Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-18
Leller rom the DI.bnnded voInnteer

Letter from thc DIsbnnded Volunteer.
1t is quite clear, from the following letter, that
sickness has not left the old soldier in very en-
viabe moral and mental condition. We are
compelled to pronounce it sour, miSanthropic
not to say Observation-Disclosures and are quite
sure that the writer will feel ashamed Of its bit.
terness when ne sees it in Print. 1t isn't the
veterans heart that speaks, however, but his liv-
er. As soon as the secretons are all right, he
will discourse more like phianthropist and a
christian:
SAINT NIcNALAs HorrEL, March 10, 1857.
Eadyturs Of Tie .Sunday Times:
Peers to me, this about the alldewsyest epock
MS ever was knowd sense the poppy of the hui
man race race dTapt on inter that perlound lit.
nrgy as eendcd his single life. Trade, specky-
lashin, pollytickS, eenamoSt evrything is a layin
dormouse. Eff it warnt for the rapes, seduck-
shius, murders, and hangins in the nOOsepapcrs,
Inenny would Spite for want of eXsightment.-
Gallus speeches, setch as Donnellys frinstancc,
is gettin so common, hOwSever, that few minds
EN-; and it reliwires suthin new and Original,
like the luv seen atween Il murderer and his
Slcepin parduer at Pittsburg luther day, to git
the steem up. Prehaps, ef the hull suckem-
stances connekted with the lives and deaths of
that onlortnit pare was mellowdramitized it
mought create payin scnsashin for u week or
two
Ginerally speakin, when things is dull here,
thats sum sort of an nterestin Shindy gon on
abroad But it amt so now. The sangwinnary
gentlemen in the monnick-murderin line, hes
showd tharseYcs Sctch an Onhandy blundcrin
set that thars nary a short boy as owns n stock
in with a stone in it as doosent deSpise EN-. As
to gettn up conspurraseeS and carryin of
out in spite of the perleece, thar amt club of
hafe-groan rowdeS as meets Mt emmy of our street
kOrners arter dark for the dispatch of dizziness
that wOuldcnt beat EN- all to smash
Wall wot is thar besides underway that emmy
boldly EeprS abOut2 Tho cnmuai,rn in T,,iaa
hes lost the charm of novelty sense the British
tuck to hangin the prisoners in place of givin
elm free discharge from the lannon's mouth,
and the Chinese flare-up is tea-totally oninter-
estin, nobody calin pinch Of gunpowder for
the nisabu ShanghighS. Sartinly, thars the
Mormon war, but then that amt to commence
Ontil the enemy hes rendered thar persshin inn
pregnant, and the linens hes run off all Kurnil
JonSon's bosses. Thars the latepowerful mooy-
ment in rclidjun, you'll say. WALL thar may
be sumthin in that Ell, as hes been stated
fifty thousand peepn is now engaged in wurkin
out thar own salvasoin, in this city, its ondoubt
edly lordabul enterprise, and | hope they'll all
worry throo. | wouldent mind jinin in myself
for pins eXsightment is scd to be the helthieS
at my time of life, and spoSed to pay the best
in the ecnd; but don't feel like Sayin Inc the
chief of sinners; and maxim myself out wusser'n
RELY am, Hforc hull congregaShn Seems
to me we hev no more call to bare false witness
agen ourselves than agen our naybors, aud no
an cvcrastin lot of sinners as couldent pre-
tend to hold kandil too.
To tell the plane truth, Inc rayther dubrous
abovt revivals bein wot thar crackt upter be
Relidjun got in a hurry seldom Stix, and I've no.
fist that when revived sinner falls from grace,
as they call it, he draps lite outer the Tnaintop
inter the lower hold, and you can never git a
blessed rise outer him afterwards line afeard
short cuts to Hevin is onpossabul as French
in six easy lessons. Holdin TO this opinyun. I
shall keep as neer as ken TO the old narrcr
trail that leads upparl, doom as little harm to
my fe;ler creturs MS pOSsabul on the rode. ard
bein as cOrreck in all my deelins as the state of
the money markit will permit Bettin's agen
the law, and its rong to steak the dros of nam
min on Setch sollem suhicck. Eff it warut, |
wouldent mind riskin V that get to the ies-
red pint a little ahead of emmy steeple-cllase
saint as Sknnks across lots and tries to take all
the fences lyiu
deSSay you'll kunsidder this letter rayther
wormy, but cf you had felt for three weeks as ef
yer rite lung was stuck on a skewer, and yer
liver wasa brlin gridiron mebhee pluracy
and conjeStshin wouddent have left You in a
mulch better frame OF mind After a long in.
terrupShin, they tell me, the bile is just begin.
mn to flow freely, and | spoSc that's wot makes
me so bitter. feel sOrtcr Soleutcrry and lone.
some, too, and banker arter change. Thars
travellin, aud tharS marryin, and thars suicide
oleve shall try travclu tIISt, and eff cum to
that konclushin, my next kontribushn will be
an aiteckShinlt farewell to yourselves and reed
erS In the intrim, and in lack, ''while this
lamp holds out TO burn, / RENAME,
Yours, allus, DIsBANDED VOLUNTEER
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