The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1867-11-22

| reply to my remonstrance against this
extrayagance, he would say curtly:
81 like plenty Of light
If at his house, Daniel was affable ant
1almost genial; in his office he was toe
frequently on the other extreme. He
loved to show his authority, and, as the
saying is, "to make things stand
around" His scowl at being inter
rupted while in the act of composing!
or when otherwise busilyengaged, will
never be forgotten by any one who ever
encountered1t. Holding drunken men
in special detestation, he was, as by q
fatality, subjected continually to their
visits, both at his office and at his house.
More than once, I have been sufficiently
diverted by Intoxicated officers just
from the army, who called in to pay
their maudlin tribute of admiration to
the editor of the Examiner in person.
Sometimes he bore these visitations
with a patience that surprisedi me; but
he never failed to remunerate himself
by awful imprccations upon the intru-
der as soon as he was out of hearing
While his tone to his employees was, as
general rule, cold and often intolera-
bly, dictatorial, | have seen him very
frequently as affable. and familiar as
heart could wish, indeed, | have known
him to go SO far as to come out of his
r.slnct,ni into, the small room occupied
by his spbfeditors with; the proof of a
contribution in his liand.,in order that
they might enjoy it with him. Occur
rences of this sort, however, were rare
Belonging essentially to the genus
dritdbile, hisiahger was easilyprovoked,
lie could not bear to be.crossed in any
thing. Whoever. said aught in print
against g the Examiner newspaper,
was sure to bring down upon himself a
torrent of abnse. Possessing in an emf
.inent degree and, indeed, priding him
self upon his sense of the becoming and
the decorous, he was no sooner engaged
in o newspaper controversy than he
forgot, or, at least, threw behind him,
the sense even of deeency, and heaped
upon his adversary epithets which
ought never to have defiled the columns
of respectable journal. This was
kept up, sometimes, long after the orig
inal heat of the controversy had abated
Ibis purpose being, as | SUPPOSE, to
give the opposing paper, and others, a
lesson which would never be forgotten;
and thus to ensure himself against sim-
liar ammo oyances in the future. Toavoid
trouble and to maintain the Ismes-like
character of the Examiner, his rule was
never to notice the opinions of other
papers, and, not even to quote FROM.
them. He waited to be attacked; but
when attacked, he followed the advice
of Polonius to the very letter.i But
his hottest anger and his bitterest male
dictions were reserved for his political
enemies. His rage against the admin
istration Of Mr.. Davis, and particularly
certain members of his Cabinet, was, 4
at times, terrible. In like manner, the
Journalistic partisans of the admins
tration came in for a full share of his /
fury. shall never forget his excite
ment, one night, OH hearing that GER
tain article in the Enquirer had been
written by q person formerly in his
employ. / can see him now, striding
up and down the room, exclaiming,
SIN put ball through him!'' III
put ball through him !" 3"I'll put
ball through him2''o This sentence he
re Seated fully twenty times, and in q
tone which gave assurance of a purpose
mute as deadly as his words imported,
Yet nothing came of it. He was q
learty and a persistent hater, but he
vas IS not implacable. During his stormy
Iifes he hadmany fallings out, and many,
up. 1t is not unsafe to assert
hat he never had friend with whom,
= so ue tllne, he did not have q misun-
Ierstaa ding; get it is certain that he
lied in perfect pedce, ana on good
erms with all, OF nearly all, OF his old
riends One of the last and most
pleasing acts of his life was the glad
.eceptance with which he met the adj
yance, of his friend, Mr. Thomas Il.
Nynne, from whom he had been es-
ranged odurin g nearly the Whole war
His enmity to Mr.. Davis, amounting
% something like . frenzy, will be !
lscribed, by those who differed from
iirn in opinion, to a bad heart, pique at |
not being made the confidential friend
Of the President, or at not having been
sent abroad in diplomatic capacity
But by those, on the other hand, WHO
agreed with him in thinking that the |
Cause suffered more from mal-adminis-
tration than from anything or all things.
else, his course will not be so harshly
Judged; and their chief regret will be
that arguments so forcible as Daniels,
were not left to produce their effect un-
aided, or rather unimpeded by dlatribe
and invective. TIE reconcile these con-
ticting opinions is impossible, and if
it were not, is beyond the intent and
aim of this sketch. / remember asking
him once whether Mr.. Davis ever saw
his animadversions upon him.
"They tell me down stairs" he re-
piled, ''that the first person here in the
morning is jeff. Dayis's body servant.
He comes before daylight, and says
that his master can't get out ef bed or
eat his breakfast until his appetite is
stimulated by reading every word in
the Examiner. a#a E.5,,e
"Do you think he profits by its peru
eo1p,, tlIrpo,1a StionoblV Tho fnM sOln1