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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-03
Letter from Charleston.
Railroad from wheeling 10 the Ken.
lucky Linc-The Supreme Court
OF ADpeaIs-The Jefferson County
Cases.

CHARLESTON, February p, ISL.
Dear Register:
The election bill, as sent to you sew
eral days ago, passed the Senate, Satur-
day, without amendment The last YES
tice of the Registration law is repealed,
and in every other respect the law Is a
good one. Even the Radicals them
selves failed to ofiera word of objection
% it in the Senate: and cast but two
or three votes against it.
inclose you an official copy OF the
act changing the boundary lines of the
Wheeling School District, which pub
fish in full for the information OF all
concerned. The Sheriff is relieved from
the further handling of the school
money, which will be gratifying to him.
/ also inclose an official copy Of the
bill providing for the holding OF
a term Of the Supreme Court
at Wheeling, which You will publish
After the bill providing for an appro-
priation of $1,000 to survey a railroad
route from Charleston to the Pennsyl-
vania line had passed the House, and
it was evident that it would pass the
Senate, concluded to try to get a small
appropriation to assist us in surveying a
route from Wheeling to the Kentucky
State line. This we succeeded in doing,
and $1,000 was appropriated for the pur-
pose. 1t is made the duty OF the Board
of Public Works to appoint surveyor
for the purpose. II the citizens Of
Wheeling and Of the counties along the
river want this road built, it would be
we'll for them to organize a movement
for the purpose S once. under
stand that if half the money
necessary to build this road
shall be subscribed along the
line, the remaining amount to complete
it will be furnished by Eastern parties
If the citizens of Wheeling, Parkers-
burg and other points on this route act
, promptly, we can secure the active CO
operation Of Pittsburgh, as she is cast
ing about in many directions for a d.
rect southern outlet. If this road is
not built, there is great danger that one
will be built on the Ohio side Of the
river; as well as the one from Pitts
burgh down through the central or
eastern portion of the State, switching
Wheeling Oft to one side.
The Supreme Court adjourned this
morning, leaving a large number OF
cases undecided-to the infinite disgust
of both lawyers and clients. The SEQ
ordinate branch" as the Court calls it.
self, has not won golden opinions for
itself this winter.
The bill removing the county seat Of
jefferson county to Charlestown, from
which place it was taken by Legislative
enactment a few years ago, for partisan
purposes, has become a law and the
bill restoring the townships Of Jefferson
county as they stood, before the joe
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES clique consolidated
them by Legislative enactment some
, time ago, passed the Senate on Satur-
day, under suspension Of the rules
although it was on the day before in
definitely postponed on motion Of Mr..
Koonce. This brushes the last vestige
of the infamous clique-rule in Jefferson.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-03
SOuth Carolina.

A Radical member of the South
Carolina Legislature, a carpetbagger
9 from New York, was recently threat
ened with a committee OF investigation
concerning the use made of certain
public funds which had come into his
hands. Whereupon he stated openly
from his place in the House that if the
investigation wa. proceeded with he
would make such disclosures as would
send the Governor and majority OF
the members to the Penitentiary. 1t
is needless to add that the investigation
was not pressed any further.
Asa sample Of South Carolina lesis-
lation under the present regime, 1t is
said that laws have been passed regulat-
ing the rate Of profit to be charged
npon the goods sold by grocers and
other retail dealers. Another law
regulates the rate Of wages to be paid
for farm work, and provides that
laborers may assemble two or three
times year and determine by ballot
what wages they ought to receive. The
employer who refuses to accede to these
terms is liable to fine or imprisonment
Such are some of the beauties of the
negroized government ofSouth Carolina
The Fifteenth amendment brings forth
this kind of fruit in the State where its
benefits are most plainly seen and most
keenly felt
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-03
The Latest and Choicest.

