Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-03-24
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The virginia Campaign.
! An exciting canvass for the gubernatorial
election is now going on ins virginia Inc
Mother of Commemorative, OF Presidents anu
/ of saddle colored chattels, Is profoundly agF
tated. The nation which has acquired SO many
of its Fundamental principles, including tne
resolutions of '9S from the great Commonwealth,
looks with anxious expectation on this great con-
/ test The principles there debated and decided,
will have potent influence on the Ploltics oil
the nation. The Virginia papers are full oil the
sound of the contest We have looked ANXIOUS
Iv to ascertain what great questions will be de-
cided by this election. On one side we lind that
the democratic candidate, Mr.. Letcher, IS charged
by the opposition with having subscribed to cir
culate the 'Ruffner pamphlet" some years ago,
I in which the divine Institution of slavery was
described as "moral pestileuce, plague spot
upon the State" and other terms quite biasphe-
mons enough to satisfy the most rabid aboli-
/ ZIONIST.
! The Richmond Enquirer having made this
/ charge previous to MIR. Letchers nomination,
when il was hostile to him, is estOpped from de-
nving it now; but 1t endeavors to turn the flank
of the enemy and make charge on John NJ.
Bolts. Mr.. Goggin is the candidate of the OPP
position, but he seems to be sound or the Sla-
very goose, therefore the Enquirer gets mp
diversion by attacking Mr.. Bolts, whom it accu-
SEES of having said that "he thought slavery in
the abstract much to be deprecated" that The
regarded it a great calamity that 1t should
ever have been entailed on US, and he would
look upon that man ms the first and greatest
benefactor of his country, whose wisdom could
! point out some practical and satisfactory means
| by which they could, through their own instru-
mentality and without interference from their
neighbors provide for the removal and emanci-
patton of all the slaves in the country Mr..
Bolts is even accused of saying that if there was
a State of free negroes and the constitution per-
mItted them to vote, he would be THANKFUL Tor
THAR in nipPfinu his marty
This is not vel substantiated, but is consid-
cred such an enornity that even to charge it on
any aspirant should be fatal to his political
hopes-democracy having suddenly become
very fastidious concerning the means by which
| it acquires Office. Virginia will hardly have
time to attend to foreign abolitonists, when two
of her leading men are tainted with that hereSy,
and one of them the democratic candidate for
governor.
The great question, on which the campaign
seems to hinge, is, which candidate can pros
trate himself most submissivey before the
ebony Dragon of slavery. The discussisn in
the papers is worthy the great principles involv-
! ed They are filled with personal squabbleS,
which show that high toned Virginia politicians
can descend to as small things even the mud
sils" of society at the North. The congressOn-
al nominations are going on, and although the
contest is almost entirely in the democratic par
ty, the numerous charges of fraud and trickery
| in the management of nominations show that
democracy is the same everywhere.
| An EDIToR ~ A FIGuT.-T. j. Dryer. Esq,
editor of the Oregonian, has been unfortunate in
a fight lie was, in fact, terribly beaten by
party of ruffians, the principal of whom was one
Lasater. We quote portion of Dryers de-
scription Of the fight:
We both fell upon some opened shoe boxes,
Lasater on top, still grasping OR throat. After
fat- t,InuyC ha fltnunh Of hts riUht
hand into left eye, and forced it almost
! tircly from its socket. At this time, by des-
perute and superhuman effort, we released his
grasp from our throat and his thumb from the
the eye, and fell upon the floor. Lasater then
seized us by the hair and attempted to gOugc
our other eye out, which we prevented by turn
ing our face close to the floor and locking our
fingers and pressing our hands to our eyes
Alter several fruitless efforts to insert his thumb
into our right eye, he again commenced pound
ling the back of tho head with his est ' :
The only aid and comfort we had was the
ciferous yells of "Gve him HI" "Dig his
i'd eyes out" $50 in Lasaterl" &C., &c.
After we supposed they might be satisfied
with the beating they had given us, we reques-
ted that he should be taken off, which was
done.
Mr.. Dryer was not so successful as Long John
Wentworth, who happily awarded OFF, blow
by strong man with stout hickory stick,
with head.n Neither was he so adroit as
John Phoenix, who ''inserted our nose" into the
Colonel's mouth, "for the purpose of holding
him down"
gentleman writing from Yallecillo, State
of Nueva Leon, Mexico, some eighty miles
northwest from Camargo, tells of the most re-
markable change of temperature, perhaps, ever
recorded. 1t took place on Thursday night,
January 9Th The day had been opprcssivcly
hot Any time between nine and ten o'clock in
the afternoon, it was only comfortable with
doors and windows open, and people walked
bareheaded in the streets At one o'clock, two
hours after, there was ice. And at day breal;
birds lay around frozen to DEATH in all positions,
and sheep and goats Of tender age, were found
to have persisted by thousands.
Bill TO PREvENT CRUELTY TO ANrMALs. The
following bill to prevent cruelty to animals has
passed the Massachusetts Legislature, and re-
ceived the approval of the Governor:
Every person who shall cruelty beat, main
or torture any animals, shall be punished by