The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-03

/ whipped, !" and the like. These are the
( men who are opposed to reconstruction
I But they can do no harm-they lived
on milk too long.
I The next class of disloyalists are the
ministers of the Gospel. The Baptists,
| Methodists, Presbyterians and other
| Protestant denominations, as we'll as
/ the Roman Catholics, are quiet,
and have been so since the war. But
the Episcopalian Bishops and Ministers
| declined to read the litergy, which was
n tlagrant exhibition of disloyaly, an
insult to the government, and to the
military on duty in this State. Atlenst,
so Gen. Wood thought, and therefore
all the Episcopal Churches in the State
are closed.
F.! Another disloyal gang are the editors
\ OF newspapers. Excepting Mr.. Figures
! paper in Huntsville, there is not Al fair
journal in the State. Really, they are
disloyal. There are loyal pupers all
over Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana,
and there are several in Mississippi
North and South Carolina; but, with
| the exception of the struggling weekly
aforementioned, there is not n loyal
paper in this State. 1 had Il long talk
with Hon. John Forsyth a few dnvs
ago, at Mobile, upon this matter, and
he said 1t was impossible to come right
straight out. A correspondent named
Hale, with the assistance of Gen. Cam
by, after the federal occupation of Mo-
bile, contiscated some type and started
paper, which for the last three months
has not. breathed Union sentiment. 1
met one of the secession editors of this
concern, and asked him whV he didn't
say something favorable to the Govern
ment once in while. Says he: "didM't
| you see our editorial on Johnson this
. morning2" eyes" answered.; "but
| Pm not id idiot. Putting President
johnson i'll one column, and denoun-
cling Mr.. Seward and the other members
of the Cabinet, the Congress of the Uni
| ted States, the military and the Freed
| mems Bureau in the next column had
mighty little weight with me-" He got
mad, and left. The 1IaH and the Id
| UertiSer, of this city, say nothing favor
able Mt all for the Government, and the
same is the case with the Selma pa
pers. But, Notwithstanding all this re-
ticenCe on the part of newspaper editors
and pulpit orators, believe the people
will open their eyes, and give their
heartlest approval of the new order of
things. Ii they only will do this, there
can be no question as to the success of
the Presidents policy of reconstruc-
ton, &c.
THE POOR WHITES.
There is class of beings in all the
Southern States known ns the poor
whites. The little monosyllntdc adiec-
tive does not give the faintest idea of
these things with bodies and souls
How under the heavens they live is
question for the philanthropist, if, in
deed, thnt paragon of beneVolence has
ever visited the regions in which exist
the "hOmes" of the poor whites. In
visit to Spanish Fort few days ago, in
company with a naval officer, we stop
ped at the "shebang'' of one of these
species. Most of these poor whites are
natives. The individual whom we
called upon, however, was Scandina-
Wan, but had lived in the place we
found him thirty years. For n long
time he made his living by manufac-
out years ago, and since then he has
lived upon what he has raised, buying
nothing but sugar and coffee, for which
he traded chickens and eggs. His wife
was of the regular mould-lean and
lOng-with seven little children by her
side and pipe in her mouth. 1 told
her was newspaper correspondent,
and she didn't know what that was. i
endeavOred to explain, and found that
she she did not knOID 1UhOt q nctvSDdDc1'
'CGS; and yet she resides within twenty
miles of Mobile. The husband could
not read or write his name, but could
drink like n fish. Both husband and
wife had on wooden shoes, while the
children exhibited no feet coverings
except what nature had provided for
them.
Throughout the southern portion of
Alabama, upon both sides of the river,
is what is known as the "piney-woodS
country" 1t is one of the most barren
sections have ever seen. Neither corn
nor cotton will grow to any extent
Sweet potatoes are the chief product,
and this vegetable and bacon, with II
little corn bread, form the bill of fare,
morning, noon and night, all the year
round. These people are scattered all
through these "piney-wOods," and live
in log huts, which in IL way protect
them from the tempestuous weather
and violent storms Of wind and rain
Which howl through this barren waste
during certain periods of the year. Oh,
how pity these poor beings, who have
been the recipients of untold woes and
unheard-of suflerings during the long,
| long years of African slavery. But,
thank God, slavery is forever mt an end;
and let us not in our endeaVOrS to ele-
vate the black man, forget these poor
whites, who have suffered more and
enjoyed less, thun their colOred breth-
rem in bondage
The war has played snd havoc with
the poor of Alabama; for on consulting
the Comptroller, find that every poor
house in the State is crammed full,
while tens of thousands are fed in their
own huts. There is no money in the
treasury, and believe it is the inten-
! ton of the Governor to make known
these facts to the people of the North
and Northwest, hoping that they may
| lend II helping hand, and enable these
unfortunate beings to live through the
winter. At present there are S,772 indi-
gent families in the State, or nearly I4O,-
900 paupers. This is n terrible fact.