The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-07-25


railroad, bound for Moorefeld, HARDY
county, where on the following Wednes-
day tbs campaign in this State was to
be formally opened by our candidate for
Governor, Hon. J. ]. Jacob, assisted by
Hon. J. j. Davis, of Clarksburg, Jos.
Sprigg, Esq, our candidate for Attorney
General, and others.
AS we expected to take stage ride
the next day from New Creek to Moore
field, distance of nearly forty miles,
we consulted our finances and our COM
fort, and took sleeping car. Asleeping
car is a nice thing to take. We always
take sleeping car when we are travel
ing and can afford it. We like them.
But we don't like the pillows they pro-
vide. They are too small. 1t would
take half dozen such pillows as they
gave us to make good sized dumping.
When we went to disrobe ourself we
gazed in establishment on that pillow.
Two or three feathers and piece of
cotton cloth are not calculated to elevate
the Uranium above the angle prescribed
by physicians as conducive to health.
When we awoke the next morning at
Piedmont and got ready to leave the
cars at New Creek, FIVE miles beyond,
we felt a tickling sensation in our left
ear. On investigating for the cause we
found that the cussed pillow had got
into our ear during the night, and that
we were going away with it.
p: We got off at New Creek, paid fifty
cents for the worst breakfast we ever
, swallowed, and met Hon. Henry G. Davis
ready with carriage to take US to
Moorefield. Here we also met Hon.
j. j. Davis, Homer Carr, of Moorefeld,
and Brother Goshorn, of the New Creek
Banner, all bound in the same direc-
ton.
The route from New Creek along the
valleys of New Creek, Patterson's Creek
and the South Branch is through the
most beautiful and fertile regions the
sun ever shone on. On either hand
the wheat shocks and hay cocks stood
so thick that there would seem to be
hardly room to drive wagon between
them, while the great fields Of corn
waved their green banners in the morn
ing sun as if proclaiming Peace hath
her victories as well as war, and here
Peace and Plenty reign together"
Bounding the valleys to the right hand
and to the left, the mountains, clad in
richest verdure, the mists Of morning
still wreathing their blue tops, made a
grand back ground for the smiling pic
ture of the valley, and we could but
thank the Great Creator for having
made our land 80 beautiful
The roads are excellent, far better
than what we had expected to find, and
we bowled along merrily until we
reached the farm Of H. NJ High, about
half way between New Creek and
Moorefield, where we stopped for din
ner. Here we met the next Governor
of West Virginia, Hon. j. j. Jacob,
who was on his way to Mooretield from
Romney.
A right jolly party we made rs we
| started again after an hour or two Of
rest. Jokes were exchanged, wit
snapped, the beauty of the scenery and
the extraordinary fertility of the soil as
exhibited in the wonderful harvest were
discussed, shortened the way and made
the trip enjoyable.
Near the Hardy county line, where
lane makes sharp turn from the turn
pike, we met former soldier, a men,
Der of Rev. Colonel Granville Moodys
74th Ohio Volunteers. Just where we
met him, during the war there had
been a pretty sharp skirmish between
a party of Confederate cavalry and
Federal infantry. And there on that
spot hallowed by the blood and brave
deeds of brave men, this comrade in
formed us that his name had been
stricken from the registration lists and
he deprived of his vote because he had
committed the crime of-voting the
Democratic ticket! Nor was he the on
ly case of the kind. An old gentle
man, eighty-five years OF age, soldier
in the war of lSl2-15, told us that he
had been allowed to vote until within
the past two years. when he too was
deprived ofhis vote.for the same offence.
In one township in Mineral county
some forty men, who can take the Vo-
ter's Test Oath, who have been guilty
OF no offence except that "unpardona-
bic sin" Of being in opposition to the
Radical party, have been stricken from
the registration lists by tyrannical par
tizan registrars, who seek only the sue
cess Of their party at no matter what
sacrifice of the rights of other persons.
A gentleman in Hampshire county, who
had incurred the displeasure of men,
Der Of the Board Of Registration, was
notified four times to appear and prove
his loyalty" Three times he rode
the long eighteen or twenty miles be-
tween him and the Board attended by
his witnesses, and three times was he
assured that his case was all right. On
receiving the fourth summons, worn
out with the persstency Of the attempt
to disfranchise him, he paid no attention
to it, and he was stricken from the list
of registered voters, because Of his fail
ure to appear before the Board. Is it
any wonder these people thank God for
the Congressional Enforcement Act
which prevents these unprincipled men
from robbing them of a freeman's
dearest right-the right Of suffrage?
About seven miles from Moorefeld
we passed through Reynolds Gap, one
OF the widest spots in this ridge of the
mountains. Away up hundreds of feet
above your head towers the bold rocks
broken by some CONFUSION of nature
and worn by the storms Of many years