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cETHAD. STEVENS executors refuse
to file an inventory of his property as
REQUIRED by law. The reason is, said to
be that among his assets is large
amount of bonds Of .railroed companies
which received enormous land grants
from Congress.
The executors don't like conundrums,
and they fear somebody will ask: How
did the dictator of Congress get SO
many bonds Of these land grabbing
roads?
He dictated the land grabs through
Congress, and lie got the. bonds; but
whether this is mere coincidence, OIL
cause and effect why. this is free
country, and every one can judge fol
himself
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re- Gov. GRArz BRowN, of Missouri.
in his inaugural, says Of the Protection
policy Of the Rapicals:
ssIt is the parent source Of rings and
lobbies; and demoralized manipulation
strikingly illustrates how vain it will be
to have asserted the principle of per-
sonal liberty if we are to tolerate other
slaveries, only the more dangerous be,
cause of their subtlety.'
He refers to fact of no small signifi-
cancy, which is worthy of attention ON
the part of the monopolists:
"Alrcady we see evidences that secs
tional jealousies are being aroused
jealonsies that nothing short of very
comprehensive scheme of revenue re-
form can possibly allay."
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Public Omccrs.

"Fhc number Of public officers is a
small matter in the public estimation,
and of course beneath the consideration
of parties; but would it not be well. in
our next nomination, ON both sides, to
consider this little, and secure gen.
tleman, ifpossible. Haoould be strange
lurury to haze dignifed, culticated, re-
fined man once more IN the Erecutve
Mansion. This sort of thing has come
to be traditionary We hear dim sto-
ries about gentlemen who have been
Presidents, and the fathers of the Gov
ernment had a profound respect for the
office, because they took care never to
have an incumbent who did not respect
it. We have few prominent men, avail
able candidates, who are acceptable in
this light." DOM PIATr,. Wash. Cor:
Gin, Com.
GRANT IS catching blows from both
parties.
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Tine Eastern Question.

The following lines, copied by Rev
DR.. Cumming from an old volume ofthe
fifteenth century, were pnt in print du.
ring the Crimean war, and, in view o1
the present complications in European
affairs, may not be uninteresting to many
of our readers now:
In twice two hundred years the Bear
The Crescent will assail;
But if the Cock and Bull unite,
The Bear will not prevail.
But mark, in twice ten years again
Let Islam know and fear
The Cross will stand. the Crescent wane,
Dissolve and disappear.
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STEAMER m'GILL DISASTER
Tlfty.eight Lives Supposed to be
Lost.

