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the same proportion. Ths policy was natural, and
under the circumstances not, perhaps blameworthy;
but still 1t narrow and selfish. The continental
nations OF Europe determined 10 meet aud defeat IL
by more liberal programme. and this they havo
succeeded in instituting. in the face OF many OBJ
stncles.
AN INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
For many years France Germany, Austria,
Italy, Belgium and Switzerland have had their
geographical society, and have engaged in
tlc business OF African exploration with con-
siderable ZEAL But there unity con-
cert OF action, and consequently much money
ana many valuable services simply squan-
dered. Tho French and German travellers sometimes
undertook the same problem at tho same time; the
Austrians and Italians did the same. At last In 1876
the happy thought Of international cooperation aud
economical division OF labor and application OF
funds occurred to several leading geographers on
the Continent. and this idea was elaborated far
and successfully that international association
for the exploration Of Africa fully and effectively
organized, aud met at Brussels the intellig
and distinguished presidency of the King OF the Bel
gans In this association all the leading nations of
branch society was set up In the United states.
under Mr.. Latrobes presidency with Mr.. II. y. San
foru llate United states Minister to Begum) and Mr..
Schffelin, OF New York, delegates of the society in
Europe. The organization Of the society was very
complete and rational. Local geographical societies
became branches OF the international, which d.
rected movements and disbursed funds. These
local societies have two classes OF members-those
who pay annual dues ranging from 81 to IS, aud
OF about s100 each. The life membership funds are
to be permanently invested. The interest received
aud tho annual dues applied TO the htting out
and support OF exploring expeditions. Another part
of the society's work. which is most effective and
which promises in tho end to do great deal
toward opening up Africa to travellers and trade is
tho provision agreed upon and put in force for H.
tablishng stations dcpots at important points on
the great routes, where travellers may be received
and may obtain supplies at their cost These do
pots. OF which a good number havo already boon
equipped are TO be furnished with goods. provis-
ions, medicines, arms, instruments. NC. They
are to DO in charge Of Europeans. with y
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have alluded to 1T. abstained from voting on tho
ground that "only able engineers form an
opinion after careful study, OF what is actually
possible and what is relatively economical in the
construction OF q ship canal" / feel sure that 1t
will excite smile among us to suppose this in any
degree enigmatical, and may recall the ideas 50 1u-
dicrously shown in the comedy OF tho "Irish Am
bassador."
In relation to the vote and to the DELEGATES q
pamphlet published in Paris entitled panama.
4OO, ,0OO. 900 Lean gives the following:--
'.Let 1t be remarked that one-hal OF the members
Of the Congress were French; they had been chosen
by the organizers OF that assembly; thirty-four
members belonged to the phcai or the Com
mercial Geographical Society of Paris. What was
their competency to decide between canal with
locks or ON n lcvclp Fourteen other members
were engineers assistants OF some sort on the
Suez Canal. What was their impartiality to decide
between NJ. de Lesscps and others? And among tho
others, if one takes count of personal friendships
and of the prestige exercised by great name. how
many more will remainY
gates to the Congress were men eminent In every
branch of engineering science and Others of the high
est character mon OF scicnce tho same may prop
erly be said of the foreign delegates; they
of character and special attanments usually having
relation to the subjects that would concern canal,
IL not its construction.
As regards the engineers of Holland and Belgium
especially. where the land is fiat aud the rainfall
so small, their practical experience of head OF
water would be confined almost to tidal action. How
ever able they may be, they had not, so far az l
know. the practical experience of intertropcal
tent authority.
Engineers in other branches would naturally
adopt the opinions of the hydraulic engineers and.
SO lar as their conscicnccs would permit be dis
posed TO support the opinions and wishes of NJ. do
hd Tey would say verS
erly the execution OF the work was for NJ. de Les
seps and at all their affair He had asked them
to say that the canal treau was possible, and they
had oblgingly done lie did not think IL worth
while to ask his honorable co,rres IL they thought
panama the best canal route; indeed IL would not
have been prudent to do so, as he had determined
that the canal should be built at Panama nircdu;
expressed by an engineer very much IN his conh-
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discussion of its merits. stated that would sug-
ges the advantage of discussing the carefully pre-
pared plans of Lieutenant Collins along the lines of
actual location which were the best that could be
found in months of labor instead of lines drawn ut
will by Commander Seltridge. involving uncer-
tainty of execution and an entire absence of cle-
ents of calculation. as every engineer would recog-
nlze.
This was one Of several occasions that had to
suggest the advantage OF discussing facts instead Of
indugng in fances calculated to deceive the credu-
lous and unwary. and absolutely waste of time IN
DISCUSSING 81,
23d and in the Technical Commission on the Goth.
are 80 significant that shall append them without
omissions. 49, .
BY reference to the appendix 1t will be seen that
tho partial quotations winch shall use do not pre-
sent prevented meaning. will submit the ques-
tion to every reader of the appendix whether free
from any comment. II IL not patent that the Con-
prcss was called to decide upon the best routes
Tor an interoceanic ship canal but only upon what
NJ. dc Iesseps--"Tlat which struck us most Is
the enthusiasm of the United States Of America in
favor OF the establishment of a canal mt Panama
We may ask with surprise. Wnen and where was
this enthusiasm manifested? ! saw nothing OF It
so far M my observation extended nor was II con-
vcycd by the government OF tue United states IN
sonding inc TO examine plan tor Panama, and to
submit others made under Its ORDERS as WORK for
the calmest practical omparison.
again quote NJ. de Lcsseps s:--"Lieutenant Wyso
and his panions have rendered us an account or
the mission that they undertook. seven or them
set ont: four dead IN those wds, where one IL
only able to effect passage with hatchet III the
hand. They have then returned and have had the
honesty to declare to that in their view canal
was impossible in the regions that they had re-
turned from exploring"
This seems sufficient to dispose OF the his.
torical sketch of NJ. Hertz, given on page ~
of the proceedings, as foows-''fhe French
Committee of Study for the Intoroceanc Canal lin
consequence OF the completion of the surveys OIL
ludcd by NJ de Lesseps thus found itself atle to
submit to IN intoroceanic Canal Congress collec.
ton for information) upon which 10 would be able
TO pronounce intclligenty Ii is known with what
aacrity the most learned mon from all countries
have responded to the call" To show the suficency
OF our Information previous to these surveys OF
Lieutenant Wyse was the object OF my paper, read
lot, who to tins country to obtain assistance in
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-27
REIMBURSEMENT OF TIRE READ
JUSTERS.

