Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-05-13

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THE -6RANnrsT Eoaxs oFzruE Dar. ourreattl.
ers will tecollect the aiusion %e made, The o,h.r
day to the very Fruve announcement inst6e New
York Tribune that a company of female Infan,r,
were 10 parade in the cityor New York ON ,rnes.
day and 60 through their military ey6o,bns in The
atk. The announcement turns out to he a COM
pIete hoax, one which fairly humbuegea die Or
of Humbuggers, Bnmum. 5.siaf =
crowd oil people, men, women a nd children.
numbering about 0,OOo, were at an earlyyIo,,r in
the vicinity. anxious 10 see the .show," but amer
waiting several hours they began gradually 10 find
out that they were still "green'. enough 10 b4 ,ls-
cidedlY ISOLDE So S
hoaxed, and has published card stating thai hss
had no idea there was any trick abonf If ,,nf;l.
Tuesday evening. 1t appears that OH FRIDAY last
q man GATED upon hls agents at the Musuem and
himself 10 be the agent OF the trustees
OF alarse female academy, ami desired III hnS,s;,
iorthe admttance ON THeSliy afternoon of Ieo,iS
oi young ladies' in military costume. called ihs
Sny "uata' he represented them to be pupils
d an acauemy IN Elizabeth, N. J., he said thew
would number 100, and would be ACCOMPANIED nv
a oanu oil music. On account of the number he
wished toobtaili small deduction from The lreen
,al price oil tickets. bargain was made. Two
Louis u! en- The man returned, and mentioned Thai
Tue ladies' proposed TO present banner 10 snnne
juvenile society, and that distinguished eentle
man had conkented to make The necessary a1l,rese
y y NO. ooleelonaole 10 the manager ofthe Museum
t1eswaS informed that no exception could be tuken
10 such proceeding, when he departed. The
event was even mentioned on the bills of The Mn.
scum for Tuesday afternoon. al :.
subsequently, the fellow waited on Horace Gree
ley' ahu engaged him to deliver the address. He
also Went 10 the ASior House, and engaged dinner
lor 9t ladies', all Ia be in uniform ami aecomno
med by Lafayette Band of Harrisburg, Pa. After
.is' ne aisappeated, but no one suspected hoax
le1 Nfcf tarc
Their appearance. - =
Ihis wnsIather a cruel joke, butts altogether
one OF the best sairts yet perretrated on G RELY
anu his hobby of "Wornan's Rights"
Tile Express thus discusses on tile matters:
THE FAIRY YARD, AN UNFAIR TIING-We sun
pose we may safely say that tens of thousand OF
our clrzehs' women and children being in majors
ty--were Yesterday drawn from their homes by
recent paragraph IN morning paper TO the effect
That Two companies of female lnncers, mounted
anu uniformed, would visit this city yesterday
Crowds assembled 10 greet them, and--went back
TO shelr homes disappointed, as rejecting people
tOreSaw. '-'s
Many of our contemporaries make merry over
Inc practical joke, and have pity for those who
were SO egIegicusly cheated. Suppose we look on
the other side. W e dolnot think these hoaxes by
Tie newspapers, or lhIoug the spapers, as the
case may be, ate quite respectful to the communi-
y OF credlieble 10 journalism. For This Ieason.=
hahy persons read the newspapers Tho are accuS-
Sieu 10 regard lnelI contents rs matter oil tact.
They rely, as they should be entitled to do, upon
statement as truthful which they see there made
IN apparent good faith. There are mechanics.
theirwives and families, aud even persons of
more wealthy class, who have no such acquuint-
ance with the artificial, tIick-playing world as
would lead them 10 suspect hoax III an apparent
~ bonn JIds newspaper paragraph. II does not
seem taIr TO deiude those into the waste of whole
day, in the 'broiling sun and amid clouds of dust,
waiting The appearance of what had an existence
only in the brains -af practical joker. Wecau
relish goodiok well as any one, but we do not
believe,st is right to take advantage Of the igno
rance, or OF the morbid curiosity of ten thou
sand people 10 rob each other of the days time.
There is another point which deprives the trick
of its mrth provoking character. Confidence in
feminine delcacy and piopuey must lave sank
TO low ebb, when SO many Thousand of people
could so readily believe that "some of the best
educated and most estinlable OF (Amercun) young
ladies' would appear 5 soldiers, "of6cered by
ladies', including captains on horseback perform
military evolutlons in the Park, &c, &C. This
view of the matter is worth grave thought, and il
rs relevant 10 inquire how far the speeches and
proceedings at certain women's conventions have
tendedl to this deterioration of the public senti
men,s respecting female propriety York
Express. 75so
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