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GENTLEMEN'S
FURNISHING GOODS,
No. Is MonrOe ST. Get,

WHEELING, W. VA.
The attention of our customers and the
public generally are invited To our extensive
Stock OF FALL AND WINTER GOODS Sc
lected from the latest and most approved
styles in the East, consisting Of
Cloths, Plain and Fancy
English and French Diagona'S,
French ChinchilIas.
Scotch Cheyoits.
Striped and Plain Cassimeres.
FOR INGS-Beavers, Mos
cows and English McltOns,
A large stock OF Fcstings o! every des-
crIptiOn.
We also invite attention 10 our large stock
ofGENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GDOD|,
embracing all the latest Novelties. Having
lately employed one Of the most expert
enced and reliable Eastern cutters, We are
prepared 10 turn out these goods III style
never surpassed in this city.
seplj J. ii. STALLMAN ~.
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TRANSPORTATION.
Cleveland & Pittsburgh R. R.

~ sgs+s1 ON AND AFTER NO
hta2 No. NEMBER II, ISL, Trains
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TinWaFe.
ICE! ICE!! ICE!!!

THE UNDERSIGNED INFORMS HIS
old customers, and the public gene
rally, that he has secured a splendid supply
Of pure THREE MILE ICE," which he
will deliver 10 customers during the CON-
ing summer. nj the lowest market rate.
Make your orders early.
anil GEO. sCRELLHAsR.
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BALTIMORE & OHIO R. r. GO.

r. l'-.-y1 PASSENGER TRAI NJ
49, ~ ~LaSfs Will run by the following
schedule On and after November ut, ~!
Wheeling time:
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WUaI II , TIT" LIT ~ V6'-N" = y
Narke, street. under the Mcclure House.
CAPITAL, st60'oOo.
TAKES RISKS At THE LOW EST
rates on Buildings ~ all kinds Furniture,
Household Goods, Merchandise and Goods
In TRANSIT.
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Baltimore Market.

BALTIMORE, February l6.
COTTON-Firmer; low miidlings at
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DRY GooDs ADVANCING IN PRIoE.-
Domestic dry goods are advancing; ditto
foreign dry goods. In the latter, we are
told. the demand for the more elegant
makes of foreign mills never was greater
than it seems to be this year, thus far.
In the former the record is, i'll bleached
and brown goods an upward tendency
on almost every staple; also, scarcity
on most of standards. There has been
much activity this week in cloths, cassi-
meres, satinets. So, and large sales are
made by agents to city and out-town
buyers. At present there is full stock,
as general thing. of woolen goods.
The Rattan blacks and the same make
in gold mixed are worth in jobbers'
hands from S1.1O to S1.20. In all de-
partments of the trade more than COM
mon activity is reported, and on cotton
goods--in both domestic and foreign
fair prices are obtained and large amounts
sold.-Ne,o York Express.
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The Havana ODicial Gazette publishes
additional orders regarding the Chinese
Cuba. For the present, all applications
of Chinese for permits to change their
places of residence or become Spanish
subjects will not be entertained. The
Government also refuses to grant pass
ports to free Cinnamon who may be de-
sirous of leaving the country. China
men found without police documents,
from whatever cause, will be sent to the
Government yards or repositories, and
then be compelled to work at forced
labor. The measure is intended for the
sole benefit to the planters, who thus
obtain cheap labor at very low rates.
The measure will also tend to lessen the
number OF Chinese vagrants.
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1t is a pity that the carpet-bag Go
vernors of the South are not allowed to
enjoy their ill-gotten gains in peace and
quiet. BY virtue OF Radical oounte-
nance and congressional support they
have each been enabled to secure COM
Portable, not to say immense, fortunes.
although wrung from the ruin of de.
pressed people, and yet they are not ex-
empt from persecution. Here we have
Bullock, Of Georgia. fugitive from the
State of his adoption; Scott. of South
Carolina, disturbed by threats of prose-
cution; Davis, of Texas. and Clayton, of
Arkansas, in trouble over en- illegal as
sumption of power undertaken in return
for moneys received. and. to cap the CHI
max, the telegraph reports that Florida 8
gubernatorial step-son is to be eimpeached
~ the General Assembly for corrupt ma
nipulation of railroad affairs. Will Con-
gress do nothing to save its proteges
from being bounded in this unjust way
by rebelions people?
