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

cast your eye, and down which you are just
about to read Eve trust you are just about to
read it) is our morning leader. And, what is
our "lnorning leader" about2 Well, just read
on, patient reader, and you will find out. If
there be anything learned and philosophical in
it, read it, for il is yours; if there be anght
pithy and to the point, read it, for we give it to
you gratis; if there be title of spice or grain
of salt in it. read it for the title of spice and
the grain of salt we gladly would have you to
take. Nay, though it be sheer emptiness and
absolute nothingness, still we would have you
to read our morning leader. Is this a hard re-
quirement? Verify we do not think it so. No
worse, we assure you, than you daily make of
u.s.
In this rapacious, busting, hurrying age of
ours, it is required that editors have brains
which, like the basin of the Atlantic or the
purse of Fortunatus, are never empty. Just as
the baker is daily expected to be punctual in
serving up the stipulated number of rolls, or as
the vegetable man is looked for with his luxu-
ries suited to the season, so it is expected of
the editor that he be not derelict in serving up
the daily product of his brains. (Alas, poor
brninsI Do you think how often they ache for
you, reader2) No matter what be the state of
the times or the seasons; no matter whether
there be no news or news of no import; no
matter whether there be anything to write
about or not; no matter what the circumstances
are, still the Editor must write, and must write
toplease thousand minds of antagonistic tastes.
Curious ideas are entertained of the Editors
resources. By some he is looked upon
kind of patent, selfacting, perpetual motion,
forty-brain power machine which has only to
be set in motion at stnted times to produce the
expected results. Others more moderate in
their fancy, look at him as possessed, to limit
ed extent, of the attributes of humanity, yet, as
physically and mentally, capable of performing
feats beyond the reach of common lnortals. The
very most moderate view is, that he is man
that should labor all the time, that should be
thoroughly versed in all the sciences, from AS
tronomy down to simple addition, and learned
in all arts and professions, and above all things
that he should have pen ready TO dash off a
column and half of editorial, on any given
subject, at five minutes warning. 1t never
once enters into the head of any one that it is
ever either a trouble or labor for an editor to
write. We wish we could correct all such erro-
neous ideas, yet we without hope that
can. We wish we could excite only single
sympathy on behalf of our rssappreciated cares
and pains, but who ever sympathized with an
editor? Let him TOLL in sweat, through an in
fnitude of exchanges to Gull forth the choicest
dish for your intellectual palatcs, yet never
mind his sweat, and berate him soundly if he
do not please every tnste among the thousands
that he caters for. Let him torture his ingenu-
ity to find ftsubject for his ''morning leader"
and after hehas found it, let him drag on through
swelling columns but never once think of the
torture or the agonizing drag. II the subject
suit not your taste, call the editor llassorted
Ounce, though Jones should declare it capital
subject for a leader; if it is too long, call the
editor regular proser-an everlasting bore,
though Smith declare it be not long enough, by
half; if it be too short call him a lazy lack
witted loon, though jenkins consider it insult
ferably prolix.
Thus, gracious readers, would we advise you
TO do, knowing full well that, such is the meas
daily melted to us, and which we may daily
expect. 1t is philosophical TO look cnlamities in
the face, and when they are inevitable, it is an
easy kind of heroism to court their approach
CALEB CUSHTNG-HtS Great POtoerS of Mind
lis Energy and PersscerGnce.-W have al
ways admired Caleb Gushing, since we knew
anything about him, not politically, but as
man. Our readers doubtless all know him as
member of Mr.. Pierce's cabinet. We like the
style of the man, as VIC think most every body
will after reading the following:
[RrOm the Boston Bee.l
Caleb Gushing, who thirty years ago, like ono
of whom Haeck sings, ''was younger than he
is now" though still in his meridian, was one
of the writers for the Magazine. Whatever came
from his pen then, as whatever comes from it
now, was marked by strong intellectually and
elegant culture. His intellect, his tact, his in
dustry, his perseverance, and his ambition to
ascend from whatever level he may occupy for
tho moment, are the,tr attributes of the NAN
OF SUCCESS. They present combination of
powers rs rare as it is remarkable, and their eX-
hibition such varied fields of action have
given SIR. Gushing almost a worldwide fame
He is the NAN OF DIFFERENTIATION, so widely re-
cognized as such that one may almost say of
him, that If he could not reach a mountain top
by climbing its dead-wooded and thorny sides,
he would proceed, without hesitation, to bite
tunnel half way through at its base, and then,
whether his teeth held out or not, by series of
mastery shifts aud changes from a straight line
to curve, which he would demonstrate were
made on purely mathematical principles, he
would burrow his way. up from the centre to
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