MEMPHIS, January 17.-It is thought
that fifty-eight lives were lost by the
McGill disaster on Sunday night
Among the passengers lost were John
L. Schmirlein and wife, of Quincy, Illi-
nois. i
The bodies of Captain Tompkins and
First Clerk Mcfarland have not been
recovered. The officers of the steamer
Yeager state that the raftsmen belong
ing to the American Timber Company,
whose RATS were aground Monday night,
could have saved many persons with
sklffs.but paid no attention to their cries
for help, 'busying themselves in catching
cotton and pillaging. @
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EE Much excitement, even approach
ing to the revolutionary point, exists in
Mexico at present over the question OF
the next Presidency Of the Republic
There are two candidates prominently
before the people-the present Prcsi-
dent, Don Benito Juarez, and Senior
Lerdo de Tejada, Secretary of State. =
Juarez has been President since 1858,
including the years of the Macmillan
wars and his term will expire on No
ve.nher 80, 1871 The rivalry of these
leaders is based principally upon per-
sonal grounds, and contest is made the
more exciting as there is feeling among
Tejada's friends that the veteran Don
Benito woald have no objection to re-
tain his high Office for life.
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EgaRadical congressman" says the
New York Herald, 'giye up reeonstruc-
ton as bad job. Reconstruct the late
rebel States as they will, they cannot be
depended upon, politically. Southern
white Republicansare mighty uncertain,'
and the negroes don't vote the straight
ticket. The sorrowful fact is at last
forced upon the leaders that in 1872 the
Southern electoral vote will be almost
unanimously Democratic. Republican
ism at the South was smothered by too
much reconstruction"
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Charles Francis Adams, late Minister
to Great Britain under President Linz
coin, wrote an admirable letter to the
Fourth Of January Jackson Festival at
Pittsburg. It is somewhat remarkable
when an Adams-the son of the states
man whom General jackson defeated
for President, after bitter struggle
should now unite with others in honor
ing the memory of his fathers compet
ltor. Still more striking are the senti-
ments which he promulgates. He says
ssTIle country has passed through 4
violent convulsion, and is now slowly,
but steadily, recovering itself. The main
object should be to restore harmony and
inspire mutual confidence among oil the
jarriIg members. Our Governments
draws its life from the ready consent q
the governed. 8
"When the distinguished hero, whose
name your Association bears, uttered
those memorable words s.The Union
shall be preserved p he undouhtedlj
rested his faith upon the spontaneous
cooperation of the great mass ofathe
nation, responding to his call in the reg
nlar and legitimate channels prescribed
by the Organic Law. He never con-
templated the use of bayonets in con-
trolling the forms Of collecting the gen
eral suffrage.
eOur safety as nation lies in going
back to the first principles, and forget;
4 q. L l. =
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The most expensive House : in the
country-that of Mr.. A. T. Stewart, Of
New York--has just been finished, at a
cost Of $4,000. 900. The furniture is in
keeping with the general character of
house, the carpet for the drawing room
alone costing $4,000. It consists of a
single piece, wrought upon loom made
cxpresely for it's manufacture.
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Petitions to the Legislature OF
Ohio are now being circulated to ensct
a law to accept the plot Of ground at
North Bend, and suitably improve il,
where lie in a neglected grave the 10
mains Of William Henry Harrison, the
brave defender of our Western frontier,
the first Territorial Governor Of In
diana, and President of the Ulitel
States. The people of ohio would Ger
tainly sanction such legislation and
cheerfully carry out It's provisions - q
debt of gratitude to the distinguished
dead. Statesman.
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EEA correspondent sends Every
Saturday what he calls s'The True Story
Of Mary and her Little Lamb" hoping
it will take the place of that garbled YER
sion which has hitherto been received as
authorities.
Mary had little lamb
Whose fleece was white as snow,
ndevery where that Mary went
The lamb it would not go.
So Mary took that little lamb
And beatit for spell;
The family had it fried next day.
And it went very WE'LL >
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The number Of fortresses seized by
the Germans is, remarks the Berlin cor.
respondent Of the London Times, un-
precedented, and SO are the spoils OBJ
tanned. Up to few days ago the total
of the artillery taken amounted to 1868
guns and Is mitrailleuses Nearly 500,
600 Chassepots,some 8 eagles and stand
ards, ETC., have changed hands,the whole
of the military booty being already cs.
timated at between 50, ,o00, ,OO0f aud 100,-
600, ,000f.
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EEJobbery! Washington is full Of
steamship men, asking for subsidies for
lines of steamers. $500, 0,000,per annum
is wanted for the Australian and Sand
wich Islands line, and $150,000 for the
Gulf of Mexico line. The Pacific Mail
Company want their subsidy increased
from 100000 per ann9m to LOCO, 600
Any person who wants to beg, borrow
or steal, and has hatched nice little
plot for that purpose, takes the first
train for the capital.
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Sevcnty.Fivo Mnllons 81 DoIialrssI % ara

sS(vShbsys1 ~ "SfhhsNhss - YHAASyA ~
The Union Pacific Railroads Company
is offering for sale 12,000,eW acres Of
land at prices ranging from 50 so to SO
per acre. These lands, the ownefsssay,
are the best farming and mineral hands
in america.
All SO a5.per acre. which is ii6heaver-
age price, these. lands are worth seventy
five millions of dollars.
How did this gang of speculaters get
seventysflve millions Of dollars worth Of
the best farming and mineral lands III
American By organizing a lobby Who
begged, bullied and bribed the peoples
representatives into Granting it to them.
Seventy-fye millions of dollars is q
pretty good haul for one squad Of shar-
pers, but even this is not the largest.
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EWill the sub Of the Marietta Reg.
ister inform his readers why editor Sen
ator S1rMsox lodged the vote on the
adoption OF the resolutions against
grants Of public lands TO railroad and
other private corporationsp
Was it because the Senate voted to
strike out the resolution endorsing
GHAEr's land grabbing policy9
Tell us.
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U. S. Senators Elected.

