Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-04
Wayne cophty for the Unlon.
WAYNE COUNTY. VA NAV Ok

T" = h9A COuHII1 bAsS MAY 20.
Eds. IntslLigescr: Our election passed off
very quietly last Thursday. Ii was the
most peaceqble pne we have had fol. years.
AT one precinct there was some excitement
IN the morning. on account of the state
ment by one of the Commissioners of Elcc-
tion that the poAsswould not be epened if
the votes for member of Congress were to
be put in. Asthe voters only asked that
the votes should be received and counted.
they were very indignant that the iuspec-
tors should refuse TO open the polls The
votes were received. however, a nd preserv-
ed and counted. +, v. Whaley is elected
to Congress from this District, It there was
no voting for any other candidate IN the
other counties of the District.
We cannot gctihe exact returns from all
the precincts, us the clerk aud commits
sioners are slow to tell the result. From
what we have obtained, it appears that the
minority againstA Ate ordinance of secession
IS about $40 out 6f less than 500 votes; it
may be larger. 1t is certainly ns much as
that. There are eight voting precincts in
the county. AttWo no disunion votes were
cast ut another ], Mt Rnother5 5, at another o.
The strongest accession vote WIS Nt the
Court House, but no precinct gave a ma
jority for the ordnance AT the Ceredo
precinct, the Union men generally voted
against the amendments to the C0nstitu-
ton. at tue othtr precincts it was voted
for generally. The large majority for
Union was rather unexpected, although
some work had been done. There were n
great many unintprmed on the matter in
Issue, whQswere iacljRed in their hearts to
stick by the Stafs and Stripes, but who
have been made to; elieVe that everything
In the South was iypfngi ifor secession, and
.ttiWouldi theEetoF 70 Tor tlietF interest 70
vote Tor the ordin zee. f4]IeHgOt little
light, and voted Bbion, or not at Oll on.tlIs
-oFhiuanre.
We are II. have Il. mass meeting nm Tncs.
day. to nomihate7oe gates to me Convent
tion of the llth of jane, and shall at that
time choose Corresponding Committee,
as requested by the Central Committee.
There is considerable enthusiasm ON the
subject of division of the State. The
honest and conscientious farming Doullla-
tion are, some of them, deferred by the se-
cession threat of Vengeance for acting in
such reasonable scheme.
Cable county, adjoining us, goes ESQ
majority for the Union. The county usual
~ polls eight to nine hundred votes
Gnyandotte, the river town of that county,
has for weeks been a foul nest of hot
headed sccessiOnists, and they have had
things pretty much their own way. The
wisest and most violent ones are Northern
men by birth.
There was a Union convention of the
citizens of Lawrence aud Boyd counties,
kentucky, to-day, fifteen miles up Big
Sandy. A steamboat run up TO take u
crowd. Men, women and children on
both sides Of the river, all tho way up,
cheered heartily for the Union. The meet.
ing was very enthusiastic and harmonious.
One who went that trip would think a
secessionist was never known in that pnrt
ofthe country. The Kentucky citizens arc
loyal and true in this vicinity. Only now
md then a secessionist is found on the
border of Kentucky near this point.
Yours, HAMMrDIL.