Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-12-06


/ PAYING AN ELEcrlox BEr-Funny Proceed
ings.-In New York, pending the heat of the
canvass for Mayor, two men, named Gilbert and
Brown, laid wager on the result of the cleo
ton, agreeing that he whose candidate was de-
feated should saw q load of wood IN frontof the
Gerard House, corner of Chambers street and
West Broadway, between the hours of one and
three o'clock ON Thursday. Mr.. Gilbert was the
advocate of Mayor Woods success, and was so
confident that his champion would win that he
had not the least hesitation in agreeing to the
amusing wager. The Express of Friday gives
the following account of the way tue betswHsa
paid:
The most amusing part of the whole affair is,
that the bet is to be paid by the loser III full
| Initiating the heroism of Major Ben Perley POOre,
who under similar circumstances, wheeled
barrel of apples rom NewburyPort to Boston
last fall, Mr.. Gilbert has determined TO saw his
load ef wood in front Of the Gerard House. The
fact was duly announced in themorning papers,
and it was promised that the wood-sawing OPP
erationwOuld commence precisely at one o'clock.
Accordingly, shortly after noon, crowds com
menced gathering in the neighborhood of the
Gerard House to witness the sport; aud, by
half.past twelve, there were several thousand
persons on hand, all of them in the merryeSt
possible humor, anxiously expecting the advent
of the amateur wOod-sawycr.
| Shortly before one o'clock, two saw horses
and saws, decorated with ribbons, were placed
upon raised platform where the work was to
be done. A pole was also elevated, with ban
ner inscribed i'll large capitals-FERNANDO
WOOD.
The clock had hardly struck one, when the
iwood.sawyer assembled the platform amid the
cheers of thousands. The winner of the bet,
Il do of in
ance with previous arrangements, to hand him
the wood. Some of the Washington street and
Five Points boys who were present, amused
themselves by calling for cheers for Fernando
Wood, and groans for Tiemann and the Report
er of the Express, which were not exactly re-
sponded to in the manner required.
| Precisely at a quarter past one Mr.. Gilbert
commenced his task, saving the first stick once
through, and the second twice, the third once
and so on. When he came to the third stick
Mr. Brown mounted with large lump of beef
fat to greese the saw amid the cheers and laugh
ter of the crowd.
Mr.. Gilbert, when asked why he sawed each
alternate piece twice, answered that he sawed
twice for Wood, and once for Tiemann. This,
of course, caused considerable merriment.-
Some ladies passed, in u carriage, whom the
sawyer recognized by polite bow, which was
p5Shs bE the inmates %eit amid renewed cheers
and there were constant shouts of hurry up
that Wood" "I'll engage you at sixpence an
hour" "come and saw mine, &c. One gentle
man in glazed hat squirted water on him, but
this was instantly stopped, while some of the
'boysp and women walked off with many OF
the sticks which were to be sawed, thus saving
him some labor. At the eighth stick Mr.. q. S
hand appeared to suffer little, whereupon he
put on a pair of brown kid gloves, when he set
TO work again with a will. sl.s
At the ninth stick he sat down, and subsc
quently went in to the hotel for drink; during
his absence boy sawed portion of the wood
amid cries of "put him down." which coming
TO Mr.. Gilbcrt's ears, he returned and took the
saw out of the boys hands, determined to
go through his work without assistance.
While he was saving the fourteenth stick
boquet was thrown him from the balcony of the
Girard House, by lady.
| AT the eighteenth stick he received gin
cocktail, which was sent him by lady from
the Franklin House, on the opposite side of the
way.
When Mr. Gilbert reached the twentieth stick
bottle Of wine, with sandwiches, &C., was sent
out to him from the Girard House He heartily
partook of the refreshments amid great cheer
ing by hecrowd.
After the twenty-first stick was finished
photograph was taken of Gilbert and Brown by
Meade & Brothers, as they stood upon the plat
form; after this another fine bOquet with gold
ring attached to it was thrown to Gilbret by
lady. Three cheers were then given for Gilbert,
and three more for Brown.
An old man, with sharpener, was dis
covered in the crowd, and was soon mounted on
the stand, and set to work sharpening the saw.
Gilbert and Brown, while the old man was filing
the saw, went into the Hotel to imhibc, and the
"boys," taking advantage of ther absence, upset
the old man off the platform.
! When Gilbert returned, he again attacked the
woodpilc in good spirits, and had finished the
twenty third stick, when another bottle of wine
was sent him.
The twenly-fifth stick was the last of tho
load, when Gilbert proposed "thrcc cheers
for Fernando Wood, aud Brown, 'thrcc cheers
for Daniel F. Tiemann, both being responded
to by the crowd with hearty good vii Three
final cheers were given for Gilbert, and the
crowd dispersed.
a M,LuOxAia WORKING FOR TWELVE SmLLrNos
WEEK, AND LIvNG AS PAUPERl-A recent
foreign arrival brought US the intelligence that
the great English millionaire, Morrison, worth
t4enty millions of dollars, had died. The fol-
- II.