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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-04
Boutwell, in the Gold narket.

BoUTwELL's gold transactions in New
York continue to call forth unpleasant
criticism. He advertises to sell Gov.
ernment gold to the highest bidder and
when the bids are opened refuses to &C.
cept any that are not up to his own
no.ious of what the market ought to
be. Some time ago, he refused to sell
under l32; later still he would not sell
under l22, and last Friday be would not
sell dollar under l20. In private
transactions such conduct would be
deemed highly disbonorable. BOUT
WELL, as Secretary, advertises that he
will sell TO the highest bidder a certain
quantity of gold on certain day. The
bids are made in good faith, and yet
when they are opened and his price is
not reached, he rejects the highest bids
and all others together. If boutwell,,
as banker, did this, they would shut
up his shop and brand him as a swim
dler.
A dispatch from New York, of last
Friday, says:
The chief event in Wall street to-day
was the refusal of the Secretary of the
Treasury to sell gold under 120. The
opening price of gold was ll9!; the
bids ranged from l19 to 12O. and
amounted to 81, $4,000. The bids were
fully up to the market price, and above
that current for the last two days, but
in accordance with the Secretary's de-
cision, the awards were only $4,000
out of the S1,000,000 advertised to be
sold. These shufliug manGuvres oi
BOUTWELL, are disquleting the better
class of dealers, and the more so be
cause it is indisputable that the same
parties who made money when he To
fused to sell under 1872, and again under
l22, also made money on this occasion
That some parties are in the Secretary't
confidence is only too evident, and it is
felt to be national scandal that while
the professed desire of the Government
is to restore greenbacks to specie
value, the chief treasury officer should
be engaged in bulling gold or deprecia
ting the national currency.
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Mrs. stoves Last Word in the Byron
Controversy.

CoutroVersy.
The introduction to Mrs. Stoves
forthcoming volume on the Byron scan
dal has been made public. 1t contains
none of thepoiuts on which her defense
of the original article is to rest. These,
it seems, are to be sought for in a bulky
volume of nearly FIVE hundred pages.
The "introductiOn' is passionate pro.
test against the denuncialion which has
been visited upon her. Her plea in sub
stance is, that she made her disclosure
because she considered it her duty to
make it; that she made it in defense of
beloved, revered friend; that ths duty
was forced upon her by the concerted
attack npon Lady Byron's reputation,
begun by h=r husband aud coming to a
climax in the Guiccoli book; that the
facts which she revealed were given to
her unguarded by any promise or seal of
secresy, expressed or implied. She adj
mlts the justice of the criticism of the
magazine article as regards its weak
ness as literary production. As to
the rest of the structures of the press,
she says: "My fellow-countrymen OF
America, men Of the Press, have done
you one act of justics-ofall your bitter
articles have read not one" 1t is said
th 1t the article on the Byron controversy
IN the last number of Temple Bdr-"TLe
Bride of Abydos"-fIres alls, to a great
extent, all that Mrs Stowe has to her
long-expected "visdication" certainly
does give the impression that Mrs. Stowe
IS on the defensive, aud has little more
to offer in support of her charges. Moth
ing short Of confession OF some sort
from either Lord Byron or Ms Leigh
will now serve the purpose of silencing
her enemies.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-04

MIsER. are getting into cetemporary
obituaries with much frequency If late,
and in their deaths pointing morals
and adorning tales, after having done
nothing useful or ornamental in their
lives. In regard to one of these penuri-
Gus persons, LoCHY OsTROM, of Pough.
keepsie, the curiOus theory is held that
disappointment in an early love affair
made her mean and avalicious. At the
age of fifteen she had lover who, too
easily discouraged by parental oppOsi-
tion, married another girl. Women
crossed in love have been driven to sui.
eide or madness, but to take refuge
from grief in the absorption Of money
getting and boarding is a novel method
of relief. Such perversion of sweet
and charitable feminine instinct might
more keenly sharpen the stings of re-
morse in q faithless swain than self
murder or insanity. Perhaps it was in
an hour of such subjective reproach that,
twenty-six years later, LoCnY's lover,
then widower, renewed the offer of
his hand. 1t was then too late. The
viler passion had hopelessly usuIpel the
place of the nobler.
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DiacouteptiuIreIapd.

