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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-16
GAS ORDINANCE.

The committee on Ordinances reported
an ordinance in relation to the proposed
loan for the extension of the gas mains
to the Seventh and Eighth wards, which
was read and adopted The ordinance
provides that the trustees OF the W Wheel.
ing Gas Works shall be authorized to
issue and deliver coupon bonds OF the
Wheeling Gas Company to the Commits
sioncrs acting uLdcr the ordinance
entitled an ordinance to ncgotiute loan
for the benefit of the city Of Wheeling.
and create sinking fund for the rrdemp-
ton thereof, passed January "a, 1871, to
the amount Of forty-fve thousand dollars,
or such amount Hs may be necessary to
extend the gaS mains ana To erect the ne
cessary apparatus to supply the lnhabit
ants OF the Seventh and Eighth wards of
the city of Wheeling, with gas. The said
bonds TO be issued IN sums OF five hundred
dollars each, PAYABLE on or before the lst
day of July, A. d. 1890, at the National
Bank OF West Virginia, at Wheeling,
with interest mt the rate otsevcn and one
half per cent per annum, the interest TO
be payable scmi-annually, on the first day
OF July and January, in each and every
year, at said bank On the presentation Of
the proper coupon. The names of the
Trustees to be engraved on said coupons
and said bonds to be signed by the said
Trustees, and sealed with the seal OF the
Wheeling Gas Company.
The Commissioners are authorized and
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-16
WHEELING, March Slsi, 1875.

The Peabody Insurance company re,
patronage of the late Fire and Marine In
Suraucr Company, guaranteeing satisfac-
ZION by fair dealing, ample protection and
prompt settlements.
wM. BAILEY, President.
LEWIS BAILEY, Cashier.
JLV. RODGERS, Secretary.
DIRECTORS.
YIN Bailey, :. L. Hildreth,
Sl0nzo Ioring, Henry b. Miller,
A. ". Adams, Henry Schlnuloach'
James +. Barnes, llr. W. j. Bates,
Thomas Hughes. apSS
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-16

4 resolution ordc'ing two lamp posts
to be placed on Locust street, Six Ward,
was referred to the Committee on Lights.
a resolution that Alley 20 be curbed
and bouldcrcd was referred to the Com
rsittce on Streets and ALLEYS.
An ordinance to negotiate loan for
the proposed extension of gas to tho
Seventh and Eighth wards, received from
the First Branch, was concurred in.
Adjourned to meet on Tuesday even
ing next.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-16
lBY Telegrnph.I

PITTSBURGH, June l5.-Riyer " feet
10 inches and rising. Cloudy and warm.
Likely to rain tonight.
NASHVILLE, June l5.-River still
falling. with 2 feet 10 inches on shoals
threatening rain. Departed-Branstord,
Evansville. -
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15

ONE BINGHAM, who gave ex-Speaker
Blaine dinner and had a ward club of
which he is chairman nominate Blaine for
the Presidency, is disbursing officer for the
new post-of1ice building in Philadelphia
little berth in which he can pocket clean
100000 before he gets through with it.
Bingham's Seventh Ward Club is composed
of working men employed on the post-otice
building who are used by Bingham to help
him in his political ambitions. We have
been looking up this man Bingham record
and we find he has happy faculty of get
ting offices and holding on to them, no
matter whether the Administration be Dem
ocratic or Republican. OF course he at
once become a furious Republican when
President Grant was elected, and after
several Intellectual attempts to be nominated
for sheriff and other of the lucrative city
Offices in Philadelphia, he at last got con-
troll of the campaign funds in the city ex-
ecutive committee Of his party and was
elected clerk Of the court, which position
he now holds in addition to his Government
Office. This is the character of the man the
ex-Speaker allows to put him in nomina-
ton as the standard bearer Of the Republi-
can party.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15

