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Year: 1868

~ tar the progress of the Legislature
toward settlement of the Capital
question ameunts TO just nothing at all
House hill No. 20, providing for the
location of the seat of Government n
Buckhauuou. was killed in the House
Yesterday. The vote was taken on q
motion 10 reconsider the previous vote
defeating the bill, and the House re-
fused to reconsider, by % to 26.


Bnckhumncn being fairly out of the
question, il is clear that no other point
can command the strength which she
has shown, OH Il question of permanent
location. No place now before the Leg
islature can unite the opposition to
BuckhannOn, and thus succeed in be-
coming the seat of Government. 1t
is, then, perfectly right to say
that permanent location cannot be
looked for ut this sessi on.


Such being the case, the Wheeling
proposition offers the only practicable
method for getting the case OFT the
docket. Allow the Capital to remain
here for ten Y. ars. free of cost to the
State, and at the eud of that time, we
doubt not, the question can be settled
readily and satisfactorily.
Year: 1868

WESTON, February II, 1865.
Editor OF the Register:


Having seen from your paper the
statement of David S. Pinnell, that he
held in his hand deed of gift for a
stone quarry from which stone could be
procured to build the Capitol, if the
same would be located at Buckhannon,
and at the rate which the stone cost for
the Asylum at Weston, the gift would
be worth fifty thousand dollars. l avail
myself of this means to correct the mis-
take, for | conceive that no gentleman
would be guilty ofso gross fabrication
as to state that the stone in the Asylum
cost fifty thousand dollars laying in
quarry. Let us for moment make a
computation of the cost of the stene in
the Asylum. l have it from good au-
thority that there is at least sixteen
thousand perch of stone in the Asylum.
Then at ten cents per perch weuld be
sixteen hundred dollars. Now it would
not take more than one fourth of the
stone in the Asylum to erect capitol.
You can thus see that an inducement
of fifty thousand dollars dwindles down
to four hundred, safe margin truly to
make such representations on.


Now the facts are as follows: In the
county of Upshur there is not sufficient
blue sand stone, such as is used in the
Asylum, to build pig pen, as the latter
named tenement often times in Upshur
holds contraband porkers. 1t is true in
the vicinity of Sand Run thereis grey
| flint stone, such as was used in the
foundation of the BuckhannOn Court
House, which stone, cut in the manner
and style of the work done on the Asy-
lum, would cost thirty dollars per perch
as it would take a brigade Of black
smiths to sharpen the tools for regi-
ment of stone-cutters. The fact is that
no locality spoken of for the location OF
| the capitol presents such a dearth OF
building material as the county of Up
shur. Limestone there is none. When
MeSsrs. PouEdstone d Blagg erected
lue SOuEI IlOuoc, dllCE IL was DuIul
down, they attempted to burn lime, in
which they failed, the limstone not
being of the proper quality, and having
no lime in the county of Upshur they
were under the necessity of hauling
it from Rich Mountain, in the county
Of Randolph, and o portion from the
county of Lewis. d. S. Haselden, j. S.
Fisher and others had to procure lime
outside of the county of Upshur, to
bald their houses. In conclusion, there
is not in the county of Upshur, stone,
lime, and other necessary building ma
terials to be procured. On the contrary
they would have to be imported at al
most fabulous prices.


But as a county of sterility lying in
the basin formed by Buckhannon and
Rich Mountain let the traveller passing
from George Lorentz's to the base of
Rich Mountain testify. The chief pro-
ductisn is Laurel, huckleberry, Jack
Oak and ground seeds. Let the Legis-
lature appoint commission of practi-
cal gentlemen to select q site for the
capitol, and my word for it Buckhannon
will not stand ghost of a chance. 1t is
to be hoped that the God and morality
gentleman of Upshur will not be able
to find any more Benders; when for the
consideration of a corner lot on Lin
coin or Grant Avenue, as intimated,
stultify themselves by voting against
their own county, Yours.


Truth.
Year: 1868

4 Bill is now before the Legislature
providing for an appropriation for the
benefit Of the Agricultural College at
MOrgantown. The expenditure OF pub
lie meney is subject which the people
ale carefully watching and consider
mg. Economy in the use of their funds
is what they now, more than ever be-
fore. demand AT the hands of their rep
reSentatiyes.


