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Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-05-11

AN APPEAL TO IRIsuMEN.-The Irish Pictorial,
published in New York city, addresses the follow
ing to Irish citizens:
To ARMS! To ARMsl Such should now be
the cry of every loyal citizen, until the blood
shed at Charleston is atoned for 10y the most sig
nal punishment of the traitors who would destroy
the only free Government on earth, aud reduce
our hitherto powerful and prosperous country to
a worse condition than the petty States of Mexico.
The President, in his Inaugural Address, extend
ed the olive branch of peace to the rebellious
citizens of the South, and called upon them ia
return to their allegiance aud their duty. lie
guaranteed to the seeding States n continuance
of their postal facilities, and pointed out TO them
the runous paths they we're pursuing with all the
kindness and affection of parent to his cratic
child. The pacific policy thus inaugurated has
been treated with dersion by the traitors and
looked upon as evidence of the weakness and
cowardice of the National Government
The little garrison defending Fort Sumter,
who by the by are mostly of Irish birth, aud of
that fine old Celtic race which never yet turned
its back upon foe, had but few days supply
of provisions, and when the Government offered
TO withdraw all the troops from that fort leaving
only corporal and two men in charge OF IT, this
was refused by the rebel leaders, who insisted
upon terms which. If agreed to by our Govern
ment, would have made its name synonymous
with everything mean and vile, aud left our
country the scoif of every nationality on earth.
These humiliating conditions the Government
rejected, and announced to the Governor of South
Carolina, their intention Of peaoably supplying
the little garrison with provisions. For this a
civil war has been commenced by the South
which can end only in the overwhelming defeat
of the rebels aud the destruction of the oligar-
chal and despotic Government they have set up.
In the war Of Independence, irsh-born men
played noble part At the battle of New Or
leans, the country was saved by Andrew Jackson,
the son Of an Irish peasant, and In the war now
inaugurated Irshmcn will be found loyal to the
Government and the country which has been an
asylum and u home to the oppressed OF every ma
tion. Let every adopted citizen remember the
oath which he has taken to support the Consttu-
tion, and no people pay greater reverence to the
sanctity Of an oath than those of Irish birth.
There are, unfortunately, in all our large cities,
few designing traitorous demagogucs, who Will
endeavor 10 insiill the poison Of their own minds
into others, but they are few indeed, and every
adopted citizen should shun these traitors or put
u mark of reprohation on them. The Irish peo-
pie on this continent are loyal to the Union, the
Constitution and the Government, aud will sup
port them by every means in their power. Let
the Government proceed with vigor. II we must
have war let it not be a" little war;" let 1t be
overwhelming, SO that il may speedily be ended.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-05-11

Lincoln upon the cheering fact that SO many
Office seekers were leaving. "Oh no." says lin
coin, don't you know that when the flies com-
mence leaving in the fall the few remaining ones
hite like the DEVIL
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-05-11

WELL SAID Sierra Democrat (ant LecOmtOn)
has this pungent paragraph, which is good hard
sense
The Lindleyities say we must "consider we'll
the causes of secession, and offer in good faith
sufficient guarantees against recurrence OF such
causes" The Gotten States, be it remembered,
have never yet named a condition on which they
would return to their allegiance. South Caro-
lima has said she was tired of the Union on any
terms" The only reason she has ever assigned
for seeding was the election Of a Republican
President Before the election it was threatened
and by q leader OF The Breckinrdge party in this
Sale-Dr. Gwin-that the South would, as she
ought to, withdraw from the Union, if a ltepub
can President were elected.
SO, we know Of but one cause for secession
Lincoln's election. We are told by Lindley
Co that we must consider that, and give guarau
tee against a recurrence. Well, how are we Il
give such guarantees Shall We pledge ourselve
to guard the balOt-boxcs with revolyers, to keel
Off Republican voters? In the language Of th
Lndley address, "H is .nadHeSSi .Madacss
.MddHeSs ~"
Elsewhere the Democrat says:
If a Republican administration shall remedy
evils which commonly called Democratic ad
mnistration should have prevented, are we to bC
cajolcd into an alliance with the apologists fol
secession, to oppose patriotic President! Is IT
was il ever the policy Of the Democracy to op
pose a party for names sake? Shall we rally
around the bear, cactus, pelican and palmetto
standard, to that old call Of "deieating th'
Kepubcans?' That was once potent sliib
boleth-but by too much use ia California it ha
been played out.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-05-11
a Lesson in Itself Sublime.

by MRS. SARAH T, BOLTON
Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-05-11

Warranted genuine, as they are received di-
rect from he accredited Agents in San Francisco.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-09
nheEnsInio,,s.

