Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-02-11

table thing in voting just as they did. Putting
them on black list in Richmond, won hurt
them particle at home-but rather help them.
PaEsrDEsT PIERcE's PIRsr RfDEIS MADEIRA
a correspondent ofthe New Hampshire Patriot
and eompagnoa de ooyege of Mr. and Airs.
Franklin Pierce, on board the U. 5. steamer
Powhattan, to Madeira, concludes letter from
Fuuchsl with the following particulars Ofthe
voyage, and the landing OF the distinguished
passengers:
at will be gratifying to the numerous friends
of Mrs. Pierce-for indeed have yet 10 learn
who is MOTTO learn that she bore the voyage
with surprising fortitnde; and though prostrs-
ted some days by rough sea, rallied again, and
reached Madeira in as good health Is hen she
left the United States. For considerable paTt
of the passage she walked the deck daily, and
with so firm and elastic step to surprise as
well TO crafty those who know her exceeding
delicacy and fraity. She seemed to enjoy the
ocean scenery, and the movements of the ship,
and the drill and muster of the men; and when
| on the Sabbath morning she woke up, breath
ing the balny. air Of Madeira, the church bells
softly peaiiug upon her ears, and the proud
mountains aud most picturesque scenery burst
ing upon her eyes, her spirits instantly rallied,
and the next day she established herself In lIcT
new home-nnd a most charming one it iS-
DevOutly Is it to be hoped that a lady of so
Iuiany of the highest and best qualities of the
| head and heart, and Of whom n human voice new
er spoke but in,praise, and even that panied her,
| may receive all that benefit from this admirable
climate which her friends anticipate. SOuld her
health DE improved by winter residence here,
/ Gen. Pierce proposes visiting Spain aud Italy in
tbs summer, and may indeed protract his trav-
| els on the continent beyond the year.
| II need not say that the presence of Gen.
Pierce added much to the interest ofthe passage
Leaving the President at Washington, aud ta-
lkirg with him only his own manhood, he won
all heats by his cOurtesies and attentions,
mingling freely with the officers as an equal,
and visiting the sick as regularly as the phySi-
clan. When he left, the highest military honor
was shown him. The yards were all manned
the marines drawn up under arms, aud the
nem stationed at the immenAs guns,
while the band, in their red jaci. s,fwere
ready to strike up the music. Arm in
arm the General and Mrs. Pierce walked to the
gangway, where Capt Parsons boat awaited
them, when Gen. PIcrce suddenly stopped, tur-
ned about and uncovered, and addressed both
officers and men in one of the neatest, and most
lpcrtinent and eloquent speeches which, as tho
officers confessed, they ever heard. Captain
Pearson briefly and sensibly replied in behalf of
himself and his fellow officers, and when the
boat was fairly under way, the guns roared
such thunder storm as + never heard-terri.
Bile even without thnnderbolts and bullets
i The reverberations from the mountains, the
peaks and the Immense gorges, were admirable,
rolling about and upwards and backwards, and
lintermingling, till it could not be told whence
Ithey started. The whole mountain seemed to
. shake. Reaching the shore, carriage awaited
4 them; laugh not, reader, nor accuse me Of deal
4 ing in the poetic, when / describe it-G thing,
(most evidently it was not sper-rit) like the
top of an old stage let down upon an equally
old wood.sled, and drawn by yoke of oxen -
Such are the only carriages in Funchal, and in
lone of them the late President Of the United
States and his honorable lady entered, nothing
doubling, and were conducted to their palatial
home Such is life Such is ridingl'
--AsSSSR.-------
Tar HISTORIAN BASeRorr ON rnE BucuasAS
MEssAaE.-The Washington correspondent Of
The Albany Journal says -
'.Mr. George Bancroft, the historian. afteriis-
teningIto the reading of the Presidents LIE.
compton Message, turned to a ffiendIand in glow
4 ing words denounced it as the most infamous
document ever sent into Congress.
by the by, among the most jealous oppo.
nents Of the LecOmpton sWindle in this city, is
Henry s. Foote, ex-senator from Mississippi,
now Of California-he who ON the floor Of the
Senate, threatened that the people Of Mississippi
would hang Hale fever he came 10 that State"
A daughter Of Philander Ferry, of Danbury,
CT, about four years ofage, died on the 18th
inst, from the effects Of inflammation, OCCASION