Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-11-23
TIE Love OF MoxEr the Roor OF ALL Evil

:; truisrn is even stale But every once and awhile
their floats up from the seething caldrons and
pitfalls of iniquity which undcrlie thisage of The
world so numcrously, remarkable vindlcatlon
of the old aphorism. The last number oil the
Cleveland Herald furnishes us with more than
three columns of the details of the trial of +. L.
Nichols, cousin OF p. I. Barnum's, who is now
awaiting his sentence in Cleveland for several
very extensive forgeries. lie was young man
in GOOD standing in the church, only few years
ago-but he gradually got iniiamcd with de-
sire to get on faster in the world than ne was
doing. The dull, little-by-iiules of safe and
honest business grew irksOme to him. lie want
ed the gold stream, like him of old, 20 Oe quick
and powerful" So he quit business "nd went
TO specu!ation First he went out, like his ''s"a p
cousin, as nm exhibitor of decayed curios5'T,
known as the "Panorama of NapOeOns FG.
neral" then nc went into the theatre manage
ment-thcn into the Gift Enterprisc" and so
on through one kind and ano:he'' Of cheating
aud gambling, until he brouGh M, as forgeF,
$4,000 shOr..
Below we copy ore of the les!crs the poor
cuurit wrote to Bernuu,, afer mis- arrest 1t
is -eoly eloquent, from the dire straits o. IN I'M
done and almost desnairing hope which !; eF'n-
ces. The agonizied feeling couched in one such
letter, outw eighs, VIC doubt no now, in bis
mind more tian all the wealth o: 80 ra;;z, o:
OF Ind"
DEAR I:-f exncct % nave my .FiAl IN No
vcmoer-my case stands frs GPon ne docNes
nave no defence % make, add snail noi attemnt
any. / have written you le,,e: whica l. is but
Just YOU should have. You, OF course, WI!
make whatever nse of it you see fiji. IS a.
tended for YOU 10 show to ficnds in Betnc! If
YOU find i; necessary. Ac the same zine ..'st
YOU will not send it on to Clevei'dd 90 appear
against Inc; and here let me say, u u emp
make any defence in November no. one t'0.d
will be said 20 your disadvantage. OF MAJ
rest ASSN cd that neither myself nor attorneys
will attemnt 20 srve Inc at the cSucnSc OF your
,,ocEei uf your yspuitjiOa TINS pledge INV
existence upon. There is q Wy IN which yoa
can save me. [ do not ask it for n'y$et,, bnt
for the sake of my wre:ciicd family. Oh! "nat
viii become of tncm, il am sent TO Sue Prfscl
for .wen,y years, the lowest tenn. beg ofyo0
10 s,ou and think for one momen'. True, II $
not your affair, and perhaps yOu may say nc de-
serves il: and vet you eau save nc. IL Is one
uc,, one simple act, and how my poor i;,'nily
,~iIl e,rr bless you fUr 81, N"I 'rtot viii n'A;
poor oil; mother THINK Oi yOn, ifYou step 10 and
save me.
Read my two letters, they explain Mc"se'res,
aud beg of YOU TO look over the past, and copy
The two letters send you. One Of these lette's
Won will see is your Own-3rjM q fen cords
ns{.}6d by me in pcncil-don't idil 10 COPY and
scnd-bc caretWi about the dGte. may have
~ prove that received SUch . letter from you
NJ that time. This | can prove by my stage
manager, and as there is but tcss words added,
he will think it the same lctt".: will remcm.
her it from the alluSiou to Samson in 1t. Tic
other letter explains itself have used your
name when was out with NapolcOn-used it in
my advertisements, and my bills as y0W
sIo5r and in the present letter ask permission
tn use your name again in 5he same way-tha,
IS announce your name as the proprietor; anu L
YOU COPY the letter send you, you will only
give the liberty for me to use your name IN th2t
way That is all my letter asks for, but may
pain it upon the Court as authority for my using
your name in another sense. Any Sho'cm6t
would understand il at once, but the court may
not, aud probably will not hut you will have
nv letter to show just what asked Tor and yOn
can show by shOwmcn, that giving permission
10 use your name SiO'cBidH, Is not giving per-
mission to sign your name to money drafts
You NAV publish my letter, IL you please, n
week after the trial That will set the matter
all right so far as yOu are concerned. Ihat VIII
prevent your being cenSured You can Sho"
and publish TO the world the letter have given
You to show in Det6el, and the one asking liberty
10 use your name, and show in what way you
gave me liberty to Use it. Those letters will
clear YOU, and YOU will not be held responsible.
only ask to use your name as ShoSmda-but
If palm them off upon the Court to mean what
they do not mean, it puts it into you perhaps i'll
the eye of the Court, but you step right out aud
extenuate yourself 1t SsrceS u clear me, and
before you have time to publish the reel fdtctS,
will have the paper all out of the way, bought
up George is negotiating for it now, aud he
can tell YOU what the prospects are. All can
he bought up without any mistake, but the four
drafts, indicted and in the hands of the State is
all that fear. 1t is for these Indictments that
! want your letters. we hope to be able to
settle even them, and not exhibit your letters at
all Ii we exhibit your letters, the creditors
may think they can hold you for the amount,
and on that account demand a higher price. So
vou see it is Tor my interest in that respect not to
let your letters be seen. Again, let me say, if l
get clear, my only salvation vii! be 10 buy up
the paper, or as soon you come out aud er0n.
eyats yourself, shall he liable to be arrested
again. You will show that have imposed upon
the Court, and of course must remove all the
naper, or else take the consequences. This
should satisfy you that will act in good faith,
for have everything to lose, and nothing to
gaia. if do not act in good faith.
Il think we shall settle up rythinG. The
creditors are anxious to do so. They will use
all their influence to get Riddle, the Prosecnt-
ing attorney TO quasi these indictments. But
s0E u, ell Il ,,r,t.S To-