Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-04-29


now in power in this Country cannot withou,
diSgracing themselves for a IN 1st arrant plsi-
Inimity, equally reprchensible with their past
brarado. The speeches in the English parlia-
ment are firm and digniied but decided.
Whether right or wrong. is another matter.
To meet this, and the strength of England.
what have we now in the administration of
our County Mr.. Polk, the head and from, of
the administration. has no notion of either
war or dirlomacy, unless he has lately received
IT b. intuition. lie has no experience. and
andaIi of his past life shows that he has had no
extraordinary talent that way. Mr.. Buchan-
an or Mr.. Marcy. who fill at this time the two
most important Offices in the Cabinet, are by
no means calculated to conduct a war or nego-
ciate peace. Nor is there, that we know, a
man Ill the adamant party who would homer
his Country in either post.
Indeed, unless there is some unforeseen
change TO take place in the state of affairs
the people will have cause enough to mourn
for their folly in c%lecting to Offices of honor
and responsibility weak and ignorant dem
agosues, or the poor tools of party tyranny.
RIOT At THE UNIVERSTTY-We re-
grct most heartily the recent events at the
UNIVERSITY or VIRGINIA. We heard some
days since oil the riotous proceedings among n
portion oil the Students there but deemed il
best 10 take no notice of them. and await the
publication from Charlottesville. or from the
University itself. The Enquirer of Yesterday
contains n letter from Charlottesville dated the
2lst, which states that Mr.. Il. Ficklin, the
Sheriff of the County, had summoned the JEFF
ierson Guards and the Militia to aid the magis-
trates IN restoring order, and that they were
accordingly under arms to suppress the out
break among the Students.
The Enquirer states that the latest accounts
were that the students had all left the college.
and that every thing was disorder and contu-
sion. Blu If they had all left the College.
there must be quiet there.
We learn from "A friend from the University
that the immediate cause of the outbreak was
The disturbances of a 4" Calithumpian Band, -
composed of Il number (about fiity) of dis
guised students who made night hideous for
some time with their horribly discordant
sounds. After several nights of this kind of
amusement, the Calithumpians were denoun-
ced IN "A lecture of one of the Professors, who
was treated tn q scramble at night. The next
day another Professor Joined i'm the denmcia-
ton OF the band, and he, too, was treated i'm
like manner. Successfully several Professors
united IN expressions of strong disapprobation
oil tins sort oi outrage, and the nightly distur-
Dance grew so gricvous that the Faculty regard
ed IT as AN extreme of characterization which
Justified the suspension of the Lectures, and
they were accordingly suspended last week.
ms made the rioters more violent than ever.
and AT night they assailed the residence of the
Professors, breaking windows and doors, and
doing much INJURY to- the buildings. They
also dad much injury To the rotunda, and broke
the doors and windows of the buildings gen
orally. Fortunately they did not proceed To
the extremity of offering personal violence to
any OF the Professors; but they and their fam
Illes were kept III great alarm during the night.
This state of disorder and Outrage, we un-
derstand to have called forth the action of the
civil authorities noticed in the letter TO the
Enquirer. In the emergency, the Faculty sum
moned the Visitors OF the institution to meet
and take the matter under consideration. Mr..
RVes was ON the spot Saturday, and the 9TH
efS, or a quorum, are, we hope, BY this time
there, and taking such efficient action as the
extraordinary occasion demands. Ii is their
duty, oil course, TO probe the whole matter to
the bottom, and find out the causes. remote
and near, which resulted in the diseraceful
and lamentable riot and wherever the evil
lies, whoever and however numerous it's sour
ces, 1t is their duty, boldly and entirely, To APP
ply the remedy. If it is possible to conduct
ID University ior the education of Young men
without the aid of martial law and an armed
guard, we cannot see that order NAV not he
maintained at the University of Aibemarle.
III IT can be so maintained, as we are sure il
can. we trust the able Board of Visitors will
take the proper measures, in the exigencv
which calls them together.
These occurrences are peculiarly to be re-
gretted, since the University had recovered
from the blow 1T received III the ~tragical event
mere a few years since, and the number of
Students this session was within a fraction OF
the largest it had in its day of highest pros-
npritv -RjcLmoDJ T;u. r.