Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-10-17


posed 20 have said 20 his son Ai iS.,i.
after the same was Dead and hadn'i
any breath sElntOn him.
4 Columbus was not the first man Uh0
. made discovery, nor the last one. We
have gone and done likewise. In small
way we have made diseovety-ehiehy By
main strength and the force Of eireum-
stances, We apprehend-and are happy 70
/ be able to communicated to our numerous
and intelligent readers. Not TO keep them
in suspense, and 70 be brief-in short, to
be confidential, as wilkins NieaWber
would say, it Is this: that the poets (like
the foolsj are not all dad yet; and far
thermore that native genius no longer Ian
guishes IN silence and
ssWaIts. it sveetnss % TIE dsssrt air5"
As Gay said the flowers that were l'born
TO blush unseen" used 70 do in his day
II was = matter Of intense regret, We are
told, among the literateurs of England, af-
Ter By1on's death, that they could nOthaTe
another great poet in their day and geuer-
alton. But We are in luck. We have
apieh" right in our midst and We propose
afor the nonee" lin the language Of our
Market street contemporary TO abandon
Yourselves 70 good luck, toreTelin the flow
ers Of poesie, TO be happy; in short 10 be
leOn6dential), to hold a sort Of literary revei
with our readers, for We know they are
tired and surfeitsd with heavy war leaders
and Sigh for a shauge Of fodder, even II It
should give them something light and
ehaGE.
! To come 70 the scratch then, the matter
in hand Is this: We find in the Wheeling
{ Pse.s newspaper Of Tuesday a eonttibu-
uon supposed to be apone"-Whether
monody, oratorio or Pasquinade dePOnent
saith not, for depOneut don't know, though
lie might have found out by inquiring Of
Judge Tbompsou-but '.Pomeg anyhow.
flle careful not 70 eonfound this word with
..ponep rs that would be an eggregious
misnomer.J This "pome" is in fact So
liIoqay; in short, 70 be confidential, it is
..,Peter the Create" soliIoquy on .he
dead body OF his SON" Aleck. alias Pc
irowitz Czarowitz. This solilOquy "out-
LongfeIIows LongfelIoE" a good deal
worse we may observe, IN patsant, than
does the parody on POe's Raven which We
ind in the same number Of the Prets news
paper. Indeed we've no doubt at all that
il Out-Peter5 Peter the Great himself
which must be acknowledged to be a very
clever performance.
It is apparent that the muse vas about
when this soliloquy was gotten up, and
likewise Dayid's Lament for AbsaIom'
which it slightly resembles-Utry slightly
indeed, we admit; in short, to be confiden-
tiaI, it don't resemble It Al all, and If any
. body should ever be nash enough to show
it to Willis and infinite that it was par
ody on the Lament, there is no estimating
what might happen; the result would be a
tragic one, We feel sure.
1t being QUE constant aira to present to
our many and approaching readers at least
part of every good thing that finds its way
into newspaper circles, We cannot do less
than draw on the sOliIOquy for afeW gems.
We do not venture on the whole Of it at
once, but deem it prudent IN slice il as we
wo pid q nice cake aud administer II in
small and we'll regulated doses. We might
say here, by way Of pArenthesis, that the
sOlilOquy is intensely aprOpOs at thisjunc.
turo Of our national AFFAIRS, and is just
the thing that has long been needed to ill
up a blank in the current literature of
the day.
To begin, then, little note by way of
prelude informs US that Peter poisoned his
SON Aleck because he was bad boy, dis
solute and profigaie. in short, "a gay and
festive euss," aud unfit to inherit the
crown imperial. This being promised, the
muse spreads its wings above Parnnssus
aud inhaIing the gentle zephyrs of that
exalted region, begius: gH
''Tis even %"
This is good commencement. 1t, ia
Cue. Il Is not only highly poetic, butt is
n fact. We know it is so; we feel positive
Of it, and should be willing to assert it on
our own responsibility, even if the poet
hadn't said It was 80. e -'
| Then the muse tit PROCESSES to be Peter,
bnt we know it is the muse by the style)
iuduiges in the descriptive. . d.
seares six let IN isngth and two in width
(Aud about foot aud 4 half in depth, it is
cOnjsctured.)
PrCm which there e no WHEELING;
The dad body q my son AlsxiG