The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-03-28
LErrER PROm CHARLES ON.
The Governors Assurance aud Ra.
pacIOusoe.s-Seek'u uartyrdom
-Appointments by Ihe Board OF
Public wsrks-rh Q school Law
Iusu rance BiiI, &c
CHARLESTON, March ., 1873.

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/ CHARLESTON, March q, 1873.
DEAR REGIsrRR-Your friend Jacob
having been completely defeated in his
late dive after the appointing power,
bis next move is awaited with interest.
The detection and exposure OF his pre-
posterous plan to declare the Board ot
Pubic Works vacant and fill the vacan.
ces by appointment, has put him in the
fix oil the chap who tried to change
his shirt in the tunnel: premature day
light has appeared and
"All nature wears unlve sal grin"
For a week his political househ old
has been in a state Of distress ard COM
motion. Their best lad plans, their
proudest hopes have vanished out OF
sight,
Like ships that sailed for sunny isles,
But never came to Sno
His Imperial Highness is no longer
a man OF "cheeru yesterd tys and con-
fident to-morrows" The audacity of
the Legislature seems at once to have
enraged and paralyzed him, and be
stands a model of petri6ed fury, "a
painted Jove, with idle thunder in his
lifted hand"
sELF-soUGHr MARTYRDoM
Was his frat recourse when the Board
o. Public Works met 'or business last
Monday. He called "in a friendly
way," and thought the State officers
should consult together and determine
first whether they were "eliglbIe" as
members OF the Board" He was told
that this very question hal been dis
cussed" and settled at previous meet
ing of the Board which he had dacl ned
to attend. He suggested that grave
doubts such as those which surrounded
this question ought to be deliberately
weighed. (till the Legisl tture sdjourns,
Tor instance } and conclusion reached
that would be satisfactory to ali. He
was reminded that the Board could not
conveniently doubt its own existence,
either gravelv or lightly; that nobody
was dssati. fed but himself. and that
10 dischargirg a duy i'm posed on them
bv law. the Of her members Of the Board
must disclaim res oonsib lity Tor his dis
satisfaction. He then wanted case
made TOR the Courts, and asked the
Board to unite with him in having the
Legislature affix penalty to the iarl
ure or refusal OF State off :er to act
as member Of the B ard. This WAS de-
clined, aud in terms which convinced
him that his purpose to make perse-
cuied martyr o. himself WAS vel under
stood, and would not be permitted. He
retired in high dudgeon, and to this day
the benigusnt side OF his coun'e aoce
is Withdrawn from the other State Off
GERS, who reused 10 own him master.
Several appointments have been made
by the Board. That Of D. ). Thorn
burgh as Superintendent OF the Gums
berIand road in place o. Lnnsford, re.
signed, will be OF interest TO your home
readers Commissioners have also been
appointed under the joint. resolution o.
the Legislature, TO suprrimtend the trans
ter the franchises ot the State in the
Kanawhs river improvement, to the
General Government, in The event the
through Water Line shall be taken
charge of by Federal authority. The
Com missioners are, A. J. Panneli,
james Morrow, jr, j M. B-nnetr,
James D Armstrong. w: II. Travers,
G. F Scott, William A Q isrrier, john
A. Douglas, and A. T, Cnperton.
SPECIAL MESSAGE
From the Governor on the subject OF
the appointing power. has been IN prep,
ararion Tor about ten days. 1t will
either be sent in as q ep-citic reprimsnd
or in connection with the veto OF the
Salary bill containing the Janitor pro.
vi,ion. In either event it will 90 to
the committee on "Growls and Grum-
bles." to fret it's lie away in efiectuaI
rage, while the legislature will move
on uuobstructed like q broad tread
wagon over bumblebee's nest Toe
trouble with Jacob, see ns TO be his
inability to reward HE pesti erou' re-
tainers. His liabilities for the late
cam paigu are largely in excess of the
assets at 8 disposal. Like wildcat
bank in hard run, he wants to borrow
a sack of sixpeuces from his solvent
neigh Dor, the Legislature As the
boy who dug for the woodctuck would
admit no question OF his geett'ng it, but
| was bound 10 have it a. he Was out o.
meat; 30 the pressure upon His Excel
Iency compels him to urge bis woes
and wants increasingly upon the Leg
islature. As soon Is the wood chuck
message shall have been passed through
the hands Of Jimsweeny, Nicftcheu and
the other members Of the reyls"ry
Committee, twill be sent n the Legs
lature, and then your readers will be
furnished With copy. The flanagan
veto, torbidding the passage Of law
authorizing the Courts 10 sppDint their
own Com m issioners. has not yet been
acted upon. TINS puerile affair is ab-o-
lutely TOO little to spank" bnt il its
author could be subjected 10 the opera
ton OF that Illinois spanking machine.
which runs by steam, hits sixtv taps to
the minute. and applies pressure OF
thirty pounds to the square inch. |
tbitk the worst csee o. sore-hesd on
record would be cured by coanter irrl-
tation.
THE JaooBNs AND RADICALS
in the legislature continued