The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-12-23

Secretary, and his opinions will nave
great influence. The administration Of
.his department has been marked
~ 5hcneslyh and capacity and doubt
IL the fsseality Of many rehners
and dealefs have disgusted him, and he
seeks the readiest means to Insure afaith-
ful collection Of the revenue. While, how
ever, insuring this he should not overlook
the interest Of the great industries that
may depend upon the action OF Congress
in this matter. We think the views Of the
reinefs are correct, and we think Congress
will not make such radical cbanges ashave
been proposed without the most careful
consideration, and such as the average
Congressman does not usually give tomat-
tiers Of this kind. IA On s,i III Gssz.a.
The business men OF the country gener-
ally claim that there has been enough Of
disturbing legislation and demand q rest
after the excitements and fluctuations OF
the last few years. Confidence must be
restored before business will revive. Let
such policy prevail as will give stability to
all business enterprises. 3
-" giais coGrt or Appeals.
The editor ofthe Greenbrier Independent
returnst TO his criticisms of the Court Of
Appeals in his last issue, and as a preface
TO his long article makes the following al:
fusion to a recent Communication in the
ISTIlLlGEScRR: ss,a.l l,ua fgeei
"Some warm, but disinteresed, friend oil
this Court, with more zeal than discretion,
has rushed into printthrough the columns
loil the Wheeling ISTE1LIdEScER, the Re-
publican organ, In an elaborate and de-
eidedly Long article In reply to recent
editorial in this paper. His zeal could not
be greater, and we are sure his discretion
would not be less, were he closely allied
to the Judges and dependent upon them
for what he shall eat, and what he shall
drink, and wherewithal he shall be
clothed m t-ll- 4.5i fHls. 90.
It is proper for US to say, on behalf Of
Mr. LoNo, the clerk Of the Court, that he i:
not the writer Of the communication al.
luded to, nor do we presume that he has
any knowledge Of its authorship.
After this preface, the Greenbrier mai
proceeds with his overhauling Of the
Court. He intimates that its decisions
shave afforded much food for fun for the
profession" says that "facts in the record.
vi . aH- .|
have been entirely m~isconcefved or per
verted," aud speaks Of Opinions that ART
so profound and obscure as to be unintei
ligible." The length Of the decisions OF the
Court remind him Of what Macaula!
said OF Mares memoirs OF Lord Burghley
Speaking Of this work, Macaulay says
"The title is rs long as an ordinary pre-.
face; the predatory matter would fur
nish out an ordinary book, and the book
contains rs much matter as an ordinar!
library. We cannot sum up the merits o.
this %stupendous mass OF papers which lies
before us better than by saying that 1t con
sists OF about 1000 closely printed pages
that II occupies 1900 inches cable meas
ure, and that It weighs 60 pounds ayoirdu'
pois. Such q book before the deluge might
have been considered light reading by
Hilpa and Stadium. But, unhappily, the
lite OF man is now three score year:
and ten, and we cannot but think
it somewhat unfair in DR.. Mares &c
demand from as SO large q portion
OF so short an existence. Compared with
the labor OF readingthrough these volume:
all other labor, the labor OF thieves OF the
treadmill, OF children in factories, OF ne
groes in sugar plantations, is an agreeable
recreation. til not merely in bulk but in
specific gravity that these memoirs exceed
all other human compositions. On every
Subject which the Professor discusses be
produces three timesas many pages as an,
.Lother man, and one Of his pages is as te
dious as another mans three. His book |:
swelled to its vast dimensions-by endles:
repetitions, by episodes which have moth
ing to do with the main action, by quota
tions from books which are in every cfrcu'
lating library, and by reflections which,
when they happen TO be just, are so OBJ
vious that they must necessarily occur tc
the mind Of. every reader. He employ,
more words in expounding and defending
q truism than any other writer would EN-
ploy in supporting a paradox"
The moral Of this quotation, as Capt
Cutie says, "lies in the application o it.
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