Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-02-01
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What toi him are the princes of Begun,
referred 20 yesterday in oeSEte2 What the
princes of La hOreS with their Koh-i.noors ?
A Wholecasket lies in bis glance; for is he
not the dispenser of $500, ,OOO, 900 q year ?
What to him the civil list OF George Ill,
which. the Speaker Norton told the king
was great beyond example Millions hang
upon his smile, where only thousands hung
upon the smiles ofthe proud monarcha of
England l. What TO him are the satrapies
of the Indies / Whole hstacombs of green
backs daily are sacrificed by his order l.
In plain attire, but potential mood, he
comes l. Ear off his coming shines; in form
and seeming,buta man, but In Imagination
like the angel of the pit, floating many a
rood on the burning mari of wari About
him herd thousands of slaughtered, beef
Around him athrOng millions of tons of for
age; guns and. wagons, horses and mules
I-an innumerable host, too great for the
contracted mind of man; and from his brow
hang bounties for millions, and houors for
all Ia BefoEeIhim fall, as before ancorient-
al throne, lthe PROSTATE House. aIns vain
the Speaker calls to order ,zI In vain the
Ssrgeant.at! arms bTandisheso the mace
Our symbol falls beforehthe golden wand
OF. this magiciRn of war -Ec1r4 t.i
At length he, too, ,deigns to sit. He is
fanked BY my military colleagues, Messrs.
Schenck and Garfield), and the House is
ready with their questions Rare diver
zion here rMr,Speaker,, The record pro-
vided by Tie Clerk is produced. My col
league (Mr. Schenck1, or rather my col
league (Mr. Garfeldl, With that sense OF
military skill and courage for which he is
so distinguished, is the first to inquire Of
the War Minister, and not without embsr-
rassment. The House is breathless as he
asks-what Z. Whether the blowing out Of
the bnlkhead of the Dutch Gap Canal by
! Butler has seriously affected the back bone
Of the rebellion 2 i, aye, 1hqW many Yete-
bra are demolished; and after conferences
with the Naval Committee, whether the
canal, 10 ease Of q tempestuops sea, is
nAvigable for double. enders RndsWhetheE
they cannot go either way therein without
turning round 2 g tG -
Mr.. Con confined in this strain, exciting
roars of laughter, especially when heiwen
on to portray Nj. Morrill,, ever alive to thu
interests of New England, inquiring tri'
unpba6tly Of Mr.. Fesssnden whether the
tariff shouI1 not bs SO amended as to in
crease the duty on dye stuffs and paper, sc
that on future. issue of ST.. .ooo, 600, 900 o
gssenbacks, the tariff will be prohibitory
the prices raised, aud unsatisfactory def
3 cheney be produced il our revenues. o.
whether, by raising the price of dyestuf
, and paper, the value of greeubacks in th'
market might not, be made equal to tn
cost oftheir manufactured -s Ga
The house also enjoyed hugely the re-
mltks of Mr.. Cox on the inclination on th'
pat of members to adopt course of pol
icy because the Secretaries have SO or
J dai,ed it. ia proof of this he cited tn
goli and the loan bills; aud instanced tn
thecOnduct ofMessrs. Morrill, and Hooper
/ bul said he. when tho gentleman from
; Pssnsyl7ania (Ar. steveus,) spoke,5h he CAV
; ane,her voice: 81 bow" said hs,r ITO tn
4 opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury
iifiis right" lest