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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-08-27
F. w. slssoN,
G. p. SIMPSON.
ATTORMEY AT LAW.

Point Pleasant, Mason cG-itis,, West Va.
t!ayING moved 10 pnd rcrmanea!iy located
IL al Point Pleasant. and having procured
the use Of Il J. Fishers Law Library. will at
all times be found at his office ready 10 attend
10 any and ali business entrusted 10 Gy ta:c;
and will practice hereafter in the counties ol
Ma.an, Po:nam, jackson and Koane.
AIl'pers,hs coming to Point Pleasantly The
Kaaawha or Ohio iSsivsr Boats, can coGsClt
With me i: any time OF night inti;te TO return
Jy saute 5o.t, By caE;as a: my residence.
april l6-ly.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-08-27

paAy OF petawares. Aiagcs, froquois,
: WyanaO'ts aud Sbawaaesc. twas cth.
maolcd BY cOrns;al!;, the celebrated and
noblC-miadcd Sbawnsss chief, whose mel.
sacholy end at 'hssaqc place op su5sc-
qasnt occasion, add under circumstances
of The most revolving trcachcry, cannot be
dwcll gpdn, even at this late day, without
feelings oflaelaucholy regret
The chief, Logan assisted in the com.
mand aud burned to revenge the past
wrongs which he bad received 1t the hands
of the "I.ong,kpives."
La this prolonged aud bloody battle the
brave Vissinians suffered terribly. Oh
the killed were Colonels Lewis aud Field.
captains Morrow, Butord. Ward, Murray.
CaGdif. Wilson and McGlenachan; Lieu.
teOantsstllen. oOldsby and Dillon. with
many gallant subalterns, whose names Sc
a@e noi tcea able to ascertain.
The Indian army is saia to have ccmFyis-
ed the pick. of The northern confederate
Etr;bes, Corrstalk's towering form was
seen rapidly hrrryiug through their milst,
and every how and anon. vhcn be iOtnd
the spirits ofAis men were tagging, was
beard to exc'aim in his native tongue,
BE strong be sttoag!9 oao Ofhis war
'riors showing sigus Of fear the sarage chief
tain slew him at the moment aiss lis !Om:
iahawk.
Cen Lewis having buried his,dead, and
thrown up rude fortress for tie protect
ion Of ito @ouadsd. which he gave, in.
charge Of sufficient force; crossed the Ohio
to meet puumasq at tie point dc.is.
mated. Hc ncTed rapidly forward, and 10
an unprecedented sSort perioa reached the
pickTay pIaias Hero he US met By a
nessasfrom Duumorc, ordering lin to
stop, as hc( (Duanore9sa aboct negotiating
a 'Fea'yof peace Si.a s'e ioaIaas' 4'a'S
aans AZ tue @ manner he had oeea' treated
l. eaa iladIas alassS ss 'AFeslsned by . sup.
eFlor t'Fscs0s indians, who Kept constant
Y y ear'' arn. h'%ts dlssesafted the
orders ,aaa pasaea on.
'?' lss s's y nov J: gig ! !tes.l
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-08-27

When man nearly breaks bis neck
tsyingao sc. GU: Of the way ola eight
ming bug" supposiug it to be the head.
ligh. Of locomotive. it is TIME for him to
sigc tEePledse,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-08-27

Donation visits in losa arenot very sue,
cessful as a rule. a clerg5a'an there az
ter receat donation party found he bad
beans enough to las: hin thirty.sorer
years.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-08-27

