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Year: 1867

A servant girl in London recently carried on
Irritation with charity boy who was accus-
toned TO clean the windows at the next house.
Their method of courtship was rather singular;
the girl mounted to the roof of the back part OF
the house. and whilst sitting there conVersed
with the lad, who stood ut a window opposite.
One morning she mounted to the roof, aud
framework broke and she fell through. Her
legs were cut, and she was so seriously injured
that she died In about two hours.
Year: 1867

The Convention Of Teachers recently held at
Japksou Jdetermined, with great unanimity,
upon Republication Of a Journal to promote
the Educational interests Of the State, and ap.
pointed the undersigned as an Editorial Com
inittee for the conduct and management of
the same. n flhIeF iNa'


The Importance Of such IN enterprise can
not be orer.cstmated. The want isfelt BY all,
and the time is thought 10 be auspoious, We
have quite number Of political, and few
religious Journals, ibutas yet notonB devoted
to the great cause Of Education What must
become of the interests Of learning if this
glaring want be permitted to continue It
was this want 50 long ielt by vast number
Year: 1867

READY IT,, RoANE Co., w. Va,


January 26, 1867.
Editor of the Register


Not having seen any communication
from this part of our loyal county il
your excellent paper for some time,
will, by your permission, "Sho~ min
opinion Also


Well, our late election, so-called
passed off without anything worthy O
notice. The mongrels, it is true, flap
ped their black wings and crowed like
lusty Shanghai roostcrs, over what they
termed great victory. But now LEI
lis see how that victory was gained
Some time before the election, the mon
crels, after careful counting of noses
saw very plainly that if they did not
invent some Yankee trick that the true
Constitutional Union men would send
the whole fraternity up Salt river
Therefore the Inquisition passed q
speedy decree that q sufficient number
of the names Of Union men in each
township be stricken from the Book, thu
qreat Book of Remembrance, so as to be
certain of q radical majority. Thu:
twelve of our loyal tax payers of this
township were notified on the day be
fore the election, to appear before the
great Board of Grand Inquisition al
their next meeting, 10 show cause why
their names should not be stricken from
the "Book of Life But the time aud
place of the meeting of these wise Sol
onions was not set forth in the notice
o shades of Washington! was ever in
trigue OF base corruption of moral prin
ciples like unto this in boasted land
Of freedom before. And the only true
reason why these twelve American citi
zens had to be DISTINGUISHED and de
clared aliens to the commonwealth q
Sumner, Stevens, Wade s. Co., was be
cause they could not bow the knee ant
worship the Golden Calf Of 4fricaH scent
But the true friends Of Union and Lib
erty in this hill country are still deter
mined to push forward the car of De
nocracy.


The REGISTER is doing a good work
in this county. Many have been con
WINGED by its teachings that this is the
whit, mans country. We consider th,
REGISTER the best paper in the State
and it should be weekly visitor to ev
cry Union loving family in the State


The Methodist Episcopal Churcl
South has recognized, and is strength
ening her stakes and lengthening he
cords" in these parts of our country
and the reason of her great success il
mainly owing, perhaps, to the fact tina
as q Church she stands uncOntaminatet
with political matters.


A general spirit of improvement
seems to prevail in this section Of coun
try in the way Of erecting better ant
more substantial buildings Messrs
Bell and Huddleston have furnished
this community with an abundance o
choice lumber from their saw mill
Sayres & Co. have also erected porta
BILE saw and grist mill at the Thre
Forks of Reedy, which will no doub
cause Three Forks to soon claim the ii
tie of a city, and perhaps ask Ou
worthy Legislature to locate tn
Capital here. All that the people O
this community want to make them n
enterprising and prosperous people, j
men of brains and right principles, +
legislate for them, and give them equa
rights. Notwithstanding moro than on
half of the people here are deprived Q
Year: 1867

In three Of the upper counties Of South
Carolina, there are in operation twelve
establishments for the manufacture Of
cotton goods, two of them running as
high as ten thousand spindles apiece,
and the whole Of them employing about
thirteen hundred operatives.
Year: 1867

Tho fredericksburg Herald says there
are forty or fifty families in that town
dependent upon the charity of the cor
poration, and that there ID really moro
want than at any other period.
Year: 1867

