The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-16

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The Spring is inclossd with marble
walls, and covered by dome, on white
columns. It yieldsaboutt thirty gallons
per minute, never more or less In dry
or wet seasous, and the temperature IS
uniformly 81 degrees OF Fahrenheit: MI.
Hayes, OF RoXbury, made an analysis
of the water in 1872, at his laboratory
and stated that II contained the sui
phates OF lime and of magnesia, Chic
ride of magnesium, carbonate OF lime,
and carbonic acid. But It's only neces-
sary to taste the clear fluid to know
that it is composed OF ancient eggs, de-
composed cabbages, essence OF raw
onions, phosphate of decayed fish, and
other similar substances, 1t Is doubt
less healthy, but 1t is not good-indeed
1t may be styled nasty, very nasty. II
man or woman sentenced to drink II
doesn't get we'll, at the earliest possible
day, I am astonished. a diet of castor
oil and Turkey hubarb would be prefer
able, to my taste. i.1 r...f r t
Yet II is,quafed by the quart, and
with pure mountain air, wholesome
food, exercise, and freedom from care
1t accomplishes wonders, especially in
restoring the Southerners affected by
liver complaint.
No one, however, believes that bibu-
lation Is the business which brings
majority of he guests here. Mammas,
fundamentally inclined, trot out their
daughters in Wonderfully gay harness,
exhibiting their good qualities, and
picking flaws in the characters or cos
tunes o1Tival bellies. No longer have
any of these demotseltes "wool and
ivory" as their dowers, with broad cot
ton fields or fertile rice swamps, where
in their ebon ,"chattels" toll. But the
South had Its contractors who enriched
themselves during the war as we'll as
tF,.s AyhrfHS -oT1d tho 9basfEfiba hf NavgnOFb.
or the PetrbleumS of Long Branch have
their cotemporaries here. There are
silk dresses with gorgeously trimmed
peplums, and famous laces, mingled
with 6rocHe muslins, organdies and mo-
hairs, palmer, yet more becoming.
Worse than these noHUeduT-Tiches are
the politicians. who recall the poets as
sertion that
-".Every prospect pleases,
And only man Is Vile"
Here are the ante. .belIuHp- Generals
aud Judges, who bombastically daget-
lated Southern patriotism up To the 'fe-
yer heat of armed rebellion, and who
finally leaped nimbly over "the last
ditch" to denounce their captors, and
to shamelessly abuse Congress for its
legislation. Prominent among these
sore headed politicians who drone away
here all day about the oppression ofth
South, like drunken bag-piper, Is
Louisiana Judge, who takes especial
delight in squatting near loyal men and
annOying them with his venomous
abuse. There are also willy Northern
Democrats, who have yet hopes of
resuscitation of their party, which Will
give them place aud power again. and
enable them to pocket theirsalaries as
Judas bagged his thirty pieces of Sill
yer, without remorse as to the conse.
quences of their conscience sale. or
course, menagerie keepers are here,
ready to accommodate those who desire
to light ye tiger"
Different is the manly, quiet beha-
vior OF Gen. X. E. Lee. who is here
with his family, but who positively re-
fuses to be made Il lion or a fool of. So
il Is with the soldierly young fellows
who used to obey "Massa Bob's" or
ders, but who are now reconstructed.
Depend upon 1t, II those who wore the
blue, and those who wore the gray
the last remnants of treason would soon
be stamped out. Those who wore the
rebel uniform, and marched to the
tunes of "Dixie," or the "Bonnie Blue
Flag" are sensible men, who are man
" enough to own their defeat, rather
deeds are recorded in Hudibras, and OF
whom it Is said: am al-
"He lighting fell-and falling fouEht--.
And being down, still laid about ga
Would that the exampleof Gen. Lee
could be followed by others here. Cler-
gymen of the guide:post order, point
out road they will never take; judges,
learned in the law, but In little else be-
sides: politicians, each one Machia-
velIi in his locality, artful at plot and
coHnterplot, but now hampered; and
bilious planters, who resemble the fig
ures of death with which the ancient
Egyptian used to deck their banquet
halls, as they lament the emancipation
of their "niggers,n and they croak fear
full prophecies OF a coming war of races.
These impotent and unreconstructed
secessionists bluster, and swagger, and
curse in the true chivalric style, as they
sit with theirlean legs sprawling abOnt
like SO many pairs OF animated COM
passes, spirting about tobacco juice
and denunciations of Congress with
equal fancor. .-.,r5 3.s--s 80. 81
Watching them intentIy is another
class, of dusky hue, who naturally fear
that the shackles may again be riveted
on their limbs, and that the crack of
the cowhide may again drive men who
have stood with serried ranks in de-
fence of the flag of our Union. A day
or two since, some OF the DANES here
made complaint that "niggers drank at
the spring. which they were then told
was improper. Soon afterward, every
servant on the grounds assembled, and
gave notice that IL they also could not
drink the healing waters, they would
all leave. Depend upon 1t, these dark
skinned people know their rights now,
and mean TO preserve them.
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