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Year: 1866

The radical club having at last come
10 the concl usion that the more theprO-
posed constitutional amendment is seen,
the more votes will be cast for its rejec-
rion, has declined to pay any longer for
its insertion as an advertisement in the
REGISTER. Very well, gentlemen, you
need not pay us for it any more. We
are much obliged for your advertising
favOrs and whenever you want to secure
wide publicity for your advertisements
bring them To the Office of the REGISTER,
whose circulation is now nearly double
that of any other newspaper published
in West Virginia.


But, in accordance with the promise
made to our subscribers yesterday morn
ing, we will keep the type Ofthe propOs-
ed amendment standing until after the
election, and we invite all our readers
10 study it carefully and then make up
their minds how they will vote. 1t must
be observed that the WhOlc of the amend
ment must he ratified, or none. No State
can separate the sections and say il will
ratify this and reject that. 1t contains
five Independent propositions, but all
must share the same fate. There may
De some things in it which some persons
may approve (thOugh we believe every
section to be ohiectionabic) hut no man
can vote for a part without vot ng for
oil he must take the evil rs well rs the
good and noman except one who thinks
a negro entitled TO more consideration
than white man can fail to see that III
the proposed amendment the evil great
ly prcdominates.


The radicals at the last session Of
Congress had propensity for tacking
she most Objectionable and infamous
propositions to those which were wor-
thy of adoption and approval and then
rushing both through. For an instance
of this, we need only refer to the dodge
by which they added two thousand dol
lars year TO their own salaries. They
dared not go before the people upon
this plain question Of robbery, and so
they attached this appropriation for
themselves to q bill for giving bounty
to the soldiers, and voted for both.
Under the guise of doing an act of jus
tice to the veterans who served in the
field, they pocketcd for themselves 1.-The
hons share" Of the appropriation.
This constitutional amendment is an
other thing Of the same sort. Under the
guise of securing to the negroes the
civil rights which many persons be-
heve to be justly due, it provides for
forcing the States to adopt negro suf-
frsge and will result in increasing the
political power Of New England at the
expense ofotheT sections of the country.
The people cannot vote for one without
voting for both. Better reject both,
and when all the States are represented
IN Congress and the matter can he fair
ly presented, let all that is good in this
amendm'nt, if there be any good in it.
De embodied in new proposition and
submitted b the States. Certainly the


negroes are not suffering enough by


their exclusion from the witness box,
the jury box, tn right to hold Office,
and all the civil fghts of American cit


ilens to Justify the amendment of the


constitution in such,ot haste, in such q


revolutionary mannetand in such an


objectionable way.
Year: 1866

TO the Citizens of wheeling.


Whereas on last Saturday evening
during the Democratic torch-light pro
cession, certain persons not having the
fear of God within their heart, or that
reverence they should have for life, law,
and order, committed outrages by throw
ing stones and other missiles at the pro-
cession, several of which took effect on
the notices in the carriage that was
riding in, one striking me on the leg,
severe bruise. l was excited
and in the heat of passion made use OF
language that should not have been
made use of. / now counsel and adj
wise every Democrat, old and young,
to observe peace and order, both by
words and action, giving no otfense to
the opposite party. So that from this
time until after the election, all may be
peace and harmony in our city.


w. S. BUCHANAN.
Year: 1866

eleven States from representation in
Congress. With all their professed de-
votion to the soldiers, the radical Con-
gressmen gave to the defenders of the
nation, the miserable pittanee OF, one
hundred dollars bounty, while they
poeketed two thousand dollars extra
pay for themselves. With all their os-
tentatious love for the Flag of their
country, they stoned the Flag and
sought to kill the men who bore it in
the procession last Saturday night.
How dare they ask the people to ac-
cord to them sincerity when they pro-
fess to be the friends of the countryi
Year: 1866

Don't Initiate their Example.


