Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-01-30
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
Correspondence of the wheeling Inseliigencer.l
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. %, 1857

EHILADELFhlAi 0au' ACDA'
Is9itors Wheeling Iate1tigeneer:
Pardon me, my dear sirs, and allow me to ask
idulgcnce from your numerous readers for my
negligence, in allowing week after week toPass
by, without troubling you with printing let
ter, and your patrons of reading one. doubt
much whether you have been the losers Among
the multiplicity of other engagements, the vex-
atoms of publishing, and the general blockade
of railroads freghted with mails, have had lit
tic time to say or do anything for you. If not
past redemption, shall endeavor TO reform.
But to news. The grand Inauguration Ball
of the academy of Music took place last night,
and, from all accounts, it was brilliant affair."
surprising the most sanguine expectations Of
every body. The house was radiant with beau
ty, clad in superb silks, satins yelyets, &C., and
vocal with the inspired sound Of music's volup-
tuous swell. As the eye ranged over the bright
and moving scene it embraced spectacle of
rare spiendor and magnifcence a dense mass
of promcnaders circled around the area formed
by the extension of the stage over the parquette,
and the first and second tiers were efFulgent with
hundreds of lovely faces and brilliant costumes,
while over all flood of blazing light was show
cred By colossal chandelier, which will remaina
glowing monument of taste and genius of Cor
neIius & Baker, as long as the ediiice it ilumi-
mates stands on its foundations. Every thing
was grand and imposing. The music by Bay
1ey's Band was eloquently discoursed, and toiE-
spring strains hundreds of lovely forms sway
ell in the voluptuous dance, or trippei lightly
through the mazes of the polka or schottishe.
1t was an event in the history of Philadelphia,
and will long be remembered by the lovers of
pleasure. 1t is stated that 81, 600 tickets were
taken at the door, which was probably the case,
as the hall changed its occupants every few
hours a series of concerts are to be commen-
cedin the Academy of Music, to give oppOrtu-
nifty to the ''people" to visit and admire this,
the nest building of the kind in America.
We have had glorious sleighing for some time
past, and it has been well employed with relish
by those who were fortunate enough, either by
love or money, to procure the needful "institu-
ton" on runners. There were countless num-
her, Limbs of the law took, to limbs Of quadru-
peds. COnveyances conveyed beauteOus maid
ems in their fastest teams. Even Doctors pre-
scribed sleigh rides and took little of their
prescription. Musicians tried 'galloP," whose
notes, instead of being in the musical scale,
were in the highest scale of livery stable keep
ers' prices. Bakers, instead of kneeding their
dough, needed afast jumper. SarnbOan the cook
went it strong with s. horse and ready made
pine board cutter. Soon those curious speci-
mems of the genus homo (Eiuch to be Pittied)
were us plenty as fish in the sea, and as regards
money, got as .Jlnt as the ilattest founder of
the ocean. This sleighing is as destructive to
tue pocket as "Moonlight, music, love and flow
ers." Taking everything into consideration, all
that has past, this snow has been conducive of
as much good humor, hilurity and pleasure as
any that has been shaken from the hoary locks
of old Winter for many day. The rain this
evening is mining it all and it forms touch
ing episode on the scene of iife-"Likc the
baseless fabric of vision now dissolvcs," &c.
S!eighing, we may say, is over; railroads free;
commerce again open, and busy, noisy traffic is
Recommending its operations
Jacob Little, ''the Great Bear" has resumed
his seat in the New York board of brokers'
Spring trade will soon open and each individual
VIII work night and day to make shower OF
mint drops of the yellowish kind-as valuable
as pretty, and always welcome, whether a V, or
double eagle. As they come so they go, easy
made and easier spent Fps and shillings, and
Mexican quartes, are being prescribed as not
worth what they used to be, and for my part, l
am glad of it. Let us return to that good old
American institution, decimal currency, and then
every body will get his moneys worth.
Chaplin lectures this week before the Peoples
Literary Institute, and next week that glorious
event, the anniversary of the American Literary
Union comes off. Can't you come over and en-
joy it with US, my dear Sirs? a good time
guaranteed
Nothing further this time, but more the next
Yours, truly, PHILADELPHUS.
Do1Nes OF a Rrcu HEIagss.-The New York