Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-10-14
vANITYFAIR GOES TO wAsHING-
TON.
secs the Secretary of War and has a
word with him.

Secs the Secretary OF War and has n
word with him.
v. F., has been there; v. F., unwilling
to receive as authority the speculations of
others, girded up his loins, and one fine
morning, some Two weeks past, smiled
blandly upon the exterior of Wizards at
Washington. Entering the portals in our
usual majestic manner, we failed to en-
counter the individual who demanded from
our beloved Artemus twenty cents for a
look; and in jnsticeto Chadwick, the-mag-
nifcent-a d-unapproachable-to
mon-herd, permit us here to say, he an
swered a question without demanding the
customary fee of fifty cents, as also repor-
ted by Ward. Incidentally, however, we
may here observe, in the course of the day
we met an dttGche of the establishment,
who seemd to be clothed in very i'm
proper frame of mind and body, and who
politely informed us his name Twas Hick-
man, and that in consideration of the
tightness of the times he only played now
on the White, and the Red seemed to be
mrayther skeerce," and whom we immedi-
ately engaged as special correspondent.
V. F. therefore will shortly rival the Home
Journal in the spirituality and piquaucy of
its correspondence from Washington, un-
less Mantalini's greater social influence
snd table.cloth- th-between-wards superiority
for obtaining information drives tour own"
from the field.
What v. F. saw, and the numerous per-
lis of food, field, and etc. then aud there
encountered, we have neither time nor
space to tell. We went there, as we have
observed, to see with our own eyes, hear
with our own ears to have a chat with the
celebrities; sit at the same table with Man
did, at the Prince, the court; 6IIiif;"fh the Duke;
stand altar off and note the serpeutine
crowd writhing for an interview with the
dispensers of the public funds; note the
Shiny thousands who were there ready to
barter their body, soul, and manliness for
one grasp at the monitary crib; and con-
template With grief how immeasurably
dwarted the great men of cities, villages,
aud boroughs become, when all are mex
tricably involved in the corrupting atmos-
phere of Government patronage. OF
course we Wished TO survey the land; ex-
anime critically the bearings of the pub
lies servans; calmly look into the eyes of
the Chief Tho rules the Department of
War; listeuto the honied and impressive
language the State Department; ignore
the HInterir," into which we looked, and
Yesuvius, nothing in it - glide gently in-
to the golen influence which peryaded
the "Treasry," aud be awed into iusig-
nifcauce b the Homeric beauty of him of
the Navy.
And SO ne fue morning we bent our
steps towFd the War Departments; too
modest toask any questions, we threw
ourselves uto the stream in the avenue
about 10 NJ, and as a matter of course
soon reackd the haven of many hopes
Through te doors and up the stairs over
which so amy anxious feet have trodden,
we suffer1 ourself to be swept onward
with the ager crowd. sat last "at
last we surmured-so it proved to be;
for uncoicious of and design upon tho
HonorablS Secretary save laudable curi-
ostity,we seorered that,we were really the
last, and 1T the anteehamber was almost