South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-07-09

OF POWER distinctly deceived them
selves boil, genliemen went FOE the
rights OF the People. Adam Hunts
vman was too honest 10 be corrupted,
and the Hon. Mr.. Shields had TOO
mucl, nerve to quail before the Albany
Regency or the meditated assaults Of
the parasites Of the old Romsn.o
When was ii otherwise with the set
ring sun The late Deposise Bi!l,val-
usble as extorting the Spoils from the
Executive--yaluablea as distributing the
Surplus where of right il belongs is
precious, mos, precious, as proving the
decline OF that enormous personal IN
Auence SO long welded by Gen. Jack
son, and the return Of personal inde-
<yndence. This decline will be more
and more perceptible as the 4th March
approaches, and when that day shall
come, farewell, long farewell to the
sery,lity end hatlery, which, rendered
by seIfishness to poaoer for its emolu-
nents, vanity ascribed TO its own quail
tiles ADD merit. "Hero" then, second
Washington, "Greatest and Best" no
longer ba. simple Andrew Jackson,
more lucky thaa wise. We confess
we shall enjoy that dsy--noi we trust
from malevolent spiiii-- but as ter
sninating the most stupendous and az
.flictiye Humbug that ever scourged
this people, and shook their free insti-
buttons 10 aheis deepest foundation -
Rieh. Whg.
The Richmond Enquirer, after giving
short account of the progress of Rail
Road improvements concludes, -" Thus
speeds the Rail Road system! Arrange
ments are making to extend the Southern
line to Raleigh And who shall arrest it
there Ii will irrislstibly burst it's way
further South, until it reaches the Gull
of Mexico. We bail them in every point
ofvlew with unalloyed satisfaction, not
only as so many labor-saving machines,
inAshe eye Of political economy, but as the
4 liqaments which are to assist in binding
the Union together. They operate in
this respect in hundred ways. AS for
Richmond herself, she is gradually rising
10 that slate Of prosperity and disfnc-
ton which she was destined to attain.
4 What has not Nature done for her-and
was it not time for art to be called into
active requisition for her nidi The Fred
ericksburg Rail road--the Louisa Rail
road--the Petersburg Rail road-the
James River Ganal--are pushed with an
4 alaertty which promises the best results.
She sdestined besides to be great man
ufacturiDg city--in consequence OF her
Immense wator power-the rich beds oil
coal which repose in her immediate
Y neighborhood land the luxufiant iron
mineswhich are scattered throug bout The
Il mountains. Already we see four or five
large iron manufactures rising around us
& land it cannot be long, before we shall
see the pigs of our own mines fabricated
q fato almost every variety OF form INSTEAD
Il of being sent up the North River, return
"a I'd TO US in bar iron, and sold al good
4 profit with the expense OF double
transportation upon II. We have also
e cotton factories, paper mills. around ua--
glass- house is prcjected--in fact, who
shall say 10 the Arts. Thus far, and no
fnFthet?"
we say, go ahead. with all sorts of
Improvements. and ell sorts Of raoTEc-
& TON; but le, the compromised Tariff a.
y lone. 1t will aid the manufacturing es-
d Adjustments in the neigbbourhood of
& Richmond, and Van Buren, will do
Il equally as we'll in Virginia as he would
u do by again enthroning thie election
4 aering hobby. The people are satisfied
with it, and are satisfied to have their
country improved in any way it can be
effected. The age Of humbug, however,
4 we hope. is now rapidly passing off: