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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-11-03
COMPETlTI0NROT lobe FOUND.
We HAVE AUST REcRIYED.

We HAVE Just RECEIVED.
sPeeei Heavy Black drO Grain SIX at = .
Pi:SSs BLACK SUI q y, SIG. 500.
% Patterns lElSh PopLns g
50 PlSeG1 more B66l MOhllr LuSteF1 6OcR
% Pieces PFonch 1IsrinO 75 eta.
An RndlesS Stock ,et Plaid At e, 81, %, 90, %,
10 PlSoes waterproof d 500.
All kinds NJ DOmr1tiG Goods sold ct New York
Wholesale PrlceS, so take notice,
yard Wide Ble6thed AnGhn 10 cents.
/ Yard Brown Muslin 10 eents..
Glnghams 10 and II centa.h: q l4f
CaI(epOs Q, ia 10 and II cents. ~.
All best make MSrrimaeE, Coehseo and
W. hSts lie Agency for the celebrated Call.
FISSnes 81 aIl Kinds al Is, b. 50 and szH ets.
B6RWla d every make and Styles from 30 cts
toSny Ees yoq N; Saas e p. LIZ igT one
RaImOnl Ski1a Is cents.
81 per cent tilt hAA played out
WoproposC pkSop An ittraotlts 1blIbhment,
aud not meFj repository shop for old un9aIeaDlo
and unbelievable goods, hut eompTtbea an IN
limited RtnrH Of tho most beautiful, desirable,
and rechercs article p ba found IL the manu-
tAet0Fien Of
LONDON, PARIS. vIENA, BERLIN,
And other great parts Of Europe, Is Tell4 the
choicest SpeCimEns Of American Skin, Industry
and Taste, which have come To the hands Of nFpt
class houses. H#g
So give 10 call II you want 70 Bee = large
stock Of Dry Goods 1t prices that can't DO beat
and don't forget the name. fA
JOHN RoENBR d CO.,
No. 81 3 % Main Street,
oet17 Below Stone Bridge.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-11-03

A NAN in Albany has three wives, and
ono Of The wives has two husbands
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-11-03
HENRY ROEMER'S!
RlSh Black Gro Grain silks, Diagonal
PlaIds, French Plaid PopllnS,
French Empress POplins,
French Merino, Roubalx
Cloth, peIalne,

Cloth, peIaIne,
"w4shlhgIOn nraad.. DOub'0whrp,
Black EipatG, tie bOlt n Tho market
HGnds6tnO stock d shHWla, Fancy. PiAin,
Grey, Striped. Black Tablet and MGTiBO shAWlu.
Pine Paisley Shawl, CHAP
BalmoFal and BoulVaFd skirts.
A large stock Of Plain and Barred Flannel,
which viii b sold cheap.
JeAnS CaSllmeFcS, TWeCdS, and Corduroy,
for Men and Boys wear.
4 very large stock Of al kinds Of Domestic
Dry Goods, Fancy 0oodI' Motions. Ge8 Nv, whish
I am Determined not to be UndersOld.
My stock ID ell NeW and Fresh. No old laid
AWay Goods and AUCTION Trash, that 10 not
worth hOy trAGt yOt pay t0T AE'N.
Cali and examine my stock before purchasing
elsewhere, Ny motto still IL, "Qpick Gales and
small pt6ats!H Don't forget The place
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-01-20
The Labor Question.

