The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-02
AT THE CAPITAL.
Secretary sherman's Presidential Chances
Looking up Ia the sOuth-1he Dlily-
DalIylng Spirit Of Congress
Grants Friends Feel En-
couraged-lnterestlng
Postal Matters.
sI,rRxAS's PROSPECTS.

WASHINGTON, January 3l.-secretary
Sherman's friends here are in daily re-
ceipt OF letters from the South which
speak very encouragingly Of Sherpan'a
chances in that quarter. AT the very
lowest estimate, half Of the delegation
from the Southern States will be for him
at Chicago.
The Poa to-day says that Secretary
Sherman has established Sherman
Bureau in the Corcoran building, this city,
with several government clerks in charge.
The only truth In this is that Colonel
Moulton, Of Cincinnati, has law office in
the Oorcoran building, and the Ohio
friendsof Secretary Sherman frequent 1t:
There Is no government clerk employed
there, and the Office and al there is in
it do not cost the government q cent in
the remotest degree.
KILLING TINE IN CONGRESS.
This has been very dull day in Wash
ington. The Senate was not in session,
and the House was mainly engaged in
eulogtes on the late Rush CLARK, who died
some time ago. Aside from those eulogies
there was not fifty minutes Of actual busi-
ness in the House. The dilly-dallying OF
Congress this session is provoking good
deal OF criticism, and members say they
get letters from their constituency advis-
ing them TO 20 to work or come home.
The truth is, however, there Is little to do,
and leaders OF both parties are afraid, on
the eve OF the Presidential election, to
tackle any important questions, so they
kill time with great success. In two
months since theImeeting OF Congress all
the work done could have been accom-
plished in four working days.
GRANTS FRIENDS ENCOURAGED.
The Grant men have been in unusual
good spirits to-day, owing to the report
which reached here from Philadelphia
that Grant will not be withdrawn. 1t is
said that the matter has been left to the
discretion OF several OF his Philadelphia
friends, and that while they are not able
to agree among themselves, the majority
favor making o fight. They allege that
all that is wanted is nerve, and II they go
in to win they will win. Whether this Is
true or not 1t is apparent that the Grant
men are very much encouraged. They
pretendto believe that Grant can be NOM
mated over all opposition II he will make
the fight, and they profess to have in
formation that he will be, or rather that he
is, in the hands OF his friends, and that
his friends will make the fight. 1t is now
known that Don Cameron told intimate
friends, before leaving for Pennsylvania,
that he should relax no effort TO send q
Grant delegation to Chicago.
POSTAL MATTERS,
At the Postofice Department to-day
bids were opened for carrying mails on
Star route in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky,
Tennessee, North Carolina and several
other States for the ensuing four years.:
In all these States every county seat is
given daily mail, for the first time in the
history of the Government. There were
over sixty thousand bids. Singularly
enough they were more bids from North
Carolina than from the great State OF Ohio.
The bids are generally low, and 1t is
thought at the Department that in the
aggregate the service will cost not greatly
more than heretofore. ,s
During the month Of January one
thousand and sixty postmasters were
the largest number ever
in the history OF the Gov
ernment.
Most OF these are in the far West, where
there seems to be q boom in business equal
10 any previous boom In the history Of the
West. So far as can be judged by post
office business, Kansas has million OF
population, and is increasing at the rate
Of one hundred and fifty thousand annu-