Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-04-19
THE INTEILIGENCER.
NEWS SUMMARY.

\ California correspondent gives discourag-
ing accounts Of matrimonial prospects in the
Golden State. He says; 81 consider it my dl.
ty 10 STATE boldly that the matrimonial rrarkc,
is shockingly DAN The time was when women,
and Ill other dry goods, went of rapidly, at.
nigh figures. Bat nos, even young and tender
candiiates 60 oil slowly, and as for the older
and tonghcr ones, there's no more show Tor
them than there is for an honest administration
of the government of New York city"
IoopED skirts are a great plague TO Baptist
clergymen, it being almost impossible to i'm
merse a lady thus attired. At Chicago, last
week, young lady convert was requested to
take off her hoop skirt, ard dress in the ordi-
nary attire; the Young lady refused and when
she descended into the bath, the inflated skirt
rose up around her like a balloon. Her head
was lost TO viev, swallowed up in the swelling
folds of the skirt The minister made several
attempts to force her under water, but she
popped up again like n cork. After many un-
successful efforts, the clergyman succeeded 10y
prodgious exertion, in accomplishing his pur-
pose. Notwithstanding the solemni;ies of the
occasion, the spectators found some difficulty in
preserving their gravity.
SPRSGrIeLD, Mass, papers mourning
over the fall OF gentleman of good stlnding aud
high social position, popular writer, who has
become possessed by the free love mania, and
under its influence has deserted loving, high
minded and intellectual wife, to ceavo to
hnssey who has an affinity for him, and is
not particular about the marriage ordinances
The gentleman in question ought have his
head shaved, and a bath Of ice water applied
daily, until his u,idIed brains recover healthy
tone.
\ few days since two men named Booker
and Palmer met in bar room in Springfield,
KY, and engaged in one Of the hlOOdieSt en-
counters on the records Of that State. They
first fought with fists; then each fired at the
other six shots with revolver, almost every
shot hitting the mark. Booker, thinking him
self mOrtaIIy wounded, finished the affair by
drawing bowie knife and stnbbing Palmer nine
times in the breast and body. Palmer was
previously mortally wounded with pistol shot,
and fell dead in his tracks, blood spou,ing from
every vein. Booker is not expected to live, be-
ing literally riddled with pistol balls.
Times aiRT noor. says an exchange, as they
used to was. Folks don't 90 to bed nowadays
they retire. Nobody cats their dinner--peO-
pie take some refreshrnent. Nobody goes 10
cIiurch--but people attend divine serviec--
There is no Sabbath-it is Sunday. No one
gets his tooth pulled--it is extracted. Instead
of drinking his tea or coffee the fashionable
" sip little. No one tears hole in his pan
falcons but it is no rare thing that he laccrates
them The ladies don't 90 visi'ing-only
make calls. Young don't go a courting-
they only step III to pass the evening.
The hotel walters in New York, having been
raseed during the late panic, are on a strike for
their former wages-Sl2 10 sl5 per month.
How Coz. BENroN TOOK SHOWER BATH.-w.
I. Coggeshali, in one Of his personal sketches,
gives fact about Col. Benton that will be read
Just now with interest:
On warm afternoon in the spring of 1s47,
was drinking from that fount of general in
telligencc," newspaper, at tile reading room of
the Broadway Hotel Cincinnati when, a step or
two ia front of me, / observed man whom !
imm ediately took to be Somebody in his own
estimation, NJ least. His dress bctukened scrtI-
puiOus neatucSs, and his manner that Of gem
teman OF good society; but his bearing and look
were sucl. as we might expect from 4 lieutenant
colonel, who had extreme pride in a commission
OF ancient uate-Ot the 'Oid regime, ana VINO
felt himself the arbiter Of the destinies Of
great and growing State. I did not know the
mans name, title, degree, but felt that
though he might not be
Some Cromwell, guIltless Of his eOuntry's blood"
he possessed. in an eminent degree, the power,
18Th applause of Tist'uug senates command"
While was induIging in these reflections, a
servant was washing the windows of tie hotel
Presently, dash cauic bowl of water acaii,st
the panes back of inc, crash went tie glass, and
splash fell the liquid over the smooth hat, care
fully brushed coat, and snow-white vest of him
whom had been considering. Up few those
"Hands that the rod of Eapre might have Evsyed."
and then the ''Majesterial'' arose from his sea,
as cautiously as if pearls had been thrown up
on him. whict he should lose were they TO fall
upon the floor; and there he stood, with the
gistening drops trickiing down his face, and
shining on his jet black euat, inamovable as the
foundation of ST Paul's Cathedral at London,
until the offending servant had obtained nap
kin and come to his rescue.
The grave aud reverend seignnr." turned
himself slowly with u Mien rs dignifed as If he
had been in deep thought buried before the
Senate, until the sparkling water had heeIi
brushed from his person, the while heeiIng not