Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-02-03

time, that no slave was ever born under the
constitution of West Virginia A
Jan, 20, 1852. 1ReIE1AN.
The surrenderof of AInson and SlIdell.-
land and the Anxiety to hear or II.
From the Liverpool Post, Jan ~
REqEPTIoS OF TlE NEws AT IlygRPooL,
There was great excitement, Yesterday
evening, on Change. The City of WASH
tpgton bad arrived OF Queenstown, aud the
hrst Telegram was as follows;
''l3uEEHsTOwNt Wednesday, 2 p. M.
The City OF Washington is off the har-
Dor, with dispatches from New York to the
2sth pit, Messrs. Slidell aud Mason are
to De giEen up, dispatches from Lord Lyons
have arrived
At hrst this news was considered too
good 10 eitrue, and while the majority be.
ileYed in the certainty of peace, very
considerable minority was scePtical. In a
on the pillars. ~
"QUERSsTowu, Wednesday,, 2-4O Il. -N.
The City OF Washington has arrived
The New York papers contain statements
that the report was current in Washing
ton of the Trent difficulty having been
adjusted. No particulars appear in the pa
pers."
Inc sceptcs were still nervous, but ,un-
belief grow weaker, aud for 1. moment dis
appeared, when the Treasurer, Sir. Young
husband, mounted the desk counter, and
said:
''Mr. Stuart of tho New York 4ssociated
Press, has sent the following telegram:
New York, Dec. 2S-Trent affair amica-
oly ;! settled. Mason and Slidell to be given
This announcement was received with
vociferous cheers, intermingIed here ana
there with decided misses Still the intel
ligence was not conclusive; there might
still be failure OF negotiation, but the
doubt momentarily dismissed The fol-
loving telegram seemed to complete the
information af far as was known.
"QuEEHsToWS, Wednesday.
IL IS stated that Messrs. Mason and Sill
dell are to be given up, and will arrive by
the America on Saturday next"
AS Wc write, another and still more def.
mite telegram reaches us from Mr., Renter,
1t is as follows:
"NEw YoRK, Dec. %, Morning.
Alessrs. Mason and Slidell have been set
at liberty by the Federal Governments
AS no rational or disinterested EnrIislt-
man desires Il war with America, the news
must be regarded MS decidedly satisfacto.
~. The funds in London advanced. md
the Liverpool cotton market was nfFected
from another cause. After the close of the
market here an advance of halfpenny was
offered for rmiddling, without, in most i'm
stances, being accepted.
What Mr. Russell had 10 say of the
Surrender.
'sPsT9ial COTEesPoHdenss efths Iqplon Times.
m4sHINGToH, Friday, Dec. %, 1861.
Omt9ing all matters of details till next
post, hasten to announce that the Gov
ernment of the United States has accedcd
to the demand of Great Britain, and La5
consented to surrender Mr.. Mason, AIr.
SltdeIli and their Secretaries. This morn.
ing Mr. Seward sent to Lord LYONS n re-
quest that his Lordship would call ut thesf
State Department, and in the interyicy
which took place, Mr.. Seward handed The
BRUSH Minister nm exceedingly volumin-
Gus note, Which will no doubt see the LIGHT
some day in England, and Informed him at
tue same time that tue captiyes were at his
Lordshlp' s disposal. Let us take this act
as tue expression OF the conviction in the
midst OF the American Government that
they were wrong in retaiuing their prison
ers, and d'that the seizure was an OUTRAGE
nor let us, till we know tho nature Of he
dispatch, attribute any other motives to
them than the desire to do right. me ef.
teGs az tdis country, tc.en Il is knotgn, iril BE-
exceedingly great, for such a dish or hu1,bLc
PIE eGnaof be taken INTO stomachs lofieh Eape
been disoFdersd by cocktail taking triLkouI n
gooddeat Of nausea. Do not imagine that
the realifnteRigence ana worth oftbe peo.
pie will disapprove The act. Tbe men
allude to are the Writer'S in the ttsensation'.
press, ana the ounkum orators, as well as
the most violent Abolttioutsts, who5 by. in
s9ltlng tue menaces and fntemperate
pledges, have bound themselves to oppose
the concession; no matter how lust n lInight
prove to be. Doubtless NIr. Seward In fbe
elaborate dispatch he has written. win seek
to show that Great Britain has laid down
some new principle ip this transaction. and
in swelling periods will endeayor 10 dem
onstrate that, by yielding the prisoners
tue United States has gained some great
point for herself and the world in general.
from Great Britain, which can never again
take political offenders from neutral ships.
Let il be so. The case is memorable
enough aud clear enough to serve as n pre-
cedent. No one can doubt but that the re-
lations of both countries would have been
more satisfactory If the Government at
Washington had restored the prisoners as
soon us 1t heard of the capture, and if all.
su9 ittsattuS HEluug ana speaking to
which we have been treated here, and the
expense, anxiety and sense of indignity. to
which We Yere exposed in Great Britain,
had been phyiated. fear that the wrath
20 come will be greater than anything yet
Pertenced by MS, and that terrible flu
thre is IN store for Great Britain at the i'm
dehnite time when SO many great things
are to come to pass. The. Government
here, which has thus far got over its ex..
ternal dangers, will now have to face a tre-.
mendous ordeal. The sense of Justice or
right OF even necessity cannot prevail over
the cherished love of doing what they like
among the masses. Tho Union can get
more than half a million of men to 6Sbi