Whatever intention of retaliating
upon the radical procession tomorrow
night the wrongs inflicted upon the
Democratic assemblage of last Saturday
evening, any of our readers may have
entertained, should be at once dismissed.
This whole businessaof interfering with
political meetings and political process
sions must be stopped. 1t is altogether
wrong and can only result in injury to
both parties. Any. assault upon, the
radical procession next. Wednesday
night will do great harm to the cause in
which we are engaged. No mans pri-
vate grudge or personal injury should
lead him to commit an act that will in
the slightest degree reflect dishonor
upon the political party with which he
is connected, or deprive that party of
single vote at time like this. We
must be faithful to the principles we.
have professed, and show ourselves
friends of law and order and peace.
The radicals have gained nothing by
their runprovoked and murderous attack
upon the Democratic and Conservative
procession last Saturday night, and we
will gain nothing by attacking them
next Wednesday. In fact, our opponents
have lost much in the estimation of all
honorable men by the cowardly and
outrageous course they have pursued.
Let us avoid initiating their example
and sharing the condemnation they
have nIerited and received.


The entire police force of the
city, together with whatever special
officers may be needed, may be
relied upon to do their utmost
for the preservation of the peace. The
city officials will show no leniency to
offenders, no matter to what party they
belong, and any person throwing a
stone at or insulting the procession next
Wednesday night, will certainly meet
with the sevcrest punishment war
ranted by the law. 4
Year: 1866

Burning of the New Bowery Theatre


Mr.. WIZARD attributes the FIRE in the New
Bowery Theatre, New York, to the steam
pipes which conveyed the steam from the
boiler to warm the building being overheated
by superheated steam, and cites number Of
examples, among which one is in the Cooper
Union, where by removing some loose boards
in the floor in the American Institute rooms,
the wood in proximity to the steam pipes
may be seen charred, although several hun
dred feet Of pipe. intervenes between the
boiler and the place referred to. He drew
the attention Of Mr.. PETER CooPER to this
fact about year ago.


It would be well for the authorities in New
York to cause an examination of the boiler
used for warming the theatre to be made
We believe it was in detached building
which was not burned, and il it is covered
with felting, and the felting or any wood near
it or the pipe leading from it is charred, it
will corroborate the theory stated as above.


1t is well known to engineers that the felt
ing which covers the steam room Of boilers
is quickly charred, while that in contact with
the water space is seldom SO, which indicates
higher temperature than is possible in water
from which low-pressure steam is generated.
Year: 1866

TIE Financial Committee of the Senate
will sit during the recess to prepare their re.
port upon the tariff bill passed by the House
last session, and the proposition for tariff
prepared by Mr.. WELLS, the Commissioner Of
Revenue. The committee expect to have
their reports ready for Congress on its reas,
sembling.
Year: 1866

POLITICAL.-The New York Times reviews
the course Of the recent Albany Democratic
Convention, to snOy that the nomination of
Hoffman was the result of purely Demo-
cratic maneuyering, in disregard of the
wishes of the johnson Republicans The
following declaration would seem to indi-
cate that the Times is about to return to
the support Of the Republican party:


- There are thousands and tens Of thousands
Of Republicans in this State who long for the
restoration Of the Union, and who demand that
It shall be effected by loyal adherence to the
letter and spirit Of the Constitution, and by the
admission TO their seats in Congress Of loya!
men from loyal States, who can take the oath
prescribed by law. But they will be quite Iikeiy
to prefer taking their chances Of securing this
result from the action Of tis Republican party,
modified as 1t may be by reflection and moderate
counsels, rather than seek it in the way marked
out for them by the Albany Democratic Conven-
ton
Year: 1866

By TELRGRAPH.-The trains on the
the Vermont Central road are hereafter
to be run by telegraph. Special rules
are to be published, and new signal
adopted, and "green it shall be-" Every
conductor, upon the arrival of his train
at a telegraph station, will report and
receive his orders from the Assis tant
Superintendent's office. This will recon-
cile all differences as to the fright of
road" and obviate detentions resulting
therefrom. In all cases where no time
is given from the office, the time tables
will be used as formerly.
Year: 1866

