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Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08
FRolI WOOD CouNTY,YA.
Union Men leaving the state-Meu OF.
nerve needed.


[Fronn the PittsbmE Dispatch OF yesterday
For the welfare of Virginia aud the safe.
| ~ Of the Union men there, rs of the whole
/ Union, the General Government cannot too
soon put down the secession scouudrels,
who are bringing that aud other States TO
ruin. We again warn the sound Union
men of Wheeling and elsewhere that they
must be on the alert-armeL and ready
for q secret, inscriptions organization is
rapidly manoeuYering to bring all the Yves.
! tern part of the State under the same die
tatorship as that of the East We call at
/ tention to the following letter from a citi-
zen of Wood county, brought here by the
/ head of one of the numerous white families
| flying from the State of Virginia to tho
North. Its one of many now being re-
ceived here, most of which we consider it
impolitic to publish:
WooD Co., Va.
You will receive this By Captain Hultz.
who returns with il to Allegheny county,
taking his family and fixtures with him.
Tie Captain is the right kind of Union
man. he had company of thirty-five
or forty good men here, we'll drilled, but
did not receive the right kind of encour-
sgement from the bogus Union" men in
this county. The leaders having adopted the
"stand -Still' policy, tue Captain has shaken
the dust from his feet against them, taken
his drums and fifes, and gone where hewill
End those not afraid to hear tYankee
Doodle" The fact is, this "Iet alone" poll
icy is likely to prevent US from doing any
good here. Many leaders have become
shakY, and others are beginning to show
the white feather. Orr people are all, or
nearly So, friendly to the General Govern
mental least in this end of our county
but cannot get see how to strike success
full blow, as they are hedged about by the
villaiuous acts of usurpation sent from the
infamous Jacobin Convention at Rich
mond The Star Chamber of England
never generated more tletestible junto of
usurpers. The great obstacle ia the way
hereis the inactivity Of Union leaders,
They stand more in the way than openly
avowed secessionists. A hundred such
leaders as John S. Carlile would make
Northwestern Virginia free State in sig
months. But the policy adopted-that of
doing nothing-is disorganizing and de-
moralizing our Union forces. Our hest
men are making clean sacrifice of all
they have, and are leaving for Peunsylya-
nin and Ohio. where they can exert them
selves in the defence of their country.
which is as dear to them as anything this
side of Heayenl From ten to twenty fam
lilies are leaving this region every day, and
unless the returning sense of the people
OF Virginia produces reaction SUFFICIENT
to hurl from power the nest of traitors at
Richmond. in less than !. year the noun
tains and valleys of the Western region
will be desOlatiou.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08
fFor The IntolIl,.noor-n

Al the convention to be held in your
place ON tne 18th inst. have petition pre-
PaFsd aud signed 10y all the members,
PRAYING Congress, when it meets In JuIy,
to pass an act nbolishinV the Disfyirt Conf
OF the United States for Western Virgins.
We vii! thus get rid Of the secessionist,
Judge BroekenbFough. Ask Congress To-
pass another net creating judicial district
for the counties in Northwestern VIRGINIA.
Then have appointed determined, fear
less and talented man Judge of the district.
and give Us marshal Of nerve and reso-
lotion, a lion hearted man, who viii q.
ecpte the Judgments and orders of the
Court promptly and yigorousIy, and treason
VIII Immediately cease In our distrirt.-
The above ts1the only sure remedy 10 mt
down trSitoF1 10 our midsr.
uNoSoyo am
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08
state OF ThinRa az Rlehmond,