LLouisDiAe Courier Journal
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A VIGILANCE COMMITTEE EvAroRATED.
The telegraph reported that Leonard
Slough, of Richmond, Ky, murdered
his wife last week, and was then taken
from the jail by crowd of neighbors
and hanged. That Slough killed his
wife was true. and he still remains in
jail to answer the charge Of murder, nor
have the people Of Richmond, KY, at
tempted to interfere with the due course
OF law, which. they seem anxious to
have it understood, is effectively exc
cutod in their neighborhood.
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At the Circuit Court in Yorkville, last
week, the negro Ku Klux, Maj. Joe.
Carter, and his gang. who committed
such gross outrages last winter, were
tried and convicted. The notorious
Major" was sentenced to five years
imprisonment in the penitentiary, the
Captain" to three years, and others of
the gang to terms Of imprisonment vary
ing from few months to one year. Sni-
der, the policeman, who shot Tom John
son in Yorkville, last year, was acquitted.
Peter Culp, indicted for the murder Of
his wife, was convicted, and sentenced to
be hanged on the second Friday in
March.
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A Mr.. Warren Nottingham. Of Macon.
while hunting in Houston County re-
Gently, tried the experiment Of dragging
shotgun over the fence after him.
His left arm is now III Il sling.
A religious war, for the succession be.
tween the partisans of two colored
preachers, is running Savannah crazy.
Twenty five policemen preserve order in
the church very nicely.
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GENERAL MAuaY's Account OF rHH

GENERAL MAURY's ACCOUNT OF THB
ASSAULT UPON aIM.-I wentiuto sleep
Jog gar at Ohattanoog8 tosse6hte some
hours of rest. The conductor of the
sleeping car met me and politely in
formed me that any OF; ;the berths would
be at my service, as he had no other
passengers I laid my travelling bag
and shawl upon seat, and fell into
civil chat with the conductor, during
which he informed me he WAS from
Louisa County, Virginia. the adjoining
County to my own, Spottsylvapia. I
asked him his name. He said his name
was Trioe. I turned from him, and,
without word, took up my, yalise and
shawl and went out Of the sleeping car
and went into the next in front.
had been in that car about five or
ten minutes when missed the cape of
my over-ooat, and thinking I might
have left it in the restaurant of the
depot, went hastily in and asked the
proprietor if had left my cape there.
He told me no. I then went into the
sleeping car to look for it. and found it
in the seat, where had placed it. I
took it up, and was on my way out of
the cars with it when the same conduc-
tor confronted mo, and said to this
effect:
You left this car very abruptly just
now, sir; why did you do sop His
manner was aggressive. replied, .'Be-
cause, sir, chose to do so;" and then,
with coarse language aud insolent man
nor, he demanded again my reasons. I
replied, II left the car because you are
the author of a scandal upon tho South
| ern people" Ho then ran TO the stove,
took up an iron poker, about eighteen
inches long, aud came quickly up to mo
with it. dcnonnciDg aud threatening me
in violent and foul terms, until L had
reached the door Of the sleeping cur,
when, just as stepped out upon the
platform Of the car, he suddenly caught
me around tue neck with the arm hold
ing his lantern, threw me down upon
the platform. aud struck me rapidly and
violently on the back Of my head with
the poker. He inflicted several cuts
upon my head and several upon my
arms :before he was prevented, by Mr..
Peck. the brakesman, from further vio-
lence.
1 had no weapon upon my person. nor
anywhere within reach, and. having
been MANNED in both my hands. was at
his mercy from the moment he threw
me down.
These are the main facts known to me
about this outrage. lay them before
you, and am respectfully, yours,
DABNEl 81. MAURY.
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Carolina, when the ''old fogies" directed
her affairs. was ignorans,of such s.'prIn-
oiples of finance" ~
But why has not a,sufioient income
been raised by taxation to meet the or
dinary expenses of the Government
Bince 1868, the year that r. K. Scott,
that gentleman OF such boasted execu-
tive aud administrative ability, took
charge of the helm OF State7 The ap-
propriations by the Legislature have
been extrsvagant and unheard of before
in South Carolina, truly, but the rate of
taxation has been far moro than proper
tionably increased.
