Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-07-07
AT WELLSBURG.

One of our reporters was sent up to tb'
ancient town of WelIsburg to see how they
were spending the day there. He found the
patriotic people of that place going it with
all their nights in the way of a celebration.
Tive magnificent flags tloated in the breeze
from two stately polls nearly in the center
of the town, and were visible as far as the
eye could reach up and down the river
lnnumerable smaller flags futtcred to the
breeze from loyal honses. Tie ierry- boat
that plies across the river between La
Grange and Wellsburg carried a very hand
some one of considerable dimensions
There were good many houses, of course,
from which the colors were not thrown out ,
and some ofthem were loyal and some dis
loyal we presume. Wellsburg, like all
Western Virginia communities, has it's full
quota of disIoyalists, but they are especially
quiet up there. A good many of them are
of the complexion of our old friend Joe
Nuvlor, who voted Gov. Peirpoint into dis
repute, the other day, and who never came
near the celebration on the Fourth. These
kind will never do any harm unless the
time between drinks is shortened too much.
When our reporter landed from the
twelve O'Clock train, he found "the day
we celebrate" under full head ut the Court
House, where the Hon. Sherrard Clemens
was making a speech to n good sized but
not large audience, made up of citizens aud
citizen soldiers, the latter of whom had
done the houors of the occasion all the
morning by marching and coupter-march-
ing through the streets to the simple and
stirring music of the fife and drum. Mr..
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speech. He had been introduced by Col.
j. D. Nichols, who had occupied about an
hour. The part we heard of Mr. Clemens
speech was good-very good-both in ar
gument and rhetoric, and was forcibly and
cody delivered. Considerable of it was
of local kind, in the nature of review
of the circumstances in Brooke, Ohio and
other counties of our North West, pre-
ceeding and accompanying the outbreak of
the rebellion. In this review of course the
secession emmissaries-such fellows as
Russell and PendletOn came in for consid-
Grafton, and they received it in style. As
everybody knows the caustic is Mr.. Glenn
ens especial fOrte-more especially when
it is mixed up, as in this case, with the
vim of "a "vigil long" Thepeople enjoyed
With peculiar JUNCTION what was said about
Pendleton, for they knew him up there, and
lar to them. These local allusious were
we'll thrown in by Mr.. Clemens into the
thread of his discourse, and gave piquancy
of point to his we'll collected statements
concerning the general tendencies of seces-
sion. In this mixed manner his speech
was delivered and it enlisted the earnest
attention OF the people clear through to
the end.
Al the close of the speech, about one
O'Clock, the audience generally took up
the line of scatterment for the dinner
ground which was up near the head of
town-in large frame building near the
cotton factory. Therein the dinner in all
abundance and variety was spread on three
long rows of tables. At the upper end
there was n ''hole in the wall" through
which tickets at twenty-five cents piece
were sold, AMI along the south side about
mid way Mt modest door, they were yised
and delivered up aud the holder duly passed
| in. The floor WAS solid tan bark, and
overhead green rows of pines were strung
from one of which hung wreath PEN
dant endorsed t:God and our Native Land" I"
q noble and stirring sentiment and well
chosen for the day. OF course in this place
the ladies held sway, They were swarm
ing like busy bees along the isles when we
went in, each one ito carry ont the meta
pher) having honey and all sweet and sub
stantial things in her hand for some ticket
holder The bill of fare was all that could
be desired and was admirably lyeserved, and
along with all sorts of entertaining cEat.
Several of the ladies that we recognized as
earnest aud iudefntigabIe in the patriotic
work, were Mrs. Col. Crothers, Mrs. Camp
bell Tarr, Mrs. John Jacob, Miss Kuhn, &c.
Unfortunately, and we regret to say it,
our acquaintance with the gentle persua-
sion of the good old burg is not large, and
We never regretted the circumstance more
than on this, occasion, for an equally at
trective collection of Goods best gift to
man." had not met our eyes for many a
day. n As the orator of the day we'll OBJ
-aarznd- tn q cntarie of his. friends in the