John Stuart Mill on the Goth of May made
a powerful speech in the House Of Commons
In favor of female suffrage. The replies to his
speech were more jocular than serious, and by
no means calculated to lessen the impression
which the address will undoubtedly produce
among thinking men, Among those who sup
ported the amendment was Sir G. Bowyer, the
ablest among the Roman Catholic members of
the House. AS far as known, this is the first
notable conversion to the cause of female suf


frage from the ranks of the Catholic" party
1t was, of course, not expected that the amend
ment would receive a majority, but the large
number of votes which were cast for it C73)
must be gratifying to all friends of the cause
Year: 1867


1t also seems that the "Bureau of Military
Justice" whereof the Hon. Jacob Holt ia the
head (under the general direction of Secretary
Stanton), ought long since to have probed
this matter to the core, and had somebod,
indicted, assuming that anybody is guilty
beyond those who are now dead. We once
prompted resolution of inquiry in Congress.
intended to draw out he material facts in the
premises; but nothing came of it.


Now, then, if our correspondent knops the
facts to be as he supposes, it ia his busines,
to sec that the necessary legal proceedings are
instituted. We suppose the day Of arbitrary
arrests and little bellso to be over, so thai
men are no longer to be condemned and pun.
ished by arbitrary edict or mob vengeance
We believe it would not be difficult to convict
and punish any one who shall be fairly proved
guilty of wanton cruelty to prisoners of war
Then let us have no more idle words, but
hurry up the necessary information and in
dictments.
Year: 1867

An extraordinary session of the State Work.
ingmens Association will begin in Albany on
the 25th for the express purposes of max.
ing the Eight-Hour law of practical use
and of securing amendments to the
State Constitution for the benefit Of the work.
ing classes. These are important yet the
meeting of the representatives of 50 many
societies should not be wholly engrossed
by such business. We hope that
the Convention will take up the subject OF
Cooperative Labor, and consider it thoroughly,
for it is in that, we think, that the working
men of the State should be chiefly in.
terested The laws protect, but they dc
not employ, and it is only by establishing
Cooperative Societies that Labor can become
fully and permanently Independent. Co0pera
ton is an old principle as old as Labor itself,
but its practical application to the immense
modern trades and manufactures is thus far
but experimental in America. That every So
cety formed on this basis has thus far sue
ceeded, is sufficient reason why the COnven-
ton should give to the Cooperative Labor
movement that encouragement and direction
which it needs.
Year: 1867

WEST POINT And THE COLLEGES


A cotemporary reports that Major Whittlcscy,
United States Army, has recently been in con
sulaton with the officers of Yale College in re-
iation 10 a plan to connect the Regular Army
more closely with the chief literary institutions Of
the country, by establishing military professor
ships, and making certain number of their
graduates officers in the army. Ii is probable that
whatever consultation in relation to this matter
Major Whttlesey may have had with the ofl-
GERS of Yale has been entirely unofficial but
we are not without hopes that it may lead to
something being done to further the end he
seems to have at heart Certainly, it cannot
but be thought desirable that the wall of
exclusveness that hens in West Point from
cordial sympathy with the American people
and with American ideas, should be broken
down; and we shall be glad if Major Whittle-
sey's talk with the Yale officials shall give oc-
casion for those who have thought about the
matter to discuss it in the public Journals. In
truth, it il matter that interests every Ameri-
can citizen and, as the country grows III
wealth and power and ideas of government, re-
lgion education and trade develop into more
and wider differences, and the old wars renew
themselves under different aspects, it will be-
come a matter of the first Importance IN what
relation the army stands TO the people Now,
while things are still plastic, and we can have
the shaping of them, we ought to see to 1t
that some scheme is devised, and carried into
operation with energy, by which the army and
the people shall be made effectually and forever
one.


We do not advocate the doing this by either
the old or the new plans in vogue in Europe.
We do not want the army modelled on the ex-
elusive and privileged English system; nor do
we want the OdiOus conscriptiOns of France and
Germany established Ihere. Thank God, they
could not be--these last-if we did want them
but there are those who think them good, as
they think any plan of life or gov ernment
good, that would make America like Europe.
But the English system might more easily be
established here indeed, our present plan has
several features in common with it; but then
it is also rid of many of the worst features OF
its prototype.