SEA MOSS PARTNERSHIP to be very fine
for Deserts and an elegant and
dainty dish for the sick.
COX'S SPARKLING GELATINE-An old
iavOrite with the ladies for Jellies-
bright, clear and beautiful.
SHERRY WINE-Just the ar
ticle to use with Cox's Gclatine-of
rich and luscious flavor.
BAKERS COCOA-Warranted Pure, de-
llcious and nutritious beverage.
HECKER'S FARINA-Prepared especially
for invalids and children.
ANGUSTURA BITTERS-The genuine ar
tlc.e for ladies and children in feeble
health.
WINE OF PEPSIN-The most perfect rem
edy 20 indigestion and dyspepsia.
CORN STARCH-For Pudding and Gus
tards.
TAPIOCA-A splendid desert. either alone
or with Berries.
At LAUGHLlN, BRO. & co.'s,
Wholesale Druggists,
junE Main street.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-03

The SAM Brown MURDER.-ln our
issue Of last week we stated that at the
time Of going to press TUESDAY at ,
P. NJ the trial of Jerry Knight, col
ored, Zone Of. the parties charged with
the murder of Sam. Brown, also colored,
near West Middletown, in June last, }
was in progress. The case continued
until Friday night about ten o'clock,
when the jury, after an absence of three
hours, rendered a verdict of guilty Of
murder in the second degree. The
prisoner heard the verdict without any
emotion. He was remanded
for sentence, which will not be pro
nounced until the latter part OF this
week. -Rev;ec and Examiner.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-03

The Charleston Courier proposes
that the people of that town shall give
Governor JACOB a public reception upon
his arrival at ''the permanent seat fire
AN address of welcome at him, and with
a procession and music escort him to
the Executive mansion" They do
these things handsomely in Charleston
when they try.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-03

We are under many obligations to
Hon. c. J. FAULKNER for copy Of his
argument before the Supreme Court OF
the United States on the question
of jurisdiction over the counties OF
Berkeley and Jefferson. The argument
is an exceedingly clear and torclble
one, and evinces that Mr.. FAULKNER
has given TO the subject that careful
inquiry and investigation'that charac-
terizes all his legal efforts. His allu-
sion in the course Of the argument to
The fact that the present Constitution OF
Virginia, adopted in Convention in 1867
and ratified 10y the people in lS6S, does
not claim the counties OF Berkeley and
Jefferson as a part Of the State, seems
10 have taken the Court 10y surprise and
-iven the Judges new light upon the
question.
The argument is based upon two
propositions. First, that the conditions
npon which the cession was made were
complied with; and, second, that all
other questions involved in the case
are strictly political and not .jnd'r'al'
and involve inquiries over which the
Supreme Court has always heretofore
abstained from the exercise of jurisdlc'
ton.
The decision of the Court has moi
vet been rendered, but even if 1t should
prove adverse to West Virginia upon
the questions argued, that will not ne
cessarilv determine the case.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-03

BLAINE is to be re elected Speaker OF
the next House. He is a great friend
of Ton Scorr and the Railroad inter-
ests, and, although a poor man a few
years ago, now lives at the rate OF
Twenty Thousand Dollars a year and
fares sumptuously every day. Either
General MORGAN, of Ohio, or S. 5. Cox,
of New York, will be the Democratic
candidate for the Speakership.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-03
The Senate Of Virginia recently tabled
"a bill to prevent dog-fghts. -,
The Acts referred to in the lei'er o'
our Charleston correspondent will be
nubl;shSd Tomorrow morning.,

RrrLER's infamous Ku-Klux bill
which was intended to prolong the strife
and suffering of the South has been de-
feated for the present session. Several
prominent Republican members of the
House voted against considering 1t at
This time.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-03

The report of free schools in Nlr-
ginia shows the number already opened
to be 1894, and about to be opened SS4.
Some of the counties are not reported.
Considering the general distress of the
people, and that Virginia has not had
one good harvest year for her three
crops since the war, this progress IS
deemed extraordinary. Her colleges
and classified schools exhibit a larger
number of pupils than at any former
time.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-03
DIED..