others. The Legislature has by Law declared
petty larceny TO be a penitentiafy offence.
Under this law black man can BID convicted
before justice of the peace, and clnTicted on
"suspicion," "hear-say" evidence q any other
form of insufficient evidence. Mere commu-
nifty or judicial prejudice is sufficient to work
the conviction of an innocent man.
This infamous law originated In but one
motive, and had..but one object in view. Its mo-
tive was to establish a new 'ipower Of servi-
tude" " over the freedmen; its object was to
place the freed people at the mercy of the
white race. The effect of the law Is in perfect
harmony with the motive and this object.
Under its operation innocent negroes are being
convicted upon the most frivolous charges and
insufficient evidence, and when thus made pepi-
Tertiary convicts they are sold or ''hired 3" to
labor. The tenor which this law inspires in
the minds of the ignorant and helpless blacks
is greater than that produced by any other OF
the 'wheels" of the reaction machine.
see from the Richmond Dispatch that the
Virginia custom of combining lunatics with
criminals in the common jail is provoking
inquiry. This custom is denounced as SC
opposed to the dictate of humanity, as to place
the State that practices 1t beyond the pale Of
civilization. 1t is to be hoped that the cause
of the poor negro will go along side BY side
with that Of the helpless lunatic, and that the
cause Of humanity and civilization will in both
cases triumph over the spirit OF ferocity and
Indifference alike to human suffering, or human
aspiration. OBSERVER.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15

the same that is taken by the leading
Catholics in this city, one of whom writes
US upon the subject as follows,
THE Holy Father has made glad the hearts
of millions of his children in the UnAted
States by appointing an American Cardinal.
This result, so long and ardently desired, has
at last been consummated under circumstances
so peculiar in their character that 1t cannot
fail to increase and strengthen that sincere
love and generation for the Pope which Amer
lean Catholics have ever manifested. While
the tempest of persecution RACES With a fury
unsurpassed in the history of the Church,
which has witnessed the rise and fall of king
doms and republics, yet never exhibiting the
feebleness of age nor relaxing its ceaseless
energy, the Holy Father, virtually prisoner,
amid the desolation and ,embarrassments
which surround him, is not unmindful of the
faithful in the United States, but turns to
them with benediction, rewarding their zeal
and fidelity by comforting on a native-born
American the highest dignity of the Church.
Beyond this the appointment has but little sig
nifcance. Being the highest ecclesiastical
authority in the country, Cardinal McCloskey
will be the medium of communication with
the Vatican, and the channel through which
the Sovereign Pontif will declare his wishes to
the Church In America, and as q member of
the College of Cardinals will participate in
the election of the Pope's successor"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15
SENATOR WEIGHTS LETTER

The Iowa Republican seems to be consid-
erably exercised regarding the letter of
Senator Wright, of that State, in which he
declines to become O candidate for re-elec-
ton. He has many friends, both in Wash.
ington and at home who will regret this
decision but there seems to be difference
of opinion regarding the matter among
the politicians of his State, which is very
definitely expressed in the following extract
from the columns of the Burlington HaOk-
eye:
ain another column we print Senator
Wright's letter declining to be candidate for
reelection to the Senate. He gives his reasons
for his action, and doubtless the people of the
State will consider them good and sufficient
and not insist that he shall, against his own
will, return to the Senate. By many people
of Iowa this announcement by the Senator will
be regretted, as he has many warm and admir-
ing friends in the State who would cheerfully
have aided him in making the contest for re-
election. The Senator is satisfied in his own
mind that in a contest for a second term he
would be an easy victor, and this is, no doubt,
pleasant thought to a man about to retire
from public station. We are inclined to think
that he would have changed his mind before
the close of the contest, as the opposition to
him was certainly assuming formidable shape.
1t cannot be denied that very strong impress
sion exists, and among Senator Wright's very
warmest friends, that he has failed to meet pub
lie expectation as a statesman, and that the re-
cord he has made as Senator does not shine
with the lustre Of his record as Judge. We
believe in most cases he has aimed TO do his
duty, and that his failures have resulted more
from his lack of nerve and his fear of assum-
ing responsibility than from any other cause,
together with his mania for striving TO make
it appear that he was the champion of economy
and reform. His persistent attempts to cut
down the salaries Of the Washington clerks
appear strange in the light ofthc statement in
his letter Of declension, giving as one of the
main reasons for his action that he cannot live
in Washington on a Senator's salary. In short,
it has been demonstrated that good Judge
does not always make a good Senator. Iowa
never had better judge on her Supreme
bench than she had in the person of Judge
Wright, and while there are differences of
opinion as to his merits as a Senator, none
exist as 10 his merits as a Judge. He can
serve the State of Iowa much better in the
latter than in the former position"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15