We shall not argue here the good or evil
of having an army at all. We may, or may
not think it advisable or necessary to look 10
our defenses, and in time of peace prepare Tor
war. We may, or may not, think war one OF
the curses of the world, that in time Will be
got rid of with its fellow curses, drunkenness
and prostitution. But just now we have to
deal with facts and armies are facts and hard
ones and war may come, or be threatened, any
day and the question is how to make our
American army as little alien to the principles
of our Government, as harmonious with the
best interests of our people, as is possible.


In our opinion, the most effectual way to
accomplish this would be to open the doors of
the army to outsiders, by permitting graduates
Of any one Of the colleges to enter u Az pnse
Year: 1867

We learn from Albany that Gov. Fenton has
sent the Cross Town Railroad bill to the Office
of the Secretary of State without his approval.
From the views he expressed in veteing the
first Cross-TOwn Railroad bill, and in return
ing the Broadway Surface act. such disposi-
ton of this wretched bill was to have been
expected.
Year: 1867

Minister Clay is now negotiating with the
Russian Fur Company for their forts and
warehouses, so that another million is to be
added to the bill for Walrussia. There is some
thing yet to pay to keep this territory in order,
but sufficient for the day is the evil Thereof.
We have an elephant of undOubted value upon
our hands in the purchase of our extra Russian
empire, and let us make the most of it.
Year: 1867

The suppression of The Mobile Republican, for
the publication of an article melting the freed
men to violence, appears to be proof that
the power of the military is impartially used
in that city. That is precisely what we want
absolute justice in the South, without regard
to color
Year: 1867

The Union League of South Carolina have
issued an earnest address urging upon the col
ored people the duty of registration. Mr. Reu-
ben Tomlnson of Charleston has been made
Treasurer of the Radical movement in the
State, and will receive contributions from all
quarters.
Year: 1867




A murder Of an apparently most
ntr cious nature was perpetrated
within tho past three or four days in
the usually quite little village of
Cornwall, near Newbnrg, on tho
Hudson. A woman, who went by
the name of Mary Blake, who has re-
sided in the village for about seven
or eight months, was missing on
Tuesday morning last, and no cause
could be assigned for her disappear.
ance. Diligent inquiry was institut-
ed, but without obtaining the slight
est clue to her whereabouts, and a
general search WAS made yesterday
morning. Her inanimate body was
found on the margin of small
stream about five hundred yards
from her place Ofresidence The creek
runs parallel to the roadway leading
to the steamboat landing, and her head
lay in the water. Abundant traces of
blood were found on the road, and it
is presumed that her murderer or
murderers attacked her while pass
ing that way. After being assaiIed
she had been dragged off the road
and down the bank in the direction
of the creek, where her corps was
ultimately discovered. A post NOR
ten examination was made by DIS.
Ely, of Newburg, and Eaton, OF Corn
wall, when it was aScertained that u
brutal assault had been porpetrated
upon the victim, the weapon used be-
ing undOubt 'dly q bludgeOn or some
blunt instrument The skull was
fractured by blow which bad been
delivered behind the right ear, and
Il fearful wound had also been in
aicted on the face, crushing in the
nose and breaking the bones. Either
Of the wounds in the opinions Of the
medical gentleman present, was sut-
fcient To have caused death. She
was reputed to have been marri d
to an old man named Mortaragh
but she has not lived with him f,r

several years past She leaves two
children, little girls, aged respective
ly four and eight years, aud was
herself about thirty-fve years Of age
ut the time Of her death. No proha-
bic motive can be assigned for the
commission OF 40 wanton and inhr-
man an atrocitJ hut l. is hoped
that somo facts tending to reveal the
murderer may be elected at the
investigation which will he held bo.
tore Justice Brewster. The unfor.
tunate woman was in m advanced
state Of pregnancy, which tends to
give the murder a srll more ioul
and diabOlical aspect.
Year: 1867

4 widower, something over fifty years of age, three years after the loss of his wife, thought to assuage his grief by taking to himself new companion-a comely young woman of twenty-four. But being zeal ous member of church, he was anxious to secure tho approval of his brethren before taking the step. For this purpose he call ed upon the senior deacon, {. man of expe- rience and piety, and shrewd observer of mankind, to learn his views of the matter

 Deacon, said he, 'I have come to ask advice on a very important subject. l am contemplating marrying again. Do you think there would be anything out of the way in it?'

