Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-06-24
ExECurlYR MANsIoN,.
WAsnINaroN, March la. 1ss4.

Hon. Michael Rahn:-My Dear Sir IL
congratulate you on having fixed your name
in history as the first free State Governor
otLouisiaua. Now you are about to have
convention which, nmoug other things,
will probably defiue the elective franchise.
l barely suggest for your private consider
alton whether some of the colored people
may not be let in IS for instance, the
very Intelligent, and especially those who
have fought gallantly in our ranks. They
would probably help in come trying time
family of freedom. Bnt this is only sug-
gestiou-pot to the public. but to you alone.
Truly, you're, A. LINooLN.
The South Carolina delegation very
modestly ask that the Government shall re-
deem the Confederate bonds proper, which
amount, according to their calculation, to
about two hundred million of dollars. The
delegation represent over one million of
the worthless ttash, which is probably the
secret otlheir anxiety on the subject.
A Memphis critic speaks of the voice of
an actress playing there as "assumiug at
times little too much of the rotundity
that may often be observed in pulpit ora.
tory" A delicate way of calling her
''preachyH we suppose.
The Richmond Whig atates that white
servants aud porters are rapidly taking the
places of blacks in that city. The same
is the case with the drivers of hacks aud
other vehicles, while at balls and parties
German musicians have entirely super-
ceded the colored men, This is something
new in Richmond, but it shows there has
been social as well as political reyolu
tion in the South.
The Viceroy Of Egypt is said to bs in a
state of nervous depression which excites
the greatest apprehensions. He is afraid
Of assassination or poisoning. he sees
scarcely anybody but his mother and sister.
His mother cooks for him, and brings his
coffee in locked coffec-pot.
In Virginia, the capital of Nevada, there
are over three Thousand dogs, and the vir-
ginta EaterpTiJs says that two Thousand of
them indulge 10 a free fight every after
noon on Q street.
A Gle OF the Richmond Examiner, from
the commencement of the war to the eyac-
uRtion of the city by tho Confederate au .
thorities, has been sold to a literary inati.
tuition in Boston for $500.
The city authorities Of Pittsburgh, aud
the Free Masons and Odd Fellows Of the
same place, are going to Gettysburg on
the 4Ih of July, to attend the laying of
the corner stone of the National monU-
ment. $50
Mortimer Thompson, "Doesticks," pro-
poses to settle in Atlanta, Ga, as editor Of
q newspaper. .s445s6E
Dresses without sleeves are the style in
Paris, and as far as we can explain, with
out bodies, too; the next thing they will
be without skirts.
"a writer in contemporary says that
the chief pleasure derived by the Boston.
ians at musical entertainment is criti-
cism, and he-Ventures the statement that
.:when they go to heaven they will declare
that some Of the harps are out of tune;
that one of the angels takes liberties with
the composer's text, and that another sings
hat, They will also deplorc the absence
of the great organ" -
Aman in Springfield decapitated tur-
tie and left the head 10 the yard. Hearing
lively squealiug shortly after, he inVesti.
gated and found that . rat which had
essayed to crafty its taste for turtle had
been seized by the head it sought to de.
vour and actually killed,
Mr.. Davis appointment and commission
as fret lieutenant of United States dra.
goons mas fonndamong his private papers