Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-01

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Condition OF f-National -A1EAirS. - :
- From the s. y. world
Thslcustomary inquiry in Washington,
of GLOW isathe Presidents health9''s has
been changed into show is the Presidents
'baCk-bone?" Brilliancy of intellect is no
longer as.requisite Em6tsf .leadinE politi
clans, and courage, combined with firmuess.
is all thnt the nation thinks necessary ito
prevent civil war. Our Committees in
Congress are devising plans upon which no
majority can agree. The South asks the,
Republicans to abandon all the issues of
the late election, and tue Republicans
will not bate one hair's-breadth from any
one of them. ABneither party will listen
to the other, all lconciliation IS brought to
a dead lock. In the meantime, States
continue to seceda, and armed preparation
is going on. Yet little is done in the way
Of actual tlosttlities, If we except the oc-
cAsional hangingof suspected abolition.
ist, the maltreatihg of n post boy, a cam
non shot mt II defenceless vessel, or the
capture of empty fortresses. Fort Sumter
with its seventy men, continues to defy all
South Carolina, and Florida considers licr.
self weak to attack Ft. Pickens with its
.corpornls guard of dcfendersp so in the sa.
cred name of all that is chiYairous, they
sendto New Orleans for two thousand men.
to help them. but the model Mayor ofthe
Crescent City refuses to dispatch the aux
iliarlSs, unless the gallant Everglade State
will buy them clothes aud arms. This
seems toshave put an end toinll armed in
reference from the sugar regions. a
In the meantime, Kerrigan gets up a
phantom army in New York, which is hail
ed IN the South with as much eagernessi
as Blncher was by Wellington. The gem
eral turns out to be clerk in police
;coprt, and therhief Of his staH, Billy Cook,
iis 2 process server in the Bheriff's office.
Maxi a.Rutnh bar aG ghur lara SenEoll tllem-,
selves into Southern rights. defenders, and
offer their services to some one-prObably,
Ex-Governor Wise or Governor Pickens-
in order to be in Washington the day of.
Lincolu'sin0hgur that they may huye
an opportunity to rob the banks in the
eonlpstonithat they expect will accompany
that event. -
While these things have been going on
here, another farce has been going On in
Washington. The President writes a mes
sage to Congress- hewailing the condition
of the country, and exhorting all o,aires
turn to duty. AT the same time, three
members of his cabinet were in intimate
correspondence with those who were seek
ing the destruction of the goVernment.-
One ofthese cabinet officers bankrupts the
TREASURY md -, o,.aS,
to the the South, to be used against the
government, and runs; and another loses
two or threemillions of government bonds,
and he too rnns-all run to Join the rebels.
The President astonished the nation by
accepting their designations, aud ex.
pressing regret that they could not re-
main in the cabinet longer. While the
grand jury, here, brought the unhappy
kerrigan before them because ho in
dulged in representing his army of pkan-
toms as men in buckrnm, that were willing
to assist the chivalry, President Buchanan
gives an audience to commission Of
traitors, sent.by the rebels of South Caro-
lima to treat for the forts. While lie re-
feetVes them like country cousins, he sends
an unarmed steamer to relieve Fort Sum,
ter a few shots from mud battery COM
pei the vessel to return, aud the men are
Soutl, Caroins not sot;sti.d Iii, "a
missioner bsirs! Ss,,t ,t
az ts. :
ed, sends another delegate, of the classic
name OF Hayne, to bore the President with
fresh proposals. He presents his ultima
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