The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-11
POLITICAL MATTERS.

President johnson has been in
vited to Charleston.
The rebel papers of New Orleans
think Gen. Sheridan ought to have let
WeIlts) enough alone.
/ The hotel where A. j. dined at
Raleigh charged five dollars for dinner
that day. The extra price was in the
name-a Estate dinner"
"A Republican paper is TO be started
at Petersburg, Va, which will be
against confscation, and will endeavor
to break Hunnicutt's control OF the
freedmen.
j. NJ. Langston, a colored lawyer
OF Ohio; and DR.. E. NJ. Brown, colored
doctor of Baltimore, have gone to stump
Southern Virginia for the Radicals.
The London T'omGhaVE says:-
"NIany married ladies' say that Mr..
Mill's interference on their behalf is
unnecessary. They claim the franchise
under the bill. and intend to do 80.
! They are qualified by personal ra-
ting"
"A colored tournament is among the
excitements of Memphis, which looks
very silly TO the white secessionists.
But We see no reason why there should
not be black as well as white filters.
On the proposition 10 insert in the
new Constitution of Maryland a clause
prohibiting slavery, one A1cKaig in
dulged in the following bit of ethnol-
ogy:
"He believed the negro to be pre-
Adamite race. Europe, Asia and
America were submerged by the flood;
but Africa was not so. The negro was
not destroyed, because it was not worth
destroying. He would as soon believe
another fish was a saline on as that a ne
gro was white man. He was opposed
to placing here this reflection on the
people oil Maryland and in favor OF
striking out the article"
1t is now thought the New York
Constitutional Convention will not
only strike the word white" but also
the word finale" from the constitution.
This will put all adult citizens on IN
equality.
The recent inauguration of the
the statue of Henry Clay at Louisville,
KY, was an imposing demonstration,
and besides numerous distinguished
guests who were present on the occa-
sion, several patriotic letters were re.
ceived from individuals who were un-
able to be. there. The following from
Ex-President Fillmore is curiosity
in its way:
BUFFALO, N. Y, May 10, 1867.
zion. Philip T'amPpert, Mayor, aud
/ eherS:
"GESTLEMES-I am honored by the
receipt OF your invitation to be present,
as the guest of the city of Louisville,
at the inauguration OF the statue of
Henry Clay, on the Both instant, and L
can assure you that nothing could give
me greater pleasure than to give you an
unconditional acceptance, but l regret
| to say that am somewhat indisposed,
and u case of cholera has just been re-
ported in this city, and therefore, while
l hope to be able to go, / must reserve Il
positive promise to future day.
81 am truly yours,
"MILLARD FILLMORE"
What the reported case of cholera"
had to do with it is not apparent to or
dinlry minds. But as Mr.. Fillmore did
not finally determine to go, we sup
pose the tease" had its influence.
The Republican ticket at the late
Washington election had an elaborate
heading which would seem to defy
counterfeiting, but after all the Demo-
Gratis succeeded in getting out a very
good counterfeit, with which they were
able to deceive some of the voters.
Two of the persons nominated for
Registers OF Bankruptcy in Mary
land, being Republicans, have been re-
Jected by Copperhead Judge. Chief
Justice Chase, upon reconsideration,
has re-nominated the same men.
The Richmond Dispatch thinks that
| If Gen. Schotield's order in relation TO
registration Is strictly enforced, IL will
disfranchise nine-tenths, of the white
population of the State.
The registration returns for LouisI-
ana indicate majority throughout the
State for the freedmen in every parish
in the State save two.
poses to bear the expense OF trip Of
Senator Wilson TO Europe.
Horace Greeley and Frank Moore
are preparing an Important historical
work upon the "Negro in America"
and his influence on the history ofthe
country.
Lewis Gaylord Clarke, the old and
popular editor of the RnickeTbocker,
mas place in the New York Custom
House and contributes a meiGnge to the
Sunday Mercury.
MIR. Greeley has already turned the
SMILES of the New York Democracy
over his bailing JEFF. Davis, into frowns,
by his course in the Constitutional
Convention, he seeming to advocate a
straight-out partisan Constitution.
The politicians in and about the
New York Constitutional Convention
favor Gen. Grant for President and
Senator Morgan, or Gov. Fenton for
vice President.
-Thurlow Weed says ofiemale suf-
fringe, that it means also female office
holding, and ''ifwomen themselves can
afford TO change thus radically all their
relations, we shall not feel atliberty to
oppose them.
THE PEARLY GATEs.-Pure white
teeth and a sweet breath, issuing like