Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-04
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BF0m tho RIchmOnd Examiner, Oct. q, I

p ~ AFTER THE wlh.. 'ssa'
From the Richmond examiner, oct. a, = ~.
Mr.. Oarlyle's 'searnest thinket'' might
we'll peer curiously, but sorrowfully, Into
the seething witch cauldron of our society,
and speculate on the fulure complexion of
our social life, when the cruel shall have
become "thick and slab" when the "eye
sof newt and toe of frog" and all the varied
condiments of the tragi. comic, hotchgpotCh
shall have been assimilated,7 II were, in
deed, difficult to divine what is to come
out of all the elements which are now ca.
reering in frantic merry. go round on the
surface of the Confederacyt or rising grea.
silly from the bottom to the top, In an apos,
tolic succession of oleaginous bubbles u
Some of the former constituents of our
society will be wanting when the cauldrOu
shall be taken from the fire. OF these
missing elements manyimay well be spared,
every man knows, as he reviews the thin
ned ranks of his acquaintsnces, his friends,
his loved Iones. But those that shall be
llett-how will they combine2 What will
be the color of the society which they
must form7 What is to be done with all
the Generals, unsurpassed in strategy !;
the Colonels, unrivalled in gallantry; the
Majors and Captains, mighty men of war;
and the privates,g every man his own
hero? Some of them will, no doubt, have
the good sense to subside into their for
merg habits and go back, the one to his
farm aud the other to his merohandise.-
Bat this can be true only of those who had
q profession before the war, and Of those
who, after the war, shall find their estates
not wholly ruined by the enemy-nOt
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new energy, but TOO many will sink into
sots and hiccup out their martial expert
ences in the village tsp-room; too many
will be the pests of rural neighbOrhoods,
the terror of "every man who keeps a
horse, COW, a sheep or pig."G many of
our officers will be content with a modest
position in the regular army, by many
others, elevated to command by the acci-
dent of seniority, or brought into contact
with che higher classes by virtue of their
commission, will spend their lives in fruit
less efforts to keep up their consequence
Young surgeons, who have been expert
mentipg G4 E6itwm on the methods Of seP-
arating the souls aud bodies of Oonfeder-
ate soldiers, will have a dreary time of it
if they try the novel experience OF, keeping
their own souls and bodies together by a
peace practice; aud of all'the army officials
only quartermasters, and commissaries and
hospital stewards, who have made their
"pIum," will retire from their fhonorabls,
posts passably content, weary, if not sati-
ated, with plunder.,, - So -f4--lss-- ''.a
But if the future of the army is a com.
pick theme, what shall we say of The long
train Of army worms; of the hosts Of con-
tractors, speculators, blockade runners; of
the men who have proved that "there is
nothing like 'leather;" who have turned
linsey w0olseyL into cloth Of gold and
solved the problem, SO puzzling to our
Government financiers, of Keeping up the
value of paper For these are the men
who are to be the merchant princes, the
money lords, the blockade aristocracy of
the, Southern Confederaoy. True, the fu.
-ture snmmits of Southern society were not.
regarded at first with a. very favorable
eye by the class once known as the gen.
.tiemen of the South; and like many others,
we too were disposed to lament the, ap-
proaching change in the composition of
society, and regret the traDsmutatiOn OF
the "creamv Of the cream" into ditch water,
calves brains aud chalk.
II was painfuEtoI have ones old ascot
ations rudely disturbed : to find estates,
which had been called after theiri owners
names for generations, slipping into the
hands of our Hebrew fellow, citizens, al
though they do form s61arge q PROPORTION
of our army, and TO see the Heimers and
Dorfers, the Rosepbergs,. the Rosenthals,
the ROsenbaums, and all the tribe OF the
Asnkenazim, vulgarly called German Jews
spreading themselves out in this beautiful
country, to the gradual exclusion of the
old settlers. But it must be confessed that
our fears are subsidiug, Our country gem
tlemen have been furnishing up their clas-
sic saws, and have taken = lesson from the
Israelitish foe "All money is koSekerr,"
said the Rabbi; "Rll money is the clean
thing" they echo; ind as> Vespacian's nose
could not detect any bad smell in gold no
matter whence it came, so the; olfaclQIies
OF our farmers are obtuss to the ETHEREAL
perfumes of sweat. Of tears, and, itamay
chance, of blood, WhiCh1 breathe, from the
Ismooth bank notes of our. 'melepeholyt
mad elephant. z. thai obhfedeEate ptinting
press. Non Otent. We have heen blessed al
liehst, in large sections of ths Country with
| an abundant croplof one ofthe great staples
loflife. The fields stand thick With corn and
| vet the farmer smiles aysmiles of flmlugled
fsupsreilionshess and aWkwardness when
1 the consumer Graves the privilege OF buy
ing the Winners 4, tsapglS as GoyernB,e1'
j Sgs-et any lend the smile y Iel,
-Iiowed by9 the stefe6type R9SW y9e.i
i can't make any YcontTaesiE Doubtless thert
lis d cowardice on both SIDES YEae9h 9
4 tfafth in the Government and inftne dos.
ernmsnt paper; b1 tehste ls q difference be
tween, the. tWo.o With the consumes ltis's
lqpestiou more treqqsntiY than some ltnAg
line, Of bread or no bread win lt5 tne g PEG
ldaCer 1t Is, at mos, 2 qdssfFioin Q