Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-01-07
Letter from Barney o,roole, Esq.

GRutLenQlu az tA6 C0HHlOHntttH.
a merry Christmas to yes an a happy New
Year. What n blissin it is. to the mimbers an
aIl,ythat We have the holidays wanst a year!-|
If 1t wasn't for that, barrin the marciful dispen-
sation ay the death aY a mimber, now aud thin,
be CORA, we'd be worn out intirely-He might
as well be nagers at wanst-
It's a nice time we're havin, gintlemen. The
~durekeepers an the pages and the Reporters, an
aiven the Numbers themselves, have been enjoy
in il wild a rush. We've bin canYassin the can
yass-backs, and rePortin the finest kind nv port
Ian the ounly pain has bin the ShGm-paOd,
barTin an occasional headache: and anthe whole
we've taken mighty gud care ay the Interests
aV the nashin, a~ndsespecially the Threasury.-
Be tine same token, whin the Numbers nd be
paid be the day, an missed a day, the paple 'ud
make a divil ay q fuss about it. Now whin
they're gettin paid be the job We see, its no diff
fer at all at Aided the loss is their own in
tirely.
Mr.. Buchanan tells ne he's bin sorelythroub-
bled since | writ yes last-all be raisOn ay the
responsibility that's an him. At his levee, l
got in a corner wild him, an SEE ne to me Mis-
thur O'Toole, it diz me hart gud, jist to have
a thrihin talk wild an annest man like yourself
Here am, sez he, badgered, and bediviled wild
that whole Southern thribe; and-if I'd give
thin all they ak, an throwd in dorroch besides
be me sowl SEE he, I think they'd ounly AK the
more. Had ould King Solomon, SEE he, bin
livin in these times, he'd niver talked ay the
hOrse-leeche's two daughters cryin, givel give!
Be dad it's little the ould gintleman knew nv
the appintin power. Thin, seq he, there's that
little s~pridhOgue, Douglas playin the diVil wild
the dimmecratic party, an there's that blatherin
craythur, Stuart, that's doin nothin but brewin
mischief upon Kansas matthers. An thin the
annerable Sinathur from Californy,-bad luck
to him,-talks about hangin up the chiyalry av
KanSaS-Sich as Calhoun and Gineral Hender-
son, an the likes,-ind cuttin aft their ears be
jabbers, jist as ifhe wor a Committee av Vigilance
man. OCH thin, seq he, but me hearts gray
wild EN-. An thin, SEE he, worse nor all that,
I'm havin the diYil's own time wild these Walk
ers agen. There's that little consisted upstart
that l sint out to settle matthers in Kahsas-iu-
stead aV goin about his Dizziness, SEE he, an do
in his masther's biddin, he comes back here,
botherin us wild a long rigmaTole av a letther,
SEE he, that me ould fren Cass sed he cudn't an
swer-he was so dumfoundhered wild the stuff
in it about Sovereignty an 'tinsthruckshins ]"
an "frauds," an ''registhrashins,n an the divil
knows what all. Bad luck to him, seq he, jist
whin he turns his back upon me-here's that
morodin thief o. the world, ay a namesake av
his STINT back to me SEE he; an what the dickens
I'm to do wild him, is more nor | can tell. Talk
ay houldin a wolf be the ears, SEE he. It's
mesself that dizn't know whether to let go or
hould an.
An thin Commodore Pauldin, seq he, thot
wor in airnestin the missage. Jist like his ould
father before him, he couldn't let a daccnt man
be goin an his Dizziness, seq he, widout lukin in
his bootleg to see what he was afther. It's the
sore throuble, seq he, he's brought an me wild
his dhirty interference. But be dad, SEE he, III
have him coort-martialed amy how, as sure as
shootin. Thin, SEE ], Misthur Prisidint, if that's
the way yere goin to thrate Commodore Paul
din, its the sorry time yen have wild the nor
them dimmocracy,-theyW tear yer admins
thrashin to pieces intirely, see |. know that
SEE he, but suppose L udn't do that, what the
divil 'ud do wild the fire-atin century, at ali at
all, let me AK ye. Wild that he takes me by the
Ecoat collar, an whispers in me ear,=Pm thinkin
nv a plan, seq he, thatll kape down the strife, o
meybe. Be gorra, SEE he, Til have that Captain
Shatard eoOrt-martialed too, SEE he, jist bekase
he didn't arrest Gineral Walker; and if that
don't suit the paple, why thin they must be
hard to PLACE intirely, seq he.
/ had n talk wild Senathur Bigler, the other
day, and he tells me if that spalpeen, Douglas,
attacks the President agen-that vulnerable an re.
spictable ould man, seq he, that ounly consulted
to be President, to save the Union from diSholu.
ltion-if he dnurS to cruk his finger Mt him, SEE
he, I'll give him such n loundherin as the last
wan nd be a baby to it Be the same token
Mr. Montgomery, the mimber av the House
from yer own district, has just tould me, he's
bin three weeks preparain an extemporary
spinach an the Kansas question but he's not de,
termined, an which side he'll Ye- mus
lhould Yer whist an that subject, in yer paper,
or if We do spake av it, mark it ''conidintial."
There's wan thing I'd Almost forget to mintion
Mr.. Windle, the PRINTER man, ye see, called ar
the GENTLEMAN from Panhandle I'm tould, anG
SEE he, Misthur Climints, jist tell me who tha'
gentleman was, offered We the dirthy bride an M
account as ye say. Fax, seq Mr.. Climints ]
don't know his name; but he's a gintleman a,
distinction. I'd know HIM again, sez he, HI
weers a black hat, an a shirt collar, an dhresse.
in boots. The mkt time l SEQ him III chalk hi
hat, so that yen know him if We mate him.
"Misther Climints,' SEE Mr.. Windle, do VI
acknowledge yerselfa manable to the laws av an
ner, 1 AK YEP" 1 understand Mr.. Climints ist
coolly tould him, "MiSthur Windle, thin law.
amt in foorce north nv Mason an Dixon's line
an sure" seq he, "the Panhandle's north av that
as very well informed gintleman knows" s.Ar
thin" SEE he, 'I've Conscientious scruples,'
SEE he. "Hhy 1 'udn't fight aiven me frer
lLangfit; an-bad cess to ye-d'ye think I'd be af
ther fghtin wild a sthranger?" Thin gintlemin
Mr.. Windle throwd down his glove right an tn,
lfurei Ochi but we ought to seen the DIGNITY
av the gintleman av the Panhandle, whin h
picked it up. 'Here's yer dirty glove seq he
81 'undn't take a pair av thin, let alone an ode
wan, an not clane at that" Mr.. Windle has moi
daured to show himself since.
Sind this, if Eye PLACE, to the WAdlin hteHi
geneeF, so that Mr.. Climints' fiens mayn't b,