Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-02-11
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
toorre,pouaence of the wheeling Inteliissneer.l
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. Z, 1857

chief themes OIL conversation NEC tSl"'tNS ~ so
Bur,iell murder in New York, of which all your
readers are, doubtless, fully aware. 1t Produ-
ced a great sensation here, as well aselsewhere,
and speculation is rife in regard to the probable
murderers. We have, as yet, but little clue to
the perpetrators, althoughit does seem that love
and jealousy had much to do with it. and mon
ey directed the blows Murder will out, how
ever, and we may expect strange revelations ere
long. West, you have also learned, is sentenced
to death by hanging, for the murder of his wife
Our streets have been in dreadful condition
for some time past, and if one takes an omnibus
nm Chestnut, he must submit to the Doctors
usual prescription, "when taken, to be well
shaken" This, and other things, point to the
necessity of city railroads, as in New York, and
the question is before the Councils now for ac-
ton. This would be IA consummation deyoutly
to be wished, and if there are not too many old
fogies it may be confidently anticipated that
something will be done.
The late disastrous fire, which destroyed the
building occupied by PetersOn's immense pub
fishing house, Cand which nearly famed the Bull
letin building, of which your correspondent is
an occupant has suggested more forcibly than
ever before, the necessity of bringing into ac-
tive employment the steam fire engine, which
has been so successfully tested as a first rate
squirt" at Cincinnati Our drab coat, broad
brimmed, and wealthy, easy citizens lat least
portion of our citizens are so opposed to these
innovations that nothing, heretofore, has been
done in regard to this, although an engine was
purchased for $4,000, Some of them, proba-
bly,, think that passing the bucket" asin olden
time, is as good way of checking fire as any
other. At all events, the Philadelphia Library
established by Franklin, and having loo, 900 vnl-
liable volumes, still has the ancient buckets
ready for use if the old finder box building
should ever catch on fire. .e
The Twelfth Anniversary of the American
Literary Union, was heralded with pleasure,
both by the press and the people, all of whom
were loud in its praises. Every thing passed off
gloriously. The music was better than they had
ever been able to obtain before; and Aud
Lang Sync IS "The Marseiiles Hymn" "Robert
LIE Diable," "Anyit Chorus" &c, &C., were
finely performed by the Gerlnania orchestra,
while every speech was received with great APP
plause by the immense audience. The hall was
packed to its utmost capacity, and hundreds
were unable toiobtain admittance. Altogether
it was the best anniversary the ''Union" has
ever enjoyed. Steps are being taken to make it
a corporate body, which will doubtless be done,
as it ranks number one, among our numerous
literary associations
Geo. w. Curtis, "the Howadju," gave us a
superior lecture last night, before the Peoples
Literary Institute, on Dickens. 1t had none of
that bombastic eulogy that speakers are wont
to indulge in when speaking of man they adj
mire; but after paying worthy and beautiful
tribute to Walter Scott, the lecturer proceeded
to show the connecting links of noveists that's sue.
ceeded him, and who seemed much lesser lights
in comparison with that great humanizcr, who
made his exit into the literary world through that
monthly serial "The PicEwick Papers," 10
read such work, is like having stranger drop
in on some dark, cold January night, who by his
conversation, happy sallies of wit and humor,
and delightful fireside stories, makes the flames
on the hearth-stone dance up the chimney moro
cheerfully, and the cracking moro musical than
before. Would we not love such person. and
do we not feel it realized in reading Pickwick,
and do we not rise from it's perusal better men
warmer friends of humanity, and feel that in
whatever condition of poverty and wretched-
ness those around us may be, yet, "a mans a
man for a that?"
And his Christmas carols, do they not make
me rejoice that Christmas has come, that we
may now fully appreciate and enjoy them. But
/ cannot further extend my remarks. There
arc many things that may be suggested to all
your readers, by the mere mention of the name
of Dickens.
Ben Perly Poore, of wheel-barrOw nOtoriety,
lectures next Friday night
IrEMs.-The spurious notes on the Girard
Bank are making serious troubles and "lOsses
about town." The counterfeit can be easily de-
tected, however.
There was quite fight up town in HOLLAND"
among Dutch men and their wives, which re-
suited in miscellaneous pitching in and floor
ing of weaker sex, and yet at the finale the
masculine part of the combatants found them
selves in tho hands of the law and before his
Aldermanic Honor.
a Southern editor, stopping in the city at the
Girard House, was enticcd by two sharpers, into
gambling hell and there flceced out of $3.50.
The Roman Catholic ParOchial Schools in this
city number 5000 pupils.
The steamer Penobscot of the New York out
side line, sold at auction for SIG, $50.
Fresh Shad from the South are selling at s., so
each Brook trout 60 1-2c per pound. Moth
ing further of moment Yours, &C.,
PHILADELPHUS.
AN oRsrNArE CusrvNER-"Are you an odd
Fellow :"