Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-09
SoXE CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT OUR IErEREsrs.

More for the benefit of our readers abroad
East and North of us-than for those at homo
here, we transfer to our columns to-day, an ar.
ticle on the coal and iron resources of our State
from the Richmond Enquirer. The article
itself is very superficial one, and does not pre-
tend, ne suppose, to attempt an elaboration of
the boundless field for enterprise and capital
which this State offers and invites for the pent
up piles of money now seeking investments in
commercial and manufacturing centres. We
know Of no subject of Estate or provincial kind
that could so we'll employ the pens of the jour
nalists of this State, AS careful fact and figure
statements. scientific expositions, and thorough
and searching analyses of the ilIimitible resour-
ces which the State of Virginia this day holds
out to Northern and Eastern men. Ithas been
our aim in this paper, to bring these matters be.
fore the public OF other States. The leading jour-
malls of our State owing to their 6;goted and mar
row conceptions of State policy, their Japanese
exclusiveness their harem.itish jealousy about
niggerisn, have driven off everything like prop
er appreciaGon of our facilities from the public
mind abroad. Because we say it ourselves, it
is the less true, that this paper in its short
span, has done more to conciliate favorable in
Vestigation as to the chances for profitable en-
ployment of enterprise and capital in this State,
especially the Western part of it, than all these
niggeritish journals put together. We feel that
were we called to suspend tomorrow, that our
paper has lived and acted and adyocatedto some
purpose: that it had set in motion a current of
coming benefits, that would entitle it to claim
upon the remembrance of those who are yet to
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the other day, gentleman from Western New
York, called to see US, in passing down on q
tour of exploration through the counties below,
with view to employing his capital among
US. He told US that people about him had
hitherto considered that this was forbid
den country to all save those who were will
ing to merge their opinions and expressions
in their interests. Our paper of that morning
happening to have in it several of the heretical
paragraphs about what were true interests,
with which it not unfrequently abounds, he put
up several numbers and sent them to his friends
and acquaintances us genuine curioSities, con-
sidering the source. Look at what has been the
nature of the feeling sub*lsting between us
and the people on either side of our State
lines. Those whom nature intended should
be our friends-or to use diplomatic phrase,
our 'tnatural allics"-the suicidal policy Of one
OF two prints among us had made our enemies.
They traded with us much after the style ofthe
Jews and Samaritans. There was anything but
good feeling. Our aim has been to break up
that alienation-to restore the era of good feel
ing, fany such thing ever existed, and to make
our natural allies" real friends-as every con-
sideration urges upon them to be. Instead of
worshipping apoor, sickly, Jack.o.lantern, called
''our interests at Richmond" every consideration
calls on us to cultivate home influence-to court
home trade-to invite capital and labor here, by
vOuchsafng to its employers and employees al
the privileges and franchises to which American
manhood is entitled everywhere The SIMPLE
announcement to the public of the country that
Cassius NJ Clay, the other night, addressed one of
tho largest as well as one Of the most respecta.
BILE and orderly gatherings ever assembled in
Washington Hall, will do more for the solid ad-
vantage of this city, in time, than whole years
bowling and kneeling to Richmond 1t leads
men abroad to think that they can come among
us without necessarily becoming social exiles-
that they can be independent without losing
caste-that we have no political Pariahs.
REruRSNe e,nigrants from Frazer River do
not paint very delightful picture of life at 'the
diggings" They say that if you go to the river
in the summer you find it too high for work;
and if you go in the winter you find it frozen
up. Ifyou go where the gold is you find blood
thirsty Indians; and if you go where the Indi.
ans are peaceable you find no gold. Ifyou take
clothes and yictuals with you it costs more than
they are worth to carry them; and if you don't
take them with you, you may expect to freeze
and starve. Prices are so high, travelling so
difficult, and robbery SO common, that when
you have made your "pile" you can't always get
away with it; aud, in short, no man need ex-
pect to bring q fortune home with him. from
Frazer River, unless he took one there with
him, and even then the chances are that he will
leave the best part Of it behind him.
wKseo by the Richmond papers of yester-
day, that sherrards leg is coming on all right
straight as ever.
We also see that his aud Wise's fight is hav-
ing its proper influence upon the young sprigs
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