Matters in Ireland seem rapidly tend.
ing TO another crlsi Mr.. Gladstone's
profe essedly conciliatoTy measure of last
session, and others which he promises
III the next, ins,ead of soothing the ag-
itation in that country, seem TO have
given it fresh impetus. 1t is not only
the Fenians who are now giving trouble
to the Government, but men Of the
higher aud even highest ranks in Irish
society. The Duke of Abercorn, not
long ago VIceroy OF ireland himself
has openly placed himself at
the head OF the discOntented Protest
ants. and has publicly used lang uage
that in former times would have
been accounted reasonable, and have
cost the utterer his head. Another lord,
who is also clergyman, has publicly
denounced Mr.. Gladstone as an accom-.
plioe of the Fonians, and declared that
he ought to share their punishment.
rhe natural and inevitable effect of the
stand taken by tho duke of Abercorn
and his followers must be to stir up
sectional jealousy between the Northern
aud Southern IRISH Provinces, and en-
bitter the animoslty of Church aud of
race already existing. In the mean
time the Feuians aud their sym
pathizers turn a deaf ear to all
blandishnentI and refuse to entertain
any proposition from the Government
so long as their national martyrs are
retained in confinement. Give us back
our brothers is their only and constant
demand, and till this is needed they will
listen to nothing. As this may serve &c
account for the fact that the Govern.
ment has just ordered Lord Strathnairn
to Ireland with "seven flying columns
under picked officers" on the plea that
ar insurreclion is imminent. London
Cor. Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Radical Reconstruct ton.

The Radical idea of rec construction, an
exchange thinks, is evidently borrowed
from JOHN RoBINsoN's circus. Those
who have witnessed the performances OF
"the great American combination, we
mean JOHN RoBINSoN's,) will remember
how the clown knocks over the young
gentleman in gold lace and then cries
out "poor fellow" aud sets him up
again and goes to washing him clean,
as he says, with q dirty broom. Then
he dusts him of with a BLACK
ing brush. Then he polishes him
with rake. Tuen he whirls him about
and asks, 'Now, isn't he beautiful ~
That's reconstruction over and over
again. Congress takes a State aud
knocks it down. Then sets it mp. Then
it scrubs it with negro suffrage. Then
it polishes it with bayonets. Then it
dusts it with martial law. Then, final.
ly, if it goes Radical, like Mississippi, it
says, "Now, isn't it besutifulp The
people are sick of this. There is no fun
in it. 1t is all we'll enough as a circu,
trick, but it 10 too ssri ous when applied
to real life.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-04

The annual report of the Commis-
si"ners of Emigration, says the New
York Frening Mail, contains abundant
materials for reflection, in regard to the
tendencies of our growth from the ab,
sorption of fJreign-born citizens. In
the first place we nose an increase in
arrivals for 1869 over those of 1S63-the
aggregate during the past year having
been 254 s37.
In 1865 there was q notable increase
of immigrants from Germany and de,
crease Of the number of Irish emigrants
-10l, ,9e9 having been reporsed from the
former country and only 47,57l from
the latter. This year the proportion
has been considerably altered, only o.
S4l German immigrants having arrived,
while there were IS 632 from Ireland.
The increase of English immigrants
has been remarkable. In 1868 there
were but 29695, while last year the
number was swollen to Al, ,537. We can
only account for this on the supposi,
tion that the distressed condition of the
English operatives and miners has
driven thousands Of them to seek new
bones in America. This theory seems
to be supported by the fact that min
ing and man featuring Pennsylvania
has received during the last year 80.
TAG immigrants against 1926 in 1865
AN increase of almost one hundred
per cent.
Among the States which have receiv.
ed the Largest acce ssons of foreign i'm
migrants, we note, first, New York
which has s2,372; Illinois, which ha'
81, 1913; Pennsylvania, as above stated
Wisconsin, which has 1862; Ohio
which has 1873; Massachusetts,, which
has 9l5S; Iowa, which has SO26, ant
New Jersey, which las 7743. VIII!
Missouri, once favorite locality witt
immigrants, should have received but
1873, we are at loss to understand. 4
We are glad to note tue increase q
Scandinavian immigration. There \
no more industrious, frugal or. hopefu
class of immigrants than the Swedes
Danes and Norwegisrs. From Sweder
We have received 24,6S3 immigrants
against 1880 in 1868; from Denmart
1913, against 1887 in 1868, and f.ou
Norway 2537, against 1908 III 1868.
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"Tndisprtvacied -
From the Hartford Post. |

