Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-11-28

A GENTLEMAN from Carthagena, South Ameri.
ca, says he very often saw Santa Anna out rid
ing in one of the carriages formerly owned ami
used by the latc Daniel Wordsworth, OF this city
1t was a carriage built expressly for Mr. WadS-
worth, and was used with one or two horses, As
desired Mr. Wadsworth generally used but
one horse when out riding in that carriage
Santa Anna uses a large sized Kentucky mule.
-Hwtt0rd CourGnt.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Journal Of Commerce
states that the first tract of the American Tract
Society was published at Andover, Mass. The
writer relates an auecdote of an Andover man,
who so far misunderstood The Society as to be-
lieve it to bea Track Society, whose object lt was
10 track There's and to bring them to justice -
He highly commended this idea of the Society,
and thought it was good thing.
A CORRESPONDENT at Shelburn Falls, writes
90 No news; times are awful here, factories stop
ped bank don't discount nobody pays anything,
peanuts stands bankrupt, children got the
humps, hens stopped laying, COWS have dried
up, and all nature is in a state OF universal
suspension
The following postscript TO a letter received
blythe editor of the NIariposo Gazette, gives I'M
questionable evidence of the great drought pre-
Willing in MERGED lager is very scarce, and
the dust very deep. The inhabitants here use
whisky as 81 beyerage-the water being ased for
agricultural purposes.
T1E Council of Richmond has deprived the
Mayor Of The power to remove any police oil
Ger, at any time, and vested that privilege solely
in their body. The Mayor, however, may Su&-
| pend an officer until the next meeting of the
Council.
WE have good many touching expressions
of tiial affection, but none equal to the follow
/ ing which Western man really gave vent To
not long since: "AIy father was the only man /
ever allowed to be sassy TO me without licking
him like thunder"
TROUBLE is true chemical test of the value
Of things. For while he who has LOST his or-
tune gathers his beloved one to his hoart aud
saws, ''Thank God, 1 am rich yet" no man ever
vel came from the funeral of his only child and
told over his income, saying ''Thank God ans
rich yei."
ALL reports as to character deal largely in
exaggeration. 81 never knew" says wise man
ANY one either as good or as bad as he was
represented"
i Dr. johnson padc short work with the tough
question of Free Will Sir" said he to Hos-
well I've know that our will is free, and there's
an end ont"
MEx OF genius are rarely much annoyed by
vulgar people, because they have the power 81
looking at such persons as objects ofamusne"t
of another race altogether.
''AIY notions of life, says Southy care much
the same as those about travelling; there i a
+ good deal of AMUSEMENT upon the road; bur, after
all, one wants to be at rest"
A weak mind sinks alike under prosperity
and atsersity. A strong mind has two highest
: tides when the moon is at its full, and wher
there is moon.
In country grave yard in New Jersey Their,
is plain stone erected owe: the grave OF ;
beautiful young lady, with only taie Inscription
upon it: ''Julia Adams, died of thin shoes
President KrMBAL1, Mormon, boasts that IA;
Obi
hat he is doing the works of Abraham, Isaa,
and Jacob"
TuE New York Congressional delegation, Il
their meeting at Delm9niS9 il is said 2 rfa,
Allen of Illinois, for Clerk,
LOVE may slumber in a maidcn's heart, bu
moi very soundIy. 1t always dreams
\ Young lady is charged with having said
that Il cart wheel has nine feiloeS, its pi.y
if a pretty gil! ike her cant have ono.