Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-01-09


25th and 9th, and the Dispatch of the 25th
Of Dec. They were captured at the stras-
burg post-otficc by Gen. Clugeret's cOm-
maud on the Sd inst.
The leading article in the Enquirer of
OF tue 18Th, is beaded the Virginia Sena.
iorship,' in which it argues that some per-
son Of wbig antecedeuts ought to be cleo
ted to the Confederate Senate, in the place
OF Wm. Ballard Preston, recently deceased,
iuasmuch as Mr.. Hunter, formerly Demo-
crat, is the other Senator The editorial
concludes thus:
Whether the ancient division of East
and West Virginia is to be continued by
selecting the next Senator from Western
Virginia, will be tor the Legislature to de-
termine. For ourselves, we have long de-
sired to see this unnecessary and often
unfortunate barrier removed, aud all Vir-
Eiuia, from the Atlantic to the Ohio, known
only as the Old Dominion.
1t was division of Office that grew up
under the United Ststes, and we hope the
revelation has so intensified the patriotism
OF all Virginia, that hereafter no such
sectional divisions will be known. Those
who urge the claims of Western Virginia,
cover up too often a selfish motive. Yves
tern Virginia has no such interest in con-
fict with Virginia. Let us leave the name
OF Western Virginia to Pierpoint, for the
name is all that be viii ever get.
Among the local items in the Enquirer
we find the following, to which we desire
to call the attention of those babbling dis
loyaiists in our midst who are forever harp
ing On the ''arbiIrary arrests" of the gov
ernment:
TAKEN THE OArH.-F De Smith, who
Was arrested some months ago, aud con-
fined 10 Castle Thunder, as a Unicnist was
released on yesterday by order of the Sec
Rotary of War, he having at length couclu-
ded to take the oath of allegiance to the
Confederate States.
The only offence of F. De Smith it seems
was simply that he was "Uuionist.r That
is all that Is alleged, aud as if that was an
all.suficient one in point of Nervousness the
Enquirer merely mentions the fact that
for some months he had been con-
fine rs a "Unionist," and was at last
released after being competed to take
an oath to support the rebellion. Sup
pose that any man in this city, after whose
name "secesiouisLn could be written,
just as "Uniouist'' was written after the
name of F. De Smith, should he taken up
aud put in confinement until he took the
oath to the government, what howl we
should hear. Aud yet would it not sound
infinitely better and more reasonable aud
more right every way to a true American
ear, to read that "Mr. A B., who was
arrested some months ago, and confined in
the Atheneum, as n secessioniRt, was re-
leased by order of the Secretary of War,
he having at length concluded to take the
oath of allegiance to the United StateS"-
SecessionisIs in our midst think it is a ter
rible thing to be compelled to swear allegi-
ance to the established government of
their fathers-to the government under
which they were boru-yet it is nothing to
them that all through the southern land
hundreds of true men are rottiHg in filthy
prisons, simply because they will not join
in the conspiracy to destroy the government
under which they and their fathers were
born aud reared. We do not read in any of
the Southern papers, any rebukes for these
IMPROVEMENTS. Nopaper there dares open
its mouth to say even cold word of sympa.
thy for such men as Bolts and his heroic fell
low sufferers. Yet here on this side of the
line we have papers and people who will
humiliate themselves even iu the eyes of
the Southern conspirators, by liouiziug such
men as DR.. Olds, of Ohio, Marshal'K of
Baltimore, Judge Thompson of Wheeling,
and many others who could be named
Each of these men could not live an hour
10 the South out of Jail, if they had ever
dared to say one 1.-THE against the conspir-
acy that they hive said against the Union.
Aud yet see what howl these men and
their traitorous sympalhizers raise over
their pretended injuries. Every traitor of
them richly deserved all and much more
than he ever got. Not man of intet-
ligence among US, loyal or disloyal, but
what is forced to acknowledge this to him
self And the reason why our government
has not thus far COPIED successfully with
the rebellion is because it has permitted
such men as we have named to embarrass
and distract its strength of purpose. The
rebels have cIiuched Union men and re-
morselessly put them under, never allowing
them on any pretext, to run at large
as our government has so weakly and
discOuragingly done in SO many instances.
No man dare say in Richmond that he is
a!Uuion man. Yet men dare say they are
secessiOnists here in Wheeling. No IN n in
Richmond would ever dare to demand that
the Confederate flags should be taken down
from any public hall in order to make any
public demonstration less offensive or more
popular to any pOrtiOnoE the citizens. Yet
that thing has been done here. On the
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