While the estimated expenditures of
the Government has been little more
than double what they were before the
war. the amount forced from the people
by taxation has been four times as large:
and that, too, when the property of the
State has been diminished more than
half, making the rate of taxation eight
times as great; and when we take into
consideration the increased assessed
value put upon real estate, even greater
than that.
The onion now says that the people
have not paid their taxes. It may suit
the Unions views to say that now, when
it is attempting to justify the fraudulent
acts OF the Financial Board; but that
consistent Journalist should not forget
how exultantly and continuously he
boosted of the prompt manner in which
the taxes were paid, when it was work.
ing to bolster up the price of the State
securities. More than this, if there are
delinquent Taxpayers to large number,
and they not the ''hard.handed farmers?"
as the Union says, but men of wealth
and in prosperous business, why in the
name of common sense are they not
made to pay, and what excuse or justifi-
cation can their refusal to pay afford
to this illogical man of the Union for
still heavier impositions upon the
punctual though "hard. handed" farmers.
In our opinion, the General Assembly
will render more service to the State,
and reflect moro credit upon itself, if it
will first direct it's efforts to ascertaining
what has become Of the enormous sums
of money already wrung from the peo-
pie, before it attempts to make pro-
visions for torturing them out of more.
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The CITY bond Bill.

The bill to authorize the Mayor and
Aldermen of the city of Columbia to
issue bonds, and to negotiate and sell
the same, passed second reading in the
House. yesterday. We are informed
that there we're seven amendments to
the bill, the specific terms of all of which
We were unable to ascertain. One re-
quiring the immediate satisfaction of the
debt of $4,000. contracted by the city
fathers with DR.. Neagle, and the release
Of the $3.50, 900 in bonds secretly issued
and pledged to him az security for the
loan, is very proper; as. also. another,
which was offered by MIR. Hurley, and
adopted, prohibiting the City Council
from investing any Of the proceeds of
the bonds in the purchase OF franchises
or privileges. This amendment, it is
understood, was intended to baulk q
nice little scheme, which is ssid to be
on foot, to purchase from Dr.. Neagle
the Congaree Bridge, which he has in
process of reconstruction, and designed
selling ut moderate profit to the city.
But, crowd in as many and as proper
amendments as certain better disposed
members may, tho bill can never be
construed into anything else than q
swindle upon the defenceless property
holders OF the city. There is no neces-
sity to raise fluids in that manner; there
is no guaranty that the funds, when
raised, will not be squandered; and fur
ther, the manner in which the finances
of the city have already been fraudu-
lently tnmpered with, by the present
Council, should satisfy every even com.
paratively honest member of the Legis-
ture that they are not fit to be entrusted
with still greater power to do mischief
We have lost all hope of preserving
the State from bankruptcy. and can look
to nothing else save reputation to
rescue tie people from the thraldom Of
the enormous and illegal debt that has
been contracted; but our city finances
are in tolerably fair condition, and it
does seem too hard that they, too, should
be engulfed in that same maelstrcm of
ruin that has swallowed up our State
credit. 1t is OF no use for Radicals to
say that this is all Democratic cant, and
that there is no cause for such grave ap-
prehension. They said the same thing
in reference to the eytravagant appropri-
ations and expenditure of the funds of
the State, from the beginning Of the re-.
constructed State Government; but the
truth and justice OF the complaints and
warnings made by the conservative press
is but too painfully manifest in the sad
consequences that have followed as pre-
dicted. There is ono hope still left tilnt
this iniquitous measure will not become
law, and that is, in the conservatism
and good sense of the Senate. Spare
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the property holders of Columbia. 70
men Of the Senate, this additional and
foul wrong. } !
LEGIsLATIVE PROCEDDINGs.
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY IS, 1879.
=. GEN A TIT

01INA
The Senate met at 10 NJ, President
Ransier in the Chair.
Mr.. Beckman introduced bill to pro-
vide for tho payment OF jurors and wit
nesses.
Mr.. Bieman-A bill to amend Section
158 of the Code of Procedure.
Mr.. Le,lie-Concurren resolution ap-
pointing q joint committee Of one men,
the House of Representatives to investi-
gate the affairs of the present County
Com missioners of Barnwell.
Mr.. Hayne-Resoiutio requesting the
Governor to inform the Senate if the
Treasurer of Chesterfield County has
complied with the low in giving bond.
