The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-30
POLITICAL BREVITIRS.

Fsnton truthfullv says it would be
l"weak aud wicked" to force the Presi-
dency upon him.
An English paper compares Reyels IN
the Senate to Israel escaped from Egypt.
But Moses didn't have any carpet-bag or
| frank.
Georgia furnishes any quantity Of
"Fiftsenth Amendmentsn to take seats
in the Legislature, but not sufficient
nnmber to work the plantations.
A Radical journal wants to know how
to save public money. Take its manage
ment ont Of Radical hands and put 1t
into those of honest men.
"Oliviap says that "once, a watery-
veined Senator was actually seen warm
! ing his hands only a short distance
from Senator Conkling's head" He
would have preferred Dick Yates nose.
The refusal of the President to send
troops into Tennessee increases, it is
said, the chances of the State being
taken in hand by Congress, and recon
structed after the manner of Georgia
| Doubtful.
n. P. Rogers, advocating the rights
of minoIities, says: "The majority is
the most subtle, and, therefore, the
most dangerous form of physical vio-
lence; the ballot is threat of which
the bullet is the execution"
The San Domingo swindle is what the
Albany argus calls it. There are sew;
eral other journals that are not inclined
to call the thing pet names, merely be-
cause the President happens to be at
the bottom of it.
Ren Butler is credited with saying to
member Of the Cadetship committee: :
"This thing must be wound up. You
must ease it dc N on Roderick; for if
once fairly warmed up in the work of
bringing to light the secret history Of
Congressman you will blot tho party
from existence"
The negro clerk of the Alabama Sem
ats got five hundred errors in spelling
into single bill. A carpet-bagger
from Connecticut defended him by say
ing that he ''was not elected to spell,
but to illustrate the equality of 10y
atty"
Ii s proposed to erect q new county
in Miss ssippi, called Lincoln" out Of
parts of Lawrence, Copia, Amite aud
Franklin. A Mississippi paper says
"Of course they will have to make
Grant county, Butler county, a Revels
county, John Brown county and an
Ames county before they quit"
The Alexandria Ga:ette says that
gentleman from the extreme South who
has been in Washington city for some
time past endeavoring to procure color
cd labor has left for his home, having
feen unsucce Ssful in his effort. He
says that forty men promised to 60 with
him f.om Washington, but that they
could not be spared by the Radicals of
that city, until after the June election.
Logan was foremost in moving the
expulsion of Whittemore for selling ca
detships. Thisis right. Now, let some
body move to expel Logan for having
sold himself to Lincoln after having
made contract with JEFF Davis. 1t is
very wrong to cell cadetship, and it is
coed deal worse for man to sell him
self.
A good suggestion is contained in the
following resolution offered in the Wis.
consin Legislature a:
ResOlred, That all persons acting in
the capacity of lobbyist shall, during
the remainder of the session, wear
badge in their hats or caps, or in n con-
spicuous place on the broadcast part of
their person, with the name of the
scheme they represent plainly printed
thereon.
If the recent result in New Hampshire
is to be accepted as reliable indication
of political sentiment in New England,
it may be safely counted rpon that the
scepter has passed from the Democracy
in its ancient stronghold.-NaC York
Times.
If the fact that New Hampshire gave
a Republican majority of over seren thou
sand a year ago, and less than fifteen hun
drCd at the late election, is any indica-
ton that the sceptre has passed from
the Democracy, We can't see it.
Woman suffrage does not appear to
thrive in New England. Massachusetts
IL pronounced hopeless held, though
there is great preponderance of wo-
men over men. The Yankees are too
sbrewd, we will not say selfish, to vol.
uutaIi'y place themselves in the power
of the women. Tho Boston apostles of
woman suffrage are now carrying OH
hopeless campaign in Vermont, and
meeting with contumely, cayenne pep
per aud as.afptida. Meanwhile the
true field-the extreme VESTS neg
lected. The States which need women,
aud who are ready to bribe them with
the gift of suffrage, are not deemed
worthy of the presence of the Boston
agitaters: and they prefer defeat and
martyrdom in Vermont to victory aud
jury duty in Nebraska and Minnesota.
Some of the newspapers are telling of
4 young New York journalist, now dead,