Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-03-14

and died, ana kept lniS secret, Ihe tut Io'S 1"''
fed on the school girls "damnsk cheek" all
painfully suppressed to the great injury of his
popularity while living and his record when
dead No; the whole thing is one of your sub
tlefuges. got up by the pirates who want to
steal Cuba in the event that Spain won't sel'
her to u.s. Whether Buchanan is, or is not nc
cessory to the scheme, he is to be the paw that
will do the work of tic fllibustcrs. Wen bet
our hat that Slidel could explain the whole
mystery of the sudden flare and glare of histo-
headlight which has now over-shadowed the
Executive The thing would be convulsvely
laughabe were it not for the secret intrigue that
turks beneath it.
On the cas- bank of the Ohio river, some con-
siderable ways below here, there is an ASSEM-
blage of shanties, and other tenements, which
reioices in the title of Parkersburg. Within
the bounds of this snma ParkrrShnrG fhnra 10
issued at stated periods, feeble sheet styled the
PdrkersJufy Ners, the Object whereof is to dis
pense to the uncombed red wamuses in the sur
rounding regions in sufficient doses, the simon.
pure, reclified, double-distilled essence of De-
mocracy. This laudable design is mosItscrupu-
lousy and reIigiously carried ou-tso much so
indeed that nothing of liberal or intelligent
character has ever been known to detile the spot
less pages of the Ne,os-nothing permitted to
enter its columns that might not be admitted
with IMMUNITY into the "holy of holes" of any
democratic temple of faith. Such being the ex-
alttd and orthodox standard Of the Pdrkers5urg
Netos it must of necessity have its delicate sem
sibilities rudely josted in this very wicked and
very heretical world. Men will be bad and mis-
taken, and the Mems can't help it,
But to lay aside badiuage, and tell the sober
truth, the NewS is about as mendacous
a blackguard, in an insignificant way, rs we
know Of We learn that the editor is i'm
portation of recent date from Pennsylvania
and if such is the fact, his fnlsome efforts to
become tho vindicator, par excellence, of de-
rayed niggerism, down about Parkershurg, are
disgustingly bruzen. So fur us we have OBJ.
served, there has not been an issue of his paper
for some time, that has not contained some per
verified comment upon some article in the Intel
Hgencer, such US his comments upon Senator
Caljwelrs speech, Underwood's letter, or some
thing of that sort. What makes the whole
thing in worse taste than it otherwise would
be, is, that this Red wamus comes up hero
every once and awhile, begging Wheeling adj
refreshments to keep his rickety, second hand
sheet in existence.
Whom our State Senator made that horrible
speech In this direful and dismal purlicu of
"Abolitionism and " SIGH like" pestilences,
wherein he put forth the terrible doctrine that
the free white mans interests needed protection
in Virginia, we felt dreadful misgivings that
when its echoes and reechoes reverbcrating
Along the cliffs of the Ohio, should reach the
charming domain where the metropolis of Par
kersburg rises, like Venus, from the mud, the
dcicately bred political conscience of the Netcs
Grinder and all its ideas of orthodoxy or pro-
priety would be shocked, lacerated outraged
Oar anticpatons were more than fulfilled. The
Arst copy of the Lntslligencer containing our
report of Caldwells speech, that greeted the Wis
ual peppers of the Ners- Grinder, like the 'msae,
1nene'' that none but Daniel could interpret,
made the vital apparatus of this modern Bel
Shazzar quake within him with mortal terror.
Amusement of the blankest kind seized the
Grinder; helpless, but not quite voceless, its
melodious keys swept rudely by an iron hand,
it was like to give up the ghost with all its
music in it; but the thought of the big CAD
down at "Big Richmond" gonded it to one Ni9re
effort, and once more adjusting the crank, il
managed to grind out just one more tune, and
which it still grindeth to this day. somewhat
thus: wo is the PanhandleI Wheeling, the
fair city, has become the habitatiOn of every
foul spirit wo, wo, the free ethyl Great is
Black Republicanism, and the Latcl1igeneer is
his prophet
We like good thing though we sometimes
get tired of too much of it. We like this tune,
though we should not like to hear it played
more than six months at a single stretch. We
have fine appreciation of the harmonies of
tune, but for the present NE have had surGeit
ofthiS Like the Arkansas potato digger who
entertainodthe stranger that could play Rack.
ensacl," We pull off our "siouch," aud kick
back our hind leg aud make our best bow, and
ask the Meas Grinder if he wont please to play
the turn"