Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1843-02-23

IA the Mississippi We passed New Oflesn.-uI
was Sabbath eve s. We no ,rd snase. and .s,, ,,.,,
"O'ing IN the maEes Of tho dance ani a hou..
Mhefe men wete knocking mauhoOds follies. anu
hundreds were laughing. not At wa us mirh. bu,
because 'hey had spent money here that would
nave saved thousands from starving. We were o.
the broad gulf and could see through ats CLASSY bo
SON 'he myriad faces Of the dead lhvre buried. O.,
al hailons, tribes. aud people Down IN is Jeptb
lay ihe Jew graspIng bis gold. The Frenehnan his
poodle-dog. the German was smoking lis Auye min.
Tie Mexican was cluIching his knife. the P,ra,,
n'u oP'nrned lars face IN the prayer Of agony AZ
Indian 20 'spod n rosary. and beside him Was the
polished brow Of beauty. and a shark lay over a.
like CORN 'rani, hungry for his feast m,men,
more ana We heard The slaves of vice in the British
West Indies ing the masters who Ind freed
'hem 10 siarve. The rocks Of Gibralter, aud ihe
"''i' OF Gas lie came IN vievS. and We passed We
81" irar OF forty, whispering s1G nunsense in the
oar OF maiden of fifteen. aud hdalgo cur.ing ID,
vile he had sworn he lyyeJ when tna. old mooi
was new because gay cavalier duSed h Is cap To-
10 her. In France we heard tive men Ia king Of
numbering the king the front tier at the opera the
sister Of one and the wife of the o,her drowned her.
sell that morning in the Seine. We saw smoke
aiar of and bound DER the British channel opened
10 us The sinu0us course Of the Thames. London
was an snt heap busy with funerals busy with balls
bnsy with births, busy with reading. busy with
pleasure. busy with pain. The @ Zee was knit.
ting child ems stockings. the DulcLess Of Kent
was cheating al cards. aud Arch bishop o. Canter.
bury was preaching under an apple tree to hun.
dred ragged boys and women. We pissed a cot.
'age on the road side.-tho Jasmine covered the
! windows and the doorway was blooming with no
ney.suckles, and rlyulei ran by and The hav thorn
grew on ITS banks, and the flowers kissed the mp
ling waters as they passed. sending their odOrs To-
refresh the slngnart sea. An old man set with his
face toward this scene of beauty, but he was blind
In the streets Of Edinburgh Christopher North was
pitching eopper with bcggur, aud The Lord Of Ar.
/ gyle ihrowing brickbats al a lamp post Ga. on,
larhor aud faser-lhe Orsn Us vanished and lho
smooth glare ofihe sea Of ice was b fore MS. no
dark object, no land, not even a crag Of shelving
snow. bat ice, bright sparkling ice rejecting Oh
iqusly a myriad rays of The sun. The cold was
I becoming intense, the rays though bright seemed
frozen, all nature frozen into one a,ass of solid
ice. On, on-lhe hawk diving for his prey. the ball
from the cannous mouln were less swift than the
passage Of that sleigh uqon the ereaking ice. Far
away, where lhe ice and sky were mingng INFO one
we discovered Ions l!ae like dark Thread On a
white ground.
( Approaching, We perceived another banl. bank
oi zee, far down as the eye could reach. ice that
had lain since the world first vas. gathering year
! by year, and between was mra.sible chasm-
We woull have stopped, but the ice was like pol
Ished steel aud would receive ho impression. On
ward. we approached the margin Of the gulf we
ie'Ioor hair rise ani stand erect, our blaod was
s'ill was frozen into ice ani co'oarless w, huns
an instant over The abIss and red to shrek. but
the sound too frozen. Ia the ell 1T we awoke
The fire had gone OUT aud we had caught so bad
a cold we could not sneezs. To add to our troubles
our mail Of yesterday The dullest we have ever
had.