Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-19
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up in Washington County, "a, OF aInNlhg 10
every mans name in the list Of Grand and Ira
verse Jurors, his means of livelihood. Such
as farmer, blacksmith, &C.; but the funniest part
of the custom is, that when man has no par
ticular ayocation, they affix gentleman" to his
name. In the last Washington papers no.
tice that gentlemen are getting scarce in the
lsts-there being only one of that description
of the genus homo among the Grand Jurors, and
but one among the Traverse Jurors, On all six
ty names)
This looks as if 'the breed OF noble bloods'
must be dying out of that county. 1t is really
too bad that SO great and good county as our
neighboring sister should muster but meagre
per centage of citizens having no employment
susceptible of definition by any one of the sew
enty-six thousand words of the language
WASHINGTON County (PA.) PoL1TIcs-The
Democrats of Washington County, Pa, not to
be behind their neighbors, are already in the
field, canvassing in a formal report by their
county vigilance committee, the claims of the
respective counties Washington, Greene and
Fayette,) composing their Congressional dis
trict, to the next nomination.
Mr.. Alexander Frazer, the Chairman of said
committee, goes in vehemently for Montgomery
having second term, and takes pains to let the
aspiring inhabitants of Greene know that they
have had their full share of representation, at
all events all they may expect for some time
1t seems from the report, that the Central
Committee of Greene county, have been en-
deavoring to steal march on their Washington
county brethren, and get the next nomination
secured before the time comes round.
Mr.. Frazer is much put out with this piece of
tactics of the "Gretna- Greene" population, and
in winding up his report, thus reads them
piece of his mind:
In conclusion, it may with propTiety be add
ed, that the action of the Central Commute of
Greene county, is perhaps the first instance on
record, in this any other part of the State, of
committee interfering with nominations which
only can be, and alone should be made by the
party its primary elections If Central Com
mitteeS are to control nominations by taking
them out of the hand and power of the people
then we have no longer any necessity for prima-
ry elections, to ascertain the will of the party as
to who shall be its nominees.
PoLIrIcAl ITEMs.-Brother Pryor has evil
denced no love for brother Bennett, judging
from this extract from his paper:
The scabiOus Scotch scoundrel, who lies daily
for n livelihood in the New York Herald, has
dared in his insolence, to accuse gentlemen who
voted against the increase of the standing army
with an undue consideration for the mmorali-
ties of the Mormons.
CONCERNING the Chicago Times, which fol-
lowed Douglas in his swing off from the Ad-
minstration, the Chicago Democrat says:
The stampede among the subscribers of the
Chicago Times is awful. Since DIR. Le6, Gen
eral Postofice Agent, commenced marking, for
prescription, the Postmnsters who gave circula-
ton to the Chicago Times the stampede among
its subscribers is passing all belief In many
offices where month ago twenty-five copies of
the Chicago Times were taken, we understand
from the Buchanan men, there is not now sin
gio copy taken.
A Washington correspondence fan exchange,
in speaking of the tallest hoax of the day, says
that it is,
Not that of the New Orleans Delta, that the
slave trade is re-opened at the South, but that of
the Detroit Adrertiser, that General Cass thinks
of retiring from office No, no. The General
is too practical a man to think of such impossi-
bilities Hllf a century of continuous fate be-
comes destiny, and long course of treasury pap
generates fatalism. 1t no moro occurs to the
General that he and son Lewis are ever to
be out OF office, than 1t does to my brace of
SutolGs that they arc ever to become pork or
bacon.
The Albany Esening Journal speaks of .'the
tempestuous night when Keitt stubbed his head
against Grows fist and fell down.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Commercial Adpertissr, says:
The departure of the Southern members of
the American party from the ranks of the Le-
comptoniteS has produced deep sensation 1t
was not unexpected. 1t has been a subject of
anxiety, for some time, with the friends of the
Administration. The six South-Americans who
bolted yesterday ON the question made by Mr..
Harris, of Ill, against the action of the majority
of the special committee on Kansas affairs, arc
as follows:-Messrs. Davis, Eicaud and Harris.
of Maryland H. Marshall and Underwood, of
Kentucky, and Mr.. Giirner, of North Carolina.
The question is whether they will hold their
ground, They say they viii; and, moreover,
they SLY that II they can. obtain a full investi-
cation and exposure of the frauds committed in
Kansas, upon the rights of the people, theyiwiIl
bring over tho whole American party of the
South in opposition to the Lecompton Gonstitu-
ton. Co. .a
hs1 The Washington correspondent ofthe Rich
mOnd SOttA, in his last letter, refers to Senator
rNade's speech in the Senate the other day, and
says ERYs SIX s1&-7g SAg as @ sszs
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