Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-04-29
IRrom "a snnd,r rime..1.

families who have a taste for bucolics The
sketch Ola furnished villa in the suburbs is
scarcely over.drawn, and we have no doubt that
many Of our readers, on comparing it with their
own experiences, will pronounce il a striking
likeness
SAINT NIcEALAs IIOTTEL, April 3, 1857.
EshIytuFS Of tie Sunday Times
Did you ever make tower of observashin
anung furnisht housen in the snbbubs of New
York at this peeryud of the year2 If you
haint, your idees Of rooral fillacity kant be no.
whars near the truth. l hev ben goiu tho
rounds with friend, in sairch OF wun of these
reddy-mnde parrydices for his faIntnaly, and
0rter examining more'n twenty, we've afroye at
the conclushin that elegantly furnisht Villas
is Villanus shave, and that nobody would hire
wun of them us hadent lodgins TO let unfurnisht
in his OWL upper story. The terms is so uni
form that persoom the landlords regulate the
swindle in convenshin eyfy spring, just us the
erly Quakets of Pennsylvania made arrange
mentS for cheetin the lniuDs in the price of bea-
yer ut thar yearly meetins. The condishins is
simple-in fuck, nuthin ken be simpler, excep
the parties as agrees to en- You 9oney hey to
pay the hull yally of the furnitoorand aquar-
ters rent Of the villa in advance, and to give
security to repeat the operashin evry three
munths doorin the year, and you can scum tn
the bower" at wtinst Places of this kind is
ushtlly called desirabul summer retreats; and
spose its bekase the tenant immediently after
hevin made the fust advance begins to consider
retreat destrNbul. Butts onpoSSabul for city
grsenhorRs to realizes the attrackshins of such
rummantick kuntry huns without afnll deskrip-
shin; and, bein as thar all eenaInost as much
like as wun bad egg islike anuther, mought as
well dror the picture of the fust we visited
The follering fancy portrit in the tenants reg
lister OF the Herald, was the bait that alloored
TO LET.
NEAR FORT HAMILTON, A sPLENDIDLY FURNISHED
hSIJ, S AVN snS ~ sss'
Water through the house. There i iaIrv lake
skill aud abundance small game the Immediate vcin
n.y. Hsno snail f9my EhTpt ehlaEeH Snly $1,000
Will show the premises.
Well, we applide as abuv, seen tho elefant
and heres his fotygTaft
The house was sartinly well supplide with
water-throo the ruff; and the seelins and walls
was agrecbly ornymented with outline maps and
charts of nowhars in pertickler, perdOoced by
the same hOOid. The sistern was dry, but in the
cellar evrythiHg was uflote cxcep the hall stove,
which he'd been put there to rustycate doorin
the summer. The settcn and sleepin runs
couldent be compared to ennything but the
wards of a horspittle for wounded furnitoor;
and the closets was nuthin better than privit
asyluns for cracked airthenware. Thar was
skarsly cheer that warnt in a woful condshin,
and in fack, all the noovables looked as eff they
he'd ben onder fire. Bnt thecrockry was extrce
redickclas. Thar appeared to hev ben free
fight amung the services, in which all the Guns
he'd got thar ears chawed off and the tea-pnts
he'd lost thar noses The beds and bcddin con-
sisted of straw shnke-downs, mattresses stuff
with the best paYtent elaStick corn shukS, and
an assortment of sheets and kiverlids rayther
too narrer for the Twin s6ellenton. There was
Peanner sutabul for the dun, bein mute under
any amount of hammerin, and French paper
NASTY clock that was reglar case, hevin no
inSideS to it. No cXCepshins could hey ben tn
ken to the mirror over the parlOr mantle ef the
Sllvcrin hedcnt drapt off in patches behind,
which guy it rayther a scrofalous appearance.
The cIrpits, too, was BRUSSELS and within, and,
though the kullers was as dead as the red and
green of a sick mackay, it was easy to see that
aforc they died out they was kwite lively.
Outside the manshin everything corrispondid.
The lawn was the most fOrlorn lookin lot that
ever tride to peTdOOse even grass without sue.
ceedin. It he'd about as mulch sines of YER
door MS Chinaman's upper lip hes of baird
AS to the back yard, it was colony of sqotter
suVrins in the shape of rats. These, emadgin
was the "small game" spokin ofin the adver-
tisemenE Theout-bildens comprised wood
shed, dog-house and wun luther structure it is
not necessary to name. Butthe fairy lake beet
all. L think Inevr see amcaner or greeneT frog
pond. 1t warnt over foot deep; but as a man.
factory of fever and ager, Ide back it agin any
swamp in Texas. As to fishin, line darncd eff
ennything could be cot thar, excep the snakes,
or hillyuS remittance. sChepe; warnt it now, at
a Thousand dollars per AnnumP We'll all the
turnisht consarns we sor was tard purity mulch
with the same brush; and yet people takes en-,
and pays for EN-. WOt an extraordinary deloo-
shin. Thar's wun consoin fcter in it, howSever
1t wurks its own cure nifty rapid, and the pay
shent neyer hes a relapse.
Yours allus, A DIsBANDED VOLUNTEER.
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