IL ALABAMA, Virginia, Texas and other
Southern States laws have been enacted
providing for condition of penal servi-
tude which virtually revives the system of
human slavery, for the maintenance Of
which the Southern people attempted to
destroy the Union. According to the ex-
plantations Of our correspondents in those
States these laws are enforced in such a
way as to provide for the condemnation of
the unfortunate victims, who are always
black, to service at wages of two dollars
per month, while paying with their labor
the most eXorbitant fines. The victims are
put up for sale on the auction-bleck, as
they were before the war, and are knocked
down, not to the highest bidder, but to
some merciless wretch who has previously
entered into a conspiracy with others to
keep down the price of what they are
pleased to call convict labor" Certainly
this is marked step in the direction of a
restoration of the good old times when
every gentleman had the right to "wallup
his own niggers.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15
THE EMFRTcAN CGRnTNAL.

The New York Herald, which is &C
knowledged as a sort of quasi organ of the
Vatican in America, gracefully acknowl-
edges the endowment of the Church in the
United States with a Cardinalate to have
been appropriately conferred and in good
time. We are glad to note this evidence of
humility in the head:of the Independent
Press of the country, and all the more so
because this same Herald has been thunder
ing at the doors of Pho Mono every little
while during the last two or three decades
for the conference Of this honor upon some
one of the American soDs of the Church.
Il claimed at one period that Archbishop
Hughes should be made Prince of Rome.
But now the Herald sees that the time
chosen by the Holy Father at Rome is the
best time, and that the honor now con-
ferred upon the American Church will be
appreciated by the Roman Catholic Church
throughout the land. In this view the
Herald is no doubt correct, for it is much
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15

clrried the BeckN it'll baby with her on her
Logging expedition S, and made use of its in
nocent presence to enlist the sympathy OF
kind-hearted people. Being a woman
without any moral instinct, and utterly
without principle, she did not appreciate
the enormity of her crime, even if she ap-
preciated that she had committed crime.
Her idea was TO get bread, and she was, as
we have intimated, simply reckless as to
the means by which she got it. There
may exist q class of tender hearted people
who will be inclined to accept these facts
in palliation of the deed but it is to be
hoped that this foolish sentimentalism, if
it exists, will not interfere to prevent the
infiction OF the complete rigor of the law.
The crime of abduction is becoming too
common in this country, and it is time an
example of its punishment should be made
to warn those who are guilty of it that the
authorities will not extenuate such grave
misdemeanoTs.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15

IT Is UNDERSTOOD that another dash will
he made in adsy or two for the removal of
Mr.. French from the position of Sergeant
alarms of the Senate. The committee
appointed by the Republican caucus to in
vestigate the charges made against French
by several Senators will probably report
tomorrow. 1t is also limited that an effort
will be made to make changes in the other
elective officers of the Senate, which are
now filled by the following. named persons {:
Secretary, Geo. c. Gorham, of California ;
Chief Clerk, W. ]. Mcdonald, of District
of Columbia; Chief Executive Clerk, James
II. Young, of Pennsylvania; Public Printer,
A NJ. Clapp, of New York, and Door
keeper, Isaac Bassett, of the District of
Columbia.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15

THE vote on Governor Pinchback's
claims to a seat in the Senate may be
reached to-day, but probably will not be
until. to. morrow. The peculiar connection
of this case with the troubles in Louisiana
has attracted general attention to it, and
owing to diversity of opinion regarding
the merits of the State controversy, rather
than regarding the contest for his seat, the
vote will he very close. If the Senate re-
jects his claim, an election will, no doubt,
be attempted by the mongrcl or compromise
Legislature of a successor, but the imme-
date effect will be to chill the ardor of
many earnest Republicans of the colored
race in the South. A sketch OF his life from
a friendly pen, which we copy from the
Cincinnati Commercial, will serve to cor
rect many misapprehensions regarding his
remarkable career, and refute number of
lies which have been put afioat by the In
depcndent Press regarding him.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15
General Rutherford.

