Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-08-01
SUMMARY.

Mn. StOeck, the Russian minister to the Uni
ted States, with his wife, is said to be at his ia
vorite summer resort in Newport. Like his
predecessor, Mr. BOdisco, he evinces, both by
his marriage with an accomplished daughter OF
Massachusetts, and by his associations and man
ners. the desire of his government to preserve
nm intimate footing with our own We under
stand that his success in fusing with some OF
our most popular institutions is not unfreqnent
subject of selfcongratulation, and that he jo-
cosely boasts that during the fifteen years when
he was an attacAs of the legation, be was also a
member of Washington fire company, and
'ran wild de lantern
THE hostile demonstration Of the native
troops in India, against their nominal masters
the British, is assuming a magnitude, in spirit
ms well as extent, which may well create, rs 1t
is creating, profound impression in England
The latest dispatches from the insurrectionary
districts, we think, bear upon their face irresis
tible evidence ofa desire TO present the case, at
home, in as favorable light as possible Hence
the announcement that the mutiny among the
Sepoy troops has spread to an alarming extent,
is coupled with the conciIiatory assurance that
"the disafFection is entirely confined to the
army
Tur marvel hunters of St. Louis are in a
worry about mysterious man that comes and
goes therc-in certain localities-as if by some
strange. supernatural influence. He makes no
noise when he walks. Now you see him, and
now Won don't see him. Some think he must
be the Flying Dutchman; others, the wander
ing Jew; but we incline to tie theory that he is
a bogus ghost, gotup by some shrewd business
man, to gathera crowd about his grog shop, TO
make lager bier sell quick.
SR. CAKBIA, of Cuba, has invented a new sys-
TEN of propclIing vessels-so we learn from the
Diario de la Mariana. His plan proposes the
building Of windmills on the decks Of his ships,
with great wings, from which the motion is
communicated to the side.wheels, similar to
those of steamships The models have been
successfully worked; and it only remains to be
seen whether the force of the wind will be suffi-
cient, when thus applied, to give vessels the
velocity of ordinary sailing ships.
DrcKESs is now in his 45th year, and Time is
beginning to tell upon his exuberant locks,
but his eye has all us oIu hee"HeSA "Hu SPa'hl1'
"I.ittIe Dorritt," though acknowledged on all
sides to de great falling off from his previous
stories, has had a more extensive sale than. any
thing he has written-which Proys the truth of
a saying of old Sam Rogers-that there is only
one thing harder for man to be than to write
himself down, and that is to write himself up.
TnE London Literary journal says: "There
are men now going about with Grape on their
hats, saying Poor Jcrrold, how we miss hint
who were mover in his company twice in their
lives, and who never got any thing from him
but meritcd sarcasm for their folly
BLAcxwooD says mature throws forth her
able men as salmon does its SPAWN she pro-
duces her great ones as a lioness does her cub
-singy, ono at birth and at rare intervals"
Thus we have schools of the former and only
now and then leviathan.