The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-09-12
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WHEELING REGISTER.
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Union Line, Office Northwest cor.
of Main and 18th SITS.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Vermont Agricultural Fair-senatOr
MOrriIl's Address.

cessfui. Senator Morrill, delivered an
address before the Society. He said the
sscendency of the Agricultural interest:
with the West, surely, as | have thought
preserve our free institutions. To induce
men to embark and remain in pursuit o.
Agriculture, it has seemed to me better
to secure for it home market, by pro
lection of manufacturers, rather thar
waste One-half or more Of the bulky pro
ducts on u long journey in pursuit of con
sImers, and far better than to. Conquer
fftv provinces after the name OF Grea
Britain. to be held for no other purpos'
than for what can be required out o
them bv trade. The farmer who sells
pure blooded stock, who must wash III:
wool As white as snow, who blows every
particle of chatf from his grain, Is cntl-
tied to pure, clean, chaflcss money. TIC
the general government belongs the
right to coin money and regulate the val
uc thereof and State banks have been
supplemented by National banks. We
COMPLAIN of this only in one respect, and
say that if the general government un
dertakes to coin and regulate the value
of money. it is its duty to provide good
money and prevent the issue ofany other
clipped coin as legal tender, rs 1t wonld
be no more dishonest than deprecated
paper. States never chartered banks
with the privilege of issuing deprecated
paper and calling it money,
and the necessity for Such
n false standard has long ago passed
over, and while its continuance is pernI-
cious to all healthy business, 1t is eXcep-
tionally oppressive to agrlcuIturailStS'
whose farms at no time could have been
sold for initiation prices, and the value OF
whose products has borne no just proper
ion to their increased cost.
The Canadian Reciprocity Treaty.
The farmers are deeply Interested III
thc proposed treaty with Great BRITAIN
bv which certain products and manutac-
turi,s are to be admitted free Of duty to
and rom the Canadian Dominion. In
rcgarl to the effect of reciprocity on
wool, lie said they wanted foreign market,
but We want and must keep our own or
abandon sheep husbnndry. In no event
will they buy pound of our wool. That
would be like carrying pepper to llindo-
stan or owls to Athens; but with reel
proCity they could sell here their entire
clip for higher prices than are elsewhere
obtained, and thus supply their wants tor
home consumption. By the admission
of cheaper woods of other countries for
wool. like the bulk of articles. they pro-
pose to make rrciprocally free, is already
exempt from duty. Under the present
Canadian tariff thirty-fve of tn" articles
thov propose to exempt from duty
in the schedule are now free, and
only twenty-thrcc subject to duty. How
long would our farmers agree to protect
every body else, and leave themselves
exposed to the hungry assault of fire."
trade. The remarkable feature of reel
procity in canals, if all should be done that
Canada proposes, is that We grant the
use OF canals in the United States; min"
hundred and nincty->cven miles in
length, for the uso of eighty three and
onc-half miles of Canadian canals, or
about twelve for one. Conghany canal
should of course be built, and will be
built, treaty or no treaty, with benefits t"
accrue to the owners of Canadian timber
lands. by their increased value, with the
insurance of the building Of the canal.
When built. the owners of the canal will
gladly accept Of any tolls for its support.
The address closed by recommendation
that prize be established for the best
farm in the State, and to given annu-
ally.
Judicial Opinion.
New YORK, September ll.-Judgc
Barrett of the Supreme Court has issued
his opinion in the case of Dinsmorc and
Others, against Adams and Others. in
volving the distribution of the assets of
what is known rs the Old Adams En-
press Company. A decree regarding
the distribution of Assets Of the Conn
pany is opened and certified. Holders
are permitted to come in and assert o
claim to their share in the property.
The Tennessee Outrages.
MEMPHIS, September 1.-THE partic,
arrested ut Pickctsville by the United
States soldiers on the charge of com
plicity in the Trenton outrage, will not
arrive here till this afternoon. They
will be taken before the United State,
Commissioner for examination. Another
of the negroes who was taken from Jail.
bnt who escaped is here but under III"
advice of the United States officials re-
fuses to communicate anything in regard
to the affair, beyond the fact that they
escaped when six others were shot, near
Trenton.
The .4rdlmchc gives the following his
tory of affairs in that section: During tn"
civil war this region Of country was
ovcrrun BY squads of gucrrilas claiming
allegiance to both northern and southern
armies. but really serving neither. On"
Col. Hawkins commanded regiment OF
the Federal maraudcrs, chiefly made up
in the counties adjacent, and several
parties Of Southern adh"rcntS ruamcd
over the same region. both sides taking
horses and other property from the citi-
Zens at will. Many deeds OF
blood were pcrpctrated during this peri
cd. At the close Of ho,tilitirs
many of these disbanded guerrilla, r.
manned in the country, and f,r three
years or more, there was u regular un-
derStanding between them in the range
Of country embracing Dyer, Gibson,
Madison. Upton and McNairy counties,
and over the whole range of country
from the Mississippi to the Tennessee
rivers.
Rapine. Arson, Robbery and Mu rder
was of almost daily occurrence. One
Bud Evans was the acknowledged leader
Of these predatory night hawks and a per,
feet reign of terror prevailed among the
most respectable Of the citizens. Gov
Brownlow and his administration were
the reigning authorities, but they wcr,
powerless to stop the bloodshed or check
the lawleSsness. People were torn from
their shivering wives and children and
were shot down and left by the roadside
after not being allowed time TO say =
single PRAYER, and for no known ofTense