a barrier which vas ditfcus -
;spsa iIis s6salil3
rat saa ssass5 scs q;
Wills attic sane lsae, j. aisla seIya Is . a
+Prot{e!iea to:t4e gsssisoa thst Isss WITH
ia.%t { y
About :tselFe ssIslacs lie ia1iaassfte
t5sgsn tSsltsea sad The enemy wetssssa
Slowly 10 retire. "A desa!;ofy Ere Sas:kePt
up from behind trees; aud ofen, as the
YFgmisrs pressed loo ael'y upaa tie re
treating Zoe, wefc lao5; ;a:aily aa5dsca. !.
dsd.
Gen Lewis, noticing the nanes1srss Of
'he epei.y, detached three cagpaniss CON,
manded respectively BY Capt John Stuart,
Geoge Matthews aud Isaac Shelby,
with orders to move quietly beneath tie
banks of the Kanawha aud Crooked tGa,
so as %, gain the crcmy's rear.
This mauGryTe was so handsomely cz.
eca.ed thatthe savagcs became alarmed,
fairly gave up the fsh: about icur Q clock
The victory Of The Tifgiuians ,was com
p!ele. Daring the night the Indian army
crossed tue Ohio. aai made OF. The
gradual retreat o!the ladnhs was cue Of
the mos. mastery things Of the kind eTcF
undertaken iu the west Corustall; alter.
patcly led on his men, aad then fell back
in such manner as to held the Hhites in
check and uncertainty. Betwcen II
o'clock A. NJ. and P. N, tie Indian tfmy
fell back more than three n!i.cs This
gave them an oppo:lrnity to bear eff their
wounded aud dead.
This battle scene, in an unbrokcn Sild-
erncss On TIE Ohio, is described as having
been one 0; the most thrilling affairs ;ha!
ever took place on cur western frontier.
The liae Of the battle was a: times nearly
q mile long, and often throughout its entire
leughth CLEANED the blended famed from.
Indian and provincial rifles.
The Indians, under The lead Of the ex-
pe.ienced aud able chiefs, we're confident
of success, fought with q desperation
which no language can describe, .
The actual,loss Of the respective parties
we're never ful!y ascertaiuel, as tie In-
dams we're know to. sare thrown many Of
their dead into .hc Ohio. Their loss has
been estimated at about Que duudred aod
City, while that1ftEe white, 70 killed and
wounded was over two hundred; moro than
oue.fourtk,of the whole number actually
engaged. Tie annals of h;ltory 60 not
show another instances where undiseiplaed
troops held out so successfully and for 50
long a.time agatus.a fee vastly their num-
eriieal superior,
At loas. one laadeea Of Ga. Lewis
men were discriminating, aad'kncw moth
ing Of ,se ba.:le until evening.
The Indian army was composed Eiaci-
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-08-27

A minister of Yves: Aa.htuther, appeal,
ed to sr-Robers Austruthet, wh0 was an
extensive heriter 10 the.parisb. TO assist put.
ting store in sasttdtch, Which he said
the congregation found verycold; "csuld
sir! sauld!s Sir Robert exclaimed; >'ttea
warm ;sem wi,h-yoqf dOc.tiae. sir. Joha
Knox never asked-for a stove in h5kiFst.. "
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-08-27

Some sshOolboys meeting poor woman
drisios asses. one of thcm said to her,
good morning. molher Of asses" Coed
morning, my child was the reply.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-08-27

\ young lady who had recently given
an order to a a-m'iiiaef fora bouaet, said;
You are to make it plain. ba; a.;hc same
time smart, as l s.: IL conseiiioas place
in church"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-08-27

a lady asked a sailor WHOM she met
Why a ship was called "slc." The son Of
Neptune replied that it vas because the
rigging cost more lhau tie bull"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-08-27

An Iri,Rman vas once asked If be had
ever seen red blackberry, "To be sure
I have,n said Pal; call bIackbcrries are
rcd whca tacy s'c green"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-08-27
SECRET SOCIETIES..

M,soyrc -Mn,ura Lodge No fe. 4 F.rt4
A NJ, meets On The Isl and third; Tuesdays Of
,rpch month. c. SHEewsBuEy, Secsc'aFy.
10. o. F.-Fhe Point Pleasant lodge No.
I.o.o.F.. neets.eTety .ThGrsdsS .plght,
AT Fishers Ea!l.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1874-08-27
PHYSICIANS.

Is IN &c s,yf seafsd : rermao6sSs II Point
s. Ssp q sirafs itS.st seisiersI
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
Paw as YOU Go.

