Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-24
Correspondence ., the In.clltEsneer
WAsuScToN CoUsTY. PA. I
.TrIlv 81 1873


July 81, 1868.
Nessrs Campbell, 6 NoDsrmot: receive
your excellent paper regularly, and as per.
ceive by it that you solicit and welcome cores.
ponce from all parts of your extensive "haili.
wick" it occurred TO me That letter from vour
humble servant would not be unacceptable
Politics, being the chief item of general interest
in our county, will, of course, form the burden
of what may have to say. Since my remem.
brnnce holds, county politics has never been in
such jumbleand mixed-up, inexplicable state,
as at the present time. As yet, the Republicans
have definitely fixed upon no candidate for Con-
gross. Whether they will do SO seems to be a
question still. 1t is, however, your correspon
dents decided opinion that they will put one up
against Montgomery. The instinct GfSelf-pFeS.-
eryatiOn itself If not the hopes of success, will
induce them 20, at least, have cHndtd'tte in the
field. They feel the full Importance of preser.
wing their political organization at this time;
and though they are slow abnut trotting out
their man. let their Democratic opponents not
fatter themselves that they are to have nn I'M
contested victory for Congress There is deep
policy at the bottom of the slow maneuvering
Of inrres. tits to ct faction aud discomfort CaI-
ready frightfully bnSy) do their work in the
ranks of the "unterrified" and uhsuspectimg
Democracy, and then, shortly before the clec.
tiun, with new leader, Of fresh reputation, make
united assault. Win this new leader may he
Is yet unset ell. While the UuiOntOwn Standard
and Brownsville Times oppose the nomination
of Republican candidate, from some motive,
honorable it may he,) yet the leading papers in
the district, with the budy Of the party aud its
leaders, ARE indignant at the very proposition.
Montgomery is stencil III their nostrilS aud
they twill none of him. They can put no rr.
ance on him, aud whilst he is attempting to
hOneyfugle and court them into his support, they
laugh in their sleeves. The Republicans them
selves court Mnntgnmery's cuurtShip. because
IL al. I Il.
party. The Democracy, prOverhiIlly severe
"n truckers, (aS, indeed, any pnrty is
when the trucker Is once disrovereij can
hardly be expected to enter with spirit into the
support of man guilty ofsuch double dealing.
The truth is, that there never was time in Mr..
Montgomery's life when he was less popular than
at the present His deScrtiOn of the Presldrntn and
the National Democratic party or the Lecomp-
ton issue, won numbers of enemies amongst the
Stannch Straight.out portion of his party. His
leSertiOn of his part i'll the trying hour of the
English Bill, rniSeGl S':spcinns to his RELIABLE
lily in the minds Of those who had believed his
prior opposition to LecnDpton to be sincere,
and his subsequent endorsement lin the Gadd
and Hughes letters the very English Bill
which he had protested to oppose, quite soured
many of his honest anti LecnmptOn friendS-
10 the LecOmptUn democracy, his course is ut.
tcrly irrecoucilablr whilst little moro can be said
Of such honest nuti- accompanies as opposed
the EhSllSn DUI from principle, considering IC
more Infamous than LEc0mptOR naked" Be-
sides Mr.. NJ. is every day loosing the sympathy
upon which he first rose, and by which he has
ever since sustained himself He is no longer
n young man, strong against the odds of older
and experienced competitors; he is no longer
''the poor boy" struggling against poverty and
misfortune, but full grown man, at least that
can claim no sympathy from his youth; with n
rich and lucrative business, and not only ''weil
off" but wcalthier, in hard dollars and dimes,
than one ont of hundred of those to whom, as
'thc poor boy" lie was wont to appeal With
these Sympatlies gone his political crime is
looked upon pretty much as that of other men,
and he is even NOW finding out than reckon
ing has been made of his political tnrtuu>itics.
We make no predictions as to the result for
Congress. The district is largely Democratic,
but look out for u close contest.
Harvesting is going on ut a fine rate. The
weather thus far mas been very favorable. The
Wheat, Rye and Barley crops have already been
cut and partly stacked. The Barley crop, in
this county, isyery large this year, a very large
quantity having heen SOwed and the yield ex-
cellent Though there has heen great deal of
complaint ofinjury by weevil and the rust, yet
the amount of wheat harvested this year will
certainly not fall below the average. So tar rs
have observed the oats look tine 1t will
he begun to be cut this week. Many of the far
merS throughout the county are beginning Ia in
trOnce reapers and mowers into the operations
Orcntting their g,aSs and grain
Please excuse the longevity into which have
inadvertently run. You have cur thanks for
the spice and agreeahIeness which you some
how work up into the Iateltigencer; its col.
umns have saved us from emNWi many day.
Truly yours. Ben.