WEI SGERBER-In this city, on Thurs
day morning, March I'll, 1871, OF Paralysis,
JOHN WEISGERBER, in his SD year.
The funeral services will be held at the
German Lutheran st. James Church, on
Fourth street, Saturday afternoon at two
o'clock, Friends of the family are invited
TO attend
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-03

Scientific education has found its way
even to Constantinople, and lectures on
natural philosophy are now being deliv-
cred in the Turkish language.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-03
SPECIAL NOTICES.
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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-03

THs citizens of Indianapolis were
startled from their propriety a few days
ago by the appearance of a large black
bear in the streets. The Radical mem
bers of the Legislature had already
stampeded, else it might be supposed
tina, the Prophet ELISHA had some
thin, 10 do with the visit of the bear.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-03
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
AGENTS WANTED

r,O SELL A NEW THING. FROM 500
to 5000 pcz day can be made by enter
prising and acffve men. Call al l8 Main
Street to-day or Tomorrow. mars
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14
Rather Heavy.

The Cincinnati Commercial, speaking
of President Grant, says:
He has travelled at the rate Of severa
thousand miles per month ever since tn,
surrender of Lee. 1t is becoming bore
especially to those who are making ex
cuses for him.
Then it is a stupidity and an an
achronism for Republicans in a republic
to be crying out that there is but one
man. If there are not one hundred
thousand meu in the country, each as
capable of being President as Grant
there is an affecting poverty in men
We are told that Grant crushed the re-
bellion He was one of million fight
ing men who did that job. We are told
he is paying the national debt How
much Of the money does he take out OF
bis own pocket? The appointment of
his personal favorite, Pleasanton, to the
Commissionership Of Internal Revenue
cost the Treasury, it is carefully esti-
mated, at least ten millions of dollars;
and when at last Pleasanton became in
tolerable, and the President was driven
into demanding his resignation, Douglas
was promoted to the place, his single re-
commendation being that he is Simon
Cameron's mau. Meantime the New
York custom house is in charge of the
shoddy swindler Murphy, the head of a
ring as infamous as Tammany, and the
Presidents chum at Long Branch. There
must be an end of this
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14
What the Tariff Does for the
Poor.

Commissioner Wells says In one of
his reports in 1860 a pair of 10 by 4
Holland blankets, weighing Il pounds,
could be bought for 80 %. The present
market price (May, 1870 of these same
blankets is So. Therefore, some causes
have come in since 1860 which have en-
poor and rich alike at least 81 IS per
pair. The committee know we'll that
these causes have been mainly the duties
on wool and the duties on the finished
products of wool; and they can. more-
over. easily satisfy themselves that, if
there was no duty on blankets, 10 by 4
Hollands could now be sold in any OF
the Atlantic cities, charges for freights,
inaoraDcs, and ~-onSbie Pro6t- s-,t.,
ded. for less than SO per pair.
"Now, there are 100000 of people
in the United States, and supposing
5000, 600 out Of the number to require
pair of blankets per annum, then the
annual tax levied on the masses for this
single article Of necessity, through the
enhancement of prices, will aggregate
s8.750,000, or nearly as much as the
whole revenue collected from all the tea
annually imported ana consumed IN the
country.
Again, let any one select an article of
WOODEN goods suitable for the ches pest
thick winter clothing-such an srticle as
the women of the country who are not
rich require-and then compare the price
asked for the same in New York with the
price at which it could be sold in the
absence of tariff duty. and he will find.
comparing the two, that the difference in
price for the quantity requisite to make
a cloak will! amount to at least 50. Now,
there are ten million of females in the
United States, and if we suppose that
one half the number require a CLOAK
each winter, then the tax levied on these
women under the tariff will aggregate
20,000,000, or nearly the amount now
collected from all the tea and coffee i'm
ported into, and consumed in the United
States.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14

