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salaries for the past two years, and can
not 20 beyond the time Of the first as,
sessment under the income clause OF
the revenue law. OF course reguia-
ton Of the Treasury cannot override
the law in such an instance, but 1t will
take time to remove the objection.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-04-28
LONDON
The Tax budget still under Discus
sion.

Lo>poS. April 27.-In the House OF
'"mmop- last night Mr.. Lowe stated
'hs, the government had abandoned It's
p'eTious intention OF imposing further
'ai.e- upon legacies and successlons 10
rank and title, but proposed that the
Income tax be increased TO six pence.
lie latter proposition gave rise TO gen
"a. iebaie and a division oi the House
Siil probably he had upon the measure
r~High,
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NEW ORLEANS.
Latest from the eCreyasses-The Flood
on the Jackson Railroad

New ORLEANS, April 27.-The Point
Masero Creyasse has been closed, moth.
ing has been received to-day from Bon.
net Carre Crevasse. No material change
has taken place in the food on the
Jackson railroad. The Yazoo river, as
we'll as the Arkansas, is rising rapidly,
and feirs are entertained for the safety
of the Ievees above.
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The Insurgents Disheartened.
The German Troops Remain
Tre Communists Not Allowed to
Escape by Balloon
GENERAL FAIOHERBE REMOVED
The Bonapartists Still Active.

Os4,u, IN he Swiss Government.
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Trade Marks.

The Commissioner OF Patents, to-day,
decided in an erpartt case on an appeal
that under the Patent law a trade
mark could be registered when it con
sisted Of a mere arrangement Of words
without an accompanying device or
figure
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-04-28
The Erie Case.

In the Erie case to-day Judge Blan-
chard granted a motion for an order re-
quiring Jay Gould to show the cause
why he should not produce the books
and convertible bonds he has been Or
dered to produce BY Commissioner
White. Unless returns 20 this order
satisfactorily TO the counsel OF the Eng
lish stockholders is made. motion will
be made and argued to punish Gould
for contempt Of court
Conveniion OF Freight AEenta-
The Convention Of railroad freight
agents which was in session at the St
Nichol Hotel adjourned to-day. Their
tariff OF rates varies slightly from that
now in use.
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An.trstu south Carolina.

A letter from Chester county, South
Carolia, the alleged Ku-KluH region,
ssys that during the last two weeks az
fairs have been very quiet there, and
that it is owing to the speeches OF the
two Senators from that State In favor OF
universal amnesty that this better feel
ing prevails.
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Taxes TO be Refunded.

The Internal Revenue Bureau has
come to the conclusion that it cannot
limit the application of the Supreme
Courts decision in the case OF Bufflng-
ton VS.. Day, to any class OF State Of
ficers. as will appear by the following
letter addressed to Supervisor Fucker,
today, by General Pleasenton.
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Escaped from Jail.

Lucian Beard, a notorious horse
thief, with Alfred Hasel and j. W.
Watson, the men from North Carolina
held by the United States authorities
tor passing counterfeit money, escaped
from Jail at three o'clock this morn
ing.
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AYiynrOus CannOnAde.
1 SWisS DPfalcati0n.

i.ovpoS. April 26-A deficit OF half
4 a0,lion francs has been discovered in
'he swiss Treasury and a prominent
"'h2'sl ha- confessed to the embezzIe-
u-rr
The New York herald., 1871-12-05