 "Why, it is not wrong to marry,'' an- swered the good man, "but 1t seems to me that 1t would strike your acquaintan ces as rather hasty for you to enter that state so soon after the loss of your excellent wife,"

 But" said the caller, II should do it under sense of duty"

 "That might alter the case," l admit, ," replied the deacon; '' but what makes you feel 1t your duty to get married?''

 Il think should be more useful You see have a paying business, and com fortable weil-iurnlshed house; and there fore can give some one a good home, and It appears to me 1 ought to do so.

 C. May inquire if you have any person in view?'

 "Yes; Miss W--."

 But sine has home now, has she not?"

 " Yes-l suppose so"

 "Well, my brother," concluded the dea- con, with 8 peculiar twinkle of the eye, so far as the marrying is concerned, consider ing your motive, 1 do not know but it would be we'll tor you to again change your condition. The only feature of the case that l can see to be open to criticism, is the choice you have made of bride. As you propose marrying simply to be useful by giving some one home, 1t would therefore be consistent only for you to select one who needs such q charity, Now there is Aunt L--, for instance, a most worthy woman, but poor and inir.n, and not much older than yourself. She needs some one to take care of her and her dependent chil- dren. Make her the offer of your hand, and having thus done your duty-as this is all you aim at in marriage-your own con- science will be satisfied, and I don't think your brethren will complain"

 The usefully inclined widower left in a dejected frame of mind, and it may be the work of supererogation to add that he did not take the deacon's advice.--New Fork Times.
Year: 1867

Walnut Hill, of New Britain is being surveyed for public park. An engineer is employed to measure and map it out cor rectly, showing its size, shape, and the To- cation of the reservoir and roadway It is in contemplation to engage the services of Frederick Law Olmsted, of New York, tIe designer sf the Central Park, in connec- ton with this enterprise.
Year: 1867

Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell appeared be. fore the members of our Assembly, to ad. dress them on the right of women to the elective franchise. The privilege accorded to this gifted woman, and the attention paid to her by men of all parties, was as gratifying to us as it was creditable to the members of the Assembly. It is an indi- cation of the liberal and kindly feeling that is growing up among us, and gives ev- idence of a growing disposition to hear patiently and candidly both sides of every question. We believe Mrs. Blackwell fore shadowed the future correctly when she said that it would not be five years ere wo- men in this country would be endowed with the right to vote. The good that would come of it, we firmly believe would be inestimable. This is not a subject to be sneered out of sight, but to be carefully and sobe-ly considered, and so considered it cannot fail to bring to its support the sympathy of good men.-Hmyord Post.
Year: 1867

Southward Of our gates Of gold


An hundred leagues, as the tale is told,
There lieth, q mile below the sea,


A city that was and yet shall be;


Drowned for its sins, but yet 10 rise
As shriven souls ascend the skies.
| have been through that city in . dream;
where its turrets through the blue waves CLEAN
have stood, when the moon to the rippled wave
The ghastly ghost of sunlight gave;
Through avenues long, accnrsed By crime;
in the shadows Of the olds9 tiNsso amid
The streets where numberless things lie bid
That nameless seemed, and strange to me,
In those sunless solitudes down in the sea-
But pillar and column are standing there
Erect as they stood above in the air;
And, save that o'er all the Shiny water


A cold and glItteriug film bath cast
As northern winds, Implying, scatter


Ice on the trees as they hurry past
The mirror>like marbles untarnished shine
As when FIRST they went down in the sparkling
The waving seaweeds, rank and tall,
Like ivy, are clinging to tower and wall,
And the glitteriug dolphin and ravenous shark
Are gliding around in the chambers dark.
There the arms of the polypus are seen
Like spiders mesh in the water green,
And Thousand wonderful creatures sleep
Motionless, silently down in the deep.
There sitteth form on a marble throne,


The form of a maiden young and fair;
But the water hath turned the body to stone,


