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Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-28

NIX bLAlB Is DACk again at W hbninRtOn
from Richmond, and the inevitable PhiIa-
delphfa Telegraph newspaper has full par
ticulsrs at once of what he accomplished.
OF course its dispatch is gossip-such as
anybody can bear any day at Wizards
HoteI-and most likely is gold fabrica-
lion 10 the Bear interest The "BuIls,"
however, do not seem TO have been badly
scared by it, iuasmuch az gold is up this
morning several per cent.
The country will be rejoiced to know
that Mr. Blair has made q 1.-THE of the
Roadway reported. II he has peace is not
f4g of. Once negotiations are commenced
on the part of the rebels rapid disintegra-
ton among them also commences. The
best We nope for from the Blair mission ia
the oPenment of a conference.
PRovosT MARSHAL GENERAL FRT is not
gaining any laurels that we hear of in any
quarter by his recent contradictory esti-
mates as TO the quotas due from the differ
eut states under the Presidents last call.
he ID accused in several of the newspapers
OF gross bnugliDg aud blundering, and there
is no assurance that his latest Ievised state
ments are reliable. Some Of the Eastern
papers contend that they are far from cor.
rect and will be contested The burden
of the complaint against him is that SO lit
tie time now remains to undo the mischief
OF his first announcements. This complaint
applies especially to districts like ours. A
month ago we were told that only four men
were expected of US. Now the number is
nearly sixteen hundred. The raising of
almost two regiments is the work of
weeks-uot q few days. Six weeks ego
Marshall county had commenced to meet
her expected quota, and steps were
about to be taken in this county
also. Suddenly all preparation was
stopped owing to the statement that only
four men were wanted. Now we have a
new assignment of huge proportions, and
ouly enough time left to tautalize US. So
i.r as the limit prescribed is concerned,
the drLfl might Rs well proceed at once.
The few days LETT will do little, if any
good. 1t seems TO US that the War De-
plrlmeut owes something to the country
by way Of amends for Gen. FEy's mistakes.
II the news from Richmond this morning
l. even partially true, time is not press.
log necessity with that Department. And
il volunteers are greatly preferred to con-
scripts more time should be freely accorded
in which to raise them. One thing is Ger.
tain, the number required of this State
cannot begin to be raised between this and
the 18th OF February. A certain number
OF days notice must be made by the Super
yi5ors in each county preceding levy, and
during that time everything will be doubt
tul 10 the matter of bounties. The
condition of things is very embnr.
RAISING The people feel that they have
not had justice done them.
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-28
Substitutes.

@ INSTITUTES FURNISHED at my ONCE on Main
- street, between Monroe and Quincy, over ths
bank Of wheeling. D. J. ShITH,
tAn35-tf Claim AGENT
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-28
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Board Wanted.

A GENTLEMAN AND LADY WISH BOARD
"A in private family, with one or two furnished
rooms In the city or the Island Best Of refer
eneea given FOR particulars address Lock Boz Nc.
ITO, Wheeling P. o. iAfs-f
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-28
Business Notioo
Administrators Notice

rAx,T,,I, SISA. . NOL1ce.
II AtlNG been appointed AdriniHtrnto, =, ~.
- S.tAte Of the late Col Joseph Tbobnr, AZ Sno
notny al PeIons having claims H1ain5t Ia
tor Sst,o,Pp present the same to me daily esrtied ~
promptly. P'eaSe cali and settle
burn n ~, Last S; vilt 70 his family. Colonel Tho
or 51s5iI olIis agAingt those indebted to NJ,
Attendaueo. Those bills are no,S T. - n
tenstb ~ a., VII WI retain them for 3 reSSonahiS
deIir- ~ Saa % give an opportunity for Sneh ~
~ Slthsr to the estate or theuSeiys4
JAMES WIIR0N
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-27
Bereavement.