offlces. Every public servant who has vlo-
against with oil the vigor OF the law. II bad men
nave secured places has been the fault Of the sys
@als o w me fault 81 os
who recommend for governments posi-.
lions persons not sufficiently well known
the cnaracters OF o1ice-scekers without proper
sense Of the grave responsibility which such course
devOlves upon them. A civil service reform which
can correct TINS abuse e much desired. In mer.
camille pursuits the business man who gives
20 't enable him 5G0 10 Obtain credit nom l1'.' a
stranger s regarded as morally responsible for the
% q ns ana ms law 70
force this prlncipie against all endorsers OF per.
Sons for public place would insure >. great great
lesson has been taught the careless and the
dishonest public servant in the great number Of
1t is gratifying 10 notice the favorable change which
Is taxing place throughout the country in bringing
the trusts conhded to ihcm ' and % in eevatins 10
public ONCE none but those who possess
win AWAY be found. comprise the majority OF the
community IN which they live.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
In my message 70 Congress one year ago ur-
gently recommended reform In tine civil ser
vice of the country. ln conformity with the
Of an act making appropriation Tor sundry civi ex-
penses OF the government and for other purposes,
ihcr,ty 70 the executive to insusurate civil ser.
vice reform, and placed qnon I1I,,e niIn sne
responsibility OF u0inx so. Under autnOrly
OF SAID act convened boaid OF gentle
men, eminently qualified for the Work, 70 dev1se
rules and regulations 10 effect the needed reform.
Their laoOrs not yet completes; but II believed
that they win succeed Ia uevslng pan which can
be adopted, TO the great relef OF the Execu-
tive, the heads OF departments and mem
bers or Congress- and when will rebound TO
the truo interest or the public service
Al all events the experiment shall have fair trial.
have thus hastily summed up the operations OF tho
government during the last year, and made such
suggestions as occur TO me 10 be proper Tor your
consideration / submit them VITA n confidence
that your combined action Will be wise, statesman
like. and In the best interests OF the whole country.
sS u. s. GRANT.
EXECUTIVE MANSION. Dec. l. 1871 e.
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manufacturing enterprise ia SPRING
wells, which also proved unfortunate.
Last winter be, with q partner, was
engaged in the ctimmission business
in this city, but the partner proved q
scoundrei and decimped with q large
amount Of the frm' 8 money, variousiy
estimated at from $4,000 to II, LOCO. The
result was that at an advanced
age, with a cons titutiOn somewhat
impaired, Colonel Barns found him.
self possessed Of absolutely no re-
sources, called uTon to refund large
sums of money which he had undoubt-
edlyinvested in unfortunate ventures
and had lost. The crisis in his affairs
had come, and, having no means Of
meeting it, he blew his brans out
sooner than face disgrace. 1t is a
curious circumstance that he selected
the immediate neighbOrhOOd Of his
unfortunate specIllatiOns in SPring-
wells as the spot where he should die.
From the trees where his dead body
lay one can easily see the places where
he sought to esta 0lish profitable lines
of Mlsiness and tC accumulate wealth.
Colonel Barns was twice married.
He leaves eight children by his first
wife and an infant child by the second.
who also SURVIVES him. OF the for
mer, all reside ia the vicinity Of
Detroit, except tie oldest son, Chaun-
cey, who lives in st. Louis. Two Of
the other SOM r young men, and
two Of the daughters are young ladies.
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BETsEY DESTROYS TINE PAPERS.


SEQUEL To "BETsEY AND I ARE OUT"
I've brought back the paper, lawyer, and
fetched the parson here,
To see that things are regular, settled up and
fair and cleer;
And the mount of It is we're minded to try
once more to agree.
SO 1 came here on business-onIy a word to
say,
Caleb is stalking pea wines, and couldn't
Just TO tell you and parson how h we've
changed our mind;
So III tar up the paper, lawyer, you see it
wasn't signed.
And now If parson is ready, IN walk with
him toward hOmes
l want to hank him for some things; twas
kind OF him to come,
hes showed the Christian spirit, stood by US
firm and true.
We mtghtn't have changed our mind, squire,
If he'd been a lawyer too.
Therei how good the sun feels, and the grass
n BLOWN trees;
Some hin aboutthem lawyers makes me feel
I wasn't bound to state particulars TO that
But It's rightyou should know, parson, about
cur change of plan.
We'd been some days a waverin' a little, Ca
And wished the hated paper at the bottom Of
But guess twas the prayer last evening,
and the few words you said,
That thawed the Ice between us, and brought
things on a head.
You see, when we came to division, there
were things that wouldn' divide,
There was our twelve-yeRr old baby, she
couldn t be satisfied
10 go with one or the other, but just kept
"II stay with papa and mamma, and where
they go Ill CO."
Then there was grandsIre's Bibls-he died on
our wedding day;
We couldn't a the old Bible and should IL
The sheets that was Caleb's mothers, her
sampler on the wall,
With the sweet old names worked in Try PHI
ena and Ennice and Paul.
It began to be hard then, parson, but II grew
Talkin' Of Caleb established down at McHen-
rysVilIe;
Three dollars a week 1wouId cost him no
d nor sort Of care,
And board at the widow Meacham's, a woman
that wears false hair.
Siil We went on a~.talking; 1 agreed 70 knit
make a dozen striped shirts. and a pair
And he was to cut a doorway from the kitch-
en- to the shed;
save YOU climbing steps much. i frosty
WeaJnefs ne said.
brought me the pen at last; 1 felt sinkin',
and he
Locked as he did with the agur, in the year Of
s~ixty-three.
Twas then YOU dropped in. parson; 'twasn't
much You said.
Little children, love one another, T" but twas
killed stone dead.
/ should like to make confession; notthat
lam going to say,
The fault was "alF' on my side, that v was
my way.
But it may be true that women-'tho how It's
1 cant see
Are = irlae more a-ggrsvatin' tina men know
parsons the neighbors' mellin'-it
Waenf pOurln' Oil;
And the church a lRborin' with us, twas
worse than wasted toll:
And I've Thought and so has Caleb, tho may
be We are wrong,
II they'd DO kept to their own business, we
should have gob along.
There was Deacon Amos Purdy. a good man
a. WeknoW,
But hadn't the gilt of l~aborin', except with
the soythe and hoe;
Then a load came over in peach lime from
the Wilbur neighborhood,
of prayer" they called IL; did not do
an atom Of good.
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RrnnihIM.

