Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-01-16

tFrom the Wheeling 1ntclligenccr of Tucsday.)
Reasons for DEFEATING the Pcnnsyi-
T0Hto Railroad Bill.
We are endeGvoriug to form Il new State
in Western Virginia. The present Legis-
iature really represents that proposed new
State, although by a sort of fiction of law,
it represents the whole State. For natior-
al purposes, it is the whole State of Vir.
ginia, for State purposes, it is the new
State of West Virginia. It owes its exis.
tence to the fact that the people of North
Western Virginia have long looked upon
themselves as ignored and provincialized
by the Eastern part of the State, and to the
belief Of the people of theWest that in order
to get suitable and wholesome legislation.
they must have smaller and more homoge-
neous territory. Accordingly they have ta-
Ken advantage OF the present times to pre-
paic ste for their long desired new State,
and this legislature is one of the first fruits
OF their determination. Hence so far that
body has been mainly engaged in the con-
sidcrNtion of interests peculiarly affecting
our North Western Virginia people. They
do not extend the wing oe their legislation
over Eastern Virginia or over the Valley.
T1ey realize that such action is not called
for and that it would be fruitlcss so far as
actual results are concerned.
In this view of the case they are engaged
upon work like that of the Pennsylvania
railroad bill ut present before then That
is measure which eminently affects the
peculiar interests of the North West. and
the fate of which must be a matter of crave
moment to the people comprised within the
boundaries of the proposed new State.
1t seems curious enough that ut tho very
threshold of our new regime-at the very
Inauguration, rs it were. of a Western Vir-
glnia policy, bill should be introduced
which can very Justly be considered as
traught with hostility to n large number of
the counties of the new State. 1t would
seem, taking this bill as an omen, that in
abJurlng the unequal legislation of Rich
mond, we have not escaped our complaints.
We Immediately confront another danger.
Our change threatens to be more thing of
name than reality. BY some luckless for
tune Pandora's box is amolg us still.
1t would be strange enough if, before we
have really entered on our career as IL now
State, we should find that there are among
us irreconciiable points of hostility. That
local jealousy, or local prejudice, is so
strong among us, that harmonious legisla-
ton is to become impossible. That bills
are to be rcsurrectcd from the dead calen-
dar ut Richmond, which were fire brands
IN their day, and which, after long contest,
had been settled, and made again bones Of
angry contention. 1t would be strange.
we say. And yet this Pennsylvania Rail.
road BILLS a scheme of this character. Its
discussion at Richmond is familiar TO our
readers, and SO likewise is its settle
ment. All of us here had supposed that
the settlement was fuality. IT was spo
ken of as a fnality. All tho contracting
parties so regarded it. During its settle.
ment, the Pennsylvania road uuder th,
alias of the "WesEern Transportation com.
phny'' SO spoke of it. Dr.. Logan, in hi
speech yesterday, read the letter and dis