Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-30
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Correspondents of the IntelHgSneer.1
The Senator from Parkers6urg. Gen. Tai
igferO and Bonqparts. The pay that the
Wheeling Soldiers will get. Boas' Let
ter, Sc.
Eds. Lntelligencer:-On Monday morning,
Mr.. Neal, Senator from Parkersburg, and
who is Democrat, made personal ex-
PLANTATION to the Senate, stating that he was
casually absent from his seat on Saturday,
at the time of the passage of the Armory
bill, and he desiredt to say, had he been pres
ent, he would have voted against it.
On the same day, the Conference Com
mittee of the two houses, upon the disa-
grecment about the provisions of the hill
for the payment of the expenses arising
out of the Harper's Ferry invasion, made
report accompanied by bill providing
that Board, consisting of the Secretary
of the State, the first Auditor and the
Adjutant General, should audit and pay all
such claims; except that no claim of any
General, Staff, or Field officer, for commu-
tation of pay, should be paid until they
should be first reported to the Legislature.
The term General, Staff or Field officer, is
rank of Captain. 1t is here said that Cen
eral Talaifniro, with only fifteea hundred
men under him, Mt Charleston, had Field
Staff of Sixty-six aids, whilst the highest
number that Napoleon, with an army of
one hundred and fifty thousand, ever had,
was forty-two.
The bill, as agreed upon by the commit
tee, was Immediately passed by both
Houses, and is now law.
am sorry to say, however, that this
Board have already determined that they
will not pay the common soldiers full
months pay. but will only allow them for
the actual time they were in the ficld-nt
the rate of eight dollars per month. This
will give to the gallant volunteers of
Wheeling, who, Mt moments warning,
left their homes for the "hardships of the
tented field" only the small pittancc of
about two dollars and sixty cents each.
The Examiner was out in long leader,
yesterday morning. arraigning your Re-
publican Senator, Mr.. Richardson, Mr.. Por-
ter and others, who voted against the Ar
mory bill. Isupposc they will, however:
be able to survive the attack.
Bolts letter which appeared last week in
answer to call for his opinions upon the
questions of the day, signed by upwards
of thirty members of the Legislature, has
enacted quite an excitement here among
''thc faithful" From the way they vince
under the castigNtion he there gave the
bogus Democracy, his aim was well di-
rcctcd, and every shot told. He accuses
them of blowing up the John Brown raid
to large, exaggerated proportions forpolt-
teal cfTect:-whilSt condemning it, he ex-
honorHtes the Republican party from any
participation in it, or sympathy with it,
and compares the LocofUco excitement
got up on the subject us sa hurricane in a
tea spoon" So strongly are they exercis-
ed about this scathing letter, that they
have made dead set at many of the gem
tlenicn who signed the call, to come out
and repudiate its doctrines. Thus far
they have induced four members of the
House, Messrs. McGue, Thompson, Myers,
and Patterson, and Mr.. Pate of the Senate
to publish their cards in the Whig, stating
that they do not wish to be understood,
as subscribing to all of the doctrines con-
tained in the letter. The card of Mr.. Pate
Senator from the Kanawha district, is
characteristic, so much so, that l give it
to you here verbatim:
10 the Editor of the Richmond IVhig:
Dear SI:-having signed the letter ask
ing for the views of Hon. John Minor
Bolts upon the questions now agitnting
the public mind, have this to say, that |
ing to commit myself to any opinion to be
expressed therein. | never saw the an
swcr until it was published. If any man
besIandered therein, do not endorse it
If reasonable sentiments arc contained
therein, do not endorse them.
Respectfully, WM. D. PATE.
The bill for the subscription on the part
of the Commonwealth, of four million of
dollars to the stock of the Coviugton and
Ohio Railroad Company, has been before
the House of. Delegates for the last five
days, and is still pending undecided. MIR.
Chapman, of Monroe county and Mr..
Smith, of Kanawha county, have made
able speeches in its favor, and Mr.. Thomas
S. Raymond, of Marion county and Sir.
Wilson, of the Isle of Wight, against it,
The latter has not yet tconcludedh his argu-
medt, and retains the floor to continue it
Tomorrow. The speech of Mr.. Raymond
was very strong against any subscription
upon the part of the State to any of these
railroads; showing by figures, if it was
done, it would be necessary to raise the
taxes still higher thar they are Mt present.
He showed that taking into account, the
demands upon the treasury already accruS
ed and becoming due, the present fiscal
year, there will, at the present rates of
taxation, be deficit at the end of the
year of more than four hundred thousand
dollars. If this be so, and his figures
seem to prove 1t, it seems to be very bad
time further ito oppress our already over
taxed people, for building railroads upon
State account Amongthe resolutions in
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