Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-09-25

and his success has been attained inch by inch
He could command his passions and his appe-
tites-he could afford to give pleasuring the go
by and study and plan and think while others
of his age were enjoying themselves, as they
thought. His case is an instance of what work
will do for man; what selfdenial will accom-
plish If young man in this day and age Of
the world, and in this country, is going to do
anything or be anybody, he is not to succeed by
dissipation running to every pleasure par
ty-to every fandango,. losing his rest, bunting
his abilities and frittering away his thoughts
He must bone right down to the work-keep
at it-get tired and go ahead-in fine, he must
'sLearn to labor to Eat''
These are cur ideas, briefly expressed, of
a man.
The trouble is with most young men, as we
heard very close observing and experienced
gentleman say, not long ago, that they want to
be something and somebody-aye, even Presi-
dent, at jump-all in day. Finding they
can't, they get drunk-get drunk just to kill
time, till their turn comes 1t struck us atthe
time that that remark contained mighty vol.
ume of truth, and we have been thinking over
and amplifying the subject in our mind good
deal and find that the expression illustrates the
lives of alarge majority of the aspiring young
men whom we have met 1t certainly is a
sorry truth.
a COUPLE OF PHILOSOPHERS ON THE CoDE.-
Capt. Marryatt, in his novel called Stephen Fos-
ter, considers the subject of duellng, and wakes
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matter. As extracts now about the late duel
and duels in general are all the rage, we subjoin
what the Captain says:
''For my part" says the Captain, 81 never
have and never will fight duel, if can help
it | have double motive for my refusal; in
the first place, am afraid to offend the Deity;
and in the next, am afraid of being shot
have therefore made up my mind never to meet
n man except upon what consider fair terms;
| for when man stakes his life, the gambling be-
comes serious, and an equal value should be laid
down by each party.
'sIf, then, man is not so big-not of equal
consequence intthe consideration of his fellow
mites, and married, with five small children,
US aln-not having so much to lose-why, it
is clear that risk more than he does; the stake
is not equal, and l therefore shall not meet him.
| If on the contry he presents broader target
| If he is superior in rank, more patriarchal at
home, or has so many hundreds per annum
more, why then the disadvantages will be on
| his side; and / trust that am too much o. u
gentleman, even if he offers to waive these con-
siderations to permit him to fight 1t would
be slOindLtng the man out of his life"
Punch, too, has taken to considering the SUBJ
ject after his own peculiar fashion. He says:
snow, in England, we have put an end to this
kind of thing. Without reference to the brutal
folly and wickedness of the duel, we have put
fO'iF
do sum in satisfaction. We have after
good many years, we confess, of Montague
House and Norwood Scrubs, arrived at the
conclusion that dueling Is unfair because men
are nnequalin value.
1--WE DOW agree that an educated intellectual,
working citizen, the mainstay of a loved family,
the adviser of trusting friends, useful recogni-
zed man, with life assurances that would be
Vitated if he fell in wilful fray, is match for
an'empty headed younger son, swithjus brains
enough for drill pale ale, and Skye terriers, who
may chance TO find room in his narrow skull for
an idea that he has been insulted. Arithmetic
has settled the question, and Cocker forbids his
pistol cooking.
"We have got rid of the duel. because we, can
tdeduct Ensign Featherhead from Mr.. Goldswor-
| thy, and note the difference. So, ifthe Ensign,
| in ar accession ofmartial fire, were to challenge
! Goldsworthy, be he the author, lawyer, doctor,
merchant, or anybody else, who used to come
within the degree of consanguinity, Chat is,
might be asked to shed blood with somebody
else,) GoldswOrthy would select Policeman as
his second and the Lord Mayor us the umpire. !"
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Comments orthe Press on the LnIe Duel.
[Rrom the N. Y. Heraldl
The LATE RICHMOND DUEL--ROGER a. Pryor
IN LMBo.-rhe late duel near Richmond, be-
tween the Hon. Sherrard Clemens and Mr. O..
Jennings Wise, of the Richmond Enquirer, two
of the shining lights of the Virginia democracy
has been brought into court 1t appears that
Mr.. Roger A. Pryor was one Of the friends of
Mr.. Clemens in the affair of honor indicated, and
that the Court desired his evidence i'll view of a
prosecution of the parties concerned according
to the stringent requirements of the laws of the
State against duelling. The witness declined to
answer certain. questions, on the ground that by
answering he would criminate himself. Another
witness, of the name ofSmith, pursued the same
course, and the pair being committed for con-
tempt, the matter was next brought up before
the Circuit Court upon a writ of habeas corpus,
the debate upon which, at last accounts, was still
pending We presume that the parties will be
dismissed on the ground of chivalrY; but we
shall be agreeabv disappointedif the present
hot imbroglio among the Wise and Hunter men
does not result in more qunrrels and more blood
shed before the belligerent parties come to
treaty of peace. In this city, when fighting
editor has been guilty of duel wedo contriye
sometime to get him into close quarters, but a