Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-09

er have we greater degree of ex-
element manifested on any political subject
than we have seen and heard throughout the
Panhandle during the last week or so, on this
Lecompton Business. The Panhandle would
this day, had she the chance, Overwhelmingly
repudiate Mr.. Clemens course on this question
Just so sure as we tell him he has made the
greatest mistake of his life, if he thinks he is
on the paying side of the question, in the long
run. Unless Se greatly mistake, it is the en-
tering wedge of split in Mr.. Clemens political
fortunes.
PoL1rfcAL News AND GossIP-We notice in
the full length report of Il. B. Paynes Gate can
didate for Gov. of ohio,) speech in the Cincin-
natl papers, the following, which we may say,
sounds ominous. Says the late candidate:-
Look at Pennsylvania! The old keystone
State, with her favorite son in the Presidential
chair, was distracted and divided, and the
speaker was assured that she would not re elect
a single democratic member of Congress- In
New York City, that hot.bed of fidelity to es.
tabished usages and official corruptiOns, not a
single Lecompton member would be returned.
In Indiana, the two members who voted against
Harris resolution could not get vote in any
one township of their district. In Ohio, there
was not possibility of a member getting vote
constitution. If either of your members vote
for that instrument, can they-be re-elected?-
Vehement cries Of .Yesl" 'sNo!" "Yes'" No!"
A voice in the gallery: at won't be Payne,
thought -El -rrE-f-r
The speaker then referred to the removals
of the PoStmasters ut Columbus and at Chi
cago, as evidencing the disposition of the
Presidentto crush Mr.. Douglas, and emphati-
cally added that the Senator from Illinois and
his friends were not thus to be stricken down
to the LecOmpton constitution. In conclusion,
Ar. Payne added, / hurL deJfaRce at the Nation
al Ereeutire and his constitutional advisers
Let them do their worst. The people will re-
ject and dcspiSe their efforts TO compel submiS-
sion to such unholy dictation. loud applause.
On the strength of this effort, the Dayton
Empire denounces the Hon. II. B. Payne as
'about as bowling Black Republican as can be
found within the boundaries of the State of
Ohio" and that he is ''now where he naturally
belongs bolftionism being bred in his bones"
AMENITIES OF THE ORGAN.-The Editor of the
official organ at Washington, is u model of good
breeding and refined taste Its leading editorial,
Friday, sots out in this wise:
''The old Republican side. board is to receive
coat of vencering, TO be composed of equal
parts of decayed democracy and native-Ameri-
can punk. The latter it is supposed, will take
the place of the dark lantern, while the former
may be relied upon, account of its oily pro-
perties, TO give lustre and finish to the job"
Is this the sort of talk that is needed to shack
up the President?"
The New York Times thinks that
-"the policy of Senator Douglas will be trium-
plant in the Democratic Party. The entire
West is already enthusiastic in its support, and
the Eastern and middle States will be equally
open and emphatic the moment the pressure Of
the Executive patronage and dctation is re-
moved" st
A Mortified correspondent of the Philadelphia
Pennsylvania, writing from Lycoming county,
says that at one of the Anti -Lecompton Demo-
cratic meetings held in that region, one of the
speakers went so far as to say that if Kansas was
admitted under that internal swindle, he would
go and borrow the only Sharp's rife that was
in town and SO to Kansas, join Jim Lanes par
ty, and shoot the first niger from the South he
could find
The Cleveland Herald gives dispatch in cy-
pher, as it passed over the wires from Washing.
ton to that city, which it says "fOreshadOws a
surprise to all the cxpectants." Here it is:
'Horse kicked up-Produce lat-Mare's wind
bad-sunset in the West--Dodging ruled out
no merry Andrew-all right for Eleventh Hour
nominations actually gone in"
General Shields, the distinguished soldier and
citizen, is out in letter against the administra-
ton. Speaking of the President, he says:
l entertain the hveliest feelings offriendship
for him, and regret, from my Utmost soul, that
he has permitted his own honest judgment to be
biased by the suggestions ofiselfish men, of in.
ferior parts and questionable integrity.
The notorious Joshua Giddings now the old
est member,Of Congress, says in a late letter to
his home paper:
Ipredict that not five adherents to the pres.
ent Administration will be elected to Congress
from tho free States. at our election next Au-
tumn.
He also relates The following anecdOts of
Douglas:
Said a Kansas man to Douglas, "If you pass
the Lecompton Constitution, we shall resist its
enforcement 10 the extent of our physical pow
ers" The author of the Kansas Nebraska Bill
replied, WerS you to do less you could Be I'm
tsorthy Of freedom"
TIE ether day, the call for an administration