Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-12-21

can tunds In Lonuou-fp0ut the stoppage
of exports and imports and their individ-
ual gains and losses thhrefrOm. As to the
state of society throh hghout the United
Kingdom, it seemed have been in a
shocking condition geAeralIy, If we may
judge from the number of rewards offered
for escaped murderers, hsfFsquent and dar.
ing robberies upon the highway, many of
them in broad day, b the earned foot
pads" of those times. The tipost boys" It
seems, were objects of tieIs epecial malig-
nifty, insomuch that an bscorts of two dra.
goons each was deemed necessary for the
safe transport Of the pail bag over the
moors aud through the FOgs, to its desti-
nation. The pillOry waspften used for an
hour or so at time, ant. there was no end
to the punishment Of petty lafcenies.-
Young ladies were nncstmOni1uRly de
ged, or falsely allured, tom their parental
roofs, out into the nightRcross this coun-
try into unknown places By disguised ruff
fans against whom tkse seems to have
been no available regulItions. In fact We
can quite imagine Ouselpo back among the
EveIina's and Tom Jones0f q rather earlier
date, Domestic tragsdis in upper tendon
are laid open with an tnsparing distinct
ness-wickedness in high places seems to
have superabounded hyond any thing
known in our own day. Then, as for pop
ular belief, johanna SorthcOte was lead
ing sixty thousand of hG fellow country
men so far away beyoudthe limits Of rea"
son and common sense, y to make trans
ceudalism in all its forms highly rsspec-
table and commendabI,-so ludicrOusly
beyond spiritualism and Nillerism, as to
afford US melancholy kird of consolation
in thinking that even Mornonism is notthe
EXTREMIST verge of fanatica delusiOn. Iuthe
literary world, Lord Byon's poems were
being collected and published "in two
Yolumes;" "Walter Scott, Esq'r,n II had just
finished the "LoFd Of the ISLE" and Guy
Maunering's appearance was heralded
by the publishers. In stray corner Of
the paper Mrs, Mcwstty advertises her
own poems, and assures Rsr subscribers
that the "typography of h.r publicatio ms
will be executed elegantlyand correctly"
Floating poetry Ofthe day seems to be made
up chiefly of addresses to the Delias and
Chloes ofthat day-relics OF the Shenstone
school, still lefttrom tho tnvGSions of Cowper
and Byron into the domain ofEnglish poetry.
In the editorial department. in those days,
editors seemed "monaFchb Of all they SUR
veysd," more absolutely lhsu q the pres.
ent time. But they we're ela6 drea dusty
in eerasst 10 eyes5 thing thAs said; end
when seviewine or expounding matters OF
impoftaAce, were Accustomed to commence
In brackets that the same would be con-
tined into the next number, or through
series, like our stories in the New York.
Ledger. They show themselves very o6ll'
giug too, when classic, poetic or roman
tic allusion is used, in the inVariable as
terisks which directs the reader to an e1-
PLANTATION in the foot-note. There is no
trialng with the public here, or oVer'pre.
suming upon the extent OF their readers
book learning with them. Oar own "H-
tionaI Intslligsncsr ia much referred TO,
and almost the only paper quoted FROM
by the able English editor, in references to
American affairs; and then the names OF
Oommodores Chauncey and Decatur, OF
Major General Jackson and others, appear
in way well known to all ofus. ItWOuld
a
ers, five had time and space for some ex-
tracts of British sentiment regarding our
selves, at that time. But enough of news
papers, old and new, for the present
while we take the liberty of concluding
the whole with moral to our readers, viz;
File your newspapers. Think what the in
terests of now transpiring local events will
be to your children.