gazette and is now conducting
that journal. We heartily welcome
Major COorER's return to the realm Of
journalism, and deem his resumption of
his profession decided acquisition to
the newspaper fraternity of the State.
After the close of the war he started
! the Conservative at Clarksburg, and
though many obstacles were thrown in
his way by political enemies, he sur
mounted all difficulties and made the
| Conservative an able, influential, widely
circulated and handsomely paying pa
per. The same ability, energy and ex-
perence which enabled him to succeed
so splendidly in that enterprise will
stand him in good stead at Parkersburg.
The field he has chosen is fine one.
The people Of Wood and adjacent cOun-
ties are abuudantly able to support
Democratic paper and will do so pro-
vded it is a good one. Under Major
CoopEE's management the GG2ette will
compel success by deServingit. We have
heard that it will be issued as tri-
weekly, but of this are not positively
advised. Whatever may be the plan
we are certain that prudence and good
sense will dictate it, and we therefore
most heartily commend the new editor of
the Gazette and his paper not only to the
people among whom he will make his
abode, but to the Democracy of the State
at large.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-26
Grazinx Meadow

1t is great folly to suppose that mead
ows composed of natural grasses are in.
jurcd by grazing Moving annually
will soon weaken any grass land, but
grazing with cattle and sheep will
quickly improve it. if the coarse and
sour portions of the fields are kept
down, so as not to have "a ton per acre
left on il to protect the roots next win
ter" as some people recommend. To
prevent the animals from eating very
bare in places and leaving other parts
untouched, some application will be
desirable, according to the composition
of the soil, which will induce them to
eat up the rough parts, if it is sown on
early in the season; salt in moderate
quality will answer the purpose, and
plaster will help, or ashes of any kind
will sweeten the flavor. Alternate graz
ing and moving is an excellent plan on
old grass land, and do not be afraid Of
eating the roots or be fooled into the
belief that it is wisdom to stock light;
but when we'll and evenly grazed all
over the surface, it is good policy to take
the stock off it very early in the autumn,
particularly when it is to be moved the
next year.
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The Southern RndicaIs-Tke Demo.
CrRIiC PnrIN md Nexro Sulrnxe

