Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-06-23
We think that yesterdays issue of the In


telsgsncer can challenge comparison with any
display of journalistic enterprise in the Western
country, or indeed, caeteris Pari6Ws, with any
other part of the country. No paper that has
yet come to our table from this side the noun
tains, contains anything like so full, complete,
and accurate Summary of the foreign news
by the kangaroo and Persia. The Wheeling
Times, here, did not pretend to come within
gun shot of US. The Pittsburgh papers were
not so full-nothing like so full. The Persia
was signalled below Sandy Hook at o'clock in
the night, and ii was nearly or quite midnight
before the first line of her news was in the
hands of our compositors. By three A. M,
however, we had the news, word for word, in
type the type locked up in the form, steam up
and the wheels of our press flying around in
eageruess to give the first impression. A little
after five our edition was in the hands of the
news boys, being scattered in every direction.
While we are on the subject we may mention
that on last Saturday night, few minutes to
ten o'clock, we received the news by the Anglo
Saxon. In less than twenty minutes thereafter
an extra from the Office read in the The.
atre and copies posted in all the public places.
On Sunday morning we issued another extra
giving the details of the news received up to
and after midnight. This We did Eot mention
on Monday morning Tuesday, because
there was nothing particularly super-human in
it, and we do so now moro as BETTING the gen.
eral subject of remark on our paper of late than
as any speciality in the way of feat We
consider that all these little things taken to-
gether will do for beginning. We said the
other morning to our business men and others,
to Just give us u fair chance in the way of ad-
vertising and job work and we really will make
a paper that will be worth talking about-a
paper up to the standard of anything issued in
any city with not more than ten times the pop
ulation of Wheeling We are willing to take
the odds Of ten, as being within the bounds of
our ambition in this matter. This of course
we cannot do without money and great deal
of IL The Exchequer department of first
class morning newspaper draws on funds with
the suction power of Norwegian maelStrom.
In the earnest endeavors which we are making,
we have personal, a city and State pride be-
fore us. Virginia journalism has heretofore
been noted more for its sleepy and unen
terprising devotion to cffete abstractionism,
dished up day after day in the shape of lauda-
tons of the resolutions of % and 90, than from
any attempt to give people the news. And news
is what the people want. 1t used to TO well
enough for the old theologians to withhold from
the people all the details of knowledge, all the
causes and consequences of events, by which
and from which they themselves, the leaders
and teachers, made up their opinions, under the
idea or Pretense that the people could not form
wholesome opinions therefrom. In other words
that darkness was better than light Virginia
journalism has been conducted on a sort of n.y.
pothesis like this old exploded theological relic.
Hence, it is a very common thing to see the
musty old papers east of the Ridge, or the mis-
erable hebdomadal blurs got up down here
among the Red Wamuses, filled with editori-
al three or four columns in length, or with three
or four watery communications Of q column IN
length each, much or all of which is the most
ineffable twaddle ever seen since old Faust cast
type, and which man might read until he was
stone blind, without gaining respectable idea.
We want our glorious West here, to rise up
and shadow forth her strength, her enterprise,
and her industry in her press; to show to the
rest of the country that the paralysis of decay
ed and decaying niggerism, although it may
have somewhat numbed our energies, yet has
latent pith and marrow of our vitality. The
press of this city and this section is, like the
press of all other communities, its spokesman
and representative abroad. Men in other cities
go to its files IN the hotels or in Mercantile Ex-
changes, or Library reading rooms, to consult
its pages as induces of the availability and capa-
Lility of the community which it represents
As the shadow is TO the substance, SO is the
newspaper to the city or town from which it
emunates, in the estimation of all shrewd,
knowing men.
We shy then, again, that it is our pride, both
personal and municipal, TO make the Lntelligen-
car a superior newspaper, both as regards the
quantity and quality of its reading matter. If
our business men will CwithOut sacrificing aught
of their interests), but cooperate with us by
sending in their patronage, where they have
advertising and Job work to be done, we
promise them that nothing shall be wanting on
our part to make paper that will do honor to