While the stricteSt prudence in APP
preparation is therefore proper, it is not
expected that the Legislature will re-
frain from applying such money of the
State as may be at its command to
just aud important purposes. Educa-
tional institutions fairly come within
the scope of legitimate appropriation,
and few occasions can arise where their
liberal support by the public author
tiles, if such support be necessary to
their prosperity, should be avoided.


1t is unwise economy to deny the
agencies established for the instruction
Of the youth OF the country that aid and
encouragement which their condition
may require. Ii, therefore, it shall ap-
pear to the Legislature that the pros
perty of the Agricultural College de-
peGdS in any degree upon Safe assist
ance, We trust that assistance may not
be withheld. No higher responsibility
rests upon the Government than that
which requires the general educational
interests 10 be cared for, ard to stint or
ignore them would be TO fail in the per-
fOrmanoe of a high and solemn duty.


We make these remarks without for
getting that the organization of this
College has not entirely met our appro-
baton. We believe that the Executive
committed grave error, in appointing
none but gentlemen of known prOmi-
nence as politicians to positions upon
the Board of Visitors. His selection of
none but Radical politicians by no
means benefited the College, seeing that,
if it prosper, men of all parties must
support it. We have presented this
view before and we now reiterate it..
Nevertheless, it would hardly be just or
judicious to interfere with the welfare
of the Institution because those who
have been its friends have acted un-
wisely. This would be to make one
wrong Justify another, proceeding
neither proper nor defensible.


We therefore hope that the friends of
education will unite in giving the Col
lege such substantial aid as may be
needed to make it flourish and prosper
1t can be made an ornament and a
means of untold good to the youth of
the State, and to that end we trust that
all proper legislation may be directed.
Year: 1868

SINGULAR AccfDENr.-On Thursday last,
near Lexington, party of threee men start.
to hunt for deer which one of the number
had wounded. They took different routes
leading TO the supposed vicinity Of their game.
One of the men, Richard Seymour, being
as he supposed ip advance of the rest, when
near the place indicated. observed what he
took to be the deer, moving in the brush at
2 distance of some seventy or eighty yards.
lie drew up his rife and fred quickly.
On reaching the spot he found that he had
shot one Of comrades through the head-a
man named Renick The ball entered just
above the cheek homecoming out on the
opposite side of the face. Seymour was al
most frantic with grief at the mishap, but
greatly to his joy it was found, on the arri-
val of surgeon, that the wound was not
necessarily fatal. Renick. at lasts accounts
was recovering. The next time Seymour
shoots at a deer, he will probably look twice
before he draws the trigger. In fact we
are not sure that he will not ignore deer
hunting altogether for the remainder of his
life.-San Jose Mercury.
Year: 1868

An AFFAIR OF HoNoR.-Two gentlemen of
Gold Hill went oat, a few mornings since, to
settle little difficulty according to the code
duello-modern. One was a married man,
the other single. No seconds accompanied
them to the dark and bloody ground; but a
mutual friend followed after Arriving at
the fatal spot, the single man proposed that
they lay aside the deadly weapons and have
it out la Sayers and Heenan. Married man
acceeded to the proposition, and the mutual
friend held their pistols and coats. Went ut
it. Single man put an enormous head on
married man, which satisfied his wounded
honor. They shook hands, returned to town
and took a drink together. The single man
said he would just as soon =" fit" duel as
not ; but he " didn't want to make any wild
ows nor orphans-in this country Virginia
Trespass.
Year: 1868

BoTTLING Fauna writer in the Gar
dener's Monthly says she no longer loses
any OF her bottles by reason of the heat in
bottling fruit. Formerly she, like most
people still do, put her empty bottles in
cold water and gradually heated it to boiling,
and then poured in her hot fruit. But many
of her bottles cracked, notwithstanding her
utmost care. Now, instead Of heating her
bottles, she vets a towel and doubles it four
or FIVE times and sets her bottles on it whilst
pouring in the fruit, and never loses bot
tie. She adds that - when the plan was
suggested to me it seemed so absurd and
unreasonable to cool, instead of heat, the
bottles, that l was at first afraid to try it,
but my scientific mentor insisted, and the
plan is success. but for what reason
can't tell" Will some of our housewives
try the experiment with single bottle or SO
and let the public hear the result?
Year: 1868

