Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-11-30

We regret POT having space III 'iii
weeks issue for the whole of Gov ia
.eob's Message, as, being very able ant
interesting state paper it will amply re
pay perusal. ,..
Ii we required any additional evidence
to prove that IT, people Iof WSst 'lr
einia were right in selecting Gov.Jacol
for sl.e position which he fills with SC
much satisfaction to them and credit t(
himself, we would find # in TIE sr9cttl
cal and practicable recommendations o
his "Second Annual Message now be
fore us.
The subjects i discusses are necessa
iily various and of vast Importance tt
our material interests, as the present
Legislature, TO whom it is addressed
will have to give shape and vitality tc
the new Constitution, by the enactment
of laws necessary to put it into complete
operation.
1t, therefore, treats Of the County
Organization-tbe public road system
Free Schools Delinquent Lands
State Finances--the Institutions for the
insane, the blind, the deaf and dumb
the Penitentiary-Publie improvements
Immigration Geological survey,&c.,
concerning qll which l1e gives important
facts and makes many valuable sugges-
tons.
Speaking of the much needed geolos-
ical survey says: THE great wealth OF
the State consists in its mineral deposits;
a systematic geological survey alone can
define and make known their extent, To-
cation and character.
But besides the immediate material
advantages of such survey, the scleh-
tifc value would be very great, and per-
haps It is debt we owe to modern CIV
ilization TO contribute our share to the
general stock of scientific knowledge.
It's worthy OF consideration. therefore,
whether this work so long delayed by
more.presSing wants, cannot now be
undertaken.
i}pt nFither time nor space will permit
us this week to do Justice to this mes
sage, by giving our readers proper
estimate of its character, so, we Will
have to content ourselves by cordially
commencing it to their attention, salts
fed that..ghen they shall have read it
for themselves, they will ccncur with
us in the opinion now, no matter what
! they may have thought during the
State canvass that Governor j. j. Jacob
is -eminently "the right man in the
right place"
We are always pleased to have such a
genial gentleman cast the shadow OF
their countenance over our sanctnm. as
John II. little, Esq, of the Shepherds
town CIV. Na) Register. MIR. little
was in Baltimore during the early por-
ton of the week, and ''drove dull care
far away" while he told lis of the pros
perity and good cheer which prevails IN
his section.-Baitimo!ean.
SD- We dropped in to take a peep at
the editors, Messrs. Crutchfield IL Haas,
who publish the best weekly paper IN
the United S,ates-1he BaifimOrean.
Mr.. Crutchfeld, for some fifteen years
was the editor of the Petersburg, Va,
Times, and welded a ready and talent
ed pen, and is one Of the best newspa-
per men. of the country,..and we were
exceedingly glad to make his acquain-
lance Mr.. Haas, the junior editor, is
native of the great Valley of Virginia,
a son-in-law of our excellent and wor-
thy County man, Mr.. WIN. Is. Daniels,
and is newspaper man, although young
in years, of considerable experience. 1t
gives us pleasure to learn that we
'drove dull care away" for a ''while, at
least. regretting that we could not have
been instrumental in driving it away for
"a term of years. We have never met
with more genial sett of editors in our
life than those above mentioned, al
though, generally speaking, editors are
pretty clever sett of fellows" The
BnE'piorenn is the incest, cleaqest, spi-
ciest and nuwSiest weekly we have ever
seen, and commend it to the public at
large and ''the rest of mankind.
BRANCH orc V. X. II. EXTENSION
We learn that the managers otthe Cum
berland Valley r. r. Extension which
is completed to Powells Bend, on the
Potomac, contemplate, or at least are
talking OF, building branch from their
road to WilliamSport at point about
from one half to three fourths of a mile
from that town. The extension seems
not to be in a very prosperous oondi-
ton, and now that the Shenandoah Val
lev Road will almost certainly be built
from this town ola Shepherdstown, and
not by Powell's Bend, it would seem to
give the auietps to the upper route
We hope that our Williamsport friends