Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-01-09

Death Ofthe " lrgInla Weekly Star
It's last AgOrGeR-the EhItOr turned
Prophet.
5sp tjSios, Jaauary7, IsCt.
EEEiiors OF 1nLclYigeheef
1t has been sometime since attempted
to give you the news ofthis Camp, aud can
not refrnin from the task Mt this time to
give you few items. You have doubtless
learned, ere this. that tho Star, printed near
this Camp has set, or gone down, and some
are so bold to say that It went down un-
der cloud. Be this MS II may. it is certain
that its publication has ceased, amid grea:
groGuings aud larnentations. 1t has al
ways been one its great faillngs to say too
much. There might have been, during the
life time Of this luminary, great deal of
stationery, ink and gas saved had a policy
moro nkin to brevity been pursued, which
no doubt would have answered much bet
te. purpose in some particular instances
than has been attained. Many good case
has been lost by saying too much in its
favor, aud so it has been in many instances
with the Star that has just set The day
has been that the Star shone with consid-
cradle splendor, and did not want for cor
responding satellites. Bot like well-bal-
auced kite, flying high in the air, cutting
0s it is deprived of its ballast or tail, it
leaves its lofty height and desccnds to the
groHud, never more to soar aloft.
After briefly giving synopsis of the
life of the Star, going rs far back rs 1856,
and coming down through the United
States Court Room ut Wheeling, having
been expelled from the Richmond Convcn-
tion, and beaten for the Wheeling Conven-
sion, the Star thinks Il no egotism to say
that If it (the Star) had been disposed Of
to the Breckinridge committee during the
last canvass for President, that old Nom
ongnlin would certainly have gone for
Breckinridge And TO prove the state
mcnt, he actually shows It in figures, as
he no doubt hadthe idea that figures won't
lie. That was pretty ingeuiously done.
As it is well settled fact, that figures
lie, hope none of your readers will at.
tempt to say, that this statement of the
Stdr,s sayors at all Of tEotism. Not bit
of it. And it the Star could have come rs
near cleaning up she IOldlmm letter, he
would at least be entitled TO more ingenui-
ty than he now Is, with the destruction Oi
don't kuoW how many quires Of foolscap.
After a great deal more talk than cider,
the Star goes on, in its .sYaIsdictory," aud
snys, among other things, ia the same
connection in which he speaks of the
present Convention, now sitting in the city
of Wheeling, that thero are nOthers there
who are about as fit to make laws as a
pig tail is to make Whistles.p This the
Star fails to proved figures, and also, that
there is no egotism in the statement, for
had the Star been elected member oi
that Convention. this statement would not
have been applicable, as 1t certainly is in
tended. What a pity that the valuable
services Of the Star WAS not secured in the
Convention now in sesSiOul But the PeO-
pie said there were too many f'pig tails" 10
the field, and they determined to cut some
Of them of, whether to- make whistles ol
or not, / know not.
Now for the prophecy Of the Star, and
have done. The Star contends that "the
time will come when the people Of North
Western Virginia will see the Propriety Of
tue views set forth in our (hisl different
articles on the subjects nearest and dear
est to their iuterests.n
According to the StGT, the nearest and
dearest interests % stmauy 0f our public
men nowadays ne getting into oficI
aud lot the country go. That may be true
to some extent. But had the Star beer
elected, that statement would not have beer
made, because 30 far as itWas coucernei
it would not have been true, end there il
no egOtisul in II either. Tbis Is as clear a
mud, Aessrs. Editors, and nSisher you mol