Few of us are happy enough to he the
members of an unbroken family circle.
Sooner or later death enters the health
lest home, and Christmas or birth
day festival seldom comes round with
out reminding the living of some
"vanished hand" or voice that is still
forever. Now it is Tiny Tim, whose
shIill treble no longer helps to swell
the merry noise; or again it is the
patriarch of the flock, whose venerable
presence has ceased to make the chin
ney corner look sacred. The "fell
sergeant" will not be denied. There
may sometimes be an unwonted in
terval in his terrible visits; but the
inevitable moment will arrive when
drawn blinds and closed shutters will
proclaim to our neighbors that there is
Death in our house. What a solemn
hush falls upon those who remain be-
hind, when the soul Of beloved
friend or relation has departed! Even
the most careless and light-hearted feel
the sacred influence of the hour. ST.
lence reigns in the chamber where the
dead man lies, and throughout the
whole house the foot of the mourner
falls softly, the voice naturally sinks
into whisper, and, except in rare
cases, we can not bear to part with the
we'll form now vacant of its spir.
it. We love to look again and again
at the "old familiar face" We deck
the brow with flowers. We delay till
the latest instant to close the coffin,
for it is only then that we begin really
to feel the bitterness of bereavement.
At length, not in indecorous haste, but
when all has been done that tender
ness and delicacy can suggest, we car
ry forth our sad burden to its grave
A hurried funeral is singularly revolt
ing to civilized habits and sensitive
dispositions. The Jew puts his dead
out of sight almost as soon as they are
cold. He still retains in Northern eli
mate custom which the heat Of the
East perhaps rendered necessary. Yet
even in the East some tribes seem to
have been possessed by the same re-
pugnance to speedy sepulture which
marks most Christian nations. Hero
dotus, indeed, tells us story of GER
tain of the Arabians who never buried
their dead at all. They placed the
bodies of their deceased friends within
transparent crystal pillars, which they
afterward carried forth to the cemetery
near the city. Thus every man became
his own tombstone. Among this peo-
pie, at any rate, there can have been
no lying epitaphs.
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hearts being but little braver than
chickens, but they thought he was no
worse off than they were.
Half offended, the disconsolate Cock
was about to demand from them
a confession Of his wrons, when a lark
in small cage on the wall began his
song, and went through it as though he
had been mounting on free and vigor-
GUS wing to chant the glories Of the
early morning.
The Cock looked up shyly at him,
then huddled himself up, then shook
himself, then held up his head, and
stood on both legs in firm and reso-
Lutte position; for it had passed through
his mind thus: "Well, well, there's an
end of my complaining; if you, whose
happiness, every one knows, lay in
mounting up into the sky, and nesting
among your family in your beautiful
country home, can sing so sweetly in
that little prison, shut out from all you
love, a lonely captive, may well put
up with my troubles: / see plainly there
are worse cases than mine"
And when he had thought all this he
set up as fine crow as ever came from
his dear farm yard, and began to make
the best he could of his breakfast.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-27
The Kindness of Mr. Lincoln.

With what avidity do we seize upon any
little incident which serves to show the great
good heart Of our martyr President. Every
line Of his life is treasured sacrcdly by the
American people. And we'll it may be, for
it was unblcmished- without spot or stain
There is not word in all that record that
needs to be rewritten or erased not an
ugly mark or blot made in passion or
through carelessDess. 1t is a "plain, un.
vanished tale" but clear, straightforward
and complete. Another OF the many little
acts of kindness performed by this great
man is thus recorded by a contemporary:
In November last, small, delicate boy
patiently waited with the anxious crowd
which had gathered in the room Of the
President. He was noticed by Mr.. Lin.
coin, who said,
Come here, my boy and tell me what
you want .......t
The boy, trembling and abashed, step
ped forward ond placed his hand on the
arm Of the chair in which the President was
seated, and said,
"'Mr. President, have been drummer
in regiment for two years, and Colonel
got angra with me and turned me off;
was taken sick and have been long time
in the hospital. This is the first day have
been out. came to see if you cannot do
something for re.'
The President looked kindly and ten
derly at him, and asked him where he lived.
He replied that he had no home.
"'Where is your fatherT said the Pres
dent.
"'He died in the army answered the
- 'w6ers Is your mothcr. p y
".My mother is dead also. I have no
father, no mother, no brothers, no sisters,
and, bursting into tears, the boy said, and
no friends. Nobody cares for me-
''The scene was very affecting. Mr.. Lin
coins eyes filled with tears, and he said to
him,
Cant you sell newspapers2" ...t.-
NO. said the boy, i am too weak, and
the surgeon of the hospital told ME must
leave; and have no money, and no friends,
and no place to 60 to.
The scene was indescribably tender and
affecting, and the President drew from his
drawer card. en- which be wrote his wish
es, that the officers should care lin his own
affectionate langusge) fer this poor boy
When the cad was handed to the
drummer boy smile lit up his face all wet
with tears, and he returned, fully convinced
that he had at least one coed and true
friend in Abraham Lincoln"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-27
Charity and Compassion.
There are two things which are or

