Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1859-12-20
TRONI RICHMoND.
Correspondence of the Intclltgencer.I
RIcHXoED, Dec! 18th. 1855.

R1cHSoED, Dec. 10th, 1859.
Editors IHtektigetieer:-To- day the Other
four convicts at ITarper's Ferry will under
go tho extreme sentence of thelnw There
had been II petition for the cpmmutation Of
the sentence of death upon Coppic, to con-
1inement in the Penitcntiary, upon the
representation of his youthfnlncss, of his
repentance. and that no man had fallen by
his hands; and there seemed fair chance
il'Of its favorable consideration until Mr..
Isbell, Senator from Jefferson county, arose
from his seat and stated that ii had been
clearly proved upon his trial. that the
Mayor of lIarper's Ferry had come TO his
death by u shot froma gun in the hands of
COppic. TlIiS statement turned back the
current of sympathy, and twas determined,
without opposition, that he should suffer
death, i'll common with the other convicts.
| The subject of this Harper's Ferry out
rage, andjhe action. uponi it proper for the
/ Legislature to take, still engrosscs the at
tention aud investigation of the joint com
lmittee of the two houses, and it is now
problematical if they will conclude their
l"bors before the Holidays l understand
that there is near a cart load of corrcspon-
dence laid before them by the Governor.
| One of them is a letter to his Exccllencv,
from an anonymous correspondent from the
Southern part of the State of Ohio, telling.
him, that the correspondent deems it his
duty to inform him that an immense balloon
has been there constructed, which will be
inflated at day break on the morning of
Friday the I'd December, filed with armed
men and loaded with torpedoeS and other
internal machines and projectiles, and pass
ing oIer the Allegheny mountains will
arrive above the place of execution mt
GhnrlcStown-nt IL o'clock AM, when by
nFH bo1I1 FL,
dealing projectiles, which they will drop
down among the military, they will be able
i'll the confusion to descend and pick up
Old Brown and carry him off in triumph.
Having succeeded i'll this, they will immc-
diately carry him to Boston, where u ire
mcndOus meeting is expected 10 be held
in Fanicucl Hall ut early candle light the
same evening, for the purpose of nominal
ting him for President. and Wendell Phil
lips for Vice President of the United States.
This is hut Il sample of one of the many
thousand letters written to our excellent
Governor upon the subject of tragedy.
now sought by these wags to be converted
into farce.
Tho Senate on yesterday passed bill
appropriating fifteen hundred dollars to
pay Andrew Hunter for assisting the States
Attorney in prosecuting the IIarpcrs Ferry
say. On account of the confusion result
ing from the trial, detention and execution
of the prisoners at HNrper's Ferry, both
houses of the Legislature have concurred
in law giving tho Sheriff of Jefferson
county further time to collect and pay into
the Treasury the States revenue
Delegate Richardson's bill for the incOr-
poratiOn of Virginia Lodge, No. 3, /. q. O.
f.. in the city of Wheeling, has passed its
three readings in the House, und to the
! second reading in the Senate
On yesterday the Senate Finance Com
mittce reported Senator Caldwell's bill
| for the Commonwealth to purchase at par
the stock of the City of Wheeling in the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company,
when it Immediately passed to second
reading. 1t will not come up again to its
third and last reading, probably. before
the latter part of january. There is now
some prospect, though, as yet, not very
| bright, of its passage. observe by tho
Journal of the Senate. that Mr.. Caldwell
has so far succeeded better than he did
last session, for then the Committee re-
fused to report the same bill.
There is n rumOr current here within tho
last half hour, which is raising quite an
excitement. It is that the members from
South Cnrolima, Georgia and Alnhama
have today seeded from the Congress.
will venture to say that it is all humbug,
nothing but Heather and pruncIla''-
Their salaries of three thousand dollars II
year, and mileage, will save The Cnion, il
nothing else will.
We have many hot-hcaded Hotspurs
here in Virginia, just as rabid for disunion
as Wendell Phillips and his little band o.
Abolitionists in the North. lie is more
fnr-seeing, however, than our '.chivalry,
for we'll he knows that the death knclI o.
the Union will be also the knell OF slavery
that Canada will thereby he brought three
hundred miles nearer, and will progress
southwark at the rate of one hundred
miles every five years, until it will only bt
stopped by the coral reefed shores of Tho
Gulf Of Mexico. ALPHA.