The Virginia State Board OF Canvass
ers having made up the official count oil
the late election in that State, the result
seems TO have upset the calculations OF
the Readiusters and put the debt-payers
on top.
The Dispatch claims with much assur-
ance that the complexion of the two
houses is accurately ascertained, and
that the boosted Readjuster victory is
no victory at all.
The Dispatch proceeds to classify them
by name, as follows:
There are in the Senate Ii Conserva-
tive Debt Payers-true and trusty men,
There are Republicans, of whom A.
namely, Messrs. Early, Pickett, j. b.
Stovall and BOush-are Republican
Debt Payers. These added to the IA
Conservatives make Is out-and-Out Debt
PAYERS. Then there are 2 Republicans
namely, Messrs. c. l.. Davis and
b.. Williams-elected as Republicans;
and they are anti-repudiatiOn Republi-
cans; who will stand up for the
principles of the Republican party as
set forth in all the State platforms OF
that party as we'll as in its national
creed and in the speeches Of all its leaders.
These two will never cast vote against
the McCullOch settlement. So that in
the Senate we count twenty votes for
allowing the Mccullough settlement to
stand, besides that OF Lieutenant-GOv-
ernor Walker. The Readjusters proper
have Il votes, and then there are Re-
Walker, Bliss, and Norton
who may vote with them. So the SEN
ate will be tied, with the casting vote in
favor of the McCulloch settlement.
Now, as to the House of Delegates.
There are ~ Conservatives-out-and-
out Debt PAYERS. Then there are Repub.
lican bt-Payers-elected as such, and
having no idea of being anything else,
Again we give names, so that there may
be no mistake as to whom We mean.
They are Wickham, DR.. Smith, Gray,
Bullman, Cole, Dungee, Scott, III. D,
Smith, and Owens-the last colored,
These 9 added to the Conservatives
make 81 Debt-Payers-a majority OF the
House. Then there are Republicans ell
ected as Republicans, who, like the two
similar ones in the Senate, will stand up
for the principles of the Republican par
", and vote against all measures that
come in conflict with the platform here
in before mentioned. So we have fifty
five friends of the McCulloch settlement.
On the other side. there are IL. Read
justers proper, and Republican Read
busters, making 10 Readiusters as against
- Debt-Payers. See the classification
OF the members of both houses in our
local columns.
Shall we ask once more, as we have 50
frequently asked in the last two weeks
Where is the great Readjusters' vic
tory .
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-27
OUMBERLAND's NEW RAILROAD.


