The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-26
Correspondence Of Wheeling Inteliigemccr.

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BOtts---Ihe Richmond Railroads.
Correspondence Of Wheeling InteHigemcer.
RICHMOND, July 2l, 1865.
Our people continue to have most
diSagreeable reminders of their GricV-
GUS error in yielding to the seductive
and sophistical allurcments of seces-
sion, and seem destined not soon TO
abandon their position upon the foot
stool of repentance. Aside from the
ever recurring evidence of the terrible
obstruction, devastation and impoVer-
ishment, which have made the people
of Eastern Virginia the heaviest suffer
erS from the rude hand of war, ,there are
occasional episodesin the shape of sem
sation rumOrs OfwhOlesNle confiscations
of the property of our most prominent
citizens, seizure, libellingS of real es-
tate, and stopping of rents, which keep
alive most unpleasant excitement i'll
the community. Each of these rumors
comes i'll shape more alarming than
its predecessors, and is, of course, eXng-
gerated i'll proportions to the natural
anxiety and apprehension necessarily
prevalent in times so precariouS as the
present. The CONSERVATION occasioned
in Richmond, last week, by the seizure
of the SpottswOod and Ballard Hotels,
and numerous other pieces of real
estate, by the United States Marshal,
which had n much more alarming effect
than the sound of Grants or McClel-
lan's great guns during the many bat
ties fought within sight and hearing of
the city, has now happily subsidized,
upon the assurance from the proper
authorities, that cOnfiscatiOn cannot be
executed upon the property of persons
who have received the Executive Glenn
ency, within which category are en-
braced nearly all of the parties whose
property was libelled. The action of
the Marshal seems to have been taken
in obedience to orders issued previously
to the extension of clemency to the
owner by the President,-and will re-
suit i'll no more serious damage to
their pockets, thnn the payment of
numerous fees to sundry clerks,
assistant clerks, assessors, and
assistant assessors, ETC., etc, i'll Judge
UnderwOOd's department., aggregating,
as am informed, something over 500,
when the proceedings shall have been
ended. \ cheap escape from the pen
atty, truly; but our wealthy men, talk
ing wisdom from the industry and
prOmptness of that well-knOwn and Of
lten-lmcntioned 'enrly hird' We're ''too
soon" for Judge Underwood.
Applications for pardon are transmit
ted rapidly to Washington, and in ma
NY instances by persons who had de-
tGrmined MOTTO apply, relying upon the
Amnesty oath of President Lincoln, to
protect themselves and property, slim
The sooner the property-hOlding pOr-
tions of the community receive the par
don of the President, of course the more
rapidly will be advanced the property
of the city, by the promotion of conf
dencc, both mt home, and abroad, in the
responsibility of those upon whom we
must RELY for the development of the
business interests of the community.
Our merchants returning from their
visits to New York, (Which by the way
is rapidly becoming II sort of Mecca for
Southern pilgrims, where Confedemtes
are most Hospitality and cOurteously re-
ceived,) represent the question of par
don to be the sole difficulty to the con-
summation of such arrangements as
will lend abundant aid to the business
men of the South; that settled, and the
difficulty is Immediately removed.
Next Tuesday, the2 18th inst, is the
day designated by Governor Peirpoint
for the election of municipal officers.
Candidates are numerous, and for some
| though happily 1 do not observe much
! disposition to revive old issues tending
| to discord and strife. For the Mayor
| atty the contest is very animated be-
tween William Taylor, for many years
n merchant of Richmond, and y. Stur-
tevant, Esq, late commander of bat
terry i'll the Confederate service, and n
| young lawyer of considerable promise
and very high character. Most prota-
! bly, we shall witness, in our election,
the same general results as i'll all cleo
! tions recently held i'll the State, i'm which
! Confederate officers and soldiers, when
| candidates, have distanced all compe-
tition.
The Attorney General of the State
/ has decided that no individual holding
office under the Confederate or rebel
State government, excepting only conn
lty offices, is eligible to office. The
! Times, understood to be under the
editorial management of well known
1 lawyer, in its issue of this morning,
| takes mp the cudgel, and delivers a
I lengthy argument against the sound
ness of the decision. This is, of course,
a question of profound interest to the
| politician, who, ii is currently believed, /,
sleep than with the hope of Office
Hon. John Minor Bolts is in New
/ York, where it is said he is extensively
Ilionized by his numerous friends in
that city, who have not forgotten him
in the long period of enforced separu-
ton during the war.
The various lines of railroad con-
Meeting us with the North are in course
of rapid completion, and we shall soon
revive our acquaintance with the great
world from which we have been so long
blOckaded. CHATHAM.
a LEXINGTON, KY, correspondent
writing TO the New York Times, says
Last Sunday Iheard an eminent Epis-
copal rector from Clarksville, Tenn,
! invited to officinte here i'll a church of
doubtful standing, pray with much APP
parent JUNCTION for "the President of the
4 Confedcrrte States and all others in au-
| thority." Being reminded of his JGur
I pas while retired to change his robe, he
! nralI1HaI hiST hJ- pOPT,aotiV1ty him
self and offering as his apology "the
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