The Richmond correspondent Of the n.
7. Herald, a whilom secessionist, writes
10 that paper, under date OF May lst, As
follows:
The truth is. that the secession cause
has not In all Virginia less truEty sup.
/ porter than John Letcher; and If he only
had the power of squelching it, he would
do go as readily Us would Abraham Lin
coin. LetcheF is q man Of great foresight
and common sense, and is by no means
enamored Of the peculiar institution. In
fact. he is as much Of an Abolitionist at
heart as Lincoln is; aud IL that sentiment
would justify resolution against the
General Government, it would, By much
stronger reasoning, justify the overthrow
: of the State Government But Letcher
had TO succumb to the secession Rhirl-
wind, inwardly cursing it, as do nine
tenths of the people of this State. Ny
observation here has impressed me with
the conviction that the only real secession
lists in Richmond were the newspaper peo-
pie, the Wise clique OF politicians, the
proprielorS of slave marts. and perhaps n
large proportion of the military, who were
spelling Tor Eight. The sbop.keepers
and industrial classes looked upon The
movement with no favor until the period
when It became unsafe to resist it.
At this moment Richmond aud all the
Northeastern part of Virginin nre commits
ted to civil war. The trouble is that the
Western non-slavehOlding portion of the
State is giving Indications of disposition
TO apply the poisoned chalice of seces-
Siouism TO the lips of its admirers. "If
the State, say the Western men, has a
right to secede from the General Govern
ment. and deems it its interest to do so,
the same right exists in us to secede from
the State, aud higher interest binds US TO
the Union" The logic is irresistible, for
no one will claim that thOt intangible idea
described rs sovereignty is hedged in by
territorial limits. If it exists anywhere,
it exists in men, not in soil and the popu
lation Of town, city or county has the
same inalienable right to proclaim its in
dependence of the State, asthe population
of State has to proclaim its independ-
ence of the Federal Union. This is one
of the difficulties Of Yirginia's position.
The attitude of the North estern portion
of the State paraIyzes tue revolutionists.
1t is easy for any intelligent observer to
see what this correspondent states. viz
that Eastern Virgins, between the for
midable preparations of the Government,
on the one hand, and the loyalty of the
West to that Government, on the other
has been utterly dumbfonnded. The
Alexandria Gazste seems to be wholly
discouraged with the state of things pre-
scented out here. We of Western Virginia,
are yet, if We only realized it, TO be ;he
break water that shall save this country.
Only let US stand firm, be well organized,
and secession will disappear faster than it
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08
lFrom the Pnrker.nure aazetta.l
To the People OF Western vlrglnl.

To the People OF NVeEtern Virginia.
Your Convention has forced upon YOU
an ordinance of secession, and Won will he
called upon, on the 4th Thursday of Nav.
to sustain or reject its action. Are YOU
ready2
Remember, you are now to be drawn
into a civil war with the only Constitu-
tlonal Government on this continent, by the
fanntical usurpNtion at Montgomery.-
Some of your delegates have proye= treach.
crous Those who stood by the Flag of
their country have been threatened with
personal violence. Your Convention have
annexed you to the Government OF JeH
Davis, and appointed your Congressman,
without your consent, They have denied
you traeman's voice. Will you submit :?
They are now concentrating hostile
nrmy against that Government to which
sou and every American citizen owes
his nllegiance-HgHinst that Government
for which your foretathers shed their
blood upon the hattie fields of Bunker
Hill, Concord and Yorktown. They have
ordered your sons and your brothers to
fghtHgainst that Gag which won the laurels
from the mighty British Lion. They are
now aiming to destroy that Government
which haa been prospecting for the last
1 eighty years, and become one of the great
est nations the world has ever Known
The home of hington-yes-lhc very
/ spot where rests the remains of George
| Washington, the father of his country, will
be stained by the blood of his children,
for your State will be made the battle
field for the monarchical Government and
to CRAFTY the military ambition of JefTer.
son DAVIS. They are now marching tho
troops of that tyrNut and the usurper 10 the
Capital of our State. Whers shall this
conflict end2 Ruin and starvation stare
us in the face. What shall become of
those who are toiling tor their daily bread,
for the support of their wives and child
rem? Voters of Western Virginia, when
You go to the polls, remember the words of
Henry Clay.
al owe paramount allegiance to the
whole Unton-'' subordinate one to my own
Il am directly opposed to any pur-
pose of secession or separation"
Here lam within the Union, and where
mean to stand and de-
Dissolution and war are inseparable
and convertible terms. Nota war of two
or three yeRrs, but OF interminable tlura-
tton-an discriminating war" &.#
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08
From Borllley County.

letter received by one of our mauufac-
turing firms from Alartinsburg, Berkeley
county, snys that county will give over
1900 majority against the ordinance of Sc
eessiou. The most rapid change of senti-
ment over to the Union side is daily going
on. The correspondent says that Berkeley
wishes to be represented in the Wheeling
Convention Of the 18th.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08
Hail OF wetzel.

