Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-12-25

w HEELING, vA:-
FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. 25, 1857.
CnnisTNAs-Has come round again, and, as
usual everybody and ev~erybody's father and
mother, wife, brother and sister, man servant
and maid servant, will call halt and give them
selves up to a respite of twentY-four hours. OF
course, everybody will have their own peculiar
way of spending the day, nationally, irrational
Ily aud otherwise; some viii stuff themselves
with stuffed turkey and stuffed chicken: some
will saturate their stomach and brain with ex-
ira drinks of non.extra whisky, and so provide
the raw material for doctors bills and police fees.
A few there be who will spend the day RATIONAL
ly, temperateIy and whoIesomely; ::who will en-
joy a-quiet day to-day and a clear head to NOR
row. -
In accordance with an ancient and most gra-
cious custom, no paper will be issued from our
establishment to morrow morning.
PoLrrIcAL GossrP.-Hard TalA-The cores
pondent of the Richmond South says:
"As a patriot, as n Democratic le.der, as a
public man, enjoying the confidence of the ma
ton, or even of any considerable portion of his
party, Senator Douglass no longer exists. He
has abused the confidence of the South and lost
it forever, for those who know the peculiar re-
serve and sensitiveness of that confidence must
know that the Senator from Illinois can never
hope to regain it" #
THE name of o. B. Matteson, Of N. York,
does not appear on a single Committee of the
House of Representatives. Inst year he occu-
pied an honorable position on the Committee on
Foreign Relations, and this Session, us an old
member, he would have been entitled to yet
higher consideration. AprOper rebuke.
washington Correspondent of Philadelphia Bulletin.l
Mr.. PARROT of Kansas, had an interview with
the President of the Uunited States, yesterday.
The President said the whole country was tired
of this Kansas excitement. He Informed Mr..
Parrot that he should order all the troops out
of Kansas in the spring, to which Mr.. Parrot
ironically said, 'rhat would be a great mis-
fortune, sir" After some general remarks the
President said: "About this Kansas business I
think-well, never mind, / will not say what l
was going to" This is highly important infor-
matirn and will be alike interesting to the peo-
pie of Kansas and the whole country.
NoRrnEuN SENTIMENTS far as we can Judge
by the newspaper organs of popular opinion, the
support received. by the Administration, in its
Kansas policy, is confined to a few localities in
Southern New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, the
seaboard ofNcw England, New Jersey, and some
scattering towns on the Ohio river in the States
of Ohio and Indiana. In all the regions where
the Fremont vote was strong the Democratic
party is now with Douglass, in consequence of
committaIs madeduring the presidential canvass.
We have mentioned the striking unanimity of
the Ohio press on the topic. On this question
its leader, the "Ohio Statesman, :" is bold, active
and defiant Illinois speaks but one voice, and
that supports her Senator. The "Dctroit Free
Press" is unrcstrained in the expression of its
views, and as regards public opinion in Michi-
gan, it says that there is but one sentiment.
'The unanimity of the city of Detroit is won
derfuL, and advices from the interior say that
the city is an index to the whole State"
The Gree Press" adds:
eff VIC can rely upon our Democratic cotem-
poraries the Democracy of the entire Northwest
are impelled by one impulse"
PENNsYLyANIA.-The Philadelphia Press emu
merates fifteen of the prominent Democratic
Journals of Pennsylvania which oppose the
Lecompton movement and sustain the KANSAS
policy of Mcssrs. Douglas and Walker. Nearly
every ono of those who follow the lead of the
Z III SOiluSlliAi liz SIlOl u AT Sh0SE ia
the Leconpton Convention and concur in say
ing that the entire Constitution ought to have
been submitted to the popular vote.
1washlngtOn Correspondent Of the N. Y. Tlmcs.l 81.
How GEN. Cas- STANDs.-I have heard the
inquiry a dozen times of late where Gen. Cass
is to be found in this contest, and how it is that
he can remain in the Cabinet, when his Squatter
Sovereignty doctrine is so ruthlessly houted.-
1t is but just to him to say that he does not ad-
NIT the premises. He reposes upon the doctrine
that whatever is done by the Constitutional
Convention as the agent of the people, is done
by the people themselves, and that it is deSir-
able for the public peace that they should be no
longer permitted to trifie with the question of
a State Government.
s.a From the same) eTs 9aF
ABoUT THE PACIFIC RAILRoAD.lThe friends
Of the Pacific Railroad are again preparing for a
vigorous campaign, with hopes Of success. In
the Senate the measure starts under remarkably
favorable auspicies, of the nine members of the
Select Committee to whom the subject wos re-
ferrcd on motion of Senator Gwin, all but Messrs
Hunter and Iverson are in favor of the measure.
HunterfS OhiertiOnS are bOSpd nnOns cnnstitu.