Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-06-23


not only forfeited all bounties, but all pay
and allowances due them at the time Of
desertion, and payments on this account
will not hereafter be allowed.
The friends of Charles ". Hornor, E.u,
of New Orleans, the Post tells us, are SO
liciting for him an appointment to the seat
on the Supreme Bench of the United
States, made vacant by the death of Mr..
Justice Catron. Horace Maynard, of Tenn,
is also pressed for the place.
The colored committee in Washington
represent 10000 colored people of Rich
mond, 5000 of whom are members OF
churches in good standing; 1000 WORTH
from 500 to $780, 200 who have property
estimated at from $500 to So, 600, and a
number who are worth from $4,000 to
$40, 900.
"Mertumara" is tho name recently given
to female child in Petersburg. 1tislth
. mothers FIRST born, and it was determined
that tho name should be novelty. We
congratulate the mother on her success.
Little George Besuregard Lee Gilmor
Denny, of Baltimore, sged two months, is
dead. How no would have biushed for
bis silly parents, had he lived 10 realize
the significance of his name.
The New Hampshire Superior Cour. has
| decided that an express company deliver.
ing parcel marked with the cabalisiic
&c. o. D-"-collect on delivery-mny al
low'the person to whom it is CONSIGNED
reasonable time 10 open the package and
determine whether he will receive it or not.
The rule has heretofore been that no ex.
animation could take place-the receiver
must take the package and pay for it with.
out opportunity to determi1e whether it
contain what he ordered or not. This de-
cision of the courts is both legal and sen.
slbler which latter cannot be said of all
legalsdecisions.
Mr.. Saulsbury, the ''accidental" Go.
vernon of Delaware, must have slept
through the last four years. He has Just
sent in to the Legislature of that Stale a
labored argument to prove slavery a bless.
ing' and State sovereignty the great cure
NJ: Cox has been appointed Postmaster
at Fredericksburg, Va.
Toomhs, of Georgia, is said 10 have
rea:hed Cuba 10 company with Breckin-
ridge, ---
Wm. b. Russell, in his new volume on
Canada states that the landlord of the
New York Hotel said to him, in January.
1852, as he was about to take the train for
Albany and the west, "You had better
stay, sir, for afew days. l have certain
intelligence, let me whisper you, that the
aboliliOnists will be whipped at tho er d of
this week, and old Abe driven ont of
Washington.H
The Emperor MAximilian of Mexico,
speaks auentIy six languages, and geuer-
fatty wears duck trowsera and rou6dabnut,
and eom6rero hat. His wife, the En-.
press Charlotte, is rather good looking
brunette, with a penchant for waterfall
curls. They are about wedding their
grand marshal, BsEaine, aged eighty, to a
beautiful young fiirt of Mexico City, aged
eighteen, and the affair makes much gossip
and scandal.
= Now that the trade restrictions on the
sale OF cotton are removed, there is con
siderable speculation as to the amount
stored at the South. The estimates vary
from 100000 to 5000, 900 bales. The
Journal Of Commerce has made a careful
estimate from the best data obtainable, aud
puts the amount ct !, ,506, 600 bales, much
OF which is uuginned, and will be found
more or less damaged. The value of the
stock ct thirty cents pound would be
| little over two bundled millions of dollars.
"A large amOuutof this cotton will doubt-
less be ehipped abroad, aud will materially
affect the price of gold aud OF exchange,
Jno. G. Nicolsy, Secretary to the late
President, and now Consul to Paris, takes
a wife with him across the ocean. He
married Miss Bates, of Piltsfeld, Illinois,
last week.
Gen. Grant goes in strongly for retrench.
ment in the army. he says that of the
100000 horses and mules now in possess
eion of the army, costing nearly dollar
day each1 10000 10 ITS, 900 must be sold
at anotion, realizing for the treasury prob
ably eight or ten millions, and carving
great benefits to farmers north and south.
The thousands OF men taking care of them
] will also be relieved and sent home to aid
in developing the resources of tho country
and paying the taxes. The army will be
reduced TO l00. 900 men by the lst of Janu
AIRY next, and they may be thinned out at.
terward. The blsck troops will mostly be
retained for garrison purposes in the Gulf
states. The veteran reserve CORPS and
regulars are the only white troops that are
likely to bs kept in service beyond this
year. The regulars may be increased 10
the maximum of 100000 men. A few
regiments OF cavalry will have to be re-
tanned for frontier service, to look after
the Indians.
Bishop Andrews, of the NJ. E. Church,
South, has issued an address in which he
couusels submission and pesceful acuui.
escence in the new order of things.
Nearly all The leading DemCcratic papers
of Ohio advocate the election of General
W. T. Sherman as Governor of that State,
Bishop Gregg of Texas, in a pastoral
letter instructs the clergy of the Episcopal
Church to return to the liturgy as it was
before the war.
Prior to the surrender of General John.
ston, the late rebel 0opfedsracy had accu :
mulsted an immense amount of medical
hospital stores of all kinds at Charlotte,
N. O., directly imported from England Just
before the fall of Wilmington. which have
been received at Newbsru, after ap inyen-
tory which consumed three weeks time.
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