Year: 1869

SvMMEgsyILLE. NICHOLAS Co, WA,


December Goth, 1869. :
Editor. OF the Register:


l beg leave for roow in your paper for
a small Communication, as | have been
unlucky in getting t) say anything to
The public for soma time. wrote to
the Te.t TTgiRja Journal and my letter
was not Published. l then wrote to
III. Wheeling MtelHgeacer, and have not
seon any account of il as yet. There
has been some writing to the Wheeling
M'diigcnccr concerning the way oar
BJard Of registration was mobbed aud
threatened on the 4th of October last,
while they were sitting in order to cor
rect the registry books in Nicholas
county. | was preseat myself on that
occasion, and there was never a worse
fslsehood set forth by any person than
that was. What gave rise to that diff
Guilty was Captain T. G. Putnam, who
represented Clay and Nicholas counties
10 the House of Delegates last winter.
He wished to be elected again TO The
House of Delegates, but the people of
Nicholas COMFY did not wish Il carpet
bagger to represent them any mole IN
the House of Delegates, so they
brought ont DR.. RAIDER as Candi-
date for the next House of Delegates
As soon as Captain Putuam found ost
that DR.. RAIDER was to be run against
him, he knew he was bad beaten man
If there was not some schemewOrk so as
to keep the voters away from the polls
The Board Of registration and Putnam
were seen frequently together in secret
consulting, and finally tLc:e were some
sixty OF our best Union men notified TO
come before the Board of registration to
prove their loyalty, and different ones
of the men that were notified to prove
their loyalty had their discharges from
the army, some from the STATE service
and some from the United States ser
vice. That enrsged the soldiers very
much, so when the day of trial came the
men were mostly present before the
Board of registration, and the Board had
no charges against them, aud looked
very much cast down, and they con-
cluded that the men were not legally
notified and that they would not try
them. The men urged for trial and
wished to know what they were
charged with, but the Board
could not find any charge against
any of them, aud told the men that
their names should all remain on the
register hoax uBle.s they were notified
again and tried at some future time. for
they had no charge against them. The
Board adjourned, and all appeared quiet
for some time. +. G. Putnam told
some of DR.. RAIDERS friend, that he
would not be a candidate st all. Put
nam went to Charleston, and it was
thought by the majority Of the voters
here that DR.. RAIDER would have no op.
pcsition, ard some Of Putnam's friends
said it would not be worth while to run
a candidate against DR.. RAIDER, for he
would beat any man they could run
against him. Pntasm returned from
Charleston and all was silent concern
'ins'the election. Four or five days be.
fore our election Capt. Putnam was
seen riding out of slmmersville in the
direction Of Webster county. There
was inquiry made for Capt. Putnam.
His friends told that he was gone TO
Webster county on somebusiness. Put
nam did not go far in the direction
of Webster county until he turned his
course and made his way into Clay coun-
ty, and told the people in Clay that he
was the regular nominee in Nicholas
county, they having held q meeting,
and Samuel Spencer, the president of
the Board of registration in Nicholas
. county, went also to Clay county and
, told the people there that it was useleas