The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-06-12
Gail IIarnilton-"No. VIII"

We cannot present 10 our readers any.
thing live!ier than an extract or two from
Gail Hamilton's letter in the New York
Tribune Of Saturday, which principally
concerns Mr., Stanley Matthews, called by
the Main enchantress "Mr. Hayes
brother Joseph's wiie's husband" though
We don't see how that can be. She says
Our Government, which hitherto exist.
ed in three departments, speedily took on
n sort Of fourth estate and divided itselI
into the legislative, the executive, the III,
dicial and Stanley Matthews. There
was an angry buzz in South Carolina
Stanley Matthews had been poking his
stick into the nest. There was scratch.
ing behind the arras in Louisiana; Stan.
ley Matthews had been scattering rats.
bane and sugar. General Garfield sud.
denly found his way into the Senate,
swectly'but securely hedgcd up with roses
Stanley Matthews head popped up on
the Senate side Of the hedge. The South.
ern Democrats sat sucking their thumbs
in suspicious silence, while their North.
ern brethren were curveting over their
desks 10 count ont the electoral votes,
and, 10 Stanley Matthews was distribut.
ing contingent nuts and candy in scaled
cans. There was jar and hitch in the
approaching extra session Of Congress;
Stanley Matthews was Juggling at the
brakes. So did this Little Busy Bee I'm.
prove Each Shining Hour, till an admir-
ing nation came to put him in the same
relation to the President that the old
divines considered Satan to bear to the
Almighty, mot equal in original power,
but making up for it by an internal &c.
tivity."
STANLEY Matthews Worried About the
Extra Session" is the pathetic headline
with which one Of our Boston Reformers
leads of its telegraphic dispatches. It
strangely neglects to bulletin the exact
degree Of his worriment, and We are left
in painful suspense as 10 whether he is
only in the first stage Of irritation or the
last stage Of insomnia. But word OF tho
wise men Of Boston is sufficient. A crate.
full country will muflle itS twelve o'clock
bells, bury its driveaWays in tan, and
feed out to Stanley Matthews celery by
day, and choral by night TO soothe his
agltated nerves, a grateful country, do
| say2 Boston alone, apparently, could
Gull from her newspaper offices nurses
enough to take him through a brain
fever, and crave Of Heaven no higher
boon. What is an extra session that Il
should stand in the way OF Stanley Mat.
thewS peace OF mind? Extra sessions
grow on every bush, but here is a century
plant-perhaps, considering the occult
and continuous character Of its processes,
We might more properly call il a night
blooming scrics-upon whose like we
may never look again. II has taken this
Republic hundred years to flower in
Stanley Matthews, and shall rude Con.
gressmen scatter histender petals at their
first blOssoming2
No. II the soldiers want money
here are plenty Of bankers in New York,
to discount their pay vouchers, and 800
are as good as 500 for the vagabonds, in
time OF peace. No. Laws may stretch
and grumblerS resign, and the discharged
soldiers trudge home afoot, but when
our eyes shall be turned to behold for the
last time the sun in heaven, let their fee
bic and lingering glance set upon the
gorgeous ensign Of the Republic, spread
all lover in characters Of living light,
that sentiment, dear 10 every true Amer.
lean heart: 1--WE will not have our STAN
ley Mathews Worried"