Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-01-07

of rock and soil, iron rails Of the track
carved aud er4mpei INFO all m-uner OF
! forms, mark the sPitetui distractions of the,
road by the rebels when Gen. Meade Tell
back to Ball Ran ana CeutreTiIIe From
RaPPahAunoek Station TO Manassas JuDe-
ton they made thorough work. Beyond
| the RaPpahannoek river they did not dam
/ age the road, Vsialy hoping, no doubt, 10
/ extend their piekets aud TO use the road up
TO the river, during the winter.
| coNGEEss AND coxscRIPTloS.
Very HttIe' complete action was taken
upon the eOnseriPtiou-l prior TO recess.
Congress received such cheering news
! from the army, aud of the people at home,
10 relation to re-enlishng aud recruiting,
that many members Of the House and Sem
ate were indifferent about IegisIaring men
into the army, and they inclined 20 favor
and recommend a postponement of the
draft aud an extension of the time allowed
for veterans 10 volunteer. And within the
tTsnty-four hours last past, the authori-
ties have manifested practical wisdom aud
foresight in announcing that the draft and
the payment of large bOunties 10 old aud
| new volunteers viii Oe prolonged two
weeks from the 9th OF January. But
| when the draft does come il will have no
I
Dad class will be merged into one Every
patriot who can possibly leave home should
volunteer now or be drawn out of the hat
Comparatively few volunteers, partition
larly among the contrabands, are obtained
IN this city. Yet great many 'taImigbty
niggets" have been enlisted here and trans-
ported 10 regiments of colored troops form
| ing in the Northern States. Washington
pays $50, while Rhode Island and other
free States pay $500 bounty TO negro vol
unteeFs, and, says Sambo, "dats ghar der
hen scratches" and "the powers that be-
have gone to the extreme of nonsense 10
prohibiting any more negroes going from
this District to enter the service in other
States. Without protesting any danger
Gus regard for the irrepressjble 'uigger"
would be pleased to know how or in
| what legal sense can Washington CITY
claim ihe itiueraut coutraband fresh from
the sacred sol, anymore than New York CITY
can claim and hold as a citizen the emf
grant that has justlanded at Castle Garden?
Would II not be well to remind our seusi.
tive parties who are, more from accident
than merit, clothed with little brief au-
thOrity that:
Our eountry'S welfare Is our hrst concern,
And who promotes that best, bet proves his Duty
TIE LEAGUE OF LOYAL vIRd1xIAxs
was successfully organized last evening ia
the Washington Union League rooms. The
numerous friends of F. E. Foster. of
Wheeling, will be gratifed to learn that he
was installed President of this patriotic
association. Mr.. Foster has, in the able
and faithful discharge of his duties as Ad-
lntant General of Virginia under Governor
FelFPolnt, shown himself worthy of his i'm
Pqrtant post of honor. z. G. Green. of
hichmondi was chosen Secretary, and Ben
Jsmin +, Humphrey, of the same city,
Treasurer.
THE FUNERAL OF SENATOR BowpKS q
was solemnized to. day With BETTING hon
ors He was inferred in the Congressional
Cemetery. He died with that terrible
scourge of mankind, the small box. This
dangerous contagion RACES to a fearful ex-
tent in Washington. / was recentIV in
formed by an eminent physician that the
sufferers with this desolAiiup plague NAV
be numbered by hundreds The preya-
Ieuce of this fell destroyer ia attributed to
the changes produced by the war: more
cases occur nnw in one wear than ware eyer
known in teu years before the rebellion
commenced.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN
gave out IN conversation, few days ago,
that among the hundreds OF offices given
out by HIM since his Inauguration, not one
was held by any person who in any way
could lay claim 10 relationship to him
Verify the charge of nepotism eau not in
Justice be preferred against Honest Abra-
ham. PRIMUs.
GEN. GREAT RAID.