Alexandria Gazette

The Wheeling Intelligencer of the 11th inst. says:

'In a few days Governor Pierpoint and Secretary Hagans will leave us for Eastern Virginia, to take charge of matters in what there will be the State of Virginia as contradistinguished from the new State of West Virginia. These two gentlemen positively refused to allow their names to go before the recent Parkersburg Convention for nomination to any place of honor or profit in the new State.
Gov. Pierpoint has a laudable ambition to go and faithfully fill the duties of the place to which he was elected, viz:—Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He thinks he can best serve the Union cause, for the present, in that position. He has recently been in Norfolk, Alexandria, Portsmouth and other places of the old State, setting his home in order for future occupancy and administration. He sees many difficulties before him—a repetition to some extent, only more so, of the labors and difficulties he has encountered during the stormy time he has presided in this part of the ancient Commonwealth. Some such man as the Governor is needed in East Virginia.
The Unionism of that section has not been the kind that has passed at par out here. It is a kind of Slavery Unionism that professes to be true to the Government, but takes up a good deal of its time denouncing the administration. It will be the aim of the Governor to try and find more useful employment for it, and see if he can't give it a better tone and better direction. In this expected work Governor Pierpoint can have no more useful assistant than Secretary Hagans. The Governor and Secretary will go to Eastern Virginia about the 20th of next month, as that is the time when the new State will go into operation. In the meantime they will be busily occupied in settling up affairs here.'