The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-08-13
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THE NEWS,

THE NEWS.
The President In a lengthy private
letter from Long Branch to Judge Dent
says Il have said, and repeated II, that
II the Conservatives are to win would
prefer your election to that OF any other
person likely to be elected; but as mat.
ters now look, 1t seems 10 me that the
weigh. OF my influence should bs given
to the other party. earnestly hope,
however, that before the election, con.
cessIons will be made on both sides, so
as TO unite all friends OF the reconstruc.
tlon movement
/ Turner. the negro Postmaster at
Macon, was removed Wednesday, and
washington, the old incumbent, rpln-
stated. -. .Nl
There ls great convocatIon OF
Northern and Southern Politicians lust
now at the Greenbrler White Sulphur
Springs. Rumor has II that some
remarkable event, rIvalling the famous
Rosecrans conference Of last summer,
la on the tapls. What this can be Ia at
present carefully withheld !; but IL has
been inslnuRted that II will have for Its
object the passage by Congress, at an
early day, Of an additional amendment
70 the Constitution, declaring general
amnesty for all past offenses 10 those
engaged In the late rebellion.
Chicago has started subscription
which already foots up $4,000, for the
purpose OF organizing base ball nine
to beat Cincinnati next year.
h Vice President Colrax and party were
received at Virginia. City, Nevada, on
Monday, with a salute of one hundred
guns.
Atthe Treasury purchase Of two mil
lions OF Fiye-twentles, Wednesday,
offerings were filed 10 the amount of
$3.50 600.
Tho National Irish Immigration Con-
vention, called to meet in ST. Louis
has been postponed Till October Glib.
The Cincinnati Commercial tells how
Mr.. Pendleton's nomination by the
Democratic committee for Governor of
Ohio was brought about: After an
anxious season, In the course OF which
PCndleton was repeatedly requested to
accept the nomination, and as often de.
clined, Il dispatch was sent him signed
by every member Of the cpmmltteo,
and considerable number Of others
taking an influential interes. In the
proceedings stating that the use OF his
name would give harmony and conl-
dence, and lntlmRlIng that II 1t could
not BIZ, used there was difficulty and
danger. Thus urged, Mr.. Pendleton
yielded. Very much after the manner
OF Donna JulIa-swsarIug he would
meier consent, consented
The Iron Mountain Railroad is COM
pleied to Belmont, two hundred miles
southwark Of st.. Louis, A train will
run through the entire route on SAtur-
day. '- 'F ''-' Nv
We hear ofons ofthe largest sales OF
pig iron ever made, embracing seven
thousand tuns in one lot, and two
thousand eight hundred tuns In
another. 1t was made by the Hanging
Rock. Ohio. Furnaces, the first at forty
i've dollars per tun. delivered on The
cars At the station on the railroad, and
the latter at forty-sIx dollars per tun
with the same conditions, equal to
forty eight dollars per tun, delivered
At Portsmouth. This will require the
full product Of the furnaces for three
months. .r...rs.n.
Il Is now said that General Grant has
not, either In conversation or by letter
requested Judge DsnLto Withdraw from
the Mississippi canvass, and, IN view
OF the complications. it is reiterated
that. Judge Dent will canvass MIssis.
sipPl in the interest OF the Conservative
Republican candidates, whether him.
self or another loads the ticket. Mean
time, The Judge continues a candidate
before the Convention .sngal ..ubg.
Five hundred Mormons went West
from New York, Wednesday. wa
Five hundred thousand bushels, OF
New Jersey peaches were recently
received in New York In one day.
Last Monday evening at Murfresboro,
Tennessee, while Mr.. Thayer, clerk Of
the Commissioner Of Repatriation for.
Rutherford county. was going from his
Office to his boarding house, he was set
upon by iour men, two Of whom held
him with arms extended while the
other two beat him cruelty with canes,
and left him on the ground ior dead.
Mr.. Thayer Is a Northern man, but has
lived since the war in Tennesses. 7
Among those calling upon the PresI.
dent Wednesday was Judge Frank
Merrlman. a distinguished citizen Of
Texas. = The President, In answer to
the e'compliment OF Judge MerrIman,
congratulated him upon the bright
prospect of affairs In that State, both
material and political, observing that
they had two good candidates for Cow
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