The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-06-13

disappointment -with stoicism thor
oughly Californian, and had the rare
magnanimity to bring the guide back,
not only alive, butwiths full complF
nient Of arms and legs. They had q
splendid opportunity 10 Nwreak ven
geance on their misinformant, and,
probably, would have done so had not
that individual convinced them by his
eloquence that the defunct robber must
have made mistake in locality when
describing the treasure cave. So Kidd
and Morgan's booty still remain undis-
covered, and future fools can vet waste
their time and money in searching for
it. ..
ID A COOPERATIVE CELEBRATION.
a cooperative association for cele-
brating the national birthday is the
latest novelty on the coast. In the
northern portion of the State, where
towns and villages are somewhat scat
tered, the merchants and principal in
habitants have resolved that grand
explosion of powder in some central
locality will be preferable to detached
patriotic ebulitions; that one speech, by
a finished orator, and one Declaration
of Independence by a good elocutionist,
will be an improvement on the usual
method Of letting every precinct fur
nish its own Demosthenes. So Chico
has been selected for the gathering, and
the approaching anniversary will be
honored on scale of magnificence
that will astonish the optics of young
bucolic California, and remind his pa
rents of old-time celebrations back in
the Eastern States, where there was
more genuine loyalty in one penny
cracker than there is now in a dollars
worth of fireworks.
Our city celebrations are always
failure, The procession is merely
huge advertisement. The speeches,
poems and prayers semi-disguised
Radical platform, and the managers
contrive to engender more ill-feeling in
one day than the succeeding eleven
months can allay. .. says.
The witty Newsletter has long been
Society for the suppress
sion of the Fourth of July but if the
wranglings and disputes that always ac-
the anniversary are continued
for many more years such an association
will be wholly unnecessary.
GEORGE W. DENT,
"One of my brothers-in-law," has re-
ceived the appointment of L. S. Assessor
at this port and only awaits confrma-
ton by the Senate before entering upon
his duties. General Bridge, his prede-
cessor, has been in the Custom House
on this coast for seventeen years and
conducted business so admirably that
every Secretary OF the Interior has re-
1uested him to remain in office But
positions must be found for my wiies
family" and Grants guilloline is no re-
spector of honesty or ability. So this
service worn veteran is removed, and
another act of nepotism added TO the
already long list.
SHOWS hO SISHS vi iV'N"i "n" '"'h
ruptcies are becoming alarmingly fire.
luent. The crop prospects are little
more promising than they were fort
night ago, but the harvest will fall short
of the three preceding years average.
There is no part of the Union where
of any kind is so difficult /
TO obtain now, as in California, and the
prospects for an improvement are far
from hopeful. The income tax list for
1869 for the San Francisco district Is
about $4,000, $4,000 less than for
for 1868. Several of our leading linan-
,ial men who reported good incomes for
1868 make no returns for the past year,
their losses having swallowed up their
receipts Only two firms report over .