"Undisprivacie1r What a word
It's the newest thing ont, in Boston
Mr.. Lowell has, W tn great labor and
sweat, With the atlantic Monthly for a
fulcrum, and very long poem entitled,
"The CathedraP-lucus non-for a
lever, p; led it off from the banks of the
Charles river and dropped it with a
70 lysyllabic crash into the tide of the
language. "Undisprivacied~ ~ 1t means
easy enough-the opposite of undis
publicated, and it is made by a proce S.
of acCrotion, simple as congelation.
The foundation Of the word-the
basis of this four story pollysylla-
ble with French roof-is "privacy "
You take that word to start with-go a,
it with club and knock off the end OF
lt-puuch it into the shape Of an active
verb-freezs on the primitive prefix
dis, aud upon that tack the negative
Un-seei-just as easy as rolling off a
log. After all, what's the use of bav-
M all these component, constituent
aud simple words, unless once in a
while You can put them togethsr-Bos-
ton :ashion-and make regular psral-
lelspiped of word, that you can't take
to pieces without nitro. glycerine.
Here's this "Undisprivacied," for in
stance. What q triumph of verbal
architecture that is The only objsc
tion to it is that if it should happen to
drop down into the tropics it's liable to
thaw and break all to pieces.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-04

THE Corinne (Utah) Reporter, after
copy irg an item from the New York
Ereaiag Post relating to the mortality
among the MOrmons, offers the follow
ing remarks:
We are sorry to say that the Posts
information is too true in regard to the
mortality among Mormon children. II
is not, however, very well informed, oil
else wishes to draw it very mild for in
stead Of some of the bosses Of large
harems like HEBER KIMBALL's burying
only forty eight children, we can show
the Post polygamous graveyards of one
family, as they call them here, that will
foot up nearer one hundred and forty.
eight. As this is certainly the healtbi
est climate known to tourists and ex.
plorers, equalized and modified as it is,
the year round, by the salutary inau
ences of the Great Salt Lake, it is al
easy matter TO point to the cause OF
bismortality evil-it is polygamy, and
nething else.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-04

QUITE a number of old maids and
other females are now turning up in
different parts of the country, to whom
according to their own stories, Mr..
GEORGE PEABODY, in bygope time, of
fered his hand in marriage. One OF
them positively refused the millionaire
because she was already dead in love
with poor young man, and Others re-
jected him f,r other reasons equally
beautiful ard honorable. 1t appears
however, that they all kept an eye on
him as long as he lived; and it seems
that, to the last, he treasured up in his
heart the thought Of his loved devotion
to each of them. 1t is touching to read
such stories, and it is pleasing to fee
assured that none of them will now be
contradicted.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-04

THE UNIVERSAL CRY.-"What shall
buy for Holiday Presents" can be an
swered best by Parker g. Co., % and 100
Sumner street, Boston, who have an i'm
mense variety of Holiday and useful
articles, such as all kinds of Fancy
Boxes, Writing Desks, Glove Boxes,
Albums in Morocco and Gilt and Velvet
bindings, real Morocco Shopping Bags,
Furnished Reticules, Silver Plated
Ware, and Cutlery of all descriptions,
Jewelry limitations of the latest styles
Of solid gold, which cannot be distin.
guished from the real, &c, &C., and
hundreds of the latest and most enter
tanning Books. Their stock contains
almost everything necessary to supply
the wants and crafty the tastes OF
everybody, and they claim that they
their superior facilities for buying these
goods enables them 10 sell at very much
under the regular prices paid for such
articles. They want Agents every where,
to whom they offer nest liberal induce
ments.' We call attention to their ad.
vertisement in another column.
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NEW YORK.
A Blast from the Cnban JuBtn-They
are Not Ready TO give mp the Contest.

