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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-05-24

FOR SALE-l5O ACRES OF COAL
II in one body. none having been taken oRtJ
within one mile Of the Eastern line OF the eoTp9
ration, on the HemphGld road, Just high enough
above the road To dump the coal In cars. The
only large body Of Coal untouched 80 near the
city. good opportunity for investment,
my2I l. IRWIN
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-05-24
CONSUMPTION.

| The Mandrake Pills arc composed Of one OIL
Natures nOblcst gll--thG POdOphlllnm Polia.
tum. They poSFess all the understanding al
Tentative properties Of calOmGl, but unlike Gallo
mel they
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-05-24
JAMES ROSS sNOwDEN,
prOthOnUtaTy
TANNER & sIEBKE,
NOTARIES PUBLIC,
LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE. REAL ESTATE,
General Passage Agents.

Office, Corner Of Third and Market Streets,
WHEELING, W. VA.
Fire and Life Insuranees IN the bel Home
Companies. Real Estate bought, sold OF rented
on Commission. Rents and Accounts collected
on liberal terms. Passage tickets To and from
England and ireland To New York, and liatlrOad
tickets from New York and Baltimore to Wheel.
ing, Sight Drafts on England, Ireland, Scotland,
France and Germany. Collections made from
all parts Of Europe. api!
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-05-24

! DROPOSALS.
| II Mrs. RmmA b. Carter will receive propO-
| sails for the purchase OF all Of the stecnrOd Pc.
ninsula, lying north OF the Hempdeld Tunnel,
and excluding the Graveyard and Otterson'a
] -tOnc-quaHy.
| Terms " payment liberal. my9i'
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-05-24

nISS0LUTION. JOSEPH BELL
IL having disposed OF his Interest in the dm
OF sweeney, Bell 4 Co., the partnership is there
by dissolved. -.
The undersigned will assume all the liabilities
and collect all debts due the late ilrm.
SWEENEY, McCLUNRY 4 CO.,
Successors,
WHEELING, May %, 1871. my9i
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-05-24

TIME UNDERSIGNED WOULD RE-
L SPECTFULLY announce To the public that
he has opened his Ice Cream Saloon at Bridge.
water PLACE, six miles east Of Wheeling, on the
National Road. ,s .....-..-r-
my2i' JOSEPH FRAY
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-06-08
The Platform OF the Ohio DemOc-

These resolutions will be found else
where. They are substantially the posi-
ton, of the Conservative Democracy of
this State. They contain a pledge to
respect the Amendments to the Constitu-
ton, while Disappearing the illegal method
of their adoption. All laws, however,
are subject TO change or modification as
the people who are the source of all
power, may determine. Universal ann
nesty is demanded in eontradistinction 10
the vindictive and proscriptive policy Of
the Republican party as reflected by the
Administration. The absolute equality
of the States, and the denial to the
Federal government of the power to
Infringe upon their reserved rights, are
prominent features Of the platform-and
hence the armed invasion Of States under
pretence of enforcing such measures Of
tyranny as the so-called Ku kluX law,
and kindred measures, Is denounced.
The Republican party is arraigned for It's
extravaganza, corruption and dishonesty
and policy of Reform by which the ex-
penses of the government will be cut
down from the present figure of Five
Hundred Millions annually to the ante
bellrem standard when they were but
sixty millions. There are other salient
points in this platform, and since il ac-
cords with the porsition of the Conserva-
tives of New York and Pennsylvania in
the North, and Of Kentucky, Virginia
and Tennessee, as recently expressed,
in the South, we suppose it may be re-
garded as substantially the grounds on
which the next Presidential campaign
will be conducted against the Radicals.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-06-08
senator ScIlurz.