THE Salt Lake Reporter has the following.
As Weber Canon is the entrance to Brig
hams dominions the name is suggestive:


A number of men are now engaged in
blasting the Devils Gate. This entrance to
his satanic maiessy's dominions is located in
Weber Canon, on the line of the Union Pa
cifc Railroad. A strong odor of sulphur and
birthstone has been apparent lately in that
quarter, and it is thought that the hottest
place will be reached about the middle of
july
Year: 1868

HIRAM MOODY, ofSouth Amherst, Massa-
chusetts, has an apple tree now growing
upon his farm which for several years bios
somed we'll but bore no fruit. He put a
stone into the crotch of the tree, and it has
remained there and become imbedded in the
Tree; the bark has grown over it as smooth
ly as on any part of the tree and since he
first placed it there the tree has borne an
abundance of fruit
Year: 1868

FROM SMALL BEGINNINGs.-A writer in
late magazine tells story which he had
from the late Major Noah, to the effect that
when james Gordon Bennett first applied
for work at the Office of the old Courier and
Enquirer, he was in such distress that the
kind hearted Noah first gave him a quarter
of a dollar to get DINNER with before be-
ginning to talk with him about his future
occupation. After Mr.. Bennett had salts
fled his hunger, he made bargain with
Major Noah and went to work His duties
included sweeping out the Office in the
morning. in addition to his more literary vo.
cations. There are few men in history who,
from such small beginnings, have risen to
such wealth and power as Mr.. Bennett
Year: 1868

oud respectfully notify their friends and the pub.
lie in general that they have commenced Positively
the Cash Business. We receiving new and
Fresh Stock of Goods from the Philadelphia market
and we know that by selling exclusively for Cash
we can offer greater inducements than we ever did
before, and all we ask is an examination of ouI
stock.
Year: 1868

PARALYs1s.-An exchange states that
a lady of Fauquier county, Va, was
paralyzed few days ago from exces-.
sive use of fhair dye containing sugar of
lead"


Paralysis has been so frequent of late
that we have wondered whether these
hair dies and hair washes were not of
ten accountable for the mischief Lead
and nitrate of silver are the bases of
nearly all of the compounds for restor7
ing the color of the hair-the lead and
silver, combined with sulphur, or even
with the sulphur which is being con-
tinually evolved from the hair itself,
producing a black dye.


Lead, especially, is SO subtle poison
that man may use it for years without
anv apparent i'll effects, and suddenly
find that he is injured for life. Better
BY far to leave the-hair and beard grow
white than incur the danger of impaired
eyesight or hearing, or of a sudden
stroke of paralysis.
Year: 1868

TIE MoNoToNY OF LIFE.-The gen
eral character of life is that of monotony.
Whether we regard the life of man or
tie life of beast, we are struck by the
same remarkable fact, that life, to all
outward appearance, is mOnotonous
succession of scenes and movement-all
but incidental We wonder how the in
terest is kept up. But we never tire of
going to bed at night, and We are very
sorry when we tire of getting up in the
morning. We never weary, except
with regret, of breakfasting, dinning and
supping and these are repeated inces-
sanity three hundred and sixty-hve
times i'll year, with renewed excitement
on every succeeding occasion. We take
off our clothes once every day. We do
this at nearly the same hour, in daily
succession; and when health is good,
the same pleasure derived from so doing
is not marred by the repetition of the
act for the ebbing and the flowing of
our bodily sensation prepare us, without
any effort on our part, for all the vieissi-
tudes of our existence. When hungry,
food is agreeable when weary, sleep
or rest is treat; when warm, the cold
air is agreeable when cold, the pleasure
derived from a cheerful fire is delicious,
The excitement is kept up by contrasts /;
and we purchase the enjoyment of one
feeling by encouraging the revese. With
health, and youth, and prosperity, we
should never be weary. tits age, and
weakness, and poverty that prepare us
for death and even that comes easy up
on most men at last, like sleep, and
the heaviness of the heart gives even the
last sleep a welco lie.
Year: 1868

