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Year: 1869




Madrid Correspondence London Times. Feb, 2.


1t seems almost impossible that the Provi-
siOnal Government should not be at the pre-
sent moment looking for short cut out OF
their present. tribulation, and the opposition
that an understanding exists between them and
the Orleanist candidate can hardly be said to be
far fetched. II is reasonablelto expect shat that
Constituent Coltes will turn out little more
than pageantTy, and their proceedings OF
registration of accomplished facts The Spa
niards are IN no frame of mind for the discussion
of great political principles. I even go so fan
MS TO question their competence or their earnetsr
desire for such q discussion. The religious
question alone is beyond their reach, aud yet
there is 10 social or moral progress to which
the solution of that question should not lead
the way, Already we hear that Sencr Posada
Herrera Is addressing the most concllatory
language to the Papal Government at Rome,
ASSURING the Pope that the Catholic religion,
being that of the immense majority of the
Spanish nation, 'will not cease to be protected
in her liberties and rights" We all know what
freedom for the people the 'lioerty"of or the
Church involves; and, 10 do them justice, the
most ardent Progressist newspapers with the
iberia and NOuedddeS at their head, VINO
raised all the commotion about the freedom oil
public worship, have lost NJ time in accom-
| modating themselves to the new spirit OF Tue
| times, and declare now that religious freedom
! would be too great blessing for their country


men to aspire TO, and that, while they are rlpen-
| ing for better things, they may put up Win


mere religious toleration. The question is
Year: 1869




General Grant Gives his opinion of tho
Tenure.Of-Omce Act.


WARRINGTON, Feb. 23--An interview took
place this morning at General Grants head
quarters between the President elect and some
gentlemen from New York interested In the
banking institutions OF that city. In the course
of the conversation one OF the gentlemen
remarked that the people looked for rward to an
economical administration of the Government
during the time to come. In reply, General
Grant sad:"It is my desire that the affairs of
the country should be conducted as eoonomi-
cally ms possible, and shall try to have 1t so."


Here the General hestated for moment,
and then continued as folio VS.: 1--WE all know
what the Tenure OF. Office law was enacted for.
1t was passed TO prevent an Executive from
using the offices at his disposal for corrupt pur-
poses, but from what they did In Congress
yesterday, l am disposed to think that the
Senate will desire TO be the judges as to what
| shall do" Another pause. "Well, If they do
not repeal the law, certainly cannot make any
changes. cannot remove man without making
charges of character which would blast his
reputation, and that would not be very agree
ble you know, and the result will
be that the men who hold Office now will con-
tinue to hold them until the end of the term, no
matter what my desires may be. of course this
will save me all this office. hunting borIng.n
gentleman, interrupting, THAT will be very
agreeable. no doubt" General Grant, con-
tinuing, Eyes; but have no doubt that there
are in office those who SHOULD be removed from
the offices which they now hold. If it is the
wish TO economize, however. the Senate evi-
IDENTIFY desires to be the judge OF my actions
and shall have to be the Judge of theirs" A
PeDteman-''That will throw tho rnsnOnaihitv
on them.n


Grant contiuued-"I don't know; at any rate.
l shall do the best l can" Visitors were
announced and the interview ended. The re-
marks OF the President were delivered with
pleasant. smiling manner, but with evident
forethought.


The Recusant Witnesses


from Orange county, New York, who refuses to
testify before the select committee on the New
York election frauds, arrived here this morning
III custody of the sergeart alarms, and will be
brought before the bar OF the House to-day to
answer for their contempt of the authority of
the House. AS the report of the Committee has
been made up, the testimony of these witnesses
Is not material, but the House wishes to make
an example of them as warning to others.


