Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-21

South entire control of the whole country,
and, my wig upon it, we shall have no se-
cession bpt, on the contrary, an early re-
turn Of the entire eConfederacy to Washing
ton. Without some equally beuignan.
measure, we shall be compelled to fight all
the Border States and put them down at
once, instead Ofkeepiug two hundred thou
sand soldiers peacefully employed in ma
king their loyalty continually sure.
z H.-Ooilect the war taxes outside of the
States where the Taxpayers lire, or declare
upon paper that they are already collected.
IlI.-Couquer the seeded States by the
uuheard.of agency of an actual army. /
think tcis might be done in few hundred
years by young and able general to be
fouud on some railroad, With six hundred
Thousand disciplined spades. Estimating
a third of this number TO remain forever
stationary on the Potomac, and loss OF a
still greater number by. .consummate strate-
gy and changing of base, The loss ofehick-
ems and eoptrabands ou the other side
would be frightful, however great the
morality of the mudsills. -g .--. s-.
This conquest will cost money that might
Otherwise go to beautify the South, secure
fifteen swearing and deeply-offended prov
iuces, and be Immediately followed by a
ne% election for President 10 1866. n
lT.--Say to the Seeded States, in one
Of which own some mortgages: "Ho,v
are you, Southern Confederdeyln IN
Deliberately, remain,
r. Your father and the oountry's
| v. CANNON.
This touching letter, my boy, 1 recon-
mend to your most prayerful consideration,
ns Paternal outpouriug of shirt. collared
old age.
Old age bow beautiful art thou in the
glory of thy spectacles, and the sublime
largeness of thy stomach and manner
Aud yet, would you believe it my boy 2 1
am sometimes possessed of great doubtiugs
rs to the geuuineness of that majesty which
makes continually looming Venerable
Shape such great blessing to an imperiled
land. Sometimes there comes to me q
ricketty vision of;
AGE BLUNTLY CONSIDERED.
As Age advances, alls and aches attend,
Backs bullded broadeSt buTdenSOmey bend:
Cuttingly cruel comes consuming Care,
Dealing delusions, driVeiry, despair. al T.l
Empty endeaTor eneryately ends,
Fancy forlorniy felgns forgotten friends;
tout, grimly griplng' gluitonously great,
Hastens humanity's hard-hearted hate.
Intentions imbecile invent ideas
Just y jocunding IolIy jokers' jecrs:
knOwledge-keen kingdom knnTlyAbly known
Lingers, lAmenting lfo's long-lAsting loan.
MAmmonly mumming, magnifylng NOTES.
NuEtuTes numb Natures narrowest nurIry notes,
Open old ages odiOus Offering out
Peeviah Punetilio, parrotplning pout.
Qualmishly queryius quarrelsomely quaint, IIsE
Rousing rife ridiculea repealed restraint;
Speaking SOFT sillinesS-sueh shallow show
That tottering toysters, tickied, litter too.
Useless, uugainly, unbeloyed, nnblest,
/ Virtues vague visor, vices Yelling vest,
Rheezinsly Whimpering, wanting wisdom, wit,
Existence, Sigent, SelAims-XitI Hf
Youths, you're ycIopt youths youths youngest;
Zestless zig-zaggers Zanyably Eealed.
exhibited that pleasing little poem to a
a Mackerel chap, who suffered, my boy
and he came SO near going into apoplexy
through his endeavors to read it, that was
obliged to make joke, in order that he
might smile, relax, and recover.
And now let your mind Ay, like a wiered
dove, to the celebrated Arcadian scenes of
festive Accomac, where the Mackerel Bri-
gade continues to reconnoitre in force, and
awaits the death of the Confederacy by old
age. Men, my boy, who entered this stra-
tegetic war in the tull bloom of youth, now
go with STOPPING shoulders and totteriug
gait when they have barrel of flour to
carry, and the bloom has departed from
every part of them save the extreme tip OF
that handle of the human countenance
which first meets the edge of an open door
in the dark. Even the Mackerel brass
band begius to grow feeble, often making
pitiable attempts to execute stirring strains
on his night-key bugIe, as though uncon-
scious nat by long disuse in his pocket it
had become clogged with bread aud cheese.
There is on the Sodthern border of Ac-
comac, my boy, a solitary house, contain
ing furniture and the necessaries of life,
which the CoDic Section Of the Maekerel
brigade had been ordered to guard. 1t
stands Immediately on the verdant banks
of Awlkwyet River, where that stream must
be at lenst ten inches deep land asthe first
regular bridge is ten miles below it, oi
course the Comic Section, to- guard the
house, was placed at the end of that bridge
lit, being principle of national strategy
made across regular bridge.
Now it chanced, that while the Comic
Section at the bridge was taking short
nap, having been Hpyery late the night be,
fore; and while the beloved General of the
Mackerel Brigade was visiting portion Of
his beautiful home-circle in Paris, that a
very dirty confederaCy, riding in a seedy
go.cNrt, made his appearance on the bank
of the river opposite the house, and COM
meneed 10 make a raid right through the
water to the shore this side. His geome.
trical steed wet his feet thereby, aud the
wheels of his squeaking yehicle were damp
ened by this barbarian way of Offering ir-
regular opposition to the Government but
what cared be for the rules of civilized
warfare, which are the only authorized
West Point editions2 Like all his infaIu.
ated countrymen, he was rendered less thar
strategic by the demon of secession, and be
CROSSED by the unmilitary ford instead OF BY
the military bridge.
This is, indeed, heRrtsickening.
There was Maekerelchap who slept in
the house to take care of big black bot
tle9 and when he beard the go-cart driving
up before the door, he stuck his head out
of the window, and says he;