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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-03-04
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-03-04

THR Chicago Tribune notices a rumor
that tho New York Eueuing Express, has
geeu purchased BY thea Republicans for
100000.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-03-04
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New-York tribune., 1870-09-19
THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

1t is almost certain that the rumOr in Lon
don of the actual conclusion Of an armistice is
untrue; it is not clear that the report from the
same quarter, to the effect that prospects of
peace are brighter now than they have been
at any time since the surrender of Sedan, has
a very substantial foundation. Jules Favre is
going to negotiate with Bismarck in person,
and is going with full warning that it is need
less for him to take the trouble unless he is
prepared to accede to the demands of Germany,
to yield at least portions of Alsace and Lor-
raine, and to offer guarantees that France will
abide by whatever treaty the Provisional Gov
enment may conclude. Meanwhile the
war continues, Bismarck not unreason-
ably deciding that as France has everything
to gain by delay and Prussia everything to
lose, the victOrs should not be asked to pause
in their career until the vanquishcd make sub
mission.
NJ. Favre belongs to that calm and clear
sighted minority of the French people which
recognizes the folly of continuing the struggle.
ana Is eager to make peace on the best terms
.lat can be procured. We presume that
III Undertaking his present mission he is pre-
pareo 10 yield as gracefully as possible TO the
oeihaAd Tor material guarantees, and probably
ne expects 10 be supported by the French peo
PIE But no reason has been shown to believe
that the people have yet reached the sober
second thought which ought to dispose them
to surrender. They are apparently persuaded
that it is still in their power to turn hack the
irresistible tide which is sweeping over thrir
country and closing around the capital II
may be possible for NJ. Favre to make treaty
which the nation will be forced to respccf
New-York tribune., 1870-09-19
TUR ER1NKING dBUSE.

A great many voters have petitOned Con-
press TO abolish the Franking abuse. In one
District alone the Fourth New-Jersey) there
were some Six Thousand signers or more. Inc
petitions did the business with the House. lts
members realized that elections were soon
coming around, and almost unanimously voted
TO end this crying abuse. But Senators are
not directly elected by the people, and nave
longer terms-six years instead OF tWo-Dy
which time they hoped agitation would cease;
and small majority detied the clearly ex-
pressed will of the people, and voted to con-
tinue the abuse. We promised them that the
matter should not be forgotten; nor shall 1t be
if we can prevent. We now appeal to voters
of all parties to question their candidates 1or
Congress, and for the Legislature also, to ascer-
tain whether they do or do not favor the
abolition of Franking, and (as to the Legisia-
ture) whether, they will make this an issue IN
the choice of a U. S. Senator. He who decllhes
tn answer is of course against the reform. Leu
him he so understood and regarded.
At the same time, we ask them, If in earnest
in demanding this reform, to stand by those
Renresentatiyes who were true to them In
zealously opposing this abuse, wherever they
are candidates for reelection. Foremost among
these was HONEST JOHN HILL, who did more
for the reform than any other member OF the
House, and has been its steadfast advocate
ever since his first election Should he be de-
feated in a district where over 5000 voters pc
titioned for the repeal, hostile Senator's anc
Representatives would draw the inevitable
conclusion that the people do not demand II
in real earnest, and there would be faint hope
of repeal by this Congress or the next.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-19

years. when the unable ruler can be flung into
the receptacle for cast-Of national garments,
and the nation fit another covering on Its
head.
In his salad days, when he was green IN
Judgment, like Cleopatra, IL was very well for
john like her, to demand Caesar to rule over
him. Now that he is man, if he chooses to
bow the knee to an unmeaning Dutch figure
head, instead Of Caesar, it is his own affair.
But we insist that if he keeps up the show OF
monarchy, he should keep it up dccently.
When it was the King who made wars, in the
good old times, when nations plunged them
selves into blood to the lips to avenge some
fantastic slight to the royal person, or to sus-
tain its alliances or family quarrels, there
were both propriety and picturesqueness in the
crowned head at the helm, and its relations to
the people But to keep this plump, good lit
tie woman in the front only to treat her judg-
ment with contempt, and TO lose no opportu-
ity of snubbing her and her children, is a
breach of good sense and good taste. If John
Bull thinks it expedient to maintain this pre-
tense of powerless, tinseled royalty astrIde
of his shoulders, let him play out the play with
spirit and decency, and either treat his pre-
tended sovereign with respect or set her aside
and be done with it. Now, on the contrary 1t
seems to be his effort, by perpetually lecturing
and bullying royalty, to show the world how
Door thing he had chosen to rule over him,
and how purblind blockhead he was to carry
it at all. Or is the solution of the riddle to
be found in the fact that the Englishman can
not exist without grumbling, and keeps a
monarch as wholesome standing grievanee-a
sort of cataplasm to promote digestionf
New-York tribune., 1870-09-19