RAILROAD ACcIDENT.-Last Friday
morning, the Freight and Passenger
train running from this place to White
hall, ran off the track just this side of
Castleton, in consequence of loose rail,
and a part of the train was thrown
down an embankment. One brakeman
had his shoulder dislocated, and an
other was badly bruised. A lady by
the name of Ford received Q flesh wound
on her head,
Year: 1866

These facts are vouched for by the Act
ing Assistant Commissioner of the freed
mems bureau for the Northern District
OF Mississippi"


One officer attempted to extort $4,000
from an Illlnoisan who had bought lot
Of cotton, by seizing 1t as Confederate,
but the buyer was too sharp for him.
1t is said to have been proved against
Dexter, the government agent, now on
trial at Mobile, that he agreed to give
his sub-agents one-half of the cotton
collected, while the other-half was to be
divided between himself and other Off
Cials.
Year: 1866

REsroRKD.-The large Gilt Frame of
Penmanship, advertised as having dis
appeared from Prof. Lansley's College
rooms on the night of the fire, was
found suspended at Prof LIS door post
yesterday morning. Grateful for past
favors he now solicits return of that
Bcx of Ink Bottles. We do not learn
that he is very particular about the
time or the manner in which the arti-
cles are returned but he rather needs
the bottles to use.
Year: 1866

agency reports


That a progress towards settled
and permanent prosperlty{has been much
greater than could have been anticlpat-
ed. Extensive preparations are being
made for planting large cotton crop.
MANY OF the old established traders are
still iu business or desir0us to engage
therein and if they are but treated with
liberality and encouraged with conf
dence and support, it is believed that
they will yet largely reduce the indebt-
edness to the North, incurred previous
to the war But to enable them to do
so-indeed. to enable the country to re
cover the rude shock its commerce has
received, needs the introduction ofcapital
and confidence from the north. With
a soil that needs only to be 'tickled with
a hoe to blossom with the harvest, with
q sure market or most profitable sta
pie, there is no doubt of great step on
ward by the South in the current year
Year: 1866

5g~The Times and Free Press have
now reached about the same di-
mensions that the Rutland HERALD has
had almost uninterruptedly since its
first pubication.-Rul Rulpnd HeraId.


1t strikes US that the Burlington
Dailies have reached little over the
dimensions of the HERALD. The Free
Press was about the size of the HER
AID before we enlarged and if our
friends of the Herald should add on
auotherofits narrow columns to page,
their sheet would be nearer our present
size than now-Bwliagtoa Free Press.


The weather is very cool, but the
above is cooler. The Free Press, since its
increase ofsize, must have got an idea
shat it is considerably larger than it
really is. We will give the figures. A
printed page Of the Free Press is no~
seven-eighths Of an inch wider than a
printed page of the, Herald but on the
other hand the page Of the Herald is
fully one and one,quarter inches loagt'
than the page of the Free Press. In fact
the shape of the Free Press page is some
what like that Of a singing book but
it takes length as well as breadth t(
make square inches.
Year: 1866

The New York IIerald's Rich
mond special dispatch says rumors are
prevalent that Gov Pierpoint is about
to resign in consequence of the defeat Of
his appointecs in the Legislature, who
are Union men
Year: 1866

than one week from the date of the fire,
without any resort to quibbling techni-
calities or subjecting the assured parties
to unnecessary vexations, paid the full
amount of our claims without even
making the ordinary discount Of the interest
of the money for the so days required for the
Policy to mature; and to cordially recon-
mend this Company to a wide popular
confidence and liberal public patron
age.


