The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-12-10
Neutrality-suspicious..


York city at the municipal election
last week, out of a registry of rs, 900.
A Washington dispatch says: The
mismanagement of the mails between
the Capital and the West is disgraceful
in the extreme, and of itself sufficient
to show either, that the present head OF
tne department is utterly unfit for his
position, or that he devotes his atteu-
ton SO exclusively to politics as to pre-
clude his attention to his legitimate
business.
An exchange paper says: "Mr. Nor
rissey visited the Capitol few days
since, and on noticing the Speakers
desk, inquired whether that was where
the referee sat-"
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
Thomas w. Sweeney, who was recently
restored to his position in the regular
army, is to join his regiment, the 18th
United States Infantry, at Nashville.
Tennessee. This officerI%it will be re-
membered, was the Fenian Secretary OF
War and the General-in-Chie of the
tenian forces which invaded Canada a
few months ago.
The Richmond Dispatch, speaking OF
Raymond's position, says:
"The position which Raymond occu-
pies in the political world is so pitiable,
that 1t would be inhuman to attempt
to add to his modification. We refer
the reader to the scene in the Radical
caucus in which heappeared."
The New York Tribune has this
Washington dispatch:
SIT is stated here, that last evening
Secretary Seward called on Mr., Thad-
0au9 SfnUnna at hiS Il
long private interview with him. The
statement causes great deal of COM
ment here, and much speculation is
rife to know what it all meant. The
above gentlemen have not been on
friendly relations with each other for
several years. It is rumored that Sew
ard is repentant, like Raymond, and
wants to come back into the bosom OF
the Radical party. Others think that
Seward was sent by President johnson
TO make overtures of compromise"
The Lowell (Mass.l Courier says the
matter of a reduction of the hours OF
labor is a subject thoughtfully debated
in manufacturing interests at this time.
The desire is to lessen the amount OF
goods manufactured the question OF
reducing the hours of labor for any
other purpose than to lessen the pro-
ductiOn of goods is not now entertain
ed, and how best to accomplish the OBJ
ject is the point to be determined.
REvERDY JOHNSON asserted in the
course of his remarks before the Sen
ate, on Tuesday, that the Executive had
granted fewer pardons tLan his prede-
Cessor. If we are to believe President
Johnson's own statement, however, the
Senator from Maryland is decidedly in
error. Said the President in one of his
st. Louis speeches: "I reckon 1 have
pardoned more men, turned more men
loose, and set them at liberty that were
imprisoned, imagine, than any other
man on Gods habitable globe"
I The Richmond Examiner protests
against the declaration made by H.
Rives Pollard in the prospectus for his
own paper, that he will "accept the
Yankees as fact, and logically and
forever as a foe; whether in war or
peace, in the field or the forum, or
the legislature-always an enemy, !" and
adds:
at is not merely reproducing the idea
of an 'irrepressible conflict but going
far beyond it. Assuming the PROPOSE
tIon to be true, what possible hone or
future is there for the South? We were
overwhelmed in the late contest. When
are we to try nnother2 HALL we can look
forward to is ceaseIess hate, then, OF
course, war at some not distant dav is
inevitable. Thus there would be little
use for any of us to plough, or SOW, OF
build save, to make ready for another
fight and still another. The South,
abandoning her present hope of order,
restoration, liberty, education, ad-
vancementin the arts and material pro.
gress, is to surrender herself to gloomy
passions, an eXtinguishabIe hate and
the counsels of despair I"
INTERESTING TO RAILROAD TRAVEL.
ERs.-The following "rules of the road''
are based upon legal decisions, and
ought to be universally known. The
courts have decided that applicants for
tickets on railroads can be elected from
the cars if they do not offer the exact
amount of their fare. Conductors are
not bound to make change. All rail.
road tickets are good until used; condi-
tions, good for this day only" or other
admitting time of genuineneSs, are Oi
no account. Passengers who lose their
tickets con be elected from the cars un-
less they purchase second one. Pas.
sengers are bound to observe decorum
in the cars, and are obliged to comply
with all reasonable demands to show
their tickets. Standing on the plat
forms. or otherwise violating the rules
of the Company, renders a person LA
BILE to be put OF the train. No person
has Il right to monopolize more seats
than he has paid for; aud any article
left in the seat while the owner is tenn
porarily absent, entities him to his seat
on his return.