Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-03
Letter from the DI.bnnded VoIupreer.

Our old correspondent informs US in pri-
vate note, that his last two letters have been
written in 'considabul BODILY pain" as he
rs "hed singlar attact of pluracy", which
LIZ him "a seSaShin as ef somebody had
at suthin in his lungs, and was ralIin arter it
with rag-picker's hook" He promises in his
next some sick-room "reminiscences:
SAINT NICKLAs HOTEL, February 25 1858,
EddytuTS ofthe Sunday Times:
A lite mummy market gives an all-staggerin
punch to fashion and its land0ngoeS, and the
preshur is a-waying just now like thousand
inkerbusSes on the world OF tun High life to
to considabul extent, hes gone down inter the
basemen, and up-start pretenShins hes melted
inter its boots and dreened out throo the holes
in the soles on 'em. You may walk arter dark
from Washington Prade Ground to Sarspnrilly
PallaS, and by Jove you won't see nOre'n hafe-
adazen housen lifted abuv the strete levil.
wunder wOt the COckahoops, the FlarupS, the
Splurges, and other enterprisin fammalieS that
hes suffered from the prevain cOnwushin, reflex
upon the lower rejins? Former eXtrayyganzes,
mebbe Eff so, how melOncolly it must be 10
recolleck that they've skwanderd all the mummy
they made outer moonshine, and that thar amt
no more to be'kined outer that butiful mayterial
at present. Poor foxes destitoOt of wurk is to
| be pitted in coarse, but not 10 that degree
| Hevin never been abuv thar material perisshin,
| they hedent so far to fall But for the nobs es-
Pishelly the brass nobs, its Orful. In fack, thar
never was the match of 1t sense Lucyfur q Co.,
wunst the pride Of the upper scrkils, bust thar
bilers in bad; speckilGshin, and was shet out
from high life for evernore.
line aieard you'll think Inc ritin in rayther
a chicken hearted vane; but this is weather.
cock wurld. and when see SO menny gay birds
stript of thar fire fethers, kant help feelin a
| little down i'll the mouth. I've ben but to wun
| party sense November, and evryboddy Tucked
MS cfthey'd cum thar from the funeral of ritch
relashins that he'd left 'cm nOthin, and he'd lost
! thar pockit-bucks the rode. All thar con-
yersashin was about speckylaShins in the stocks
] that turnt out bad eggs, merchints that was a.
! hangin by the lids, houses that must be swampt
| n jinral suspenshin, and uther topics ekwilly
dncheerful. Wine was plenty, but nuthin seem
ed to enliven the feast or elevate the host, and
all agreed that the eend was not yet, and that
nobody new wot it would be any Inorn'n the
| Pope OF Roam.
] The way the difficulties of the times affecks
ladies' of the highest fashin, is enuf to dror teerE
! from fat-iron, and Sithes OF cOmmeserayshin
from blast furnis. I've acktilly heerd of sum
that hes ben redooced to ware the same walkin
dresses, and cetery, three or four times runuin.
They must hev ben wimmn of strong minds or
they'd hev wlted rite down.
4 TharS anuthhr deplorabu fetor a grown out
er the student pull up in dress. Not oney the
merchintS, but the nayshinal revenoo is a a-suf
fcrin, and OnleSS the importashins increase afore
very long, we shall all hev TO be taxed directly.
Ef no furrin goods is rekwired, its clear thars
an eend orour duties to the government This
would perdooce, probably, the all.ravinist ex-
j sightment in pollytickle sirkils that ever was
heern tell on in this liberil and DISTINGUISHED
kuntry. Oney to think of the cuStom-house
bein rubbed out. Eff it dident breakdown the
wheels of our republican system, it would turn
no eend oflively PATRIOTISM jest as sour as beer
arter a thunder gust. On the hull therefor its
mebbec better for both sects to dress in good
stile as long as they kin get the brads or run
thar faces for the dry goods. Beedin Kansas
and the niger kWestin is athrettnin to split the
Union, but efyou bust up the custom house its
goner. The sperit of 76 and considabul more
would be aroused at wunst in them PATRIOTIC
instertushins.
Eta plane man like me mOught persoom to
advise fashinabul sOsity, would say, Don't
dress to kill, my friends as you hev been adoo-
in, but dress like ladies and gentlemen, wether
you feel like it or not for the sake of Unkel
Sam, and the blessed brood as he feeds from his
own vines, like benevylent old pelikin as he is.
1t is consolin to motifs that eff thars no revival
in trade thar is in relidgin. Ell the stores is SOL
enterry, the churches is full. Accordin to wun
jurnil, all Wall street is hevin new berth. This
is pleSent informaShin. Eff all the speckyIaters
and brokers is RELY passin inter thar seckind
childhood, should like to go in among 'em as
r bar 1t mought pay.
Thar seems TO be no doubt that an ongodIv
r number Of the big bugs attends the reviyil SER
NiSls' sum thinks Its bekaSe they've nuthin
else to do, times bein so dull. That's oncharita-
bull, hOwsever line win to beye that the
sinners as takes advantage of the present stag
nashin in business to ''hOld sweet commerce
with the skies" the him says, is oney fufillin
thar duties rs responsible critters when they
get up or neel down in publick and declare thar
selves the wust kinder krminels. Its sartain ef
they war hypercrits they'd never tell setch tales
outer skool. Hopin t.iat it may do EN- good
and that we may all eventually pull throo our
dittikulties, temporal and spirital, rename, de-
vOptly, Yours, allus,
Il DISBASDED VOLUNTEER
I OBscuRITY of style usually indicates that the
writer is clumsy, careless, or crude, or insiu-
] cere. or nShamnd of hinnsnlf