The Bedford division Of the Pennsyl-
yania railroad, which has been in pro-
cess of construction, or rather fighting
its way through the Courts since 1872,
has now been completed to Cumber-
land, Md, and gives that city another
and quite direct route through to Phila-
delphia. The entire distance from Cum
bertrand to Philadelphia over this route
will be 2S6 miles,
This makes three important points at
which the Pennsylvania road taps the
Baltimore and Ohio, viz; Baltimore, Mar
tinsburg and Cumberland. Each OF these
points mas been holly contested by
the latter company, but the usual result
that follows such contests, OF letting the
new competitor have chance, has
given the Pennsylvania company a vic
tory in every instance.
The Bedford branch of the Cumber-
land has been built within six miles OF
the latter city for about seven years,
but the antagonistic interests IN Mary
land have prevented the closing up OF
this short space until now. Even after
the Maryland Legislature granted the
charter, the company was met by in-
functions and other legal obstacles to
prevent it from going on, andhas fought
each separate suit through the courts,
finally triumphing over all the legal de-
vices, and will in few days have trains
running through from Philadelphia to
Cumberland.
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Joke on the Grant Club.

PITTSBURGH Conf Gazette.
The other day Secretary VIM. T. Lind
say of the Central Grant Club, forward
ed q constitution and bylaws of the or
ganization to Gen. Grant. In some
manner a formal notice announcing
the recipients election as member OF
the Club, and requesting an answer sig
nifying whether or not he would accept,
found its way into thepackage. Iester-
day Mr.. Lindsay received letter from
General Grant running as follows: "The
Grant Club preamble is so personal to
myself that | think good taste requires
that | should decline the membership
which has been so kindly voted. But
| may be able to meet some OF the mem
bers during my proposed visit to Pitts
burgh." The preamble referred TO an
nounces that the object OF the club is to
fuse all honorable means for the pur-
pose OF again nominating and electing
Ulysses $. Grant President ofthe United
States"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-27

come up readily when left under the
bushes where they have dropped. The
plants can then be set out successfully,
care being taken to avoid breaking the
long tap-root peculiar to them. Ny
plants have never suffered from insects
Of any kind. Half dozen plants furn-
ish my family, OF five or six persons,
with more tea than we can use. We
prepare it by heating the leaves IN an
oven until wilted, then squeeze them by
hand until a juice is expressed from
them. then dry them again in the oven.
The tea is then quite fragrant and ready
for use. 1t improves by age. We pick
the leaves about three times during the
year. The younger the leaves the bet
ter the tea. / think it will grow in any
ordinary soil, clay or sand. The seed
should be planted about the month OF
January.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-27

