The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-02-01

tne taA odRS Wlcn new STOOD, OnmoVed
the blasts NV time, totter and falIi wt
view their PROSTATE forms a second
methinks, they sink into the earth anC
and are lost to site, tho to memry dear
forever. Then around the old stumI
the young sprouts grow up more Wig.
orously than ever.
1 amt slingin these moral reflec
shuns for nothln. never waste thC
pathetics. Whenever imam is pulled
drowndid from the creek in this visini
ty, which happens frekently, there be-
in three distileries onto it, Inever weeI
until see whether he belongs to my
congregashun. 1t requires too mucf
nv an effort to weep, to do 1t on all ok
kashuns.
Elder Abslum Pennibacker, to-wunst
the strength and ornament of the meet.
in-house Nv wich hev bin for two
yeers the pastor, departed this life at {
| +. NJ. this afternoon. For him ISWeep
for him the teers is flowin over the pa.
per on which these lines is penned.
am wrtttn em in the presence NV the
Wife and children of the deceest, and Il
does EN- good to see me affected. When
| one kin confer satisfaction at SO little
trouble ez to carry an onion in his
pocket handkerchief, he would be a
broot indeed ef he did not prove hissell
ekal to the occasion.
Elder Pennibacker WuZ born in the
eastern part NV Pennsylvany, nv real
old Democratic stock. He wuz born
amid the scenes Nv the war NV Inde-
pendance, and he crowd up with Rev
olooshenary memries inspirin him.
His father fought in the Revolooshen,
haYin come all the way across the At
lantic to doit. He wuz a Hession, and
therefore wuznt penshuned by the
Ameriktn Government. But at the
Fourth of Jooly celebrashens, the old
man wuz invited to sit on the stand,
the yomAnry nv that secshun not
KNOWN that it made any difference ez
to the side he took in the struggle.
Young Abslum crowd up amid ex-
| silent inflOoences. Their wuZnt no
skools in the visinity in his infancy,
and jist eZ he mite heV bin contamina-
ted by em; his father moved to Ken
tucky, wher he wuZ safe from all sich.
The old gentleman dyin, Abslum in
hertted the paternal akers, and paternal
niggers and became man amung men.
The genius nv the man now begun to
develop. Untrameled by the narrer
views Nv his paternal ancestor, he
boldly launcht out for hisselt. He
early distinguished hisself by his in
Ventive genius, wich took the real Ken
lucky shoot. Twas him wich conceived
the idea Nv braidln small wire into the
lashes nv niger whips; and not salts
hed with that, he, alter a months bard
study, brought out the improvements
the nigger-paddle NV borin holes into
it. He he'd a desprit struggle to git it
adoptid. The blind planters Nv the
neighborbood he'd faith in the old pad
die, plain, and the Elder wuz forst to
demonstrate, by actooal experiment on
his niggers, It's sooperiority. He killed
two In dOin 1t, but he triumphed. It
wu2 found that more chastisemenG Good
be inflicted within gtvin time, than
by the old method. and that it lasted
longer.
Ineed not say what his politics wuz.
he wuz never nothin but Dimocrat.
He commenst his career Votin three
times for Jackson, and the candidates
wtch follered in succession he'd no cause
to complain Nv his Zeel. Under Book
anan his faithlnlnis wuz rewarded.
The post offs wich now hold wuz Riy-
en- him, and he discharged the dooties
taithfnlly and to the best NV his abilf-
ty. EZ he coodent read, he put wat
le5eeFs wien arrlY out into a box out
side, lettin every one who come take
one ef they wantid to. The paper wlch
come to the offs for Deekin POgram he
learned to distribbit in two weeks. The
out.goin mail he dumped into Ioois-
Vile bag, feslin a greatload wuz on his
r1ind when 1t dePartid. he held the
ohs Till hey wantid him to make out
a quarter report. He wuz nom
plussed. HI sither he'd to buy a mig
ger who Good read and write or resign,
and he resigned. A halE-starVed Yam.
kee wuz appointid in his stead, who
reigned till relieved him.
The Elder wuz the happy possessor
Nv three hundred niggers. They wuz
probably the best lot of niRgers, ez thew
rum in Northwestern Kentucky.S he
he'd three shades of color. The trader
Good find anything in the line nv Mig
ger, up to these three, that he wantid,
on his plantashun. Their wuz the pure
congo, the agil mulatto, and the comely
quadroon. Their wuz no higher mix
than 1.-The quadroon, for It will be re-
membered the family hed'nt bin slave. |
owners but three Renerashens. They
he'd accomplished a great deal, how |
ever, for the time they he'd he'd them.
The Elder he'd bin in failin health |
ever sence 1852. In that yeer he em-
barkt into speculashun wich bid fair |
In the State, and wood, he'd things bin |
continyood normal. Their wuz nigRers |
runnin to the Fedral camps from all |
parts Nv the State, and the Elder con-
ceeved thetdea NV goin to the said camps |
and claimtn nv EN-. The officer in COM |
mand wuz so anxious to consulate em |
that he wood gladly give em up, without |
bein pertikler about proofs, and the Ell.
der gathered in that way, in two months.
over a hundred. 1t required a good |
deel of ridin. and that fatigue combIn-
ed with the exposure incident to bush.
whackin Fedral pickets, wich wuz
guardin his fences and stitch, brought on
a spell Nv sickness from which he new
er fully recovered. The Emansipash-
en- PrOclamashen nearly tinisht him,
and he fingered along broken man,
ontil Johnson's 22d NV Febrooary
speech, wich actid ez tonic onto hun,
He revived, but the effeck wuz tempo
rary. Ez the Conservatives made head
way, he came up, and ez Congris tri.
umphed, he went down, and thus he
lived like candle in a tin lantern,
dickerin orquiet, ez the wind blowed.
He pluckt up amaZiuly after the eleck-
shuns last fall, but alas, the treachery
NV Meade and the Reinstatement NV
Stanton wuz two blows from which he
Good not hope to recover. And so, yes
terday, at 2 p. M, wich in this case
means post mortem, he died.
''Send in Sairey I" "sed he, and favor
it mulattO woman nv hisen who, OWN
to the fact Nv her haYin eight children
who wlz quadroons, he'd stayed onto
the place, Wuz sent for. She sOt on the
bed, and the Elders head wuz placed
in her lap. "Give me my munney,"
sed he and box NV COnfedrit scrip
wuz given him. And so, with his head
in Sairey's lap, fingerin Confedrit scrip
and talkin lflZker out nv a spoons he
passed gently way. IT wuz a troo
Kentucky deparchur. ''Thfs is the end
nv lifel' sed 1. MAY my end be
like HIS" murmered Deekin Pogram,
and all wuE oe'r
There WIZ trouble immejitly. When
the Elders will wuZ read wuz dis.
appinted to find that he he'd not Femem-