The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-09

Miscellaneous News.
NEW York, May S.-The Inspector
General of the Freedmen's Bureau in
Virginia has just reported to the Assts-
tant Commissioner at Richmond, the
result of thorough investigation of
the affairs of the Freedmen in the State
of which he has just completed an in
spection. His report on the whole Is
comparatively favorable. He repre-.
sents the various colored schools gem
orally we'll attended, and the prejudice
existing against the freedmen slowly
but steadily diminishing. The sanitary
condition of the freedmen has so far
improved throughout the State that all
bureau hospitals have been abolished.
The employers in compliance with the
terms of their labor, contracts furnish
The demand for labor greatly exceeds
the supply in all portions of the State.
The wages of the male freedmen aver
age about Sl2 per month, including
food, quarters and medical attendance.
The Senate Committee on Public
Lands have several important measures
before them which will be reported in a
ment of the Northwest. Several lead
ing railroad men are herein conference
with them, among whom is Mr..
Minse, who is urging legislation to
insure the completion of the road from
st. Paul to Bayfield,, which makes an
outlet TO the lakes.
enue, in n letter of reply to agentle-
man of BuffBlo. New York, dissents
from the recent decision of Judge
Smalley of Vermont, while sitting in
equity in the Western part of New
York. The Commissioner says that
the rule laid down by Judge Smalley
- HtsHtN ttaA
Judge out not to give aid to the Asses
sor, must, he supposes, be taken as the
rule of that district. As Judge Hall
appears to concnr in the opinion of
Judge Smalley. But as to the right OF
making a second assessment, the Com
missioner does not regard Judge Small
ley's opinion, even in his district, Ell
Their as authority or precedent, for his
decision cannot be deemed to extend as
a precedent, and in its legal, effect, be-
yond the point in which the case turn
ed, viz: The Assessors right of inyesti-
cation in the manner proposed IN that
class of cases, represented by the case
of Mr.. Brewer, which class embraces
only such assessments as were made
prior to the time when the law of June
3Oth, 1864, took effect, and not such as
sessments as have been made since that
time, The rest of the Commissioners
opinion contains views not called for
by the case actually before the court.
DIR. Sayne, of New York, Mt The head
of a committee of eminent physicians,
appointed by the Medical Convention
recently assembled at Baltimore, were
to-day in conference with the Senate
Committee of Commerce, for the pur-
pose of devising some Legislation TO
prevent the introduction and spread oil
Asiatic cholera in the United States.
After free interchange of views the
faa 1fE11O " n
chairman to report a joint resolution TO
the effect that the Secretaries of War
and the Navy; with the cooperation of
the Secretary of the Treasury, shall
cause on efficient and uniform system
of quarantine against the introduction
into the country of Asiattc cholera
through its ports of entry.
The Hera1d's Washington special
The President has signed the bill in
cooperating the International Telegraph
Company between the United States
and Cuba.
Senator Dixon expects to leave for his
home in connecticut.within ten days:
His Improvement here is gradual, but
will probably be accelerated by the
puiet of home life.
Mr.. Bunker, on behalf of the Union
Pacific Railroad, is here for the pur-
pose of obtaining another installment
of United States bonds in payment for
twenty-five additional miles OF. road
lately accepted by the commissioner.
The line is now completed beyond Elk
horn Bridge, about sixty-t1ve miles
westward from Omaha.
The War Department has suspended
the payment of over one hundred dis
charged officers, who have failed to
make the proper returns:
Dispatches from North Carolina re-
veal further acts of malfeasance on the
part of the agents of the Freedmen's
Bnreau in that State. Col. Whittlesey,
the commissionerfor the State, and sew
eraI of his subordinates, with the as
sistance of some map philanthroptsts,
it is alleged have been discovered run
ming plantations on private account,
and working delinquent or disorderly
darlSies on them for punishment. Sew
eral arrests have been made and more
will be, it is reported.
The Times Washington special says:
Nearly all the claimants OF the cotton
seized by the governmental savannah,
have commenced suits in the United
States District Court of New York
against Simeon Draper, cotton agent,
for the recovery of the value of the cot
ton. The suits number one hundred
and twenty-five, and a strong array of
counsel has been retained by the plain
tiffs, among whom are James Il. Brady,
w. NJ. Evarts, and others OF equal
ability.
Gen. SiclSles, who arrived here yes
terday with several members of his staff
from Charleston, had an interview with
Gen. Grant to-day. Gen. Sickles re-
ports affairs gradually improving in the
State. The labor question Is well set
tied and the lawless operations in the
ceased. Gen. Sickles having declined
tI,n m iSuion IN the HaRHe. will DfODa-