Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-12-23
TnE DIsRANDaD Vo1UNrEER.
sA1Nr NIorAL.As HorrrI.. .nec. .16. ,6f

SAINT NIcEAL&s HoTrEL, Dec l5, 90.
E1dyturs of tie Sunday Times.
spose yonhaintforgot wot an ornary Christ.
mas we eXpeericnst last year. Tie cavin,in of
The banks and the railroad stnashes he'd proster.
ated thousands, and the gaily week wnSas slow
asa ginrnl fast. Peepul livin at rack and man.
ger had suddenly been sbrors to rack and ruin.
heds OF leedin houses, cut off from thar ushjl
resoTeseS bS the banks shettins down on Penn,
couldn't afford tn be Jolly, aud so tuck it out in
reviyals. In fack, it was dangerous TO say
Merry Christmas to ennybody, for fear of
addin insult to injury. Passin hecomplements
Of the secsi1 to business man MT that limo was
about as onkind as Wishin plesent iurney to a
reich under the galluS, standn, with tears in
his eyes, watin for the drop TO tall. They say
misery luvs kumpany; but / reckin it's no sach
a thing, for very few grand parties was given
last holidays. POckit mummy aud toys wns also
more skarse than common amung fathers pets
and mothers darlins, and the risin generashin
ginraliY he'd the dolldrums.
predicate, however, We shall all be as happy
as tienS in n blnnkit this Christmas. The pi.
cayuniary crysiS Is purity well over, and skores
OF doSn.town merchints as looked otful sober
Shen the MUMMY market was tight, bein no lon-
ger straitened, is preparin for regular bender
Eff sc don't hev good dinners oil the twenty
fit, 1t wont be for-want Of poletree Wnn7 foul
merchant adyertiSes Ten Thousand Christmas
TuTkeys;s and a chicking deeler, as seems de-
tertnined to carry the market By a c0op de main.
MS the French say, offers tho Salne number of
Shanghies at 70 cents pair.
The poor warnt diSremembered last Christ
mas, md hope they wont be this. Every city
sin as ken afford two dinners next Saturday,
should give wun of 'em to sum hungry sinner
as is poorer than hisselE The tide Of returnin
prosperity hesent reechcd the idborin man yet
aud isent likely too thiSawinter. Let the ritch
stretch out to 'ein helpin hand, with a big
turkey, or tonof coal, or five dollar bill in it
Seteh things is oney like crumbs fromthe tabuls
OF Eortins tayoritieS and they are . great accom-,
mydashin to the lavorites Of Fortin's oldest Ciar
ter, Miss Foftin
The bizness collumes of the noosepapers is
tuilcr of the hollydays than ever seen ,ein-
Everything is advertised as sootabul5fo Christ
mas presents, from Gayetty's new diskisery to
set OF Rushin sabnls, The book publishers
seem to hey put hafe thar stock inter hollyday
livery; and, with the excepshin of Doctor San
gers CRATE tammaly wurk, TeSentiy issooed BY.
the Harpers, thars skaise'y a rnorrii or reIidgns
book as doOsent fSger in guilt edges and shiny
kiver,s as a gift for the yulg.
= The variety consarnS open amazin ritch.-
Christmas trees barring the chisest frtites setcll
as naked French dalls, bead pusses, barkin,dogs
ridicnles, jumpin jacks Tin trunpetS, pictsr
hooks, Wenndgery beests, and .cetery, all decLy-
rated, with taplrs, tours alnft IN the toy-stoie
Nindows; and the eoufeckshiners also catnS out
good and strong ms candydates for iilyerniIc pat
ternsge. The tbeayters also prOalis ennv kJyan-
lty OF speStieics, kalkelated to charm the eyes