The investment of Paris continues uninter-
ruptedly, though not without resistance on the
part of the French, several slight affairs having
already marked the deployment of the Prus-
sian advance columns before the forts east of
the city. The left of the Prussian forces has
been extended across the Seine, and the Or
leans Railway has been obstructed, thus closing
another important avenue of supply. The fur
ther extension of this wing to the neighbor-
hood of Versailles will sever the last remain
ing line of railway to Southern France. 1t Is
incidentally mentioned i'll one of our dispatches
this morning that all the northern lines have
been cut. In the absence of more positive and
detailed statements we are disposed to doubt
this. If true, however, there remains to the
Parsians only the two routes to Rouen and
Tours, and these may be cut at single blow
by the destruction of either of the severa
| bridges across the Seine.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-19
HOME At LASTi

Mr.. Ignatius DOnnely, having been thrice
chosen to Congress from the northern district
of Minnesota, wanted to go again; but the Re
publican Convention saw fit TO nominate an
other: so he ran stump and threw away the dis
trlct Hereupon, Mr.. DOnnelly, who was a
PENNSYLVANIA born and had hitherto been a
-4;.,r,ist. CANA cut q Revenue
Jealous tfOUU,olo...-.,
"Reformer" and commenced assailing the
party which had hitherto endured and subsist
ed him as the enemy of the West, because it
had elected such men as himself to Congress,
and thereby upheld the policy of Protection.
After doing what little mischief he could in
the way of spOuting wherever he could corner
an audience, Mr.. ID. has at length got himself
into line with the Sham Democracy. He is to
run again for Congress as a stump candidate,
inflicting on the Republicans all the abuse
and misrepresentation whereof he is capable !;
and the Democrats are to print his name on
their ballots and see if their votes, with those
he can pick up by his anti-Tariff dodge,
will not pull him through.
The worst sold party to this arrangement is
not the handful of Republicans who may be
duped by it, but the Sham Democracy. They
in '6S elected Eugene NJ. Wilson to the seat, by
mnding their own business and letting others
do the same. He has q fair claim to their
support for reelection, and they could vote for
him without feeling as if they had been caught
at midnight in q neighbOr's hen-house. But
they have caught the Donnelly, and will prOba-
bly, be seven years in getting rid of it. Per-
haps they have deserved no better; but our
own experience OF that complaint impels Us to
tender them our profound sympathy.
This man Donnelly affords a fair illustration
of what is meant by Revenue Reform" Its
inspiration is hatred of Republican ascendency
and q determination to overthrow it i'll 1872.
So it is understood, and therefore it is favored,
by every enemy of Gen. Grants Administra-
ton. Thus The Chicago Times applauds The
Chicago Tribune for commenting Democratic
Chat is, anti-Protective) principles in quarters
which Democratic journals never reach. Thus
The Ohio Statesman cOmmends The State Jour
nal as being sOundly CoppeIhead so far as the
Tariff is concerned Everywhere, a Free Trade
speech-maker is justly hailed by the Demo-
Gratis as Turing fish into their net Happily,
there are not enough of them to rescue Sham
Democracy from the famine which, for lack
of Federal loaves as well as fishes, it has en-
durcd for the last nine years.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-19

