Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-20


themselves to control this section -by bully
ing threats and lying speeches. They
raVed and cursed aud tUamed, aud this
was natural enough, For'iTEhom the gods
intend to destroy they frst make mad.
AS soon as kidwell heard, that the United
States troops had lhnded at Mauninotoh.
he ran TO tue school house, got his neice.
sent her to the buggy waiting in the alley,
ran 10 tue house for a clean shirt, was
afraid 10 pass tue street, took out to tile
stable, Jumped through u hole where
great deal of stuff like bin had passed be-
lore, forgot his trunk which set near his
buggy, and arrived Mt PrunIytoWu in about
q hours afterwards, and said to Union
men that he was taking hs niece to school
at Staunton. Neeson passed the West
Fork bridge guards az asltloctor Ia preot
haste, The saddle bRgs tndet him attest.
ea tne TRUTH OF this, though he had never
carried any before, and made his escape
Raymond took TO the woods With CARPET
SACK, and Is supposed TO be In Richmond.
aans6rough was captain Rt Phillippi,
Old Ned Armstrong went ahead of Por.
terheld as commissRry. snort johnson.
att0s "Ossawotamie," I" left Pruntytown cry.
ing like q baby. He is q baby, aud a boo.
oY, and coward, and 3 traitor. Woods
lett' sl6 rosa; Bradford ditto, and Regar
was Captain of the Barbour forces" aud
went AS ia fast as he could, which is as much
as any body could ask. Branuonr went
over to Lewisburg to call a State RIGHTS
convention. Be9nett has urgent business
IN Richmond. Spaldihg is too drunk to
navigate and Jennings has subscribed
for the Daily Wheeling Fntelli5encer. and
IS supposed to be conYaiuscent. stLonp
may he wave.n Camden has been ho,5.-
ing court in Beverly for about two
months. Distance lends enchautment
to the view, and If he cannot con-
tent himself in Western Virginia, he viii
go to JEFF. Davis Congress. jackson tvas
10 tue Harrison forces, but has not ntrans.
pred" since the fight. Sucker-mouthed
Sam. Somers is non est Drinkard's paphr.
has not appeared for two weeks It IL
currently reported that be is not at home.
Macdonneil. the local, has gone to Mecca
he thinks now there Is such n place as
Calhoun county, and has gone TO hunt it.
wen, Mac. was jolly Irishman, and
mourn his loss; he was witty and smart
ana many joke had he" but, with other.
distinguished gentlemen whom / bnye
named, he hns found that secession won't
pay; that this latitude don't suit them, and
with wonderful ununimity of purpose, and
TO the great qualification of their neigh
bors, they turned their precious faces
southwark in the direction of Dixie's land.
and arc getting their 'rights" as fast as
could be expected. May be some of them
are on their way to the territories with
their negroes, but don't believe that a
fugitive master law conld catch them. If
they will only stay away we will trv to
forget them forever, If oblivion can vine
their memory from our hearts. Ihope the
great sea offorgetfulness may rise up be-
tween US, whose mists and fogs shall be
impeneirabIe 10 all eternity.
Yours, very truly, in the causs of the
Union, the Constitution, and the ehforce-
ment of the laws. FRAXCGs MARION.
JUSE II, 1851.