Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-11-23
PARAGRAPHIcAL.

| A Persian philosopher being asked by what me
thod he acquired so much knowledge. answered,
I"By not being, prevented by Shame from asking
questions when am ignorant:"i g. ..
uJ.One of the papers states that,the President
elect receives two bushels per day of letters con-
tainining applications for Office. .sr-,l ...fa
! Urinary Jackson, colored woman, was arrested
at Jersey City, the sth Instant for kidnapping
u colored girl named Sarah Jane johnson.
| IRA valuable copper mine is said to have been
discovered on the farm of Robert Hudson, near
Culpepper Court House, Va. i'.s''rif -''1l' +-'
| MA sale of $500 worth of,Chesapeake and
Ohio canal bonds was made at GEORGETOWN last
"Wednesday at &C cents per share.
MA fire occurred in the Presbyterian church at
Faimont, Va, last Sunday, which was extinguish
ed without much damage. go ''..A .z'
| GPA cargo OF $500 bushels of superior white
corn from North Carolina was sold at Norfolk on
the 18th at 10 cents per busbelS oN Lss5t
UTMr. j! H. Gorham, a merchant of Cleveland,
was fatally injured on Sunday night last, by his
twenty feet deep. His wife, who was III the buggy
with him, had both her arms broken, .r.
| VISIT OF BsmOP SCoTT TO LlBERIA.-Bishop
Scott, of Wilmington Dell, will sail for Liberia in
n few days, for the purpose of attending the con.
ference OF the Methodist Episcopal Church, which
is to be held there The members of the Church
number ten or twelve hundredin Liberia. The
ministers are colOredmen. ~, 4a f.a.t .....- .r.t.
OuR ExAMPLE.-As men and members Of socie-
ty, we should study the life ofthe "Eian of sor-
| rows.n He acted for our example. If you want
to read tragedy where injustice and wrong pre-
vailed over truth and innocence, and worth, and
lovelinesS-a tragedy which yelled the sun in dark
ness, and rent the solid rocks-N tragedy in which
every human being has an interest, deep us its own
WORTH lasting its own ttuth=read the last scene
i'll the life Of our Saviour, follow him from the last
supper, to Gethsemane. to the judgement hall, TO
Calvary.-Gov. Briggs. .a=4 ..r.. Il. DID.
-WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. -Ithas been proposed
TO place a memorial to the poet the church now
rebuilding at Cockermouth.t It is the place of his
birth, and where he received the first elements of
his education, IN the endowed school adjoining the
churchyard. His father, also, was buried near the
chanceli and here in his grey hairs and honors he
often stood and communed in spirit with his de-
parted parent but as yet no public testimony has
been raised in n locality so much associated with
the poets personal history. lis intended to take
advantage of tile present opportunity and that the
great fye-light east window of the chancel should
be a '1memorial window" filled with ScriptuTal
subjects, and inscribed to the memory OF Words
worth.-EngEsh paper. a,4t .poi,s o. veFlr
THE DUKE or WELLINGroN- ATTLE NOT MAR
RATED IN iIIs BIoGRAPHY.-There is one battle of
the Dukes which has never yet appeared IN print
though perhaps individually his yalor was never
more severely tested. The Duke and his brothers,
spent a good deal of their boyhood at Brynkinalt,
in North Wales, and were often ont for walk,
sometimes with IN attendant, and sometimes alone.
1t so happened on one of The latter occasions that
the Duke and the Marquis'o of Wellesley met boy
and girl returning from school when the Duke pro7
posed a game of marbles with the boy, at which
they were no strangers, having often met in the
same way, and the sister of the boynwalked onSa
little way and then her ibrotherI Pre-
sently however, the bother recalled her to his as.
sstanee, as the Duke, he said, had stolen his mar
tbles. I'd So s5lt asi