NnpmON &, RnpTNaON
Year: 1866

y Southern paper records the trial of
a man charged with stealing corn from a
neighbours crib. The evidence went TO
show that the man had been found with
his hand in an aperture in the crib. safely
fastened in steel trap, set for the pur-
pose of catching the thief 1t was also in
evidence that two empty corn sacks were
found lying at the feet of the entrapped
individual. The decision of the magistrate,
however, was, that there was no proof
that the prisoner had stolen any corn, and
as TO being caught in steel trap, any
gentleman had a perfect right to stick his
hand in one if he felt inclined TO do So.
Year: 1866

AN EXPLANATION foR BEECHER.-
Rev. Theodore l. Cuyler thinks he has
discovered the secret of Ward Beecher's
fall from political orthodoxy: ''The
trouble with my eloquent brother just
now is that his theology is tainting his
politics. He never had enough of the pu-
nltlre element in his preaching. His
whole theology has mainly consisted in
tine single word love; and has always
Lacked the Calvinistic backbone of his
grand old father The result is that
when he now breaches .magnanimity to
the SOUTH he ignores punishment of the
crime of treason, as well as justice to the
negro, and protection TO the white loyal
ISIS. The Cleveland letter would have
come better from Universalist than from
son of Staunch old Lyman Beecher''
Year: 1866

g The practice of advertising letters
in newspapers has been discontinued by
order of the post Office department.
Hereafter written list of all letters ar
irving in this place, which have remained
in the office uncalled for more than one
week, will be posted in the office for in
spection. Those not called for within
one month after they are thus posted will
he returned to tlfe Dead Letter Office.
Year: 1866

Here weakness prevented him, and he
whispered to his wife. You finish it,


He slept good deal, but seemed al
ways conscious of his wite's presence, fire.
quently putting up his restless hand to
touch her face, and remind himself, in hi:
blindness. of her loved features. When
he talked it was of his unfinished work
his convictions of the justice Of the cause
in which he fell, his anxieties of his wife
left alone in cruel world, and of his ell
emies and murderers, always forglvingly
as if they knew not what they did. A
different times, too, he spoke Of the riot
Year: 1866


ing actually happened some years since in
the State of Connecticut:


A man in rather Indifferent cireumstan.
ces, surrounded by large family, being
entirely out of meat, had recourse to the
sbeepfold of neighbor, wealthy farm
er, for relief The neighbor having a
large lot Of sheep, did not perceive that
he had lost any, until one of the finest of
the flock, very large and fat; was missing
and counting his sheep he found he had
lost several. Unable to account for this
extraordinary loss, he resolved a few
nights after to watch.


About midnight he observed an uncom-
mon disturbance among the sheep caused
by the appearance Of man in disguise
Curiosity, as well as to observe the CON
duct Of tho person, so as to find him out,
induced him to lay STILL In the aoak
there was ram, with whom it seems, the
man was in tho habit of conyersing, as if
he had been the owner of the sheep.


swell, Mr.. RAM" says the nocturnal
sheep stealer, 81 havo come to buy anoth-
er sheep; have you any more to sell ?''---
Upon which be replied, as in the person
| Of the ram.


| "Yes have a sheep to sol."
BY this time the owner had discovered
him to be one of his neighbors.


What will you take for that large ia.
weather p says the purchaser.
"Four dollars" replied Mr.. Iam.


"That is a very high price," says the
man, 'but as you are SO good as to wait for
the pay think l will take him."


Well Mr.. RAM" continued the hon
est sheep buyer, ''let me see how many
sheep | have bought of your"
IF | am not mistaken" says the ram,
"this is the flth," and then went on to
cast up The whole, giving Mr.. Ram a po-
lite invitation to call on him for pay, and
bidding him good night, he led the sheep
home, while the owner lay laughing at
the novelty of the scene, lighly gratificd
and amply paid for the whole. A few
nights afterwards, when he supposed his
neighbor was out of mutton, he caught
the old ram and tied littlo bag under his
neck, and placed piece of paper between
his horns, on which he wrote:
Il have come for my pay"
Under this line he footed up the whole
sum of five sheep, exactly as his neigh
Dor had done, as before related, he then
took the ram to his neighbor's house
where he tied him near the door and then
went home.