The Home Journal has the following gos
slipping bit of information, addressed to
0Iadics only" and which close-fsted hms-
bands are solemnly warned against perus-
ing:
The form of the autumnal bonnet varies
but little from that worn during the sum-
mer. It is, however, somewhat more Gle
waited over the forehead, and fits closer to
the cheeks. The materials used are most
ly velvets-black and blue being the pre-
Willing colors. a new shade, 6IeU aEuIine,
is the latest novelty, as it is certainly the
most beautiful tint extant Black and
and white lace, white, black and 6leu azW-
line, fancy ostrich and SunLes feathers, fow-
ers and grapes, are much employed in
trimmings. The ribbons are very wide
and rich.
A speciality of the Purisinn. chopau is
that the fronts and sides, instead of being
of the same material as the rest of the hat,
are formed of rich lace. This gives IL pc
culinr light and graceful character to the
bonnet. few of them have full, soft
crowns, but majority keep the usual
form. Every taste and portmonie can be
accommodated in this assortment of French
hats
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-09
WfRfalI,

Wigfall has been made brigadier gen.
eraI; and the Richmond Examiner rejoiccs
over him, as ''a man of energy, daring,
great resources and untiriug activity
lone Of the most useful friends we had in
the Senate" This praise is not undeser-
we'd. Wigfall has all the qualities which
are ascribed to him-but he has, unfortu-
nately, no trace of honesty; and such OF
the Confederates as still own property
should be on their guard against the new
brigadier. Louis I. Wigfall, of Texas is,
perhaps, the worst man the South has
He began life as an assassin; when he was
forced to fly to Texas he set up there law
and collecting agency, and cheated the
merchants who employed him. He embez-
zIed the moneys he collected, till he could
no longer get any ono to trust him-then
began politics, and got himself elected to
the United States Senate, where he was
foremost in the conspiracy against the
Union. Thief, assassin, traitor-he May
nevertheless be good material for Confed-
crate brigadier.-N. 7. Post.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-09

into our own, and instead of being
souandered away on the James River
canal or in building lines of railroad from
Richmond to every point except into West
ern Virginia, we would have the use ofour
taxes for our own benefit. 1t is no fancy
statement to say that. if Western Virginia
for the last twenty years had had the mon
ey which has been taken from her for
Richmond interests, and had it judiciousiy
expended within her own borders SUI
might this day have presented such pop
ulation, and such a system OF Internal ~
provements, and such an advanced devei-
amman, of her own resources, as would
ba,a ,rada rebellion in Eastern Virginia
roverless from the start, and saved to her
self all the devastation and loss of this civil
oar What we want, once our new State
:. admitted into the Union, is an enIighten-
ed system of legislation-One that will en-
counter no warning or Earring interests, as
it did at Richmond-one that will be ho-
mogeneous. With the Convention that is
called to meet on the 26th inst, rests the
of the ground work for such
legislation. They have it in their power
to start us right, by looping off many of
the old dead encumbrances that have sap
ped our body polite. If our fundamental
laws are laid on natural foundations, and
not rested on n merely conjectural and fic-
titious conservatism, we shall be started
in the right direction. On the contrary, if
our organic laws are but so many revamp-
ed extractions from the old Virginia sys-
TEN, we shall have on smaller scale much
Of the old experience in legislation.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-09

"H any one State, or any porto" o. tNe
people of any State, choose TO place f1e"set'e'
IN array against the Government Of the
Union, I am for trying the strength of this
povsrnmsnt, I am for ascertGiHi"g s0hetAer
40. hare Government or nOt-Praetica-
bic, Efficient capable Of maintaining its 0"-
thOriiy and UNFOLDING the PO'eers aud inter
.,t, ohie6 belong to Government, Nor,
sir, am Ito be alarmed or dissuGded from any
such course By limitations of the sPiiliTg Of
blood If blood is to be spill, By '0hO's
fault is it to be spilt9 Upon the suRpo'ition,
I maintain, it ,oiH be the fault Of those aUho
choose to raise the standard Of disu"iOn, and
endeapOr TO PROSTATE the Government. And
SIR, vhsn that as done, so long as it piease'
God to give me a uoice to express my ss"ti-
msnts, or an arm, 'Seak and snfesOtsd as it
may be By aye, that VOice ahd that arm '0iH
be on the side efmy country, for the support
ofMe general authority, and for the mainte-
nance ofAe Po,rers ofthe U"iOn.-[Speech
of Henry Clay, August LIST, 1850.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-09
Letters OF De TocqueviIIe.
HIS OPINION OF ENGLAND.