And hardened the curls of her raven hair;
Yet her full dark eyes are open, and seem
Forever to flash with a lambent beam;
But her rounded arms and bosom white,
Have deatbly cast in that sadden d light.
When the loving waves of thousand years


Shall have washed from those walls of guilt


the stain
As sin is washed out by the penitent'S tears,


That city will start from her slumber again;
And surely twill be strange to mark
Each tower as it leaves its chambers dark
Springing up into life unbound and free,
From those sunless solitudes down in the sea.
Year: 1867

SUMMER TIME, TAKING EFFECT JUNE 2, istf


The trains Of tho PennylvAn Central Railroad Leave
the DEPOT at Thirty FIRST and Market Streets which a
reached directly by the Of the Market PAasen
ger Railway Those Of the Chestnut and Walnut street
Railway run within one square OF H.


ON SUNDAYS the MAFkst Street Cars leave Front and
Market Streets s6 minutes before the departure Of each
Train.


Sleeping Car Tickets be had on application at the
Ticket ofice Northwest conner Of Ninth and Chestnut
Streets.


Agents Of the Union TrRnssr Company will call for
and deliver baggage At the Depot Orders left at No.
CHESTNUT Street. No. South Eleventh street. will Fs-
caiFa httantion F 49,
Year: 1867

The universal complaint against the noi-
sance, and too frequently the outrages OF the
tenement system, has shaped itself into bill
now before the Legislature. This bill was IN
troduced by Mr.. Ready. In its altered shape the
bill presents fair remedy, certainly strong
restriction of tenement evils and We are glad
of the probability that the reform embodied
by it will in substance become a law before
long. The bill provides that every tenement
house shall be amply furnished with ventilat-
ors or transom windows and means of escape in
case of fire, the want of which has put the COM


munity to such cost of human life. The
drainage of roofs the repairs OF stairs, are also
enj0ined; and every owner is required 10 pro-
vide his tenants with all the arrangements ne
cessary TO the cleanliness of household, with
such sufficient sewer connections as will save
them from disease and epidemic The bill Is
minute and wise in its detail Oh this pOint-t
could not be too specific and careful. Further, it
proceeds to ordain that after July, underground
abodes shall be tolerated only under permit OF
the Board Of Health, and then only when these
habitatiOns meet certain standard requirements
as to accommodation and health. Here AGAIN
the bill is particular in providing Tor every
nook and corner wherein evil would be hkeIy
TO lurk. Every tenement house must, more
over, be kept free OF any accumulation OF dirt,
shall be eleansed as often as the hoard OF
Health may order, and be whitewasdled at least
twice year. Tenement owners must allow
free access to the Health officers, and
must report at once the outbreak
of infectious disease. When any build
ing, OF part of one, is. utterly unfit for
its inmates, the Board of Health may order
its vacation within ten days No house here
after erected can be used as tenement house
unless in conformity with certain important
essentials. For instance, buildings for the pnr-
pose named must not be erected or converted
on the front and rear OF the same bot, unless
there is a clear open space between Of at least
ten, twenty, or twenty-five feet extend
ing upward, according to the hight
of the building. But the bill impru-
IDENTIFY allows the lessening of this distance, evi-
IDENTIFY believing that it is possible to assure
perfect ventilation in some other way than by
granting space and atmosphere. The size OF
rooms the supply Of water, the ventilation of
Year: 1867

CONNECTICUT votes to-day. 1T the weather he
fair, as is now promised, the poll will be heavier
than ever before


We do not exhOrt our friends to do their whole
duty. They wiH do it. We have boen among
them and witnessed their energy and enthusiasm.
And we shall be sorely disappointed if they fail
to elect every man on their State Ticket, with
a majority in either branch of the Legislature.
Gov. Hawley, we estimate will receive more
votes than any candidate of any party at any
former election-more than any candidate of the
Democratic party at this election.


The Ist and IVth Congress districts are
desperately contested, and we beg every one
who knows where to gain or save Republican
vote in either TO do it forthwith. We hope to
announce tomorrow the election of both Col
Deming and Phineas r. Barnum. A few hours
more will tell the story.


Champions of Universal Freedom vote once
but work till the sun shall set on your victory!