South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-08-01

this very reason lately entertained the o.
pinion that our next President ought not
to betaken either from the east or the
south. We hazard nothing in saying that
no man now spoken of, can sarryinto the
Presidency SO much of national indepen-
dence and Of national compromise as
HENRY CLAY.
The Richmond Enquirer cries out
"Beware Beware I" What do the anti
slavery people care for that 1t threat
ems too something like dissolving the u
nion.--Does not the Enquirer know
that these aboltionists mostly desire
that very thing-the ATTEMPT on the
part of the slave holding states to dissolve
this Union2 ANY attempt at dissolution,
would be absolutely and entirely destruc-
tive ofthe legalized rights Of the slave
holders. Does not the Enquirer know,
also, that the existing administration
has laboured, and, unfortunately, too
successfully, to set in array the poor a.
against the rich, the working men against
those who do not work--and is not that
very paper daily engaged in promoting
the same unhalowed state Of things in
in favour of Van Buren, and johnson?
That man who calls upon the working
men for support, in opposition to those
who do not work, and creates, for party
purposes, such distinction. ought not
to be sustained by the southern people.
The slave holders of all other descriptions
of our citizens are the most profoundly
interested in the rejection OF Martin Van
Buren, and Richard NJ. johnson. What
are their real opinions Who knowsi
We can know men certainly only by
their acts. They rest their claims upon
the Bank HuMBuo, and the commands
of Gen. Jackson--but are there not a
thousand men in this Union much more
entitled to the confidence of the southern
people than this Martin Van Buren, !?
and this Richard M. Johnson! We all
know, or We ought to know. that dstur-
bing elements are condensing-that a
fanatical storm 10 threatening ahead !
then let us beware Let US in time pre-.
pare for its arrival. To draw tighter
the bonds of the Union is the only pre-
paration we ought to think of making
In this, there is certain safety--in dis
solution, there is inevitable ruin.
p From an Ohio paper, we learn that
Mr.. DANIEL MCLEAN of Fayette CO...
has YEAaLrNe CALF which weighs 954
pounds. What think you of this YEAR
LING South Branch farmers!
GREAT INcREAsE.--The Frederick
Examiner gives an instance Of increase
in the product of a grain of wheat which
has probably, seldom been equalled, and
perhaps, never exceeded. 1t appears
that a single grain of wheat produced
twenty heads, which yielded 1885 grains.
The wheat is also stated to be of the f.
nest quality,-the whole weighing near
ly two ounces.
r The editor of the Wheeling Gazette
after copying our paragraph relative to
the rumor of horrid murder said to have
been perpetrated in Randolph CO., this
state, observes:
We heard yesterday somewhat
different version Of this horrid affair."
Mr.. Lane, residing in the lower par!
of Marshall county, was in town and
reported case Of murder as having
occurred in Tyler county, which is
doubtless the same. He stated that a
merchant from the lower country bound
for Pittsburgh, called at cabin, not a
public house, and desired accommodate
ton for the night, which was granted.
A short time afterwards small family
of movers stopped at the same place,
and asked similar accommodation,
which was roughly refused. The moo
yer proceeded on to deserted cabin
in sight, and there quartered. Ia the
course Of the night he heard noise at
the cabin first spoken OF, aud seeing
light there, went silently over to il, and
beheld the merchant hanging by his
feet, the blood flowing fiom his jugu.
lar vein, and two men and woman
standing by and looking on. In the
morning he informed the nsighbors Of
what he had seen, who went with him