Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-02-11

Wa have at last what purports to bethat
little story which Mr. Lincoln told to the
rebel Commissioners at Fortress Monroe
We are indebted for it to a, Washington
correspondent who feels quite sure that he.
haslit. he says: BY s
After the formal interview was over there
was lengthy general conversation held
It seems that It was during this informal
talk that the rebel ambassadors first heard
ofthe passage of the constitutional amend
ment by the lower house of Congress-. One
of the number remarked that this action
might complicate affairs little with the
South. -Th0AheaEyz planters insistsdzupon
maintaining that institution:aud defending
it, and asked Mr.. Lincoln If he thought
he could get around that fact. Old Abe
was ready for them with one Of his stories
and said = g 1o.i,s 'E1-''F
There is an old farmer out in Illinois
who had made his arrangements to raise a
large herd Of hogs he sinformed his
neighboFs that be had found way to raise
cheap pork. This excited the curiosity Of
his neighbors, and they asked him how he
was going to doit.s The old farmer replied
that he should plant a large field of pota-
toes, and when they had got their growth
would turn the hogs in and let them dig
and eat, thus saVingth expense of digging
the potatoes and feeding Them esg Taao
But, said his neighbors, "the frost will
come before they are fatteued, and in all
probability the ground will be frozen fool
deep; q, How do you propose to get around
"oh' p replied the farmer, "they will roo
somewhere snyway, and may as well root
away there even if it is hard work."
| The same enterprising correspondent
treats us to the following view of the per,
sOnal appearance of the three commission
ers. If sis account is not reliable it ii
nevertheless readable:l
The rebel Vice President and his asso
ciates were rather poorly clad. Although
not got up in the regular shabby genteel
style of dress, the ordinary texture of theil
clothing bespoke toe fact that textile fab
RIGS OF the BEST kinds were somewhat scarce
in the confederacy. They wore good, thick
sOled English shoes, no dou6tgot in through
blockade runners. Their appearance wal
not that of men in sound and robust health
They looked more like men who had no
had regular succession of good dinueri
for some time past, however much they
might have been accustomed to them il
days gone by; for it is fact that Violen
gastronomic changes have as much effsc
upon the human system as the changes o
the atmosphere upon barometer. Mel
who are accustomed to good eating anC
drinking all their lives, and by some ire
pressible necessity are forced to fall bacI
upon poor or Indifferent food as a substi
tute, show it's effects upon their cons,itu
tion much more readily than poor men, VIII
are in the habit of regularly subsisting OF
ordinary diet. While the latter class will
thrive and even grow fat, the former viii
grow thin and pine away. The appearance
of the Southern commissioners led to tn
idea that they belonged to the former
class.
When they first made their appearance
in front of our lines they opened negotia-
tons in a spirited way. The first thing
they wanted to know was whether Their
was any good whlskey on our side. Th
answer was prompt, "Ot course there was
and any quantity of it," The embassa
doris thereupou expressed desire to havr
some, and were immediately gratifed.
was evidently long time since they bat
tasted so prime an article, for in q brie
space they had consumed what was sen
them, aud were under the necessity of re-
questing further supply. The aromatic
taste of such fine liquor, which they hal
rarely heard of since the rebellion, N
, doubt put them in very good humor, ant
all feelings of hostility to the Yankee
were for the moment "in the deep bosom
of the ocean buried" and they at ono
proposed an interview. The preliminarie
up to the meeting of the President, Mr.
Seward and the Southern representatives
are already we'll known and need not b
repeated.