Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-10-29


come in slowly, so many of the counties not
being within telGgraphic communication.
We have some scattering reports, however,
this morning from those that are accessible
by the wires. They show just what We exc
pected-yiI: triumphant Union victory
everywhere. West Virginia has never yet
cast anything but loyal vote, aud We had
NO fears that at this late day and at this
late hour in the day, she had any thought
of giving aid and comfort to the long baffa-
ed and beaten enemy. II was only herein
Ohio county that the enemy bad any zeal
hope Of success. And they did entar,Ain
extraFaeGat sxpectdtIons They talked
freely ana boasifalIy Of 800 TO 100 msjoFi-
~. Even yesterday morning the Copper
head organ claimed the ely By 100 and
the county by 500. and this too without
giving single figure of returns, and in
face of the fact that they had been beaten
10 every township in the city and county
save one, and in that one considerably re-
duced. 1t seemed as il the disappointment
was so great to their hearts as to be abso-
luteIy incredible to their minds. Never
were men more entirely taken aback.
The Hght on Thursday on the part of
the enemy had been prepared for with NO
little expense aud pains. For month
past they Fave been holding their meet
logs in the finest hall in the city, and 10
all appearances they were going 1t like
n successful show. But the whole thing
was dslusion. The movement was mush-
room in its character. It reached its
growth all of q sudden. It had just so
much material to go on aud no more, and
that material was simply the old effete
virgtnianism that still fingers in our midst
aud that will not entirely die out as long
as the rebellion Is capable of making an
effort. OF course, like all new cropping
out from an old fungus, It showed here
and there o new stem, bus, essentially and
substantially, the vote on Thursday came
from those who from the day ofthe vote on
tbs. Ordinance down 70 this time have either
been acaSsiy or PAssively in sympathy
with the rebellious South. Until We can
entirely crush out the rebellion they will
spasmodically and galvanically show signs
OF Eight, as they did on Thursday. Bot
they are dead so far as power is con-
cerned. Ohio county and West Virginia
have been delivered from the dominanoy
of the ideas which they hold. That WORK
has been accomplished, and the revolution
will not go backward. .-,-
We do not know how much of strength
the enemy will show ON the 9th of Hovem.
Der. tits hardly likely that they will &c
into the contest with much euthuSiasm.-
They must see that they are hopeIessly in
minority all over the State. The public
eountsnanes is against them. Look at the
vote in Marshall, for instance, and In Toy
lor, reported this morning, The people
are suspicious of them and they give the
administration the benefit Of their. GUS
pieion. Mr.. Benton SAID that the instinct
Of the masses always detects fundamental
errors in party, even though they may
not perfectly comprehend the rationale Of
the errors. The present time is an illus
tration of his meaning. Ever since this
war the West Virginia people have real
lied what Mr.. Douglas meant when he
said that at such time there Gamble but
two parties, viz: patriots an traitors; and
therefore it is, ss Gov. Foreman remarked
last night, that "ths loyal people Of West
Virginia are the most loyal on the CONT
nent" Certainly none are mOres 80. They
Dc not care TO split hairs In seeing how far
Mr.. DSuglas' remark may be subject to ex-
eeptionsi qualifications. They recognize
its general xnth, aud their instincts teach
them that fn the nature Of tbipgs all peo-
Helm such times as these must be divided
on ioto two parties, and only. tuos in theif
secret sympsshIss. Any Intelligent mPp