Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-12-28
Ne publish on our first page this morn

effectualIy stopped. !
With This blow perishes all prospect OF
commercial greatness for Charleston
South carolina ariStocracy has long been
boIsttred Up With visions, of an empire, oil
which Charleston was to be the grand ems
perium. The prospects of Southern
empire are rather slim just now, and those
Of charleston, particularly, are 80 bad as
to certainly bring down The hAn.tnf 81 the
aristosrsts a Peg or TWO, ifiuot more
What with the rasageS of eopaagEation
and the oh1tructions BY the feet. Charles.
ton has but little left 10 be proud Of
True they mag fall back for eomtof.
and support on their high bred caste, and
may. VOW 10 surrender their sacred soil
only with3lheir more sacred lives lin the
manner they did it at Port Royal but time
and events have proved that suetia reliance
is not reliable and that sort of bFayado
can afford them no real aid, whatever NOR
sell Of comfort they may be able to extract
from it..
Rough, hsw thtn h.'w smsyI
and that Divinity is shipping the end Of
Charleston "roush', It We may judge from
this beginning:
w6en the whirlwind shall have been
reaped by wicked and rebellions people,
who have sown the storm With wild reck5
le,sness; when the yet uudevelOped con-
contains Of this rebellion in the South
.b.ll have shown themselves, and have
swept, oyrrlit with fierce des!rnrtiOp' there
viii be many desolate places in "the l"nd
of the cypress and myrtle" though none
more utterly, or desrrvedly SO, than
Charleston, which has been the home OF
traitors and the nest of treason erer'sinre
the days of its colonial existence. Ira
yelers in some more calm and yirtpous"ge'
will sit on her ruins and mediate, as travel
ers are wont to mediate and nor'lize now
over the ruins of tue Old World.
Certainly, if there is a man who has ever
doubted that the rerributive justice of the
Almighty manifests itself directly in HUI
man affairs, he must be convinced. even
against his will, when he lO"ks upon Char
lesion, what she has been aud done, what
she is now, and what is yet in store for her
o Mess the designs Of Providence are
tEwnrted (aud ii is not likely they will bel
the time is coming when owls aud bat,
andI moccasin snakes and alligators, will
Iinhabit the place where p rtion OF Char
llesto now stands, and she, like the DOOM
ed cities of the plain will existonly in the
hist DRY of her iniqpities.
The exact means by which the conclu-
sion of this good work is 10 be accomplish
ed have not yet been made apparent. Feel
ling the interest in the mnttsr we do, we
would suggest, if it would not be deemed
profaue, that q small shower of fire and
birthstone would he very appropriate and
effecti ye srecial visitation that the mer-
its of the case would justify, and one alto
geth er tseasonable and proper.
In Washington last week, horseman
clad ina sort of cavalry costume, with !"
heavy overcast and sloucbed hat, had been
noticed for some time dashing about the
city in ra ther Suspicious manner. At
last the au thoriiies felt themselves warran-
.
ted In arrestipg him; and accordingly one
morning, when trOtiipg down Pennsylvania
avenue, he found himself suddenly sur
rounded by o file of soldiers, and was
carried OF to prison. The investigation
that followed resulted not only iu The dis
-covery of certain important papers, but
also of the fact that the gallant cavalier
was woman. How longs she bad been at
the game it is impossible to guess.
w1xTkR S al. oSs IN wrslERN VIRGINIA.
THE arrangem ent of the federal forces in
/ W. sterr Virginia for The winter is as fol-
lows: General Rosecraps aud staff at Vice.
ling; Colonel Porsehner, Forty seventh Ohio
at Gauley Bridge; General C"x's brigade
at Charleston, on The Kanawha; General
j Reynolds, at Phillip; General Milroy, al
Cheat Mountain; Colonel Ford, Thirty
second Ohio, at Elkwater; Colonel Moss's
| Second regiment at Beverly; one regiment
/ at Huuonyille. .q.-t5
i I4fsnow necessary 10 have acts of Con.
! eress enrolled on skins ofParchment before
they are al gped. which takes some ii. e,
and causes deal of unnecessary delay a,
I the close of the sessions. Senator Sumner
has in troduced bill dispensing wilhthi'
relic of; feudal cusiomssapd providing fol
the simple copyire,of Acts in a fair hspd
on linen paper, bich will be far easier tc
preserve for reference than are the cum,
bersome rolls of parchment
THEaE is a petticoat at Washington taker
from a she secesh that weighs ftly pounds
The garment is apparently quilted one