When the neighbor arose 10 the morn
ing, he was surprised TO fnd sheep tied
to his own door, but it is beyond words to
express his astonishDfent when he found
ont that is was the old ram with whom he
had been dealing so much in mutton, with
his brand on his forehead, aad the amount
of iye sheep actually made out, as he
had a few days previous in tho person of
a ram. Suffice it to say he obtained the
money, and after tying it in the bag, and
tearing the paper from his horns set the
4


ram at liberty, who Immediately ran home,
jingling the money, as if proud of having
accomplished the object of bis errand---
&c .hs no small qualification of his owner.
Year: 1866

NEW FIRM.-As will be seen from our adver- Using columns, Mir. Geo. McLaren and P. H. Bayley have associated themselves in business, aud arc now prepared to sell at reasonable rates, their large and well selected stock of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, than which, a better stock cannot be found in the country. These gentlemen are well known in this com munity as active and energetic business men, and we bespeak for them a liberal patronage.
Year: 1866

Every man should keep the wolf from
his door. and his mother in law too. if he
can.


Every woman has right 10 be what age
she pleases, for IL she were to state her real
age. no one would believe her.


Every woman who makes pudding has
q perfect right 60 believe that she can
make better pudding than any other woman
in the world.


Every man who carves has decided
right TO think Of himself by putting . few
choice bits aside.


Every woman has q right TO think her
child the "prettiest little baby IN the
world" and Il would be the greatest folly
TO deny her this ght. for she would be surO
10 take IL.


Every young lady has . right 70 faint
when she pleases. IL her lover Is by her
side TO catch her.


Every child who makes noise has n
right TO be turned out Of the room and sup
posing you have not the right, you are per
iectly justified, if parents are absent In
usurping IL. t
Year: 1866

| WISDOM tnQn l can claim LOT mySeH. AZ
tho proposed plan noR stands, I on
unable to perceive the necessity, justice
or wisdom of tho measure, but having
no place nor voice in that body before
which the measure is pending, I dis.
claim any purpose to interfere beyond
the expression Of my own opinion.


Having thus declared my views, as
they have heretofore been declared tc
those who had right to know them, on
the material questions that have lately
arisen or are now pending. I trust thai
your purpose on this occasion is an
svered, aud shall be glad if these ex.
pressiops may havo nuy beneficial int1u'
ence on the question, the right disposi.
ton whereof is Of so vast importance tc
the whole country.


The following extracts contain tho
gist Of tho


SPEECH OF DENNIsoN.


Lot mo refer ono moment to the dif.
ference between the President and Con.
grcss. 1 want to deal frankly with you
when I say that do not believe these
differences arc irreconcilable. / do not
believe thore is any cause of separation
between the President and the majority
10 Congress. Nay, if I aln not greatly
ut fault, time and discussion arc bring.
ing the President and Congress rapidly
together on the basis Of q common plat.
form Of action. Certain it is thoy are
not as wide apart MS at tho opening
Of Congress. Then prominent Senator's
and Representatives argued that the
insurgent States, by tho act Of rebellion,
had committed suicide and should DO
treated as conquered provinces or terri.
tories then it was argued by some dig.
tinguishcd Congressman that the public
safety impcrutivcly demanded that this
condition should be imposed upon them
all. But these propositions are not now
argued in Congress, and do not think
that in future We shall have them do.
bated. l sec in this fact q steady and
encouraging advance toward practical
adjustment; aud may VIC not reason
ably hope their concessions were made
to the end Of securing reconciliation,
satisfactory and full, that shall bc alike
consistent with the dignity and patriot
ism both Of tho Executive and Of Con-
gross ? Every consideration Of patriot
ism and Wisdom favors such result. The
work Of restoration culls for every con.
ccssion authorized by tho Constitution,
1 will not doubt that this concession will
DO made, and the results Of tho war by
which the nation was preserved will be
secured and pcrpctuatcd on the basis Of
peace md concord between tho people
Of all sections Of our country.
Year: 1866

FOREST CITY PARK will open for the season this
afternoon with fine exhibition OF trotting and an
open air concert by Portland Band, in their
new and beautiful uniform. Sheuld the weather be
unfavorable the opening will take place Monday
afternoon. Tickets for sale at the Horse Railroad
Station, conveying passengers on Congress Street
line free i t