The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-28


they rallied under the flag when the
rebels were at Grafton, when num- |
her of the gentleman's constituents |
were making straight coat-tails to that
This was used as defence
of Buckhannon against the insinuations
OF CIarksburg. I do not, nor would |
not, raise my arm moi use my tongue |
to impair the merit of any loyal man,
be he whom he may, or where he Is. as
to this sheet TO which he pays some ar
tention, the very first article pun sue,
to defame Buckhannon emanated i I'll,
their midst, and gentlemen kno" s ~
we'll that during the last year, iSs us aiteh
issue OF that paper DETAINED Buckhan-
non. stating in one instance that 10 get
INTO Bnckhannon they had TO nave tres
tie work ten miles long and hfty feet
high. -
annrop3iation to that road. When they |
66nnd last winter that the bill locating |
The capital at Buckhannon had PASSED |
This House, they got an enemyof Buck |
harmon to Introduce a bill into the |
Senate asking an appropriation of fifty |
thousand dollars to repair that road.
The friends of Buckhannon did not de- |
here say, on the honor OF man, II the
capital is located at Buckhannou that
road will never cost the State cent. 1
know a number of reSpon Sible gen.
tlemen who are willing to take that
road and keep it in repair
for the tolls. want my friends from
Clarksburg to keep cool and keep their
powder dry, and prepare to die as easy
as they can. They shall have genteel
burial according to the army regula-
Lions. And we do not mean at all to
underrats their merits or claims. a
word or two in regard to these visionary
railroads and the matter of accessible
frnF
county, or you from Wheeling, to reach
Buckhannon, the proposed capital,
when you get to Grafton you are with
in Two or three miles miles OF being as
near Buckhannon as you would be at
Clarksburg. But the gentleman says
when you pass up the Valley river
there comes in a wonderful range of
mountains you cannot get over unless
you make a tunnel $50 miles long. The
fact is that there are no mountains on
the way. The proposed Central road
passes up the valley to the mouth of
the BuckhannOn river, and up the
Buck harmon river to the town Of
Buckhannon. There is not a tunnel
on the whole route, and but a very
small cut In regard to the coal ques-
| ton, L was associated with the gentle
man in the same command while he
was at Buck harmon. / had charge of
| the hospital and never made a requiSi-
/
don't recOllect of ever seeing him shiv-
ering over u wood fire in the town OF
BuCkhannon.
Mr.. Golf said if the gentleman
! would tell him any other manner by
which to reach the centre of population
without including north and south,
east and west, without including the
Panhandle and the counties lying on
| the extreme eastern boundary he would
place him under obligation. The
gentleman from Upshur seemed to
think they must take the geographical
| centre OF the State and then by "strik-
ing out" from it, find out how many
people there are in the State.
Mr.. PinneQ asked If it was the gem
eral course, or if it was fair in making
up an estimate of the centre OF popula-
ton to take the line of travel
by which you reach that population,
or to take the most direct route.
Mr.. Golf replied that the gentleman
| from UPshur had misunderstood his
argument. He had been endeavoring
to show how accessible Clarksburg
was to the people of these particular
counties. He was trying to show to
what counties ClurkSburg would be
most accessible, aud in doing this
| should he not count the people residing
Immediately on the South side as well
az those on the North? The only line
of communication between these coIn-
lltS anu Is
4 Clarksburg. They reach Clarksburg
first, and, OF course, then it is more ac-
cessible to them than to Buckhannon,
some thirty miles further on.
l thank the gentleman for his allu-
sion to the coal of Buckhannou, and to
his being associated with me in the
| army, and now remember an old joke
that used TO be circulated among the
soldiers and officers about the wood
and coal at Buckhannon and when
shivering over our wood fires, and Off
GERS making their acquisitions for coal
in vain, we all quietly submitted, and
said "the doctor look 1T all for the hos-
pital." [Laughter.l
Mr.. kellar said he proposed not to
make an argument, but merely to SET
himself right. The gentleman from
/ UPshur had said that the first gun was
fired ut Buckhannon. thought, said
he, ii understood where the first gun
was fired. 1t was fired on Fort Sumter
Mr.. Pinnell-I stand corrected.
MIR. kellar-What brings me to the
1oor was this. L have said the first can
non roared ut Phillippi, in Barbour
county. Now il this is not the fact,
gentlemen, VIII submit the floor with
out saying anything further. But as
my friend from Clarksburg said the
only road they can get ut is up the Val.
ley river right by Bealington, 1 want
yOu to vote for that place.
Mr.. DAWSON nominated Grafton, in
Taylor.
SIr. Carol said he felt deeply inter-
ested in this question. He represented
n constituency of honest men,
They didn't want the capital in
Wayne county. II he were to
be influenced by the geographical
center he should vote to locate it in
Clay county, If by the commercial cen
ter, he should vote for Wheeling; but
looking to both the geographical and
commercial centers, he believed he
should vote for Charleston, in Kama
wha. That town was nearer Clay
county than any other, and was the
making of u commercial city.
! Mr.. Lamb called attention to the fact,
that no regulation was yet adopted to
determine what number should elect,
whether plurality or a majority OF
the votes cast.
Mr.. Fleming then submitted reso-
luton providing that u majority of all
the votes cast should be necessary to
choice. aud it was agreed to.
Gen. LiEhtburn nominated the town
of Weston, Lewis county. At this
stage of the bill, he only proposed one
or two reasons why he desired the cap
ital located mt Weston. II was more
central than any point yet named, and
the location OF She asylum for West
/ Virginia, by the State of Virginia, he
cited as one evidence of that
fact The presence of that in
stitution there was another reason why
the Capital should be there. He was
sorry TO sea the precedent established
Fof scattering the public buildings all
over the State. 1t had been said and it
was "A conceded fact that the mere loca-
ton OF the Capital at any point, would
not oulld up u city. 1t would require
other means or other influences This
being the case, it argued in favor of
grouping the public buildings at some