The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-02
YESTERDAY was spent by the House o.

to reach a result in the forenoon ses
sion, the House met again at half pas
two, and the time between that and si1
In the evening was spent in speaking
and ballotfng for the various place
nominated. OF these there were four
teen in the beginning, and more thar
half dozen at the close of the day
work, between which the vote wa
widely scattered, and the House ad
journed at a dead ltck.s
Our columns bear witness that in thu
little we have said on this subject W.
have not been urgefnt in behalf OF tbs
city OF Wheeling. We have believeC
that in a business point OF view the
question is not one OF moment 70 this
city or TO any other place. Wheeling
has clearly more positive and endur'
Jug clemens OF prosperity than the
making her the political centre Of oul
little state could give. At'the same
time we are free to say that the pres.
once OF the Capitol here would lend
attractions, at least during portion o.
the year that would inure to the bene'
nit OF her society and public institutions
rather than of her business interests
AS we have been hitherto impressed
In reading what some OF our cotempo-
raries have had 10 say on this topic, we
were more than ever impressed in lis
tening TO the discussion on it yesterday,
with a feeling that the matter is viewed
by many from a stilted and unreal
standpoint, that does not faithtui-
w exhibit the considerations involved.
The expectations are too high-wrought.
They are not warranted by sound prac-
tical thinking. So far as we have had
anything to say on this subject, 1t has
been our simple wish to strip the ques-
ton OF this fanciful halo with which
many surround it, and we should be
glad II it were in our power now TO en-
able our readers, and especially those
who have the determination OF the
question, to view it through the
uneolored and non--magnifying
glasses through which business
men always look at matters involving
grave results. There seems to be a
feeling on the part OF many who advo-
cato an immediate removal to some in
terror point, remote from rivers and
railroads, that only year or two Will
olapse till that quarter of the State will
be alive, us this is, with cities and rail-
ways and all their conveniences OF &c
and travel. We should
be glad indeed If such state OF
things could reasonably be an
ticipated; but we fear it cannot.
the actual condition
OF the entire country in a financial
poipt of yiew-considering that the
country has lost four years of the labor
of a million of producers, in addition to
the enormous burden OF debt created by
the rebellion-considering that for this
at least We are to have most
onerous taxation to pay that debt and
repnir those losses-and that when the
present inflated condition of currency
and business yields i'll a year or two, as
1t inevitably must toinexorable finan-
cinl laws. there will be a great and ter
rible depression in all the business OF
the country that may last for years, be-
fore the energies OF our people regain
new spring and activity, and that IN
This state of affairs all commercial en-
terprtses must sympathize with the
general disorder and languish, If not
perish-we cannot logically anticipate
that the next few years will mark very
great Developments in the business and
commercial affairs of our young State
presenting such natural obstacles as
she does to those enterprises that make
most for the opening up ola country
The reverse is far more probable. Such
a work in any country is slow under tht
most favorable conditions. Weshall no
be far from ths actunl truth, If we bring
ourselves TO accept the fact that in man!
parts Of tho Sate- and it may beinsom
where It Is proposed TO locate the capt
tal-eyen the next fiv6 years will hard
ly make perceptible changes We mn.
DO unwilling to believe this now. Pos
sIbIv we shall then be moro ready toa
init the unpleasant truth. ,.s4
Are not these things worth consider
ing in connection with this question:
We do not claim for Wheeling tina
she offers the finest accommodations o
greatest advantages requisite for sea
OF government. We know, indeed
that even hero many of theseare want
ing. How much more will they b
found wanting hundred and FIT
miles In the interior, or even IN the ms
pirins rcity of Parkersburg. withou
referring particularly to hotels 70
boarding houses, or banking convent
ences for the purposes OF the treasury
there are a thousand unthought Orcon
veniences, advantages, associations, al
forded hore not thought of now, tina
will be called to mind by being missed
May it not bo really more advantage
GUS TO public interests, and more con
yenIent TO public officers and to tn
public itself, to allow the capital to re
main for tho present where It is3 i
Kentucky they arc seriously contem
plating removal of the capital fror
Frankfort TO Louisville; inPennsylva
mia from Harrisburg to Philadelphia
In New York from evOn the large cit
OF Albany, to the city OF New York
in Maine, from Augusta to Portland.-
Tho reason Is simply that in these day
of railroads, mere distance is nothing
while tho business centres are toun
most convenient and advantageous 70
the conduct of public no less tina
private affairs.
This is hardly time in our affairs
inaugurate any great expenditures tha
may be postponed. There are heav,
expenditures that mast be incurred 70
criminal and humane institutions; an
it is more than pOSsiblethat before lon