The Orangeburg Ne,os says emphati
cally that where farmers do not get what
hands they want this year, "'tis their
own fault" Much land has been sold to
colored men, who are building and settling
upon it; but this does not hinder farmers
from contracting with these very men,
A gentleman in the county has rented
lands to families all around him. The
men of these families are to work in his
contract for one-third, as heretofore. The
women are allowed to work the land
rented to the family, the owner having a
lien on their crop for the payment of the
rent. The owner, also, by the terms of
the contract, at certain times can call on
all the hands ut so much por day to work
in his crop. This farmer always has as
many hands as be wants. By this ar
rangement, says our cotcmporary, the
colored man has his home, his family
working for him and for themselves. The
owner Of the land has hands for all the
land he wants to plant for himself, and
the rest of it is rented out to good paying
tenants. Now, even suppose the land is
sold, instead of ronted, to these families,
the same plan can operate, and the same
security is given for hands for the planter,
and lien secures the payment for the
purchase of the land. And this latter is
better inasmuch as the security to both
is permanent, and not temporary, for one
year. The colored man is settled and
happy, and the planter has hands around
him ready at his command. Mutual for
bearance and kindness on either side will
secure contentment and prosperity to
both. The colored man is not avaricious
he is satisfied with comfort. BY this
means ho realizes tho wish of his heart
to have home. He is elevated as man
and laborer. Ho has every induce
ment to bo honest rs man, and industri-
Gus as laboror. He is rendered conten
ted and happy. 1t takes very little to
make him happy, and he has right to be
happy. Without some such plan as this,
tho same difficulty will arise each year
for hands. And it will increase every
year, for the colorcd man is resolved to
have homo and start in life
These calm and sensible words aro we'll
worthy of general consideration. Color
ed labor is the only labor that We can
command; cclorod people have the politi-
cal control of the State. Surely, thon, it
is wiser to mako the colored men our
friends and feIIow.laborers in q common
Cause, than to aggrayate the distrust and
dislike which are already too btter and
too deep for the good of our State and
people, Charleston Ne,cS.
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Tha Coming Canvass.

It is an old maxim, in which there is
much Of sound philosophy, Gin time of
peace prepare for war" The political
campaign for 1870 is soon to open, and the
destinies of Commonwealth are again to
be put as the prize. When we contem-
plate the immense results at stake, is it
not high time that the leaders of the De-
mocracy were planning for the battle, and
preparing to marshall their forces with eE-
ergy and judgement !? Let the plans be
broad and unmistakable; let them be free
from mongrelism, for late efforts in other
States show that such can only end in di-
vision and defeat. There is no common
ground upon which Democrats and Radi-
Gals can meet-there is nothing of sympa-
thy between such opposing elements
their principles are as dissimilar as the tea-
sures and faces that compose their ranks
Let MS then avoid anything like hybridism;
let MS boldly proclaim the good old prin-
ciples of our fathers that held sway in the
early DAYS of the Republic, and make a
fair,S square and manly struggle for the
victory.
In this County the victory is our own,
if we really wish it. We have only to
sHaake long pull, a strong pull and pull
altogether, and we win beyond doubt.
If, however, we have any dlscord in our
ranks, we are just as certain to meet With
failure and disgrace. We must move for
ward shoulder to shoulder, and as one man
strike for the mastery. The enemy is a
solid phalanx, and we must he the same
in opposition. The old idea that we all
formerly cherished, that this or that friend
must be nominated for Office, or that the
claims of this or that section of the couu-
try must prevail, must give way to the
necessities of the times. We now strug-
gle for principle, not for men and private
preference must yield to the public good.
..ftis only by regular nomination that we
can hope for unanimity, and in combined /
action. alone can we hope for victory
The Romans learned some of their mos
valuable arts of war from their enemies
Let us do the same. Together Radical
stand or fall-they allow no division i
their ranks, and here is the secret of the
success. Cannot the intelligence and ii
terest of the white man form as strong
cement as the ignorance of the negro
Let, then, private wishes and local inf
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-01-20

WHAT You Do, Do WELL.-Aiter years
and years of inculcating the above princi.
pal that should govern farmers in all OF
their labors, we find the world full Of cul-
tiyators of the soil who live and act as
though they had not read or heard OF edo
ing things iocl" in theirlives. Everything
they attempt to perform shows lack of
care. attention and knowledge of what is
to their own interest Wherever you find
farmer who has steadily grown rich BY
the sweat of his brow, you will find a
man who does ,oeN whatever he performs.
His house is always in good repair, we'll
painted, etc.; his grounds around his
dwelling neatly laid out, with an abun-
dance of good fruit and shade trees; his
out.houses commodious, we'll arranged
and also in good order. His cattle and
horses are Of good stock and in good con-
dition, and he has q system of doing
work that accomplishes what he under
takes. and he does not leave everything
half done as many farmers do who drag
through life and die poor.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-01-20
The Cotton Tax.