We hear that Leonard s. Hall, the i'm
mortal delegate from wetzel in the Rich
mOnd Convention, has been having rath-
er rough time lately. a letter from Par
kersburg, yesterday, suys that he appeared
in that place few days ago, on his return
home, and that n crowd got after him and
we're about to lay violent hands on him,
when he WAS rescued by General John j.
Jackson-whO got him away to his own
house and sheltered him. The letter stated
also, that Hall after escaping tue crowd
tried In get aboard the Albemarle and pro-
coed on up TO wetzel county. But the OF
Reers of the boat wouldn't take HIM and
he bad to return up the North Western
road aud strike out to his home across tue
country.
We givO these statements just as they
come to us.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08
Western VlrgInia AstIr.

Tie following energetic Protest and Call,
which the citizens of Mason county have
got up, sufficiently explains itself:
The undersigned, citizens Of Mason
county, in the State of Virginia, looking on
the action OF the Convention of Virginia as
hostile to the rights and wishes of the peo-
pie Of this part of the State, and their Or
dinance of Secession, ifratified by the vote
of the State, as destructive OF all their
most valuable rights, aud calculated to
make this beautiful country the graveyard
of the nation, we protest against being
made the field of battle for, and to suffer
all the evils Of war, brought on by disap-
pointed and reckless Ottice-seekers, who
are now disposed to throw from their own
! shoulders TO ours all the destructive priva-
lions aud loss Ut life attended on servilr
and mercennry war, in which they seek 10
make us the brenst-wOrk, against which
aud speech; aud with this view, tor the
better organization, we hereby request r.
I &. N. Lowell. Daniel Polsley, Sau'I Win
! don, w. II. Tomlinson, G.. d. Waggoner,
John Hall, AppollNs Stephenson, George
! Craigc, James Caldwell, David George, and
/ John o. Butler, to represent us in Com
ventiou to be held in Wheeling, on the
I 18th day of May, 1861, with instructions
! if possible, to defeat the adoption of said
! Ordinance by fair vote of the people oil
| Yirginiu, and If they become satisfied thai
that cannot be effected. then to advocate
suggest and adopt such other policy MS
will be best calculated 10 save Western
Virginia, be that the formation of new
State, or HRy thing that will secure ON
rights.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08
Frou ~ V,II.v

Extract iron, letter written by wealthy slave-
holder Of Jefferson county lIarpers Ferry) to a
gentleman la Wheeliug.l
The Union feeling is on the increase
here-so am told. A great many. they
say, In tue ranks at HHrper's Ferry, will
to have but four sscessiOnists in it.
Please write soon und let me know the
real sentiments of Western Virginia as far
US you have AM. knowledge. There are
various reports. should like to know
their true status on secession.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08
REORGANIZATION

MHToE's 0ETIcE, WHEELlNO, May 18th, 1851.
WHEREAS, At a meeting Of tile CITY Council, held
on Friday evening. Sd inst. resolution was iinnnI-
Gnouaiy adopted recommending the Observance Of a
A. j. swEESEr, Mayor OF the city of Wheeling, fully
Impressed With the immnence of the danger which
threatens our beloved country, and trusting IN the
eOminend to the people and te several Pastors and
Of this city TO apart Thursday tic
YIN day Of May for the purpose named, md that
lhey obse II, by enS1ging in public services and
devotional duties aecorlin to their usAges ON such
solemn occasions.
Aud further. Recommend that all persons engaged
IA business OF any Kind whatever in this CITY, do close
their several establishments and alSinin from their
ordinary pursuits that day.
myS A. J.swRENEY, Mayor.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08