The Constitutional Amendment
Will come up in the Senate to day, and Con.
ference Committee will be appointed, and one
solicited from the House. There the matter
will be eventually settled. The Senate managers
will insist upon the amendment as it passed
The Senate, and 1t is probable the House
managers, rather than allow the MEASURE to
fail, will give way. There is so little difference
between the Senate and House in the phrase
ology OF the amendment. that 1t is not consid-
cred essential which is finally adopted.
Year: 1869




A journal published at La Crosse, VIA
gives very painful account of the brutal
way IN which children are punished by
the teachers in common schools o.. that
place. One little girl was whipped for
the objectionable crime Of taking sly
bite Of an apple" After the logging,
the child, piteously sobbing, was placed
upon table, as warning spectacle to
the whole school, and then was made Q
general search Of tho chldren's pockets
for contraband apples. Something like
a dozen apples were the results Of the
search, all Of which, the writer goes on
to say, the little girl on the table "was
actually forced 70 eat, until the child cried
with internal pain. and vomited in the
school room, for which supplemental
'effense she was kept after school,"
1t is hardly possible to believe that this
account can be literally correct. 1t is
difficult to suppose there can be found in
any public school in civilized country a
teacher that bears so close resemblance
to demon as the La Crosse teacher must
bear, to have been guilty of the atrocity
alleged. pa.,n


Yet it is perfectly well known that ex>
tremely atrocious anu brutal cases of
corporal punishment in the schools do
occur, even in this city. And their oc-
currence will continue so long rs corporal
punishment is not altogether inhibited.
Ii is all very well to advise, as school su.
perintendents generally do. that corporal
punishment shall not be inflicted in
passion, but only in a cool, calm, judi
cious, and consiaerate manner; but until
| the race of schoolmasters become race
of angels, such advice will be only words
wasted. The simplest, mildest. calmest,
coolest, most judicious, or considernte'
Of striking child is an act of brutality,
from which passion in some degree is
inseparable. When children are no Ions
ger whipped in passion, they will not be
whipped at all. And while whipping il
tolerated at all, there will he frequent
cases of terrible whipping. but Of which
the crime is only greater in degree.


There in this business no middle
ground. Either the whipping psst must
he totally banisbcd from the school room,
or an excuse must be found for the most
horrible case Of child logging. If the
inhction of physical pain is necessary in
any case, the infliction of great deaf Of
physical pain will be necessary in some
cases. And thus the much-loved system
Of physical torture will rise by grada-
tions fir m the simple brulsing OF child's
palm, for taking a sly bit of an apple, to
the roasting of another child's feet in q
he'd Of live Goals, for some graver trans
uression. The system. in whole and in
detail, is a system of brutality and bar
harism that people calling themselves
Christians ought to lie ashamed of.


1t is encouraging and gratifying to
know that the press is very generally
raising it's voice against it. The abolition
of this relic of barbarism il to he sought
through the force of public opinion, and
the press. as the most potent engine Of
public opinion, is theagent through which
the banishment Of the whipping post may
be speedily brought about. Let the press,
therefore, proceed in this great work Of


eal humanity.-Echr.
Year: 1869

Do the Mongrels imagine they
can say to the tempest tossed
waves Of agitation on the negro
question, Thus far shalt thou
go, and no farther ?' If so, they
are mistaken. Give the negroes
unlimited political privileges, put
the ballot into their hands. seat
them in the jury box and upon
the bench, send them abroad to
represent the nation, and then
halt at that point if you can.
Already the current of fanaticism
lis beginning to undermine the
social system, and the inky
stream wash in upon the platform
hitherto appropriated exclusively
to the whites. In Washington
the City Council have passed an
ordinance imposing fine upon
the proprietor of any place of
amusement, who will refuse a
negro admittance to those parts
of his house set apart for white
people, and a movement is on
foot to revoke the license of any
hotel, the proprietor of which
makes any distinction on account
of race or color, in providing for
the accommodation of his guests.
This is the legitimate outcrop-
ping of the negro equality mania.
Those who started the ball are
now compelled to keep it in
motion by all the means in their
power. They cannot pause, or
it will overrun aud crush them.
The negro must not only vote,
but he must eat at the same table
at the hotel, sleep in the same
room, and crowd out white ladies
and gentlemen at the theatre and
the opera. This is the present
demand Of the negro agitators.
What will follow? Still greater
equality; admission to the par
lors of white men, and full and
entire equality in all the social
arrangement of society. If men
object they will be deprived of
their POLITICAL rights, or fined
and imprisoned. This may be
thought a fancy sketch. Not so.
The Mongrel party has acted
with as great disregard of right,
justice and morality in the past,
and in the future they will use
any and all means to hold fast to
the reins of authority. There is
danger in negro equality doc
trines, and white men should
defeat the party which promul-
gates them. =
Year: 1869

