Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-26


while others played upon the heart:strings, in
the promenade, of some love-sick swain. All,
all contributed to rcnderit brilliant indeed.
But the hour Of departure is at hand. The
citizens and soldiers, the hospitable officers of
the Amelia regiment, the chivalrous dragons
from Henrico, and the no less gallant corps from
Cumberland; must part. Though lost to sight,
switt-winged memory will often revert back to
the Amelia Springs, and live over again the
pleasant scenes there enacted.
BAYARD TAYLOR writes from Moscow TO the
New York Tribune, long letter about the
bazars, the jewellers shops, hackney. coaches,
coachmen and horses the country about Mos
COW and society in the city. He says-"At a
soiree the other evening I was very agreeably
impressed with the maaners of the ladies'
French Still the language of society here, even
with the Russians themselves, and u knowledge
of it is quite indispensable to the stranger.-
English and German are occasionally spoken,
and with that ease and purity of accent fol
which the Russians are distinguished. I was
glad to find that those whom 1met, ladies as well
as gentlemen, were thoroughly familiar, with
their own authors. Anumber of names, which
l had never heard of before, were mentioned
With enthusiasm. There are severed literary
papers in Moscow, with circulation of from
twelve to fourteen thousand copies EACH"
THE New Orleans Pieqys,ne saysof the comet,
''tliis meet me by moonlight alone visitor, af-
ter prying into the affairs of my Lady Venus,
for which Lord Vulcan should have knocked
him over the head with his biggest siedge.ham
mme, is new trying to bother that gentlemanly
performer, so much admired in celestial dramatic
circles, the STAR Arcturus No doubt he is
trying to carry off Arcturus with him Of ct
arMpis depending on the Great Bear to assist
him. So do Russian ambassadors carry off
Partisan actors and actresses to the capital of
the other earthly bear. Arcturus resides in the
constellation Bootes, and we advise him to try
his boots on Donati, Esq. A kicked cometwould
be quite new event in astronomical history.
If the boots attack don't do his tail, take the
great dipper, Arcturus, and drench his head
thoroughly with the milky whey He'll go
then; buff he does not, send the Scorpion after
him."
A PARIS letter writer says that the celebrated
George Sand never rises before one o'clock in the
day; her breakfast is cup of black coffee with.
ont sugar. As soon as she has taken it she de.
sends to the garden, and if she is not too much
pressed for time takes hoe and goes to work
at her flower beds. She adores flowers, and has
thef finest in her neighborhood. Sheis fond also
of animals, and her habitation resembles an ark.
Her Havana lap-dog, Marquis, neyeriquits her;
she has Bengal parrots, native birds and chick.
ems, for which she has built palace; she has
COWS and horses; but for several years has re.
nounced horseback riding. She has caprice
for turtles, and keeps a small one continually
on her,work table. AS soon as she gets up in
the morning she makes cigarette, and never
ceases smoking till she goes to bed again,
which is not until ever so much o'clock in the
morning.
Tue London correspondent of the National
1ntelligeneer says Among other rumors flying
about town we hear of a literary curiosity forth.
coming, which is likely 10 becomclthe cause ofI
much gossip, andlmost probably some scandal
1t is a copy of aprivate journal kept by, Cath
crime the Second of Russia for heriown amuses
meat and reference. 1t iswritteniin French, ]
and contains, it is said, details respecting the
Russian royal family and its allies, both social
and political, as also hints respecting the impe-
" AOullSA any quarter
The document has been submitted, we aretold,
to very competent authority and pronounced to
be thoroughly genuine
.LETTERs; from Constantinopls report, the, re,
turn to that city ofthe Turkish officials who
visited the United States last spring and sum.
meF. They all.express themselves us extremely
grateful for the Kindness shown them in the
fT..S "a. = HEsVE Z Z rS Il
hereafter all Americans, whether known to him
or not,zwiil be sgardedsb by him as brothers-
He expresses great admiration Of the abilities Of
the naval contractors Of the United States. ess
pecially, of Mr.. Webb, Of New York, who will
probably be the contractorlor constructing the
Sultan's ship-oEthe,line.
TEE receipts Al the late Indiana State Fair st
Indianapolis amounted to $4,000