Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-07
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Latest or IeLegToPh.
New YORK, TOMORROW.
THE following important message has this
instant been received Our predictions have
as usual, been. most amply verified. Wesaid
in ourprophetic soul that John Bull would fare
up not niger less than we did. Wal, Stree
it's the fact. There amt no crocodiles aboutit
The old coon has been going the entire opos-
sum. The Britishers, we hear, are notta wittle
less excited and slogdcllagiscd than we air.
Brittania has been going offat half cock, same
asswe did. Yes, Sir=rec, it's fact. Our IL
quor's genuine true brewed, neat and no wavs
gaudy. We kinder calc'Iate as our prophecies
air of the real grit. There amt no small figs
about them John Bull, so we gauged him. Is
an all fired stiff old horse; but when he doeseit
his head, he sparks out like wet fiz on the tail
end Of athunderbole
"Wal-about the Telegraph; here's the latest
"'Punch to Buukum, greeting:
The triumph of the Telegraph has been one
too many for us. All England has gone crazy
with delight in. hearing oft. Bed.aIn is choke
full, and Hanwell p'raps is choker Fifty mil
lion lunacy commissions daily issued. Not SO
much asa strait Waistcoat to be had for love or
money. The wisest men in England have lost
their wits in consequence. The Lord Mayor is
in strict confinement at the Tower
"Ehe reloicings have, of course, been on the
widest scale of splendor, and regardless Of cost
Some idea of their extravaganza NAV perhaps
oe formed when we state that sixteen cities
Gncluding London, Liverpool and Hockley-in-
the -Holc) have been carted off entire to Canter-
bury Plain, and there made bonfire of at the
national expense. There was a grand display
OF fireworks on the roof of Windsor Castle,
which was distinctly visible at Paris and ST.
Petersburg st. Paul's was filled with naptha.
and2the dome sent up at midnight as an iliumi-
mated balloon, with the Lord Mayors coach and
four attached, by way of car to,it, BY permis.
sion. of the shareholders, the Leviathan was
hoisted to the top of Primrose Hil and blown
up at an altitude of fifteen thousand Eathonls-
Pieces of her were picked up on the summit of
Mont Blanc, and the sound of the explosion
woke three deaf men at Venice 8
"The illuminations also were on the same ex-
tenslve and expensive scale. Gas being laid on
at the government expense, the mostextravagant
devices We're invented to make use of it. In
economic districts the lamp posts were merely
unscrewed, and n light put to the sockets;
whence on either side the roadway, pillars Of
fire shot up which overtopped the Monument:
But in parishes more prodigal, new gas works
were expressly built for the occasion; and fresh
mains were LAID down to keep up a SUPPLY
Perhaps the prettiest device was that in Picca-
dilly where, for upwards of three miles on
both sides ofthe street, the gas was suffered to
escape up all the kitchen chiInneys and a foun-
tain of bright flames gushed forth from every
pot.
Nor was the Rarcup limited to merely gas
and fireworks. There were feasts prepared for
other organs thun the visual For one entire
week the Alderman OF London dined fourteen
times day, and consumed pcrman eleven plates
of turtle at each feed. Throughout the whole
of the metropolis all the baked -potato cans were
thrown open to the public; and all the street
boys upon town puff eight and forty hours
on the free list ut the pudding Shops Every
boy Jack of them was glutted with as much
"plnmduff' as he could eat, and then was given
talfa tonof "Hallbut Rock" to carry home with
him. a licensed wittler's feed aud temperance
tea party were held simultaneously at the Crys-s
tai Palace; and the big fountains played cham
pagne and ginger beer alternately. For the
amusement of the populace, several jangIing
matchcs camelof at Cremorne, in which none
but pceresses were suffered to compete.''-
Punch.
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A LORD THEY NEVER HEARD oF.-Grant Thor
burn;-''Laurie Todd"-appears now and then
in o New York paper with a "reminiscences or n
bit of an old story. Here is his last:
Inl1774. DR.. Webster wasa popular preacher
of the Kirk ofScotland Edinburgh. business
brought him 10 London, and one day when pas
sing the House of Lords his curiosity induced
to-