From the Washington Correspond
dent of the New York, Herald, 18th
inst. l learn to-day from source in
Richmond entitled to credit that Gen.
Candy has sent circulars to all the
members of the legislature elect ask
ing each of them if they can qualify
by subscribing to the irOn-clad oath.
If he ascertains there is a quorum Of
both houses thus qualified he viii
issue his proclamation i'm about fifteen
days announcing the result of the cleo
ton and calling the Legislature together
to ratify the fifteenth amendment and
elect United States Senators. The mem
bers unable to qualify would in this
case remain absent until the eonstitu-
Year: 1869

These last were doubtless mainly
women and children. We presume
it would be near the mark to estimate
that one-third of the total arrivals
were of persons travelling ON business
or transiently visiting us, and that
the actual increase to our numbers by
immigration during these thirteen
years was just about 100000,
Year: 1869

re- SENATOR SHERMAN has written a
letter in which be says that while he
is for making the women equal with the
men as regards property, business,
employment, liberty, and social posi-
ton, be is not for granting the right to
vote till a majority of the women con-
cur in demanding it. "My fear" says
he, sis that the right to vote will tend
to disturb the harmony of society,
make discord in the family circle, and
thus cause much greater evil than
good"
Year: 1869

R Methusaleh did not live so long
as he might have done had he attended
to good advice; for it is written that,
as he was sleeping on the ground when
well stricken in years, an angel came
to him and told him that if he would
rise up and build himself house to lie
in, he would live five hundred years
more. Methusaleh made answer that
it was not worth while to take house
for so short term. And so died be-
fore he was a thousand years old.
Year: 1869

g Sticks differ. A yard stick is
very useful in a store; a stick on the
stage is of no good use whatever; a
stick IN tumbler is sometimes in dan
ger of making the sidewalk uneven to
pedestrians; a stick of a husband or
wife is apt to be much longer than is
desired; and a stiek-full of matter IS
the commonest thing that is read in
newspapers.
Year: 1869

H Editors generally have On ezten-
sive correspondence; but their epistola-
~ receipts would be wonderfully lesseued.
IL ell letters were omitted which ask an
editor to do something for nothing. An
immense number Of people seem to think
that an editors principal business is to
do something for their benefit. without
money or without price. We think that
ct least one-haN the letters We receive are
from persons who wish us to publish in
tsrssting matter for their benefit, without
once limiting ct pay in return therefor.
Year: 1869

~ Some of the papers cant under
stand the reason for the new appointment
OF Mail Inspector in this State. We
can tell them: When Hoyt hsd the Office.
he vas always "high:" so they thought
Il about time to come in with Low.
Year: 1869

The oil interests of West Virginia are
not appreciated b. West Virginia peo-
pie. Many of oHr people embarked on
the wild tide of oil speculation three
or four years ago, and the great ajority
of them failed to realize the immense
fortunes they thought were in the i'm
mediate prospective. General depres-
sion was the result. We think that if
the case were closely considered it
would be found that most West Nir-
ginians were disappointed because they
did not get rich at once, rather than
because they could not make the busi-
ness remunerative by enterprise and
close attention.


We subjoin letter lately written to
the Pittsburgh Commercial from the
White Oak country, giving some inter
esting figures with regard to West
Year: 1869




Passengers who arrived on the train
of the Nashville and Northwestern Rail
road yesterday, inform us that on Tues
day evening last negro boy was seen
suspended from a tree on a line of the
railroad near Dresden, Tennessee. Under
the place where he was hanging sat his
mother weeping. Attached to the pan
falcons of the swinging boy was a card,
on which was written in a legible hand
words cautioning the passer-by from
cutting him down, and intimatinE in
strong terms that the man who inter
feres will suffer the same fate. Our
informants state that it was understood
in the neighborhood that the victim
had committed rape on the daughter
of widow lady, living near that place,
and that he was hanged for this crime.
As to the time OF the hanging, and the
parties engaged in it, nobody IN that
neighborhocd seemed to know anything
about it.
Year: 1869

