Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-11

4AeAeASA UuE " est
last week. We met with a great many
people in passing through the States
of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois aud Missouri, and
we heard specimens OF almost all sorts
Bell men, Douglas men, Breckenridge men
and Lincoln mea-express themselves on
the troubles aud topics OF the day. Near.
y every two men who took seat together
in the cars fell at once to talking about the
latest phase of secession-the Peace Confer
ence At WNshingtou-the critical position
of Fort sumter-and the probable action
Of the Virginia Convention next (this)
week. Secession had no frieuds-not
one-amonS all the scores and humid
reds we saw and heard. No men with
whom we met were more uneompromis-
Ing in their denuneiations than some men
from Kentucky, out on the hunt of mules
and hoFses. One man from Union county,
IN that State, told US that he didn't know
Of but one secessionist in all his range Of
acquaintance, and that was the Ex-Con-
gresham from his district. He said that
he came from the region where John Bell
(Of Tenn.) owned his noted Kentucky coal
mines, where he had some two hundred
negroes employed, and that the venerable
and distinguished Ex-senator had been up
there but few days before, to quiet
protected stampede among the negroes,
who had got it into their heads that now
Lincoln Was elected. they were free. Our
Kentucky friend said that Mr Bell told
him that secession would be the certain,
inevitable "cruciixiOn,' as Mr.. Clemens had
expressed it and a, it is now extensively
quoted, of slavery in the border States,
and that then they Would have no South
ern Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to give up
their runaways. Among the free State
people we met there was but one opinion
expressed about disuniou, and for that
matter we would never have known that
there had been such men as Bell, Douglas
Breckenridge and Lincoln men hut few
weeks ago. All these were n unit now, so
faras We could judge from what we heard.
Their pride of section had been aroused
South Carolina had insulted the stars and
stripes and rifled the mails. Mississippi
had embargoed their river commerce; Lou
isiana had taken possession of the u s.
Mint and all its monies and was about to
coniscate the cargo ola Cincinnati impor-
ter because his consignee would not pay
duty to Louisiana instead of the United
States. Some of them were more violent
In their expressions of feeling than others,
but all were warm in their scorn for seces-
sion and secoSsiOnists. Many ofthem said
they didn't care straw now II every Sou
Ihern Statement ont-that they believed the
free States would be better OF without
them than with them, and when they do
60, said one very emphatic man from vim
eenues, 1--WE here in Southern Indiana. will
sec them all hanged before we will help
them catch another niger" One man
said that, up until lately, he had never
been Republican, but now he was, and
he SwOrc to us privately, that if ABE
Lincoln" was hiudered or mOlested in his
Inauguration or Administration, at Wash
ingtOu, BY the fire-eatcrs, the Northwest
wopldEO down there en- paGs'e, and vindicate
its rights. We give these two quota
tons from many such EXPIRE. sions, 10 show
our readers what is the temper of the
talk in the West.
In the matter Of business, the West
seems to be doing about all that is worth
talking about. We saw heavy shipments
Of freight passing Eastward out Of Indian
apOlis, over the Bellfontaiue aud other
lines. There were also large lots Of corn
coming down from upper Illinois and the
Northwest, over the Illinois Central and
the Chicago Alton, intended for the
Southern market. We were told that UNI
limited quantities had been shipped, and
yet the supply seemed literally iusxhausti-
BILE. At St. Louis considerable lots of
hogs were arriving from upper and North
Missouri, mostly from along the line of the
North NissOuri' Railroad, aud especially
from the counties Of Audrain and Nom
roc. They were sold readily on delivery
at six and six aud half cents, which
The eonSignees told US, was equal to
seventy -tve cents bnshel for corn
to the farmers. These packers at st. Lou
is and Cincinnati who bought at the low
figures prevailing a few weeks ago, expect
TO realize handsome profits by the rise in
pork, and confidently express the opinion
that it is bound to go up considerably
above present quotations. In all kinds of
grain and provision business, there seem
ed, SO Ear as We were capable of iudgjpg,
remarkable degree Of frmnsss. consider
ing the state Of the times. Everybody
expresses the belief that commerce aad
trade AZ SflIipR down into more reliable
shanuels thAp ever.
AZ SprinEaeld We saw the great lion Of