The disaster at Laon after its surrender to
Tho Prussians was the work of French artll-
Ierist. who fired the magazine. The insanity
of one man, not the desperation of an entire
garrison, led to the crime, and the crazed indi-
vidual, not the unfortunate nation, is response
BILE for it, If the rash man meditated revenge,
he failed to obtain it, for of the victims of the
disaster only as were Prussians, while 300 were
his French comrades. If the same mad impulse
which led the ambitious youth to fire the
Ephcsian dome inspired the Frenchman to ap-
ply the fatal torch at Laon, it was as vain a
hope of Immortality, for the official report does
not even mention his name.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-19

but Il ia not easy to sec how he can satisfy
King William on that point unless he can OBJ
tain n direct popular vote The proposal OF
the Provisional Government to summon the
Constituent Assembly at once and surrender
the supreme power into its hands, requires at
least ten days or fortnight for its execution,
but it is probably the only possible
solution of the difficulty. Even though
it should result in the disgrace of the men
now at the head of affairs, there is pa
triotism enough in the members Of the
Provisional Ministry to sacrifice themselves If
necessary for the good of the country, and If
they succeed in obtaining from the Prussians
reasonable terms Of peace, we are confident
that no selfish considerations will prevent their
acceptance The fact that King William does
not refuse to negotiate with any authority ex-
cept that of the Bonapartist regency is the
really important and gratifying feature or
this mornings news, and the most
cheering indication of speedy end
of hostilities. We dare say his Majesty
is persuaded that the first result of the pro-
posed treaty will be the overthrow of the
French Republic and the substitution of q
military dictatorship, followed by restored
monarchy. But France can defeat this expec-
| tation, and, rising superior to its temporary
irritation, draw from these disasters sub
stantal political profit. Wisdom will dictate
to the Constituent Assembly that, accepting
the inevitable results of the war, it devote
itself, in a calm and patriotic spirit, to the
consolidation of the Republic. While
the negotiations proceed, and prepara-
tions are making for eecting the Assem-
bly,, the war must, we suppose, go on. On
the part of the Prussians, however, it is now
a war of sieges and Investments which do
not of necessity, in their present stage, in
volve much loss of life, unless the French
persist in the vain defense of untenable po-
sitions, or in useless attacks upon the invading
| columns
New-York tribune., 1870-09-19

The acting Secretary again reports "coin
"balance" of S992S1 ,0S2 and currency
"balance" of $34274,s2l in the Federal Treas
ury. Deduct S21,3l7,OOO from the coin to
balance Treasury Certificates outstanding, and
there is a clear balance in the Treasury OF
over S112,0OO,OOO. If there is any possible rea-
son for keeping this vast sum, or the hall
thereof, why will not some one PROFOUND 1t !
The interest thereon exceeds Six Millions OF
coin per annum. We want to save that SIX
Millions to the People by using every dollar
in the Treasury to buy up and cancel some sort
of Public Debt Don't try to move the
"little joker" from one thimble to another so
quickly that we can't see it, but use every
dollar in the Treasury to extinguish some sort
any sort-of Government liability, and we
will cry out, "Well dOnew AT present, we
cannot,
New-York tribune., 1870-09-19
Aem'llork Duiln Grlba1ate,
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1870.
TO RTSINESS MEN.

The circulation of THE DAILY TRIBUNE hav
ing been increased about fifty per cent within
the last two months, the prices of advertise
ments will, on and after the Gath inst, be as
follows:
Ordinary advertisements, classified under ap
propriate heads 80 cents per line each inser-
tion.
Loaded and Displayed Advertisements charged
solid space.
Special Notices-Fifth pagc-5O cents per line,
each insertion.
Advertisements on Eighth page are charged
40 cents per line, each insertion.
Business Notces-Fourth page-7j cents
line, each insertion.
Item City News Col
umn, 70 cents a line for solid Agate space.
Fancy Type and Cuts are charged double rates
for space occupied.
About ten words average line, after the
first line, which usually contains only four or
five words.
Deaths and Marriages are charged 81
The value of advertising in journal depends
somewhat on the number of its readers, but
still more on their average character. One
might have vast circulation mainly among
those whom business men would find little
profit in addressing. THE TRIBUNE is not
merely bought and read by more persons than
almost any other American journal-it circu-
Iates in every State and in nearly every town
ship throughout the Union, and its patrons are
educators, merchants, professional men, master
workers, and leaders in almost every arena Of
inspiring and hopeful human endeavOr. If it
were proper to publish list of them, it would
appear that no other journal does or ever did
command the patronage of so large proper
ton of the foremost thinkers and workers of
its time. For this reason, it affords men in
business means of reaching those whose
attention they would gladly attract such as is
not found elsewhere while its wide columns,
clearly and fairly printed, invite the regard of
intelligent readers. The TRIBUNE believes in
low prices, but rates should compare with the
work done and facilities offered, and, believing
that our new rates are much lower than those
of any other daily newspaper, considering the
extent and character of circulation we do not
doubt that our customers will be ready and
willing to pay them.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-19