Miss Ella Stalnaker had the honor OF
being crowned "Queen of Beauty" ana
Miss Mollie Alkire, Miss Susie wheeler
and Miss Maggie Keller Maids OF
Honor" in the order as written. Inc
davis entertainment wound up by the
devotees of the muse of choral song and
dance Gripping the light fantastic toe"
to the strains of enlivening and SOUL
inspiring music. c


On next Thursday the Knights OF the
"Sable Color" are to have a picnic and
tournament at the same place, when
those fond of righteousness may be graf
flied to their hearts content. What
will become of the tourney if the wards
of the nation" keep up their farclcal
limitations -,


As to politics here, it is somewhat like
the weather-almost a dearth. We
rarely ever hear political matters men
toned, except by some enthusiastic ad-
mirer of Hole in the-Skye, com meuding
his reduction(D of the national debt.


l am pleased with the suggestions
given in a late number of the REGISTER,
in regard to the fall elections, and hope
the same will be acted upon by the Con-
servative party throughout the State,
and insure the return of such members
to the Legislature next winter as will
give us the ballot with less restrictions
than heretofore. L.
Year: 1869

Every man in Ohio county who is en-
titled to vote at the next election ought
to consider this question. The regis
trars for the various townships are at
their posts ready to enroll all who are
qualified under the law. Their books
c. ose next Saturday night. The man
who fails to have his name registered
now fsrfeits his right to grumble if he
is disfranchised in October.
Year: 1869

A Leasy Scow Pumped by Ghost


which Drngs the Captain from His


Bunk.


The Toledo Commercial, of Friday,
tells the following ghost story:


"Our readers will remember that on
the 1st of July last, Patrick Shaughnes-
sey, Captain of the Red Rover, was
killed at Ten-mile Creek, about ten
miles below this city. After that sad
event, a man by the name of Connolly
was placed in charge of the scow, and
has sailed her since that time until
within few days past, when he and
the entire crew deserted the vessel under
very peculiar circumstances.


"While on a recent voyage the Red
Rover sprung leak-one which
threatened to take her to the bottom of
the lake in very short time. All hands
went to the pumps, and, by working
with all the speed at their command,
soon made headway on the water, and
found that it was in their power to save
the craft. By exerting themselves to
the almost for time, when their
strength was exhausted they could rest
for ten minutes without endangering
the safety of their scow. This system
of long work and little rest lasted unit
the craft reached point in the lake off
Monroe, when the men, having become
greatly fatigued and their strength be-
ing almost exhausted, went to their
hunks to rest.


n" Scarcely had the bodies of the weary
warmers touched the couch ere all were
IL raped in deep slumber. Ten min


tes passed and no one was at the pumps
Twenty minutes-thirty minutes-an
hour-passed and still the pumps were
idle and the men asleep! Two hours
passed with that leaky vessel rocking
upon the waves and the crew slumber-
ing, unconscious of the dangers sur
rounding them! At the end of the third
hour, some unseen hand entangled its
fingers in the uncom bed hair of the Cap
tain and he was dragged from his bunk.
On looking at his watch and discover
ing that he had slept three long hours,
he wondered that all were not at
the bottom of the lake. Hastily
he aroused his crew and then
looked to see what progress the
water had made. To his utter amaze
ment there was no water in the boat
On inquiry, he was unable to find any
one who had pulled him from his bunk.
For some time the mystery could not be
solved; but finally the Captain and |
crew agreed that the ghost of the la
mented Captain Shaughnessey had |
worked the pumps while the crew slept, |
and had pulled Captain Connolly from
his bunk when they had slept enough.
So thoroughly were the men convinced
of the correctness Of this conclusion
that on their arrival in this port few
DAYS since every man deserted the scow
and could not be induced to ship upon
her again"
Year: 1869

Is your name on the registration lists
If not, have it placed there at once.
Your township registrar declares that
he is willing to enroll you when you
satisfy him you are qualified. Call upon
him at once. Don't neglect the matter
and turn the air blue with curses in
October.
Year: 1869

