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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-02-22
How 10 Encourage Immigra ton.

The Chairman Of the committee on
Immigration in the Virginia Senate has
reported to that body bill which en-
bodies the main features OF the one
that the Mtcllgmcsr made such pain
ful effort to ridicule short time ago
The Virginia bill constitutes the Gov
ernor, Lieutenant Governor, Adjutant
General and Secretary OF the Common
wealth a Board of immigration, with
power to adopt regulations for the pro-
lection Of immigration; to determine
in what manner" correct information
NAV be disseminated, and to exercise a
general supervision over the work of
inducing immigration. 1t also provides
for the election by the Legislature Of a
Commissioner Of immigration, whose
duty it is to "prepare a provisional
plan for the encouragement Of immlgra-
lion" TO the State, and to act under the
direction Of the Board.
Itwould seem, from these provisions
of the Virginia bill. embodying the
very IDEAS Of that now before the Leg
islature of West Virginia, that the In
telHgencsr's objections are not appreci-
aztec! in Richmond any more than they
are regarded in Charleston
And, while speaking Of this subject,
we cannot toe warmly commend the
efforts that are being put forth generally
throughout the State in behalf OF i'm
migration. Oar people seem to be
awaking to its importance, and the press
of the State is laboriDg in the cause
with more vigor and earnestness than
ever before. The donation of forty
thousand acres Of land to.whoever will
settle upon and improve it, and the
probability that one hundred thousand
acres, and perhaps more, will
be freely set apart as donation
to immigrants, eyinces the interest that
is being felt in the cause by the people,
and furnishes a substantial guarantee
of success. The natural advantages
afforded by our climate, soil, and min
eral resources should enable us to COM
pete successfully with any other locality
in the United States, for the selection Of
homes by emigrants, even were these
lands 10 be purchased and paid for by
the settler. The free gift OF a good title
to q farm sufficient for the maintain
ance of small family, should not fail
to be eagerly acceptedby those to whom
the offer is made known.
We believe that it would be a good
plan also for the development of the
CAPACITIES of the State, to offer bounty
of three or tour dollars for every acre
of wild land cleared and improved by
the settler. We believe that the money
so expended would return to the Treas
ury many times over in the shape OF
taxes upon the lands thus improved and
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-02-22
PROCLAMATION.
MAYORS OFFICE,

CITY OF WHEELING, Feb. 70, ISL.
WHEREAS, The Twenty-second day o.
February, the anniversary OF the birthday
Of General George Washington, First PreSi-
dent Of the United States, has been desig-
mated by Congress as a National Holiday,
and
WHEREAS, The Committee Of Arrange
ments appointed by the public meeting held
in the Court House on the 18th inst. have,
by resolution, requested its proper OBJ
servance;
Now therefore !, as Mayor OF the city of
Wheeling. respectfully request the citizens
10 decorate their residences and places Of
business with flags and in such other man.
ner as they may deem best, in commence
ration Ofthe day. q. W. JEFFERS,
fsb2l Mayor.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-02-22
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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-02-22

Ex-senator Grimes, Of Iowa, has been
heard from. At last accounts he re-
manned in Switzerland, with health
slowly improving.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-02-22
NOTICE.

A GENERAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
~ holders OF the Superior Machine Com
pauy will be held at the office in the ware
house OF Sweencys & Co., on Union street,
in the city OF Wheeling, on the evening Of
Wednesday, the 18th day Of March, 1871, nj
o'clock Tor the purpose OF elccting Board
of Directors and transacting any other busi-
ness which may lawfully be done by the
said stockholders in general meeting.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-02-22
NEW FIRM.

NJESSRS. ]. FARLEY & CO., HAVING
wi this day bought out the stock Of q.
Il. Edwards & Co., ut the old stand, known
rs the Sixth Ward Grocery, propose to carry
on the retail grocery business in all its
branches. They respectfully request II
share OF public patronage, and, by strict at
tention 10 business, will endeavor Ia merit
the same
We take pleasure in calling the attention
Of the public to our successors and RECON-
mend them ms gentlemen who will conduct
the business, In all its branches, with the
greatest care and attention, and by their
integrity deserve the patronage OF our old
customers.
Having sold our stock Of groceries and
quit business, We desire all claims against
us to be presented for payment. All
those owing us are expected To call imnlc-
diatcly and pay their accounts in full.
feb2l g. b. EDWARDS & co.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-02-22
City Weigher.

HAVING PURCHASED NEW AND
III complete sets of Scales, | am pre-
pared to weigh Pig Iron &c. &c.
Orders left ut the cigar store OF NJ. Marsh
d Son, 81 Water street, or CulbertSOn &
Fisher, Star Foundry, Market street, will
receive my prompt attention:
JOSEPH TOLIVAR,
f.b2l City Weighpr.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-02-22
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Filters Rheumatic Remedy.