There was severe fighting around Paris Saturday
and Sunday but no details have been received === All
railroad communication with Paris has been stopped.
80 report comes from London that negotiations are
In progress between Fayre and Bismarck and another
that u brief armistice has been arranged. === The
foreign troops IN Rome having insisted resisting tho
entrance OF the Italians in defiance Of tho wishes OF the
Pope, the Italian commander had granted "A hours
truce to give time for peaceable captulation.
Paymaster Cen Brce, U. s. A, had his leg broken in
Baltimore on saturday. == The Deputy Collector in
the Baltimore CustomHouse is said to he defaulter in
the sum OF S2OO,OOO == 1t raned at Richmond Va on
Saturday for the first time IN nearly three months 60
An incendary fire, Troy destroyed 10000 feet OF
lumber = Gems Sherman and schoheld left Gan
Francisco on Saturday for oregon.
The Boards Of Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen bave
appointed committees TO make arrangements to receive
the remains OF Admiral Farragut. William Murcb
is held for shooting Bella HOusted = Dr. Johanncs
RGsing the North German Consul, has received $780,
B32 SC for the German relief fund. - Gold, Ill., ll3L
lls Thermometer Saturday g. TO- 81 Sunday, c. TO-
New-York tribune., 1870-09-19
KINGS IN and OUT OF THE WAY

KINGS IN AND OUT OF THE WAY.
The storm of Kisses with which the names
of the Queen and Prince of Wales were re-
ceived the other day in Hyde Park, by the
multitude, has deeper significance than is at
first apparent. Our cousin John Gas well as
Jean) is discovering lately that this matter of
a sovereign is as irksome an incubus to carry
as was the old wizard to Sinbad when he
rode atop of him so awkwardly, and so clogged
his limbs thercat, that he could neither swim,
ride, nor walk" The present outbreak is
provoked, we presume, by the absolute indif-
ference of the Queen and Prince to the rela-
ton which England holds in the war. and the
fact that mOmentary misstep might plunge
her into the fray. While Napoleon was indus
triOusly shaping the war, which after all acted
as suillotine for himself, Victoria placidly
betOok herself TO the shades of Osborne, and
to the parish schools, and diary-writing, which
is her real business, leaving the Government
to those who understood it. The puppet was
needed, however, to nod and shake her head
at the proper times. The press cried out with
indignation because the Ministers, when they
had determined on a measure, had to post two
or three hundred miles to obtain this wag of
,hC Indu iloui SOOu iltuc NOHdn DcloIe
the measure could become law. Even The
Times grOwled out fierce warning, "regretting
| that, when the fate of half the world may de-
"pend on the loss of an hour, the Queen should
abe out of reach in the furthermost limits
"of the Kingdom" Which is absurdly solemn
shamming enough, in view of the fact that the
Queen or any one of her sons is in all proba-
bility less competent judge in matters of ma
tional concern than the least clever writer who
manufactures the thunder of The Times, and
certainly has less personal power to affect
public action. The cOmmOn-sense in the En-
glish people is melting them to question the
necessity of any longer elevating one family
as symbols of divine prerogative of power
in which nobody now believes-a family,
too, for whose character, mental or moral, the
mass of the people have entertained for gen.
erations but little respect.
The Spectator, enumerating the Queens short
comings, sighs, in conclusion "There is no
remedy, however, but to endure in patience
Jonathan, who chooses a headpiece for the
State almost as often as he does hat for HIM
SELL can afford to laugh at this grim resigna-
ton. Our Chief we choose Theoretically as
the most able man among us, the one who
Dest can VIII, and do, and if he show our
mistake by temporizing with a rebellion, or
talking when in liquor unpleasantly of his
'aiiofS bench or "dead ducks" we know that
'ne hour oi relief strikes regularly every four
New-York tribune., 1870-09-19

