The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-08
,ROUBLE ABoUTTHE FREEDMEN
Evidence in the Wirz Case.
ALBANY NOMINATIONS
Enoouraging CROP Report
Union Meeting over at Sc. CIairsviIIe--
speech OF General Cox

tSpeetut 10 me 4ftcttlDe1lcer Oy the " 81 LlHe.
air. ST. CLAIRsvILuE, o., SEPT. 9TH.
The Union meeting at st. Clalrsvill,
to-day was large considering the fac
that the notice was short and farmer,
busy. The streets We're handsomely
decorated with flags and streamers
The meeting assembled in the fnil
ground at one o'clock. Judge Cover
occupied the chair and introduced Gen
Cox, who made splendid speech o
two hours. After he had finished Sam
Galloway commenced speaking and
while he was giving some of his hard
est hits at copperheadism, heavy
storm came up which compelled the
crowd to seek shelter. I'd. .1.5 I'd
Gen. Cox, on being introduced, com.
menced by referring to tho feeling Of
horror with which the people Of the
north regarded the first notes of war.
He then took up the resolution of the
democratic convention reafTirming the
resolutions of $685." and showed con-
clusively and beyond cavil, that those
resolutions were naked, bald treason;
he showed that they were submitted to
the legislatures of the States and were
rejected by nearly all of them; he as
serted that very few persons, compara-
lively, had ever read them and that the
leaders of the opposition were now
resnrrecting and seeking to deceive the
people with them. He took up the res
0lutions about equal laws of taxation.
Our bonds, he said, were not in the
hands of few aristocracy, but were
in the hands of the poor. The soldiers,
tine laborer, the farmer, the school-mas-
ter and the needle woman all hold these
bonds. They We're issued when tue
country was in pressing need. Besides,
it was not the Union men but the Dem
Ocratic Supreme Court which exempted
them long years ago, before the Union
party came into power.
This part of his speech and TINT in re-
lntion to the resolutions of "'9S," WIS
overwhelming in logic, and Gen. Cox's
eloquent allusion to the soldier sending
home his hard earned money to invest
in bonds stirred the hearts of his hearers.
He closed with an impressive appeal
to soldiers and citizens to stand togeth-
er until our Union was firmly estab-
lished upon the broad basis of liberty
and humanity.
His speech was well received and the
Unionists are proud of their stand
9E#
Gen. Cox and Mr.. Galloway speak Mt
Cambridge, Ohio, tomorrow.
-~0A-- aFa. III
approximations OF ma InsurrcctiOn
among abe FreetImem.--Ex.CiOVe
Brown PnrtlOncCl-----T'he TVlrz Conn
missIOn----The Virginia DanI<s----Ile-
turns 10 the Agricultural Bureau.
NEW York, Sept. THE Times'
Washington special says the President
has received, within n few Il days, nu-
merous letters from prominent citiZons
Of Virginia, North Carolina and AIissis-
siPpi, expressing apprehensions of in
by the freedmen of those
States. These letters the President re-
ferred to tho Frcedmen's Bureau for
consideration.
Gen. Howard Ens issued ii circular to
Col. Brown, Commissioner of Freed
men for Virginia, recommending II pa
troll of citizens or police, to be under
the control of the Department cont
InhluGES COuuIltsS "uGEG LO
agents of the Freedmen'S Bureau. A
citizen of Union sentiments may be
to aid the Bureau in preserv-
ing order and forwarding contracts for
labor between the freedmen and white
citizens, such appointees to be respon-
sible to the Assistant Commissioner for
the State.
Ex-Gov: Brown, of Georgia, was par
doned to-day by the President. Gov.
governor Of Georgia. -
The President to-day appointed Jno.
C. Wright to be Secretary of Legation
at Berlin, Prussin.
The Herald's special says the revolt
ing character of the evidence now be-
ing deduced in the Wirz trial, iii sup
port of the prosecution, is said to be
wearing heavily on the mind of the
accused, and torturing him with the
most fearful npprehensions rs to the
decision of the Commission hearing
the cnSe. Some people y hO are watch
ing his demeanor closely, give the
opinion that should he continue to be a
prey to the fearful doubts that now be-
set him, he will not survive another
month. So far, about ;es;y witnesses
have been examined in this case, the
record of which makes LOO or 1900
foolscap pages of testimony. At the
rate testimony was taken to-day, four
or five days more will suffice to close
the case by the government. The pris-
oner continues to occupy aiplace ut the
table with his counsel in writing and
making suggestions to them as to cross
examinations.
The Herald g Richmond correspondent
says the commissioners appointed to
examine into the condition of the Banks
of Virginia have reported the following:
Banks which reported on call are the
Bank of Virginia, at Richmond, with
its branches at Petersburg, Fredericks-
burg, LynchburE, Norfolk, Danville,
Portsmouth and Union; the Exchange
Bank of Virginia, Mt Richmond, with
its branches at Petersburg, Salem,
GAINESVILLE, Abingdon, Lynchburg and
Alexandria; the Farmers Bank of Vir-
ginia, Mt fredericksburg, Wytheville,
BlnclSsburg, Lynchburg, Danville and
GAINESVILLE; the Bank of the Old Do
minion, at Alexandria and Perrysburg,
and the Bank of the Valley, at Lees
tration the correspondent states that
the Exchange Bank holdsof rebel bonds
and securities $0,7O0, 600 and $3.50, 600 in
specie; the Bank of Virginin 5000, 600 In
bonds and $500, 600 in specie. In other
securities the banks hold considerable
amounts of Southern State Bank notes
and home claims on much of the specie
captured in GeorghI, North Carolina
and South Carolina. The notes of the
following Banks are worth Mt least tho
present value of State stocks: The
Bank of Commerce, mt fredericksburg
the Bank of Winchester, ut Winchester
Southwestern Bank of Virginia, u
Wytheyille; the Bank of Rock bridge
Rank of the Old Dominion, at Alex
andria and Perrysburg Merchant,
Bank of Lynchburg; Farmers Bank o
Fincastle. The following independen
Banks, are in a much more depIOrnbl
condition: The Monticello Bank o
Charlottesville, Bank of Howardsville
Bank of the Commonwealth of Rich
mond. Central Bank of. Staunton.
The Worlds special says, the docu
nnrilnhnna n.nlnAirnr.