Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-08
TIL INT ELLlGENCER..
NEWS SUMMARY.

his account Of the celebration by the folnwing
scandalols reference To the indies ot that city
'The day ended with a 81 ceSsion Of festivities,
State dinner, Templar's dinner, review of ,ho
military by Gen. Scoit,-balls to the right of
us, balls to the left of u.s. AMI general illunina-
ZION in the eveUing, ia the midst Of which,I
started back for Washington. l haze only one
or two closing remarks to make. As the red
petticoat has lately been the topic of observa-
ton, win make the further observation that the
ladies' of Richmond, whom l. noticed holding up
their dresses ia the muddy street. wear GlscL
pet'ieoats. and long black stockings! Horrible
Tue Paris correspondent of the New York
Times states that the India mails has been trans
ferred from Paris to London la eight hours, in
Guiding a stop of one hour at Fulkstoue by
misunderstanding, The English Government is
permitted to the French railway all the
way from MarseiieS to Paris, aud from Paris
TO BculOgnc, n special lightning trains at its
own expense, with the Indian mail, aud this
train makes sixty ami seventy miles an hour.
THE press ia France has delightful time Of
it. The journals are suspended when they say
anything unpalatable 10 The Empcror, and they
are interdicted when they keep silent upon sub
jecfs which he wishes them to discuss in the
way pleasing to himself Ore newspaper has
just been in;erdcted because it did 10, de-
nounce the assaSSns who attempted the Ern-
peror's life This is one step in despotism n
little further than any other ruler has dared to
attempt.
Az iupudsnt dun, in Vermont, having assail-
ed the vito OF his debtor, after attacking the
debtor himself 10 no purpose, was promptly
kicked down stairs by the Indignant spouse
We suppose the chap thought that if he eScap-
ed the boot Of the husband nc had nothing to
fear from the foot of the wife. But be was
mistaken there. The boot was ON the o:her
leg,
WnEN the Douglas Democrats bolted from
the Administrations Kansas policy, John l..
Robinson said of tliern--'Let them go, and God
pardon their poor contemplate, pusiIlanimous
souls We thought, at the time, that this sen
tinent was worth fat post Office, bat did not
dream that Mr.. Robinson's reward was 50 nigh
at hand. Last week he was confirmed as U. $.
Marshal for the District Of Indiana.
Mas. HARRIET REED, the lady who does up in
such tip-top style the venerable old spinste,s
ard nntiqmated matrons, upon the boards at
Woods Thcater, Cincinnati, last week, swoIc
out warrant against Thomas Ryan, the Con-
stable of the Thirteenth Ward, for assault and
battery. The umgaant az; Is alleged to have
been committed within the theater. ri
The Buffalo Eay0res, tells story of Quaker
who charged the txorbitant sum Of seven
teen dollars for horse aud buggy for shirt
drive, and upon being presented with the Biil,s
simply remarked, Thou mistakest me; do rot
wish to purchase the vehicle, only 10 hire it,"
THERE was melancholy prophecy in the
words which Rachel wiote down. a few days be-
fore her death, 10 please disting ,i>cd gentle
man who dcsredL her autograph. Here are the
words In week from now shall begin TO
be devourcd by worrus and bioEraphers," And
il 50 happened sure enough s "a
IN town not far from the line wltirh divides
Eessex aud MiddieseX- counties in Massachusetts.
one night last week. hen.hou,e was entered
and rubbed ofits contents. The owner of the
property, on going into the her.house in the
morning, found the leaihercd tribe missing, but
On the floor lay a wallet which was found to con-
tain sixty dollars in current bank bills, with the
name of the to whom it belonged,
SPEAKING of the many recent suicides, the
New Orleans Bulletin says that if the real facts
could be known, it would be found that in a vast
majority orinstances the cause is to be found in
cups!
A correspondent who has, on several occa-
sious, heard the word profile pronounced as
though spelled preteei begins to fear that in this
progressive age We shall soon be obliged to call
4 woodpiie eeoodJeeL
young lady at fair in Louisville, a short
time since, pinned to tine bosom Of her dress one
Of the piacards which exhibitors have faster,ed
to their ware when they want you to keep your
"hands off, She wore low-necked dress. q
Tux number of yinigrants arrived at New
York, from January LIST to March 81, of this
year, was only 4.757, which shows = large fal-
ling of from the number, 1921, landed there
during the corresponding period Of 1857. YES
sels that, in prosperous seasons, bring from 300
to 500 eInigrants, now come in with scarcely
more than 80. The rush wlH probably set in
again next month.
The Boston TraseIes says that since. January
1st impoTtations of foreign good, n. thar ,a,t