The New York Tribune of Tuesday, in
Judge ABBoTT'S letter to the
Tammany Society, and the UOrId'S com
ments on said letter, has the following: ::
"The Republican party at the South
has been placed in false position by
the action of unwise leaders who, in
Virginia and two or three other States,
insisted on ENGRAVING wholesale pro-
scripuons aud acknowledgements of
prominent rebels upon their new free
Constitutions. Remoustrance, warn.
lng, entreaty, were of TO avail: they
would go their own way, and il has
landed them in the ditch, as was to be
expected. We trust the lesson is sutfi-
cient, and that hsnceforth Republican
ism in every State will mean all rights
for all, as it should. After Stokes in
Tennessee shall have caught tte
tlogging he is aching for, and which
he might, by common sense, have avoid.
ed, we presume there will be no further
effort to place the party on proscrip.
tive platform, where its defeat is inevi.
table. Next, the Democratic party will
have to be taught that it cannot have
one platform at the North and another
at the Soutk-cannot triumph in Vir
sinia by accepting negro outrage and il
New York by resisting and denounciug
it. 1t takes the average politician
rather longer than most people to ger
the inexpediency of crooked ways
thoroughly beaten into him; but ever
his skull is not impenetrable, as Judge
Abbott clearly attests. Despite all man
ner of perverseness aud fatuity, we art
steadily nearing the end-Universa
Amnesty with Impartial Suffrage
The Radical party in the South-ir
all the old slave States-has been and
is proscriptive party. Although grad
ually modifying it is proscriptive party
in this State. 1t is a proscriptive party
in Tennessee. 1t is proscriptive party
in Maryland. 1t is proscriptive party
in Virginia. 1t is proscriptive party
In Arkansas, and in all the cotton States
Its character and spirit are written in
the codes and constitutions it has en-.
acted, and in the measureless corrup'
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tion and countless outrages which il
has committed. The worst spirit Of
the old pro slavery regime, with a le-
gion of uncleaner spirits, entered
into and took possession of it
at an early day. The slave
holders were never 80 in.olerant as the
affiliated Southern renegades, Northern
pet-baggers and the negroes (the
three constituents of the Radical party
in the South) became, as soon as they
attained power. The record they have
left cannot be blotted out. History will
call them the party Of reaction-the
Tories OF the period-the enemy of Dem
ocratic civilization. Gall rights for all, !"
is undoubtedly Mr.. GREELEY's maxim,
and we are happy to be able to add, of
tens of thousands of the Republican par
ty-of the very salt of that party all
over the North. But the record OF
Southern Radicals remains, neverthe.
Less, unobliterated. The attempt to
clothe that haggard monster with a
mantle of light, is a feat beyond the
power of any wonder working magic or
diabolism.
We cannot see any inconsistency in
che Democratic party accepting negro
suffrage, and making the best of it in
the States in which it is established,
and opposing its adoption in the States
in which it is not established. If it is
an evil in itself, as Democrats hold it to
be, the less there is of it the better.
Besides, it is one of the fundamental
ideas of the Constitution that each
State should regulate the suffrage for
itself. To oppose the Fifteenth Amend
ment, is to offer resistance to consolida-
ton. The great danger threatening the
government and the country is consol-
idation. Since the breaking out of the
war, the centripetal movement has be-
come alarmingly powerful. Imperial
ism is q common Word now in the politi-
cal vocabulary. If there was not
negro in the country, resistance to the
attempt to impose uniform suffrage
law on all the States would be the duty
of the Democratic party, for uniformity
in the last analysis means centralized
government of some kind, and the prac-
tical extinction of the State and local
governments, and as consequence of
the Federal system.
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Foreign Money Order system

The money order system has just
been introduced in the postal arrange
ments between Great Britain and Bel
gium, and drafts for small amounts can
be transmitted from enc country to the
other at the same rates now paid for
transmission from one point of Great
Britain to another. 1t is to be hoped
that the British government will soon
agree to similar arrangement with
the United States, so that persons may
be able to send small sums to their rel
etives abroad without undergoing the
vexations nov suffered in procuring
drafts.
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[From tle Parkersburr Timss |

A boat of lumber, containing rs, 900
feet, arrived Here yesterday, from 'Brax.
ton county, destined for the Pittsburgh
market.
Thirty-two hundred barrels of oil
came down the Kanawha, yesterday,
from Bnrning Springs. An the boats
arrived bereswithout accident. Also,
several rafts of timber, and among
these RATS wRs some of the finest tim,
Der that was ever floated to this mar
ket.
2 tFrom the Green5rier Independently
PANTHER. KLLED.-Mr. VIM. Dilley
killed panther near Huntersville, in
Pocahontas bounty, a few days ago.
Two others have been killed in the
county duriig the present summer.
Cow KnLED By LIGHTNING.-OnF Fri
day evening'iast, very valuable milch
COW, belonging to Ferdinand Caperton,
a worthy co1ored man who lives near
Lewisburg, swas killed by lightning.
The animal Hnring the progress of the
storm, had ought shelter under a tree,
where she received the fatal stroke.
A FEARFM ACCIDENT.-Major George
McKenkreesa gentleman well known to
NEST of ourreadess, met with a fearful
accident atthe White Sulphur Springs,
on Tuesdaynight last, by falling from
window in the third story of the hotel
building to the pavement below, q dis
tance of about forty feet. The accident
occurred between twelve and one
o'clock. The Major says that he re-
members retiring TO his room and d.
vesting himself of his coat and vest;
that afterwards he rested upon his bed
and fell asleep; that be recoiiects moth
ing more until he was falling, when his
body struck against the stoop on the
wall. After that he was unconscious.
He was found a short time afterwards,
and medical aid was soon obtained.
to say, not bone was broken
His sufferings were, necessarily, very
great, and bat slight hopes were at first
entertained of his recovery. We learn
that on Wednesday and Thursday nights
he rested well, and hopes are entertain
ed that he may ultimately recover.
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VIM. STEADMAN, of Portage county,
Ohio, who Was appointed United States
Consul at Santiago De Cuba by Presi-
deut GRANT, died at that place on the
9th inst, a short time after Lis arrival
there. General STEADMAN had served
several terms in the General Assembly
of Ohio, and four years in the array.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-26