The Speaker attended in the Senate,
when the following Acts were ratified:
To authorize the erection of certain
bridge over Wateree River, in Karshaw
County; to incorporate the Merchants
and Farmers Building and Loan Asso-
ciation of Richland County; to author
ize Clerks of the Courts of Common
Pleas to take testimony in certain cases;
to incorporate the Carolina Oil Company
of Columbia; to authorize the County
Com mmissioners of Charleston to place a
fiat ut Bonneau's Ferry; to provide for
the redemption of certain lands sold un-
der orders of Gen. L. II. s. Cunby for
taxes; to regulate the labor of persons
confined in the South Carolina Peniten-
tiary; to require tho County Commits
sioners Of Barnwell to construct q jail at
Blackville, the County seat; to provide
the manner of obtaining the right of
way where lands are surrounded by other
n f1, fho Woll f<,c
Church and Academy of Charleston; to
alter and amend an Act entitled ''An
Act to charter the town OF Hamburg;"
to establish public road in Barnwell
and Orangeburg Counties; to repeal an
Act entitled s'An Act to provide for the
appointment of Land Commissioner
and to define his powers and duties; to
incorporate the Cheraw Fire Engine
ment Of the town of Cheraw.
Ats o'clock P. NJ. Senate adjourned
until to morrow. at IL NJ.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
The House met at IL NJ, Speaker
Moses in the Chair.
The following bills were passed: To
incorporate the Columbia Jockey Club;
to grant and renew the charter of the
incorporate the village of Little Rock,
in Marion County, and for other pur-
poses therein mentioned; to authorize
the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of
Columbia to issue bonds and negotiate
the same, with numerous amendments.
The calendar was gone through with,
and large number of bills received a
second reading. which occupied the at.
tention of the House up to 4 O'Clock P.
NJ, when the House adjourned until 12
NJ, tomorrow.
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have issued any,day for these four years
to rob, and, when it suits their purpose,
to murder the: helpless people of the
vicinity. Rewards, most tempting in
amount, have been insufficient to secure
the capture Of any one member of the
gang; indeed, such is the immunity they
enjoy, purchased by years of successful
plunder and unawed rapine and violence,
thst'they boldly ride along the public
highways and swagger through the
streets of the neighboring towns, with
not O hand brave enough to attempt to
stay them.
With all Of this. this reckless band OF
midnight marauders, of staggering
assassins, has never been styled the "Ku
Klux," nor has ever Federal authority
interfered to protect their victims. They
make daily forays through the whole
country around, openly exact levies of
money and provisions from the fright
ened population. But the Federal
Judiciary thnt despatched United States
marshals, aided by United States bayo-
nets, to the upland Counties of South
Carolina, aud seonred the conviction of
hundreds Of ignorant and hapless coun-
try younkels, is blind to the desperate
condition of affairs in and about the
little village of Scuffletown in the ad-
joining State of North Carolina. We
are not aware that the victims of Low
rey's band of desperadoes have ever up.
pealed to the United States authorities
for assistance; we only comment upon
the distinction made between Henry
Berry Lowrey, tue negro murderer aud
unchecked freebooter, and DIR. William
Avery, the respectable citizen who has
expatriated himself to avoid an illegal
and on unjust conviction. But DIR.
Avery was white man and Democrat,
while the savage Lowrey is mulutto
and Radical partisan.
1t is stated that the force and influence
OF Lowrey's gang were used to support
the carpet-bnggers Holden aud Poole,
and that its victims have uniformly been
the enemies of tho Administration.
This may pe taken with u grain Of ent,
but undoubtedly the POLITICAL bias of
this negro outlaw and his band OF black
ruf1ians is toward the Radical authorities
Of his State and Of the South. Under
the terrorism established by the rule of
these lawless desperadoes the people are
abandoning their homes and leaving the
country to- their tender mercies. The
State authorities have given them no
aid-the Federal authorities seem not
disposed to render them their assistance.
The people might take the law in their
own hands, but the proscriptive and
partial measures of the Federal nuthori-
ties have placed even this last resort out
of their power. It is very certain that
if Lowrey had in reality been one of the
so-called Ku Klux, or if, as is intimated,
he had not served the purposes of the
authorities, the blood-stained camp of
this dismal swamp would long since have
been dispersed, aud the members of the
lawless gang brought to deserved JUS
| tice. But there is ono law in the recon
structcd States for the white and an
other for the black-and Henry Lowrey
profits by the distinction.
