The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-11-09

wNrmy Times In GreenbFier.
lFrorn the Greenbrter Independent Nov. 81
On "wednesday last the Board OF
Supervisors for this county met at the
Court House for the purpose of count
ing the votes. cast at the late election.
Present.. F. Caldwell, Snedegar,
Argabrite, CalIison, McMillion, How
ard, Wagner and Hedrick Absent
Knapp and J. B. Caldwell. r
The Board, in discharging the duties
imposed upon them by law, manifested
the plainest and most palpable DISPOSE
ton to defeat the expressed voice and
wishes of the voters at the polls on the
day of election. Eve except from this
charge Madison Callison.) They out
riged every principle Of law and right,
and seemed, from the beginning to be
determined to elect the minority Radi-
cal candidates, Of whom d. C. B. Cald-
well, a son of Joseph F. Caldwell. was
one, being candidate for the Circuit
Court Clerksfip, and having been badly
beaten by Wallace Robinson; and DR..
Rucker was another, who was beaten
by Alex. Walker, by small majority,
for States Attorney.
To point out the many gross and
fragrant violations of the law, and acts
Of injustice perpetrated by this Board,
would occupy more space in our paper
than We could devote to the subject this
week. Suffice it to say, they counted
six negroes in Lewisburg township, vino
had been rejected by the Inspectors Of
election, upon the ground that they
were not inhabitants of the township
when registered by j. F: Caldwell,
township registrar, or when they voted.
They refused to reject the books Of one
precinct which had given Radical ma
jority, when the books of that precinct
were not certified to by any Of the officers
conducting the election, and they pro-
posed to rejecta Democratic precinct en-.
tirely because one or two men had voted
upon a certificate under the Enforce
ment Act, when their names, and the
names of the persons for whom they
voted, could be easily ascertained, and
the votes rejected, if they were illegal.
They admitted the Lewisburg vote,
which gave Radical majority OF about
sixty NEGRO vote), when the tickets
were 60: marked as to be easily ident:-
fed. They refused to sign bills Of ex-
ceptions to their rulings, when the bill
admittedly contained the facts. These,
among other things, plainly indicated
the intention of this Board
On Thursday evening Captain c. A.
Sperry, United States Commissioner,
upon complaints properly filed before
him. issued his warrants for the arrest
Of Snedtglr, Argabrite and McMil-
lion, who were arrested and brought
before him. All Of the parties refusing
to give bail for their appearance to an
swer the charges preferred against them
under the Enforcement Act, were COM
mitted to Jail, where they now remain.
These arrests had no connection what
ever with their acts as members of the
Board of Supervisors.
On yesterday morning. warrants were
issued for the arrest Of the following
parties charged with violating the En-
forcement Act, viz John Hughart G.
A. Thacker, John Williams and VIM.
Knapp. Thacker and Williams are
members of the Board OF registration.
Thacker and Hughart were lodged in
Jail last night. The parties will he
brought before the Commissioner to-day
for examination.