Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-02-01

country, so long wrapped in the gloom
of dependency in consequence Of the
treason of portion of the States.
The Legislature adjourned over, yes
terday, until Monday, that the members
living on the railroads, and who have
free tickets thereon, may go home, 70
US, this seems like an intolerable bore.
But the misfortune is, majority ofthe
members of both Houses are so situated
that they can reach home in a few hours,
and when to this is added the custom of
the railroads to issue free tickets4to all
such, the fact may as we'll be accepted
as "the law Of the case" that these yaca-
tions will be taken every two weeks
1t is very probable, fJ8gyer, that our
''virtuous Indignation arises from the
fact that we are so situated that We can
not participate in the arrangement. If
we lived on the line of r. R., we are
not sure but We would do as others do
in this behalf and therefore we do not
feel called upon to "east stones" But
it is great bore, nevertheless, to those
of us who cannot get away, to be com
PEELED to spend two or three days in
comparative idleness.
Of course we have no Legislative pro-
ceedings to report to-day, and will make
our letter short, if possible.
There is possibility that we may
have Senator to elect in the place of
Gov. Chase. IF so, our own county is
as likely as any other to furnish the
Senator. Tom Corwin had several
friends, and still has some who will press
his claims But we do not think he
stands any chance of an election. His
"shilly shally" report, as Chairman of
the Committee of Thirty three, has made
his election an absolute impossibility-
How he could make the recommenda-
tions he has made, is quite Incompetent
sible. 1t is ostensibly for the purpose
of compromising the slavery question
to the satisfaction of the South; but in
fact, it does no such thing. The Rep
resentatives Of ten Of the fifteen Slave
States utterly repudiate the propositions!
Why, therefore, try to humbug the
country upon sham pretense Of com
promise? The thing is contemplate in
itself, and is treated with the contempt
it deserves, by the South. The sooner
Northern men learn to respect them
selves, the sooner they will be respected
by others. The present treason has
only been made possible by the pusil-
laninity of Northern mad; aid no won
der they treat with contempt the crea-
lures who have invited such treatment
by their want of nerve.
General Wool has written another
noble and patriotic letter, which we en-
close, and hope you will find room for
in the Telegraph. 1t is the moro valua
BILE, from the fact that General Wool has
been, all his life, Democrat He has
been prominently before that party as
candidate for President But iii this
hour of his country's peril, he has nobly,
and like true soldier, as he is, cut HIM
self wholly loose from the party, and
patriotlcally steps forth to maintain the
Constitution and the integrity of his
country. He is next in command under
Gen. Scott-is scarcely his inferior as a
soldier-and his equal in earnest patri-
otism and devotion to the welfare of his
native land.
The ''WEEKLY OHIO STATE jour
NAL" in its new form, has been laid upon
the desks of the members to-day, al
though detsd on the 18th. 1t is en-
larged and greatly improved, being the
size, and got up in the form, Of the 'New
York Tribune" 1t is an honor to the
party and the State, and we sincerely
trust will receive the patronage which
the enterprise of the publishers, and the
industy and ability Of its editors SO en-
iuently merit. Every Republican who
can afford it, ought to take the 5oarnds
as the GENITAL organ in the State.
All accounts from the South concur
in repr esenting that region to be in a
most sad condition. South Carolina is,
to all intents and purposes, in the hands
of mob Business is prostrated-men
are leaving the State in crowds to escape
the impending horrors, while forced
loans," in the true Mexican style, is the
order of the day. Ex-Gov. Aiken, the
wealthiest man in the State, but sus-
pee led of holding Union sentiments, has
just been compelled to hand over forty
thousand dollars to the Revolutionary
leaders, on the threat of being denounced
as ''traitor" to the State, in case of his
refusal. Many other of the wealthy
citizens are being operated upon in the
same way. The despotism is complete.
And the ''poetic justice of this state of
things is, that the wealthy shareholders,
who inaugurated the treason, are about
to become its first victims. i
The whole white population of the
State is only equal to that of Hamilton
County. Of these, a few are very
wealthy slave holders, owning from five
hundred to two thousand negroes each,
while the great majority are in abject
nnuartu and hnt little above the actual