Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-03-28
NEWS T13NNfS

tract astronomers. as its predecessors in the
same line did aforetimc Not only are people,
who ought to know. better, insisting that great
events and remarkable political catastrophcs
are necessarily involved with the appearance
of a heavenly body; but some, going a step
further, are even boldly preaching, as some IL.
literate, superstitious 'bewlldered monk" Of
the Middle Ages might have done. that the
world itself is to be utterly destroyed on the
18th Of June next.
| LoRD PA1NEusroN's faith in the vitality Of
his official character, really almost reaches the
spblimity Of tanaticism. Fortune and faithful
followers have4conspired to- feed the flame Of
his belief with tho fuel of experience, and now,
afternearly half. century Of public life, at an
age when most men begin to think of the arm.
chair Of rcpose, and the chimney corner of do
nestle adulption, tue high-spirited Yiscount,
having sustained defeat in the Commons rs
yexatious as it must have been unexpected,
throws himself and his, Cabinet at once upon the
country, with the audacIty Of Sheridan, and
the self-confdence Of a Pitt 81.
THE last speech of Louis Napoleon, onethou-
sand six hundredwords long, was transmitted to
| London in three hours. This is the fastest tel
egraph performances in France.
is Winchester, Conn, there has not been a
death in one and half years, and but two or
three deaths in three years The village is SUR
rounded by $50 smoking coalspits, and, besides,
there is no Paysieian in the place
ALICE CAREY, in an essay on "insincerity, %
says: 'If our neighbor kisses our cheek, we
may infer in ninety nine cases out of ahundred
lhat he viii bite our back as we turn about
The italic letters are ours. Seems tous, Alice.
'nincty-nine cases amount toa pretty extensive
range of kissing for one misunderstanding
the sex of your ''neighbOrs."
Some further intelligence Of an important
character has been received from China The
authorities and the people were ferocious in
their enmity to the English, and wholesale at
tempt to poison the latter at Hong Kong had
created considerable alarm. AT Singapore, the
Chinese threatened to massacre all the Euro
pean residents, and panic prevailed.
An eloquent Irish priestin attempting to per-
suade his flock to avoid the ball room on Saint
Patrick's day in the evening, closed his appeal
with this perfectly conclusive, and TO an Irish
man, Touchdown and drag out argument -
'The Irishman that goes to that ball is, mo bet
ter than Dutchmanl" Noanathema could add
to the force Of that.
BAYARD TAYLoit's last letter to the Tribune
was dated December 10th, at Sundaval'in Swe-
Eden, town on the Gulf of Bothnia. The mer.
curry was at.zero and the day had only four hours
and y half of sunshine His letter possesses no
particular interest and gives no information ex-
cept as to the time of his arrival and departures
from place to place. We find his journey to
the arctic regions over land is moro for the pur-
tpose of saying that he has "done itn than for
any pleasure to himself or to the readers of his
letters. BE is bound for Fornca, which is in the
extreme North of Sweden.
TnE Baltimore Patriot states that Levi j.
North. partner and sole heir of Henry Turner
the well known Circus proprietor, has presented
his testator's sister with the snug sumof &c.,
600, being quarter of the estate. We arc au-
thorised to contradict this statement
TnE complete vote of New Hampshire cast at
the late election, is as follows Halle, Qep.)
81, 478; Wells, Dern.) 81 ,l39; Scattering 200
Haile's majority over Wells, $3.50, which is
| gain of three thousand three hundred and five,
since last March, when Metcaif, CRep.) was cleo
ted over Wells by plurality Of only thirty
four.
Tnr New York ltiryor says that one of the
young ladies that visited the o. S. Ship Ports
month, the other day, who was not supposed to
have the slightest knowledge of nautical par.
lance, asked Captain Dornin why the aftermost
sail was like q tyrannisal mother. The gallant
captain scratched his head over it awhile, and
then, gave it up Because it's tspanker,"
mOdestly lisped. the important young miss
MRs, MARTHA E. BRowv, "a young lady of II
wears from Orange. Macs has been edifvino