Louisville Courier Journal.
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Tho Southern Cell, after suspension { t
several months. is to be revived in Char
lesion again about the first of March.
Mr.. James Brennan is its proprietor.
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Mrs. Sherman, who has been men
toned as "tho Connecticut Borgin," +" is
reported happy and confident of acquit-
tai.
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RADICAL Pow-wow.-There was quite
a gathering of "the faithful loyalists"
here last Saturday, the occasion being q
convention OF delegates from the various
leagues in the County to elect delegates
to the Radical State Convention, which
meets in Columbia the 10Th of this
month, to send delegates to the National
Republican Convention which convenes
in Philadelphia next May, and which
will nominate Republican candidates for
President and Vice-President. After
considerable wrangling, and large
amount of "big talk" the following per-
sons we're elected from this County to
the State Convention: L. W. Duvall,
Henry jacobs and Henry Johnson, the
two last named colored. The announce
ment of these names, as elected, caused
bitter disappointment, so we have been
informed, to the Legislative clique,
who strained every muscle to have them
selves chosen ns delegates, but who, we
arc rejoiced to know, were overwhelm-
ingly defeated.
If the honest colored workingmen will
do likewise in the Legislative contest next
October, they will not only better thoir
own condition, but advance the interests
OF the State at large = IVimsboro Nc,cs.
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a NICE LITTLE GAME DEFEATED. -
From information we. have received, the
result of the Republican State Conven-
ton, broke up nice little game that
certain fellows in Columbia were try
ing to play. 1t seems that Worthington,
(Radical carpet t-bagger.) is anxious to be
sent to the Philadelphia Convention,
and in order to be elected delagate, is
is trying to get delegates in the State
Convention friendly to his interest. 70
do this he has sent his runners to differ.
ent parts of the State to manipulate the
County elections. The train on Satur.
day from Columbia brought to this place
Smart, Mcdowell and Moore, the three
misrepresentation from this County,
together with the notorious June Mob
ley. and one or two hangers on, who
were to bring about tho election Of
Smart, Mcdowell and Moore as dele.
gates The honest workingmen from
the country saw through this plot, and
"squashed" it completely.
Winnsboro NetcS.
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BISHOP LYNCH THE PROBABLE SUCCESS
soR OF THE LATE PRIMATE.-The New
York Eoeaing Post, of Thursday, in an
editorial notice of the late Archbishop
Spelding, says:
He was to have soon received one OF
the highest honors his church could have
bestowed; for it is rumorel that next
spring he would have been made Car
dinal, III company with the English
Archbishop of Wentminster, and the
Telgian Archbishop of Malines-two of
the most notable prelates of Northern
Europe. One OF the favorite plans of
the late Archbishop was the extension of
Roman Catholicism among the freed
men of the South. The splendid idea of
bringing into the bosom of the Holy
Mother Church over 100000 Of con-
verts. was certainly worthy of the utten-
ton of any prelate. and DR.. Spalding
organized q missionary system in the
Southern States which is now in active
operation. His death will cause regret
in the Vatican rs we'll as in his own dio.
cese, for with the late Archbishop Plus
IN was probably better acquainted than
with any other American prelate. The
succession to his Office will involve GER
tain changes in the administration Of
several of the dioceses. A regular sys-
tenn of promotion seems to prevail in
| the Catholic ecclesiastical affairs, and as
Dr.. Lynch, of South Carolina, is now
tho most prominent of Roman Catholic
Bishops, it is thought probable by those
who ought to know that he will be tho
next Primate.
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AN APPALLING DEATH.-A gentleman
who WAS passenger on the train lately
wrecked on the Rock Island (Ill.) Rail-
road. says the scene was indescribably
horrible. Mr.. and Mrs. Reuben Rains,
and their little child, wero seated in the
fore part of the car when the collision
occurred, and were thrown by the tele
scopiDg of the cars to the rear. The
husband was extricated without great
difficulty. but it was found impossible to
remove the debris from the wife. Her
head and portion Of the body were ex-
posed, and her frantic cries for assistance
for the child were heart-rending. The
little thing was finally gotten out, but
the poor woman was soon wrapped in
flames. and her screams and prayers
grew weaker and weaker until silenced
in death. Mr. Rains injuries, it is
feared. will prove fatal, as he was still
unconscious when our informant left.