Iowa plantsevery three years forest
of 100000; within considerably less
than balf dozen years, q, ,OOO, 900 forest
trees have been planted, aEd are now
growing in the noTthw est
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Large quantities of wasps, ants and
other insects that destroy the ripeLing
fruits, may be trapped by hanging
about the choice fruits yials Of sweeten-
ed wafer
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BUTTING is the leading feature of ne
gro tournaments in Tennessee. They
call the victor champion of the go-its."
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-26

"As DEAD as the Constitution" is the
latest synonym for anybody or thing
that is rery dead.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-26

a WEsTEAN barbarian speaks of Mrs.
HELMBoLD's sturneut" at Long Branch
as one of the "buchuriosities" of the
place
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-26

FIsK's latest undertaking is said to
be telegraphic enterprise in opposition
to the Associated Press.
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WILLIAM HARE.

DHACTICAL PLUMBER AND
Il GAS FITTER, No. ) Monroe ST. Whr.l.
ing, W. Va.
,I- Orders from the country attended 70 a
snort notice. sSpD
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TRANSPORTATION.
BALTIMORE AND OHIO
Rail Road Company,

WHEELING, May sth, Isda.
TRAINS WILL run
i by the following schedule on and aftsr the
10th day Of May l-'9- Wheeling time
GRAFTON ACCOMMODATION.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-26
WASHINGTON.

THE PACIFIC RAILRoAD-THE yPRAaUE-ABBoTr
ROW - SALES OF aoLD-INTERNAL REVENUE
MATTERS.
WARRINGTON, April M.-The Virginia dele
cation Of negroes, for visiting the President
arrived TOO late yesterday. They hope to have
an interview to-day.
Admiral Lanman t.hes command of the
Southern Atlantic Squadron on the 18th Of
June. with the flag ship Lancaster.
The Internal Revenue Bureau fortids Asses
sors, Collectors or District Attorneys to dismiss
or compromise revenue cases. This authority
is confded to the Solicitor of the Bureau, who
is instructed to enforce he law vigorously, un-
less the evidence shows on absence of inten-
tion to defraud the government.
The distance between the termini and ap-
preaching Pacific Railroad lines is twenty-five
miles. The gap will be filed by the frst Of
May.
Nothing whatever new under the law au-
thorizing the President to order elections in
Virginia, Mississippi and Texas.
w. A. Richardson acts during Boutwelrs ab-
eence.
Sales Of gold on sealed proposals every
Thursday, until further orders will be not less
than hall, nor more than one million dollars.
The President returned tonight from day q
visit to the country.
The present situation OF the Sprague-Abbott
affair seems to be that sprague is waiting Alb
bott's demand to take back the s'puppy," and
Abbott waiting Sprasue's demand to take back
the words s'skulked from the Senate" No
fight in sight.
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Several recent events in England are lead
country to this. The most important OF these
are the closing OF two great dock-yards by the
admiralty, and the long strike at Preston. The
workmen In both places are coming or are pre-
pairing to come to this country IN very large
numbers, and they will be of the bestGlass Of
emigrants, men skilled in their work. The
present condition OF tho cotton manufacture or
OF the shipbuilding business is not such as to
ahord any very good grounds for the belief
that the men will frd employment promptiy,
but 1t is apparent to alf who read the deecrip-
tion OF the state Of affairs In manufacturing
towns where work ts slack or wholly suspend
ed, that the exchange OF England SSr Arnefica
will mot be nor tho worse. II these two branches
OF trade ellould improve in activity the eddi-
tional supply Of wcFkmen would be- greatly TO
our advantage. 1
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FALsE-PAoKED CoTroN.- Yesterday, lot Of
nineteen bales Of cotton, from Abbeville, was
offered to Messrs Blakely & Gibbes. Mr..
Gibbes sampled the cotton and after offering
nation Of II, and found eighteen bales OF it to
be falsely packed, being filed in the middle Of
the bales with cotton aeed and wet and rotten
cotton. On boring into the middle OF the bales
bushels of seed were found. The young man
who had charge of the cotton asserfs very pos
itively that the fraud was entirely unknown to
him, and that the packing was done on his
motnes Rlantat,on ~ ao Dy tne 10 freedmen %ao nad
chants and committee Of the Board Of Trade
nave. we learn, determined not to prosecute the
party in this case before giving him chance
to clear himself - Columbia Pkoeei1, 24th.
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SPARKS FROM ERw WIRES.

