Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-04-09

the great triumph"
And so it was most magnificent victory, and
we congratulate our cotemporary most heartily
upon it. At its Capital, Jefferson City, and
in It's great commercial entrepot, st Louis, Mis-
souri, has now emphatically declared for tue SUI
periority of white labor, and the white laborer's
interests over the degrading competition of serf-
labor
Says the Democrat, in speaking of the odds
which its ticket encountered and overcome:
From the custom house to the sub.treasury,
from the Republican Office the Lender Office,
the Herald Office, from all the nests of the plum
der-seekerS, and the hauntS of the administra-
ton train bands, active partisans, and silent
strikers; wireIorkers thimble Triggers and poll
teal pigeon choppers trooped forth, and nothing
that ingenuity could invent, or audacity could
dare, was left untried.
-&S0SO
THE CONGRESSIONAL SuccEssIoN.-Within the
last few days, we have been visited, met and
talked to by good many visitors from the low
er counties of our Congressional District. Some
of these persons were politicians, some were
commoners-some of them appeared to be post
ed and understand what they are talking about,
and some of them did not. Some ofthem were
the friends of Mr.. Raymond, others of Mr.. Glenn
ems, and others again of DIR. Cracraft, w. H.
Oldham, &c. We find that the feeling on be-
half of Mr. Raymond is quite decided, and his
nomination is spoken of by his friends as fixed
determination in the minds of his own county
people, as we'll as those of the nearest adjoining
counties He is well liked--is regarded as
Il man of superior abilities and enthusiastic
in the support of the interests of his con-
Stituents His friends regret that some of his
late speeches, or rather speaking, should have
given rise to the structures of our Richmond
correspondent; but they are confident that such
n course is not characteristic of Mr.. Raymond.
They are certain that Mr.. Raymond regrets
any indiscretion into which the impulses of the
moment might have betrayed him, as much as
they themselves do.
We give the friends of Mr.. Raymond the ben
Gifts of these explanations-both as a matter of
justice and as matter of good feeling on our
own part, for the man. Mr.. Raymond has the
talents to make leading man and he has on his
side several advantages and prestiges which
give his friends good reason to hope for and
expect his nomination at the next convention.
The friends of Mr. Clemens are neihter few
nor far between-we are told,-but on the con-
trary, the Clemens neighborhoods and whole
settlements are are quite numerous. They have
mn idea that the efficient services which Mr..
Clemens rendered to the party in the camgaign
of SO, of ITSELF entities him to another term,
not to speak of the fact that us DR.. Kidwcll ION
behalf Of the mountain counties) had two terms,
30 ought Mr. Clemens, on behalf of the River
counties But more than all, the recent cruel
treatment which the Wheeling argus has es.
sayed against the party chosen representative,
has and is stirring up feeling on his behalf,
which promises infinitely more benefit than
damage to the prospects Mr.. Clemens. Indeed,
some of his friends down there are only desir-
that the argus shall keep on with its abuse,
confident are they that its courses, like young
chickens, will lat last) come home to roost."
So far as we could judge, these two gentle
men (Haymond and Clemens,) have been cen
tered upon as the probable prospectives between
whom the nomination will lie. If on the one
hand it is considered that the spirit of the party
rule which was established at Blncksville, and
broken up at Moundsville, should be adhered to
until the account between the two ends of the
District is acknowledged to be square, why then
there is likelihood that Mr.. Clemens viii be
the man; but lion the other hand that breaking
up should be considered as finality of the hole
idea of an:alternate representation, why then Mr..
Haymond will tie the man. So that from all we
have seen and heard for a few days past, in the
way of news and gossip, we may venture to
quote the prospects of these two as ''buoyant'-
the one hopeful" the other encouraging"
-As~sS-
Mas. Sw1ssurLN's PAPER BRokRN Ur.-Tho
ST Paul Times says that the Yisitor, paper
edited by Mrs Swisshelm, at ST. Cloud, Mime
sofa, was broken up on the night of the oath
nit, the press taken to pieces and carried off
and the type scattered and thrown into the river
A large meeting of the citizens was convened
to express their disapprobation of this riotous
act. Mrs S made an address, in which she
showed that her comments upon certain Demo-
Gratis, to wit Gen. Lowrie and James Shepley
was the cause of this outbreak The meeting
ccn lemned the outrage, and resolved that the
Fls'tor shal' be snstaipfd