A Blast from the Cnban JuBtn-They
are Not Ready TO give mp the Contest
NEW YORK, January 3.-DoD Magnet
Aldams, the President eff the Cuban
Junta in this city, communicates the
following: The Cuban Junta of this
city have read with the utmost indigna.
tion the telegram forwarded to the Asso'
ciated Press from Havana, under date OF
yesterday, saying the editors of Havana
journals affirm that they have seen a
circular issueu by members of this Junta
ordering the Cuhans 10 lay down their
arms. Taken in connection with the
reports industriously circulated of late
both iu Havana and this country that
the Patriots are presenting themselves
in large numbers to Spanish authorities
for pardon.
The above news showsa deep laid and
unscrupulous scheme to perVert pnolic
opinion respecting the progress of our
revolution. l hereby denouncs the cir
cular referred to, if any such exist, as
an absurd and malicious forgery. Far
from the Junta being in the slightest
degree inclined to induce the Cuban
Liberals to give up the contest. We
are continuing our most strene rus ef.
forts in aid Of the revolution, with OF
without the support of foreign nations,
This, according o the latest intelligence
We have from tho seat of war, Nhich
reaches us up to the 7th of December, is
also the spirit which prevails among
the Cubans. These stories of wholes le
surrendering to Spanish authorities
have been circulated before with as lit
tie foundation as now, and without Sc.
curing the desired result.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-04
ST. CLOUD HOTEL.

THIS NEW AND COlndoDI0Us HOUSE,
il located corner Of Broadway and ed street,
Possesses advantages ever al other houses iof
the accommodation Of fts guests II wss built
expressly for q hrst-class Family Boarding
heated by s,ean-vtth hot and cold water, aud
furnished second TO none; while the culinary
department IL In the most experienced hands,
A6ording guests an uneqraled table
One OF Atvood's Patent Elevators u also
among the modern Improvement" and ~ the
berviee Of guests - AZ hours-
The Broadway and University Place Cam pas
the door evsEy four minntSs, running from the
City Hall % Central Park, while the Sixth and
Seventh Ayenue Lines are bat short block on
municSttng with al the Depots, Steamboat
LARdings, places Of Amusement and Businsss
MORE q HOLLEY,
8arII-su ProUrseorAL
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Under the heading, "a Remarkable

Under the heading, "a Remarkable
Case," the Riudolph (Missouri) Citizen
of the 23d relates the following miracu-
lous story: "About one year ago Mr.:
James Davis, of Monroe county, near
the Randolph line. an old gentleman
eighty years of age, was taken with
something like pneumonia, and for q
long time the balance between life and
death were equally poised. Finally,
however, he recovered. Before his
sickness his eyesight was nearly gone,
his limbs trembled as if from palsy,
his teeth were decsyed and gone,
30 that had he died, death would
have gained but slim victory, as the
old veteran had we'll nigh run his course,
So his friends thought then. But mark
the strange sequel. Health and vigor
have not only returned, SO that with
good roads the old gentleman walks
tour miles to church, but his nerves are
perfectly steady, his eyesight 10 so com
pletely restored that he can read the
finest print, and new set of teeth have
grown out aud taken the place of the
old ones. Verify, verify, the day of
miricles does not seem to be over yet"
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Only the Mechnnics Deprived of
Their Pay.

The Cincinnati Gazette, although
Radical sheet, has this incidental cut al
the coutempiible trickery of the officials
at Washington, who, on the death of a
high official, ordered the mechanics to
stop work and attend tie funeral, and
then refuse to pay them wages for the
time thus lost:
The effect of putting the Govern.
ment department in mourning on the
death of a public man is to give all
hands holiday on full pay, except the
mechanics anG common laborers who
work on day wages. These have day
of forced idlebess ut the loss of wages.
Therefore they are justly discontented
The Government cannot give them
a paid holiday tho same as the rest,
or allow them to work. To goo
man the dying Shought that many fam.
il es will be sliDte1 because of the loss
of wages by HE death will not be COM
Portable. If this form of public mourn.
ing is proper, the Government should
not make its mechanics aud day labor
ers bear the bIunt of 1t. Let them
have their wages, the same as the sal
aried men, and then let the Government
rxercis, moderation in ordering this
suspension, which has in it not bit OF
mourning.
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as'hee!iug gealster.
Tue Sday,-. ------S
CORRESPONDENTS.

III. friend, Of the REGISTER hro'tgh0n we, we,
x":;,ia and In, bor. ering counties Of Ohio and
are particularly rsq<s'eS5 e5 oso,TSi 20 G9l
,asni promptly leh s%y 1ssIseS psr rn"asdSs IN
'I .., of s,sciaI importanes the TsLegraph may Dc
sssI al our expense; u. most cases the maI 'g't1
',,Sr ELaJ5rqt, aud Orndts essays are not Ge-
s,r,d bll, Iritf and accurate tctters g,olng az me
sirclmstanteS and incidents o. "t're'a"y e'e''" 10
w. Cosm,,,ieati0s setting forth the material eodi'
-, "ad d,rtlopnaent II the country; the crops,
q lGna and al SS,r 'a':s az. sspss1S S 'fs de-.
- ,1S ,riA be promptly published.
Sofic,s Of ppbi,c meetings, Of tohat>1er natare; @
I'll o,hIr occasions Of interest 10 the peope, to't1
30 welcome. that sbau r,hec,
1s spiuions aud teiSheS Of hB PEOrLEi ana
- -, ro,u,, from me People, and " ot rdhie
s%S interest 70 them, ssiU reestU' our 'H'taH ana
faithful attention.
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LIFE OF THE FLESH Is IN THE B,or

