The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-27

| ate. Perhaps II "MajoE" Bill CoOper's
apology were quoted to the negroes OF
petersburg, his white friends over there
might, in his own chosen Language,
consider and characterize him as
"meddling and conceited person. I"
whose super-servieeable. offices were
entirely unsolicited, unwarranted ard
distasteful. And we doubt not that II
the "Major" Tad stayed among them,
as-he had notthe nice sense Of proprfety
to do, instead ofcreeping back at the
expense aud sacrifice Of his manliness,
to insult the people whose confidence
he betrayed and whose most vital in
terests he attempted to destroy, that.he
100 would have beenamong the willing
supplIcants at the footstool Of the new
political element. 1.-The is no worse we
presume that with all his self.sufi-
cheney he will not claim to be any
better than his late allies. II he is
possessed of any more of that '.quench-
less spirit" ofpride, so often aud so
arrogantly Yaunted by the rebels gem
orally, than his whilom friends, he
certainly will not contendshat his igno-
miniOns rehabilitation In his old quar-
tiers Is such an exhibition oft as war
rants'the public in supposing that he
is not every whit as ready to play the
Subservisnt as they were In their late
meeting,
The Hon. John "A. BInEham end lAe
TRIAL of John Surratt. :
a special dispatch from Washington
to the New York Times says:
Hon. John A. Bingham, of Ohio, arrived
here to day, and has benin consultation
with the Government counsel in the
Surratt case. II Is understood that Mr..
Bingham will take no active part in this
case, but the prosecution Will nevertEle-
less have the benefit of his knowledge
Ofthe facts and his legal ability in its
management.
It is believed that the trial of Surratt
will be postponed, as the Government
is not fully prepared TO proceed with ii.
The difficulty experienced in gathering
witnesses to whom SurTatt made con-
fessions or admissions during his flight
through Canada, England, Italy and
Africa will be readily appreciated by
all Intelligent men as sufficient ex-
cuse for the postponement. It is assert
ed on good authority that the Govern
ment will be able at proper time to
convict the prisoner through his own
admissions, aud that a more complete
expose OF the assassination! conspiracy
will be developed on the trial. In this
connectionit Is proper TO state that the
stories recently published regardingthe
oiUhfnnF0 unnlia1nH F1pnoef NJ PnNR II
AIRY are without foundation, and there
is no probability that they will ever be
brought to light II they ever existed.
The Government officers who were en-
gagged in investigating the con-
spiracy, and who are better posted in
the case than any outsiders can possibly
be. express the opinion that Booth
wrote the statements published as his
diary with the expectation that they
would be published, and it is known
that they contain falsehoods. For in
stance, In the first paragraph he states
that he had ridden sixty miles during
the night after the assassination, when
the truth OF the matter is, as CleVeloned
on the trial, that he had ridden only
from the theatre to DR.. Mudd's house,
which Is but twenty-seven miles. The
publicity given TO the diary by Gen.
Butler, and the hints thrown out that
1t contained matter duplicating the
President, led to its publication, when
Secretary Stanton and other Govern
ment officials were DESTROYS of having
it rot with the assassin's memory, as
they did not think 1t proper to publish
TO the world the defamation of Mr.. Lin
coins character which it contained, and
the self-gloriieation OF Booth, written
by himself, for the purpose of adding
lustre TO his crime. Some of Gen. But
ler's friends, without authority from
him, undoubtedly, have stated that "a
gentleman" who was present at DIR.
Mudd's house when Booth tore out the
eighteen pages from his diary, has
agreed to furnish them to him, but
there IS no reason to believe that If such
q gentleman exist he will dare to make
himself known after two years OF con-
cealment and render himself liable to
punishment as an accomplice of the
conspirators after the fact. He would
very soon lind companionship with DR..
Mudd at the Dry T0rtugas.