The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-02-18

| cost of q Convention. Ills hgurlnS, as
will readily be seen, is greatly exagger-
ated in some particulars and totally
false in others. You will not fail to Oh
serve its righteousness, and comment
thereon as it deserves. This bug-bear
of expense is going to alarm no one !;
! the people OF the State will know that,
under a reformed Constitution, enough
money can be saved in matters of local
taxation in a single year, to pay all the
expenses of a Convention. OH
see the Itsllgencer and other
Radical sheets ridicule efforts to induce
immigration to this State. After
having spent several years in efforts
land successful ones) to drive from the
State Q large portion Of her citizens, We
could not expect them to do otherwise
Every effort that is made to induce the
people to come and gil the places Of
those they have prescribed and driven
away, will of course meet their opposi-
ton. Their legislation having been
directed to the creation OF strife among
the people, to degrading them, and to
paralyzing their energies, they rush,
like gobbler at red rag" at any one
who proposes different course.
If the bill tor the encouragement Of
immigration, which passed the Senate
to-day, shall become alaw, fertile and
valuable tracts OF land will be donated
to the State, in alternate small sections,
to very large amount, to be donated
by the State to actual settlers. We
have already got $4,000 acres pledged
and hope to swell the amount to lo0,-
900 before adjournment. Forty thou
sand acres will give forty acre farm to
each of one thousand families. And
these one thousand families, brought into
the State by this splendid gilt, will
bring, in less than five years, five thou
sand additional families. However, !
will not argue this question, as the ridi-
cule of those people who so oppose ef-
forts to people, develop and build up
the State, is preferable to their praise.
The Parkersburg interest, headed by
Charles S. Lewis, is doing all in its
power to defeat the bill to give Wheel
ing term of the Court of Appeals.
The many votesin the House, to-day, on
the question of filling the blank in the
bill with the name of place, were not
especially encouraging, as they devel-
oped purpose not to pass the bill at
all. The most OF the delegates from
this end of the State have acted literally
toward Wheeling.
Last Saturday the members Of the
Legislature, the Governor, and other in
vited guests, took steamboat trip up
the Kanawha some twenty-five miles,
on an invitation from L. S. Senator Da-
Wis. The day was fine, the scenery Of
the grandest, the dinner most elegant,
the champagne superb, and the feast
of reason and flow OF soul all that
could be expected under these favorable
circumstances All of the speeches
were in excellent taste-not one being
of more than two minutes in length.
Mr.. Lewis requests me to say that
he did not speak in caucus in favor of
the nomination Of Senator Davis-he
silently voted for him. | do not know
that he regarded the error as SANDER,
yet l cheerfully make the correction.
In the apportionment for the House
Of Delegates for the next ten years,
some changes will be made from the
present. Ohio county vets four dele
gates two years out of three, while
Brooke and Hancock together will get
but one the years that Ohio has four.
Marion gets but one, and Jefferson but
one; they now each have two. A few
slight changes will be made in some Of
the delegate districts. The committee
have not yet agreed upon the Senator
ial districts, or Congressional.
see by the htelFgencer that Col. j.
NJ. Jackson aspires to the leadership Of
the Radical party. l know of nothing
more appropriate; and judge that but
few will care to contest the distinction
with him. B.