Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-13

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Of manual labor, more than thsy LATe
done in twenty years previous. We do
not forget how much Of the heayier work
the negroes have done for them. But il il
we'll known that the soldiers have had to
do a great deal With the axe ana the spade
The useful an Of shoTeliiug was never 50
widely opderstood in the South before.
Various mechanical pursuits have sudden
IL ri,.u 70 new honor. a skillful worker
10 iron, or an accomplished ship ezrPentsr
an At once 6nds himself ia repute. In
this time of distress be is fonnd 70 be Of
about asmueh importance as the man who
rais.s cotton, which cannot be eaten, sold.
or used in any manner, except a. bone Of
eon.ention between Mr. Nemminger and
the planters. The an Of making shoes We
zee spoken Of in the southern papers With
evident respect. Alltbis besokens great
change already in Southern modes Of
thiaking upon certain subjects. The rsb-
els have shown an unexpected readiness to
modify their notions in the BtreST oil cir
eumstanees, and, we are frank 70 confess,
an amount Of industry and enterprise in
the accomplishment Of severe phyIieal Ia
Dor, for which We should hardly have given
them credit At the beginning of the con-
test. We zee how much thsy might have
done heretofore, IL they had not cherished
90 abrurd ideas about mechanical pur-
suits.
The advertisements which set forth in
Southern papers the mechanical, CONNER
eiaI and Intellectual independence Of the
South, asord entertaining reading. a GER
tain Sliss Perdue, frather an unfortunate
Preach nane) makes the following an
nouneemsnt in Memphis paper.
"NEW sIT1Es.-Nisg II: Perdue, s2e
Nam street, Is now prepared 70 present to
the Iadies Of Memphis and vicinity the
Southern styles, gotten up expressly for
Southern wear. We no longer will for
cAn) depend upon New York for our styles
and fashions, which never did suit our
climate or our people. We ask you, ladies,
one and ali, 70 cali and examine our goods,
and then decide for yourselves If Memphis
has not stdone anything New York could
ever present to the South
The ARpeal does not furnish Us with the
effect produced by this appeal to the la
dies Of Memphis. We presume It was not
made in vain. We presume that New York
was found to be underdone when compared
with Memphis.
Bot It is not alone in the way OF milli-
merry goods that enterprise among the Con-
feds is bursting forth. We notice in the
same paper an advertisement of Rev DIR.
scott-..AlIen N. Scott, DID,, late President
Of South Gibson College, in Tennessee -
We have heard of an excellent gentleman
of that name-President OF college, too,
not very far from wbeeling-but candor
obliges us 10 confess that neither the name
of Alien N. Scott, DID,. nor that of the in
stitution over which he presided, ever
reached us through the sounding trump OF
fame, y ntil our eye rested on the adver-
tisement Of has Grammar by his publisher
in the Memphis ARPeut. There VIC find
who DR.. Scott is;
"Dr. Scott is Tennessean by birth and
education, and he has been practical
teacher 10 various parts Of the South and
West for thirty years. He has made Eng
lish grammar a speciality, and perhaps, has
taught that science 70 more persons than
any other in the Southern COniederaCy.-
The forthcoming work has been examined
in MSS. by many critics, and in every IN
stance pronounced to be eminently adapted
to purposes Of sehoolinstruction. The ex-
amples in parsing are mostly new, and the
book will show on almost every page thai
IL is n Southern work by Southern au.
thor. We appeal TO teachers and all 9TH
ers interested In the cause OF Southern
education, to sustain us in the attempt &C
furnish school books for our people. Lei
us have no more school books or teachers
from the North. Let our divorce from
those fanatics, who have grown rich upOt
our industry, aud who are now seeking e
suDiuRate US, be extended to our literature
In ali its departments. The price of the
grammar will be seventy-iVe cents. We
have also in preparation, from the SAINT
author, a new speller."
Ifthis advertisement does not make til,
new grammar sell. we shall conclude thai
ga Southern work by Southern author
is considered an impracticable humbug by
the people of Memphis. If DR.. Scott will
send to the InteEiigeNecr a copy of this
work, we will examine it critically, and
and see how 1t tallies With the advertise.
.meut, and notice it accordingly. The idea
tof the work seems to be to Undue the Con.
feds not only with proper grammar, but
with proper sentiment. All the staleideas
which the great English and Northern
writer's have brOached about freedom and
loyalty, win, of course, be excluded In
stead of an extract from Milton, We shall
have some choice gem from Floyd, such
as at is better to steal than to work." OF
an aphorism from Rev. Bishop Polk, like
this, "Slayery Is the main pillar of the
,buesh 70 ~ 1h;s froC, Tyi1a tsTho nhio,