Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-06-04
FRoM RICHNIoND.
Lcorrs.ponaenee Of the InteIIigenoer.I
RIcHMoxD, Va, June l, 49,


Nav has finally left us, and, as chronicle
her departure, it is done with no gratifying re-
collections of bright and joyous season ieel
I no emotions of regret that the usually merry
month" of budding JOY is at an end, but rather
| experience pleasure, almost graLtuue, III Eie
! termination OF month remarkable ol'iF ic'
rains and fogs and the gloom unwonted nj tniS
season of the year, which it has cast over all
nature Verify we might think (were 1t hu-
man prerogaGive to presume upon such SUI
iect that an abundance of rain has fallen IN the
vicinity of Richmond, during the month oil May,
! for its effect is to remain during the mouths VI
| ,June and july, even though there should not
! hn shower within that period. "Old Sol has
not shone upon our beautiful city for SIX DAYS,
| until this morning, so Ills easy to Imagine the
spiritual condition" (ofcOurse very low oil the
metropolis during such period oil Ei'rA'ies9'
| In the opinion of farmers, however, there mas
| bv no means been too much rain, and, indeed,
some last week. were apprehensiye that unless
there was more that the crops would suffer Sc
verelv- and especially those growing upon the
| birh. lands. whose soil the high winds had rem
dered almost perfectly arid.
| Very early last night thunder storm arose,
which continued for several hours, and it is to
be hoped that a suificieucy of water has at
length fallen, and that the sun shining so Deau-
tifully to-day will continue thus long enough lof
a general renovation of nature-animal ana veg
etable.
In the total absence Of anything interesting
here. bouts, will be excused for noticing what
is agitaring the little villages of Norfolk and Pc
tersburg and ] may do this with rather more
propricty in view of the probability OF TINS le'-
ter reaching YOU before any pubiIshcd account
of the occurrences about which l shall WTlle'
For something like two years, the uhuef,
ground railroad" has been in operation IN ana
about the first named place, and thousands oi
dollars, in slaves. have been lost by TINS ieIa'
rious system: amd though every effort mas Dech
made to detect the depredarors, and though
there have been numerous, and strong Srouh,'s
of suspicion of certain persons, yet, IN tue an
sence of ''pruof positive, the villains nave gone
"uuwhipped," always, heretofore, because ",-
discovered. \ case, however, recently caule 10
light the circumstances of which are as lolIoWS:
The Mayor of Norfolk having been apPrlseu Oh
the escape OF IL negro from neighborlng couh-
ty, and having reason to suspect that ne was Oh
board of a vessel which had just ieit mat port
bound for New York, followed and overlook
her: and after diiigent search, with some OF MS
officers. discovered the missing negro, Secrcted
beneath the iorecaste. The vessel, negro, ana
the poor crest. fallen negro stealerS, were con-
veyed to Norfolk and committed 10 JAZZ l"e
entire city in an excitement, whlch mas MOI
vet abated Meetings have been heId ana sew
eral persons. black and white, suspected OF COM
plicity in similar affairs, ordered to abandon Inc
city, under penalty Of a coat OF tar and lean
ers" \ vigilance committee, consisting OF one
hundred, was appointed, and every prccanuoh
taken to prevent the recurrence ct these roo-
berries.
a case of still more aggravating cIrcumstan'
ceS has happened i'll Petersburg. NO less t'ah
five negroes we're missing from their various
homes in that place yesterday, and could be
found no where Suspicion, however, resting
upon an obscure schooner, known to have drop
ped down the river short time previous 10
their being missed, she was pursued ana cap
tured, and notwithstanding the protestnhonS oil
the two men who managed the craft, that they
knew nothing of the negroes, they We're disc0v-
cred concealed under bacon, wheat, NC Inc
vessel, crew and negroes, were towed to PETERS
burg where the fury of the populace was I'M
bounded The wharveS were crowded to the
waters brink by the indignant masses, eager
to punish most Summarily the wretched EnaNeS
With great difficulty were the criminals con
veyed to prison; and, indeed only by the aSSls-
lance of the camer portion of the crowd rem
dcrcd to the..authorticS. As they passed through
the city, many efforts were made to wTest them
from the hands of the officers, and most despc'
rate struggles to seize them 10y the throat, were
only thwarted by the opposition of force while
changing" drowning, &c, were irceIy ta'Neu
Of The indignation of her sister cities is sym
pathetically responded to by Richmond, WINE
there Is much rejoicing at the detection ana cap
ture OF those who, though they he only pandeE-
ers to fanaticiSn, and especially 0r"rtcs TOR
that is the name, after all, OF "oo'luon P''iah-
thropy) may still be made examples OF.
forgot to mention one important fact IN the
Petersburg case All five of the negroes say
that they paid the captain $50 each, to carry
them to New York. Here is an example Of
abolition disinterested sympathy for the suffer
ingS of the slave, to take from HIM every cent
of the earnings of years of toll, and then place
him perfectly helpless among set of pccuniary
rampires Is it possible to fluid mere degraded
object than a Northern abolition HeEf" their L