If every article for cOnsump-
ton, as it passes from the hands of the
last middle-man, were required to be
paid for in cash, retrenchment would be
forced upon the whole community; the
business affairs of every individual
would be promptly adjusted to the
one prime necessity of securing the
daily needs of life extravaganza would
end in the household, and by conse-
quence disappear from every depart
ment of business, and from the conduct
of every pursuit. From that moment
thousands of people would learn, for
the first time, that many of their wants
are purely fictitious, that many of their
habits and appetites are unnatural, de-
structive of health, and wastefully ex-
travagant. When the recent war of the
rebellion broke out, regiments marched
to the front, followed by long trains of
baggage, regarded as essential no less
to the effectiveness of the volunteers as
soldiers than to their comfort and con-
venience as men. AS the war progressed
the baggage trains fell off, but the
health and strength of the men, equally
with their effectiveness as soldiers, i'm
proved in inverse proportion to the
dropping away of the long lines of bag
gage-wagons. Similarly, the entire
community is afflicted with thousands
of fictitious wants, which have come to
be regarded as necessities to comfort,
but which are, in fact, merely costly
habits, fastened upon it by an absurd
system of credit applied to the smallest
details of daily life. Buying a necktie
or pound of sugar is a commercial
transaction, to be sure but it is a COM
mercial transaction with which credit.
properly understood and applied, should
have nothing whatever to do. 1t is in
itself a small thing, but if bought on
credit tends to stimulate consumption,
where it ought to be discouraged. Mill
ions of these apparently harmless 'fcom-
mercial transactions" derange all the
true relations between legitimate de-
mand and supply, degrade credit, finally
overthrow it altogether, and produce
great monetary and trade disturbances.
Said John Randolph once, in a burst of
ecstacy, 81 have found the phiIoso-
piers stone Here it is: Pay as
1JOU 40 :"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
Liberia.

The Pittsburgh Commercial says !:
"Mr. John w. Good left Philadelphia
on Saturday to take passage for Liberia,
in West Africa, on the Jasper, to sail
from New York this week. Mr.. Good
went to Liberia in 1857 originally, and
now returns in charge of the new steam
coffee hulling machine, invented by
Messrs. Morris and Woodruff, of this
city. The Government of Liberia has
offered reward of S. for every 1000
coffee trees planted, and a remarkable
spirit of emulation has been awakened
in parts of the young African Republic.
Five acres planted in young coffee trees
would yield 81 900 per annum, and the
Government offers 25 acres to every
emigrant family. One hundred and
thirty freedmen from Georgia are ex-
pected to go out in the same vessel to
settle at Brewerville, founded by the
generous legacy of the late Charles
Brewer, of Pittsburgh. Thousands OF
freedmen have applied for passage to
Liberia, and as soon as the gold region
beyond the present boundary of Liberia
is reached, there will be probably rush
to Western Africa similar to that which
peopled the gold regions of California
and Australia. With coffee, sugar, cot
ton, and palm oil now obtainable, and
gold in large quantities in prospect,
there seems to be a bright future fol
Liberia.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
The Corn and Cotton Crops.

The November statistical report of
the Department of Agriculture makes
the showing of the corn product quite
as unfavorable as that which forecasted
the short crop of 1869. The preliminary
report of the aggregate quantity in that
year indicated a total of S74, 900, 600
bushels, which was 900, 900, 600 less than
the estimate for the large crop of 1870
and the present returns points to pro-
duct of S58, 100000. The estimate of
last years crop in Illinois was OF, 000,-
600 bushels estimate of the present
crop, 1872, 00O,0 900 bushels. In only six
States are the crops equal to last year,
viz: Virginia, Georgia, Florida, West
Virginia, Oregon and Rhode Island.
The percentage of deficiency in the
principal corn growing sections, in com
parison with the total product last year,
is as follows: Kentucky, per cent;
Ohio, IL Indiana, % Illinois, SO;
Iowa, %; Missouri, 30; Kansas, 81.
The deficiency for New York is 8 per
cent; Pennsylvania, 16. In most of
the Southern States the crop is smaller
than that of last year.
The cotton reports of November, I'M
like those of the comparative condition
earlier in the season, make exact esti-
mates of the expected crop in each
county, stated in the form of percent
age of last years crop. The aggregate
of these estimates varies little from
3, 700, 600 bales. The season for pick
ing has been unusually fine thus far,
yet the result may be modified by an
exceptionally unfavorable season in the
latter part of November, and in Deem
Der, or by storm affecting iniuriously
the saving of the top crop. The State
percentages in comparison with last
year are calculated as follows : North
Carolina, 98; South Carolina, %;
Georgia, 81 Florida, 81 Alabama, 81
Mississippi, IS; Louisiana, 80;
Texas, 112 Arkansas, 1902; Tennessee,
1O2 per cent. These figures would be
much lower but for the increased area
planted. The estimated total area in
round numbers is $500, 900 acres.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
A Monster.