The Importance to the South of the
cotton tax case now pending before the
Supreme Court at Washington, on ap-
peal from the United States District
Court for the Western Tennessee District,
cannot be exaggerated. =.
Apart from the material value involved
in the claim the decision of the Supreme
Court will affect moral and legal ques-
tions, and considerations of political right
of quite as much moment US any that
have arisen from the post bellun lcgisla-
ton of Congress. The claim for reim-
bursement for taxes paid under the for
mer act of Congress, although involving
a considerable sum, is of little moment,
compared with the question of the right
of Congress to impose tax upon q raw
product of several of the States. If it
shall be determined that Congress has the
authority to select II particular product OF
some of the States for q taxation not i'm
posed upon the product of other States,
then may the South anticipate an unjust
discrimination against all her materlali in
terests, whenever the capriccs of hor
ruler shall deem it necessary or convent
ent. Such policy requires no more VIC
lent usurpation, than that which has in
repeated instances made the will of Con-
gress superior to the fundamental prnci-
Piles of the Federal system.
The right to make the unjust discrimi-
nation against cotton, which now exists,
right which it is not pretended to ex-
ercise regarding corn, wheat and tho nu.
mcrous products of other States, would
practically place the eleven Southern
States beyond the pale of constitutional
equality. If such discrimination be con-
stitutional, then are the Southern people
liable to confscation and to almost any
conceivable measure of legislative tyran-
ny. The most able and comprehensive
briofs have been written on the subject,
two of them by ex-Judges of the Supreme
Court, of eminent ability and learning
A favorable decision will lift great bur-
den from the culture Of a staple which
contributes already two-thirds of the ex-
ports of tho country, and is the most solid
and reliable basis of both it's credit and
it's commerce. Wilmington Star.
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How TO WIN PoIITIoAL PowER.-Ev-
cry factory established in the South weak
ems the arrogant power of the North, and
strengthens us in the contest for the pre-
servation of our political rights and our
prosperity as a section. Every bale Of
hay, or hogshead of bacon, or barrel of
-four or potatoes, which We raise at the
South, cuts off tribute money to the North,
and helps to make us strong and seifsus-
tanning people. Our strength as section
now lies in our industry. So long as we
permit the North to control and grow fat
on it, so long will we be treated as inferi-
ors in the Union. But by 80 using our
great resources as to convince the politi-
caly dominant section of our value and
Importance as an ally, and of our power
to make it feel in the pocket nerve tho
loss of our good will, we may achieve in
the Union what our arms failed to win for
us out of it, and what the most rigid COM
pliance with Northern demands has since
failed to secure for us.-Col Enquirer.
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GEORGIA THEN AND Now-In the Off
cial report Of the proceedings of Con-
gress on the 18th day of July, 1868, We
find the following:
s:Mr. Dawes-1 am instructed by the
Committee on Elections to report back
the credentials of J. w. Cliff and G. Fl.
Prince, members elect from the State of
Georgia, that State having ratified the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Const-
tuition, and in all other respects having
coniormed to the requirements of the law
in regard to the admission of that State.
These gentlemen will take the oath pre-
scribed by the Act of July q, 1852"
The report was agreed to. Mr.. Cliff
and Mr.. Prince appeared and qualified.
Georgia was then conceded to be a State
in the Union, having conformed 10 all the
.voon;no,,,onfo oP tho rooon al IN ction In wa
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-01-20