Since our last issue the following U.
S. Senators have been elected:
Missoari-FRANK I. RLAlR, Demo
crat, lo2 votes; j. D. Henderson, Radi-
cal, SIS votes.
So much for GRANTS effort TO con-
troll the Missouri election.
Michigan-T. w FERRY, Radical.
Maine--LoT MORRILL,,
Observation-Disclosures WILSON, Rad.
Minnesota--WHILAM WINDSsi. Rad
Netc Je,sey-F. r. FRELlNGuuYsEN, R.
Delatcare-ELI SAULsBURY. Democrat.
Htiaois-JoHN A. LOGAN, Radical.
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EwO Our worthy friend LEWIS BAKER,
of the Wheeling Register, and formerly
of this Office, has been elected President
of the Senate ofWest Virginia. LEWIS,
accept our cordial congratulations.
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Protection.

protect me!'' is the cry of a COM
Portable, well fed, we'll clad persouaec,
whom at first sight gonc would hardly !
take for a beggar. Protect mel" own
bnt ten thousand acres Of land in the
| world. 1t is my all. It is full of coal
lbuS the Englishmcn and Nova Scotians
have got coal too, and they offe- to sell
1T cheaper Than the price / want. Shut
out this foreign coal and protect me, au
American laborer." He looks even less
like labarer than beggar.
"What makes coal so dear when the
weather is so dreadful cold? God help
1.-The poor" comes from between the chat.
tering teeth Of u toil-worn, care-worn,
shiyering woman, as she measures with
a stingy eyea scanty fresh supply of fuel
to her waning fire. No cry from her to
the government for protection. No pro-
lection 20 her from the greed of the
strong, the ctIaaing, the. avaricous.-
I"Work for yourself: Work vr starvc
iSelf.help: Every one for himself: If
government gave bread, or clothes, or
| fuel to. the poor it would demoralize
them: Take better care of the pennies
you earn-lay them up in summer for a
wintry day" Such are the answers she
would get if she asked for protection
/ if she turned beggar. No chance for
her to put in q replication. The voices
of the coal owners are mighty to drown
hers. II she could be heard she would
tsay: "IIow can l lay up my pennies
| when the strong, arm OF the Government
takes from me, day by day, as fast as |
earn them, and hands them over to my
! richer neighbors? On every spool of
thread / buy, government takes from me
a penny or two topay over to the Woon-
: socket Factory Company, so that they
make dear thread and big dividends. On
every garment 1 wear, it takes pennies
and shlllings from me wherewith to fill
the purses of the rich men who make
cloth and stockings ana shawls, s,and who
cannot be content with less than fifty or
one hundred per cent. increase of their
wealth every year, to pay them for ma
king dear clothes for the American Ia
! borer When 1 buy stove or pair 'ot
scissors, I must pay some of my hard
earned pennies to support the wealthy
iron maker OF Pennsylvania. I get nc
protection to my labor, and I ask none
Let us both alone-Ine and the manufac.
turer. As you let.ine work my humble
: way along as best ] can, leave himsto dc
! the same. Give him no part of my ear.
! nings, and i am content with my little
: share of this worlds goods" If it de.
It moralizcs society for Government tc
give the poor food and clothes and fuel
g is 1t not equally demoralizing for the
e Government oSgivs to the rich and thu
9 stroag? And when it gives to the rich
{ by taking from the comforts Of che poor
! is it not demoralizing society at boil
q ends2
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THIN WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
lewis Baker. President Of the
senate; e. G. Cracraft, Speaker
0f the Morse,
Especial to tho Wheeling Register

