Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-05
FRos1 IVAsHINaToN.

FRoar WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the 1ntelligencer.l
WASHINGTON, Dec.> I'd, 1850.
Leaving Wheeling, under the new time
table, at 9:45, A NJ, on Friday got in
here at 5 yesterday morning-in about 20
hours. The tr.in is only express from
Piedmont, and thnt accounts for the addi-
.tionol time it takes. At the Relay, or
Washington Junction, fonnd: that the
Railroad company had opened, up their.
Station House, and that passengers were
no olonger, as they used to be, dependent
on the charities or eccentricities of the
keeper of the Relay House. We had to
wait twenty minutes for the train from
Baltimore, but the time was we'll put in,
for we had, as usual, character among US
AN old fellow from Christian couuty,
Ky, who kept drawing very laughable,
but, at tthesamctimc, very sensible and in
telligentpictures ofwhot parts ofthe country.
would be after dissolution of the Union.
BE cracked many jokes at the expense of
New England, Maryland, the District of
Columbia and the rice swamps of South
Carolina. OF course he was strong
Union man. and he said his part of Ken
lucky, almost 20 man. was like him in
that respect. lie thought th0tif there was
TO be a dissolution there ought to be three
new epublics-incIuding Il central one,
mNdcup of the States of Maryland, Vir-
ginia; Kentucky, Tennessee, North Caro-
lima and Missouri. He swore lie would
rather be hitched on to the car of Jugger-
naut than to any Confederavy where either
the States of Massachusetts or South Car
olina were in. They would set up their
work of troubling the Government in a
years time-they couldn't live without it,
for the one studied metaphI sical ethics for
"a living, and the other metaphysical poll.
tics, and both came out the same hole af-
ter they had worked ont a conclusion.
We had plenty of good company on
board the train from Wheeling-gentle-
men from all parts Of the country, who
had agood. deal to say about the signs of
the times and the state of their respective
parts of the Union. Aud can tell YOU.
we had no disunionists, because We had
nearly all old men-men of Substance and
men of unusual intelligence. Men made
up thus do not generally get very crazy
The people who make much of a fuss
about any given thing in this world, gen
8erally have the least TO lose by that given
thing, whatever it may be. That l have
always remarked, haven't you? Take
your Gown town, for instance Who are
the kind that make the fuss about niggcrs I?
Not your men who have iirSt-class credit
in the banks. and the Dry Goods Stores,
but fellows like that chap ut New Orleans
who swore TINT if Steamboats, were selling
of fro hs
plank. They are the fellows who talk
braggadocta politics everywhere, aud are
always in u crisis about their honor and
their interests. To be sure. this general.
fact is considerably altered now in the
South, but it is only because the pcnniIess
politicians aud political hacks, hangers on,
uP-start and brokeH-down lawyers, and a
horde of night-prowling, drinking and
gambling specimens of the shabby gcn-
tcel, have ding-donged tue Southern mind
so long, and, as Yancey said, ssfired the
Southern heart by their constant and
SUBSCRIPTIONS misrepresentation, that vast
numhers of the best class of pcoplegare
now enlisted in the movement And what
the result will be can only be conjecture.
Since have becntIere lave heard a vast
lamountof talk on both sides. 1t is aston
ishing the amount of talk that cangsbe
E5SHS- -MAGt1 ISM tFIeeE
a week older thanI did when left home.
There is nothing but talk going on here,
all the time and on every, occasion,
about Union or Secession. Among the out
going clerks of the Departments there
| is terrible splurge being cnt. They
are reckless now, and are in consequence
very devoted TO principle They wouldn't
hold Office under Abe Lincoln No, in
deed Snotthey. Isheard aparty of them
hot Mt 1t last night-some GeOrginns BE-
longing to Secretary Gobb's Treasury De-
ipartment. One had been turned out 6y
AIr. Cobb, and!l had secured nm appointment
under the present organization of the
House of Representatives. He was turned
out for, us he said, expressing opinions
complimentary to Lincoln The rest
were badgering him, ,lnd he said to one of
them after long round OF. sparring, 'sJim,
you5ha been trying to hurt my feelings
allevening, but you know just as well as 1
do, that you would hold your present
l5rlace for ten years under Lincoln, If you
l.could getit. And so would yon al. -
This brought on hot series of retorts
'curtm and retorts sssevere,n (ns Sampson
would say,) but not the islie direct, and
consequently there was no fight, rs was
several times supposed there would be.
Concerning the condition of .sthing gen
orally in general can tell you little
or nothing. Everything is in state of
mixed up uncertainty, aud awaiting the
lsdoings of Congress and the actions of
some of the Southern States. I3see Mr..
Miles, of the South Carolina delegation.
here to-day, and he, with the balance of
she delegation, will take Ills seat to-
morrow, but will only stay long enough to
draw their mileage and pay, a nd Scertdinly
return to South Carolina after the 18th
ltinst. lis supposed that the d Delegations
from the Cotton States will follow their
llead, and repeat tho line of march COM