Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-07-22
PersonaI ana Political,

coin meeting In st. Louis on the 10Th
Long Jim Lane of Kansas is another.
The Chicago Mayor is in an alarming
condition. The Chicago Tribune says, "he
is walking on the brink of a burning vol
eano, and liable at any moment to be en-
quilted in the fiery flames of everlasting de-
struction." Where are the steam fire en-
gines!
Poor old John Bell is cooped up in At
lauta, despised by the rebels, hated by
Unionists.
The golden circle people are to have a
mass convention at Peoria, III, August 3
The democracy are being swallowed up by
the copperheads and rebel sympathizers,
secret or open.
George Francis Train is dashing around
out West still, and has got chosen del
egato to the Chicago convention from Ne
braska.
Mr.. VOlk's monument to Senator DOu-
glas at Chicago will cost half million
dollars.
James R. Hubbell, Speaker of the House
of Representatives, and Senator Thomas
H. Weasuer, of the Ohio Legislature, have
resigned.
Senator Gratz Brown OF Missouri, who
headed the call for the Cleveland Fremont
convention, hut was too busy to attend,
has not defined his position yet. Most of
his Missouri followers have given in their
adhesion to Lincoln, however; thus out of
the thirty radical papers in the State TWEEN
ty-six support the Baltimore nomination,
while only three German and one English
paper support Fremont. OF the four or
Eve Clay. bank or Blair journals, the st.
Louis Union alone pretends to support Mr..
Lincoln, while one OF the others has come
out hat-footed for the copperheads.
The members of the bar in New Orleans
lately had reunion in honor of General
Banks and General Sickles, both of whom
made speeches on the occasion. General
Banks made these reuarks, which were
treated by other speakers as significantly
pointing towards peace:-
"I confess, sir, that believe the first
duty of this people is to make such sacri-
fees on the field of battle as success may
demand, and also that the settlement of
our difficulties must proceed from the NOR
| al power of this country, which is greater
and more efficaeious than military power;
the pen is mIghtier than the sword. This
power will command the assent of the peo
pie of this country and the respect of all
courts, either judicial or political, on the
face of the earth"
There is copperhead clergyman some
where who has obtained nearly hundred
Subscribers in his parish for the New
York World, SO that paper says. The
name of SO rare a character should not be
concealed.
Lieut.. Col. H. B. Clitz, stationed at
West Point, has been relieved and reduced
to the rank of major of United States In
fantry. The opposition papers say it was
because he was one of those who invited
Gen. Mcclellan to deliver the Grafton at
West Point. "Tell that to the marines"
The democracy of Marshall county, In
diana, pronounce the war "illegal unccn-
stitutional and UNJUST" and Vallandigham
''an honest, bold and able advocate of the
sacred. fundamental principles of our gov
eminent"
The last and strangest political rumor is
that Fernando Wood is plotting to re-
elect Mr.. Lincoln. Next we shall hear
thar Secretary Stanton is plotting to elect
Mcclellan.
The Louisiana constitutional convention
has completed its work, and the free state
constitution is submitted tc the people on
the first Monday in September. Tue con-
stitution abulisbes slavery and provides foI
popular education.
, Mr.. Garrison evidently knows the Rev
/ NJ. D. Conway alike book" He says il
, letter to Professor Newman of England
t printed in his Li6erdtor -
"You will not find him safe counsellor
3 or reliable witness on public issues. I'm.
, pulsive, eccentric, reckless, highly imagi.
native and ambitions at this time for rad
icaF distinction, his flaming zeal is not al.
! ways according to knowledge; and his
vision is too apt to magnify mole hills into
uouDtaius,' and to give an inch the impor
lance of mile according to his mood Of
mind. However fervent his zeal or praise.
} worthy his object, the course he is pursu-
ing is well calculated to damage the Amer.
lean government abroad, and to help fac.
3 ton aud sedition at home"
A St. Louis letter says:
. The copperheads are quite as deep in tbs
mud, over the Mcclellan question, as the
radicals are upon the German disaffectiou
e and the nomination OF Fremont The Ms.
souri, Republican has come out openly fol
Mcclellan, which has disconnected the
scheme of the Fremont agitators consider
: ably. There is very strong peace faction
! among the copperheads, who want a man
] who is unequtVocally pledged to peace
Ysilandigbam, or Long of Ohio, or Fernan.
do Wood, of New York. They are active
and incorporating, and will not give up
the fight easily. Their organ is the demo.
cratic Free Press, "a traitorous sheet which