Our Jefferson street neighbOr calls
the APPEAL stupid" We have no
occasion to retOrt the same thing
against the AUGlGnche, because that
would only be telling what everybody
knows already. What but stupidity
could conceive that the APPEALS
denuneiation Of the publication Of the
AUaJanohe's false "~ineest" story, to
take its place by the side of another
infamous SANDER which had gone
forth before, meant an assertion that
that paper had originated both false
hoods?
The AUalanche, it is to be regretted,
like the fly on the wheel, thinks it is
kicking up a mighty dust, and that
everything gentlemen say is a blow
at its own pitifully pufed-up self.
Talking about authorship, we wonder
II the distinguished physician" who
told Of a white family a family secret
which he learned in his sacredly con-
fdential relation to a colored family,
is a certain gentleman who carries his
saddle-bags on horseback? We won
der, also, whether our neighbor OBJ
tanned his information direct from the
worthy Fsculapius, or whether he
obtained it second hand from a late
sympathizing editor and now Ku-
Klux killing Marshal? We only ask
for information.
While we are on the subject
of stupidity, we can but remark
another mishap Of our neighbor:
when he slludes, as if true, to
the "APPEAL plane of stupidity
and general worthlessness." He
should if possible have remembered
the necessary inference, which even
the Kings jester would be able to
draw, that if his assertion be true, the
AuGlGache must be a very small thing
which is thus compelled to walk in the
APPEALS great shadow. And just
so it is about the AUGldnche charge
that the APPEAL knowingly ignores
the truth" Everybody will say,
/" what q whopperg" and think the
assertion another good mate for the
+" incest" and fatboat stories. He
says also that Of the matchmaking
reports "none of them were ever
traced to the AUaIagache Office" We
congratulate him on his good fortune
in having escaped thus far. We hope
be may be able by passable conduct
hereafter to back up his proclamation
OF honesty, at least so far as to escape
the detectives and the courts. For
the honor of the profession we shall
deplore the fact Of his being caught at
anything SO extremely naughty as
that. Indeed we should take great
pleasure In redeeming Our neighbOr
further descent in his downward
career. We might tell him that say
ing he should "be glad to see Congress
the cotton tax" had better be
deferred until he was done arguing
it. But alas, we fear it is use
less to tell him anything. Even this
complete answer to everything con-
tanned in his yesterdays two columns
Of editorial we verify believe will do
him not the least good in the world.
Thank God, when we put up our
as a teacher, we never did
promise to do anything more than our
best. We never promised to furnish
brains TO some scholars.
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Y P SET BY STEAM
A Cheap Machine Which Sets Type at a
Cost Of Only Six Cents per Thousand.
From the Gin. Com. London letter..

