Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-12-05
Rdltorial corresponaepol.
WAsn1yeroy Crr Dec /,

Editorial Correspondence.
WASHINGTON CRY, Dec. lst so.
According to calculation. we made the run
from Wheeling to Washington in about eigh-
teen hours and half which, for the distance of
four hundred and ten miles, including stoppa-
ges, is not bad travelling. We were thrown be-
hind time once or twice by having to wait for
trains from the East, and the seyeralM C.'s, who
had lain over all day Sunday at Bellair, were
seriously annoyed lest we would not make the
connection at the Relay, and so not be at Wash
ington by eleven, to answer to their names. But
we were put through just in time, and general
scamper was made from the cars to the Capitol,
where, in five minutes after, they commenced
the roll call. The wonder in travelling the Bal
tirnore road is, not that they ever have an acct
dent, but that they do not have them oftencr,
for the number and length of the tonnage cars
one meets is really incredible. The excellent
discipline and appointments of this road have
been noticed through the columns of the Intel
ligcncer and the press generally, SC. often, that
j viii not tax your readers with any thing fur
Their.
The general monotony of night travel was,
on this occasion, relieved no little by the con-
vcrsational efforts of remarkably seedy-look-
ing gent, who was the observed of all observers
at the Mcclure house on Sunday, at dinner His
hat was the seediest of its kind, yet not out of
keeping with tie untamed appearance of its
owner. He took pains to Introduce himself to
every one by taking part in the conversation of
any two he found awake. The passengers soon
realized that they nad munUt.s.,;ae aa.eus,
them,-a religiously, yet profanely inclined
specimen of non compos. Whatever he took up
at the starting, he soon was enthusiastically en-
=ploysd in giving the general outline OF a great
Millefte confiagration to take place next year.
He foretold an awful state of things, and mar
rowed the number of the elect down to a very
diminutive sum. When he would reach the
most exciting pitch in his narrative, he would
stop and look about him, while his eyes rolled
about and his hands gesticulated in the widest
manner. No satisfaction could be obtained as
to his whereabouts, as he ayowed himselfstrict-
" n cosmopolitan. He came on with us to
Washington, since which time have heard no.
thing of him.
As you may guess. very little was afloat here
to-day in the political line worth recording. The
House organized with 1873 members and the
Senate with 40. L attended the session of the
House awhile, and listened to the remarks of
Mr.. Grow against proposition to admit Mr..
Whitfield as the delegate from Kansas His adj
mission is considered very doubtful, exceptions
being urged against the tests applied to the yo-
tsFs in the territory, being not only unconsti-
tu,ional, butas calculated to keep away great
many voters from the polls
The first inDi-eSSioDS of !, etrop,,ar ~, ,t,o
House are not aptito be of a very reverential
: kind that body being, and especially at this
time, very tumultuous one. Nearly one-half
of the session to-day was consumed in taking
theyeas and nays on motions to adjourn, and
when it was successfully voted down, the ayes
amused themselves by crossing their legs over
their tables, and eating apples and laughing
quite boisterously at times. The gentleman on
the floor, TO all appearances, might as well be
talking to empty benches, for can discover but
one or two paying the least symptom of atten-
ton. Franking documents, clapping for the
pages and reading the papers, is the business
just now with great number No sooner has
the gentleman set down than fifty voices sing
out "Mr. Speaker" Mr. Speaker singles out
one, and recognizes him, and the fortunate
gentleman goes onas his predecessor. Points
of order are raised every few moments, and Mr..
Speaker Banks is kept quite entirely employed
in adjusting them. This he seems to do very
readily, and with the utmost good humor and
patience. He is concededto be one of the best
: pariiamentarian who ever presided over the
body. Messrs. Brooks and Burlingame are the
objects of great deal of curiosity from the
gallery. and every stranger seems to look quite
wonderingly on them.
The city is said to be unusually lively, a
greater number of strangers than usual at so
early period being present The prospective
Tariff and Pacific Railroad legislation are the
objects of great deal of interest, and attract a
great many. They win no doubt call out a
great deal of Interesting debate. C.
CHEAP ENouGB.-ln the Circuit Court of New
York, Thursday, suitwas tried to recover dam.
ages for breach of marriage promise, claimed
of James Connolly by Miss Margaret Daher /,
seems that the defendant had asked her hand
was accepted, and after having caused the VOW.
TO be published IN two churches refused to fuli
his contract The plaintiff had been put to NJ
expense Of some $1S0in procuring clothing il
anticipation of the marriage, and was shown Il
have sustained great mental suffering Sh,
claimed $4,000 damages; but the jury, after
short absence awarded her only $50
Tar Baltimore American contains a ill repor
of the proceedings speeches, &c, ut the presen
tation of the Cincinnati Union Gag to the friend
f E,ii,,oye5 n, Ralti,nore nm ENy,sia,, i.st m,