CHARLESTON, January ia quorum
of each house of the Legislature assem-
hled to-day at the new Capitol building.
There were many pleasant greetings be-
tween friends old and new ,and con2ratu-
lations over the result of the elections
last fall were heard ON every hand.
The Capitol building is very hand
some structure, we'll built, and finished.
The halls for the Senate and House of
Delegates are spacious and conveniently
arranged. They are furnished. howey-
er, with the old desks and chairs that
we're used in the Linsley Institute, which
look out of place in this more preten-
tious building.
The State Senate was called to order
by the Clerk, E. S. Moore, at 9 O'clock
and nineteen Senators answered to their
names.
Lewis Baker, of Ohio county, and
William Price, of Monongalia, were
nominated for President of the Senate
A vote was taken ssand resulted as fol-
lows: Baker II, Price Z. +.
Z. S. Moore, of Marion county, was
elected Clerk o: the Senate, and A. W.
Knots, Assistant
The Governors message was read,
after which the Senate adjourned.
The House of Delegates was called
to order by the Clerk, VIM. P. Hubbard,
of Ohio county, and fiftytwo members
! were found present
Il. G. Cracraft, of Ohio county, and
! D. Douehoo, of Hancock, were nomina-
ted for Speaker The vote stood-Cra-
craft, 38; Donehoo, IA.
w. F. Burdett, of Kanawha cousaty
was elected Clerk; Mr.. Horner,of Wood
county. Sergeant at- Arms; and Mr
Washburne, of Lewis county, ,Doorkecp
er. 'ssf'f
The Governors message was read,a
the House adjourned.
SECoNp DISPATCH.
| CHARLESTON, January T-Thls after
noon the standing committees in boil
4 Houses have been announced, The :Iu
dietary Committee in the Senate consist.
of Carper, Kline. johnson, Boreman ant
4 Koonce. Senator Patrick is Chairman
Of the Banking Committee and Senato
4 Davis of the Finance Committee.
A joint resolution concurring in tn
adoption of the Flick amendment wa
introdacetlsin the Senate this Afternoon
by Senator johnson, of Wood. = =
The Judiciary Committee of th
House is composed of Lewis, Morrow
Wilson, Ferguson and Donehoo. Barr
of Ohio, is Chairman of the Bankin
! Committee, and Jackson, of Wood
: Chairman of Committee on Finance
A resolution providing for subrnittin!
: to the people the question of calling
Constitutional Convention was introdr
9 ced in the House of Delegates this a
ternoon by Brannon, of Lewis counti
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wUnder the new apportionment of
Representatives to Congress, the West
will gain nineteen additional members,
the South nine, and the Middle States
six, while New England will lose one.
Ohio will retain her nineteen men,
bers
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sAasby Conduct Of Oar governor.

Gov. HATES refuses to provide for an
election to gil the vacancy occasioned by
the resignation of ScHESck. This is
one Of two signal instances in which
HAYES has permitted his partisan friends
or partisan feelings to betray him into
violation Of his plain duty.
When'a vacancy occurred in the State
Senate by the death Of RUSSELL, and it
was important to have the Radical ranks
full to- ratify the fifteenth amendment,
HAYES manifested suchindeccnt haste in
securing another to fill his place that
RussELL's constituents were wrangling
about his successor before his shroud
was on him..
Now a vacancy occurs in ScuENcK's
district, and HAYES peremptorily refuses
to provide for successor, although the
law plainly and unequivocally says be
shall" do So. What reason has our
Governor for, thus trifing with his OIL
cial oath? It is SO obvious that a way
faring man, though a fool, need not err
therein.
CAMpBELL's seat is to be contest
ed. If an election should be ordered
CAMPBELL would be candidate for the
vacancy, and in the absence of the enor-
nous pccuniary aid furnished by the
tariff monopolists to SoHEsoK,and which
they would not furnish to another,
CAMPBELL would be elected by an over.
whelming majority. The moral effect Of
this upon the contest of his seat is what
deters HAYES from doing his duty.
II has been vel! said that for ways
that are dark, and for tricks that are
vain, the 'sheathen Chinee'' has no mo
Inopoly.
i But for these two or three blemishes
on his record, Governor HAYES would
lhaye furnished US with an excellent illus
tration of the fact that a man with tht
Icapacity of an, average County Commits
. sioner might be tolerably fair Cover
nor Of Ohio.
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ReDuked Dy his Friends.

In the Chic Senate, on the l7th hist,
the following, not interesting proceed
ings to Gov: HAYES, were had:
Mr.. Root, Radically from the Com
mittee on Federal Relations, reported
back Mr. Wards resolutions in regard
to an election in the Third Congress
sional District, with an amendment, stri-
king out all nstcr'the word "whcreas," !"
and insert:
Hon. r. C. Sehenck, late Representa-
tive in the Forty first Congress from the
Third District of Ohio, did resign his
said office January 5, 1871, and,
WHEREAS, 1t ,ces practicable to have
had special election to fill the vacancy
occasioncd by said resignation held as
early as January q, 1871, and had the
votes given of such election, duly can:
vassed and returned, within one week
thereafter; therefore,
| Rcsoloed,, That, on receiving authen-
tic information Of Mr. Schenck's 5 resigr
nation, the Governor; should have order
ed an election to fill said vacancy, to
have been held as early as January q,
1871;
Resolced, That such election as afore,
said should yet be ordered by the Gov
ernor.
Mr.. Howard Radical) moved to strike
out the first'resolution. Lost
The resolutions, as amended, were
then agreed to.
And thus was "His Exccllcncy'. cen
sured and slaughtered in. the house d
his friends. The verdict is, served hin
| right. s,.,i-s ,
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Hon. JOHN CoyoDE, Member OF
Congress from Pennsylvania, died at
Harrisburg last week
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NThe q. 5. Senate confirmed poR
TER to be Admiral by 80 yeas to
I0nays.
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EEFour of the Georgia members of
Congress,three Democrats and one (Ne-
gro) Radical, have been admitted to their
seats. II
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EE Hon. G. W. MoRGAs has our
thanks for valuable public documents.
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Amin TIE Family.

