Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-08-16
For the Wheeling Intelli gcnecr.
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GAl this isvery well, says Oldbuck, in The Anti
quay butl want something to exchange ideas
zi.l-something 10 talk to,"-iust as do this
r7ninp, without knowing where TO find either.
TIE day is hot, piping hot, and Nature, langulSh-
igin this continued drought, is somewhat in the
I,zllcament Of fish out Of water, "dyiug, like
IT. Dolphin" and falling prematurely into the
SIZE and yellow leaf. Every thing looks patched
azlthiSty. Purling streams are converted TO dry
channels Of rock and gravel, aud dust is in the
ascendant. Flowers have no fragrance; fruit no
favour; vegetables no succulence. Birds no mu-
Sc The sun has the Heavens all to himself, by
Lay, and the neon regns at night, without cloud
pass over her face, and obscure her luStre for
moment. storm would be an agreeable novelty
and shower something to bless and marvel at.
The tesre l0f moisture is evident in the wilted
leaves, as in the anguid cattle. The former ale
dropping in an atmosphere which has loStitS prop
city OF revival; the latter court the shade, which
IS no longer refreshing, but only more tolerable
than the Parched pasture that crackles under their
hoofs. Inthis absenceof an important element Of
existence, the mind in al probabi lily, partakes Of
ih= peVaiIng langour, and if IFS vigor be not d.
nInshed, It's objects, where these are derived from
without, lose much Of their beauty and Attractive
hess. We cannot rejoice in their prosperity, as
We are wont at this season, for it is not and yet,
tomoura over an evi: few hours of rain would
tiiHPa:e, appear unnatural. So, VIC linger on
if'n day 10 day, in hope of shower, and hail ev-
efy cloud that floats above the horizon, as the har
bnse' of reli.f, and see it pass away as we would
Regret The departure Of a friend VITO has failed in
his usual tribute to our need, aud our expecta-
tons.
Something to exchange ideas with" What o
volume in sentence! How we'll do these few,
''Iet words express that longing for communion
with 4 kindred intelligence, which nothing else
can satisfy and which is yet so little understood
o' Tue votarIes OF fashion and the world. Creosus
whites me from "ihe Springs" he isdull there. and
ye' ofeOsus has wealth, equipnges, servants, posi-
lion, and all the mqteriei of enjoyment. His
cAa'nig wife, too, is tired of the impression pro-
ea'ed by heE diamonds, and would give the best of
.asn Tor something 10 exchange IDEAS with."-
! ne lovely ClariSsa has no diamonds but those of
''e Mind and these, she finds, are not current at
watering place, and she is 10th 10 barter them fol
S"en ntlstoi stones as are. Frederick and Sophia
are ueiighted but they are young, very young; and
- VIC! nave ideas, they are such as new dress, a
U''i' promenade, or a Irritation would pleasantly
sNI"s. THEIRS are for dissipation, not exchange;
''u o' loo little value to require equivalent re-
"',,' Just al this moment, envy them; just,
o'uUucK says, from the want of something to ex-
e"anse IDEAS with; something TO talk to; 10 have
" ''e literary, or metaphysical, or psychological
s'SSP with; not 10 be ptolound or wise, or scien-
""'' 'ut desultory, visionary; the least bit tran
'-s"lenIal; eSchewing everything serious and sub
,'1"Il'' AM sporting only with the funciful nd
I've ethereal; kind of mental, spirt-rapping; NOT
~ H'd Converse with the dead, tut 10 interchange
'Honsa' feeling, and intelligence with the living.
LAX might be taught Of school, as well us Latin,
u'eek' Algebra, &c and would be more profita-
We accomplishment than those learned mysteries
I"'eh most OF us acquire, only TO forget. Some
u me pleasantest, and many Of the most prosper
WIS men | have been acquainted with, knew moth
"s oil these eruditions. But they were familiar
.4h modern languages, bellies lettres, the British
l french classics, essayists, poets and the stan
=. S'a novelsts-and TO these may now be added
.-' oest authors of our own conntry, who evince,
ln'aeiF compositions, such studies as have emu
4s'aied, the wisdom of the schools being. a.
ysl' confined to the few, who find but limited
1sd Tor its exercise. Even the learned professions
~ 'aey are called, have been shorn of much o.