The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-20

SAuuSS AIOu1 SuhEleSLOu1 % SsS odyt
that he has heard more talk in week
since arriving in that city, about con
fiscation, than he heard in Washington
in three months. He says that Mr.
Stevens is doing good service in press
ing contiscation upon the country. A
very considerable portion of the people
of Charleston believe him to be the
leader of the Republican party, anC
therefore have grave fears that confiS
cation is measure to which Congress
may be led or driven next winter. This
apprehension has not a little to do with
inducing prompt action under the re-
construction law.
"A Washington letter of the l6tt
says:
"Mr. Greeley left town this morn
ing, and Mr.. Smith has gono tC
Charleston to visit relative. Mr.
Greeley expressed himself, in COnver
sation, greatly impressed with the ia
cilities presented by Richmond for I
great manufacturing city, and with the
value and cheapness of the surrounding
lands. He says there ought to be q
population here of half u million.
The Petersburg IntEer contains =
letter addressed by a number of re.
spectacle colored people of North Car
olina to Ex-Governor Wise, of Virginia,
and Vance, of North Carolina, and
Rev. Henry Williams, Jr., of Peters
burg, Va, asking them to address them
on the issues of the day.
"A member OF the firm of Trenholm
Frazer & Co., testified before the Judi
ciary committee that so far as his par
don was concerned it cost him a dollar
and half besides travelling expenses
and hotel bills.
The Lynchburg papers announce
that certain northern capitalists arri'
we'd in that place on Tuesday on theII
way to Southwestern Virginia. One
paper states their number at forty, and
another states it at fifty. They were to
thirty Virginians, from Lynchburg and
whom are already the owners OF thirty
thousand acres of land in Pulaski
county, are intent upon profitably in
vesting their money, if they invest it al
all. The Vir0inidn says they purpose
building furnaces and going largely
into the production of iron.
The Baltimore American says:-
"We shall feel more acutely, when re-
preached by Ohio, New York and Penn
sylvania papers for not having given
the elective franchise to our recently
emaucipated slaves when it was
in our power to do so, after Ohio, New
York and Pennsylvania shall have en-
franchised those who were born and
domiciled among them as freedmen and
citizens" A most palpable hit.
We are glad to notice the settleme ent
of the vexatious street-car question in
New Orleans. The colored men have
made this sort OF test Of the recog-
milton of their equality with whites,
not only in New Orleans but in other
cities. The former masters could not
bear to put themselves on level with
their late slaves, and on the other hand
those who would not object to seeing a
disturbance of the public peace which
might be for their benefit, have perhaps
urged the matter with an intemperate
zeal. The question has, however, re-
ceived its only proper solution, in a
general order from the several corpora
tiOns instructing their conductors and
drivers to make no distinction in their
passengers on account OF color, which
is fair enough, as personal contact was
not the real objection, white masters
and mistresses and colOred servants
having always ridden together.
John Minor Bolts having announc-
ed his determination to take the field
(politicaD in Virginia for organizing
the republican party on grounds which
he approves, has issued circular call
ing a Republican Convention, "to be
held at Charlottesville, on the 4th oi
July.
1t is amusing to notice how freely
the southern people are getting to use
the military government which they sc
freely condemned; and it would seem
that they should be restrained by a re-
luctance on the part of their "rulers,'
or they will become the subjects oi
tyranny in the common affairs of life
by the Intervention OF military power
at their own invitation. The New Or
leans Times has welcomed the action oi
General Sheridan in setting aside sew.
eral acts of the State and municipal
governments. The Commercial Bulletin
of that city wanted the same officer to
settle the car question, and now In
vOkes the same power to abate the dog
nuisance. 1t says:
"The indescribable annoyance oi
dogs that bark and occasionally bite, in
a large city, deserves some corrections,
Under an elective system no law maker
dared advocate either the taxing or kill,
ing of dogs, because of the effect on his
popularity. The military authorities
or council, may, however, now give the
most sanguinary orders on the subject
without any such apprehension, and
we feel assured that they would have
the sincere gratitude of many who
would even pretend to sympathise with
the bereaved proprietors OF the canine
victims. For one, we trust there may
be defamation Of the dogs by the
proper authorities
WEST VIRGINIA MATTERS.