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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-28
Miscellaneous Dispatches.
Domestic Notes.
ITEMS rRnM NEW YORK

ITEMS FROM NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Feb. 27.-Thc sloop-of-war Sara
toga has been ordered TO be Immediately tilted
for sea to convey provisions TO France. The
Saratoga can carry 1000 barrels of -four, and
will be ready to depart in twelve days, If more
vessels are needed the storeship Relief will be
fitted out. The Saratoga will take the men
originally drafted from the receiving ship for
the Shawmut. The Supply will probably sail
Wednesday, and member of the executive
committee Of the chamber of commerce will sail
for Havre IN the Pereire to superintend the dis
tnbuton of the supplies.
Prince Mits Fusini, uncle of the emperor of
Japan, with seven sons of nobility, also Arn-
mort, charge d'affairs from the Japanese gov
ernment, and eighteen sons of prominent Japan
csc, arrived in this city yesterday.
A panic occurred in Stadt theatre Saturday
evening, caused by fight in the gallery be-
tween two roughs. The cry OF fight was mis-
taken for fire by the audienc. below, and a rush
for the street was made. Order was soon re-
stored by the presence of mind of the persons
who were on the stage at the time. Twenty
three hundred persons were IN the theatre, the
occasion being benefit to Siebach
A POttsville, Pa, dispatch says that the Ger
mans, comprising about onefourth of the
miners, are unanimously in favor of accepting
the Philadelphia terms, but the Welchmen and
freshmen are controlled by Englishmen, who
have constituted themselves leaders. The gen.
eral opinion of the coal operators is that there
will be no resumption Vt work under any cir
cumstances before the middle of March, and
PROBABLY not before the first Of June. The
collieries now working pay the mrn the wages
demanded, but all mines will probably close
March first, when the Reading company's in
creased rates on the lateral roads go into effect
Eighteen blast furnaces have suspended opera
tions the past week.
Two ruff1anS, named James Lowery and James
Cuthburt, foIcibly entered the residence of John
(aiVprlV. Jersey CITY Sunday mOIDinp and r
tempted to outrage his daughter. Both were
arrested
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-28
How Land Claims are Manipulated in
California.
The San Francisco Bulletin says:


"Some facts concerning an attempt to poison
a settler on the Sespe Rancho, in Santa Barbara
county, were copied into this paper yesterday
from the Santa Barbara Press. The facts only
serve 10 Illustrate some of the incidental evils of
these unsettled Mexican grants. The Sespe
Rancho was originally Spanish grant for two
leagues of land on the Santa Clara river, about
twenty-five miles from the coast in Santa Bar
bara county After the grant was made, but at
what time does not appear, the first rascality is
discovered in the erasure OF dos (two) leagues,
and the interlineation of seis (six) leagues.
Long after this fraudulent change in quantity
had been made, one T. Wallace Moore bought
the grant, affirming or pref. nding that he sup
posed it was actually for six leagues instead of
two; although an inspection clearly shows that
fraudulent alteration had been made. All the
preliminary papers clearly set forth two leagues.
These facts were so apparent that it was difficult
to find any respectable lawyer to take up MooreS
claim and push it for the larger quantity. The
decree of confirmation, we believe, IS for two
leagues, and the survey was made TO conform to
the decree. The case is now pending ON con-
tirmatiOn of the survey before the land commits
sioner at Washington
"Some time since the commissioner wrote 10
the surveyor general here asking his opinion
about these alterations. The latter did not hes-
tate to express his conviction that they were
fraudulent, and that the grant never was intend
cd TO cover but two leagues. The settlers know
all these facts, and have known them for years.
lucy KNOW IndI inc Hldu WHO Is claiming SIX
leagues is only entitled to two; and that more
than sixteen thousand acres of land claimed
under a fraudulent alteration of the grant, are
really public land. They have settled on this
surplusage, and of course wish to save their
hOmesteads. Moore wishes to drive them off,
and, perhaps justiies, resorts to means which
naturally enough are the sequel of fraud COM
mitted with respect to the title papers.
zone of the settlers few years ago had his
house burned down in the interest of the grant
holder. And recently it was attempted to take
the same settler off by poison, which, failing to
reach him. took effect on his tenant. OF course
the settlers bother the grant-holder, and they
think probably that under fraudulent altera-
ton of this grant he is trying to hold land to
which he has no title. If the settlers could be
poisoned like so many ground squirrels it might
in the estimation Of the grant-hoder be cheap
means Of taking them off. Probably within the
next SIX months the grantee will he forced by
the government to curtail his limits to two
leagues, and then the settlers may have peace
if it is not thought advisable to proceed any
further with the poisoning business in the mean
time These transactions may not be worse
than those which have grown out of some other
grants; but they illustrate the degree of rascal-
ty which these grant abuses have engendered."
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-28
WO ES TER .
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY ss, 1871,

