Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-01-06

WESTERN YlRGIsIA IN CoNGREss.-Now that
Congress is again in session, and matters of an
exciting nature are before both Houses, the peo-
ple-that is, many of them hereabouts, are Gu
rious to know what position the Western part of
the Virginia delegates will take on the general
posture Of Administration affairs. Especially,
are they anxious to know how the representa-
tive from this 10th district, will bear himself on
the great question now in issue between the
President and Senator Douglas, Will he turn
mp for the former Oh the latter2ZMe acknow-
ledge to being in the fog on the question. We
sometimes indulge the hope that our Congress-
man will have nerve and backbone enough to
cut loose from the old, worn out traditionaryab-
stractions, and take a stand on his own hook
if needs be, seperate and apart from the dele
CATION east of the Ridge. For time back,
"whereof thc-memorY of man runneth not to
the contrary, :, Western members have suffered
themselves to- b ebe'lead by the Eastern mem
bcrs, trusting. (and that quite in consonance
with the fac. too, that their constituents would
not grumble, at least not to the pitch of repudia-
ton. This go easy style of Western c%onstitu-
encies has always made our epresentativeslothto
incur the frowns of those generally elegant and
eourtly gentlemen, who go to Congress from
the East, and who are, generally sociable anna
tenr politicians, whose stock in trade are the
resolutions of '98 and go" with the triAing
amendments and re-yamps which the exigen-
cics of the Niger market may from tl'ne to time
afford.
Now all this kind of rehashed politics may
have done away back in the pastoral and agri-
cultural days of long ago, when the East was
everything and the West nothing-when ''big
Richmond' was the only place in the State@
when we were a set of mere tenants at will,n
amid the mountains and valleys of the West, to
be treated with and legislated for just as the
General Government does with it's Pawnee and
Shawnee tribes; but, since we have been looked
after with the scrupulous interest and maternal
fondness which the basis1of representation and
the tax bill e%vince, it is about time VIC should
be seriously considering whether or no ne are
not a portion of the family, and entitled to cat
at the first table along with the best, If it
turns out that We are, we might then wax so
bold as to inquire whether our interests would
be greatly jeopardizeda t Richmond or elsewhere,
supposing that our representatives should arise
in their seats in Congress and in an audible tone
intimate that they had minds of their own in
this Kansas bnsiness-that they and their pco-
pie understood the KansaS-Nebraska act to
mean what it said-that they didn't consider
that niggers only, and niggers continually. were
all that was included III the legislation for white
people GItf0 Et&
1t is true the administration might give them
the cold shoulder at the White House levees,
but that lisa small matter when balanced over
against three thousand a yearsand the ranking
privilege--to say nothing about the plain dic-i
tates of right and policy involved. 1t is again
possible that such members Of. M delegation as
Senator Mason, who hammers away day and
night on his thousand crudities about "legiti:
mate expansion, y as solemnly as did, the man in
the farce abouthis treatise on vampires y might
affect those airs which he put on once towards
his fellow Senators, whom he said, official cti-
quite compelled him to recognize; and, yet for all
it is probable that a, courageous member might
worry, through the session and live to, a ''green
old age afterwards.
But We shall await some deyelopements-
some symptoms from the Western members, be-
fore going into a closer inspection of the claims
of Western Virginia upon her representatives.
We hope that they will assert their manhood in
Whatever course they may see fit to take.
MURDER Of MISSIONARIES IN ISDrA-The
Newark, N. j., Mercury says:
Aletter was. received on Monday by Rev. DR..
Murray, of Elizabeth, n. j., announcing the.
death of Rev. Mr.. Freeman and wife, who went
out to India in the missionary service sometime
since. They were taken prisoners by the ma
tives, and after being kept in confinement for
some days, were led out to execution, Soadihg
Gn&Le-deepin blood. About the scafFold where
they were beheaded, blood had collected insuch
Quantities. as to snbmerge the %several leads of