rFrom the Philadelphia PresS.l
During the exciting political contest OF 1872,
pending the State election, the following ap-
peared on the editorial page of this paper, as
well as in substance under the telegraphic
head: "Allan Rutherford, Cameronian, is in
the city. Watch him! He was concerned in
election frauds in North Carolina" Although
this is q somewhat late day to make an expla-
nation, and the writer of the article has not at
this time any connection with this journal, we
feel that in Justice to ourselves and to General
Rutherford, Third Auditor of the Treasury, an
explanation and correction are due. The at
tention of the editor was not called to this par
agraph until some time after it appeared, and
on inquiry 1t is ascertained that the statement
is erroneous in every particular. General
Rutherford was not in Philadelphia at the time
mentioned, and he was not mixed up in any
alleged election frauds in North Carolina or
elsewhere, and no such charge or insinuation
was ever made against him to our knowledge.
On the contrary, General Rutherford has al
ways borne the highest character, personal
and. otherwise, and the worst charge made
against him is that he is an unfiinching Repub-
Hcan, and as this assault comes from his politi-
cal opponents we feel assured that he can bear
III uDdar II
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15
DIED..

BARTLETT On the nth Inst, at lo:s0 o'clock
p, M, after lingering illness, Mrs. ELIZABETH
BARTLETT, aged elghty-one years.
HEBRON On the 18th inst, at o'clock p. M,
at the residence OF her son, Joseph Heron In the
MARY HERR6S, in the seventy-dfth year Of her
age.
LowNDEs..Atni;,0 GT m March IS, Ig5s, GER;
aFS i5d ps TS&r
COPY
mia, JAMES HENRY MARTIN, in the sixty-irst year
Tupsfal this tMonday) morning, at i O'Clock,
from Emmanuel church, Anacostla, ID. e.
BnIch. aged seventeen months.
M from isIO street noSh%ett Fri,1ds Sol Of IL:
family are respectfully invited to attend.
ToTTEN.-At Morristown, n. j., on Wednes-
Lieut.. George NJ. Totten, U. s. n, and daughter
Of the late Lieut.. Col. John N. Gamble, United
Funeral from the residence OF Gen. David Hun
ter, No. I526 street northwest, on Tuesday morn
Ing, March l6, at Il O'Clock.
EDMoNDS.-On the 18th inst, OLIVIA c. Ed
MoNPs, aged fifty. nine years, ono month and thIr-
KeIstives and friends of the family. are respect
residence, S04 New York avenue, Monday, at 5
O'Clock p. m.
HoWIsoN. On the 18th inst, at / O'Clock
beloved daughter Of Alfred and Edith HOWlson,
late of Alexandria, Va.
daughter Of Alfred AM Hannah Pope, aged twenty
years.
The funeral will take place at Mt. Zion church,
on Monday, March Is, at2 p. m.
WAILEs:-On the 18th inst, NELLIE COLE,
daughter of stephen C. and Rose L. WALES.
Funeral Monday afternoon, at clock, from her
fathers residence, 223 First street northeast.
WEISS.-On Saturday, the 18th inst, of chronic
Group, HENRY LEWIS, youngest son Of Charles N,
and Elizabeth L. Weiss, aged three years aud three
months.
EMRICH.-In New York, on the 18th inst,
HENRY P. ENRICH, aged twenty-five years and
seven months, son Of the late =. Enrich.
O'CoNNOR.-0n the 18th inst, at S p. m, MARY
O'CONNOR, aged twenIy-eight years, a native of
Balylangford, county Kerry, Ireland, widow of the
late Thos. O'COnnor, policeman.
Her funeral will take place from the residen ce of
John Nc Elgott, Seyenth-street road, above bound
airy, on Monday, at O'Clock D. m. The friends OF
the family are respectfully invited to attend.
MAGUIRE.-On Friday, the 18th inst, at a. m,
in the twenty. fourth year Of her age. MATILDA r.
MAGUIRE, wife OF VIM. Herman Mcguire. post
master Of the United states Senate, and dau xhter
OF John N. Sims, OF the Second Auditors ONCE.
Funeral will take place from the residence of her
husband, 1875 Tenth street northwest on Monday,
the 18th inst, at S45 m. Mass will be celebrated
At The Church Of the Immaculate Conception, at 3
q. IN. Friends Of the family are invited to attend
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15

