The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-01-13
Rsfsxses from the inss in
that o. artsr.

AmonE the refugees recently arrived here
from Northwestern Virginia, are Mrs. Judge
Thompson, Of Wheeling aud DR. NV White,
OF Welisburg, in Brooke county. Judge
Thompson was at avery late period of the
rupture with the North a strong Union man.
and wrote \ pamphlet against Secession. Ii
WA iGf-rrsd that he would join the Union
party. both by the advocates of the Ordi
nance of Secession and tn e Lincolnites Blu;
the Northern Govern ment Went 900 far for
the Judge. He revolteJ ct their outrages
upon Constitutional law and liberty aaa re.
fused TO submit TO their authority. He re.
fused 70 take the oath OF allegiance to the
FEDERAL Government and was Immediately
dsposed BY Pierpoint, the bogus Governor Q.
western Virginia, and AN election ordered 70
MI the ofliee Of Circuit Judge, in this man.
ner vacated A fifth rate county court law.
yer was elected, and all unfit as he is has en-.
ssrsd upon the discharge of tho duties of the
high ofRce Mrs. Thorn pson is n devoted
Southern lady, and successfully escaping from
the land of tyranny, recently arrived in
safety here, where she has bsen much afiict-
ID BY the death OF gallant son who fell in
the late battle st Allegheny mountain. She
has ye; another son in the service of the
South.
DR.. White, lawyer of distinction, was Il
partner with Mr.. Joseph II. PendIeton, a
native OF Louisa, who some time since re-
moved to the Northwest, and was a success
ful practitioner in the Courts of Wheeling
and adjoining counties at the time OF the ma
uonai di turbancee, when he had to Il " for
eafety from the reign Of terror in that city
10 his native county. DIR. White, although
n c.
county until recently. He was often threat
snsd by the mob. and W as constantly watch
Cd with great vigilance rs dangerous per.
SCI. He contrived, however, to elude the
sharp eyes of spies and police and escaped
He travelled some two thousand miles in his
> cute to this city, being several times in much
peril, the telegraph being used to head him
and spies and detectives being on the look
eat for him at many places.
DR.. White gives a sad account OF the ex.
1enely oppressive tyranny Of the Federal
authority, and tho equally intolerant and
dsnineering rule of the bogus State govern
AeAt Of Pierpoint, Carli.e & Go. II is
kAswn to be comp posed of men who are illit-
crate, corrupt, and profigate. There is not
enc, freN Garlic down, who is to be re-
spssted or trusted. They are without moral
Isstr Amt and are cruel and rslent ess.
Wherever they can detect any synpathises
with the South they combine with the Fed
~ai authority to subject them to every spe-
~es OF annoy Ance and oppression. Oarlile,
VIGOROUSLY dishonest and depraved, has
made free use Of monies confided to him,
ana Borrowed by him, for the public benefit,
aAa has fallen into bad odor with his col
leagues, no doub. because his heavy pecui
ssns left them not enough to appropriate to
osir owA ases. He took the lions share, and /
Ne did this after dragooniug his colleegu 90
N raeeality AID forci ug them to elect him to
Ne ssAats BY threatening them with tho
Aissss vengeance il they dad not.
Or. White asserts 1t as his settled convic-
zen that there II majority Of at least two
thirds In favor of the South in Northwest
~n Virginia He 10 satisfied that when the
Lincoln rule II lifted from that country, il
nshoald not be too long postponed, this wi II
APPEAR. The loyal and the true in the Pan
HANDLE are numerous, and they are pr ay ing \
1r the coming of the Confederate power to
relieve them from the detested thraldom be-
Asath which they are grcanirg. At the re-
SsAt vete on the question OF dividing the
sAts Of Virginia. only ons-sizsh Of the voters
~ Northwestern Virginia cast their votes.
ras Ast was 30 glaring that the leading
esisn paper In Wheeling was constrai 9
Sexprss It's doubts about the propriety Of
s'V'sing Ae STATE In the face of IT, But
Ssspoink initiating his brutal master at
s"sea'nssen, bra ught his brief authority to
sPoa the bit Of conscience that remained
se3i'ors heart and ssifisd it, expression.
paper vas warned and 1t needed the |
wsrning!
.an - but scrap Of the history OF the |
occurrences In Northwestern vir.
sum, now cursed BY = despolism which IL
"Ss ae'en'lY hoped will he andssl II i
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