The ST. Louis Democrat, (ultra Radi-
cal, J describes the attitude of this Scna
tor as decidedly adverse to the Republic
can organization as represented by the
recent speech in st. Louis has failed Ia
solve the problem as to where he will 60.
1t says that with, or without, his seek.
"ing, few men plausibly claiming to
speak for him in the attitude Of hostility
"to Republican harmony, and he has yet
"to utter the first syllable regulating
4" that attitude"
The course of the Senator in the late
canvass in Missouri, and his opposition
to the Lynch law, or the Ku Klux bill,
passed at the dictation Of Grant, togcth-
err with his opposition to the San Domin-
go job, have strengthened the belief that
if Grant is the Radical candidate in the
next election, he will unite with the OPP
position.
We are of the opinion that the disaf-
lection Of Schurz is due in a great mea-
sure to the proscriptive policy Of the
Administration in violation of the pledge
contained in the platform on which
Grant was elected. 1t will be remem
bered that Schurz was the author Of the
resolution pledging the Radical party TO
the plan Of general amnesty. Not only
has this pledge been shamefully violated,
but policy OF the most cruel and unre-
Ienting prescription for opinions sake,
has been enforced. Schurz is the repre-
sentative man of the German Re
publican element in the West, and rs he
goes, so will go the hundreds of thous-
inds of fatherland voters in that sec
ion.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-06-08
The Mobile and NOrIhN es1ern
Railroad.

We are gratifed to note the interest
displayed by the people in behalf of this
important enterprise. A joint meeting
of the Canton and Brandon interest was
held at Canton on the 18th. Madison
pledged subscription of 100000, and
Rankin subscription of $500, 900, max
ing in all $500, 900 in the event the Bran
don and Canton route is selected. As
this is large sum of money-enough to
build forty or fifty miles of road-it will
doubtless determine the choice of route
in favor of that line, unless a sum APP
proximating it is subscribed by compe-
ting line; and of this there is no proba-
bility. We will add that our neighbors
of Canton can well afford to secure the
subscription they have promised, and
even much larger one. 1t will make
their already fourishing town the rail-
road centre of the State, which will give
it an unexampled growth in wealth and
population.
We notice that committee of leading
citizens, in Brandon, arexaccompanying
the chief engineer with his party of sur
veyors to assist them in designating the
route. The public spirit which they are
displaying deserves success; and will
achieve it unless there are insuperabIe
causes operating to prevent.
Our individual preferences, it is well
known, are for different location of the
road, but our support of the enterprise
is not contingent upon the choice of any
particular line. As measure which
will contribute largely to the aggregate
wealth and population of the State, it
should command the favor of all good
citizens.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-06-08

Rapidly upon the heels of one idea
advanced by the Republican leaders to
dispense with what they call the "pre;u.
dice" of color, another follows. In
several of the States they have carried
their policy of "mixed schools" and
''social equality" in hotels and public
conveyances. Another forward move
ment is now proposed which is claimed
by its advocates to be essentially neces-
sary to the accomplishment of the pro-
posed Revolution for the "obliteration of
caste" The Weylayan newspaper at
Syracuse, New York, argues that the
''true remedy for the difference Of races
among American citizens is amalgama-
elton. The white race must become
darker and the dark race whittier, or a
BLOODY conflict must endure as long as
America shall exist.
This is the doctrine of a leading Rad
zeal religious" organ; and what is more
it is actually put in practice by New
England school marms at their own
homes as we are constantly informed by
the newspapers of that section. 1t is
that they are seeking a wider
sphere for the display of their peculiar
doctrines, in the South where the harvest
q more abundant.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-06-08

WELL SAID.-The Handsboro Demo
crat in speaking of the nomination to be
made by the Democrats and Conserva.
tives for representative for the counties
of Harrison and jackson, gives the
following timely and good advice, which
can well be applied to the whole State.
Be sure you know the men that are nom-
mated, and then see that they are elected !:
Let him be an intelligent gentleman, q
citizen, and opposed to the party in power,
and IL elected be pledged to vote for the
repeal of all the obnoxious and damnable
laws of the late Legislature, and especially
the appOrtionment AID the reduction of
taxes and general retrenchment. No man
viii get our vote who does not come out
squarely on that platform We want bold
man, who Is not afraid to avow his princi-
Piles publicly and above-board. We want
no sleepy candidates.
In this connection we will add that
Senator Seal manfully represented the
Conservative Democracy. Both.
Democrats and Radicals knew exactly
where to find him and how his vote
would be recorded.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-06-08