The Memoirs, Letters aud Remains of
Alexie De Tocquevillc have just been trans
lated from tho French. The work is of
great interest, as is everything which con-
Germs the greatest of modern French wri-
tiers. The letters are of special interest,
as in them are found many statements Of
opinion of great value. OF Gibbon, De
Tocqueville says:
81 am reading to myself, aud therefore
slowly, the Autobiography of Gibbon, in
English, and with the greatest interest;
but venture to do so only for short inter.
walls. Do not yon agree with me that no
thing is more interesting than the memoirs
of celebrated men when they can be trust
ed? One always hopes to find the secret
of the fine machines which have worked
so we'll Often one is deceived. Gibbon
is evidently sincere. 1t shows how much
may he done by n man with an extraordi-
nary memory, who. in the leisure and the
Quiet given by high social position and
an INDEPENDENT fortune, passes forty years
Mt work, reads almost all that has ever
been written on an almost boundless sub
iect, retains it, and afterwards quietly, and
without hurrying himself, brings together
all the results, and finds that, almost with
out having been aware of what he was do
ing, he has produced one of the greatest
works of modern literature. What was
least to be expected is that his man, capa-
BILE of such patient toil-(he gives list
of the readings of n month; in whole
wear so employed he would have done more
than would have been done by whole
convent of Benedictines)-tha this man.
say, labOrous to degree which generally
excludes other great qualities, should,
when he comes to compose, have proved u
concise, nervous and animated writer"
OF Macauley he writes thus to his friend
Gustave Beaumont:
..You should read, too, rs we have done
the third and fourth volumns of Macnulay
1t is more amusing than any novel, and al
most as superficial. When | say superb
cial, mean that it wants the sagacity
which penetrates through the passion of
the time and of the country, down to the
general character of an epoch, and to its
place in human progress. AS to mere facts
| it is far more superficial, the author has
| studied them we'll.
"You must read the book to see how the
substantial honesty, good sense, modera-
ton and virtue of nation, and the insti-
| tutious which these qualities have created
or preserved, can struggle against the vi
ccs of those who manage its affairs. New
er was there set of statesmen more dis
honest than those whom MacHulay here
describes; never was there society more
admirable than that which grew up under
their hands. Among nations, rs among
individuals, there are constitutions proof
not only against disease, but even against
physicians"
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-09
The Market for Light -PrOvisOnS ."
New York.

New \ on
Forwarded to the Wheeling 1ntelltgencerl
White & Douglas Wheekly Circular
quotes as follows the prices current, for
butter, cheese, &C.:
I,,,rrr,.--New York state, Welsh tubs, strictly
sne' iegIsc hir 70 good. 1S9l5c; Hrkins, strictly
6ne, I7@leci half hrtin tubs, strckly hne I7g2Ocs
oomrnon to good, lo@14c per pound
I C8EEsE.-New York State, strictly hue, 612gIc;
common to medium, S96c; Ohio best kinds, Sg51ze'
Eo0s,-New York state and Pennsylvania, fresh,
150l7c; Ohio, fresh l59l6ci Western, fresh, l+l6c
BEIxsEArarrow, fine full sized, $l,9O@21O; COM
mon lots soo@Sl; kidney, Sl,909& medium or 1, ,i
pod, 81 ,s092 pea, fine SMALL $4,000 for Sixty-t"o
DRIED APPLEs, $1,000 per pound.
SEEDs.-CloVer new, 1z-9Hc per Poq 1aeo s6a,1..
HoPs.-CrOp Of 1861, l2920ci crop OF lsoO, eS i4c
crop 1859, 49Sc per pound.
The active demand for butter still con-
tiuues. All fine diaries have been sold on
arrival, and as receipts are not equal to
the demand, lots to come in will meet with
a ready sale We advise that butter be
sent forward. Pennsylvania, Ohio, ana
Western is now bringing higher prices,
and there is little trouble in disposing OF
all Grades ON arrival. Now is the time for
such to come to market, as the stock is
light of all kinds, and quick sales may be
relied on.
Our market for cheese shows very little
change, but during the course of this
month we look for much more activity
The weather is now very favorable for for
warding, and as we have provided ample
facilities for storing, free of charge to our
friends, we advise that cheese be sent for
ward; there is no doubt but our friends
will be benefited by getting it to market
before the cold is severe, and trelghts
White beans have been scarce for few
days, and as there Is some demand for ar
my, an advance has been obtained. We
consider this only temporary. and full re-
ceipts will again reduce prices.
Hops are IN better demand, and an adj
vance has been established on the finer
grades. We look for much moro activity,
and advise that they be sent forward.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-09

