Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-01-07

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this city, relative both to the Benwood crossing,
and the Parkersburgh branch.
Some such statement of the whole merits and
dement's of the case has been needed for a long
time, and we hope that the committee will not
stop short of a complete statement.
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THE MAYoRALTr-Now begins to wear an in.
%teresting appearance, since this morning We
have two candidates on the track. For a long
time we were seriously disturbed lest that an
Gent and honorable Office was to be 'let Slide
to that place, perhaps, where Gov Banks was
going to let the Union slide to. But owing to
our indefatigable exertions GNota Bone: Won't
somebody fan us) We succeeded in arousing q
becoming sense of our pr~edicament in the pub
lie mind. The question now occurs to us, what
is to be the issue or the issues on the Mayoral-
ty. question, as well as in the cases of the other
city. offices? Is it to be political, municipal or
personals Political issues are now in such a
pell-mell condition since the Douglas detection,
that to g into the contest on such a nonsensi-
cal basis would be like a general knock down
and drag OUT in the dark: no one being able to
discern tother from which. In municipal mat
tiers there are sundry latent and nascent issues:
such as the gas and railroad questions, the for.
mer, however, about at the point of adjustment,
so far as the city is concerned, and the latter
tangled up past all issue making, until it as
sumes some definite shape, which it seems like
lyto do ere long.
There can, then, properly remain but aper-
sonal issue-and that is a general fitness and
adaptation for a rather bothersome, nnremuner-
alive, yet honorable office. This is the only issue,
indeed, that ever should be made in Charter cleo
tons. To foist in politics or creeds is bad in
taste and bad in principle.
OvERTAKEN AT, IAsr@THe ray Of the Trans
gressori Is Hard-The New York Herald, by
hooks and crooks-and it is strongly suspected
by some very disreputable hooks and crooks
has had for some time back the Post Office
printing in New York, under a claim to the
largest circulation. In the mean while there
have been smothered complaints from one or
two of its competitors, who had good reason to
believe that they circulated & greater number of
bona fide copies than did the Herald. 1t seems
they have notified Post Master Fowler of their
determination to contest the printing-and 10!
and behold, the wilyHerdI comes out and says
it won't go to the trouble of making up its cir
culation; again-that it don't pay anyhow, &C.,
plainly retiring fom the contest. Newspaper
men generally, have mistrusted that the unscrup-
ulous and piratical course of that paper, before
and during the great financial rcvulsion, had
cut it Town to a common place circulation.
For months back they seem to have been pur.
suing a suicidal course. They supported Fer
nando Wood for Mayor, and attempted to black
guard the decency and responsibility of New
York, for opposing him. But the decency and
responsibility administered a most telling re-
bnke to Mayor Wood and his -organ-scouted
and %repudiated them both. The Herald then
turned over to the support of the Lecompton
swindle-and that too in the face of the fact
that it had been for Fremont in 1856. Such ut.
ter degeneracy-taken together with the general
meretricious character which the paper has had
for years, have. it is believed, cut down even the
bawdy and tBowery boy support which it had.
No good man, who has the interest of his fel.
low beings at heart, can do other than congrat-
ulate the public at this symptom. 1t is like the
removal of a plague spot-a leprosY upon
the social body.
Some time ago, it will be remembered, We
commented upon the utter discontinue this pa.
per met with at the hands of those truly repu-
table journals, the \. Y. Times Courier and En-
quirer and the Express. The former showed up
the crooked and venal course of the Herald in
reference to tho Potosi Lead company: the sec.
ond, its course in reference to tho Bank suspen.
sions-and the third gave a most complete and
scathing personal review of James Gordon Ben.
nett, the editor. From all these symptom we car
judge that Bennett and his paper have become
loathsome to the people of NewY York. Not long
ago a distinguished gentleman, well known fol
his fine abilities as a political writer, as well as
for his excellent onportnnitics to measure. ths