The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-05-01

General Quinby, the newly-ap-

pointed U1lteQ SLateS MdLSuaA aI 1GO-
Chester, has met with difficulty in con-
senuence of a mistake in spelling his
name at Washington. The name is
spelled Quimby, and the Judge of the
United States Court refused to swear
him in on the papers, though it was
clear as to the intention OF the President
and Senate. The Senate has adjourned,
and cannot confirm his appointment
nv the right name. The President may,
It is supposed, appoint General Quinby
to hold during the recess of the Senate,
and await confirmation when that body
shall convene next winter.
The Grand Division of the Sons of
Temperance OF Eastern New York,
convened in quarterly session We'd
nesday, at Flushing, J.. I. About three
hundred delegates assembled and were
presided over by Grand Worthy Pa
trlarch Edward Crummey, who made a
favorable report Of the condition of
the order. He stated that during the
last three months the Division had not
only increased in numbers more than
during any other quarter of the year,
but that it had been improved in the
character of its new members. A State
Temperance Convention Is to be hel d
at Syracuse on the first OF June.
-"Perley" telegraphs from Washing
ton that one of the female clerks, re-
partment, called there recently to as
certain If the demand of Congressman
that she should be reinstated would be
successful. "I must know at once,"
said she; "for have received an offer
of marriage. and although 1 don't fancy
the man, II can't get reinstated must
accept"
The National Temperance Society
will hold its fourth anniversary in the
I,on HF
York, on the evening of Wednesday,
May 18th. The Hon. William E. Dodge
will preside, and addresses are expect
ed from DIR. F. r. Lees Gust arrived
from England,) the Rev. J. D. Fulton
of Boston, and others.
Between twelve and one O'Clock
Wednesday young man, who gave his
name as VIM. B. Lattelle, and who said
he was from Newark, New Jersey, at
tempted to force his way into President
Grants room, but was prevented by
Gen. Dent, and turned over to police
officers. Lattelle had been hanging
about the White House all day, with no
apparent object. Upon being searched
no weapon was found about his person.
It is supposed that his conduct was but
the result of a temporary alteration of
mind. He claimed to have been an old
friend of the President, and to have
served during the war in Wisconsin
cavalry regiment.
"A general dismissal of employees
of the Capitol on the Senate side was
expected to take place yesterday.
There was lin the United States
Treasury, at the close OF the business,
Wednesday, S1lO, ,707, 600 in coin, Sl9..
600, 900 of which was payable in demand
upon coin certificates.
-Ex-Governor Fletcher, of Missouri,
has resumed the practice of the law in
st. Louis.
The Southern Baptist Convention
meets at Macon, Georgia, on Thursday
of Georgia, is President, A. Fuller
Crane, of Maryland and A. P. Abel, of
Virginia, Secretaries.
The New York Times shows the
fees of the sheriff of New York to
amount at present to more than $780,
600 per annum, and says that bill
now pending before the Legislature, If
passed, will increase the emoluments
of the Office to one million yearly.
The commissioner of internal rev.
enue has decided that persons who
simply solicit risks for the agent of a
foreign insurance company, and have
no other connection with the company
itself. and are in no way controlled by
it, but act only as agents of the agent,
are not foreign insurance agents within
the terms of the statute, but are liable
to the special tax imposed upon insu-.
rance agents by the act of July Is, 1866
-Commissiouer Delauo Las deter
mined to appoint no man to the Office
of Supervisor of Internal Revenue who
is not a lawyer. This course has been
determined on because of the legal
questions which are continually arising,
and to determine which legal knowl-
edge is required.
The Pope will be seventy seven
years old on May 18th.
The bridge across the Mississippi at
st. Louis is To be at once begun.
Chicago is eating Strawberries from
Mobile at seventy-6ve cents a quart.
-Horatio Seymour. according to
western paper, has been buying extern
sive tracts of land in Iowa.
"A correspondent in northern New
York says the recent freshets have left
that region "Without DAM"
Minister Washburne will sail for
France to-day. .-El ~
The emigration from Ireland to this
country will be very large this year.