From the Gin. Com. London letter..
One invention, however, did inter
/ est me; il was a steam type.cumpos-
Warrington, had patented this affair,
and it is now used in several printing
offices, among others that Of the
| Graphic, in London. The invention
consists Of two machines. One Of
these is a small one which has a key
board, like a piano, of fourteen keys.
The operator sets before him the copy
which is to be putin type, and man
ipulate5 the keys WhereupOn there is
revOlved from beneath an intermina-
bic strip of paper, two inches wide,
which Is full of punctures. Each one
of these punctures corresponds with a
letter of the written copy. The whole
manuscript having thus been copied
in punctures, the roll of punetured
paper is set in a machine that looks
like an iron comfortable. The top of
the comfortable has all around on its
edge little boxes containing type. The
top of the table then revOlVes. The
punctured paper runs around, and
when a certain type needed is reached,
a little lever fails, (by reason of
the opening allowed one end OF it
by the hole in the paper, the other end
touching and selecting the letter that
is needed. The type 80 selected fall
into place, and the row of selected
type pOur5 in a continuous stream out
upon a regular composers stick, which
as fast as it is filed is removed to the
form. This may all seem complex in
the description, but it seems wonder
fully smooth and simple when seen.
A man engaged at the perfOratOrs and
three boys at the composer to feed the
boxes with type and space out the lines
set up a newspaper column, large as
one of the lines, IN one hour, which
Mr.. Mackie maintains is equal to the
composition of eight men. It
economies fifty per cent of
outlay. The inventor has
been ten years on it, and has now GER
taiDly gained a success. When our
commercial houses have Babbidge's
ealeulatOrs instead of clerks, and our
newspaper offices have revolving cen
ter tables instead Of cOmpOsitOrs, why
should not Mr.. Carlyle's dream of an
iron automatic Prime Minister be re-
aliZed2 The Republicans of England
viii do the handsome thing by any
Yankee who will invent an autOma-
ton Queen that can sign her name and
not have a large family. To return to
Mr.. Mackie for a moment, | may add
that his machine costs $500, and the
inventor advertises that he is prepared
TO undertake type setting for one year
in any house that purchases at three
pence per thousand (whatever the
size OF the type, set in eighteen-ineh
lines. Mackie is proprietor of the
Warrington Guardian, the largest
paper in England, equal to 10 col
of the Times, and it certainly is
set up very neatly, set up by his ma
chine, all varieties being used-small
plea, miniOn and nonpareil.
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lamation Of the President, in which
he declares, under the recent legisla-
ton OF Congress, that che will not
hesitate to exhaust the powers thus
vested in the Executive, whenever
and wherever it may be necessary to
do So" "Thus has this official, armed
with power by a subservient Congress,
declared wal against a large body Of
the American people, and forced them
to know him hereafter only astheir en-
envy. The slight CLEAN Of Presidential
favor, which enabled US TO vote down
the DISTINGUISHING clauses in the
State Constitution, was speedily with
drawn. Ever since, we have lain
the sulIen frown Of power.
Never since, have we received from
Congress or the President, one sign of
Cancellation, encouragement or cheer.
But measures of repression, test oaths
and political exclusion have pursued
US, in the dreaVy, vulgar routine in
which tyranny, inventing nothing
new, repeats itself the world over. In
the recently enacted law, purporting
to enforce the Fourteenth Amend
ment and for other purposes
and in that commonly known
as the election or enforcement
law, there are laid number
less traps and snares for the I'M
wary Southern citizen who ventures
to cast his vote or use his personal in
huence against the candidates who
stand forth to support these abuses"
The Richmond Dispatch, commenting
upon the address and political affairs
in Virginia, says that "the State
escaped a very great calamity in the
fortunate success Of the Conservative
party in 1869. Order has been main
tanned; the public faith has been pre-
served; honesty in the public admin
istration secured; public dignity and
deeeney defended and protected, as
far as was possible, and the hope and
confidence of the people have been
steadily assured and fOstered. Thus
protected and cheered, the State has
rapidly recovered from prOstratiOn
and despair, and is now rapidly ad-
vaneing to a condition of prosperity
and strength"
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THE New York Express, sound
Democratic authority, answers in a
nutshell the impracticable views of
Hon. Alexander H Stephens on the
amendment question. IL says, and
who can gainsay its logic: ITO call
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments neither law nor Constitution
and mere utilities may do for an abb
straet opinion; but the answer TO the
opinion Is that the two amendments
are practical facts and not words.
Negroes do vote in the States. Ne
grOes t5sa vote in the States; and no
party IS StrOUQ enough 10 preUst their
UOtb}Q.' A six or a sixteen column
editorial may be hurled at this, in
which extraordinary research and the
finest sOrtO writing may be exhibited,
but it viii not change the hard, stern
facts noted above. Why WiU the bull
butt against the lOcOmOtiVe.-NaSh-
ellie Banner.
The only bull we can see in this case
is the BGNRer itself. That ts at least
''bully." Negroes will vote, negroes
do vote, and no party is strong enough
to prevent their voting, says the En-
press. But what OF all that? Not a
mano any party proposes, or desires
to hinder Cuhee from voting. Cannot
the Express and the Banner both see
the wide difference between an i'm
practicable effort to hinder the negro
from voting, and the practicable as
sertiOn of the right of the States to
domestic control and the regulation
of their franchise within their own
borders? This right is the locomotive
against which the bully bulls would
do well to cease butting.
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I'll tell you about the heifer-one OF the kind
est and best
Thai brother Ephraim gave me, the fan he
I'm free 70 own il Tiisd me that Caleb shouId
think and say
She died OF :convulsions-a COW thai mnked
four gallons a day.
But / needn't have spoke of turnips,
neednb have been so cross,
Aud said hard things, and limited as II twas
Ana IN take 81 ali back, parson; that nre
shante ver break out,
Though the COW was checked by a turnip 1
never had a doubt.
Then there are pInts Of doctrine, and views
OF ubur6 state,
I'm willing to stop diseussln'; we car both
afford to wait,
'Twont bring the millennium sooner, dis
putin about when it's due,
Although 1 feel an assurance that mines the
Seriptural vieW.
But the bIessedest truths OF the Bible I've
learned to believe. don't lie
In the texts we aunt with a candle to prove
our doctrines by,
But them that come 10 Us IN sorrow, and
when we're on our knees;
so Il Caleb Won't argue on free WILL IuleaVe
alone the DEGREES.
One notion of CaIeb's, parson, seems rather
misty and dim;
1 wish, II il comes convenient, you'd change
a MQIu Win nlMs
It doR't quite stand to reason, and for gos-
pei II isn't clear,
That folks love better in heaven for having
qugrreled alere.
I've no such expectations why, parson, If
that is so,
You needn'thavs worked so faithfuIto recon-
ellie folks below.
1 hold another opinion, and hold it straight
and square,
II we can't be peaceable here We Won't be
peacebIe there.
But there's the request he made, you know 1t
parson. it's about
Being laid under the naples that his own
han set out,
And me to be laid beside him when my time
comes To go,
unsJrung me so.
And now that some scales, as we think, have
fallen nom our eyes,
And things brought so to a crisis nave made
as both more wise,
Why, Caleb says, and so / say, I'LL the LORD
parts him and me,
Well love each other better, and try our best
TO agree.
p ON the ToIeiO Blade.
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Trvinn Annfhar Mnass.

