Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-02

landlady interfered and the prospective
muss was quieted. Mr.. C. was not further
troubled at Beverly, the drunken roughs
having sobered of aud many of them dis
.persed by mornings The next day he
walked to PhilliPPi The county seat. Of
Barbour county, gasfanee OF some 30
miles, and there, as.at Beverly he found
a crowd Of people half drunk and wild
with excitement over the war news. Here
again he was obliged TO run the gauntlet.
of their interrogstories. He stopped At
one of the hotels and says the proprietor
did all in his power TO protect him from
insult. But the people here, as all along
the route. were suspicious of all strangers,
and they here resorted to very ingenious
stratSgem TO entrap hin. One set of men
would come in and demand of him an ac-g
count OF himself, With all the particulars, and
then go way and leave him. After while au-
other lot would approach him and make
similar requisition. His safety here was
undoubtedly owing to the straightforward
uniformity with which he answered them
all, but more particularly TO his recngni.
ton by a Mr.. Payne the Cashier of the
Bank there, who was acting as chief in
quisitor-he and Sir. Payne having been
raised together in Albemarle COUNTY
When this discovery was made-it having
grown out of series of interrogHtories-
Dir. Payne turned aud said 10 the crowd OF
lockers on, "Boys, this man is NIL right
which was like an open sesame, aud en-a
abled Mr.. C. to remain over night aud cons
TIME bis journey uninterrupted.
PhiiliPpi was the last outpost Of the
barbaFians, and on leaving there. Mr. g..
Was soon on the borders of civilization.
He arrived Pt Grafton in safety, and was
soon at bis journeys end, with vivid
appreciation. though, of what he had
passed through, He says that everywhere
be heard Wheeling spoken Of in terms Of
the most unqualified hatred and contempt
and the feeling universally was, that they
didn't care how soon the Panhandle: dis
solved its connection with the State. but
the adjUining counties of the Northwest
they said shall do nothing of the kind.
Mr.. G. says that 10 Albcmarle and the
surrounding counties the general impress
sion is that there will be no difficulty at
all in capturing Washington. All they
have to do, they think, is to wait for JEFF
Davis and his army, which were expected
Ia about ten days from the time he left
there. He says there is a very strong
Union feeling in that section, but they do
not dare to give it voice-most of them
planters. Many Union men arc being
driven ont. Prof Junkius, of the College
Mt Lexington, Rockbridge Co., having given
expression to Union sentiments, had re.
ceived warning to leave, but had not
done so at the time SIR. o. came through
there, although he had cndeNvored 70
do so, and had got as far as Alexan-
dria, from which place he had been
| compelled TO return with his family to
Lexington. He will probably be impris-
| oned. lie also states that throughout
Albemarle, Rockbridge and the surround
| ing counties there arc terrible npprehen-
sion of q revolt among the slaves. Two
had been arrested and lodged in Lexing-
ton Jail, who were overheard talking about
raising an insurrerlIon ns soon Us the
whites should enlist in the army. 1t was
with great difficulty that mob was pre-
vented from hanging Them when arrested.
Another had been arrested at the Warm
Springs, in Bath county, aud very general
and deep seated apprehension prevailed,
and Mr.. G. is not little uneasy about the
safety OF his own family.
Mr.. Coleman was born and reared in
Albcmarie county, in this State. His pa
rents were slayeholders-his mother, now
widow, yet owning half dozen negroes.
Thnt he should have been subjected to
such annoyauces. and dangers on mere sus-
plcion does not speak very well for the
security Of life aud limb to travellers 10
the interior of the State, though every
where he thinks there is strong Union
sentiment for the present overpowered BIZ
this Southern lawlessness. His statements
though by no means extraordinary. are en-
trely reliable aud may he depended on as
an altogether truthful Indication OF the
state of feeling in the portion of the State
he trllVersed.