A large number of our Conservative
and Democratic citizens joined the Rad
icals in an invitation to Mr.. Greeley, OF
the Tribune to visit the town ON his re-
turn from Texas, and expressly stated in
their letter that the invitation was ex-
tended without regard to party on ac-
''count of their high respect for his
character and talents as a gentleman
''and leading journalist.
The very terms of the invitation, as well
as the signatures attached, precluded the
idea that it was to be turned to political
account and yet the ovation was per-
verted to this purpose by the Mongrel
schemers. The guest was received and
escorted to the Capitol where in violation
of the proprieties of the occasion and in
disregard of the feelings of one-half of
those who had united in the invitation,
the audience were treated to a stale re-
hash of the issues of the war from the
Radical standpoint, and re-opening of
the wounds which it had inflicted. We
have never known a more gross breach of
good manners than was perpetrated by
the self-constituted managers of this
affair. If it was the object of the ''ras-
cally adventurers" Gas the N. Y. Tribune
itself calls them,) to appropriate the
common guest to a specific political
purpose, good faith required statement
of the fact when the signatures were OBJ
tanned, SO that all might have been fore
warned of the entertainment in store.
We have had this much to say solely
in reference to the execrable taste of the
of the affair. As for the
speech, it was commonplace, as well as
ill-timed. All parties were disappointed.
The Conservatives felt that they had
been badly sold; and the RAIDS realized
that the speech fell below the level of its
distinguished author and did not &C
,omplish the wonders for their cause !
which they anticipated.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-06-08

The Jackson CLARION speaks of the
Kentucky Democracy as mot the traditional
Democracy of that State, but the newborn
party representing the intelligence and
solid material of both the old parties, and
combining majority of fifty thousand of
all the voters of the State;" and then pro-
ceedS to endorse the platform of the State
Convention, which endorsed the Congress
sional Address, which is now Vallandig-
hams platform-the whole being the Ava
lanche platform since November, 1865. THEN
THE CLARION no longer considers the 18th.
null and void. There has been a change
somewhere. THE CLARION has, until re-
Gently, condemned the course of the Avail
anche, but now stands on its platform.
Who has changed ?-Memphis Avalanche.
This is refreshingly cool inspiration
of ignorance and self-sufficiency. THE
CLARION was the first Conservative news
paper in the South to form a true opin-
ion of the situation and to oppose the
plan of Intellectual resistance to inevitable
and accomplished facts. When the
reconstruction measures were first pro-
posed, this journal advised our people to
make the best of the circumstances in
which cruel and vindictive policy had
placed them, and to protect themselves
against the dangers likely to arise from
by attempting to deprive the negro of
the privilege of suffrage with which he
had been invested-nOr by treating the
subject with the stolid Indifference of non
action-but by kindly instruction con-
corning the nature of the responsibilities
with which he had been suddenly invest
ed.
The spirit and essence of the Valandig-
ham resolutions were embodied in a well
matured editorial which appeared in THE
CLARION, March 9th, 1867, and which
was followed up by line upon line and
precept upon precept, amid an angry
tempest of abuse and misrepresentation
that has never been excelled. Without
or shadow of turning, we
nave pursued the even tenor of our way,
confident that time would verify the pre-
fiction which We then made that the
wisdom of the plan we advised would be
admitted in the course of events by
hose who then differed from us widely.
The Vallandigham platform is no 'enew
departure" for THE CLARION, as its. .
CONSTANT readers know. We took it four
ears ago. We are sailing upon familiar ]
waters, and after long and tempestuous
1
'oyage, are making for a safe port with !
lying colors. Then we were almost !:
lone. NoV we find ourselves in a
oyous company surrounded by friends c
tho were won't to receive our admoni- a
ions with jeers and to recompense our i
ounsels with accusations of apostacy. :
We are really enjoying the manifestations v
zeal which recent converts are making !.
l favor of the ''new departure but p
e confess that our equanimity is slightly a
by the taunt of the Avalanche
lat we are of the number.
Sf
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-06-08
The Right Spirif.