IMPORTANT TO PATENT RIGHT MEN.-The
provisions of the late law passed in refernce
to the sale of patent rights require that any
person proposing to sell or barter any patent
right shall submit to the Probate Judge OF the
county wherein he proposes to sell, for his ex-
animation, the letters patent or an authenuca-
ted copy thereof, and his authority to sell or
barter the right so patented and shall swear
or affirm before such Judge, stating the name,
ace Dlace of residence and former occupation
of the applicant, and, if an agent the name,
occupation and residence of his or her princi-
nal. The affidavit shall be filed and preserved
in the Office of the judge, copies of which may
be had on demand as of any other public doc
ument Any person receiving a certrhcate
shall exhibit the same on demand. Any per-
son who may take any promise or oDLga'ion
in writing for which patent right shall form
anv mart of the consideration, shall insert in
tbeinstrumcnt the words, 'given for patent
right" -,


The penalty for refusing to comply with the
roouirements of this act shall, on conviction
he n fine of not more than $500, or be impris-
oned in the County Jail not more than SIX
months, or both, at the discretion of the Court
and be liable to the party injured, in civil ac'
ton, for damage sustained.
Year: 1868

How to prserve ice for a considerable
length of time, for domestic purposes,
and especially the sick room, is told by
an exchange thus "l[ake two bags OF
stout woolen fabric; the inner one
should be fourteen inches deep; the bag
should be made at least two inches WI
der each way. After placing one Dag
inside the other, .stuff feathers between zen
the two and sew the two bags toSethel
bar of this description, and it will be
preserved for nearly a week; when un
der exposure it will melt in less than al
hour"
Year: 1868

H@- Does the reader know why ScHUY-
LER CoLFAx has so much to say in favor
Of protecting foreigners abroad? We will
tell you: He is one Of those who swore by
the light of a dark lantern that no Catholic
should ever vote or hold Office in this coun-
try, and that no foreigner, even if a Prot
estant, should vote or hold Office until he
had been in the United States twenty one
years. No foreigner, whatever may De his
religion, who is not mean spirited and des-
titute of self respect, will vote for him !;
and it is to- eonciliate and curry favor with
this class, that he now processes SO great a
regard for their interest. His whole career
shows hatred for foreign citizens. Spot
the hypocrite.
Year: 1868

The HEIREss FOUND. Every day
brings additional proof that the Pilot is the
best advertising medium in this portion OF
Wisconsin. Scarcely had last week issue
gone forth through the mails, containing
an advertisement enquiring for Miss ELIz


ABFTH WALSH, to whom eighteen thousand
dollars had been bequeathed on Long Is
land, and whose residence was unknown,
than the lady appeared in our Office and
proved herself the Identical Miss WALSH.
She is a school teacher in Cooperstown,
and is good looking, intelligent, and pre-
possessing young lady, and evidently has
the good sense to make good use of her un-
expected wealth. Like a girl of wisdom,
she has placed the matter in our hands, and
we have already commenced negotiating
for the possession of the property for her.
Year: 1868

And this is what | did


eIgave her eyes my own eyes TO take,
Nv hand sought hers as in earnest heed;


And round she turned for my noble sake,
And gave me herself indeed
Marriage between Lillian and myself
was secretly considered SO outrageous and
Year: 1868

TAKE CARE OF THE GRINDsToNE.-A
grindstone should not be exposed to the
weather, as it not only Injuries the wood
work. but the suns rays harden the stone
SO much as in time to render it almost use
sess. Neither should it stand in the wa
ter in which it runs, as the part remaining
in the water softens SO much that it wears
unequal and "out of true"
Year: 1868

Two BALLOT Boxes. We call the at
tention of the several Town Boards, aud Of
our friends particularly, to the fact that the
law requires that the votes for the Judi
ciary, shall be put into a ballot box by
themselves, separate from the Town bal
lots Where our friends have received
their Judicial ticket attached to their Town
ticket. they will tear them apart before
voting, and the Judicial. or State ticket
will be put into box BY itself


Democrats, see TO this. We don't want
any Democratic Town vote thrown out on
aecount of,informaliy.
Year: 1868

every department of literature Of the first
classes Of authorship, for the use of the
members OF the association, and for such
others as may comply with its bylaws, in
charge of competent Librarian.


