The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-03-01
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

es of Prominent West virEinif,
Iegislators---H0ns. William
Prince, David III. Leonard. aeD-
timus Hall. G. j. II. Cresilb &c.
NO ".
"what have we here? A curious and
diversified assemblage Of the al aiojorss
and the dii minors. The loud laundering.
Jove, in sportive play with Conns, the
laughing good oi reyelry, feasdng and
jollity"
-lnorynors.
Dear Register Digestion and lhe
weather both being propitious, Ire
new my sketches.
Does any one ask, what the wealh-
er and digestion have to ID with
sketches of West Virginia laysmak,
ers? Ianswer, much. oursritical
opinion Of persons and thinss in a
measure depends upon the lion
OF cur OWN mind and BODY at the
time. If depressed, we think less
favorably of what we see and hear.
And nothing SO thoroughly depresses
a man, in soul and body, as the com
bined influences Of a damp cloudy
day and a disordered liver.
On the weather subject, Wheeling
lisa city of magnificent contrasts
Yesterday, for instance, she was
wrapped in almost impenetrable
darkness, while today she lies smil.
ing in the warmth and brightness Of
q glorious sunshine.
And so, 1 repeat, digestion and the
weather both being propitious, Ire
new my pen sketches.
The laughing day, the happy sun,
shine and my own inner feeling Of
contentment, naturally suggest, as
the first subject for my camera, that
jovial Comus Of makers, the
HON. WILLIAM PRINCE,
of Raleigh. Born in the Quaker
City of Philadelphia, in the year
1916, he is now in his sixty-sixth
year, but with only one trait of Qua
kerism in his character, namely, un.
assailable honesty. When nineteen
years of age, he moved to the State of
Virginia and settled in the county of
Fayette, which at that early day en-
braced within its territorial bounda-
ries considerably more acreage than
as at present constituted. In 1850,
the Virginia Legislature, desiring to
perpetuate the nameNof the accom-
plished historian and bold adventur
er, who first attracted the favorable
notice Of Europe to the tobaccoplant,
formed the county of Raleigh from
the Southern part Of Fayette. The
farm Of Mr.. Prince was in tn, new
county, of which he has remained
prominent citizen ever since.
The esteem in which he was at
that early period held by his fllow-
citizen, #as strikingly shown It the
first general election had after the
formation of the new county. by
large majority, he was chose, as
delegate to represent Raleigh n the
Virginia Legislature of 1861, For
six years he acceptably servd his
people in Richmond, having been
elected three times succcssi ely
During this period-memoraAe in
the history Of the old State-ie was
associated in public life with SINE Of
the brightest minds of Virginia
Those were the golden days, when
Oscar M. Crutchfeld presided with
the dignity Of Roman Senator, over
the deliberations Of the Virginia
House of Delegates; when theimpet-
uous Chapman and polished Caper-
ton, from Monroe, and the noble old
Price, from Greenbrier, aided by the
mellow accents of the eloquent Bow
yer Miller, from Botetourt, stood up
manfully for the interests Of the
Western part of the State, against
the encroachments of the more pop
ular East.
It is not difficult to perceive, even
to this day, the effect of these associa-
tions upon the life and character of
Mr.. Prince. He carries about with
him in social and public life the
charming characteristics of the old.
fashioned Virginia Legislator. Kind
and considerate to the clerks, pages
and other employees of the House, he
is in truth the prince of good fel.
low" the most popular man in the