THE Georgetown kidnapping case con,
tains some strange features which provoke
serious thought. "Puss" Oakley, who
stole the child, seems to have risked every
thing without regard to results, because she
was known to the Beckwiths, the child's
parents, and did not make any attempt to
conceal her movements. When arrested
in Baltimore she seemed to be somewhat
surprised, but nevertheless to expect that
the father of the child would be hunting
after it. She seems to have taken good
care of it, to have fed it properly, and
claimed that she was about to return 10
Washington to restore 1t to its home.
There is reason to doubt the truth of this
claim. however, because her husband, or
male attachment of some kind, lives in Nor
folk, and it is probable she intended to join
him as soon as possible. Her motive was
plain enough. She is known as "prOfes-
sioual thief" and as professional thieves
are rarely able to support themselves by
their profession, it may be safely assumed
that she was hungry. She therefore
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15
ALABAMA.
Slavery Virtually Re-sstabli.hsd in the State

Slavery Virtually Re-establiShsd IN the State.
From an Occasional Correspondent
MOBILE, ALA, March 0, 1875.
In 1867 law was passed giving circuit or
city judges power to sentence prisoners con-
victed of 1nisdemeanors to imprisonment or
hard labor for the county. Judge H. d. Clay
ton and Judge Alpheus Baker, of Eufaula,
have recently sentenced about thirty negroes
to hard labor for the county. The county COM
missioner, John c. McRae, and others, together
with Wiley Jones, probate judge, have sold the
prisoners at auction to planters, for two dollars
permonth, this being done with the knowledge
of Judge Clayton. At this sale one man, being
anxious to secure some Of this cheap labor, bid
three dollars, but he was forced to retract this
bid and bid two dollars, the planters being de-
termined to keep the price down. The Ku-
Klux Changers do this, and the result Is
greater terror in political way to the blacks
than you can imagine. The jurors fix the fine,
and the jurymen are always Ku-Klux Changers.
Critic.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15

The Kansas Legislature has adjourned
without making any appropriation for the
relief of the grasshOpper sufferers in that
State. In other words, the contemplate and
stingy spirit ofdemagogism, which the mem
bcrs attempted to impose on the people as
economy, was served by allowing their fel-
low-citizens to suffer starvation or rely
upon the generosity of strangers. But MIR
Pomeroy got his 81, 900 back.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15

THE LEADERS Of the Republican party
in Philadelphia don't seem to be united
over Quarter Sessions Clerk Bingham's
nomination of Blaine for the Presidency.
1t seems as a mark of their disapproval Mr..
John l.. Hill, chief commissioner Of high
ways and chairman Of the city executive
committee of the Republican party in Phil
adelphia, will, on Thursday next, give a
dinner and reception to Gen. Butler, and
will on the following day have his ward
club nominate him for the Presidency.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15

THE Raleigh Sentinel invokes the aid of
the troops" for the suppression of the
Molly Maguires in Pennsylvania. Alto
gether unnecessary. The courts of the
keystone State are capable of taking care Of
such cases, and will do so. If the courts
of the Southern States were as efficient and
impartial, there would be no necessity for
the presence Of 1.-THE troops !" in that Sec
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15

THE Richmond Enquirer appears enlarged
and in a new dress. Extreme as it always is
regarding political matters, the Enquirer is
readable, newsy paper, and deserves on this
litter account the success which it seems to
have achieved under its new management.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15

Col. MCCLURE's new paper, the Phila-
delphia Times, made its appearance last
Saturday. In typographical appearance it
is neat, though not very attractive, and
looks like a cross between the New York
Tribune and New York Sun. OF course,
it is independent, and devoted TO the in
terests of the conscience of the editor
whatever they may be. There is room for
live newspaper in the Quaker City, and
it is probable that the Times will fill the
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15
MARRIED..

EVANS ROBERTS. On Tuesday evening
March Q, by Rev. A. J. Porter, z. z. Richmond
district, at the residence ofIhe brides father, VIM
p. Speer, near Fairfax c. H., Va Mr.. JOHN T.,
EVANS, OF the Virginia Conference NJ. L, Church,
and Mrs. ESTHER OPHELIA ROBERTS.
BROWN-BUTLER.-On the 18th inst, by the
Rev. Mr.. Armstrong, FRANK BROWN and Miss
MARY Z. BUTLER, All of Washington.
MOTHERSHEAD-BEREH the Nth
irst., by the Rev. G. G. Meador, JAMES K. MOTH
ERsHEAD to IDA V. BERNHARD, both OF this city.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-03-15

THE Philadelphia Press has been induced
by spirit of candor to make manly, hon
est, and deserved retraction Of the charges
printed in its columns in 1872 against Gen
eral Allan Rutherford. Wereproduce it in
another column this morning.