Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-10-28
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SKTUKDAT RvEISe. Oct %, 1855
Eslitors H116liaq 1ateiligeaesrc
It's Sid calm always succeeds storm, and
50 Il has been this week; calm, quiet one, after
the political gales that have been sweeping over
and around us for weeks, and We may, even say
months, previous The politicians al seem to
.hold their breath like the foa,nins war-hOrse
after terrible conflict How long it wiN con-
tinue no one can ten, but the tides Of Noycsn-
ber' are approaching, and no one can state def
nitely the result The mercantile world wish ii
was over, US political excitement, and especially
such as has ragged this yeaf, is serious impede
meut to successful business. While the pOliti-
cal press is In its glory, and receiving pap
from the party it supports sufficient 10 pay the
losses 1t may have sustained when politics did
not pay, the neutral and literary paper, Ian
cuisines under the indifference of the people IN
respect to its claims. So with all business; SO
in the monetary world, even-but the love of
money surpasseth the love of politics. By the
way, thenote shavers on Wall street, are enjoy
ing delightful panic occasioned by heavy for
geries. Third street brokers in this CITY, how
S'SNg 4A4SC SS4AA4if SETGIG 1llA SulheElN-
Wm- B. Mann, the American candidate for
District Attorney, who was defeated BY 500
majority, is theoretically contesting the election
of his competitor, Lewis c. CapIdy, and has de-
veloped unparalleled frauds in several wards
He will doubtless be declared elected in a few
days. The official majority of the Democratic
candidate for Canal Commissioner is 2,7T4-
Thirty-fve thousand more votes were cast than
at the heaviest election ever held in the State
that of 1888. More than at the Governors cleo
ton in New York two years ago. The whole
vote exceeds two hundred thousand, reaching
the extraordinary figure of 422, 99s. The high
est vote ever polled before was for President in
1852, when the total reached 3s7, 1884. Between
this and our present total there is a difference
of 33,ll4. Such vote as the opposition has
polled this year, 21O,1l2 would in any former
contest have given them the State by large
majority. In 1854 Pollock received but 2O5. 81 I
for Governor, and yet had near 3s, 900 majority.
The highest Democratic vote ever polled before
was for President in 1852, when it reached
lss,56s. Now the party polls 2l2, 1856 votes, a
difference of 14,s1s
The daily Sun, heretofore inclined to Rcpub-
licanisrn, has taken stand in the American
party, and deals tremendous blows on the Her
aid, Pennsylvania, and other papers of the OPP
position. 1t is the standard bearer of the cold
guard"
It's rumored that Ex-Aiayor Conrad, has been
appointed to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
resignation of Vim. w. Kelley, Judge of the
Court of Sessions.
PoLIricAL Meetings. Republican mass
meeting was held last evening at the National
Hall, and was addressed by several young men.
Democratic meeting, last evening, at the
Washington Hall, southeast corner of Eighth
and Spring Garden streets, was addressed by
Ex-Governor John Bgler, of California, and
other distinguished speakers
| A meeting of the Republican Young Men took
place at National Hall last evening, and was nu.
merously attended. Mr.. r. L. Rutter presided.
speeches were made by Mr. George S. Fox.
Francis Wells, and Mr.. Ellis, of Maryland
This evening, the friends of Fillmore and Dom
eis0n, who approve of the :tion of the Ameri-
can State Committee, will hold a grand mass
meeting, at National Hall, in Market Street above
| Twelfth, to express their condemnation of the
course pursued towards Mr.. John p Sanderson.
the Chairman Of said Committee 1t will be
addressed by Hon. Erastus Brooks, of New York,
! and others.
1t is stated that the Hon. John NJ. Clayton, is
dangerously i'll 5---
Anew and beautifulpaper called The Nation,
was started to-day by S. NJ. Biglow and the pop
ular novelist E. D. E. NJ. Southworth. The Sun
day Transcript commenced last Sunday.
signor Blitz and Bobby are entertaining our
citizens ~.
Barnard will open his exhibition Of the Holy
Land, nextweck-and-th ere-will g good many
other things happen, which your correspondent
has not time to enumeratc
Yours, truly, PHILADELPHES.