The Senatobia Times, than which there
is no truer paper to the interests of the
State in Mississippi, gives utterance to
the following noble sentiment: IS Many
"people entertain different ideas relative
''to the accomplished facts We hope
''tbGt the best plan to rid our people and the
estate Of carpet-baggers ,cM be adopted. /"
That is the issue, and the only issue,
for the consideration of Mississippians.-
How shall We get rid of the "Wreckers"
who are now gathering up" what was
left to our oppressed and tax-ridden peo-
pie after the war? 1t can only be done
by work. And let every man consider
it his duty to do something to advance
the good cause. Do not leave for others
to do what YOU should do yourself. Nor
must the work be postponed. Now is
the accepted time.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-06-08

| ScmOOA system
1t has been charged in the Education
al Journal, the disguised Radical organ
published in the interest of the Pease
ring, that in the Southern States wherev-
er the Democratic and Conservative party
have obtained control, they have shown
their hostility to public school system.
There is no truth in the statement. The
Mongrels have identified opposition to
/ the diversion of the school fund from its
legitimate objects to their own enrich
ment, with hostility to the public school
system itself. The vampires who are at
the head of the system in this State es-
TEEN it solely as q convenient method Of
filling their pockets. The Governor of
the State and the Attorney General are
authority on this point. The charges of
the one are general; but the allegations
of the other touching the mercantile
operations" of the Superintendent are
specific.
The people who pay the taxes know
that governments deriving their powers
from the will of the governed, ought to
rest on basis of intelligence, and they
are willing to appropriate portion of
their scanty earnings even in their power
ty to the education of the masses, but
they are not willing to have their contri-
buttons consumed in the purchase of
costly furniture, of unnecessary books
for speculative purposes, and of books
designed to propagate injurious political
sentiments, and to teach the gospel of
hate between the races nor to have
them absorbed in the payment of exorbi-
tant salaries to teachers imported to swell
the numbers of the tax-eating crew, and
who are clothing themselves in purple
and fine linen every day and rolling in
luxury at the expense of the honest in
dustry of the State.
To show what the Conservatives are
doing for public education in other States,
we have copied the following statement
SOllCSpOhuCHb VI lHC
Cincinnati Commercial, a Republican
newspaper, giving the result of his OBJ
servations in Virginia. 1t will be borne
in mind that every department of the
government of that State is in the hands
Of the Democrats and Conservatives
OUR PUBLIC FREE SCHOOL SYSTEM.
Is rapidly being established in all the
counties, cities and towns of the Common
wealth. The State Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction is Reverend DIR. Ruffner, of
the Presby terrain Church, " no is exceedingly
jealous in the work he has undertaken.
Here, in this city, where there have been
free schools established and supported by
the municipality, the system IT, fourishing
successfully and vigorously. We have now
seventy-two free schools, thirty-nine of
which are for white scholars and thirty
eight for colOTed ones. There are, besides, |
several night schools, for both colOrs. The !
average attendance of scholars at the schools |
is now three thousand four hundred, nearly |
equally divided between the colors. with a |
very slight preference in favor of the whites |
The estimate of our City Superintendent of /
Schools is that it costs SIP GA per year per |
scholar, including rents, school furniture, |
&C., while the average cost of the bare tut |
tion of each scholar of the public schools of
New York is $40 IS; and of Cincinnati
$l7 So.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-06-08
ssH.ef Us Have Peace

A dispatch from Washington announ-
ces that an order has been issued to
commanders in the South to respond to
all requests of the civil officers for troops,
rand internal revenue officers will apply
directly to the department. The Secre-
tary of War to-day, in reply to a request
of United States marshal, telegraphed
an order for movement Of troops, but
the details are kept secret. The bayonet
policy is to be vigorously pushed against
the Southern States.
All this military parade is going on six
years after the war has ceased, and when
there is not a man armed against the
Federal authorities in all the Southern
land.
The Republican rulers have adopted
this warlike measure against the defeated
section to keep alive the spirit of resent
ment, in the South, and the fires of sec
tional prejudice in the North with view
to their own political success. In this
section, their scheme Will react upon
them. 1t will confirm the hate of the
entire white population against its authors;
and learn them more than ever to hold
them in the light of public enemies.
As for the military, their presence is
no terror to the voters. The lessons of
Mississippi in 1863, of Virginia, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Ala
bama-are not to be forgotten All the
people, who are the objects of this malig-
nant persecution, ask, is fair election.
Every attempt to overawe them by the
presence of an armed force adds to the
for change of rulers and a
return to the halcyon days when the
people were permitted to exercise their
lawful rights and to repose in peace I'M
der their own vine and fig tree.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-06-08

The Enormous Cost of Assessing
and Collecting Taxes.

