Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-16

believe we quoted the singular.poem about the
oldcontinental Colonel who rode round in bat
tie every place generally, but especially where
(asnear as we can remember the Words
Cracked the black gunPOWdeF.''
Well, the N. Y. HerdEd's critic reviews this
book of Dana's in most sorching style, and
talks quite learnedly (and justly, for all we
know about the books defects.
He asks the question:
How does it happen that in his long list of
living American poets there is not to be found
the name of Southern man ;oryWouanS How
did he pass by such names as Gilmore, Sitnms,
Albert Pike, Otway Curry, Henry r. jackson,
and George Gutter Why should he leave out
Of his book such, beautiful poems as sThe Song
Of Steam by Gutter; sTbe Lost Pleiad,' BY
Simms, and The Armies of the Eve, by OF
way Curry; while he finds room for large num-
Der of Northern nobodies, who have never been
heard Of rs poets, and,s what is worse, have
scarcely written line of respectable poetry?
Are we asked to believe that these omissions
are not designed?
Mr.. Dana has not only made this unjust and
odious distinction between. Northern and South
ernauthors, but he has kept up the spiritof his
Partially In his selections from the Northern
poets themselves, by Severely avoiding every
ments and sympathies ayerSe to Abolition fanat.
icisln. Among these is George P. Morris, whose
songs have certainly made him. as well known
as any American poet, living or dead, andwhos
'Woodman, Spare that Tree, is equal to any
song in this volume whether from ancient or
modern poets. He has also stunned Charles
Sprague, John G. SAKE, Robert Conrad, John
Neal, DR.. Bethune, Charles G. Leland, Thomas
Dunn English, the author OF Ben Bolt, A. II.
Duganne, William Ross Wallace, w. III. Q.
Hosmer, and many others who have certainly
written better poetry than great deal that ap-
pears in Mr.. Dana's volume. But, alasl they
happen not to be sall right on the Negro ques.
ton And while herejects such standardsong
as those of George P. Morris, he finds room for
AN Egyptian Serenade,' by the Abolition lectu-
rer, George w. Curtis-which by the way is
not quite poetry, nor is it Egyptian, any
than it is Yankee or Dutch; but Mr. Curtis be-.
longs to Mr. Dana's school of woman's rights
and free love philosophers, which accounts for
his presence in the book, although he himself
has long since abandoned, as useless, all ambi.
tion of being considered poet.
So = $50
OF the f1fty-three names he has in his book as
American poets, upon whom, according to him
selfIthe intelligent have set the seal of indispu-
table greatness, only twenty are known at all
as p0ets while thirtythree arc entirely destitute
Of poetic fame. And he has left out not less
than thirty upon whom the intelligence of the
pSopIC HIS SCI Tue seal greatness quite as
lndlsputably' as upon anyshe has retained. 1t
is the people, and not few selfconstituted
critics, who give or withhold fame; and this ef-
fort of Mr.. Dana to disparage established names
and force into their places an unheard of crowd
of Abolition hedgings will have no other effect
upon the public mind than to awaken indigna-
ton and disgust at such partisan boldness."
FnE other day, as was currently announced
in the papers, Pendleton, the prince of gamblers
in Washington City, who had an Establish
ment' only two squares from the Capitol, which
was frequented nightly by members of Congress
and many others in high station, relieved tire
world, and Washington city especially, by dy-
ing. Since then a sale of many of his effects
has taken place. Tho correspondent of the
Philadelphia american attended and embraced
the opportunity to get some items for hispa.
per, from which VIC clip this extract: e=.
These gambling resorts have increased fear
fully at Washington, within the last ten years.
anditis notorious that they have done more to
ralizeslegislation thanla all the other debas-
ing and corrupting influences which have been
brought to belr upon weak, yenal, or needy
members Of Congress. / was deeply impressed
by the silent but eloquent witnesses of this fact,
when the drawers of Pendlcton's desk were
opened, yesterday, and numerous bills, relating
to schemes before Congress- were exposed to
public view. The misery aud Indebtedness and
degradation inflicted upon men and families by
these hells IRE appalling, and even the imper-
feet disclosures which have reached rue acciden-
tally, exhibit state of morals in Congress
which would astoniSh the country if exposed.
Some of these gamblers, and others who are
concernedsas capitalists with them, are openly
employed us lobby agents. from their supposed
ability to control votes through obligations in
Cured bylmembe!s, and the fact is one of COM
mon town talk that their tables are the daily
resort of large class of such voters in prefer
ence to the hotels. This thing has assumed
that serious shape when publicity becomes a
duty; for, strange rs it may seem, the iatluence
has so ramided that it was feared, at one time,
in the early stages OF the Kansas struggle, last
session, when the House was nearly equally di- =
yided, that the scale would be turned by a turn
in thescrew upon particular members who were
known to be in the power of the gamblers. 1t
maxwell be asked where are we drifting, when
such things can be, and go unrebuked9
MANAGER UI1MAN is fast getting himsclfinto
fundamentally warm water by his prescription
Of the New York critics who have presumed to
find fault with his stars and their performances.
The Spirit Of the TTaes and the Cottrrier des