The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-08-19
RATEsO ADVFjRlTiFfTisTNc
YEARLY ADyERTrs1Na
FROM RICHMOND.


The Municipal EIeCtiOn-.JThe CITY. its
Future Prospects -.- The Loyalty of
the Southern PcOpIc---BerIxeIcy and
Jefferson Counties, &c.
Correspondence Of The Wheeling Inteltgcnccr.
BICHMoND, VA, Aug. 10, 1865.
The summary of the past week IS news
VIII reveal but few items, and none of
especial importance. RumorS contin-
ne to he numerous respecting the ulti-
mate decision of the authorities. with
reference to our late municipal election.
but we are still i'll "endless maZes los, y
as to reliable data upon which to base
Il calculation. five may judge by the
course pursued in the case of the cleo
tiOn i'll uenricO county, which occurred
Il few days previous to our CITY cleo
tiOn, the successful candidates will find
but little TO crafty them i'll their sue
cess, but the compliment involved i'll Il
very decided expression of preference
by their fcllOw-citfZen for themselves
over their competitors In tho ucnricO
election, Mr.. Courtney, who was elected
by an immense majority, to the position
OF commemorative Attorney, over JnO.
Is. Young, Esq, who had held the Of
flee for many years, had been n Maior
in the Confederate service, and upon
his application to qualify was pronoun-
ced ineligible by reason of his
connection with the Confederate serY-
ice. a new election has consequently
been ordered, and three candidates pre-
sent themselves this morning, among
them Mr.. Young, the late incumbent,
who Will ,dou ubtlcsS, walk over the course
with but little difficulty. Mr.. Young
announces Gov. Pierpont's opinion fit-
VOrable to his eligibility.
Richmond redivivus, or rejuvenated,
Is evidently i'll Il few months to be the
phrase descriptive of our now disman-
tied, dilupidnted, charred and mould
ering city. The change which has taken
place, within II few weeks past, have
been most marked and encouraging.
Main street, which but II month since
presented II spectacle so utterly desc
late; only topping walls, whose shaKy
aspect alarmed the careful pedestrian
for the safety of his limbs, charred
trunks of trees, and the countless and
indcscribHble debris of an almost unrc-
sisisted, and ull-enVcloping contlagrn-
ton, now cheer the eve with many
an evidence of the awakening en-
ergy by which shall rise a new
creation upon the foundation of former
power and prosperity. Our own capt.
tnliStS, and IL few from the North are
lending their means to the aid of this
most worthy .cOnsuInmatiOn of recon-
Structing our city, and from presentin-
dicationS, Richmond will not be long
deprived of the commercial prosperity
to which she is entitled. Perhaps after
all the snngUine nnticipations of the
kind prophets who have generously
Goretold the immense and rapid growth
OF our city, Will not be mistaken, and
Richmond may, before a decade, far
past rival Baltimore and Philadelphia.
1t may Rmuse you to learn that inst
such prophecies have been recently
made, and by Northern men Ofnomean
reputation for sagacity and astuteness.
Certainly we are entitled to liberal
share of the comforts of prosperity. to
compensate tOrourpr prfvations and losses
during the last four years of Revolution;
four years of worse than negative
existence, during which, under the
rapidly depreciating influences of
Confederate rule, our possessions dwin-
died away to the equivalent of Moth
ing, and the fire designed by the Con-
federRte government to destroy the to-
baccO, finally deprived us of even that
nothing. Our case resembles that of
the unlucky COdreu, of whom the Lat
in poet said:
Nihil habuit, attamen infelix
lllc, nil tOtIm perdidit."
The Commercial Bulletin of this morn
ing has lengthy editorial character
lied by an admirable spirit, based upon
n sneering remark of tho Philadelphia
Ledger, that the extreme eagerness with
which Southern journals protest the
loyalty of the Southern people, indi-
Gates ut least a conviction of the Ileces-
sity of such vindication to satisfy the
doubts of the "loyal North" The ILI-
tctiIt comedies, to some extent, the APP
propriutenesS of the hint, and forcibiy
rebukes what it characteriZes as the
constant and continuous flow of pro-
testauons" oflOyalty made by Northern
newspapers as entirely unnecessary,
t'nnd dunbecoming the dignityOftho who
represent the sentiments of II people
who have given such an unparalleled
and complete ncquiescence to power,
and who have given such unnistake-
able evidence of n purpose of SubmiS-
sion and faithful allegiance TO the ma
tiOnnl authority, as have the Southern
people. Is not a little charity due to
the South2 Does not her recent course
exhibit some title to confidence and
generous forbearNnce, or is the South
helpless and defencclesS in herself, ever
to be Mt the mercy of INSCRIPTIONS ca
ilumniatorS, whose constant occupation
! II is to misrepreSent the motives of her
people, and thereby keep alive the
prejudice engendered during the late
war? a vast deal of mischief has
been done by wantOn and wicked mis-
statements respecting our late munici-
| pal elections, and strange to say, these
false allegations have, for the most
part, originated with galvanized Sc
ceSSlonlStS, VINO up TO the mO-
ment of the evacuation of Richmond,
were especially noted for the bitter
ness with which they assailed the
Union, and are now distinguished by
the zeal and malignity with which a
new prOselyte always seeks to establish
his fidelity to his newly acquired faith.
Accounts from every portion of the
State, and from the entire North, repre-
sent the crops as promising an unusual
yield, and thus we are relieved from all
apprehension of scarcity, which was at
one time just cause for serious alarm.
The question of possession as to
Berkeley and Jefferson Counties, be-