aThey are aloto of corrupt scoundrels,
and will keep no agreements, except such
as put money in their pockets" That
is what what a distinguished Republi-
can said Of the. .princip' e managers Of the
Republican party in Michigan. And in
to the question, What are we
coming toi? the same distinguished Re
publican says: ,ssThis is question /
have reyolved a good deal in my own
mind, and can not find a very satisfac-
tory answer; but ! think there is but one
remedy, and that is defeat"
re- The Supreme Court of the United
States recently decided that the term
ssnote" IN plaintiffs declaration i'm
plies legal Instrumental consequent.
", is sufficient ayerment that the note
was duly stamped at its date or after
wards, as required by law. The demur-
rer was overruled, and the principle laid
down that where a stamp is affixed after
the execution Of the instrument, and the
previous omission of it is not impeach-
ed for fraud, the paper will be deemed
legally stamped.
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Hi Him Again.


The Ohio Senate dealt GRANT q blow
in the 18th inst. The. following are the
proceedings: Hee
The House joint resolutions against
grants of the public lands to railroad
and other private corporations was read,
when Mr.. Hunt moved to amend by stri-
King out all the resolution Which indorses
the policy of President Grant in relation
to grants Of hepubiic lands as set forth
in lis last dnnualmessdge.
The motion to strike out was agreed
to. eE7a
Yeas-Messrs. Cowan, ,Daugherty, En-
mitt, Holden, Hunt, Jamison, Jenner,
Leeds, Lord, ,Poppleton, Prophet, Boesel,
w oodbridge-13.
Nays-Messrs. Bell, Dunbar, Goep-
per, JONES'. Mckinney, Odlin, Root
Stimson, Welsh-9. -
Mr.. Jones moved to lay the resolu
tons on the table, which was not agreed
to-Yeas 10, nays 13
The resolutions, as amended, were
then adopted.
Yeas-Messrs. Boesel, Cowan, ,Daugh
erty, Emmitt. Holden, Hunt, Jamison
Jenner,L Leeds, ,Poppleton, Prophet, W ood
bridge-l2.
Nays-Messrs. Bartram, Bell, Guep
per, Jones, Mckinney, Odlin, Root
Wales, Welsh, Ieatman-10.
Mr.. HUNT is a Democrat How arr
you, STIMsoN of the Marietta Register
Write to your constituents that YOI
and GRANT favor the railroad landegrab
bers. Try for reelection next fall OF
that platform, will you9
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REMAINS FouND.-We learn from q
passenger who anne up from Owens
Valley in the stage, that a few days
:ago the body of a murdered man was
found within a few feet Of the public
highway fifteen miles below Hot
Spring Station, or thirty miles north
Of Bishop creek. Wild birds n
beasts had eaten all the flesh from the
carcass, and one of the legs had n
tirely disappeared, being probably
dragged of by wolves. IN only
clothes found with the remains were n
vest and 4 blue cloth coat, II no
papers nor anything to lead to MS
identity. The passengers on the stage
examined the corpse very closely, N
found without a doubt that the man
had been murdered, as the skull had q
bullet-hole in the back OF it, and an
other smaller one in front, where the
bullet evidently escaped. The carcass
seemed quite fresh. and indicated that
the foul murder had not been perpe-
trated many days before its discovery.
When the stage left Hot Springs, some
men started out to see about 1t.
AssEssxENr.-It will be seen by a
notice in another column that an as
sessment of 81 so OH each and every
share of the Daney Gold and Silver
Mining Company Spring Valley, Lyon
county, was levied by the Trustees on
the 10th of January. By the energy
and perseverance manifested by the
Trustees, and from what we can hear
Of the developments and improve
ments made in the mine within a few
months, we should judge that the pa
ney will prove a good dividend-payins
property before long. We hope So AT
least.
Ton DUNN.-Am miner named Thomas
Dunn, who formerly lived in Gold Hill
and who went down to the Owens
river country last Fall, was recently
killed at Cerro Gordo. We have not
learned further particulars.