Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-19

IOu upon any mnlter WNlCn may concern
the welfare of the State or any part of it.
With this view, under your direction, am
here, and to this end to-day nrocurctI.
through the kind offices of Mr.. CD. Hub
bard and others, of the Panhandle .deItga-
tion, an eligible seat commanding a fun
front view of the h'll, its galleries and all
its members.
In company with STr. james s Porter,
OF Hancock. got here at 4 this morning,
having left Wheeling Tuesday night in the
% train. We had very few passengers on
board, and consequently nearly every one
had choice, spacious sieef,iftes berth Ito
himself. thought several times. when
stretched ut full length on ono of these
easy, springing, sleep inducing beds, and
resting MS costly ms if in bed AT my board
ing house, that if it was in order in your
columns, would submit nm amendment 10
tue bCucdictiOn of Sancho PanzA, an the
man who invented sleep. Nndadd. ''bIessed
mot only is hc who invented slecp,n hnt
especially blessed be the man who invent.
cd sleeping cars. Any of your readers.
who have done any considerable amount
oftraveling. fully appreciate tho difference
which 1t makes in n man, not only for
hours, bnt very often for days after trip
IT he sits bolt upright for twenty or twenty
tour hours, or If part of that time he com.
poses his body and his limbs, and becomes
perfectly Oblivious of the fact that he is
moving verthe rails nj the rate of twentv-
five or thirty miles per hour. | wonder.
for my part, how it ever came that beds in
cars were not from the first thought
almost as requisite rs seats. And l won
der still moro how it is thAta road as
much Travelled, and, which in other re-
spectS, has such unFxceptionablc appoint-
ments as the Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac, should never yet put sleep.
ing car on its track. You leave Washing
ton city on the bOnt at six in the evening.
after a long journey from the westward Or
northward, and at half past ten or eleven
You get to Acquia Greek. where you take
the cars, and from that point to Richmond
You are compelled to sit two in seat very
often, in hot cars, with no room to bend
yourself, he you ever so drOwsy, tired and
sore. 1t is murder on the nervous system.
and it takes good deal stronger constitu-
ton than your correspondents to get over
the effects of it in one days time.
II mistake not, it was this day two
years ago that tho Whig Convention, which
nominated Goggin and Wiley, for the
Offices of Governor. and 1lieutenaut-G Gov
ernor OF this good old Commonwealtllt met
IN the African Church in this city. Ifthis
- W ~ 20 NAAAG ~ llkllE concurrence IN nv
eyes, especially as almost the first persoTis
! saw, after breakfast this morning. were
the TWO honorable gentlemen who were its
nominees--bOth of them looking MS trim
and well satisfied 6s If they had been elect
ed, Instead of defeated. Mr.. Wiley. in
common with most of the Northwestern
members, is stopping here at the Spots
wood house. he is messed on the same
door with Mr.. Hubbard, belieYe.-
Mr.. Clemens, and Campbell Tarr of Brooke
are together on another floor, and right
opposite them are Messrs. Dent and Bar
bour, the former OF A6nongalfa and the
latter of Jefferson couuties Mr. Bmrley'
of Marshall is here also, ] believe, and SO
is General Jackson of Wood. And by the
way, speaking of the last named gentle
man. like him very much. was intro
duced to him tonight aud he impressed
me very tayorably. ] like his sharp, de-
ciued, explicit tone, and more than all his
uncompromising devotion to Western in
terests. He is quite an old veteran and
has served with some of slAe bests6ndl most
noted men Of the ST te in her councils in
times past. He is going With all his might
and main for the5Rd vRlorem tax, rs are all
the members from the West of whom I
have yet heard. You will hear moro ON
this head here before many days. Tue
Eastern members are all agog at the uros
pect before them-esPecinlly :he .ecession-
lists, like James P. Holeoht6e, ;R.lI, Non,
tague, Miers. W. Fisher, and. that stripe Of
men. They see pretty plainly now that
there is going to be no secession of this
StRte-that the continent of the eanntry.
is fast revolving against the high-banded
rebellion that has bcen going on, and
more than all they see that tho western
members are fast rss9lsiRg that the State