Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-12-23
rProm tbe spndav Times.1
From the DIsbnnIed volunteer.

From the Sunday Times.l
Letter From the DisbnnGed Volunteer.
Christmas is our old friends theme to-day,
and although q little of his natural elasticity
leaks out in some parts of the letter, 1t never
theless contains one or two wholesome and we'll
meant suggestions which it would be well for
many ofsus to "make a note of"
SAINT NICKALAs HoTrELL, Dec. IL, 1857.
EIdyturs of the Sunday Times:
WunSt more the hoIlydayS is closte at hand.
The churches is cheerfully embellished with SOL
emn sentences from the skripters, printed in
evergrins, and the riSin iennyrashin, when they
Law them down to sleep, wakes adreemiHg round
amung the toy stores and wakes with drums in
thar ears, jumpin jacks in thar beds, and thar
harris sot upon six bladded nives and tia swords
and daggers. Blessed yung critters! they're
entirely onawars as the banks suspended on
the most sPeshus pretenseS, and that bizness
peers to hev gone to the devil with the intenShin
of spendin the fa%shinabul seesin thar. Menny
of thar affeckshinit fathers hes kullapsed, arter
a periud of unushil in1ashin, and hes he'd to pay
so dear for thar whissuls, that its dubrous if the
supply of trGnpets and jewsharps
will be f~orthcummin orr Christmas Eve. 1t
would be rayther hard, though, for the children
to suffer bekase payments hcv spent all the mum
nv on thar playthings and games. Talkin of
games, L think thar oughter he some new styles
got up, more suitable to the Sperrit OF the age
than the Royal Game of Goose, and cetery,
witch hes all ben played out in Europe long
ago. The Game of Railroads, frinstance, mite
be made a vallybul lesson to the yung, eff it was
dun up brown. The Illannoy Centril would be
f~ust-rate for a nodded, and eff the kwcstins and
answers atween the stockholders and the direc-
tors was put on the keards, nuthin more would
by rekwired to render the game interestin and
instructiv.
Seriously speakin, line afeard Christmas isn't
goin to be partickerly Jolly this year. A COM
munity down in the mouth don't keer for plum
puddin, and n teller cant enjoy his rich sirline of
beef to-day eff he cxpecks he'll hcv to shin it to-
morrow. no how we might hev the alljovial-
est time imaSinabul; but l spose thars no chanst
of it. Eff the banks would oney let out a little
more Oh thar ~accommydashin lines, it would at
wunSt put evry thing in train for a reglar old
fashint hollyday frolic. But they WON'T
They're nice institutions them munnied corpor-
ashins-intereStin Will o the Wisp, that decoys
pcepul into finanshil boys and increases, and
then leaves EN- without n sinner to bless thar
selves, and goes on thar way r%cjicin.
Fortnitly for me, | hev no favers to AK of
these consarns, and shall tharfore spend my
Christmas jest. as merrily as ef cVry bank pres
ident and cashier in the kuntry was gooin to be
tortered to make en- fork out thar hidden
treshurs. 1 hey bought out an entire toy store,
which the owner was kunpelled to sell at an
exScrcwShiatin sackritice in order to ~''realise,
these hard times" and 1 intend to engage wun
of Mr.. Treadwelrs largest privit drawing runs,
for the purpus of distribitin the noshins amung
the children of busted-up Merchint Princis in
the fashinabui streets and squarS and avenoos.
[ hev sent keards to the Goldgobs, Yeryphlatts,
Dunnahoos, aud other leedin faminalies as cavcd
in doorin the crysis, and eff you no of emmy
FIT Avenoo or Fourteent street children likely
to go hungry for soovcniers i'll c~onsekwence of
the crate revulshin, send EN- along, and lie save
EN- from utter dcstitooshin. e
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icstshin, should say that n new class of toxins
of friendship, kalkilated to SCOT these dark times,
oughter be interdooced this Christmas. A re-
seat for akwarters rent in advance would be a
very purity Christmas or New Years present
from rich landlord to a poor tenant; a tun of
coal would lie much more acceptable in many
households than a gift buck to the yung ladies
costing the same price; and eff a kwarter of beef
or a fine porker was sent in the placeo of a silver
mounted cane to the father of a %fammalv. it
would be a staff worth fifty walkin stiX. Use
before ornyment' should be the motto of holly
day present makers this winter, especially in
dividyals as hev poor relaShins. Oyercoats,
boots, blankets, big shawls, flannel, marccno,
woOlin stockins, &c, is mulch preferred in tuff
times to gold pencils, rings, brooches, and 9TH
er beje1ekry of that mater. line gwine to make a
present to a yung lady ofmy ackwaintance, witch
| persoom- som foxes, who's all for outside sho,
would consider nifty ondelikIt. Its nuthen more
nor less tlan n heaYy kwllted petucoat, ana
hafc a dozen silk undervests. She wants en-, l
no, and they'll do her considabul more good
than a guilt-cdged pictur buck.
Last year l went to Grace Church on Christ
mas Day. This year 1 shall do my praying to
hum. Times is too hard to fee a fashinabul
sexton for a scte in the sanctuary. Suckem-
stances over witch l hev no control, kumpels
me to take the road to Hevin witch hes the few
est toll gates. Let all economical sinners do
likewise. Yours, allus,
A DISBANDED VOLUNTEER.