Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-06-12


We have seldom met wiIh,a more gush.
ing touch OF nature and trnthfnlness than
will be found in the following extrscG-
Some of the illusions are touching aud all
Interesting:
There hangs my old coat on it's last rest
ing place, it's silken lining torn in shreds.
its buttons hanging from its body by the
slightest tenure, and its. collar shiney and
greasy. Yet it~bad seen better days in
hall aud grove and What GhQugh its brief
existence is for the present ended, and il
is doomed never toiliVe sgain, except per
chance on the mendicanrs back, has il not
historyP Has it not been st wedding,
and baptism and mineral? Has it not been
huItoned sOugiy across manly breast 10
keep out the cold March AjF2 Has it lot
been the Ere; TO feel the impress OF pair
Of well rounded arms or has not lis gallant
sleeve ofreo vibrsted under soft and gen.
tie touch2 Well, can tell you where it
has been, for have always been. with it.
|; has been in certain up town church
when the owner was gaZibg more at the
back OF fashionable hat thEu al the OF
cialinE minister, only glad when the bon
net turned, and from underneath gloWed
pair Of very expressive blue eyes, sur
mounted by msssy golden hair. II has
been, too, not al the fashionable watering.
place, but only where there was scenic in.
Ietest to be raised in the bosom of its
wsarer; on the mountain.top at eyentide,
when il hardly kept bis Wearer warm, when
every 6tful sound that came yelling up
from the vast plain beneath seemed a song
of joy. 1t has been with it's possessoT on
the country road, just as the SUI was set.
ting, aud he was walking briskly toward
his boarding place, With clear head and
a keen appetite. Aud then it makes me
think of harp, golden haired girl, a
summer evening, tasteful parlor, and
some soft and soul like sounds. Ard then
fancy, ever rowing, bears me away on its
snowy wings to the Man on Saturday at.
ternoOn, when the air was resonant with a
Thousand sweet sounds. and the sky was
bright and all seemed happy, and amid the
gush OF music to forget their many cares.
But not always as new coat did it four
ish by reason of slight degree of shah
biness, it fell from ito high position and
became an Office coat, and was faithful to
its owner in the more sober dnties of every
day life. Aud then, from constant rubbing
upon the desk, its sleeves grew shiny, It's
buttons became worn, and finally it was
doomed to hang upon the wall, no more TO
be used by it's wearer.
And yet he feels 10th to give il up; for
in it's skirts is the lingering perfume of
the party, % its eleeye is the shrine of in
dustry, here and there is a small rip torn in
the race for bread, and there a button
hanging by thread, showing how care.
less we all are in that battle which all are
fighting.
We'll, farewell, coatl Only now and
then may accidentally revisit the dark.
ened closet in which you hang; only now
and then will ponder over the thousand
sweet and sad things which your shrunken
form has called to mind Yet am thank
full that you have reminded mo of the days
gone by.
Then last and fond adieul 1 consider
you not 10 the light of a cast-of, but
dear, departed friend.