The Emperor of Abyssinia, formerly
Prince of Tigre, but now rejoicing III
the title of JOHANN IL, though profess
ing to be Christian and a progressive
ruler, is truly an embodiment of bar
barity An English traveller states that
he recently captured Abba Kassai, a
pretender to the throne, filed his ears
with gun cotton, which he caused to be
exploded, blowing his head to atoms.
The same person states that he caused
the right hands and left legs of twenty
seven captives to be Topped off in his
imperial presence. and then he had them
taken out into the forest and abandoned
to be preyed upon by the lions, tigers
and panthers. Most travellers in Africa
bear testimony to the fact that the rulers
of African tribes have become blood
thirsty and cruel since the prohibition
of the slave trade. Before that time,
captives taken in war, or persons con-
victed of crimes against the ruler, knew
no worse fate than being sold into
slavery. Now they are scOurged, or put
to death ia the most cruel forms. Gu
pidity is q characteristic of the negro
ruler. While he could realize price
for his prisoner he was satisfied. He
does not look with favor on imprison-
ment, as it is costly to support men in
captivity. AS he cannot sell his cap
tives, and will not imprison them, he
puts them out of the way.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
The BurrieI Butchery

The following is the story told a re-
porter of the New York Herdid by Mr..
George w. Sherman, who was a wit
ness of the executions at Santiago de
Cuba:
"The slaughter-house where the first
butchery took place is about 600 feet
square, which gives a lineal frontage TO
each side of about 400 feet. The men
in question were placed in front of this
place, which is an adobe building of
about ID or IA feet in height Tin which
are imbedded thousands of bullets),
with an overhanging roof, while on the
ground a gutter has been constructed
to receive the rain which may trickle
from off the roof. Ryan refused to
kneel, although repeated efforts were
made to make him do so. The men
were all bound and placed near the gut
ter just described. After many rounds
had been fired the men were considered
dead, but it was found that Ryan was
not dead, and sword was plunged into
his body-but not into his heart, as
stated. The first blows given were into
his abdomen. The soldiers who had
been detailed to do this work by Gen.
Burriel were wretched marksmen. At
ter this a number of cavalrymen came
on the spot and rode their horses over
the bleeding corpses till they were in an
almost unacceptable state. The four
heads were cut off and placed on poles,
and carried round by the people in tri-
umph. The bodies were then, or rather
what remained of them, placed in a cart
and driven out to a marshy spot, about
a mile from the place of execution, and
dumped out like load of dirt in an
open ditch, where a few inches of
mother earth were, perhaps, placed
upon them by order of Burriel, or per-
haps not"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09

sire day of perfect rest. Lord, help
us to apply the skids to the wheels, so
that there shall be no motion during
the whole of this Thy blessed Sabbath
of rest" He then read a hymn, and
the chorister came to the front of the
platform by his side and started the
tune" the whole congregation joining
in singing, the minister reading each
verse before it was sung. One of the
hymns sung during the service was the
familiar one commencing "All hail the
power of Jesus NAME" and to say that
the effect was wonderful does not begin
to describe it. The truth is, the sing
lug of a congregation like that must be
listened to to be understood. The SER
mon was short and to the point, the
language used very plain and simple,
and without any attempt at display in
any manner. He speaks with a great
deal of earnestness. and apparently with
much feeling in what he says; at the
same time there is nothing boisterous
in his tone or manner. Every person in
the congregation sits perfectly absorbed
in the man before them, who appears to
you entirely like plain Methodist min
lister in the country, and you ask your
self wherein his wonderful power con-
sists; and when the service is done you
are still speaking the question, and can
only answer it by saying that his power
consists in his earnestness of manner
and simplicity of style.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
A RrnYa Man.

