Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-13
WHEELING, VA, SATURDAY. MORNING, july i3, 1861.

clutches patent skirt with sliding springs
and adjustable hustle, crying in the words
Of the patriarch, Il cannot let thee goW-
Is not that pathos2 And is it not pleasant
to know that By this time the Governor of
Eastern Virginia, through the study of these
preliminary specimens, may have become
such conuois eur in the female branch
of that science developed BY Snrtor Resar-
tus, that ere long we shall hear him dicta
ting from Richmond the edicts now iSsu-
ing from Madame Demarest2 Thus.
Il. J. Letcher, do proclaim that every
lady between Hampton Roads and the Pan
Handle shall, after this date, appear Mt
church in a love of q mdHve bonnet, and II
sweet gored Swiss muslin, decoHetce, with
flowing sleeves. s
"Giyen undermy hand and seal.
~. LETCHEK.
''!Sic .Semper Tyranmsa'i
"Compared with tue original Pattern
book and found correct,
.. JENNINGS WISE, XodiSte-( which
does no; mean modest)."
But John Letcher-though, to quote
from Chatham street again, the "0riginai
Cheap John" Of the female clothing trade,
is terribly distanced by another compatri-
OF, Cnpt. Thomus. Letcher is fond of wo-
mans attire-but he does not care to wear
it himself. Capt. Thomas, we need hard
ly remind the reader, gUes to that length.
Recall how on the 2sth of June a
steamboat. entitled the ST. Nicholas, left
Baltimore for Georgetown, taking among
other passengers ''a French lady of dark
complexion, masculine features, bus quie!
manners" How, at midnight, this dirk,
quiet and masculine lady arose, acquired
l.l...
startled passengers. took on a cargo Of
Tennesseean rebels, and set out for the
Virginia shore. Was it Joan of Arc,
Ph9nix-like, arisen from the ashes of
Frances Rouen TO light the pile of Amer
icu's ruin? Was it the Maid of Saragos-
sa, with IL new soul kindled in her by
the sound of war, or Charlotte Corday,
coming in vengeance against the tyraut
Lincoln, nt the scene of IL new revolution
in the western world 2 None of these
only Capt Thomas in petticoats.
He takes his prize into Fredericksburg--
likewise his petticoats. The illdstrions
First Families receive both with uncOu-
cealed delight They like the prize, but
they prefer the petticoats. They give din
nerS to Captain Thomas. Nothing will do
but that, after the champagne, for whose
refrigeration he brought them stolen ice,
he endue himself in those garments where
with 1.-The lannon's military exploit" was
pertormed.7 He put them on-be marches
up ard dUwn-'t greeted with tremendous
applause So did the catnmite King Sar-
danapalus array himself in the vestments
of his feuaie slaves, and saunter up and
down the palace courts n the waning days
of the Assyrian Kingdom. Bnt we never
heard that he received Tremendous up-
plauSe." lie is not II particularly glorious
object in history-even though he spun,
wovc, and did several other useful things,
which captain Thomas would be quite in
adequate to. We recoIicct that as Sard1-
napaluS was the the first Assyrian who APP
peared in womHns clothes, so he WAS the
last who sat on the Assyrian throne. Is
Thomas the last OF the Virginia captnins-
they who began with a certain young man
in mans clothes, nnmed Washington?
An dnow, thepoor aInbiguoms-th vesti-
mentnry ..Whot is 1.-THE "French lady
the Captain-is caught, His career is as
short as Il bellies Mt u country ball a lit
tie dancing in brilliant light a little rust
ling of hounced skirts, compliment from
certain fredericksburg people in mems
clothes, and Miss Thomas becomes wall
by the ankle, instead of
tie proprieties, to casemate in Fort Nc
Henry. .
They call her pirate. But don't hang
her, Mr.. Lincoln. Commute the sentence,
out of consideration to her sex, into i'm
prisonment in that bureau where she was
found. There, like a new Ginevra, let her
lie among her beloved dimities and muslins,
for Governor Letcher to find and weep over
when he next goes rummaging after female
garb.