A large banking house is to BIO est"b-
Iished at Chicago, by eminent eastern
innnciers, with capital of Sl,OOO,ooo or
1000, 900. 1t will have solid founda-
ton and do legitimate banking business.
The Illinoisinns have been so cruelty
pIucked by bogus bankers that they will
welcome substantial institution of this
kind
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-09

The editor of the Cambridge (o.) Times
has been appointed Quartermaster of the
18th Ohio Regiment The Cadiz Sentinel
says, in regard to his qualifications for the
Office; That he has approved every act of
Governor Dennison since that gentleman
has occupied the position of Governor (;
that he writes tolerably fair hand that
he has vanity enough to think that he
would make splendid Major General i;
and that he you'd make an excellent
"high private, and that this position
would be suitable to his capacity aud tall
entG.n
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-09

THE insurgents protest that they won't
pay their debts to the people'of the United
States, and yet the United States troops
are determined to draw upon them at
sight, says the jOcOsc Yankee Notions-the
side splitter.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-09

Ohio produces enormous crops of grain.
The official statistics of the crops during
the last two years show that only in IL
counties of the State, the increase of
wheat in 1860 over 1859 was 1924, 522
bushels.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-09
Personal Items.

A number of wealthy families of the
United States, who have been residing
abroad for the past few years, have return
ed home to see to their property, which
needs their personal attention in these
times. Other families remaining abroad
are retrcnchng their expenses to an unu-
sual extent. The wife of n prominent Sc
cession general, who is now residing in
Germany, recently received remittance
from her husband, with the information
that it would be impossible to send her
another while the war lasted.
THE Queen DowAger of Prussia, the Sis
ter-in-law of the present king, remained
in retirement at Dresden during the recent
coronation festivities at Konigsburg and
Berlin A due regard to the memory of
her late husband prompted this, but it is
also stated, rs an additional motive, that
the Queen Dowager and the present Queen
Ito use an expression that angry Indies
will understund) edo not take tea togeth-
err"
TWELVE ladies in Europe, and twelve
only, are eligible to the hand of the Prince
of Wales. The requisites tor the honor
are royal birth, Professionalism and youth.
princess OF Denmark is talked of as the
most probable future Queen of England.
A SAXON PRINCEss, who refused the
hand of the First Napoleon, is now living
at Dresden. She is over eighty years old
and has never married. She has two sis
tiers over sixty years ago, who have also
refused offers from Dukes innumer:tble,
aud are still leading lives of nun-like cell
hucv
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-09
DIED..

DIED.
On Thursday, the 9Th, of typhoid fever, JOSEPH
RITZ, in tho 24th year of his age.
The funeral will take place this afternoon (satur-
day. at o'clock The Firemen of the city are re-
quested to meet ut the Rough and Ready Hose Hous"
at o'clock, for the purpose of attending his funeral
in a body.
At Valley Grove, Ohio County Va. on the night of
November 9Th. 1861, Mr.. ABRAHAM BEAGLE, i'll the
list year of his age. His disease was Cancer.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-09

TwESTv-rwo cents bushel have been
paid for carrying corn from Chicago to Buff
falo. A vessel would more than half pay
for herself in one trip at this rate
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-09
xind1Ingortho FIre OF strife.

