Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-12-16
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THR Iontsvilte J6uradt thus fghominI:i
ously snufs out "a possible Byron 4The-
Young gentleman who sends ns what he
says "a the first attempt at poetry he ever
made, is advised TO let II be the las"
PUHoH suggests that ii European Con-
gress can preserve peace, tits more than an
American one has been able TODD.
Mosr of the Secretaries will ask for q
large increase in clerical force. Thesfay-
master General will demand eighty addiT
tional clerks. % -
Az observer of the female sex thinks q
lady sometimes gets as much intoxteatea at
her glass as topper does,at bis. Y
A New York letter writer says that
the late election canvass there, Blunt spent
$25, 900, Boole $40, 900 and Gunther $780,
900. That is the way the New Y0rkers
choose their magistrates 5.,,,,..I
HIrHRRTo water has beer. 50. scarce az
Washington that the congress men h9ye had
to slake their. thirst with whisky. But the
Potomac furnishes the city with water now
and there will be enough for all.
~ THs' Young 4 men and mSidens Of ST. Paul,
Minnesota, are enjoying tbelluxury ofskat-
ing on lake in that city knowingly the
romantic name of s.Lake Conc" @
THE President has sent a short and pithy
latter of con9ratnlationt to General Grant,
which reads as follows:
1911 GWAsaIseTos, December s.
ithlAJoR: GEkERAL CHANT: Understand
ing that, your lodgment At: Chattanooga
and Knoxville is now secufe5 wish TO
tender you and all under your command
nv more than thanks-my profoundest
eratitude-ior, the skill, courage and per.
2 Severance with which you and they, over
SO great difficulties. have effected that i'm.
portaut object. God bless you ALL
5'i e - ifng,! IA. LINCOLN"
TaE rebels are all asking how they shall
get food next winter, BIZ giving up the
rebellion this fall, YOU simpletons, says the
Louisville Journal
CHARLES DickESs says a great pitched
battle Is seldom more deadly TO men than
the gayety of d London season is to the
pale army Of girls who i've by the most
wretcbed fribberies Of fashion, and fewer
perhaps die by the bayonet than by the
needle. = = az.,';..'4 "a e - 4 q
liz repairing pal ~ On old brick building at
Jeffersonyille, Indiana, which was former.
" used as 3 hotel 5ths IWbrkmehs found the;
remains Of several young iwomens who
were believed TO, have been murdered there
seyeraIyears ago, and also the skeleton of
an infant. 5 al - zss,5 sdi a IA
Tat 4tLantie claims among its.eontribu..
tors two women whose poetry embodIes the,
elements of immortality, Ward
Howe and Elizabeth Akers. Mrs. Howe,s
Lyrics Of the Stfeees ARE, far below her
standard, but Iweuld rather have produced
her Battle Hymn Of the Republic than
anyipoem writ len since the var And there
never We're two lyrics written fuller. of Inn
FASHIONED Tenderness and seraphic sweet
ness, than Elizabeth Akers' Rock me to-
Sleep, Mother, "Iand ssWhat shall be my
Angel Name" In these two women; the
power of one aud the tathomless
tenderness of the othersets itse1fto won
derful music. In the first, deep and respns
ant as an organ anthem; In the other, me- |
liluous as an Arcadian lutte, vibrating with
such human love and Immortal s6rroW,I
that should think even the angels might |
come down to listen. isif
- y. d.. A,sa. fascLI-5 81 a. itf--s,5.t
TIE $500 GLAUsB.-We expectsth $500 |
exemption clause will be repealed, and re-
pealed early in the session of Congress-
It was so bitterly, Indignantly and per-
eistently assaulted by Copperheads during |
the3last political campajgpf that no other
course would seem possible.
If they howl at its repeal, those whom
they deceived by their assaults upon 1t,
will only learn how wickedly and infa-
mopsly false aud treacherops they aFe.-
!Unon 3tAemseEpes will zbefyisited the anathe.
mas and curses of those whom they de-
ceived. syif