Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-13
TlIs murder of Senator Broderick is every
where callIng forth the loudest and bittercst.


trIIs murder of Senator Broderick is every
whcre&calling forth the loudest and bittercst
denunciations of the press and the people,
against the abandoned perpetrators oft, and
the more abandoned Administration that sup
ports them. Never, in the annals of our polit>
ical history, was there an exhibition Of such
savage determination to extertnnate FROM the
politicalarenaa,b brave, fearless, incorporating
opponent The attempt to force him into fight,
at the commencement Of the canvass, was an
unblushng conspiracy 70 hush the voice and
seal forcycr'the lips Of one who too well knew
and was too well able TO open up TO 1.-THE public
gaze, the deep, dumnahlc corruption Of his pos
liticaleaemies, and of,iho party ia power. With
unparalleled bitterness they bounded his, every
step; and they have accomplished their end.
he buttied for the right He has sown the seed
of righteous revolution in the State Of his adop-
ton, and watcrcd it with his blood. II will
grow and ripen into such development of the
manifold sins of the Buchanan Administration
that the heart of every honest American citizen
will sincerely wish that it could be torn from
history's page, and that the.impenetrablc pail OF
the mdlle ages could enshroud it forever, alike
from the memory and the gaze Of men. His
untimely end is to 90 regretted, because it can
not be said OF him as was said of Hamilton,
THAT he yielded to the force OF an imperious
custom" The code Duello is not the standard
of either physical courage or moral worth 1t
has become. the resort of those who seek for
vengeance, or who have not the moral courage
TO withstand the jeers of those whose only.
clement of success is corruption, and let the
principles they maintain, if founded upon the
eternal rock Of truth, grow up aud bear them
high above the reach Of the vena sycophants
OF power. BroicEieb had yet before him four
years Of Seuatori5l career, in which, with the
power Of his IIerculean might, he could have
crushed his enemies and risen from the combat
the fompeer OF the broyest and the best. He
is dead,-a sacrifice to the fearless denun citation
of currnptioni in high places. But his death
wilnot hefin vain, in politics, as inrelgion,
the blood Of the. martyrs is the seed of the
church. '5s=Sa -.
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THE Republicans. in QUO or two townsnips
over the river clHiIa foul On the part of their
American allies, in that they Che Americans
distributed 6ogus tickets We 90 not know 10
what extent thisaHEas practised, butin all such
alliances we believe the sentiment 'stimso Do,
''4os dc, !" would apply with advantage
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A gentleman living near Mount Crawford. in
this State, recently shot an enormous bull
snake. The reptile was eleven feet in length
and its body ove- foot in circumference. Il
was in pursuit of young man, making a kind
OF believing noise peculiar to this serpent
when twas shot It's teeth were an inch in
length.
"A very remarkable Observation-Disclosures been
developed in the existence Of numbers Of per
fcctiy white rats in thu Bible House in New
York. They are quite. numerous, and arc con-
stantly caught by the tenants on tho lower
floors. Some of the older specimens i'm the Bible
House are quite fat, and look as venerable and
quiet as DDS.
Tnr Kenncbec Journal says that n few years
since the wife ofthe then American Minister tn
England received from friend in New England
box of antumnal leaves, selected for their
beauty aud their variety of tint. The lady
wore them as ornaments, and they attracted
much attention and were greatly admired Inv
the English people. Since then, these leaves
have been in demand there, and every autumn
packages OfIhcn ave sent oyer=!n the steamers
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InE Pe"insular Bank of Detroit is withdraw
lug its circulation, for the reason that it can
lind no profits in Issuing paper, rcdec.pabIe in
gold on presentation, to circulate among that
either entirely iaeontrovertible or at least WORT,
only ninety-eight cents on the dollar. The
good paper can be kept in circulation but few
days before it is rushed back for redemption
Hence it was concluded to retire the whole un-
til such time as greater inducement might be
offered for its reissue. Within three months
$4,000 Of these notes have been cancelled and
destroyed, aud only $4,000 remains in circula>
ton.
,fns father ofyonug Burcb, who was acouit.
ted 0f.mnrder, in Chicago a day or two since.
gave the jnFS, who cleared him, a champagne
supper On the evening after the verdict was
rendered. Eleven of the jurors attended, one
only, having the Iecency to stay away.
oUn Syracuse contemporaries tell ola fellow