Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-10-28

SENATOR HUSTEK ~ AZ EMBARRASSING SITUA- +
7rox-One Of the most complete vindications of
the power Of the press we remember to
49, s..-, = A. Ia.'a- nf Senator Hunters
which ,ge published yesterday morning After
all his friends had said about the iigi-toned, re-
liant attitude Of Expressive silence, which the
distinguished Senator would maintain in def
ance Of tho severe Newspaper pressure witch
,sas brought u bear upon him, he, as we have
sceu, came as completely doga as did that Ia
nous coon tliat surrendered at discretion 10
Capt. Smith, ere he had snapped his rife. Mr..
Hunter is certainly SHARED Of bis top-not, but
whether or not the loss Of his top-aot sill cost
him the loss Of his seat in the Senate, is ques-
ton too difficult FOR our solution at this time
I, win take the ides Of DeccEber 10 determine
that But wel!ler it viii OF not, it does not re-
Here the utter Humiliation into which the Senn
Tor has fallen by coming out 10 his letter. II
read. to US ike the mistakes Of Night, ard
if there is any truth in the old proyerb about
lamentations forc-wqrning destruction, 1t Is
quito likely that our honorable Senator has ia
CURED the wrath OF the gods.
For why should Mr.. Hunter write the letter.
II he is the man his friends say he il, he had
too much shrewdness not to easily fathoin the
whole gist aud meaning OF the part which the
Richmond Enquirer & Co, were playing against
him. II he was that sharp sighted aud clear
Drained man which he repnted TO be, he
could not have failed TO have seen that the case
stripped OF all else-all abstractions-al Walk
er or -walkcrism, administration, or any
thing else, WINS simply Wise Hunter
Mr.. Wise wants Mr.. Hunters seat in the Sen
ate:-Mr. Hunter wants to keep it, and SIr.
,r, IL; I.tt, Of in,
sinuntcs by sly hints to his Friday, who
does up the Enquirer leaders, that now Is an
Cmiuenty propitious season for Mr.. Hunter t.
retire into private life
In pursuance of some such obvious under
standing rs this, we see the Eaquirer bearing
down upon the embarrassed Senator yesterday
in tWo solid columns. It comes upon its pros
trate foe, and after an cxuIting crow, proceed
AT once with tic why's and wherefores ON &C
count of which, it cannot afford Hon. Mr.. Hunte
any quarter 1t is perfectly cruel, after havin
tortured MF. Hunter into n reply 10 it's iuterrc
gatories, To thus turn about-tau;alize him wit
theirinsufieieney, and wind up by telling hir
tina; lac has not come to the point, and that a
he has said is Of no account
As the case stands, It's Lesatial snarl-an
its chance IL Mr.. Hunter don't realize in v
few days, that lie has put AIS l"ot li'tn mes
Is. and has fallen a prey 30 piece of dean
gogueism, to which his friends all along did n
think he would descend. II he had any 9th
motive in writing that letter, than to placate II
swelling indignation Of the EHqairsr and its a
herents, it does not so appear from our star
point We cannot think tliai be had any 9th
motive, because. all along, his closest and mo
knowing friends, kept claimin; for him :
amount Of invulnerable popularity, toSeth
with such an infinite fund Of tip-toe eSaltati'
above al political dabbling, would have re
dcred such letter at this time. particularly il
possible.
Fer all this bluuder, Mr. Hunter may yet
Senssor-upou the same plan throusi. Vhi
Fernando Wood is likely to be reelected May
or New York, -indiscriminate abuse-Pt
secution, in other words The Enquirer stan
a good chance of overlapping is ambition to
thought Warwick, by the rather keen det'
minatiOn which it maniGests to giut seer
thirst for vengeance We are afraid-not afi-a
either, for We
whether M0sIOp kies Barry, or Barry kick Ness'P'
but we rather suspicion that some such re-
ton as this will set in, for want of judicio
management whether to an amount that will
nal or not, December only can determine.