Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-07-08


Our Sanitary Fair. which closes to-mor'
row night, will long be remembered by
those who have participated in it as the
great event of their social experience in this
community. We consider that as social
enterprise the influence has been OF ines
timabIe advantage. The effects are to be
seen already on our Union people There
is scarcely a loyal household in this city
that has not taken part in the Fair. The
rich and poor, high and low, old and
Young, male and female, have all met on
one common ground-with one common
object-aud they have mingled together
and become socislized and identified as
they never have been before. 10 cities of our
size it is not common for any consider
able number of people to know each
other scarcely more than by sight
The opinion that each individual has OF
an other, or that each little set hss OF an
other set, is apt to be very crude and often
wholly incorrect. Nothing, as it would
seem, save al enterprise like our fair coul
ever have brought people of all kinds to-
gether long enough ana intimately enough
to give them opportunities to rub OF their
erroneous antagonisms or TO burnish up
their old scquaintsncezhip or to ertect bali
formed conceptions of each other. The
Union people of Wheeling, for the most
part, will stand hereafter We venture
great deal changed towards each other
We have all been as it were for
these TWO or three weeks past a
sort of common family, perhaps We shonld
rather say Committee of the Whole, or
Committee of Ways aud Means for the good
of our common Union cause. Nothing
else save that cause could have brought
and bound US together as we have been
to such marked degree lately. For this
reason it will probably happen that never
in our lives again will similar experience
occur to us. We may have our fairs of
one kind and another, snch as those fer
the benefit of churches and limited ssso- |
Citations, but never again our great com
mon, universal Sanitary Fair. No politi- |
cal barbecue, no grand gathering that We
can imagine as likely to take place, will |
ever prove its successor as great and COM
prehensive social enterprise, in which
people will meet and become so cOntinu-
ougly and thoroughly add pleasantly
amalgamated.
In this view we really regret to see our
fair winding up. True it has been heavy
tax on the time and means of our people.
Many of our uoblest and most sacrificing
Union friends have surrendered their pri-
vate interests to the good of the fair
There are men and women engaged in it
who have worm themselves down with such
labor as they could not be induced to per-
form for money, or for any enterprise less
dear to their hearts than the Union cause.
This evening aud to morrow evening
ought 10 be made the occasions OF grand
cougratulatory rendezvouses by our Union
people, en- Ea1sse The fair has been such
an unexpected event in every way, not
alone in its success, but in its many human
izing attractions, that We all ought to see
TO it that it ends up as becomes such a
grand enterprise. We would like to see an
outpouriug of our people in the way OF a
topping of and rounding of benefit. This
no doubt will be largely the case, especial
Iy tomorrow evening, when we may e1-
pect to see such crowds as we have not
seen any night yet. The exciting times
ought to be tonight and tomorrow night
in the way of auctions. Every one will
desire to possess a memento of the fair,
and there are enough articles to furnish al
most every body with something. The
goods on exhibition are offered low now, al
private sale at the booths, and once put up
at auction we ezpecttO see quite spirit Of
patriotic competition excited
In conclusion, then, let every body turn
out to the fair this evening and to morrow
evening. The programme of performances
aside from the usual attractions is inter
esting, Pleasanter evenings can not be
spent than at this great centre of public
interest.