EVERY unregistered voter who is
qualified should have his name placed
upon the list at once. Delays are dan
gerous. The time for registration be-
fore tho township registrar expires next
Saturday night Attend to this import
ant matter at once.
Year: 1869

Flrslnla's OIL resources ana productive
ness. If these facts be properly con-
sidered, we think our citizens will form
a higher estimate of the value of West
Virginia oil territory than they now
hold. While the attention of foreign
capitalists is being directed to our
natural wealth in this regard, we think
it bad policy for our own people to re
gard their oil deposits as of little value.
But if the monied men in our own State
are unwilling to embark in projects for
utilizing the natural wealth which has
been placed under their control, it is
certainly the interest OF the State to
encourage money and enterprize from
other States to come into our midst and
develop our territory. Viewing this
question from pecuniary standpoint,
without reference to political questions
or complications, we submit that this
end can best be attained by liberal
izing our State policy and inducing the

wealth and energy of other sections to
find field of operations among us. We
want such policy as will assure the
people of the East and North that we
are not warning with each other. So
long as we continue our proscrip3Ee
system we proclaim to them shat a large
portion of our fellow citizens are utterly
lawless and therefore unfit to be trusted
with political privileges. 1t is useless
to expect monied men from abroad to
settle among people who are afraid to
trust one another. Let US establish a
confidence in our social character SINH
lar to that felt with regard to our ma
teral resources, by wiping away every
vestige of prescription that now finds a
place upon our statute books.


We annex the letter referred to:


Special Correspondence of Pittsburgh CONNER.


cal.


PARsHALL House, VOLCANO,


(White Oak w. Va, Aug. %, 1869.


Probably this place is better known
to many of your readers as White Oak,
the district that has given to the world
the we'll known lubricating oil which
bears its name. This "neck of the
woods" is evidently looking up. Light
oil has now the whole attention of the
operators in this flid. Lubricating
oil is, to use common term, "played
out.n In this whole region there are
not over fifty barrels per diem pro.
duced. Yet there are in tank about
thirty thousand barrels, the greater
part of which has been in tank
for nearly two years. BY the by,
speaking of lubricating oil, some two
years since Pittsburgh gentleman pur-
chased from a well known firm in Par
kersburg four thousand barrels of this
then drug on the market" A few
DAYS since your fellow citizen sold this
same oil to the same firm in Parkersburg,
by which he pocketed as clean profit
thirty thousand dollars. This will do
for a little quiet transaction this hot
weather; may your fellow -citizeR's
"shadow never grow less" All the old
lubricating wells are being put into
shape for going down for light oil.
There are q number that l can see from
where sit that have bored deeper with
excellent results. The last well belongs
to a gentleman in Washington city; its
yield the last twenty-tour hours amount
ing TO few barrels over three hundred.
The following is a very nearly correct
list of the producing wells:
Year: 1869

THE Government revived yesterday
and there was Cabinet meeting. Let
us be thankful that we have Gov
ernment, and at the same time be
careful not to run into extravaganza over
our style of Government, unless we wish
to show great gratitude for small favors.
Year: 1869

ing, martial law, but that at present
such a step could not be taken, be-
cause conspirators remained at large.
and the cases of several rebel leaders
were pending before the council Of
war
Year: 1869

Writes a tourist: And now let me


describe to you japanese lady, one
of those whose form our American
bellies have recently been copying
She has long, black hair, straight and
coarse, dressed with an enormous wa
terfall upon the crown of her head
They shave the eyebrows and then
pencil them, because they can make a
very much more elegant curve with a
bit of charcoal than nature can with
hair. They paint and powder the face;
they dye the teeth jet black, and then,
in order to have them fully seen, insert
some bits of wood or ivory between
the jaw and the lips, in order to keep
the latter separate. They wear the
Japanese bend;" their shoes are made
like mittens--that is, they have sep
arate apartment for the great toe, and
put the others into the same quarters;
and they wear French heels--that is,
they have two wooden supports to the
shoe, close together, about the middle
of the foot, which correspond to the
heel as worn in these days by Ameri-
can ladies. And they quite resemble
their American cousins in the grace
and ease with which they manage the
''bend" and the ''heel."