Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-04-25
ITEMS OF NEWS.

ITEMS OF NEWS.
Mrs. W is dead, a lady celebrated for
the exquisite productions of her needle. She
executed 81 pieces, historical and landscapes,
I'M embroidery, and was offered $4,000 for a
Salvador Mundi. Her last work occupied her
about ten years.
The London Spectator says: Not only in
tellect, but knowledge of the world, miscella-
neous Information, tact, industry, rapidity of
though, a nervous style and a capacity at once
To cstch the strong and weak points of every
subject, are required for a good editor.
They are showing the Great Britain steam
or at Iondon, at hall u crown, Us cents) IA
head. and realizing n very handsome sum by
il. 1t is somewhat doubtful whether New
Workers will see her this summer.
Measures are in progress in New Orleans TO
give a public dinner to Mr.. Johnson, of Lou
isisna, who is now in that city, i'll honor of
his vote in the United States Senate, in favor
of the annexation of Texas.
a man named Ambrose Jones, was recent
ly convicted i'm Greenville, s. c., for the muir
der oil his step-brother. Ii is represented as
having been a cold blooded and horrible ira
gcdy.
lie who never changed his opinions, never
corrected any of his mistakes, and he who
was never wise enough to find any mistakes
IN HIMSELF, will not be charitable enough to
excuse what he reckons mistakes in others.
Miss Mary haywood charges that the plot
OF Mrs. Mowatt's Comedy of Fashion was
taken rom a published story of hers.
Scales for weighing sovereigns at the Bank
oil England, are now SO accurate as to detect
| the difference nt the IN nD0fh ,>art IF . u-u:.
The London News predicts a war with the
United States, as possibly likely TO arise out
oil the oregon question.
The citizens of Mobile. Ala, have rendered
the Hon. John c. Calhoun a public dinner.
The entire estimate of the provisional ex-
penses Of Canada, for 1915, is So, S27 1888.
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RAILROADS AND THE TARIFF.-The
BHDdto Courier follows the Evening Post
right INTO the following blunder, after the Post
itselfhas been driven out of it:
Railroad Iron can be obtained i'm Great
Britain at S25a per ton"
n thlsJ fact the Post proceeded to preach a
pathetic anti Tariff sermon, which..the Courier
works over and endorses. Now the real fact
Is that Railroad Iron was worth Gl2 sterling a
ton IN England at the latest dates received
when the Post wrote its article. and is worth
LIZ los. by the advices via Great Western,
equai to S60a first cost in England, while Am
erican Iron masters are now turning out good
Rails under contract at a less price. Put on
the freight and charges, with a 20 per cent.
Revenue duty, and English Railroad Iron
would cost about $50 IA ton in New-York or
any part of this Country. But for the Pro-
tectiye ieaturesof our Tariff every ton of Rail
road Iron laid down in our Country this sea-
SA.. a.-l F.
son ana Tor AN indefinite period to come, (un-
less previously contracted for at lower price,
would here cost this exorbitant price, which
would have gone To swell a heavy balance of
Indebtedness against us. Now a great deal
will be made at home, alta less cost, giving
employment to American ~artizans and labor
ers, a market for American Provisions, and
support to Americans. We will have home
made Railroad Iron at SI0a ton before Folks
term is out,-N. y. Tribune.
OLE BULL-MUSICAL CRITICISM
saturday evening about a thousand persons
assembled to hear a great fiddler, and he lpas
a great fiddler. But was he as great as the
laudations abroad led us to expect? From
what has been said, we judge not. The rea-
son OF inns Is the injustice lone every foreign
singer, play-actor, or dancer, who comes to
tiIs country by the Eastern Newspaper Press.
No woman who is willing to dance i'm pub
lie; no Italian Opera singer who learned TO
squall IN Rome no French horn PLAYER to
LOUIS Philippe; no English novelist who
makes thieves, murderers and tops his theme,
can land at Boston or New York but what
our very respectable contemporaries on the At
iantlc immediately convert them into the de-
tues OF Heather Mythology. Fanny Ellis
Ter at New York and New Orleans was the
Minerva of legs and toes. She danced and
sprawled as nobody ever danced or sprawled
before IN the world, according to the papers.
80 Dickens was Toasted among the Literati of
Boston, in a way which would have shamed
Apollo had he invited old Homer TO drink
nectar with the deities of Olympus. But of
that affair they do not boast.
So in New York, did we believe the papers.
ole Bull was entirely supernatural. 1t was
indeed a fiddle he played on, but it was a fd-
die whose strings were stolen from the lyre of
Orepheus, when he played for his lost Fury
dlce! IL was indeed cat-gut he scraped. but
such cat-gut as the world has never seen since
cats ceased to be worshiped among the old
Egyptians. Now this is a mistake. Ole
pull isa capital fiddler,-perhaps the best i'm
the world,-but he is only a fiddler. He does
not WELD the Tyre of Orpheus by any means
Had Ole Bull been heard without the ~extrav-
agant putting which preceded him, the great
pleasure with which ne was heard wouldR have
been much increased. As ii was, q very large
audience listened to him with great delight !:
though very few could enter into the theme nj
such piecesa as the Carnival of Venice. The
TACT is, the great majority of mankind will lis
ten with great curiosity and stiffness indeed
to a complicated piece of music which las the
phrase is) is executed remarkably. But il is
the tender melodies, or the sprightly ioyous-
ness OF song, to which the heart as well asthe
ear responds. There must be melody and bar.
lnony TO make music in the soul. Emyd;ce
was never called back from the shades of darL.
ness by rambling and complicated erecufions
on the Violin or Piano.-Ciu. Chrou
SKETCH OF A GENTLEMAN.-Mode.
Ia,oh' decorqm and neatness distinguish the
gentleman. He is at all times afTable 'diGident
ana is studious to please; intelligent and polite:
MS behaviour is pleasant and graceful. When
ne enters the dwelling of an inferior he endea.
yours TO hide. if possible, the difference he
.ween their rank in life. Ever willing to as
SiSt those arOun6 him lao a. ,..l--