Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-12-25

on the fourth page OF tnls paper:
No Paper To-morroNy-
Ia accordsnce with immemorial usage
10. day being Christmas. no paper viii 56'
setup in this Office, aud consequently mont
,1iII be issned TO morrow morning
should any news OF moment come in u
win be given to the public in an extra slip
cuRsrMAs, tie holiday of universal
Christendom, has come to US once more
1tsttlI fiuds MS at war as it did last year
and the year before. Yet the prospect is
infinitely brighter in every respect, military
and political. Aud Notwithstanding gloom
and anxiety hangs over so many house,
holds because of abseut and unreturning
ones who have gone forth to the scenes OF
danger that we here might be uninyaded
and uumolested to. day, still there is album
daut cause for each aud every one to feel
glad that il Is not with US now as it was
on the last anniversary of this holiday
Our people as community have been
abundantly prospered. The means Of living
have been available to every one who had
health and will to work. No calamities,
such as have oyertaken other localities,
have come upon us. Trade in all its de-
partments fourishes, and nearly every
household in this city and vicinity has
food and warmth to the extent of its needs.
The average Of happiness, SO far as our
immediate midst is concerned, ought TO be
as great, ifsnot greater, to-day thaa ever,
The present year is nearly gone and q
future of great concern is still opening be-
fore us. We. all feel that the future is to
be different from what the future has been.
It's peculiarlty none of us can picture TO
our own minds. We are undergoing great
metamorphoses in. all our notions and
STYLES and characters as q people. Three
yeaFs;of war have served SO far rather to
anloose old things than TO build up and
conform new ones. Yet the new elements
are rapidly preparing and maturing and
ere another year rolls away we will have
experienced changes thatw now feel and
see only very dimly If seen and felt at all.
These are esentful days, every one of
them. that are passing by MS and they are
leaving marks that the storms and SIMS of
twelve month will deepenand fig forever
on the relations of all of us to life.
Werejoiee In the belief that before another
Christmas comes the present war, so far as
actqaf.6 ghtflg.is concerned, will be over.
that the,armed.power of the rebellion will
have been entirely crushed; that no prac-
tical Opposition to the full sway of the
National Government will exist anywhere
In any of the thirty five States. How II
can be otherwise we do not see. We
have progressed SO far with oni
armies-gained such decided points of i'm
s.snortance;< off SO much of the resources
of the rebellion, increased and maintained
our blockade 80 perfectly, that. of its owl
weight aud our constant pressure, the re
bellion must collapse aud perish. Wan
in all shapes stalksamongth the Southern
people. There is want OF food, eyentrpd'
food; want of clothing want of war ma
terial; want, most of all, of faith in thei
own cause by reason of the worthless con
dition of their finances aud the unayailinl
character of all their efforts at home ant
abroad to procure success. The soutlierl
people are coming back to the Union ever!
day. We are constantly adding and al
the time losing nothing. Thelimies of th
rebellion are now practically reduced Il
four States and in each one of them W
have a toothoid. With such odds Agains
them how. can they succeed2 With sqcl
odds in our favor, and the glorious in
centives of a restored nationality TO inspir
us; with the 5couscionsnes that our caus
is the well being ofsourssives and maukin
everywhere, why should any Que say or q
any time feel that We will not succeed
Why then should We not wish to ali on
readers to-day happy Christmas W
feelthat they have great cause tobe gents
aud glad even though these are not tn
days for reckless merriment.
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A LETTER from Richmond to tho MobiI
Register says that ''model artist' exhibi
lions are in vogue among the bon ton Q
that capital, aud remarks: "The imPor
.tation, of stunning manners aud astoand
ing costumes is one of the most deplorabl
!. results of the war, and one issaot surprise
to hear that marriages of very doubtfu
authenticity have occurred in certain cir
Giles of the unfortunate confederate capital.
49, 777----7s - - = 7==7;7-T - : -,
Nor single steamer under the America
flag now sails between the United State
mi. fFs..