Year: 1867

| Editor Of the Register:


Being o regular reader of your paper,
and not having seen anything therein
from this portion Of the country, l
thought l would just drop you q few
lines to give you some idea of affairs mp
here among the mountains.


Well, we have had very fine grow
ing season, and crops are considerably
above the average of crops of the last
ten years. Grass, which is our staple
crop, is very fine, and although the
weather is somewhat shOwery, large
quantities of splendid hay are being
put mp.


There are great many very fine cat
tie for sale in this codEtry, but, owing
to the dullness of the prices, they are
not going off very fast. As conse-
quence, money is scarce, and as taxes
are due now it will take nearly all the
money that is in the country 20 pay
them, but we look forward and hope for
the good time coming which we read
about.


There has been company of mineral
lists prospecting i'll this county for the
last month or two, and they have dis
covered several rich deposits of mineral,
the most important of which is a rich
bed of silver, Oh the lands of Major Ar
boCast and others, near Green Bank.
They are expecting company on soon
with machinery, when they intend tOg
to work in good earnest.


The political aspect of this country
is not very encouraging. We are gov
erned by a set of Radicals of the most
degraded character. Out OF the tive
hundred present county officers, not
half dozen of them could have been
elected to any Office whatever previous
to the war. The Board of Registration
are men that will do anything at all
that Governor Boreman or old Sam
Young tells them to do, whether it is
legal or not. They are ready for
il. no matter how dirty it is.


During the session of the Circuit
Court the past week, while there was
Jury being -empauelled,. man was
called, who said he was registered
voter, bat had not taken the test oath.
The Judge then asked him il. he could
take it. He replied that he did not like
to. The Judge then told him to stand
aside, but took his name, and also the
name of the registrar who registered
him, saying that he (the Judge) would
attend to the registrar who had regis
tered a man contrary to his orders.
While VIC were wondering where he
got his authority to interfere with
the registration of voters, we heard
old Sam Young, who was standing close
by us, say that that man was registered
by his order Then we were at a loss
again to know where he got his author
ity, as he had no Office under the regis
tration law that We knew of. While
speaking of the court, / might as we'll
say that there was but little business
done by it. James Shrader was tried
and convicted for stealing horse from
Mr.. Clendenan of this county, and sem
fenced to four years and six months i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary.


= There was also a Mr.. Herold on trial,
charged with the murder of an old ne
gro, who was hung by vigilance COM
ittee. in 1861. The evidence in behalf
of the State did not amount to any
thing, only that Mr.. Herold was
4 present as a spectator, Sith about
one hundred and fifty others, when the
old negro was executed. The Court
would not admit any evidence in be-
half of Herold at all. This was mode
of procedure that we did not under
stand, as we thought that the laws of
eur country would admit anything that
was evidence, in case of that kind.


We have not as yet heard the decision
in the case, but think it probable
that Mr.. Herold will be acquitted.
Mr.. Herold is a man of good standing
in society, and was indicted through
political spite, be being known as a
Southern sympathizer. He was ac-
quitted.-Ep. REG.


/ might as we'll say, in this connection,
that the Judge in question is the infam-
Gus Nat. Harrison. .g


Iwould like to have said few words
about the management of our free
schools by the Radical blockheads who
have them in charge, but have moi
time to do so at present. III soc this


in print you will hear from me again


on that subject. In the meantime,
am, very respectfully, NOBODY.