Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-01-19


Jusr now tho country is being dunned from
one end to another for dollars and half dollars
wherewith to purchase the tomb and tomb
stead of the 'tFather of his country" In this
and in many other of the cities and towns
throughout the country, the delicate office OF
canvassing for aims has been delegated to the
ladies-it being supposed, and very properly,
too, that Mount Vernon, through temporary
identification with their smiles and charms,
would not be half so likely TO be turned away
empty from the doors of ''the sons of the sires,'
as it would be ,under the @gis of sterner pat
riots This is great compliment to the ladies'
much greater than it is to Mount Vernon.
We have been requested to say something on
behalf of the cause-a request which we feel
altogether like complying with. And in so
doing, it does not seem so fitting to us to re-
mind our readers of the countless blessings
which, under Providence, we all owe to George
Washington, as it does at this present time to
call to mind the vulgar sordidness of John
a. Washington, the present owner. The very
fact that the "holy sepulchre" is in the hands of
such an unappreciating and parsimonious sort
of Safacen as John a. Washington, seems, to
us, when looking at this matter an additional
Indictment why should all try to get it into
the possession of those who have proper esti-
mate of its glorious association with the life of
the illustrious dead. Some one has said that
Providence seems to have designedly ordained
that great men should, for the most part die
childless-else their fame and name would but
too often be Inundated in the person of some
small souled or small minded descendant
AlasI we say, that this collateral, John A.
Washington, should have been allowed to step
in and fill and dishonor the much more prefera-
BILE vacuum in the descent of the honorable pat
ronymic He happens by far off consanguin-
ity to have fallen heir to Mount Vernon. To
/. him tits an estate-so many acres with house
on it-having desirable notorrety which gives
it speculative value in dollars and cents. Just
as to Peter Bell
1.-THE primrose on the rivers brm
And It nothing MORE
So are the sacred and classic shades of Mount
Vernon, we doubt not, to the soul of John
A Washington. We care not what excuse may
be urged on behalf of this man, the fact is APP
parent to the comnonest sense of honor, that
no man who was truly man, who truly APP
preciated such position that which John A.
Washington holds, would have done this thing
which he has. He is the owner of a large per-
sonal estate, and yet he comes forward and asks
two hundred thousand dollars for few acres,
while in the immediate vicinity the same amount
and quality of land could be had for great
deal less than 1.-THE of the sum he has named
as his lowest figures. Had Mr.. John A. Wash
ington been so additionally unfortunate (consid-
ering the nature he inherited) as to have been
born in Connecticut, he would have been de-
nounced by the Southern press, who now apollo
gise for him, as the meanest specimen of nut
meg Spectator ever yet produced in Yankeedom
But despite his name and Athenian birth place.
helis for all a poor miserable Boetian in soul,
and as such not fit t. possess any vestige of the
self sacrificing patriot, of which he can possibly
be Invested. Let US, therefore, as speedily as
possible, rescue the scpulchre from his heathen-
islI grasp.
The n. Y. Heraed says Wall street is place
SUI generis-unIike the Stock Exchange of Lon
and the Bourse of Paris, OH both of which full
time operations are unknown-and equally I'M
like every other money mart in the world One
requires to have been in it to understand it. 1t
is the greatest gambling hell in the world-a
gambling hell compared to which Baden sinks
into insigniEcance, and Frascati palcs his inef
fectual fires. For the stakes are millions, the
gamblers the merchants, DIVES, lawyers, doctors
and property owneas of the United States, and
the croupiers men of the calibre of Jacob Little.
The MinnesotiGa tells of woman residing at
Minnetonka, who for the past two years has lived
entirely without eating! Her age is %; she is