Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-05-31
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| WOltQl uuQ' SUuEu1t OF OOWmeEC0 uGNbpA~
pers 10 not approved here in republican
liof the telegraph days after il WAS discOY4
cred that q rehphlican editor ! forge tiioi
proclsna alton, and DC. hasEe, Vas MADE to OPP
kn the Offices ofths Newspapers mentioned.
fit were not that these papers were held
IN RgneIaE hetestatidnJ by the people the
administration would suffer, severely in
\ the political canvass from Mr. Stanton's
bluuder, and II the military campaign goes
against rs It will as ills. -
TaBt sEWARD.DEIRON uoRREsPoHDRAci.
The House tisteued ysstsrdsy afternoon
tOS the Seward; Dayton correspondence, and
| With deep interest, RThRraiB ~ disposition
p cEiueiEe Me- Seward severely for what
p called bis "coWaTdly diplomacy" but I
notice that the men who cry coward"
post lusdey are mot helping Grant fight
bis great campaign. 7l-slo 90
| - FHE TRRAsURY INVESTIGATION. a..l
The Treasury investigation raised by
Frank Blair Jim Brooks and others
raised to investigate their charges-will
4 have beggaTiy report to make to Con-
gress hear. % Two or three weeks ago
Ihen it was raised (the committee Of In.
Ivestigation meAn) the town was full OF
j ffightful and disgusting tales Of the print.
ing bureau, Clark, It's manager, and a
number OF public men in Washington. l
confess that feared at that time that an
4 thvestigation would result most unpleas
aptly for some Of the leading officers of the
I-gpvernment. The investigation was just
the thing neededI for-it will ,shoWsthe fall
sity ctRnearly all the charges made against
Mr.. Chase or any Of his subordiuates The
ttaot is, one does not know what 10 believe
in Washington at times. was told by
half q dOSen Seraeions persons, . fortnight
ago, that an "honoFable senator" was pub
liely beaten over the head by q young
woman whom he had previously seduced.
l believed alluded 10 the story ia this
correspondence. 1t turns out that the
young woman" is hfty-two years old aad
subject TO 6ts of insanity, or something
very like them, ins which che denounces
violently the President, Mr.. Stanton, or IN
honorable member OF Congress. This is
what she did in this case. There was no
seduction, no public Punishment. or any
thing OF the kind in the easel Now there
is moral to this story. ItshoWs that one
must not too readily believe'the charges
against our public men. That there are
many bad men in Congress no man. who
has Iivsdshero winter can doubt, Some
OF Them are corrupt iu one way and Others
in other Ways, bat when, for instance, one
member Of Congress is heard of as being
guilty Of . mean, dishonest or immoral
act, instantly 'Tumor' has IL thGtsa dozen
haVe committed the same act. This 10
human nature, the world, over. People
lotet to exsRgerate, aud people generally
love exagEeFSlions. 10 not this' 90 I It,is
extremely difficult to tell the truth 10.
Washington.
THE BATTLES AT AND PORT
,,sr DARLING. 5. g1lgfElE
70 The president is reported to have been
quite angry When he heard OF tho retreat
of Sigel, and not little RULED in temper
when be teard Of Buffers losses on, his re !.
treat fFoR Fott Darling, "Fhave ubipbea
Beanregard," said Butler after his 6rst' liz.
Gle skirmish with the enemy, and he might
have added q few days Afterwards, mSn d
Beauregsrd has whipped me pr That first
dispatch Of ButlsF'6 did the business for
min here among sensible men. It was
6oe9itnl and atppaut such as no true man
eVet writes. Secretary Stanton remarked
the other day, ..ButlsF b admira6is In cat.
eehtqspB. g rebel clergyman or in intimi.
4 dating . Secesh school ma'am, but be isuI
EA great general Still the people like But
.tlsf'S nSnlinesSL tis through tbat ouali.v
that he g4isS his Inmsnss popdlAritY.T /,
is not generally supposed that he, ia very
much Of a'general bot good deal Of (
man. have heard rumors tina. Butler
was about % be!rem0Ved, or SUPERSEDED 81
Gen. Smiah within day 4ortW6,4 but md
no confirmation of them. Sigels was yery
lprpmptly ysuspended, hut HalIeck ialwav,
hated hmm the PRECEDENT had VeFY little
con6dense ip him@+so, it Was LRdl eaSys mae
ter % aecomp liBh his. remoYala OF 9 er.
nan friends must submitto the blow whi:t
shiVerS their idol into fragments with the
best possible grace under the ciroutnS kRnl
9es. The admiuistrationh has wroughtwou.
defs IN ,reiptorcing Grant aud other com,
mandets: Nearly thirty thousand veteran
troops have been semitic the taruay of tht
Potomac since the heavy slig htingi of vesS
tbetore last. It Is supposed also that But.
Ter has been 5reiRfoEceds but e. vhIbs no.
ticed that Grant brihgs hearIy All the fresb
srooR9 himself. ,BqtTit ID trua that b1
has' dome the lions share Of the fR6tipo
thus far. He has lost what troops have
been lost and pfcourse needs tbe reinforce.
, ments more than any one else, No., -.
Il THE cHAHDLER-yooRHEEs scR1MMAaE.
III DR.. z. n. Clarke, one of the most dis.
ttnguished Fhysicishsin Detroit, Vithessea
the assault leSt 1igkt upon; Ssnster Chsn.
Edler, and describes the outrage in these
words: Senator Chandler, q lady, and two
children, were sitting at a side table in the
dining room of the National Hotel, being
the table usually occupied by Senator
Chandler and family. Dir. z. II. Clarke,
OF Detroit, occupied one of the centre Il.
Sies Immediately - opposite to Senator
Chandler. Mr.. Voorhees,, of Indiana. and
bannegan, son of the former Indiana Sen.
ator HannegHni were sitting at the next
centre table nearer the door than the one
occupied by DR.. Clarke, which gave them
position dlAgonally .NetUasHhe space1be.
tween the two rows Iot t66lds, and to that
extent In the rearrot the table, occupied bv
senator o. who was speaking to his friend
Or. Clarke across the space between the
Two rows Of tables. The subject Of conver-
/ sation was the removal from ofice al 4
UopPerhead Politician of Detroit, the name