Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-02-27
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| WAsHiNeroN, d. c., Feb. 81, 1854
MEssRs. EpiroRs:-I address you as the citizz ms
OF POmpeil or HeIcnlaneum might be supposed to
address their neighbors the day after their being
buried in lava. We are literally covered with
snow. Yesterday motninga damp, heavy snow
commenced falling an continued without inter
ruption till this morning, when it ceased. Bust
less seems 10 be suspended. Last night the The
aires, SmitEonian Institute aad all the places Of
amusement were closed. and to-day il was near
,Enoon before few ;omnbuses We're put on the
route, and although they Lad two more horses than
usual attached they made but poors peed. The Cen
ire Market was bare with the exception of three
butchers, who after to day, one would think might
rstite from bu siness and live OH the profit made by
such snogfau as the present. The average depth
of snow IS about 20 inches but hos drifted ~
u any places TO look double ti,at depth 1t has been
fourteen years since that highly respectable indi-
vidual the "od -stlnIabitant," has witnessed such
snow in Washington. 992it3 -
| St. Valentines day p ssed here with The usua
amount of Trash ami NONSENSE.
Congress is sill making a great fuss and doing
little. -
Forestss playing the Third week of his engage
memt 10 crowded houses. Miss Davenport would
have opened last night with Shertlan Knowles
play of Love but tue snow prevented; tough,
the same bill will be presented. Purk Benjamin
lectures at the Institute on Amercanisms. The
Washington folks are delighted with him. The
Hutchinson Family are singing at Carusi's Saloon
and Kate Fox is rapping at Mrs. Dieiz's. Sanfords
New Orleans Opera Troupe are at Odd Fellows,
Hall. i cannot ienumerate all the afnuSements
now offered TO the Washingtonians. Luckily for
the money-seekers lit city is full of strangers, Tor
If they depended upon the citizens they have come
i at bad time, expenses of every kind has put
even comfortable citizens To their wits ends 10
make 10th IlIds meet. .g5t..5sst
Among the strangers here is Ohio's fayorite, John
Greiner, the poet. Since being ousted out of his
Goyernosship of New Mexico, by the present Ad-
j ninisration, he hus gone in, it is said, with
wealthy Company and has been for the past few
months locating quicksilver and gold mines in New
Mexico, midi said is in lair way of accumu-
lating u fortnnr. thrust this is true, as no ulan
better deserves 1t and no man would have more
friends, to rejoice at his coed luck, than honest
John Greiner.
Gov. Medill is here as is said oconcoct meas.
ures for easing of the DISAPPOINTED aspirants fol
The Ohio Senatorship.t This wilirequife consid-
erable tact as the many sacrifices which the can
didates have made for the chance, will make
i them more Indignant at losingt. Medary declln-
ed'the CHILEAN mission, Judge John E. Corwiu
the Supreme iudgeship, Pugh the Attorney Gen
eral-shp, and Manypenny came near lesignine
his post of Commissioner of Indian affairs, blu,
was just cute enough not to give bird in hand
FOR betterin the buslt Till he got hold of but b.,
/
aud if Allen don't get it Colonel Manypenn,
must or should, but alas, wisdom must yield 10 ex.
4 pedlency, which has for years been The rallynl
cryof the party. Merit, principle, wisdom ant
lnge are all swallowed up i'll the same ruling poll
cy, expediency. iis d9is.s
visited Miss Kate Fox af.w days since and
teard the original rapper and confess myself fol
Il first time fairly puzzled. Kate is sweet, pref
ny girl of about eighteen and, unlike her sister
tbs said, exceedingly good natured and pleasing
and takes every pains 10 satisfy her visitors and i
the first visit is unsatisfactory they are invited tc
call again without any further charge. - y,
give this as just tribute, as many were mu ci
dissatisfied both with the manifestations AMI man
ner Of the elder sister. myself had never seer
either of them. called for the spirit of frierlt
and without my Initiating either sex, or, indeed
anything about him, his name was spelled out and
the place ofshis death, and the manner, of it,
deceased acqGaintance,whohad committed suicide,
, came at my call and answered all my questions
promptly, save the manner Of his death, and that
ty no solicitation could he be got to give. Miss
Fox suggested that he 'diedin some way he did no,
like to tell of las he dd1, but said no. being de-
tvrmined, 10 give her no clue. twas again they
asked if the spirit was there. was responded to ii,
the affirmative; but not rap would he give when
tie manner of his death was asked, so We had to
give it up. This, taking the circumstance into
consideration. was more singular than i 4 it had
told the manner of his death, as was done in sew
eral other cases. among whichwas one 1 may mem