MIND Your Own Bus1NEss.-To tell
a man to his face to mind his own busi-
ness would be considered about equal Ito
knocking him down. And yet it is one
of the simplest rules of right conduct,
and the most useful that mankind can
adopt in their intercourse with each ether.
There is a great deal of the Paul Pry
spirit in the human heart, or wonderful
inquisitiveness in regard to the personal
and private affairs of friends and neigh
bors. This spirit makes more mischief
in the community than almost any other
cause, and creates more malice, envy and
jealousy than can be overcome in cent,
ry. Let every man mind his owni busi-
ness, and there will not be half the trouble
in the world that there is st present.
ga red sacque," says wag, ssrepre-
sents an auction tlag-the wearer Offering
herself to the highest bidder" ss,
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THE LIQUOR TRAFFIc-THE GREAT
EVIL OF THE DAY.-From every quarter,
in every newspaper, comes the intelligence
of some fearful crime committed while un-
der the influence of liquor. The evil is
assuming such gigantic proportions that
reform must be effected in some way. Our
cotemporary of the Darlington Southerner
says, that half the criminals who are hung
make the acknowledgement that they were
wholly, or partially intoxicated, when they
committed the deed for which they were
made to suffer the extreme penalty OF the
law.
There is no telling how many evils
spring from this vice alone; how many
souls are wrecked on the rock of intemp-
erance ; we say souls, for the Bible tells
us that no drunkard can enter the king
dom of heaven.
Intemperance is not vice which makes
miserable the intemperate man alone, his
family and friends are made to suffer too );
he piunges the innocent in poverty and
misery, that he may indulge his mad love
of liquor. All the while he, himself, is
not happy, for he knows that he is making
a wreck of all that renders life worth hav-
ing :,
1t is startling to think with what rapid
strides this crime is marching over our
country, trampling all the bloom and beau
ty out of the flowers of existence break.
ing hearts, running the fairest hopes, and
bringing men, who might have had long
lives of usefulness down to the grave;
Now, what lies at the root of all this
evil? The liquor trade. 1t has been truly
said. "The License law is the most efici-
ent weapon of Satan-his right hand bow
er." Let stop be put to this traffic and
no liquor be permitted to be sold save for
medical purpose, and we shall soon see
different state of things. 1t is positively
amazing the amount of liquor sold, and
how, in every direction, drinking places
are started up. The money swallowed up
by these places in week would keep
family comfortable for months.
So serious has the evil now become, that
it is time for all good men to take hold OF
the matter. We certainly need tenn
perance reform, or pretty soon drunken
ness will be the rule and net the cxcep-.
tion in America. 1t is time rise up and
slay this dreadful giant, who is killing
thousands-ki killing them body and SOUL
Lancaster Ledger.
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THE YEAR IN WALL STREET.-The year
1869 will be remembered in financial his
tory for it's great gold and stock panics.
1t opened upon the formation of extsn-
sive cliques and speculative combinations
in Wall street, whose doings have been
the. talk ofboth continents. 1T witnessed
period of remarkable imitation in stocks,
which, under the manipulation Of these
cliques, were driven to the acme of yalu-
alton. The tide steadily rose from Janu-
ary to September, on the 22d of which
latter month came the turning point
Those who remember tho stock, panic OF
1864 will be struck with the coincident
features of both.. In 1864 the Stock Ex-
change was calm and unruficd as sum
mer sky. Suddenly Fort Wayne, which
had been forced up so or 60 per cent,
came down with a crash. Tho whole
market broke with it ia a terrible panic.
Last September the crash came us mex
pectedly. On the 22d, just after New
York Central had been called at tho
morning board, and while the prosidentwas
passing to the next stock on the list, there
was an outcry at the rear of the room:--
Central had broken; no one could tell
why. 1t rallied temporarily, and then
broke again, falling in, a few days abont
sixty per cent. On Friday the 24th,
camo the gold panic. Tho famous. clique
had 9bulled' the price all the way to l65,
when suddenly the Secretary. Of the Treas
ury ordered a sale of four millions of the
government gold. The effect was magi-
cal. The price dropped instantly to 13a,
The disaster inflicted by these rpanics was
widespread. At least haIfa dozen suicides
have beon one result. Tho failures among
brokers, bankers and merchants have
been innumerable. Whoever was tainted
with the gold speculation was hurt. Since
that time gold has gradually fallen to
1l9t-a difference of 454 per cent be-
tween the highest-and lowest pointsFof
the year. Fortunately, 'thetpanic, 'likeiia
1864, was confined to Wall street. - The
crash of 1857 extended over the whole
country, and involved evory interest, f.
nancial and commercial. Thenzthe cur
rency of the country was ,circGmscribed,
and the attempted liquidation OF paper
produced general bankruptcy. Now. our
paper currency is expanded to eight hun
dred millons-an abundance which has
conined the more recent panics to specc-
lative circles only. The experience of
1864 and 1869 shows that recurrence
of 1857 is impossible until the country
grows up to the currency, or until The
currency is violently contracted.-N. Y
Herald.
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THE WREcKs IN CHARLEsroN HARBoR