difference in financial circles, ana set
Wall street crazier than usual.
CORPORAL punishment has been abol-
ished for some years in the public
schools of New York and Brooklyn.
The boys, however, do not seem to see
the fun of going without something of
the kind to vary the monotony OF recita-
tons, and the other day some youthful
agitators in Brooklyn proceeded to give
it" to their teachers, since the teachers
are not allowed to give it to them, and
knocked down and pretty severely
handled two of them. The meeting
then adjourned to the sidewalk, and
proceeded to batter the doors and q
stray policeman with cobblestones. The
brass-buttoned guardian OF the peace
behaved with marvellous fOrbearance;
no small boy was dubbed and there
were no arrests. The subject has ex-
cited the gravest alarm among the good
people OF the city OF churches.
THE public will learn with great COM
placency that Mr.. Charles Courtney,
the eminent oarsman, is sick. This
will give Mr.. Edward Hanlan, the other
eminent oarsman, a splendid chance to
retire and give the public much-need-
ed rest. If talk could win boat race,
both Hqnlan and Courtney would be
entitled to the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
phid Times.
THE statement that the Mormon en-
issaries from Utah are alleged to have
instigated the Ute outbreak in Colorado
is altogether probable, as the Indian
wars and massacres have been all
around Utah without being in that ter
ritorv. The Mormon hierarchy is quite
capable of such a policy, as was proved
by the Mountain Meadow massacre.
But this Ute case is the first instance in
which the charge has been promptly and
boldly made. Now that clue has been
found, it ought to be promptly and vi
gorously followed up.-Phitddeiphid
North american.
THE man whose horse runs away just
as he is about to trade him; the man
who sees his name reported in the
police records; the man who wants to
Shout at his neighbor through the press
on account of personal grievance, and
is refused; the chronic compiler OF
obituary poetry; the politician with an
axe to grind who is snubbed, and the
man who wants to dodge payments for
advertising by securing free puffs for
Cheap John goods, set up for the keen,
est and most discriminating critics Of
newspapers. They all know that the
press is venal, that its license is un'
bridled, and its weakness far below the
standard of the nineteenth century"
| TdlIntOn Gaeette.
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THANKSGIVING.

We are made happy by contrasts and
comparisons. The individual who has
uninterrupted prosperity, has no eXuI-
tation in bis experience bursts OF
joy and graduation. II is the ups
and downs" of life that make biography,
and which men love 20 recall and talk
about in their experience. Ii IS
war and victory. financial panics and
business recovery which make history
for nation. IL is the change in the
seasons that makes us appreciate the
rigor fthe winters cold and the scorch-
ing Of a summers sun. Spring would
he but gloomy weather ii We had moth
ing else but spring" The ever-budding
flower and the unchanging yerdure Of
the foliage would become monOtonous
and insipid if we could not recall the
bare and blasted visage OF departed
winter.
II is the rising out OF seasons Of de
preston and disaster that gives a keen
appreciation of prosperity and inspires
Thanksgiving. IL seems TO M that there
has not been since the boom OF the first
gun broke tie bond oi peace between
the States in '6l, a day 50 appropriately
set apart for thanksgiving, and which
will call forth from every nook and
corner OF the land, response 80 cheer
ful and hearty as the present. Follow
inc the war there has been all its train
OF evils, scarcely less deplOrable than
the war itself, running through the sue
ceeding years. There were devastated
homes. and scattered families, and help
less widows and orphans, with a manned
and mutilated soldiery stalking up and
down the land. There were bitter
ieuds dividing the country and commu-
tiles, and last but not least, five years
period OF unexampled business depres-
sionand disaster that has more Orless, al
fected ever industry OF the country,
and has been working wreck and ruin
without check OF abatement, until a
sense of defeat and encouragement
seemed TO paralyze the whole people.
But within the passing year the wave
OF business misfortune seemed to have
spent itself. The riitcd cloud has let in
the full blaze Of a genial sun to every
shriveled and dropping department OF
trade, and prosperity has dawned at
once and alike upon all sections and To-
calities. This, indeed, has been the
"year Of jubilee" to the American peo-
pie. They have garnered the largest
crops in the history Of the country; an
opportune demand from other countries
will take every bushel Of our surplus at
good prices, the wealth Of foreign ma
tons is pouring into our lap; their
"bone and sinew" are coming over by
thousands TO help cultivate and develop
our unoccupied territory; railroads and
telegraph wires are reaching out in this
year 1879 to unite the remOtest parts OF
our land into one great, grand and in
spring country. We have really moth
ing to be sorry for to-day except that we
have lived too soon. We will miss
much that is in prospect for the next
generation, but around us, also, there
are subjects for infinite thanksgiving.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-27

An exchange well saws that cit il be
ginning at the wrong end to aScribe to
speculation what belongs only to bust
ness. People miscOnceiye the truth
strangely when they think that stock
speculation is the significant fact OF a
revival Of trade, when it Is no more
than the shark that follows close to the
laden ship. II may not have occurred
10 everybody, as it certainly has to
some, that to the agricultural resources
of the country is almost entirely due the
present revival Of business in all its
branches"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-27

CINcIxxArrANs, driven toit, no doubt,
by the force Of circumstances, have or
ganized society for the suppression OF
music" As an effective method Otren-
dering music unpopular, each one sings
or affects some instrument. 1t has the
desired result.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-27
The Rest Way TO Cheer UP.

