Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-09-22
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. sOtfLtS5FS anu TSl0uEsa
der Filters Of the Democratic State .Conrention.
We have published reports by telegraph and
by the mails, ofwhat was said and done during
the disgraeeful scenes that characterized. there.
cent Democratic Shte convention at Syracuse,
N. Y. Tho pot houses aud stcWs of New York
Lefty sent up their bruisers and shoulder hitters
to assist the nominations with their muscle. 1t
seems that even Heenan, the prize fighter, feels
himselfd isgraced by having his name mentioned
in connection with these rowdy proceedings,
and therefore, voluntarily deposeth and sayeth
thus:
City and County Of Ne,0 York, ss:-JohnC @.
/ Hccnan, of the city of New York, being duly
sworn, doth depose and say, that he went to
ISyracuse to attend the late State Convention
4 outnfcnriosity, never having seen orattended
1 a State Convention !; and this dcponcnt further
isays, that before going to Syracuse person
holding an Office in the Street Department, ap-
iproachcd this deponentto go to Syracuse for
the purpose of opposing Mayor Wood and offer
| cd him money to do sO and this deponent fur
/ ther says, that while at Syracuse he was the
guest of Isaiah Rynders, stopping by his invita-.
ton with him, and that said Rynders paid his
bill at the Globe Hotel, in that city, for the
whole time this deponent remained there; and
this deponent further says, that said Rynders
offered him lfty dollars to take part in the re-
ccptlon or admission of persons to the room
lwhere the Committee met, hut that having. funds;
/ of his own, and nUtzwiShing to be conspicuous
or to take any part in any disturbances or
Improper conduct, he declined the offer; and this
deponent further says, that he took no part in
the Disturbances that took place; that he re.
ceivcd ticket OF admission to the Convention,
signed by Peter Cagger and which was sent to
him from room No. "a in the VOORHEES, House,
which room was occupied by said Cagger, and
tue ticket referred TO was not given to him by
Mr. Wood or by any other person by his di-
rection; and this deponent further says that he
has never been q supporter of Fernando Wood,
hut that he was appointed at the instrncc Of
Hon Daniel 3. Sicklcs to an important Office in
the Custom House Immediately under the di-
rection of the present Surveyor 1.-The Port,
which Office he held for three months, and then
resigned; and further, that he has been offered
| place under the present city government within
three weeks, which he also declined and this
deponent further says that he is not politician,
that he is not an adherent of Mozart Hall, that
he is not a bully, that he cannot be hired for
any rlotouS purposes, and that he desires to
earn honestly living and to maintain a good
REPUTATION; and this dcponent further says that,
seeing his name in the newspapers connected
with the disturbances in an improper manner,
he has voluntarily made this statement to shield
hitnSelftrom any unfavOrable imputations agaisnt
his Character JouN G. HEESNX.
Sworn this 10th September, 1859, before me,
JoaNJ. ANGEyrNE, Notary Public.
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BETWEEN the two Ajax Organs here and our
selves, together with about forty or fifty of the
Rcd Wamus Weeklies, Senator Caldwell is be.
coming the most famous individual of the age
Douglas must look to his laurelS because our
'little giant is becoming the 'little giant" par
excellence, of the country. The backwoods
Red Wamus hebdomadals swarm with leaders,
in worn out type, about him. 1t has just got
through their hair that he is ''trator," an
"inccndiary" and "Black Republican" and, for
all we know, "Protean hidalgo" They are
all after him now as loud us they can bawl--
with their dirty shirt collars turned clca. up over
their ears-thcir corduroy breechcs tucked in.
side of their boots, their Red NTatnuses swung
over their arms and their carrotty hair streaming
in The wind To such an extent has one of these
unwashed philosophers bcenwortied up that he
has devoted two whole columns of his blurred
bobtail to the matter, an effort which, we dare
say has loft him no appetite for his fayoritc
"hog aud hom:ny," and, mall probability, made
the ribs of his frall structure 10 stick out as
plain as the scrub hoop poles of his native soil.
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We are very afraid that our ancient cotcm-
poraFy, the Richnond EnQuiier, is, vulgarly
speaking, breeding scsb for its head by the
way it is taking on about Douglas In de-
nouncing Douglas it has just about become the
laudator of Mr.. Seward. and we are very afraid
that we shall be frequently called upon yet to
remind it Of the nice, fine things it has said
about the latter gentleman. The recent course
of the Enquirer goes to prove that the South
ern papers, have had aud have how a secret adj
miration for the craftsmanship of William II.
Seward, and that they regard him as by all
odds, one of the coolest, ablest and most saga.
cious mon of the age. We suspicion that what
they fear most is that under his administration
the government and the country would get on
50 quietly and prosPorously, that their old trade
of severing the Union would disappear. At
any rate, the Enquirer has barred itself against
dissolvng the Union more than couple of
times, anyhow, in case Seward is elected.
The FRSg Pass IN TUE SLAVE SrArEs.-No
phase of the growth of Republicanlsln is more
significant than the establishment ofnewsDapers
advocating free principles in the Slave States