Whatever else may be said about Capt.
Fry, the commanding officer OF the Ill
| fated Virginius, it must be admitted
| that he met his fate at the hands of the
| Spanish butchers like a brave hearted
gentleman. His demeanor under the
circumstances shows that the days of
knightly gallantry are not yet entirely
passed away. In his last statements he
has no regrets for his own fate, and
wastes no time in appealing for mercy
for himself. Upon this point he only
says
"The Consul knows well that am not
pleading for my own life. / have not
prayed to God for it, nor even to the
Blessed Mother. have neither home
nor county, victim of war and per-
secution, the avenues to the securing of
property being closed to me to such a
point that 1 have not been able to pro-
vide bread for my wife and seven
children, who know what it is to suffer
for the necessaries of life. My life is
one of suffering, and look upon what
has happened to me as a benefit of God,
and it is not for me, therefore, to ask
favors of any one"
Utterly ignoring himself, his only
sOllClGuue rs IOE HIS crew, VINO nave Deeu
guilty of no offense except of working
for him in navigating his vessel, and
begs that his blood may be sufficient for
those who had no knowledge of the
crime charged upon them. With any
others less brutal than the Spanish
butchers, his appeal would have had in
fuence. In his own words, they would
at least have identified the victims whom
they were about to sacrifice. But they
were shot, and he also. Whether he
were guilty of a crime or not, he at least
died like brave man and a gentleman,
without single murmur, pleading with
his last words for the lives of others,
and commencing his soul to God. Such
instances of chivalric bravery and dis
interestedness are too rare nowadays to
pass unnoticed.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
Eyes During BayOnet Charges.

The power of the eye is most strik-
ingly illustrated by the fact that when
two bodies of infantry meet in charge
of bayonets the front rank, on one side
or the other almost invariably gives
way directly the bayonets are crossed,
that is, before the cold steel enters the
body of either party. The front ranks
give way, the rear ranks are generally
broken, and rout ensues. The dread
full passion and fixed resolve in the eyes
of the front rank on one side everpOw-
ers that of their antagonists, whose
hearts fail before them. Calculations
have been made to supersede this, by
the order that each soldiers bayOnet
shall not take the man directly in front
of him in the enemy's ranks, but the
next man to the left. A systematic mu
tUality of reliance was thus provided
for, and the effect of the enemy's eyes
superseded. It was a horribly clever
idea. But in vain-the eye of the weak
er will only simmer, and wavers be-
tween the two-trembles for the mid
riff-and no doubt gives the "prefer-
snce" to the man whose bayonet point
is within a few inches of the .jttSte mil
leu. Between the two he generally
fails, or takes to fight. The single
minded glare of the demon of war re-
fleets the prefulent horror of the cold
steel point. It is remarkable, on exam
lining the dead bodies on field of bat
tie after there has been a successful
bayonet charge, how few have been
killed by the point in charging thrusts.
The men have died from thrusts during
flight, or from the dubbed, i. e., butt
end blows, or pierced when on the
ground, or have been trampled to death.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
The SineMs Of War.

The Treasury of the War Depart
ment of the German Empire, by re-
cent order, is to have on hand, at all
times, $4,000, goo in coined gold. This
sum is to be kept in the Julius Tower of
the Citadel of Spandau, considered to
be the safest place for the boarding of
so large a treasure. The doors of the
tower and of the inner vaults are all Sc
cured with double locks, the key to the
one being in the hands of one official,
and the key to the other in those of a
supervisor. The tower is constantly
guarded by a detachment of troops, and
the commander of the fortress of Span
dau is instructed to report every event
that might threaten the safety of the
tower to the Minister of War, who re-
ports to the Chancellor. Nothing can
be deposited in or drawn from the
treasury without an order from the
Chancellor.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-09
Oxygen as q Poison.

Oxygen, on the plentifulness of which
in the air we breathe, the bounding
blood of health is supposed to depend,
is as fatal as dose of strychnine, if in
hailed in a condensed form. Paul Bert,
a French scientist, has demonstrated
this by some recent experiments with
birds and animals. Placing sparrows
under a pressure of three and half at
mospheres, the birds were seized with
commissions. The same results followed
when sparrows were confined in common
air, under a pressure of seventeen at
mospheres. In oxygen, at a pressure
of three and half atmospheres, or in
air at twenty-five atmospheres, the con-
vulsions were extremely violent and
soon fatal. In the latter case, the
symptoms were as follows Convul-
sions commenced after four or five min
utes. The bird hobbies in moving
about as though walking on hot Goals.
It then futters it's wings, falls on its
back, and spins about with it's claws
doubled up. Death supervenes after a
few s''oh spasms. In order to produce
con ,dlsions in dog, oxygen was found
to require pressure OF three and half
atmospheres, and pressure of five at
mospheres is fatal. The amount of
oxygen in the arterial blood of a dog in
commissions was found to be considera-
bly, less than twice the normal quantity.
From these facts M. Bert draws start
ling conclusions that oxygen is the most
fearful poison known.