wHIIE the Seventh Regiment was in
Philadelphia a 6ne old Quaker lady OBJ
serving that one of the band was in a
state Of great embarrassment for the lack
of afstring with which to secure the mouth
of his bag of provisions, observed quietly
-"Friend, would not give thee an imple-
ment of war, but thee shall la a string
to preserve thy food Then she turned
partly away for an instant aud stopped
down, to tie her shoe, apparently, but when
she rose up she handed to the bIushine
blower of brass neat green band, that a
moment before had been doing duty asa
a-a-well, garter,
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08

THE President received letter recently
from ST. Louis directed 10 "old Abe or
any other man. 0ou one side was the
Confederacy Gag, on the other lhelseal and
Aag Of hesUntted States, FalJis
sPlayed out" Inside aS1ssdoliar
note on the Union BaniS 81 6as6 5aEo.
lima, "to help pay the .expense 81 ft.en-
forcing Fort sumpret. This lSttlr rrSa-
tsd much @ssfinsns p The White H6dss.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08
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Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08

Prom present appearances the Couveu-
tiOn tn this city on next Monday, will he
very large one, and will coutaiu dele
gates from almost every county West of
the Allegbauies.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08
1Iothers, read mn,

Thefollowlngis AN extract rom nletterwritten by
the Pastor Of Baptist Church to tho journal and
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.'MSsee an advertisement In your columns of Mrs.
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word in favor Of patent medicine before In our life
but We feel compelled to say to your readers, that
thisis no htInbug-WEHAyE ERIED IT, AxD ESoWIT 70
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Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08

"Lf Kentucky to-p.oyrorO ,l,,filrls tie banner
Of rssistaHee, L=nsrer 1siH fqAt under that
banner. I oNs paramount allegiance TO
the HOhOLs Unio1-a subordinate one to mn
Oa1H State"-Henry Clay in the United
States Sennte, 1850,
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08
Read the Following, It is True

-1gsr EA41A5tsBUEqs April l6.
4. II. LookN, Esa, psgr sir:
wrote y yo1 sane time Stnss for a Bottle Of
dsli0u, and must ~ that 1t haI hstsd upon me like
. charm. have been ahiietsd for near two years
With ps.PePsiaI t'tothtFds Of the time l ySui.Sd
from one TO thrse tiuass a day. hSd given up the
idea Of gyerE1ttins well, and my fttsual had
Etysnu Up w hopes q my ever getting well again.
Added to thu, suffered With the serofalG Ysry
mach Since last September one slde d my mex
vas one eutlFe sore, Of some seven running
sores. This use q 0oe Bottls has much Inproysd
me Ny Stszaash Z relieved and my neck has In.
PESyed bsgend my most llnEnins Sxpeetations. 4
EN9 oottle9 mort llhali b fSlIoIod 6nftTOly Ton
van pleas sand me two bottles b. tbs Boat.
Ho2ss respectfully, J, ~. HOMER.
I-tSGEtEk Co S1. IA aESrEets Stfesf n hFClisS.
aa4 seld " raost q ts q ths city Ob3
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08
Plaees ofRsnde1ronn.

Leteher has gone through the farce of
appointing places through this section Of
the State for the volunteers (for the South
err Confederacyi to rendezvous at.
We apprehend that there will be ire
mendOus rush of citizen soldtery from the
following counties to the following points:
Al CHARLESTON, the counties of Kama
whai Boone, Wyoming, Raleigh, Fayettc,
Nicholas aud Clay.
AT PARKRRsBuR0. the counties of Wood,
Writ, Eoane, Calhoun, Gilmer, Richie,
PleasanIs aud Doddridge.
AT MouSDsvILtE, the counties Of Tyler,
WetEsl, Marshall, Ohio, Brooke aud Hau-
cock.
At GRAFToN. the counties Of Braxtou,
Lewis, Harrison, Monongalia, Taylor, Bar.
bourp UPshur, Tucker, Marion, Randolph
! Preston.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08

The Richmond Hhig is convinced of the
general unsoundness of Western Virginia
on the Southern COnfederucy question, and
advocates letting her go of into a State
by herself
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08
The Condition OrThInEs in ana about
lIHrper'H Ferry.

