The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-06
State ana NeirhborbooI New.

State and SeighbOrhoOd New.
Some Pittsburgh parties have offered
to furnish $50, 900 TO build rolling mill
at Parkersburg, if the people there will
furnish the necessary ground and
raise $50, 900 more, - -,---..-
Speaking of the State laws, the Par
kersburg Daily Times of Tuesday says !:
"Acts of the Legislature of West yir-
ginia, by John Frew, Public Printer.
me advance sheets of this book which
is of great interest to many of our peo-
pie, have been sent TO US by Mr.. Frew.
1t IS not quite complete, but is very
thankfully received, as we desire to
make frequent reference to the late acts,
been much amended. Mr.. Frew de-
serves great credit for the prompt man
ner in which he publishes theslaws."
The Buckhannon (Upshur county,
.AdUocGte commends to general reading
the Caudle Curtain Lectures, which the
INTELLIGEScER has been republishing,
and says: 1--WE venture our married
friends, if they dare, would say these
curtains are not all in your eye.' za
'Brother Wharton, of the Parkers-
burg Journal, (his new paper,l says: 20
1.-The editor of the Wheeling INTEL
LIGENCER takes occasion to show his
disgruntleness at ParkersbuFg because
Hon J.B. Biatr-wil probably be our
next U. 5. Marshal. 1t is the misfor-
tune of Wheeling that she has not the
right men for the Office. They are
wfIlin' little critters, but they cannot
quite reach it."
1t seems to be not only the misfortune
of Wheeling but of every other part of
the State, in the estimation of Parkers-
burg, not to possess the right men for
any office. The Governorship, U. s.
Senatorship, u S. Judgeship, q. S. As
sessorship, do not satisfy her Unsuitable
appetite. 1t is now the U. S. Marshal
ship with the Capital thrown in. If
there was anything else to be had of
course she would be entitled to it, for
is she not the centre of the oil region
andthe only locality on the map of any
Importance? ~ 80
Speaking OF Parkersburg, we learn
from the Journal that her present debt
is $50 900. Great apprehensions are
felt. says that paper, "that the city may
get into debt and be compelled to repu-
diate or compromise as Wheeling did,"
Wheeling, as Brother Wharton well
knows, never repudiated any of her
debts, and if he intended to express the
facts correctly and without prejudice,
he should not have mentioned that
word in connection with compromise. f"
He himself did his fair share towards
getting Wheeling pretty deeply in
volved, a circumstance with which we
do not propose by any means to re-
proach him, for we believe he meant
well for the city, but nevertheless it
Hdoes not become him to emphasize
upon any embarrassments suffered in
consequences. The credit of the city is
good to-day. She has struggled along
sand kept her head clear out of water,
and the fact is rather creditable to her
than otherwise. idF 80
While we are quoting from Brother
Wharton, we may as well take an ex-
tract from his views on the business
situation OF the country, which are as
follows: ~-=sasfJi iHa ral-9zi.
"Ifwe;see return TO gold the gov
ernment must repudiate. We tell our
Congress, and tell them truly, and the
Secretary rof the Treasury, that ifthe
present policy goes on, another election
will place repudiators in the control of
the government, and the holders. of
bonds may then qudke. True the
people may suffer starvation, but the
bondholders VIII not suffer much less.
1--WE have before shown how the
bonds make the rich richer at the ex=
pense of the names; but the continu-
ance of such a course will finally run
all alike in the ground a. ls=I
The Yelisbnrg Herald in answer to
the Cincinnati Commercials structures
upon. one of its late population
articles, refers to the point made in re-
gard to the effect Of such policy upon
the credit of the old and new State as,
follows:
"Ii we recollect rightly and our flies
do not deceive Us, credit with the lend
ers OF money was one OF the main
things not desired for the State of West
Virginia, by the foremost advocates of
her seperate existence, and among them
our neighbor of the INrELLIGESCER,
and ttey Incorporated in our State com
stitution clause prohibiting any such
thing. Therefore to destroy our credit,
however it may be in a moral aspect,
will not be very serious disaster in
material as pect. In regard to the old
State, had her credit been worse twenty
years ago, her cash account would
DrQOaDly D6 D6IISE lO-udys HG1uES4GL
recolIect that at the time division OF the
State was first seriously mooted, repu-
diation Of the joint debt was suggested
by those opposed, as very probable,
If not inevitable consequences. The Sc
quel Will show whether or not tn -
gestion was founded on rst sFinble
probability, and it will ,e ner show,
who is responsible Tor ne disgrace mat
attaches to rePuCisiion."
We are not certain that we under
stand the last sentence of the foregoing,
but presume 1t to mean that those who
favored the formation of a separate
State are those upon whom the chief
responsibility for reputation VIII rest,
if 1t occurs. That is to say, that repu-
diation is a necessary, il not foreseen
consequences ofsuch separation. Itwtn
puzzle the ingenious editor of the Her
aid, we think, to make good such an
inuendos 1--we understand his whole
ground it covers both States, Virginia
and West Virginia, and on the prete1f
of necessity suggests the wiPiDg out Of