There are two things Which are often
nfounded-charity and compassion.
1t is not possible to be charitable
without being compassionate, but many
man is compassionate without being
at all charitable. The fact is that char,
ity is principle of the human mind,
while compassion is only one of our
animal instincts. Such thing as COM
passion is observed even in animals,
and therefore the Priest and the Levite
in the parable not only lowered them
selves beneath the level of humanity,
but even below that of the brutes. A
man who, upon seeing a fellow crea-
ture fall into the water, jumps after
him without a moments hesitation,
even at the risk of his own life, does a
very noble thingno doubt, but many a
dog has done the same. And man
who drops a coin into poor wretch's s
hand, shows that he is not stick or a
stone, but he may pe little more than a
goose for all that, for great natural
ist tells us of a goose which, having
fallen in with quantity of barley that
miller had spilled on the road, first
filled its own stomach and then walked
up to its starving companions about
half mile distant, and called them to
the place to share the benefit of its
lucky discovery, Certainly compassion
is an indispensable element in charity
but it is no more charity itself than
taste is digestion, or hearing under
standing. Compassion just yields to
the impression of the moment, drops
a kind word or gift to alleviate mo-
mentary suffering; and having thus
discharged itself, passes on to leave
the case as it was. Charity, on the
contrary, inquiries into the cause of the
suffering, and the future prospects OF
the sufferer. 1t not only wishes to help
him for the present, but to guard him
against recurrence of the evil, and to
restore him to his normal condition:
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-27

"Ir MIaHT BE WORSE r'-'Cock a.
dood--Cock-a---I can't crow; it's utterly
impossible; ifI had spirits for it this
odious yellow thick stuff they call fog
would get into nay throat and prevent
me. No; no more growing for me,
alasp' So said detected looking Cock,
as he stood on a November morning, a
heap of ruffied, dingy feathers, on the
top ofa ruined fowl houseiR the dark
back yard of small house in town.
The hens, who were natives, went on
quietly picking up the broken potato
thrown out to them, and took nonotice,
"Just look at my tail,' he cried to
one. as he glanced round at his, finely
arched feathers that had a week before
elistened in the sun like snow fakes;
Sdont you see how dirty and shabby
it is? And my wattaes and my comb
they were as red as crimson, but my
wattles, / can see,' are getting yellow,
and no doubt my comb is. too: What
q cruel tyranny to bring me from the
finest farm yards, where ! was the ad-
miration of so many hens, and where
my voice might be heard the whole
| leagth Of the village! I call this the
climax of oppression and wrong, and
myself the greatest Of sufferers, Js,u
The hens still peeked away, though
he looked at them for sympathy; they
were afraid, to contradict him (hens
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-27
Amateur Music.