AAaEPGE+e
A gentleman who arrived from Hnrper's
Ferry yesterday, furnishes us with some
information concerning the condition OF
affairs in that neighborhood. He repre-
Rents the condition of the citizens of that
town AS being very bad. All were ont of
employment, and some were without mon
ey and provisions were very high. One
man offered TO sell for $3.50 cash, a house
and lot that had cost him 1900, without
finding one to take him up There had
been about 5000 Virginia troops there,
but the number bad been reduced by de-
tachments being sent TO different parts of
the State. On Saturday orders were re-
cetved to have all the government proper
ty vacated, and the Impression was that
achievements wonld soon reach t6ere.-
We have sincs received information veri.
fyinE this statement, achievements from
Kentucky and Tennessee having reached
there on Sunday.
Tho troops had been doing prettymuch as
they pleased, compelling farmers to fur
niSh provisions, and pressing others, with
their teams, into the service, to haul pro-
visions into town, for all Of which they
were being paid in Virginia scrip.
Only about three thousand stand of arms
(aad The greater part of them were old
fliut loeks) fell into the hands of the se-
ceasionts,s, after the evacuation of the ar
mory BY the United States troops.
The gentleman gave it as his opinion
that reaction would take place as soon as
the government took some encouraging
stand-shat the good old Union feeling of
the surrounding counties would break
forth.
a. der CouutIeS.
Hancock county ?, Brooke ls, Ohio 100,
Marshall %, wetsel 10, Tyler 10, Peasants
is, MonongaliA lol.
These are some of the counties that the
Wheeling URion wants TO rush into a
Southern cOnfederacy.
ThiS far Southern country OF ours here
would cut nice figure in JET. Davis
cotton government. Wouldn't it? But
then they must be allowed 'their rights"
The Wheeling UHs0a says they must have
'sheir rights"
-
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08
FRolr HARPRR,s Penny.
Secession Played ont Around There
The People Want 70 be iIl the new
state ofReStern Virginia.

4 stare ofSReBteFn YlrRtnlus
Prom the Satioaal Intelllsuuesrl
| From gentleman Of standing, residing
: in Jefferson county Ne have received the
i; following letter, which, at the request Of
i the writer, we lay before our readers:
I APRIL Goth, 1851.
4NeSsrS. Edit0Ts.-The civil war is doing
! its work here A body OF troops is sta
.tioned here, and they would starve were
/ it not for taking by force everything they
consume and paying for it with Virginia
stock, worth from forty to forty. three cents
on the dollar. Some Of our farmers nre
not planting more corn thRn will suffice
for their own consumption; some are Civ.
! up land they leased to be cultivated in
corn Tor the reason that they do not wish
to make crops to be seized in this way
F., II fifty soldiers could be qnartered upon
these teFms upon every district In the
Commonwealth, she would vote down the
secession ordinance by large majority
Ten days ago did not know TINT n single
Individual In this end of our county would
vote against it beside myself. am now
perfectly satisfied that The people Of the
two districts that vote here will vote
against 1t by decisive majority, and be-
lieve the vote Of our county will be
againstit; and am assured by gentlemen
Of the neighboriuG county of Berkeley that
It will go against secession by. an over
whelm!ng majority. Some of onr people
wish to join the Western Virginia Com
monwealth It the people Of the old Com.
mouwealth sustain thesecessiou ordinance.
This questionshhs inst been started here in
the valley, IND its subsequent discussion
aud decision will depend upon the above
contingency. Business of all kinds is sus-
pended, and, as is usual 10 all such cases,