RAILROAD ENGINEERS The Cincin-
natl Commercial has some sensible views
of the qualification and responsibilities
of locomotive engineer:
Here is a position out Of q thousand
demanding at the hands of him who fills
it the constant exercise of some of the
highest faculties with which men can be
endowed. Think of it for a moment
On the capacity, Judgment and absolute
trustworthiness of this man depend the
safety aud lives OF all the multitudes
whom his engine carries. A single mis-
take, an error of memory, certain thing
done moment too soon or too late, and
his precious cargo of human lives may
be hurled into wreck and destruction.
The officer on whose single will are sus-
pended such fearful responsibilities
should have, not only the common vir-
tues of character and sobriety and easily
acquired education of his profession, but
he should have at command the highest
faculties of nerve, of prudence, of mem
DRY and the truest balance of Judgment.
And for all those talents, to whose har-
monious action are entrusted the lives OF
the community, how much do the rails
way corporations pay? Ninety dollars
a month. A sum barely sufficient to hire
a journeyman at any of the ordinary
trades. The day laborers in our streets
have been earning almost as much, and
the bricklayers, who receive more have
struck for higher wages.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14
An Indian ROMANCE.

Col. Downing, Chief of the Cherokee
nation, was married some weeks since to
Miss Ayres, a wealthy and cultivated
maiden lady of PhiladeIphia. The affair
has spicing of romance. The lady met
the handsome chief (thSn, and until re-
Gently, a married MANI some years since
in the Quaker city, and became deeply
interested in him and his distant people.
With the resolution Of devoting her life
and wealth to the advancement of the
Cherokees, she removed to Talequah,
where she had since lived, and where she
has been most active in promoting the
religious and educational welfare of the
nation. Some years ago she adopted
young Lewis Downing, son of the chief,
a bright and promising boy, and has
since watched over his training and edu-
cation with more than motherly care.
A year ago she built, ostensibly for him,
an elegant residence, overlooking the
beautiful village, and furnished it with
artistic taste. A few months since oc-
CURED the death of Mrs. Downing, q
full blood Cherokee And now, at the
proper time, the child leads to the altar
his long time admirer.
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beleaf in free fight, especially amuDg
cats and dogs. 1 beleaf in free rides
on gate. l beleaf in freedom of every
slave on arth But free luv is one ov
them kinds of freedum that it don't do
to timber with. If this world was q
gardin of Edin and full of Adam and
Eve, az they was when they was fust
launched, then l kan imagin it might do
for some other Adam to hold my Eve on
his lap, and talk about his afinitees an
spiritoal essence and play lamb. In
them daze there want no human natur, it
was all God natur Human natnr has
been soaked so much sinse, it is too weak
to be trusted in a lot whar the seed is
Peer. next 10 n rnedals. ~ithout much
| fence between, nor emmy poke on. Free
love wants more poke than emmy other
animal don't believe in total depravi
ty-uuless a man has good chance.
Free love is a good deal like drinking
six shilling gin for bevridge. Bevridge
is Chinese word, and means cussidness.
Aul the free love ! have ever witnessed
thus far has existed between a villainous
fletcher on one side and lunatic virtue on
the other side. that has been deodorized
out of its truth, and has lost aul Of its
modesty and shame in huntin after cou-
dishun where sin ceased TO be crime.
The first free lover that we have emmy
account of was the devil.
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EugenIe-HOsv She Looks and
Dresses.
From sc Londnn Globe.

Casselrs Magazine for October con-
tains an article written by lady who
visited and couversed with the ex EN-
press Eugene at Chiselhurst. The wri-
ter says:
She looked wha. Tennyson calls "di-
vinely fair" but as one who has suffered
much. There was a worn, weary look
inexpressibly pathetic in her eyes, just
touched over the lower lids with black
her cheeks we're thin and very pale, her
fair hair simply arranged low on the neck
behind, drawn back at the sides, and
with eurls on the forehead, and it was
her own hsir-distinctly and palpably
her own. Her dress was of black para
matte, self-trimmed, with a small tunic,
and a general look of scantiness about it.
She wore little white sbirt-collar and
cuffs, and not single jewel, save one
diamond star that held the little collar
Her manner suits her imperial presence
simple, courteous, earnest. 1t is as
Of a ready witted woman, sweet temper
ed, full of human interests and feelings,
pressionable, mobile, fascinating; en-
phasiEing all she says with her grandly
cut Spanish eyes. that might almost in
deed stand her in lieu of speech, so elo-
quently do they converse. There is a
wonderful and varied charm about her,
Cleopatra~hke, that neither age nor Gus
tom can Wither or stale. To see how
the woman struggled with the Empress,
and how it brought her down to calm
sympathy aud pity from solitary stran-
ger, WIS very touching. Decorum alone
kept tears from my eyes.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14
A Russian Dance.