If you are asked to sing or play, either
do it at once, without requiring to be press
ed, or don't do it at all. Be very cautious
about doing it. First, be sure that yeu can
do it, 1t is painful to see young gentle
man looking up to the ceiling for the re-
mainder of the words of the song, or feel
ing for them in his hair, and not finding
them it is provoking to hear a pianist
break down in passage through defective
memory or execution. Secondly, be sure
Of your style, especially in accustomed cir
Giles. What is considered very fine in one
set, may be thought very common place in
another. What is relished in London, may
sot suit in Paris. What is applauded 10
Berlin, may be coldly listened to by Italian
ears.
While music is being executed-wbethsr
in the good or bad sense of the word-talk-
ing is not polite humming the air is nuis-
because you will mostly beat it wrong; and
ridiculous. The last demonstration has been
carried in Paris to degree which it would
be difficult to surpass. A certain pianist
had ladies in his pay. at the rate of seventy
five francs per concert. whose duty it was to
rant Win uoiight at nio ihitnuapio poiioi u
ance. One evening, however, a lady paid
to faint, deserted her post by falling asleep.
Reckoning on the fainting Of this female te
interrupt the finale of a concerto, the pi.
anist started his allegro at speed impos
sible for human fingers to continue. But
no fainting came to his relief. What could
he do in that calamityT He did what the
lady ought to have done, aud tainted him
self people crowded round him; they car
ried him out of the room. The fainteress
waking, really fainting through vexation n
having forgot faint. sl' Hlu
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-27

TANNING FIsH-A little girl residing near
a pond in Massachusetts, has succeeded in
tanning some Of the fish by throwing crumbs
Of bread, crackers, &c, into the water
The species called perch seem to be the
most tractabe aud docile One OF them
often takes the end of her finger in his
mouth, while another will glide gently into
her hand and turn on one side, and so re-
main, apparently reposing, till raised quite
to the surface. The little girl walks out on
plank sustained few inches above the
water. and before she resches the end of
the plank the fish may be seen dartiBg rap
idly toward their feeding ground The
large ones, especially, are disposed to drive
of the smaller ones, but she keeps order
among them by means Of stick with a
sewing-needle attached to the end of it, and
when one picks up quarrel he gets a stab,
and is off at once. -[Country Gentleman.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-27
what a good Newspaper may
...t.. ef DO.

Show us an intelligent family Of boys and
sirls. and we will show yous family where
newspapers and periodicals. are plentiful. -
No one who has besn without these silent
priysts tuters can know their educating
power for good and evil. Have yousyer
thought Of the isnumerable topics Of dis
oussi6n with which, thus early, our childres
become famiiiarly acquainted; great Philan-
tbropic qusstieusef the dayfto which hun;
consciously their attention. 10 awakened. and
this general spirit of intelligence whichis is id
voRed by these quiet visitors: Anything
that makes home plsasaht.' cheerful and
chatty, thihs the hauuts Of vice, aud the
thousand and ons 'avenussof teriptation,
should osrtsinlyl be regarded. when, we con,
slider its influence on theg minds Sof the
young as great moral and social lightl-
Emerson.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-27
Ghoite Miseellang.
Ingr0titude.

1t is common enough to hear people
announce that, for their part, they have
given up expecting gratitude in this
world, and that in such significant
tones as to leave us in no doubt that
the hard experience is a personal one.
Nobody talks much about ingratitude in
the abstract; the subject is only inter
esting when brought home in some
marked way to ourselves. Now,
though it is only too fragrant truth
that there is such a thing as ingratitude,
we think it will be granted by whoever
has listened to this strain that there al
ways arises misgiving as to the jus
tice, in the particular instance, of so
sweeping a censure upon human ma
ture. If we know the complainant well
enough, we shall be conscious of de-
fective sympathy. The people who
are always scenting out ingratitude are
not people to trust without searching
investigation, because they will uni
formly be found self.absorbed, puz-
zled- headed, or in some way incapaci-
tated for taking reasonable and un-
prejudiced view where their affections
or interests are concerned; they are
behindhand with the rest Of the world
in their knowledge of themselves and
of their standing towards Others
They view the conduct of others, in
any critical case which greatly con-
Germs or interests them, in its bearing
on themselves alone; they cannot take
in the complicated relations in which
all stand toward the world about them.
Thus you will hear the mistress Of a
household rail at the ingratitude of
servants, because one on whom she has
bestowed much kindness has left her
for her own convenience or to "better
herself" AS she talks of her wrongs,
she evidently forgets that the delin-
quent may have ties quite as stringent
elsewhere. The trnsty damsel she
misses so sorely had perhaps given 0
quid pro quo in faithful service; or, il
the complainant was kind, perhaps 9th
ers had been kinder; or she forgets thai
the kindness has the set- off Of many
provocation hard for servant girhsn
to bear. AS fact, people are nevei
less pleasant than when they are thui
denouncing the world-their world
whatever ic is. We feel implicated il
some way; though it is no concern o
ours, we find ourselves making com
mon cause with the migrate. The trdti
is, ingratitude is too serious charg'
to bring without very grave consider
ation-withouS weighing ah sides 0
! the question. There are ungratefd
people in the world-people with th
mouths described by the old writer q
always eating and never saying grace
who take whatever anybody will Civ
them and never say "Thank you;" int
whom kindnesses- fall as into a dea
sea; people for whom no man living
the better; people who think they hay
a right to'every thing, and only feel Ill
used when that comes as q gift whic
should have been theirs by ownership
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-27

