The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-08-05

L. there no other way that leads
10 that blOst city with streets ofgold?
oLu tneIe no bJatman with mystic oar?
y there NO angel ofh0aVenIy mein
To bear ~ across 70 that other shore
over the stream, over the stream.
stay, weary EplrItlso sad, iorlorp,
boelt thou not thaL Hllght cancel
Pearly white, and amid the Storm
A pilot q waiting, and calling 10 you:
"OhI beloved, DO not afraid,
DeAth u not what 20 moTtAA deem,
frost In me, and Will land you safe,
over the stream, over the httUAm
BRoRPoRT D Aug 4sh
Mr.. Eiitar1
don't sea what you are always
throwing out things about us on this
slde OF the river. Now yesterday morn
Ing you printed q peace Of potFy called
over the streem, which Is not 60.
don't sea how man can 60 TO wTllin
and say aB nanny things wlch 10 not
tTu. 10 the very hrst line be says that
dark 10 the wilderness, rough the way,
just 40 much to say % n we lived over
here In q wilderness and didn't know
nothing and know the way amt any
roughter than any other way-ior, II
you don't want to wolk you can ride on
the street cairs then you wont End any
thoTnes, aud there Alnt any danger,
rife. don't know what that IL unles he
meant dangerous riEel.
He sails ne 10 only safe when we
watch and pray. toillng on In the path
Of life. yes'toiling round the streets
watching men when they git into htes 90
you can rite about them. You cant Wach
and pray both at the same time. YOU
are always Of the POI EtnFt house and
there Amt much going on there
only for Mr.. Good I6'fSt them 20. II
Il was q policeman that role the peIce
then they do TOO much watching, for
some oil US cant 60 over 10 your place
now Tor they are watching for Us all
time, and ifthey have O poor hart away
over the stream they had better NOT
come over here after Ii for we're wAch-
Ing 10. then In the Beckond verse thew
say must we cross the waters that M?
now who ever heard OF WAFER lIein9.
nor 1t faint dark ether, Il Mas clear
now as ever seen lG, nor Il faint deep
nor cold. every body noWs IL 10 too
warm to drink, but IL 10 81 TO swim In.
lsut there any other way leading to that
olest ciEy2 now that 10 what makes me
mad, he IL making fun Of us because
this town 10 not Hs big as wheeling,
aud II l could write US well M
some pepel will bet you'd anser
him. Then he says 10 there no
angel OF heavenly mean 10 take
Us over to the other shore2 nowi think
tAat 10 another slur. II he 10 slipping
round here why cant he cross on the
brige, expect he don't want the
brige men 10 see HIM, and why don't he
git q man 10 row himS over and not
want q woman. Women are some-
times called angels, and suppose he
wants to keep on the right side Of them,
There 10 plenty Of deVelish mean ones
that would row him over and for moth
log TO. Don't you sea that slight canoe ?
No | reckon you don't nor nobody else
for there Amt been one here for don't
know how long. he-means skiRt, but
! reckon he wants TO talk very big.
Parly white and In the storm Nov
there amt been no Storm here not
hard one since the hail storm, and II
enybody had been out In that they
would not have stopped very long to
ask any body to come and get in, and
you know that yourself.
don't see what pleasure ANYBODY
can take In running doun their ney bers
when we have done nothing to them,
and telling 30 many things that amt 90.
YoutS--.