In the war With Prussia, the French have lost
considerably over a million of men, killed and
taken prisoners. About 100000 French soldiers
are held as captives in Germany; 100000 in
Paris; and over 100000 informed in Belgium
and Switzerland. One of our contemporaries
thinks France has still soldiers enough afoot to
overmatch the Germans, and that she might do
something against them if resistance should be
continued The same journal states, also, that,
in every battle, the Germans have been greatly
superior in numbers. Their superior strategy,
more than anything else, has generally succeed
ed to make them superior in numbers at the
fighting points. But this has not always been
the case. A correspondent of the London Times,
who saw the fighting between Bourbaki and
Won Werder, states that Won Werder had less
than $1,000 men in that fight, while Bourbaki
had 1870 600; but the Germans held an excellent
position. The French were so Unexpectedly and
terribly beaten in this conflict, that Bourbaki
lost self.possession and attempted suicide, 1t
saved Gen. Won Werder's reputation at head
quarters, where they were beginning to doubt
his capacity, and had ordered Gen. Manteuffel
to take his place. The battle was fought and
won, before Gen. Manteuffel's arrival. 1t is
peace that France needs. Further resistance
would be hopeless,
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-28
The Commissioner of Prisons and the
aheriR nC Xnrcesfcr

Mr.. Editor: In an article on "Transfer of
Prisoners" that appeared in the Palladium of
Feb. 18th, there are certain errors that wish
to correct
The article, speaking of certain orders of re-
moval for two women from Worcester to Green
field, says: "But it so happened in these cases
that one of the prisoners was pardoned by the
governor three days before the order for her
transfer was signed, and the other, after serving
out one sentence by the municipal court of three
months for drunkenness, had another sentence
Of six months for vagrancy RENTED by an in
telligent and considerable board of overseers. on
condition of her immediate and direct return to
her home and her friends in another and dis
tant state"
Now, there is an important error in all this
which is quite remarkable when we remember
what peculiar advantages the editor of the Paa-
dunn has for knowing exactly the affairs of the
high sheriff Of Worcester county.
Orders for removal of both the women re.
ferred to in the quotation were signed on the
9th of January, 1871, and on the same day de-
livered into the unwilling hands of the sheriff.
The sheriff refused to obey.
On the 2dof February orders were again left for
the removal Of the same women. Meanwhile, &C.
i've and successful efforts were made to obtain
pardon for one of the women, and her pardon
was received in Worcester the same day, two
hours after the second order was delivered, but
t@enty-ieur days after the first order was deliy-
eieo' Inc other woman was ordered to be re.
moved hrst on the 9th Of January, again on the
"a oil February, and the third time on the stb Of
February. On the 7th of February, the sheriff
went to the prison and then ascertained tbo, tle
overseer had RENTED the second sentence on
condition that sheretrn to her home in Ma;ne
The first sentence expired Feb. 7th, and tbe
woman went to Portland. J. Corr,
Sec. Prison Commission
Boston Feb * 1871
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-28

lieutenant governor and a few of his friends
went over to the democrats, and, by the rejec-
ton of three members said to have been illegally
elected, gave the control of the house TO that
party. But before this arrangement had been
fully matured, the Clayton party had presented
articles of impeachment againt Lieutenant Gov
ernor johnson, on the ground that, as presiding
officer of the senate, he had Illegally admitted
TO a seat in that body one Brooks, who was
afterward expelled. This matter was removed
into the supreme court, whereupon the chief
justice and one of the associates resigned; but
the governor Immediately appointed new chief
Justice, named Mcclure. The court thus con
stituted proceeded to hear the matter, overruled
the lieutenant governors demurrer, and issued
a writ to Dust him from his office. The
anti-Cayton faction in the lower house,
consisting of the democrats and'a few republic
cans, having majority, voted to impeach the
governor. BY the constitution of the state, the
office becomes vacant while the process of i'm
parchment is pending, and to avoid that incon-
venience, the majority of the senators, being
friends of Governor Clayton, absent themselves,
so that the senate is left without quorum, and
the articles Of impeachment cannot be formally
presented. The lieutenant governor, however,
claims that the preparation Of articles of inn
parchment by the house creates a vacancy in
the Office and that he is therefore entitled to ex-
ercise the authority of governor; the supreme
court issues writ of injunction against his ex-
ercise of that authority, and the house prepares
articles of impeachment against the chief justice
for conspiring with Governor Clayton to deprive
the lieutenant governor of his office.
Thus the quarrel stood for some days. Clay
ton was governor de tdctO and senator elect,
with an impeachment pending against him.
johnson was lieutenant governor claiming to be
governor, impeached in the former capacity and
restrained by injunction from acting in the lat
ter; the chief justice impeached and the lieu
tenant governor, or governor as he claimed to
be, threatening to appoint a successor, the sena.
tors absent from their seats lest their presence
should cause the temporary triumph of the
hostile faction, and sheriffs and other executive
officers taking sides yehemently with one
or the other party in this labyrintbine wran.
Gle, Apparently, however, the conviction
came at last to all parties that it was impossible
to work out the difficulties to any logical con-
clusion. The senators returned to their posts;
the supreme court dismissed the proceedings
against the lieutenant-governor; the senate are
to dismiss the impeachmentS of the governor
and chief justice; and the governor will decline
the United States senatorship. This formidable
array of legal and political entanglements seems
to have had no other purpose, as it certainly
has had no other result that is apparent, so far
than to keep Governor Clayton out of the SEN
ate
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-28
The CANADIANS Anxious.