That great master of prose fiction, De Foe, ha'
waited long enough for monument of brass ol
stone; but he has had the best of monuments n
a book, if we except the Bible, the most uniyer'
sally read in the English language. And now
comes telegram announcing monument
erected in Bunhil Fields burying ground ia
to Alexander De Foe! 1t is clear to us thai
the gentleman who wrote that dispatch did
not read his Robinson CrusOe properly in his
youth or he may have pcrused one OF those
miserable expurgated and exci8ed copies pre-
pared for the use of modern children, and
upon the utle-page of which Alexander De
Foe might perhaps better be placed than PLAN
substantial Daniel De Foe.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-19
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The Government has very properly placed
the screw-steamer Gucrriere mot Courier, ss
the telcgrams had it on Saturday-there rs no
snch vessel at the disposal of the General
Committee to transport the remains OF Admiral
Farragut from Portsmouth to New-York, ana
we trust that all patriotic citizens and all our
local military and naval organizations and
societies will unite in rendering the cere-
monies as imposing and decorous as they can
be made The seamen from the Navy-faTd
and the troops from the harbor fortications
might properly be detailed to parade on ths
day of the landing.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-19

Twice already has France conyoked ?
Constituent Assembly. The third has b" .
summoned by decree ordering an election 1
representatives, but it is now rumo q
that it will meet at an earlier date. A bI ai
description of the circumstances under winch
the previous Constituent Assemblies wen
convened is given elsewhere. Each held ii
sittings during stormy periods of Fren&
politics. and each embraced the ablest men
of the nation. The first broke up feudaliSn,
and presented France with COnstitu1 ID
fitted for q liberal monarchys it secured civil
and religious liberty, equality Of rights, poru-
lar sovereignty. The second provided fol
French Republic and universal suffrage
The work OF each apparently persisted shorty
after it's production, and seemed to be swept
away by the tide of political reyulsiOn, bnt
each has since been recognized by its bench.
cial effects in succeeding years. The Republic
of 1S4S was consequence of the Consttuen
Assembly of 1889; the Republic of to-day IA
the offspring of 1S4S. The Assembly OF lSH
has the problem presented in different form
but has no more serious complications to dess
with than its predecessors; and there is reason
to hope that its labors may prove OF equal
benefit.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-19

Mr.. Chief-Justice Chase needed no such vim
dication. in the matter of the trial of Jefferson
Davis, as some friend of his has thought 1t need
full to publish an old private letter to secure. No
man, not blinded by partisan passions, ever
doubted that in this, as in all other judicial
questions, officially brought before him, the
Chief-Justice did precisely and only that
which his judgment and his conscience told
him was his Judicial duty. The letter will
nevertheless be read with the interest which
attaches to everything from the pen of this
distinguished statesman-an interest likely to
be heightened now by the late grossly exag-
gerated reports of his illness.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-19

1t is pretty certain that LyntOn Stephens Of
Georgia, Chairman of the /" Democratic Gen.
trail Committee, by his late lecleT, semi-seoes-
sion at the best, and full of obsolete State
p;.l.z - hos "oads a mess OF il. L,
has probably cost his party all the negro votes
which otherwise they might have been likely
to get. There is a call on the part of the
wiser wing of the party for an official repu-
diation of the letter, and Mr.. L. Stephens win
probably be obliged to resign his position.
Even Sam Randall has been aroused TO the
peris of the situation, and telegraphs that the
letter is fatal to the party" "The party
is, indeed, in a dangerous state. Here Grs
$4,000 negro voters on one hand, and on ehs
other men like Toombs and A. II. Stephens
and this other Stephens doing their best 70
ALLEVIATE the whole cOlOred vote, just to graify
their personal spleen. Parties don't succeed in
that way.