Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-07-12
A TAKE orr THAT WILL DO.
rnE SALT AND pEppER MAN OF the n. Y. TRIBUNE
ON a FOOL VINO VISITED WEST POINT

Portable institution in this barely comfortable |,
world. We have figured yourselves the callow /
cadet in high and Stranging state of tin stock,
and densely padded about the chest, with des-l
pair in his conntenance and a piece of chalk in t
his hand, facing the Plutonian black board and /
wrestling with the most melancholy mathemat-
les, until despair beaded his brow and his knees
played together like pair of castanets. We
have imagined him tossing upon his hard couch, |
to which he was marched Mt night to the music |
of piercing fife and stirring drum, only to dream
of sines and co-sines, of positive and negative |
coefffcients and the reduction of equations, |
until hideous formulas murdered sleep aud the |
little wretch awoke bathed in an Arctic sea of
perspiration. But if the boys were thus
lnocturnally and diurnally distressed, what,
we have thought, must be the pitiful feel
ings Of Board of Visitors officially COM
PEELED not only to witness, but to inflict
these Juvenile agonics? We had indeed sup
| posed the annual examination to be about as
! festive as grand barbecue of heretics by the
lnquisition. We were mistaken, and we &C
knowledge our mistake. ''V. P. Y" who is one
| of the learned gentlemen dcputed this year by
Gen. James Buchanan to inspect this nursery of
sucking lieutenantS, has reported in rosy style
to the Keokuk Oowa) Journal, ard we must
say, whatever may have been the cramps and
COLES of the young gentlemen, that this Visitor
at least, appears to have had what is termed in
| light parlance, merry go rounder. Y. P. V.
has experienced nothing but happiness during
his excursion. In this city, upon his way to
the tented field, he encountered the Prince
John, who with characteristic atfabIlitY, carried
hiin to pass the evening with Mr.. Justice RooSe-
Welt Who should be there but Miss Harriet
Lane? Who should be there but the Swedish
Minister? Who should be there but Frank
Wuddell, old friend, aOho had not seen for
thirty years" Shades of Damon and Pythias
what an embracing there must have been; and
when Y. P. V. locked Mr.. Frank in his manly
arms, how the Swedish Minister must have
wept, and how must Miss Harriet have enjoyed
the conclusion! The young lady, who is affa-
bility itself, invited Y. P. V. ''to join party
who were going up to West Point, on the pref
ty little war ship bearing her Name"
'wilt thou tempt the waves with me 81
will Miss Harriet, answered V.
And he did. And so did Kerr, of North Caro-
lima ARd SO did d P3gs Of mis- MIjjSfSgspPm 7 nth
the only "choice spirits" on board, we fancy.
v. could hardly, contain himself on the voyage.
There has been nothing like it since Cleopatra 5
little water jaunt "rhe music" says v, ''and
the booming Of the guns were most exciting
Arrived at West Point, stcrner duties began
the black boarding and bombarding, the cross.
examinations in tactlcs, in bookish theory, and
in bloody practice. "V." was in rapturcs, and
If we had been there, although we never set a
squadron in the field, and know no more of the
division OF battle than Michael CassiuS, vet
we suppose that if we Ind not been unfortu.
nave
oeen rldlcuons and unpleasant, we should have
been cnraptured with the rest. But duty did
not monopoliZe too jealousy the hecting mo-
ments. "On Saturday" says Y. P " "i 2diDu5
over the river with Gov. Kemble" Heavcns!
what an important piece of information! Gle
hyes as; as J., gentleman ought to live. "a Does
he, indeed? But did you never notice any
body exiSi9g in that polished way tcIore?-
DO not gentlemen live as genUgIuGyIz uH,:i.S ~,
I'VE IN heokuk! But what enrapturcd V. most
highly was that there was no fuss at the din
ncr IRON which we infer that he has been in
the habit OF partaking of sustenance in some
popular cellar, OF which the patrons were not
only hungry, but in a great hurry, which state
OF things, when complicated with shortness of
walters, their number aud also their legs, has
tendency to create, or, to use more elegant
phrase, to kick up "a fuss" Gov. KeTnble
gave GLORIOUS dinner" with "superb wines :"
ne confess we do not exactly understand in
what sense these adjectves are used b. Gen
Dr. BuchGnan'S West Point Visitor? We have
heard OF "a light supper," but we do not know
Preclseiy what is meant by "a glorious dinner. !"
Roast does not shine; the dessert does not GLOW.
there is nothing rcspleudent in a potato, either
mashed or in its primitive rotundty. And what
is "Superb" wine? We cannot imagine the
claret Pompous, the champagne lofty or the
port august.
But now we come to one of the most aston.
lShlng events of the century-to one the most
interesting rencounterS of modern times s.Ac
ter dinner says Y. P. ", 81 had the satisfac-
ton of beating the first Captain of the age, at
a game of whist, at which he seemed DIZZY
annoyed" We had supposed Gen. Scott 10
be a gentleman; and when gentlemen lose
two or three rubbers of whist, they do not,
however annoyed make damnabie exhibit
ton of their pique. Perhaps, however, Gen.
Scott noticed that there was an ill.bred fellow
in the company and did not think it worth
while to restrain himself as he would undoubt.
edly have done if he had been angry witt, anv
body higher in rank than his boot black. Y, :,
", however, will not probably accept our ex-
PLANTATION. Ofthe fact that he is a gentleman
polished, finished, complete, very much Of
gentleman"-he has not himself the minutest
doubt Upon this point he is exceedingly i'm
pressive. "A majority of my fellow.uiembers
are gentlemen" Who then were the black
guards-the low fellows-the ill-bred visitorsy
Really, Gen. Buchanan, LID, should have
their names, lest Miss Lane may by accident
invite them on board Doct Buchanan's and our
cutter. Let the matter be investigated! 1t
concerns the State
Perhaps after all, " has overestima.ed his
own personal polish. Gentlemen when they
are invited to dine at private residence do not
write to the pubic Journals and say what they