Second. 1t is proposed to have a public
reading room, free to everyb body who shall
conduct themselves, with propriety, in
which there shall be newspapers of all
shades of politics, from all parts of the
country, together with magazines and 9TH
er periodicals of the best quality and,


Third. 1t is leading purpose of those to
whom is committed the management of
this association to make this library and
reading room as attractive as possible to all
classes, but especially to the young to fur
nisE them some place, other than a saloon,
where they can go and spend their even
ings, away from the corrupting influences
Of whiskey drinking and the debasing asso-
Citations Of bar-room surroundings; to give
them an opportunity for intellectual cul,
ture, the requirement of solid information,
and the cultivation of the graces Of poNe
literature, and thereby bringing within
their reach higher enjoyment than ever
was experienced ia the handling of y bill
lard cue or the excitement of a card table !;
in short, to create a taste for the better
kind of reading, and tempt the young, if
they can, to partake of the golden fruit of
the tree Of knowledge, thus elevating the
mind. raising the moral man, and adding
to the usefulness and permanent happiness
Of the individual ....


We warmly commend this association to
the readers Of the Pilot as worthy the sup
port Of all good citizens; aud we hope that
those who have it III their power to contri-
butte either books. money or other proper
ty, will do so at once, SO that the associa>
ton may have a successful commencement,
and its objects be fully consumraated.
Year: 1868

THE SUGAR SEAsoN-The splendid
sugar weather of the past few days has
kept all our farmers, who are engaged in
the production of maple sugar, in the best
of humor. The sea son is unexam pied, and
we are told by all interested in the camps
that better article and more of it will re
ward their labors this spring than for many
years past and the quality and quantity
Of that already brought into market fully
bears out this statement
Year: 1868

OLD SETTLERS REUNION The subject
OF a social aud conyivial gathering Of all
who have been residents of Manitowoc for
fifteen years or upwards has been hroached
among our old settlers, and will we believe,
meet with universal favor. That it will be
a success, should the idea be carried into
execution, no one can doubt The pleas
ant interchange of "reminiscences of early
hardships and early pleasures, by those
who have been identified with our village
from its infancy, and through whose
agency, mainly, it has risen to its present
thriving condition, could not be otherwise
than pleasant episode in the lives of all
concerned. We hope soon to be able to
announce time and place of the meeting.
Year: 1868

EA We are informed that TAYLOR has
made up his mind that the voters Of nur
county DO not know how to vote at tie
coming election. Consequently he has
started out q few black and tam abolition
teachers from Shcboygan Falls to tell MS
how to vote. We hope that TAYLOR will
supply them hberally with spending money.
for We would hate to refuse to take : drink
with them, aud the credit system with
strangers played OUT long ago. a
Year: 1868

The New York Times, which favors the
negro scheme for the United States has
the following about the African Para
disc of San Domingo:


"The latest news from San Domingo
is that the country is in anarchy, and the
prisons are full. OF course there must
be some sort of governing force in exist
ence to keep the prisons full; but this is
probably about the full extent of its
power. 1t is painful to see such rich
and charming part of the world given up
to ruin and savagery. 1t is grievoas to
see the control of such country in the
hands of such people. But we see no
help for it. And we may rest satisfied
that if there be any lower depths of hu'
man degradation than that which they
have reached, it will not require them
MANY years to sink to it. If the pOpu.
lation would resort to cannibalism, and
devour each other out of existence, It
would probably be the best thing that
could happen"


If hundred years of experiment by
the negroes of San Domingo has resulted
in a state of society to which "canni6al'
ism" would be all improvement, what
may be expected after few years OF
trial in the Southern States i-BostOn
Courier.
Year: 1868

Union there was no necessity for going
out of the Union for relief. But what
are the Radicals who used this argu-
ment doing nowi They are destroying
the Supreme Court. They are abolish
ing the arbiter which they insisted was
established by the Constitution to settle
difficulties between the States. They
are emasculating the Supreme Court of
all of it's strength and crushing out the
only tribunal in the land competent, ac-
cording to their own argument, to rem
der the appeal to arms unnecessary.
Such Is Radicalism. t~