Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-06-23
-THEsINTELLIGENCER.

THE HE9INTEL4LIGENCER
CnAiass si)IcEExs.-slander, Ike death, loves
a shining mark but lIiat Mr. Dickens has or
has not been sIandered by the statements TO the
de,rirncnt Of his moral character. which. have
been going iIie rounds ofihe PFessin Engiaud
anl'iD this country. si,=H nOtsundertake to
say Whether tie reports Of his infdelity 20
his wife be true or false, whether he does or
.t,es not keep n mistress, it is much 20 be re.
sretted, however, Ihat his family difficulties
lave Been paIaded before the public His
yOsks OF HeiiOn- are all moral ia their lone and
tendency, 30 one can read them without be-
ng benefited I,y their Perpsal, aud It Is wrong
TO weaken their s1lutasy influence upon society
by representing their author asa traitor 70 the
continents. embodied in hia works, whether the
charge be false or true
TIiaca breach has occurred between Nr.
rirkens and his ranily, or some portion Of it,
IS evident ffqm the following letter from his
Den, published in the ',HonseboId Words Of
the ,l.llh Instant 1t denies much and explains
autlline; yet in iFe absence fany better author
IT'S tIian common rumor for the charges made
,sainst h,u, Is he not entitled to bsl;ef when lie
-olcrnnly denies their truth:
cAED fHoA HIs. DIcEESs.
Three and twenty years have passed since
entered 0fUn nv present relations with the
ublic They Iegsn wlfcn was 50 young that
lind thenr 81 liavo extended tor nearly quar-
ter of century.
4F1irouglt niI That time have tried TO Be as
aitlfrl 10 tire public a they have been 60 ine-
Il was i,sy duty never 10 triie with them OF to
ieceive them or tn presume nlnsi their favor. or
10 do ahytliiag witi il but work hard and justi-
sy it. ! have always eHdeavOred4o dissiaIge
thst duty.
.s1Iy CONSTRUCTIONS position has often made me
the sliject 6f fabulous stories and unacenunla
Ale statements. Occasionally such things have
cIiuietl nc -Ur eyeH wounded me, bat have al
ways accepted them rs the shadows inseiarable
from, the light Of my HolOriely aud success
nave never Obtruded any such personal unyssi-
uess Of mine upon the generous aggregate Cf my
audience.
''For the first time in my life, and / believe
Tor the last, NOW deviate from the principle
nave - long observed, by presenting myself
ia my own Journal, IL my own private charac.
Ter, and -entrCn,ing all my brethren (as they
eem that they liHve reason 10 think we'll Of liie,
and 60 know that am man who has ever been
unaffretedly tine TO our cOtunIOir ralllne) TO
end their aid to the dissemination u my present
words
ts5oIue domestic If0u6le q mine 81 long st1n-
ding ca which f.tFiil n,eise further reInalk
than that Il claims 20 be respected IS being q
>acTedly private nature, iIus lately eSn Brought
tn an arrangement which invOlresiilO anger or
M will Of amv kind, and the 1vli5lslofiI, pro-
gtcsS, and surrounding circumstances Of which
nave been throughout within Tie knowledge OF
nv children. II Is amicably composed, and its
details have but now % be forgotten by those
concerned in thein-
.sl3y some means arising -out Of E;ckednesS,
fall. nj frTn
cllunces, or out Uf al three, this tFOlIble has
been made the occasion Of misrepresentation
nns,t grossly false, most mOnstrOus, most cruel
involving not only me, but innocent persons
dear 10 my heart, aud innocent persons OF whom
have no Knowledge, if indeed they have any
existence, and so widely spread that l. doubt If
nne reader In a thousand viii peTuSe these lines
by whom soine touch Of the breath Of these
SANDERS viii not have passed ike al unwhole-
some air.
Those who know me and my nature need no
assurance under my hand that such caluranies
are a.. irTecuncilable with me as they are, IN
Jlis fInniIc iheOhereHee, With one another
Bat there is great multitude who knOF me
through ms Hi1tjngs, and who do mol know me
Otherwise; aud cuHpot bear that one Of them
should he left in doubt, or hazard uf doubt,
thrOugh my poorly shrinking from mixing the
nn usual ,urHns 10 which now resort Oi eirrsi-
aIirg the truth.
Il mot solgInnly declare, then-and this do
both la my owl and my uIie's nauie-that ali
the lately Whispered ruinons tOuehing the trou-
bic al = iiirh have glanced are abDiniHably
lalse and that whoever repeats them after thiS
denial viii lie as Nilfully and rs fpnily as 1t Is
puSsible for any false witness to licbeOre lieaven
and earth. CHAHLts DIcKkNs."
ABouT GIRL's NAzEs.-If you arc very pre-.
else mat, aud ,,isiI 10 be certain Of what you
get, never uarTy a girl named AIMS for We
srS that ..aR is an indeiipile article Il you
would like to have wife y 80 Is .'one u thon-
sand, " you should uar an Emily or 81 Emma
for any printer can tell you tlat NeIps" are al
Ways counted by thousands.
fyoa do not wish to have a busting fyabout