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

of the world" But the Governors appeal
was no go. Delay Was just the thing the
1 Convention were after. They didn't care
/ lift took until Tue 18th of March to organize.
So when the redoubtable Governor made a
motion to suspend the rules and take the
i highest candidate on the list, the Conven-
tion administered him Hat rebuke and
overwhelmingly refused to do any such
thing. Before the vote was taken, Mr..
I Thomas Branch, of Petersburg. fat old
man, very jovial and great Union stick
/ Ter, got up and perpetrsted laughable
take OF ON WtSe's eEhoFtation, saying,
''What means this precipitation, Mr. Presi.
6ent3 can't understand 1t, sir. Here
We have been hurrying through our or
/ ganization in pieces of three days, and as
! il we were not 'precipitating things fast
enough suspension of the rules is offered.
Why sir, said no, l don't think it is con-
consistent with the dignity and gravity of
this body to rush things through in this
frantic manner" Everybody lAnglfSd at
this, of course, except tie disunionists.
! l noticed that Montague, who is par excel
lence ''precipitationist' scowled dark as
thunder cloud, and if his face wasn't so
very red would have appeared to even
more advantage.
1 TIM HASG NtA9 AA sun
great hurry, he took up nearly all she
spare time Of the Convention to-day-ls
Spueh us two bours-with his three or four
I Speeches on various subjects-especiHlly,
on has federal relations" He lit into
"Saudy" Stuart, of Staunton, about n
resolution that gentleman bad offered in
the Scuate, rejecting on s'certain rash and
ill-advised persons" who were believed to
be contemplating a raid on Washington
City. He made SANDY" Jus he is calledl
take water fast as to what his intention
was in offering thtsresOlution, and ELECTED
from him the 0Yowal that he never thought
of Wise q y in connection with any raid
on Washington. This did not satisfy
Wise, however, although he said it did,
for he again lit into him abont some re-,
marks that he C"Sandy'') had made to GER
tain gentlemen in the rotunda of the Ex-
change Hotel, about him-prodncing y
letter from Douglas, of the State Senate,
inclosing the testimony of two persons to
whom Stuart had remarked that he had in. y
disputable information that Wise con-
templated, by aud with tho aid of the
"prectpitationists,' the eviction of Letcher
from the Gubern0torial Chair, and the
usurpatiOn of it himself, in order to get
the State out of the Union. This, also,
Stuart denied-that is, that part of it
WhASA AClhIEu W NlSSp CAGGHe thS nc tblNy
have remarked upon it in playful CONVERSE
ton, as one Of the rumors Of the day.
1t WAS tue impression Of everybody that
the persons who had disclosed this con-
versation TO Wise, had acted a very low and
mean part. Don't you think so, yourself?
Notwithstanding, however, this general
conviction, almost every one thought
Stuart should have stood up to Wise bet
ter, and let him know that, after all, that
he (Wise) wasn't n character (dfter all that
lie had doneJ to become so virtuously in
dignant all Mt once about rumOrs that he
intended to foment treason in some way.
Stuart had tempting chance to make
telling point against Wise, but everybody
says he hadn't the pluck TO do it.
Of Wise's speech after he got through
with Stuart, l couldn't begin to write
you. It was rambling disquisition on
hot blood Ia boast of the policy that he
had always observed in his rashness-a
denunciNtion of Black Republicans de-
termination to go and get some sister State
to come and help him to save his ''old
mother" You never heard the like. And
then the theatrical part of it, too. The
clenching of teeth, springing forward,
muttering, soto style and vehement style
at different times, the long bony finger,
the dHrting and shooting first here and
then there, and then yonder and every
where. Allthis has to he seen to be APP
preciated. think that Waitmau T. Will
ley's idea of Wise is about the best
have heard. He cuIls Wise remarkable
man in the genealogical sense of that
word-that is, very suggestive NAM
He says thNthe reminded him always of q
grey hound that in thicket starts up a
rabbit, and shoots of after it at rapid
meteor-like rate, and every minute you
are expecting that lie will pounce down on
it. But just as you are expecting him to
do so, another rabbit starts up, and Oft he
puts after that; and so on, until he starts
up all the rabbits in the thicket, and never
catches one. Thus it is with Wise. He
CLEANS along one while on subject, strik-
ing out in telling style, and just rs you
are looking for him to mako point, he
turns off and shoots away in another di-
rectiOu, on another subject.
you ever read a piece in the Cincin-
natl Inquirer, called '.Virginia's Wonderful
Governor" yon will get at the force Of Mr..
Willey's idea, better than / can give it to
you. If you have not, think yonr friend,
Major Loring, has copy of the article.
He had not long ago. G.
From another Correspondent
RIcHMoSD Va, Feb. Is, 1861.
In the Senate to-day, the House bill