Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-09-03

CIRCULATION, oEANY PAPER IN WHEELING.
IL the editorial.typs and.in the editorial coll
nmn ofthe Wheeling Times Of yesterday, there
appeared an article headed, "The late Caldwell
Demonstration" Of the which article the follow
ing extract isthe opening sentence:
When. this renowned Protean hidalgo, and the
German Music Teacher, Weber by name, held
aninterchange of their peculiar views, accompa-
MED by band of hired musicians, we did not
attach, owing to the calbre of the parties, much
importance to the circumstances, and feeling
that it would be duly appreciated by the major
ity of our citizens. regards the Senator as the
last resource of Forcible Feebles.
This is, as We said, the opening sentence,
complete and entire, and although We do not
quote it with any reference to its merits, or
even its peculiarities US piece of composition,
yetwe find it inconvenient to refrain from sug-
costing that if the ghost of good old Lindley
Murrayis not at rest beyond Peradyenture,
it might bowel excused for walking abroad to
see what bad become Of the school MASTER
We fancy, for instance, that it would stump even
all the ken of that pathological shade to explain
to this people what is meant by "Protean hi
dalgo." We all know what Protean means, and
so likewise we all know what hidalgo MEANS
but We don't all know what '.Protean hitlal-
go" means; still less do we know wherein Sena-
tor Caldwell resembles 'tProtean 1idaEgo," or,
indeed, hidalgo of any sort whatever. So entire
yare We in the dark on this point and SO ready
is our selEesteem to conclude that the rest of
the world is no better of, that we begin to har-
Dor suspicion that our writer is trying to come
the Barnum on us by investing the played out
Mermaid of that fallen Snowman, with
fancy integument of his own coinage, and
opening out the show anew under the alias of
q "Proteun hidalgo." Indeed, SO strong is our
suspicion that all is not right, that we call upon
Driesbach, Van Amburgh aud the virtuoso of
the country, generally, to be on their guard
against imposition. With this caveat we leave
this predatory sentence and pass on to the body
of the article.
Welearn that it was the conviction of the
writer, last Monday morning, when he read our
report of the caldwell Demonstration" that
for him to have taken up his pen, and to have
set upon and destroyed the unfortunate Cald.
WE'LL together with Weber and all his friends,
would have been game that would not have
reimbursed him for the expenses of the candle.
lie remained steadfast in this conviction
throughout Monday, also Tuesday and Wednes
day, and up to sometime in the forenoon of
Thursday-or, to be exact, up to tho hour of
the arrival of the Pittsburgh mail. 1t was in
that hour that "a change came over the spirit
of his dream" For then twas that he opened
out the Pittsburgh Dispatch and saw therein a
portion of our report, together with the enthu.
siastic comments of the editor Then it was
that the conviction that "the game was not
worth the candle" suffered rude aud violent,
but still total and complete eradication. The
game nOlO was worth the candle, and a candle
was to be had, regardless of price. A candle
was procured. Behold the results of the first
flicker:
But as NC observe that the Editor of the
Pittsburgh Dispatch of yesterday, halls the
movement as indicative of growing strength in
the Black Republican camp, we deem it time to
the Senator's remarks with liVeliness, and
pictaresQuc elatement that would have made the
fortunes of an Herodotus or Froissart.
Talk about Herodotus indeed. His "riten"
we know is somewhat famous for the oddity and
terseness of its verbiage, but never once in the
original or in its best translatons, does it rise
to the equal Of '.pieturesgue elatement."-
What Froissart may have done we can't say,
butwe are prepared to bet on Herodotus. If
the graphic history of the charge of the 1o,>-
900 lmmortals could have been enriched by the
style Of. tie Dispatch, Imagination shrinks to
guess what it would have been under the pen
and picturesque elatemept" of the Times wri>
ter. =
So much for the first flicker from the candle
that was,now fairly paying its way.
The second scintillation from the taper is
this:
'sThe only misfortune attending this lubia.
ton, is that this vapory efferyesence was almost
stifed in its gas0rus escape"
"Gasorus." That, too, will do. 1t is not
quite SO goodias "Protean HidalgO," y nor yet as
'.picturesque elatement," but is nevertheless
clever. But tits the solecisrn of the extract
thatparticularly moves US. tits the idea,of
''yapory efferyesencep makingsa "gasorus,' or
even gaseous escape" that takes US. We
pronounce such feat achemical phenomenon.
The thing mover was done before, and if he
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