The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-10
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struttlng about with Grants old three
stars on his shoulders"
Major Lewis Cass has sold his
mousse and furniture at Detroit, having
resolved hencetorward to reside in Eu-
rope. ..UE
The Republican Association OF the
9th district, New York, have unani-
mously repudiated its representative in
Congress, Mr.. Henry j. Raymond.
MIR. VIM. b. Thomas, Collector of
Philadelphia. proposes to appeal to the
courts to test the validity of his removal
by the President.
General Grant, according to the
New York Citizen, is Fenian synpa-
thizer. 1t also says that "Grant's de.
testation of Seward is refreshingly and
nmusingly undisguised. 1t bubbles up
and runs over on every proper and i'm
proper OCCASION"
The Union State Executive Com
mittee of Ohio have determined to hold
the first campaign meeting at the State
Capital, on Tuesday evening, 2lst inst
Governor Cox and Hon. Samuel Shella-
barger will address the meeting,
The Columbia CarOlinian thinks
that "Podsnappery" is good term for
New England twaddle, and. tells its
manufactured"b by the New York Ne,VS.
So, so, Mr.. Charles Dickens; you're
caught at last.
Harris, the Democratic secession
M. c., from Maryland, who was expell-
ed from the House for his treason, and
who was one of the leading spirits in
the last National Democratic Conven-
tloh at chicago, has been appointed a
delegate to the Philadelphia Conven-
ton.
The New York 17Tbune's Washing
ton correspondent says the telegram
from General Sheridan to General
Grant, as given to the public, was so
mutilated as to do it's author great i'm
justice. A genuine copy is promised.
Floyd county, Virginia, Tin the far
west,) has just chose F. a. Winston,
radical, for sheriff by 1859 majority over
sent to Castle Thunder as a traitor 10
the Confederacy, and kept there for
some time. Howery was an active,
bitter rebel.
Hon. Benjamin Eggleston, of the
First, and General r. b. Hayes, of the
Second District, of Ohio, were on Satur-
day re-nominated for Congress by the
Union Convention at Cincinnati.
"A French gentleman asked a Hun
garian friend in Paris whether the time
had not come when Hungary could
avenge herself on Austria! "AH, mon
cher" replied NJ. de s., 1--WE have
had our revenge; we have given Aus
tria Benedek." The General, it seems,
is a Hungarian, and fought against his
country in 1S4S.
The literary nobs of New England
are variously rusticating. Holmes is at
Pittsfeld, whence he makes occasional
excursions to his beloved LennoX
Lowell is at the White Mountains;
Longfellow is bathing at Nahant; SAKE
is among the Granite Hills; Mrs. Stowe
continues at her Stone Cabin, near
Hartford.
The person who succeeded in swim
ding the Government out of 100000
recently, by means of forged requisi-
tionS on the Navy Department, and
Acting Ensign William Ringgold Coop
er, lately on duty in the Office of De-
tail, Bureau of Navigation. He was
married a few days ago to Miss Julia
Defrees, niece of the public printer, an
heiress, and a highly accomplished
young lady.
In the oath Pennsylvania Congress
siOnal District, the Hon. Geo. V. Law
renee has been re-nominated without
the formality of a conference.-the the
counties Concurring separately. The
Democrats have not yet nominated;
but they have apparently given up Col.
LaZear, and incline to a Washington
county man.
The Southern railroads have re-
duced the fare for delegates going to
the Philadelphia Convention. It would
have been ungrateful in them to do
otherwise. They ought to give free
passes to Vallandigham and the other
Northern delegates of his stripe. AS
for that matter, the Northern roads
will do well to give them free passes to
go If they will promise not to come
back again.
The rarest joke of the Cheated
term" is the giving out that hereafter
races will not be tolerated at Sara
toga because they injure the morals of
that place. The races may bring some
of the iniquity of that place to the sur
face, but they will not injure the NOR
ais of Saratoga, until it becomes to be
true that bad egg can be spoiled.
The Hon. r. c. Schencl1 has been
renominated in the third district of
Ohio, for Congress. The nomination
was unanimous, and by reclamation,
and resolutions were passed reaffirm-
ing the platform laid down by the State
Convention, and approving General
Sc c5ieLI CO.. course in supporting the
construction of the rebel States.
The New York Citizen walks into
the corrupt city government with a
vigOr that has never before been equal
ed, and which is making itself felt. 1t
gives the following cheerful picture
of the state of things in the great
metropolis: We are ruled out of
the cutters; we are dominated by the
sewers of this metropolis. Our local
representatives are for the most part a
scum-a beetle-browed and brawny
banditti, as ignorant as they are base,
and not less dishonest than shameless
such as no decent citizen would will
lingly admit to the familiarity of his
stables"
General Dick Taylor, brother-in-
law of jeff. Davis, is a delegate to the
Philadelphia convention. The follow
ing extract from a letter written by
him during the war should have free
pass;
81 have1 beenSunoficially informed
that some of our troops have captured
negroes in arms. 1 hope this may not
be so, and that your subordinates in
command of capturing parties may
have recognized the propriety of giving
no quarter to armed negroes or their
officers"
The Michigan johnson State Com
mittee is disorganizing rapidly. Three
of it's members, Capt. G. r. Miller of
Adrian, DR.. Wesley Vincent of Mill
Point, and George X. johnson of Grand
Rapids, have published cards, formally
declaring that their names were used
without their consent, and denying any
| sympathy with such movements. Gen.
Byron r. Pierce's name was also used
without his knowledge, that gentleman
being now South. The committee, as
at present constituted, thus consists of
| four office-holders, and Henry Barns
applicant Tor the Postoffice of Detroit.
"A New York paper says Samuel