Among the thousand and one ulmcultleS
which cluster around tue new State, the
question of slavery is the most mischic-
vous. We limited on Thursday morning
that we verify believed the object of dl-
vision mt this time was to make tree
State out of it. The circumscribed boun-
Diary aquited that way, and the frequent re-
marks of the IntekiigemceT on this question
Dlniuly demOnstratc that such is the inten-
lion of the leaders. On Thursday morning
our ncighbOrs put out another feeler on
this point. Now, if this is the aVowed
end and object of this hasty and deter
mined move, it is time the people become
aroused to the importance of the subject.
Whseliny Press o. Thursday.
But one thing seems to be very clearly
demonstrated by the late election, ltor I"
division \ and it is this-that it 1DdS decid-
edly II Republican move, set in motion for
the very purpose of abOIitionizing this
portion OF Western Virginia.-I'reSs, Of
Thursday.
We desire 10 submit the above to our
readers, as fair specimen of both the abili-
ty and tho candor which has characterized
the opposion of the Press to the new State.
1t looks strange to see a person who has
spent the greater portion of his life in the
North arraigning the friends of division
in Virginia for want of soundness on the
niger question. Such men, forsoOth, us
Mr.. Carlile and others, owners of slaves,
leaders in the division question, life long
residents, are to be watched by the people
for fear of unsoundness on the niger
question. And the alarm is given by a
faithful and conservative gentleman from
the North, few years in the STATED
The people are called on TO rouse them
selves to "the Importance of the subject.
For what purpose2 Why to see that the
leaders-that is, the men who got the
question of division through the last Con-
vcntion, and who submitted it to the PEG
pie for their overwhelming adoption-do
not turn on: to be unsound on the niggeE
question.
The gentlemen from the interior, who
own about all the slaves that are owned
in the proposed new State, and who were
active and Jealous in advocating division
in the Convention are to be watched by
1QLl-ulHlSlOulSIS VI Tue t1iluahuIS W Nv v" u
no niggers, for fear the former turn out
unsound on the goose.
If We did not wish to be entirely respect
full towards our contemporary, we should
say that such toadying to a supposed pop
ular prejudice is simply disgusting.
The Wellsburg Herald generally passes
for "Black Republican" newspaper. Its
opposition to division, if less bitter than
that of the Press, has been n great deal
more open and steodfast. By parity oil
reasoning, the friends of division might
say that its opposition arose. from desire
for free State, aud that it thought this
was not the time to get it. There would
be just as much sense and AS much candor
in such talk as in the catering article OF
the Press.
All such appeals to prejudice work back,
wards as we'll as forwards.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-09

If Mcclellan wields the sword as we'll ms
he does the pen, the nation may we'll have
confidence in the new commander of our
forces. Who has forgotten the Napoleonic
style in which he summed up the achieve
ments of his brave army in Western Vir-
GINA? There will be many eloquent de-
scriptions of the career of the veteran
chieftnn who has just retired from the
office which he has so nobly filled. But
we doubt whether anything more truly
eloquent and fitting will be said than the
fervid words of Gen. GcClellan. Such
terseness and beauty OF expression, such
brevity without badness, so vivid " por
traiture in few lines of great and noble
charaSter, and long and cventfuI life, are
seldom found in the works of the most dis
tinguished writers.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-09
A PROCLAMATION.
ny MUM cOUnRNOR

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Sixth Section
Of I'm ordinance entitled IAN ordinance to pro-
vide for the formation OF State out Of n por-
ton of the territory of this State" passed the
twentieth day of August, 1861, by the Convention
then assembled at Wheeling,
], FRANCIS II. PEIRpolNT, Governor of Virginia.
do hereby make known that majority Of the votes
given within the boundaries mentioned in the first
section of said ordinance, the question of :e for
nation of State, proposed by said ordinance
were given in favor of the formation of such new
State. Aud do therefore, hereby call upon the
Delegates, for that purpose elected. to meet in the
United States Court Room in the Custom House, ut
the city of Wheeling, the TWENTV-SIXTH day
Of November, 1861, for the purpose Of organizing
themselves into Convention to frame constitution
be submitted, for ratification rejection, to the
qualified voters within the proposed State, pre-
scribcd by the ordinance aforesaid
-, Given under my hand, and the less Seal
l.. s. Of the Commonwealth, Mt the city of Wheel
to-I ing, this 9th day of November, 1861, and in
the efghty-siXth year of the Commonwealth.
FRANCIS ii. pEIRpOlNT
by the Governor: l.. A. HAuANs,
novT-3td2tw Sec'y of the Commonw