The joint high commission which sits at
Washington was made topic in the Canadian
parliament, Saturday, by means of a resolution
introduced by Sir A. T. Gait. what will be-
come of these Canadian titles when the British
provinces are "annexed?') MIR. Gait delivered
q speech, in which he expressed fear that Cana
da will not be allowed to dictate the terms on
which the fishery question shall be settled, and
urged that demonstration to sustain "Cana-
dian rights should be made. Sir John A. Nc
Donald feared the resolution would weaken
his hands in the commission; certain
ly this would be the effect of any ex
preston of distrust of the mother country
He said the Canadian government had assumed
the position on the fishery question, taken last
year, "because they received the support of her
m3jesty's government and of her feet" He
discussed the matter at considerable length, and
said finally: "The suggestions of the Washing
ton commission can not be made law unless rat
fled by the parliament of Canada; so there is
no risk in the matter" Several other members
spoke; but, in all cases save one, the tone
was undecided and doubtful. One member,
James Young, thought Canada should stand
up squarely for her rights" He would meet the
Americans half way, and concede something if
they would do the same "as far as reciprocity
is concerned" The resolution was finally with
drawn.
The Objectionable behavior of the Canadians
on the fishery question, is intended to punish
us for disseminating the reciprocity treaty.
That treaty gave them great advantages which
they wish to have restored. No doubt they
would give up the whole fishery question, and
even vote an appropriation to furnish our fish
ermen with bait and supplies, if this could Sc
cure a renewal of the treaty. 1t seems they did
not adopt the offensive policy, until thsy had
reason to believe they would be supported by
Cher maiesty's government and fleet" Now
they fear heg majesty's government viii not favor
their "rights" to such an extent as their hostile
policy requires. Bullying and prosecuting our
fishermen threatens consequences which Great
Britain does not regard with complacency. Even
Sir John A. Mcdonald assured the Canadian
parliament, that war between the United
States and Great Britain would cost Canada
more than the fisheries are worth. 1t is prob
ably manifest to him that the policy adopted
toward our fishermen, is not the most proms-
ing way TO another reciprocity treaty. We hope
this attempt to settle the questions pending be-
tween us aud Great Britain will succeed; but if
Canada must ratify the agreement of the COM
mission or any part of it, before it can take eff
feet, it may be doubted whether this commission
is so important body as we have supposed.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-28

Inc actual merits Of the complicated political
struggle in Arkansas are not easily ascertained
al TINS distance through the medium of the in
tensely partisan accounts that reach us from
poth sides, and most freely from the malignant
democratic ess OF Memphis. The epithets
hurled at Governor Clayton and his supporters
are varied and vigorous enough to give one mt
already familiar with what southern editors con.
slder strong writing, enlarged views Of tho 70.
Sources OF the English language for abuse and
denunciation. Without expressing an on;n;or.
as to the reetitude Of purpose or regularity az
proceeding Of either party TO the controversy.
we may state briefly the steps taken
in this extraordinary quarrel. Powell
Clayton was colonel in the Union army, and
after the close of the war became governor O
Arkansas. lie showed commendable energy
and frmness in REFRESHING disturbances pro
NOTED by unregenerate rebels, aud the militis
organized and put in the field by his orders sub
dued the ku-klux-klan With Judicious anC
prompt severity, and made Arkansas, for tim
at least the most peaceful state in the south
By the present legislature Governor Clayton
was chosen to succeed Mcdonald in The Unitet
STATES senate after an excited canvass in which
charges OF all sorts of improprieties were freel,
made on both sides.
'onnSOn, inc lieutenant governor, was a warn
partisan Of Mcdonald, the retiring senator and
Governor Clayton's competitor. DisannonteC
at McDonalds failure, or, as o.,,ers ssv a.
gAs'ed ~ 'he frauds perpetrated by Clayton, III,