Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-07-20

essential part.o the course of a liberal educa-
cation, are made strikingl manifest in the ex-
traordinary influence which they lentsto all the
efforts Of Rufus Ghoate. Last nigh We amused
ourselves in looking over one or t9o of his
speeches, which we had pasted gawaysin an old
scrap book Nothing could be finer than some
of the parallels and illustrations which drew
from antique life TWAS his delight to adorn
his themes with those beautiful shades Of
thought which so distinguished the ages
of Pericles, Thucydides, Cicero, Virgil and 4
Tacitus His speech at Dartmouth College, in
the summer Of 1853, on Daniel Webster, the
place where both he and Webster had gradna-
ted, carries us back to the great eulogium#
Tacitus on Julius Agricola, in the sad and state
Nv spirit of which, Ghoate's mastery effort
seems 10 have been written. Here is the way
inIwhichsi it opened:
1T would be a strange neglect of q beautiful
and approved custom of the schools OF learning,
and of5one of the most pious and aPProPrlate OF
the offices of literature, if the college IN when
the intellectual life of Daniel Webster began,
and to which his nameiimparts charm. and illus
tration, should give no formal expression to her
grief in the common sorrow; If she shouldsnot
draw near, one of the most sad lin the process
sion OF the bereaved, to the tomb at the sea,
and find In her CLASSIC Stlaues OIle alSS1lollalS
land grateful leaf to set in the garland with
which they have bound the brow OF her child,
the ghtest5 departed.
tits seldom that one meets with anything
more artistically subdued than that.
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WE have a word of advice for Ridgway, of
the Richmond Wig, which is:
The .Philistines be upon thee, Robert. The
Richmond Enquirer has designs on you, Robert.
1t is after drawing the wool over your eyes,
Robert. 1t soft soaps you, thick and strong,
Robert; but we are afraid, Robert, thatit is the
froth Of the Anaconda that intends to devour
you, Robert. We can't always agree with you,
Robert, for we think you are one of the best
men in the world, and one Of the best editors,
too. And though, as you know, Robert you
and We, on the niger don't agree; yet, on
everything else we do, Robert But you and
Democracy, Robert, have nothingin common,
save that African nomen. And you remember
what mirth Robert you made in the African
iChurch, about ''Aliens in the land Of their
birth" Robert.
Wise has ssan axe 10 grind" Robert and lie
wants you to turn the stone, Robert. But re-
member what he said about that goddess crew, !"
magma Pars quorum, gou, Robert. Re
member that 4th Thursday in May, Robert
when t'Mericans that were to rule America"
didn't even getto rule Virginia, Robert Re-
member Wise'sz lust for domination, Robert, MS
shown in tue musket usurpaton-an later
still, in Letcher's nomination, and beware Of his
Charleston nomination, Robert.
Robert Ridley, do you hear meg"
WE always look with something of anxiety
for the South Carolina interior papers theweell
succeeding the celebration of the GLORIOUS
i91lpeatt s sS ce t9
ctnonies of the day usually consist in dsnoun.
icing the Union, cursing the Constitution, etc.
We have not as yetheari from the Swamp"
this year-but at Grahamyille, we see, the
brethren were "fuy up to the exigencics ofthe
occasion, !" judging from the high falutin speech
es delivered on the occasion. One of these pat.
riots-Hon. Francis W. Fickling-expressed
his conviction that the only remedy for the
wrongs of the South was a dissolution of the
Union. The Hon. Francis did not think South
Carolina could live nylonger in honorable con-
nection with the North.
THE London Zimes gives a long description
ofthe newziron steam ram, which, it says, will
be afioat next June Her total length will be
8sO.feet, breadth, 58; total weight ut sea, about
5000 tons; full speed, II miles IN hour. About
220feet of the broadside of the vessel will be of
teak "a inches thick this will be covered with
armor plates ~ inches thick on the deck. The
ram will be armed with So Armstrong guns,
each throwing loo.lb. shot over a range Of six
miles. The ram will run down ships by. driving
straighta at them at full speed. If she does one
hnlf'of what may fairly anticipated from her,
she5will be.cheaPer to the nation lhana dozen
/ sail Of the limo. The cost of the hull will be
about 100000 the engines about e75, 600 and
her fitting for sea about 6 900 more, or $500.
4 OOo#in all.
THE British trade and navigation returns for
May, exhibit manifestly the depression witch
the political disturbance of Europe has caused
! to commerce. The ploughshare has sunk be-
fore the sword; the arts of peace retire before
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