THE WRECKS IN CHARLESTON HARBoR
"A correspondent of the New York Tri;
bune says the contract for raising the
wreck sunk in Charleston harbor has been
awarded to tie Monitor Wrccking Com
pany by the Treasury Department.
Among them are the Keokuk, Weehaw.
ken and Patasco, iron-clads, and the
Housatonic, store ship, besides large
number of others Of less Importance.
Store ships, blockade runners, torpedo
boats, vessels of every known variety,
fitted for war or peace, are found by the
divers strewn over tho bottom of tho har-
Dor. Probably there is not at present
another place in the world where 30 many
submerged wrecks are collected within so
small a space.
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VOLUME 5....NO. 80.
Living Writers of the South.


There is probably not a man in the
Southern States better qualified for pre-.
senting to the reading public what the
South has to show in letters, than Profes-
sor James Wood Davidson, of South Car.
olina, whose careful and well considered
work on living Southern writer's has just
appeared from the press Of Carleton
Himself the master of pure style, with
a pure taste, cultivated by liberal study,
and judgment free from prejudics, he
was admirably qualified for the task she
assumed, and has discharged it we'll
While by the very nature of the case he
was tempted to magnify his subject, he
has been betraye into no fulsome praises,
and much of his criticism is remarkable
for its nice discrimination. As an exam
pie OF the spirit OF fairness which marks
his volume, we may cite his treatment of
the much vexed question of the authorship
of the war lyric of Gall Quiet along the
Potomac tonight" which no one can now
pretend to believe was written by the
Southern soldier who claimed it as his
original production. .:szs
Mr.. Davidson has made out long list
of Southern writers-the number extends
to two hundred and forty.one-some of
whom are hardly entitled-to literary con-
sideration at all, but it cannot be denied
that he has done real service to. the
country by his pains-taking examination
of the whole field. Many readers OF the
North will be surprised to know how
large part of the current literature of
the day is the work of Southern men and
women. Perhaps no three writer's of fic-
tion in the United States have so many
readers and admirers Owe say this as fact
and apart altogether from. it's literary
merits) as Mrs. Terhune, Marion Har.
land0 Mrs. E. D. E. N. Sonthworth, and
Mrs. Augusta J. Wilson, nee Evans, yet
it is not generally known that all three
are Southern by birtLri We7fnote some
trivial errors in proper names, ,as of Mics
Crane, (now Mrs Seemuller,) author of
"Emily Chester" improperly given iras
Grain; and we mark some omissions ,sas
that of Professor Scbele DE. Verc,lof the
University of Virginia.. a prolific writer
and translator, and that of John G.
McCabe, now clergyman IN Delaware.
and there may be others. But these
errata and omiSsa may be corrected and
supplied in second edition, for which
we cannot doubt there will be demand.
--NeW York Epeaiag Post. -. :.
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ences be forgotten in the common good,
for there must not be any division if we
would avoid defeat and consequent dis
grace. AS one man, then, let us conduct
the coming canvass. The enemy are be-
ginning to show signs of animation-Rad-
icalism is again preparing for the STRIFE
Let Democracy carefully gather all it's en-.
ergies, and crush the hydra. Concert of
action is all we need.-Laurensviue Her.
11T
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"A negro named Jackson applied for
registration in Texas, and brought certif-
cate bearing the name of Sam Smith, ex-
plaining the discrepancy thus: "You see,
massa, Smith he died and married his
widder and come to all his state, and you
SEQ dis here 'tificate was among his prop
erty, and fell hare to it,
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There is kind of grim humor in the
address OF dovout deacon to his newly
settled pastor as he gave him the usual
welcome-"The Lord keep you humble
and we will keep you poor