II you are a respondent invalid, is to grow
stronger. This you can do II you will take a
piece of advice which has the weight of high
medical authority to back it. That is to use the
standard invigOrant, Hostetter's Stomach BittcrS
specially commended and endorsed by phySi
clans Among the bodily troubles which il over
comes are dyspepsia, irregularity of the bowels
liver complaint, general debility and nervous
complaints. II is also found very useful in
commencing tendency TO weakness or disorder
of the kidneys and bladder, and persons troubled
with rheumatism strongly indOrSe it as remedy.
Its influence upon the entire system is highly
beneficial, promoting as it does the return OF
sleep and appetite, and the acquisition of flesh
and strength silent reproof of the folly Of
nauseous drug medication is conveyed in the
success of this pleasant and effective botanical
medicine.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-27

The American Eagle will he retired
to-day, to give place TO that other Amer
lean bird which will gobble and be GOT
bled after fashion thar viii make the
Eagle tremble for its prestige.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-27
NO PAPER TOMORROW.

There win be mo paper issued nom
this Office tomorrow. We desire to
Join With the community in celebrating
the general prosperity with which we
have been favored, by rest from labor,
and by partaking Of the spirit OF thanks
giving, which pervades all classes OF our
people. The REsIsrER Office will there
fore be closed for business until to'mOr-
row morning.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-27

ONE thousand three hundred new
buildings are now going up in the city
of New York.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-27
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

r OsT-A PAIR OF GOLD FRAMED SPEC
IL tacles on Seventeenth street near the
Fourth ward school house. The finder VIII be
suitably rewarded by leaving same with DIT.
schaffTanek, Sc. Johns Church. no27q
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LOOK our for stAs tonight.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-27

Commissioners Sale Of North
Wheeling Property.
In the Municipal Court of Wheeling:
Annie +. Palmer, ct al
In ChanccTy,
Mary r. Paul. ct al,
by virtue Of decree Of November p, 1879, in
said cause, WILL on
SATURDAY, DECEMBER p, 1879,
Beginning at 10 o'clock A. NJ, at the front door
Of the Court House. In the City Of Wheeling, sell
at public auction parts Of lots 80 and CO. in North
Wheeling, fronting on Main street 10 feet, and
running back 10y an even width 1872 feet On this
land is erected the building known rs the fourth
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
For terms of sale and specific description OF pro
perry soc advertisement in Wheeling lntelligen
DER A. J. CLARKE.
Special Commissioner.
J. G. HERVEY, Auctoneer
nO2G 2gdec3.6 i, 10 II l7,2O.4,H
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Public Sale.

1UDIIc SHIe.
TWILL OFFER FOR SALE AT HORN
i brooks Park, SATURDA DecemberG q, 1879,
commencing at 10 o'clock A. NJ, tho following
personal property
/ Lot Household Furniture,
Lot Garden and Farm Tools.
BuggicS: Horses; Pony.
Sets Harness.
? Two Horse Wagons Zone newt.
= Carts lone new.
II Stacks Hay; Cow.
Lot Hot Bed Sash Lot Cultivators.
| Lot Plows double and single),
In fact everything that is useful on farm or
truck garden. TERMS CASA. -
T. p HORNBROOK,
Administrative of the Estate OF Thos. HOrnbrOOk,
10y Geo. IL. Parks, attorney in fact. nO2Gs
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-27

DR. BANNING'S System OF Braces for Uterine
Disbursements, Spinal Diseases and Determines,
Rupture Constipation and Piles, are wOrld-re-
nowned, and have only 10 he examined 10 be
appreciated. Send for illustrated pamphlet.
Frae nos