The hardest kind Of amusement for
females ever gotten up must be the Rus
sian peasant dance. Think Of girl
going through a long dance without
speaking or smiling The following is
an account Of the dance:
The dancers stand apart-a knot Of
young men here, q knot Of maidens
there-eaeh sex by itself and silent as
crowd of mutes. When the piper breaks
into tune, youth pulls of his cap
aud challenges girl with a wave and .
bow. If the girl is willing she waves
her handkerchief in token Of assent; the
youth advances, takesa corner of the
handkerchief in his hand, aud leads his
lassie round aud rounA. No word is
spoken, and no laugh is heard. Stiff
with cords and rich with braids, the girl
moves heavily by herself, going round
and round, apd never allowing her part
ner to touch her hand. TIE dipe goes
droning on for hours in the same sad key
and measure and the price of merit in
this ''circling," as the dance is called, is
aiYen by the spectators to the lassie, who,
10 all that summer revelry, has never
spoken and never smiled
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-10-14

THIRTY YEARS CONFINED TO A
RooM.-In Kingston, Luzerne county
Pa, on the 5th inst, there was commit
ted to the earth the remains of Mrs
Cynthia Jones, wife of Reuben Jones, 6
justice of the peace. The indispositio1
of Mrs. Jones dates as far back as 1928
and seems to have arisen mainly from
extreme sensitiveness of mental disposi
ton, which only needed the death of q
promising daughter to give decided char
acter and furnish food to a natural im
becility. This event occurred in 1910,
and Mrs. Jones has been a recluse since
that time, spending her life in the MEM
ory and associations of her child. At
times there would come back to her part
of her youthful vivacity, while at others
she would sink into a deathlike state,
her speech descrting her Her voice, in
early life finely toned, became hosrse
and diseordant from long months of alb
solute silence and entire seclusion. Mrs.
Jones was a woman of superior educa-
ton, was gifted with a fue memory, and
was we'll read. Few visitors troubled
her, and many grown up people living
In the neighborhood never saw her face.
She had been three times in the street
since 1910, and then only for few min
utes. In 1865, when the great freshet
swept through the valley, she had to be
removed and carried across the street TO
higher level but for the last eighteen
years, with the exception in this instance,
she has never crossed the threshold.
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NO. 40.
brigham, Jr., on the war Path

u
SALT LAKE, October 5.-A special
conference of the Church of Jesus Christ
of the Latter Day Saints was held to-day
in the new tabernacle. About eight
thousand saints we're present. The three
first priest, Brigham Young, George A.
Smith and Daniel Wells; the twelve
apostles and the high priests, and other
church dignitaries were on the platform.
Among the speakers were George z
Cannon, who aspires to succeed Brigham,
and Brigham Young, jr.
Their remarks generally bitterly de
nounee the Federal officials, termed the
ring.
Mr.. Cannon said he did not anticipate
that the Mormons would have to leave
the territory. They have broken no law
and had not violated the Constitution.
The prosecutions now inaueurated
against them would only enhance the
interest and accelerate the progress oi
the work of good. He rejoiced that the
devil was not yet dead, for they were not
yet perfect, and his services could not
yet be dispensed with.
Brigham, jr., spoke most excitably
He said the Mormons had settled thi,
mountain region, and they were entitled
to its use, exclusive occupation and en-
joyment. They asked no favors or as
sistance from any source. They defed
their enemies, the Government of the
United States included. The Govern
ment officials now prosecuting them were
the tools of the devil. He prayed God
to curse them all forever, and said, in a
violent gestical manner, "Trust to God
and keep your powder dry, and don't
fail to have on hand supply of fixed
ammunition. Cheering and clappiDg
of hands,
The regular semi annual conference
begins to morrow, and will last three
days, and an address is expected from
Brigham, senior.