South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-03-14

CF We are authorized TO announce
JOHN MuLLIN, Esq. as candidate to
represent the county of Hardy, in the
next House Of Delegates Of Virginia.
NJ On the 9th last. our Legislature
elected CHARLES B. SHAW, Esq. Princi-
pal Engineer for one year. On the same
day, resolution to adjourn on Tuesday
last, after much conversation. was, on
motion of Mr.. Marshall, laid on the table.
From the latest intelligence from a.
broad, we confidently anticipate an
amicable adjustment with FRANCE a
consummation-we belle We we have
said this before, but it will bear repeIi-
tion-deyoutly to be wis he'd. And
how shall we have attained it3
Suppose CoNaREss had at once COM
piled with the PREsIDENT's wish, and
authorized him, last December, to make
Reprisals on the commerce of France,
in his way, and at his own time: Sup.
pose this authorization had b'aen follow
ed up by grant Of Three Millions Of
Dollars, to be expended precisely as
he saw fit, in warlike operations. Do
we not now see that, il this had been
done, FRANCE would have adopted hos
tile courses, on her side, too, and that
10 all probability we should have been.
before the first day of June, in an open
war with Francel That we are now
likely to escape it, is piece of good
fortune for which thanks are due to
Congress, and especially to the good
sense and good temper CT the Country.
BY Congress, and by the Country, the
war spirit OF the Executive Message
of December last stands strongly re-
buked and we rejoice that it is so.--
One attempt to raise a war-fever has
signally failed and We derive from it
new hopes that the Constitution may
yet survive all its trials Mat. Int.
o. A letter dated the 7th inst. from
Harrisburg Pa, 10 the Editors of the
National inteIligencer, says--~"The
friends of Mr.. WOLF rallied their fer
ces in caucus last night, and determine
ed to meet in convention this morning,
and go into nomination for Governor.
They have done SO, and nominated
Governor WOLF for reelection, SO
votes for him, and against him the
friends of MIR. MUHLENBERo generally
not attending. They have also nomin-
ated MIR. VAN BUREN, for President,
and, ! was told, Mr.. RIvEs for Vice
President, and appointed delegates to
meet in National Convention on the
goth of May, for the purpose of fur
thering their views. VIVA, course the
friends Of Mr.. MUHLENBERs will take,
time must determines"
T The Richmond Enquirer OF
the 7th inst. observes--"We are AurHo-
| RrzED TO state, that the President of the
United States DENIES ever having spok-
en- of Mr.. Stevenson, as Governor Branch
has Representations having entertained
any such sentiment.
W At Trinidad, (Cuba,) on the
7th ult. in the brig Susan, from Balti.
more, Captain TILDEN, was killed BY the
cook, a coloured man. The Captain was
reclining over the railing, "when the
cook struck him with an axe on the back
of the neck, which felled him on the deck;
| then with the blade, having severed the
jugular vein, put an end almost instantly
to his existence" Capt. TiLpEN was a
young man, greatly esteemed. and has
left wife and three young children in
Baltimore. to whom this sad event is q
most deeply affecting cnlaEll,y.