PLAeFTREEs -Ifany living man neglects
to plant trees because he may not live to
see them grow, Let him read the following
item which we find in The Country Gentle
man, and take courage. He may live to
build house Of lambergrown from trees Of
his own plshtingl -e .#I.lt .... .
II want to tell my story. which Know
to be true and perfectly correct, as all the
parties are TO me we'll known aHd Of un-
impeachable yeracity. Tue scene. is in
Berkshire County. Massachusetts,. A boy
reapsd whnat in q field boy grew to be
9 man. and lived to the ripe old age Of ~
years Before he died hs sat in his chair
and saw neishbor of his from day to day
drawing saw logs toa mill This mandrew,
had sawed. and sold l5o, 900 feet of lumber
and all from 81 acres of the ground upon
which the cid man when 4 boy had reaped
wheat The timber was mostly pine, some
oak. l believe pine will grow ss fast here
as that t4 .f
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-27

DoUBTFUL-'Is that good ice cream,
UncIe?" was the query put to perpatetic
vender ofthe aforesaid article day or tive
since. 'Oh. yes, Massa, dis Union ice,
cream" Dis Union ice cream why you
be arrested as Rebel II you talk that way..
"Oh, no, sir, + amt no Rebel. Dis Uni n
ice cream is what sell; aim. no Reb, /
bout it certain" "But how can it be dis
Union and you not be Rehei?" Old dar-
key (scratching his pate with puzzled air.
Hi, | ain'tEay muffin bout Dis union, | say
dis Union ice cream" "Oh. you me an it 8
Union ice cream?'' "Yes, dst's what
means; try some, sir2 It's VERY nice. -
"No,, if it's Union I'm afraid it can't be
dissolved" Exit venerable African in a
huff. debating inly whether he had not bet
ter change the arpellation Of his wares
Richmond Republic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-27

PRUNE THE ORCHARD That is, examine
every tree, especially in young orchards. md
with sharp pruning knife cut out the twigs
and new shoots which the eye and li,tle
Judgment point ont as likely to clash with
each ether in future years, il allowed to
grow Keep the heads moderately low, and
whifs cutting to prevent too crowded top
avoid be other extreme of atoo open one
Remember that ours ID "a hot sun, and that
partial shade for both branches and fruit
Undesirable. BY removing the limbs which
actually need cutting away, the growth ID
direct where il is wanted. and the greater
labsr and injury ofthe tree by cutting of
large branches at some future time ia avoid
ed. Remember that the knifafs the only
implement needed 70 prass fHpt trees.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-07-27

CANNING PEACHES AT a meeting Of
the Alton (Ill( Horticultural Society, a
lady presented some canned peaches with
the following directions for putting them
mp: Make thin syrup Of feht or white
sugar, put the peaches either whole or cut,
into'a porcelain kettle and cover With syrup.
When they come to the boiling point. 6ll
the cans and set them on the siovo for q
few moments, as the cold cans rednce the
temperature. Just before sealing set off
the cans and put in a teaspoon this aids
the escape Of air. Seal up immediately
and keep in cool place,