Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-20

mohd, Neeson, Woods, Johnson.
AansbrouEh, Armstrong, DrImIkaril,
Mac, &C., Containing Some Few
Things which Happened In BAR
bours Taylor and MariOns
Editors IHtsHigeucr, qa
Some OF the papers announce that Hen
ry A. Wise, of "lOusey, Christless, God-for-
saken, gizzard. footp notoriety, is to assume
inc command of the secession forces in.
Northwestern Virginia. At what point
said forces are located it is net stated, nor
have any of the o. S. scouts been able to
ascertain. The news of the proprietor of
"Olney. near Onaucock" (Wise's classical
home in l856)is coming to Western Yir-
giuia is most joyful. Let him come / re-
peat it, sir, let him cOmel When he ar
rives at Phillippt he will not, fear, find
ms PT0Iege, the notorious aud Infamous
Sam. Woods, who lately ."left hi. country
for his countly's good" carrying with him,
or having 1t done, the assets OF the Bank
OF Phlllippi, leaving only the vault behind,
whlch was too heavy to carry, as the hegira
of that place occurred without consuIta-
ton, and omit early in the morning be-
cause, as the Richmond Examiner says, the
chivalry "was completely surprised."-
Where Woods is now is not exactly known,
but 1t is whispered, in circles entitled to
credit, that he eas gone ahead, after the
mnnner of "Bent Wiley, to burn the 6rid1-
es oVer the -ikIegh0ny mountaias, to prevent
the abolition soldiers from crossing over
to Staunton. think the secession rebels
ought to be called the "bridge burnersn
That is the only art of war in which they
seem to excel, if except the shooting of
Union men from trees and houses, and re-
| treatidg in double.quick.p
Sam Woods went to the Richmond Con-
eentiOn "Upion" man, elected over an
avowed secessiouist, although the circular
which he addressed to the people of Bar.
bour was covert disuniOn humbug, masked
In the livery of heaven. He went downto
SodOmi Il think Richmond will soon be
destroyed) and his bnother-ih-law, Jim
Neeson,n nice young man, then in Virgin
ia Senate, told Samuel it would never do
to bea Union man any slonger-that the
hing was played out, and that the State
must be voted out. To these dulcet tones
from Jimmy Samuel lent willing ear, and
he was seduced. Whereupou the said
Neeson prepared a string of States Rights
resolutions, and Sam. was 10 offer them
in the Convention, and make n speech
Accordingly he offered them in the Com
Tention, and being seduced, as above sta
ted it was not unnatural that he should
be deliyered-Of a secession Grafton. The
suGstanCet of his resolutions and speech
was that a State could peaceably secede
the government of the United States could
not use force against it, and that the inde-
peudenCe of those States which had seced-
ed should be acknowledged. At the con-
clusiOn of Samuel's address, old granny
Wise jumped up and called him a ''nice
young man"-said that if his white-basis
plan of 1880 had made such men as Woods
he was completely delighted-cnlled Sam.
one of his men-his protege, and said the
young man WAS q stranger TO him, but he
should he so no longer, and then the old
''gizzard- foot" paraded down the aisle and
caught Sammy by the hand and said alI
manner of prettythings to him, patted him
on the back Didn't punch him in the ribs
like Lincoin), smoothed Sainmy's auburn
locks, and told him to 'stick TO that A
member of the Convention said that the
last he saw of Woods was the heels of his
boots going down Wise's throat. Woods
was never Union man afterwards; he had
cayed iin-gone gunder; he had not the
moral courage to resist the secession now
er about Richmond, led on as it WAS By the
only interest known in that laIitude-ne-
gro-ocracY. Always after that the seces-
sion side of the journal concluded, 'Wise,
Woods, Wysor.n
After having thus betrayed the people of
his county, Woods came home and tried to
persuade them to betray themselves. He
also went Ou a Missionary expedition into
Taylor county, to teach the abolitionists
there what they must do to he saved. L
learn that it was only by the earnest per-
suasion of the more conservative citizens
of that county, that he was not mobbed and
driven from the town. The people ofWest-
eru Virginia despise treAchery. and that is
the reason that they have repudiated Ber.
lin of Upshur, Hall of Richie, Hall of Wet
eel, Raymond of Marion, aud Turner of
jackson. Height of Randolph, and Woods
of Barbour apparently sustained them
selves, their counties giving small maiori-
ties for secession. say apparently, be-
cause do not believe It was fair ex-
pressioH of the people, for 500 disunion
troops were qunrtered in Beverly and Phil
lippi the day OF the election and for a few
days before: They inaugurated a perfect
reign of terror among the Union people.
1t is said and believed that John Brannon,
secession candidate for the State Senate
from that district, was instrumental in hav.
ing those troops quartered in Phillippi on
the dsy of election, and it was believed that
large number of them voted at the Phil
lippi polls for secession, and also for Bran
non, AT that precinct there were 430votes
cast forsecess.on and only 80 against it, n
disparity which never occurred before. He \
was elected by 200 majority they say. But
it is small NATTER it will keep Brannpn
busy to sit in.the Virginia Senate Under the
Relg arrangements, T
The great -haR9meR .nf this county were
Woods and Bradford and Roger, BrNnno6I
and Bennett and Spalding and Jennings,
Somers and Camden and Jackson, Hans-
through and johnson and Armstrong, Kid
we'll and Neesou and Haymond-R lot of