Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-12-14

Elippi bs7 She must be astonnded. Like
that region sublime, lying ont ofspaee
and ont Of tine that Poe tells about of
all places abe seems the last to see what
she saw on the morning of the 3rd Of June
i lsst. Nestled in the esutiful valley Of the
Tygart, between the grand old hills, enc
closed like the home of Rassellas. what
bad she 10 Fear2 Alas2 there was a devil
! in Eden. Sam Woods lived there-the
6rst betrnyer of the West in the Richmond
Convention. An other bad man lived
thete-thc Editor ofths JsftrsoNtaa, Both
have reapt such fruit from their labors as
they never expected. The sad part is that
SO many OF their poor victims have bad to
hear With them their inequities. All of
them together have made The name of the
unhappy little village immOrtalin history.
i"9eet me at PhilIippI r.
Does any one suppose that the rural peo-
pie whoI:yed along the base Of Laurel Hill,
of Rich and Cheat Mountains and Of that
range, expected to see what they have seen
and are seeing2 Did so many of them
have any realization what it was to get
their long wanted rights-their additional
Fightsf We fancy they did not. Most of
them would willingly compromise 90 half
the old stock now, to get back where they
started from. John Hughes, one Of the
chief wanters, member of the Richmond.
Convention-got his rights along with his
deserts At Rich Mountain. Poetic justice
was vel meted ont when bullet met him
thai July day.
The poor rusties along the route from
Rich Mountain to Red House and Carriek's
Ford, saw sights they never expected tOsee,
when they saw Garnet retreating aud hotiy
pursued, and at last killed. They never
thought to see secession take that form and
sweep along like the death aeepe IN Lucre-
tia BOrgia before their very eyes Poor.
people, they have wonderfully and expen-
siyely walked up within year.
Bat ne have no time IN this article 10 go
over the whole Western Virginia ground and
recount how it has been visited BY the re-
beIlion. We could not DO it justice in
many such articles. Has not our paper
teemed with it for monthsT commanica-
lions and editorials, all have abounded
with pictures aud descriptions of what Sc
eession has done for us in Western yir-
GINA. Buttbe other day we devoted a
long space to the desolation of the Kama
wha Valley Does any one suppose that
Judge Summers expected to see what he
has seen there. Conld he recall a year,
would he not be different man? We
hope he would. We think he would hard
IL 90 TO Ohio to ask Gen. Mcclellan not 10
send any troops. He would be eager, we
fancy. 70 anticipate the coming Of Wise.
We think The Hqt1ey Star editor would
write differently. We think also that Parks
and all those other hostages that have
been lately here, wOnId use their influence
to keep themselves out Of the scrape they
got into, quite as zealously as they did TO
get out of confinement There would be o
vast improvement in many men and things
in that Valley. That is if they are not
that kind, who, though .'brayed in the
mortar with Pessle.n retain their fool
ishnsss. With year recalled there
would be great, change all through
Western. Virginia There might be 4
few votes cast for secession were the
thing 10 go over again. and were this the
itst instead Of the last month in the year
frhere would be fewer than there was ii
wheeling, We think. Charles ". Russell
Joe Pendleton, and others, who probably
were deep in the plot for a long time pre-
yious, might feel like him who was ridder
with devil, .'to which his soul. was sold, :
THAT .they had to go ION and on and on
Such people would be few. The lessor
has been too terrible. But terrible as i
has been, there is more to come.