In our paper of the 18th instant We
published a communication signed T.,
asking certain questions of the Auditor
of Public Accounts. We then predicted
that z. would receive no response to his
inquiry. That prediction has been veri-
fed. We will now undertake to reply
to the questions, and will base our reply
upon the Auditors report of the tax for
1869, and will illustrate by. giving the
statement made for Kinds county (Au-
ditors report for 1870, page 291.)
Question, 1st, What amount was paid
Assessors of taxes for assessing State
Tax of 1869?
Section Is of the Revenue Law, APP
proved July 9th, 1870 says, land the
Z" Assessor shall receive from the State
" Treasury, as full compensation for his
" services, seven per centum on the
" amount of the State taxes contained in
" his assessment"
The total assessment of Kinds county
was $33, 4S6 80. Seven per centum of
this amount is 50, Oh. But it must
not be supposed that the whole amount
assessed was collected. We find AUDI
tors report, page 29D by receipt war
rant, No. 10 and 675, that s13, 861 q
was paid into the Treasury, the balance of
the assessment being accounted for by
insolvencies, erroneous assessment, taxes
enjoined, State deeds, tax on State
lands, commissions for collecting, and re-
duction on poll tax. All these items,
however, make no reduction in Assessors
commissions though they materially re-
duce the State revenue.
I'd. What amount was paid Collectors
of Taxes for collecting the taxes assessed
by Assessors?
The same section of the Revenue Law
July 9th, 1870; provides that
F'the compensation of the Tax Collector
"shall be five per cent. on all sums col
elected by him." which to the Collector
of Kinds county, upon s13,861 81 paid
into the Treasury, s.would be S693 o.
Whether or not the Collector receives adj
ditional commissions we are unable to
say.
1t will be seen that S3,037 10 COM
missions was paid for assessing and col
Letting $13, 861 q, which is over t,centy-
one per cent. of the amount paid into the
Treasury.
Sd. What amount was paid into the
State Treasury on account of the assess
ment made?
We have not made the calculation as
to the whole State, but we have shown
above that while $50, 1856 SO was the
amount assessed for Kinds county, only
s13,S61 q was paid in.
Our correspondent Z. will see that we
have taken the law Of 1870 as the basis
IF our calculations. The Auditor may
say that other commissions were paid |
han those provided for under that law.
This may be as to the tax of 1869, but |
hese commissions are being paid to the
wreckers" who are at this time gath
ring up" the tax of 1870.
Taxpayers, look at the picture. How
10 you like it? Over twenty-one per
ent. of the amounts you pay goes into
ne pockets of Assessors and Collectors.
This is one of the many abuses practiced
t your expense, which you must require
he men you send to the next Legisla-
ure to reform.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-06-08
The Change of Venue hill.

In the Kidnapping of citizens of Oktib-
beha county and their transportation to
Marshall county for trial, with the atten-
dant hardship, expense, injustice, delay
and loss of time from family and bust
ness, the people are enabled to form an
idea of the practical working of the
Change of Venue bill which Governor
Alcorn attempted to engineer through
the Legislature. The bill passed the
Senate, but failed in the House in con-
of the pressure of money jobs
about which the Mongrels were more
1t is still pending, however,
and the people must see that it is taken
into account against the "rascally adj
in the fall elections.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-06-08
The Secret Service Fund--.. Who
will Answer.

The Brandon Republican propounds
the inquiry contained in the subjoined
paragraph, which suggests one of the
methods which the appropriation of pub
lie money under the head of Secret Ser
vice, is squandered. Who will answer {?
The public desires to be informed by Gov
Alcorn, or any responsible party authorized
70 speak for him, il he does not pay to
certain iHdiriduGl, out of the 'secret service
fund.-" by contract for the year, an amount
equal TO half of his 1.-THE Governor's) salary
and If the duty OF that hireling is not to de-
liver his budget of news daily or semi
weekly; and If such news is not confined TO
political matters affecting the Governor, and
disconnected lcfth the violation or enforcement
Of the criminal Eal0. VIII he respond?