The Memphis AUGIGnche issupplant-
ing the Courier Journal in the regards
/ of the Kentucky Radicals. The latter
are getting tired of quoting from the
Courier Journal as Democratic paper,
and trying out of its mouth to convict
the Democratic party of all sorts OF
crimes. That dodge is played out, as
the Radical orators are warned by the
smiles with which Kentucky voters
receive the announcement that the
paper which most persistently bellies
them, and most bitterly assails them
and their political opinions, isa Demo-
cratic paper. There was urgent need
for a new witness, in the guise of a
Democrat, to substantiate the Radical
Indictment of Kentucky Democracy.
The Memphis Avalanche is the new
Sanford COnover. It is unknown in
this State, and the Radicals jOyfully
speak of it as ''that able Democratic
paper" hoping, for q time at least. to
impose the fiction upon the eredulOus,
and palm Oh its crapulOus abuse Ofthe
Democratic ticket, as the sad con-
fessiOns of an honest Democrat. Its
allegations that "GOverner Leslie
talks like a mailman" and that his
speeches encourage violation Of laws,
mObs and their attendant evils" are
doing service in the columns of the
Radical organ in this city in all the
prominence of typographical display.
1t is hardly necessary to add that the
ACGtaRche is quoted a a Democratic
paper, only because it loves to playOf
practical jokes, and persists in pro-
Tossing Democracy, while, thoroughly
imbued with Radical principles, it de-
votes all its energy to assaults upon
Democratic platforms and personal
detraction of Democratic leaders who
are at the 'front.' battling fer the cause.
The well known animus Of the Courier
Journal Is precisely that OF the AUG-
Lanche. The only difference Is that
the latter boldly joins the Radicals in
making open war upon the Demo-
cratic State ticket, while the Courier
Journal, bursting with suppressed
maIignity, and fully committed to all
Of Harian's positions, has not the
courage and will not take Sides
Louisville Ledger.