Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-12-14

The North Carolina legislature has been
trying to elect confederate senator, but
there arc seven candidates. and the friends
of each are obstinate. Judge Read has the
largest number of votes.
The Virgins (rebeD legislature is in ses-
sion for the revision of the militia laws!
Nor long since we published paragraph
from ProTideuce,. Rhode Island, paper,
noticing in that city the effort of the Rev.
F. ]. Gather in behalf of the West Va. Or
phan and Refugee Association-an organi.
cation that has its headquarters in and
around Remington, in Taylor county. Nj.
Gather Was east at the date of the notice
quoted by US, soliciting pecuniary aid for
the Association, and also Informing the
prosperous, secure and bappy people of the
North as to the difference between their
conditioa and thai. of hundreds of his
friendssand acquaintancss in West Va
Situated as Mr.. Gather and his co-lRborers
of the Association are, at the junction Of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with the
North Western Virginia road, and their
homes being as it were the first point to
which refugees from the outpost counties
of W. Va. and those beyond in the old State,
naturally make their way, it is not strange
that an association of the benevolent ma
ture named should have occurred to them,
nor that they should now, in this winter
weather, be putting forth renewed efforts
for its existence and extension. All per-
sons who have had occasion to be much
in tho vicinity OF Grafton know what num-
bers of poor, miserable and forsaken ref
ugees flock in there on their way from the
extreme frontier, where they have been
oVerrun by friend and foe, and deprived of
every available means of livelihood. They
are often taken sick at that point, and still
oftener are moneyless and almost clothe-
less. They have to be taken care of by
somebody. Those to whose houses they
come first can not turn them away with
out relief, and yet the agricultural people
of the country surrounding Grafton are
very poorly able to look after the necessi.
ties of those who come there in large num-
bers from places far away. To do there
fore what they are doing, viz:-tO organ
ize an association for the relief of refugees,
is not only necessity on their part, but
an absolute, imperative charity upon the
citizens of the State everywhere.
Several prominent citizens of the lnteri-
or seem to be devoting themselves to the
work of the association. We notice in
letter before us the names of such men as
VIM. W. Shields, of Bennington, who is
the president of the organization. and A.
names of Megsrs. ]. w. 0delI, of Clarks-
burg; Rev. j. ]. Allen, of Remington; DR..
Thomas Kennedy, of Grafton q. L. Hoff, Of
Phiilippi; Hon. D. D. t. FarnswOrth, OF
Buckhanuon; all of whom are Vice Presi-
dents of the association. We should also
notice that Il. P. Davidson is Secretary; ],
h. Ca Their, Treasurer; Rev. F. ]. Gather,
General Agent Ofthe Association.
Contributions fol. the benefit of the Ref.
ugees' Fund may be sent to any of these
gentlemen, but it is desired that as fal
ar possible all sums be mailed either to d
P. Davidson, at bennington, or to ]. W
u
odell, at Clarksburg. We need not say tt
our own people here, nor yet to the peopl,
of all the nearby counties, that ii. is theil
duty to do something for the Refugee As
ISOLATION. To be sure we, of this city, Sc,
a great many of the class intended to b,
benefited by the Association. and are daily
called upon to minister to their necessi
ties, as we are to all other classes of desti
tute poor. But while the world goes al
we'll with US as it does, and especiall!
while we can contrast our homes yet stand
ing and filed with "enough and to spare,
with the burned aud wasted homestead
of the refugees who have stood between Vi
and the desolating hand of war, we ough
to feel that we are called to go more than
step beyond our own immediate limits will
our charities.
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