Robert johnson, son OF ex-President John.
son, died in New York yesterday.
The President has recognized Charles M.
Hagan as Turkish Consul to Philadelphia.
It is again reported from Washington that
Sickles has been offered the Spanish mission.
Mrs. O'Donovan Rosss reads tonight in
Augusta, and starts for Charleston tomorrow.
The Cubans and Cuban sympathizers had o
meeting and torchlight procession in New
Orleans, on Saturday night.
Daniel Page, one OF the founders and first
Mayor Of st. Louis. Missouri, died in Washing
ton, yesterday, OF congestion of the lungs, aged
70 years.
The steamer Uselda snagged yesterday,
thirty miles above st. Oroix, ON the Missouri
River, and while sinking exploded. Fifty pas
sengers are missing. ~
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Marrieo.

GIBBEs-HUNT.-Att the Church of the Atone.
ment. Augusta. Ga, by the Rev. VIM @. HUNTER,
Captain W. ALLSTON GIeBES, OF Columbia. 8. G.,
and Miss LIZZIE f., daughter of Dr. 8. p. HUNT Of
the former city.
BUILER---FINNEY.-On the evening of the 22d
instant, by the Rev w. H. WILLIAMS, at the resi-
dence OF the brides mother, GEO. G. BUTLER to
OAhhlE D., Youngest daughter Of the late WALTER
FINNEY Esq, all Of this city. No cards.
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Il sT PHILOSOPHY OF RMARRIAGIs.--A A
NEW COURSE OF LRoTUREs. as delivered 1T the
New yesk Museum Of Anssomy, embracing the sHn.
jecss How 10 Live and What to Live for Youth,
Maturity snd Old Age Manhood generally review.
Cd the Cause OF Indigestion Flatulenee ana Ner.
vous Dise,sss accounted for Marriage Philosophi-
cally Considered. &C. These Lectures Win be for
warded on receipt Of sour stamps. by addressing /;
SECRETARY DALTlMoRE MUSEUM or ANATo.
MY. No: "a West Baiamore-street baltimore. Md.
AprM 10 uawf 1yr
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EUROPE.

