The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-12-10


Editors InteIligeneer
GENTLEMEN-Youri issue ofthe - ult.
contains u substantially correct account
of the late shooting affair in this county,
A representation of the then existing
condition of things made at army head
quarters, resulted in the immediate for
warding of a company of the 1lth u. S.
infantry, under command OF Captain
and Brevet Lieut.. Col. j. G. Bates, u, S.
A., to this point. Their arrival at Dub
lin produced CONSERVATION in the minds
of the rebel schemers of this section. 1t
involved necessary change of pro-
gramme; there was dispatching ofcour-
iers and riding in hot haste; violence
was to be avoided, and the conviction
induced that the presence of troops was
unnecessary, with view to securing
their early recall.
On Monday, the 10th ult., the Circuit
Court was opened and the grand Jury
charged, and on Tuesday, after a full
examination of all the witnesses, re-
turned the indictment: The State OF
West Virginia rs. Cyrus Newlin, shoot
ing with intent to kill. Not a true bill,
Major, not Colonel. Newlin is, by birth
and education, a Philadelphia; read
law with the Hon. VIM. NJ. Meredith;
was admitted TO the bar, and took an
active part in the campaign of 1850, act
Ing as corresponding secretary OF the
Republican Invincibles and Young
Mems Republican Clubs, (both of Phil
adelPhia.) At the breaking out of the
war, he assisted in raising the eth Penn
sylvania Cavalry, with which regi-
ment he served until AFTER John
sons surrender, when he resigned,
Appointed in November, 1865, by the
Hon. n. Harrison, Judge OF the Ninth
Judicial Circuit, Prosecuting Attorney
in the counties composing It; he has
NfN1f
most unanimous vote In the co, t,.s
of Monroe and PccahontRs, and Is tax
ing steps to set aside the return OF the
unregistered and improperly registered
votes, by receipt OF which he was de-
feated in Mercer and Greenbrier.
For the last six months he has been
threate ned with every species of insult
and intimidation, with intent to deter
him from the discharge of his duties,
official aud professional. These failing,
assassination was reSorted to. Not two
weeks before the affair with Shirer,
while standing unRrmed and unsus-
pectinS in his own door on a black
night, two shots were fired at him, one
entering the side, and the other post
in range.
a knowledge of these facts is general
here, and among unprejudiCed men
there is n general acquieScence in the
Jury.
The condition of things in this sec
ton has been growing steadily worse,
during the past year; a condition of
things brought about almost exclusive
ly by few men whose lives and prom
erty, alike forfeited by their treason,
were alike spared by the unexampled
and 1t would seem injudicious Kindness
of the Government they had attempted
to destroy. Men of that class whose
insatiRte ambition and lust of power
plunged the country into u civil war,
and who, actuated by the same motives
still, will continue while they live, the
most formidable obstacle to the return
OF peace, prosperity and good will.
! Able, treacherous, and cunning, with
q still powerful though weakened i'm
huence over the masses whom they
mlslead and betrayed, in the policy
adopted by the administration, In the
kindness and cancellation with which
they have been treated, they have seen
only guarantees that there will the
same immunity for the crimes of the
present and future that there has been
for those of the past. The injury done
to the Union cause throughout the
South, the aid and comfort given that
of rebellion by the mistaken kindness
of Mr.. johnson, may be cOnjeetured,
but can never be estimated, The Presi-