Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-01-11

present ills and future omens, which seemed
enough to have disheartened much more able
bodied concern. Since then, we believe, sever
al creditors have completed the work of demoli-
ton, by levying upon everything saleable and
unsaleable, in or about any of the shanties and
shops belonging to the company. So that for
all practical purposes, the Hempield may be
written down as a case of suspended ANNA
tion"-7not exactly sdefunct in the. old orthodox
way of giving up the ghost-but occupying a
situation somewhere out of life-out of use
and altogether more vexatious and harrassing
than cold, stiff, "door-nail" peg out.
Next IN the catalogue comes that Wheeling
eye.sore-the Marietta road-which, if it is
news to anybody now, we may as well mention
is rs fiat on its back as its enemies Cand their
name is legion) could wish. Partly from mis-
understanding with the farmers along the route,
the track has been torn up partly from mis-.
management the employees along the line have
all quit work-and in good part owing to that
miserable and Janus.faced policy which Noah
Wilson inaugurated-t road generally down
in credit down in the mouth, down at the heel,
down in the mud, down iii everything and down
everywhere, where it was possible for it to get
down.
These two roads-the Hcmpfcld and Mariet.
ta-present in themselves about as complete
chapter of latter day raiIroaaism. in the mall
acceptation of that word, as it is possible
for city of no NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. than ours to
boast of having hand in. The first, in the
hands of first.class comic wood-cut artist,
might, with half its material. be made to illus
trate how it is possible to fritter away gold and
golden opportunities without leaving hardly the
ghost of quid pro quo to answer for the deed.
Dickens burlesque decentralization Office"
where the great study and aim was show not to
do" anything, is not an exaggeration of the cir.
cumlocution by which the poor, sclily 80 miles
of5Hempfeld dragged its slowlength along rs far
as Washington and there tooklts bed. Begotten
and conceived under healthy auspices it fell
victim to the consuming process of CESSATION to
which, was subjected. Titles now likes wreck
of the pestilence, the only visible evidence of
the former presence of desolatipg malaria.
As for the second road-the Marietta-it new
er had any right to place in the archives of
the city of Wheeling Begotten in sin and born
ininiquity-it has been undergoing process of
intermittent purgatorial retribution, such as all
physical or moral monsters are subject to: and
now lies breathless, speechless and black in the
face, under paroxysm which has so completely
prostrated5its energies us to threaten its future
existence. This is the Marietta road at the COM
mencement of this year of grace 1s5S-the pre-
possessing stock:job creation of Philadelphia,
Wheeling, ct GL-its putative parentage-but
in truth the, creation of the financial genius
of Noah Wilson, who succeeded in diddling'
this city into quarter of million, and Phila-
delphia into about three times that amount.
Verify it and the Henp6ed together form a
pleasing picture for Taxpayers to contemplate:
asomething for laughter, aeers and jeers" were
we not the solemn and interested spectators
that we are. -, js5is
ABOUT THE q. S. AIAisHA1sulP.-Fro a letter
in the Times of Saturday, We gather that the
Hon JEFF Martin, of olny, near Moundsville, 2 is
now undergoing that peculiar bliss known to pat
riotic politicians as dread suspense, concerning
his tenure ofOfice. Itappears that our Marshal
has an eyetnpon his cx.d&pnty Scott, (who by
his own confession, is an aspirant for the Hon.
Jeff's fat offce0 and knowing the potency of
the'big Richmond" influence at Washington,
he has petition in circulation among the nen-
bers Of the legislature, ''praying Mr. Buchanan
to continue him in the Office" The petition, we
learn, was dragging drcadfully, having only
about dozen signatures to it--@was not re-
ceiying as general approval as is usual in such
cases." It may be that our Marshal's decapitory
example is about to .Secpil upon his own neck,
and that the ssS;dePnty viii be avenged, for the
summary manner in which his head was struck
from. the block.
There is no reason why change should not
be made. and there is great reason why. one
should be made, and we. hope that our honor
able Congressman, who has prevailed so power
fnllyin appointments in times past, viii step
up and have a chat with the appointing power,
as toitheI eShedielcy and entire pfopriety of
rotating the Hon. JET. Martin but Of the Mar!
shals6iP, into something else ifIit is Absolutely
necessary, and of transferring that office to this
city. Everybody can see at glance that it
oughtsto be held by some one heis because the
services Of the oficeere more likely to be re-
quired here than any where else,in the district
hope some one of the faithful from here,
will put in for this magnificent office: We pre-
sumo there are a number of patriots who would