LIFE OF THE FLESH IS IN THE BLOOD
-Rosddalis! The greatest Blood Puri.
fer and Rznovator known. Used and
endorsed by physicians, who prescribe
it in their regular practice. Why be.
cause the articles from which Rosadalis
is made are published around each bot
tie, SO that every physician knows Just
what it contains, AID hence endorses il
as a valuable Alternative compound.
This preparation has gained and main.
tains an unrivallsd reputation for the
cure of Scrofula iu any form, Rbeuma.
tism, Skin Diseases, Old Sores, Ulcers,
Sc, Dyspepsia, Neuralgia, in fact any
chronic affection of the Blood, Liver
and Kidneys, and all diseases in which
an Alternative plan of treatment is in
dicated. g
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COLORADO will be admitted at an
early day. A bill for that purpose has
twice passed Congress, but was vetoed
By Presideat JOHNSON. Two d ore New
England Senators will thss be added to
the present twenty -four, making TWEEN
ty-six in all.
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The attempt to count the vote Of To-
diana for the Fifteenth Amendment is
denounced by leading Republican
politician of that State as fully as fla.
grant . reconstruction of that State as
has been Witnessed in the case OF
Georgia. 1t is said that the feeling
there on this subject is much stronger
than party, and that the next election
there will show it.
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A GOOD deal of curiosity is felt upon
the question whether the United States
Supreme Court ever mean to decide the
case of the Missouri test oath, appealed
by General FRANK P. BLAIR. The cause
was argued a year ago, and carried up a
long time before that on appeal. The
rule Of the Court is to advance causes
affecting great public interests, but this
case was not advanced, though it affect
ed the right to vote of 100000 white
persons in Missouri, West Virginia,
Tennessee, and other States. Even il
the CouVt should lack the nerve to meet
this question, it is said that Missouri
will, at the next election, go Democratic,
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COLUMBUS, OHIO.
Organization OF the Legialature-Ths
Reformers Incline. to the Demo
Gratis.

Organization OF the LegiAIatufe-Tes
Reformers Incline TO the Demo.
Gratis.
COLUMBUS, January 3.-The General
Assembly met at ten O'Clock. The Sen
ate organized BY electiDg E. T. Hall,
Republican, Clerk, and B. F. Churchill,
Democrat, Sergeant alarms. The House
partially organized by electing A. j.
Cunningham, Republican Reformer, of
Hamilton county, Speaker. The vote
stood: Cunningham, 81; Dennis, 81;
Hitchcock, |. Cunningham received
the entire Democratic vote, and, by
voting for himself, was elected. Amos
Layman, Democrat, was elected CleIk.
Tue Republican Reformers from Ham
iIton county voted steadily with the
Democrats.
COLUMBUS, o., January 3.-The House
completed its organization this after
noon. Alex. Keeler, Democrat, of Ham
ilton, was elected Sergant-at arms, one
of the assistant clerks is Republican,
and one of the assistant SergeaDt-at
arms also. The organization of the
House, in the main, is considered Dem
ocratic triumph.
Resolutions ratifying the Fifteenth
Amendment were INTRODUCED in the
Senate and referred to the committee on
Federal Relations.
The annual message of Governor
Hayes was delivered TO the General AS
sembly this afternoon. 1t is quite short,
and only alludes to national matters by
recommending the ratification of the
Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitu-
ton. Referring to the State finances,
he estimates the receipts for the current
year at SI,79l, ,144.50, and disbursements
at $4, All $1,000. The total debt of the
State is given at 50, ,S55, ,93S.27.
The Governor recommends revision
of the financial laws of Ohio; the adop-
tion of plan for the elassitc Itisn OF
convicts In the Penitentiary; that pro-
vision be made for the chronic insane;
bts establishment of an Agricultural
College, and that aid be rendered to the
Soldiers Orphans Home.