Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-06-17
Capt. LsIb,S Book.

OF Capt. Leib'B book, called f'HiBe Months |
10 the QuartermaSter'S Department; or the
Chances for Making = Million" The
copy before usiS- paper covered, got up in
tolerable style, sOmeWhnt after the fashion
Of yeileW-6aeked poveiS, and is sold at so
cents.
The frouuspage il ornamented with
portrait of Capt. Leib, aud it Is as natural
aS life. The same big-headed, bald.frout.
ed, double-cbinned, bOOked-no5ed, nous
tacbed individual that many of orr ci,i-
Gems have seen on our streets is seen in
this book.
We have examined only burriedly the
two hundred pages which make up the
book, and eaBuot speak critically of all its
contents. The style is very loose. and
principally conversational, 1t is more
compilations of traEmentary personal scenes
and quarrels and set-tos of one kind and
another than anything else. It's evident
Iy published more as yindication of Capt.
Lieb's administration of the quartermas-
terSbip at Clarksburg than aB book Of
general entertainment and Instruction.
The Captain figures Promin emily in about
every chapter, and be always turns up first
best in every difficulty. Taking the book
as arelinbIe history Of his career as quar-
termaster at ClRrksburg, and it makes out
good case for him. Indeed his pen al.
ways compels his fault-Iiudert to come
down, and convicts them in every instance
Of bitter prejudice, mercenary purpose or
PitifuI ignorance. Iunumerable dispatches
are published, showing what an embsr-
rasSing time Capt Leib had in the way of
wading along through the clamors and
complaints Of the m Hilary and the outside
public. He particularly gives fits to his
disappointed enemies around Clarksburg,
and by their initials takes hold of some of
the prominent people around there and be-
labOrs them in a most caustic manner
One of his Picturea ID view of the Chart
lett House. the principal hotel in Clarks-
burgh," as he styles it. 1t Is made to look
Shackley enough. We did not know be-
fore that the half resurrected ruin of the
"Bartlstt Hsuse" was considered tho prin.
cipal hotel in Clarksburg. We supposed
tue old ''North Western" claimed that dis
tinetion. The "BArtlett House, may have
been before it WAS burned down. OF the
town itself, he says "It is motley cOIlec-
ton of rickety frame houses, dirty looking
brick dwellings, and old stone buildings,
some of which are prOpped up by large
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of the 6rst families of Virginia. For the
most part. the grounds around the dwell
inR1 arc alike destitute of good taste or
comfort, The town boasts Court House
Il most extraordinary specimen of archi-
tecture,) which is used for every purpose
beside its legitimate one; for fairs, balls,
parties, political, indignation and other
meetings"
Concerning the appearance of people in
aud around harrisburg, he says:
''An afr of llstless Inactivity broods over
the whole town. Many of the people are
hospttable aud kind, the ladies refined and
educated-have moro energy than the men
who, for the most part, are lazy, indo-
lent, and delight in Interfering with the
Affairs Of strangers. Their principal Oc
eupatiou, in the droWsy summerafteFuoons,
10 10 sit upon their door-steps, with their
little negroes playing at their feet, gazing
into the street o. times discussing tho
war, aud marking out plans for our geuer-
ais to follow. = Tho languid inGr-
tivity Of the town reminds one of those
primitive Dutch places IN New York, so
graphically described by Washington Ir-
wing. There the resemblaneo ends, for an
ancient Dutch bnrgher would be Mortified
NJ the unthriftiness and layiness of those
claiming TO be descendants Of the cava-
liers,"
This is Capt. Letb's description Of the
pleasant town of OlaFks6urg. Ills evident
he does not remember the place happily.
and that be does not care to do justice to
itS attractions.
AftsF hitting OF the town, he proceeds
to hit Of some OF the inhabitauts, aud ho
draws some bitter sketches of several pso-
pie. he concludes oIarksbasg by saying
that
When the question a5 to the loatiou OF
the capital OF the proposed new State was
discussed, Qlarksburg entered the list, but
NO two men could agree a. 70 whore the
public buildings should be erected. Fifty
years ago, che people had more enterprise
than have those Of the present generalion.'
One Of his funniest pictures Is a take OF
on the iqdiguation meeting thetwes got up
against him At olarksbuFg last fall, II
looks like the illustrations of some meet.
ings which Dickens describes. Itwould
be diGeuIt % conceive that 30 hard crowd
conld 30 mustered up around Oiarks6urR.
Hssays that the following is specimen Of
the Kind Of bills that the people around
there brought in against the Royernment
Captain Libe, United States
70 EnoCk Seers. de.
IN u turkas tuck BY sOlgers 1000