TEE LONDON PRESS ON THE CUBAN QUESTION
PROMPT ACTION OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT
SUCCESS OF THE SPANISH LOAN.
LONDON, April 22.-The London Post of to-
day-a conservative Wing organ-has an ella
borate editorial article on the Cuban question,
in which it mentions that it is asserted that
President Grant has longing eye upon Cuba,
and would not be unwilling to distract the at
tention Of the people of the United States
from watching the course Of internal affairs
by war with some foreign power. A conflict
with Spain cannot leave any doubt respect
ing the issue, unless England and France
should interfere. A blow dealt at Cuba
would be tantamount to blow dealt towards
the whole Of the West Indies, and the acquisi-
tion Of Cuba might be followed by that of Ja-
maica and Martinique. The same paper quotes
the recent acquisitions of territory by the United
States as proof that it wants to acquire by
piecemeal all the possessions held by European
powers in that latitude, and would naturally
commence by Cuba, because it belongs to the
weakest of the powers having settlements in the
West Indies. France and England will doubt
less determine whether these designs against
Cuba will be tolerated, or aid Spain in retaining
her colony.
much in the same tenor, and special meetings
of the French Cabinet we're held on Tuesday
and Wednesday, which resulted in g special
envoy being sent last night to London with
dispatches referring to the present complica-
tion Of events.
The Spanish loan of as,OOO,OOO vas ladnched
hsre to-day through the medium of J. s. Nor
gan & Co., and is meeting with good success.
The Oxford boat crew has accepted the
American challenge for four-oared race, in
August next.
The bullion in the Bank of England has in
creased Eel 900 since last week.
TEE SPANISH SUCCESSION.
MADRID, April "a bill was introduced in
the Cortes excluding forever the Bourbons
from the throne. An amendment confning the
exclusion to Isabella and her children was
adopted and the bill passed.
THE CUBAN QUESTION.
PARIS, April ga. special envoy has been
sent to England. 1t is supposed their object
is to consider Spanish-Cuban affairs.
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EXIT DON PIA11:


Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial, April 20]
There is so much interest conferred about
Washington City, and 80 on the increase, that
the day is not far distant when the best talent
here. The day of State capitals, and the in-
-terest in their legislations have passed away,
more's the pity; and doubt whether there
will ever be return. great empire is being
capital at Washington. An insorests are affect
ed by it's working, and all eyes are turned upon
its central city. great good can be accom-
ana he
not mean to insinuate that we have none Of
that sort. Imean only that we ought to have
more. Mr.. George Alfred Townsend, General
Bovnton, Sidney Andrews, and q corps Of 9TH
be done and q wider field before us in which to
operate.
It is not pleasant work. If one does his duty
as correspondent, he finds himself in con-
tinual state Of war. There is so much that is
corrupt, so much that is false, so many bad
men and such host Of weak ones, that the
correspondent who looks only to his duty finds
himself regarded as ill-tempered, unreasona-
bic and ugly. Then the correspondent feels o
traditionary contempt entertained by certain
ancient John G0nhoys, whose presence in Con.
gress is o casualty. They hasten to repress
this, and receive countenance in the repression
grace their GLASS.
IL this stupid and extrayagant business Of
publishing the Globe could be stopped, as it
ought to be, the legislative acts OF our law
makers would be eitted through the brains OF
correspondents, and the knaves would find an
unhealthy notoriety, and the fools no existence
whatever outside the narrow circle OF their own
egotism. As It is, ell fnda common burial in
this dry husk of brain which is published at
such fearful cost of money and reputation,
My own experiences as Correspondent draw
to . close. This is my last letter, and am
glad TO be relieved. You will EXCUSE the ego
tiSm that prompts nae to sneak Of rnvaalf, re- il
natural. have had realizing sense or the
power of o little pen when aimed at scampa
and fools.
proud am. we'll may be, to see
The men, not fearing God, afraid Of me-"
have the satisfaction Of knowing that ]
have added an army to the host of my enc.
mics. and that they are healthy and active
But the satisfaction comes in ON the fact that
there is not one want even as an acquaint-
ance. d. P,
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THE WAR IN CUBA.

HAVANA, April M.--Orders ftom Madrid di-
rect the proceeds of the conAscated property
be devoted to the expenses Of the war.
The captured passengers Of the Lizzie Major
have been placed at the disposal OF the Anneri-
can Consul at Remedies.
A transport has arrived with one thousand
Spanish soldiers.