Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-04-05


/ PARsoS BRowSLow OK HIS TnAvEis.-That
rather refreshing individual known as Parson
Browulow, about whom the world, especially
/ the United States of America, is considerably
exercised to ascertain exactly, whether he is
more of a fool than knaye, or combination OF
both, seems to be taking his pious lecture tour
North by "easy journeys" He was to have
been around in the vicinity of Boston by this
time-nis a cis, with Abolition Garrison
Parker, bnt be has fallen away behind time, and
stiIl fingers within retreating distance of his
| little backwoods town, as we observe by one of
his letters to his paper The pious o. Parson
is man apparently above and free from the
usual scruples and conventional prophecies,
supposed to attach to the Office of man hold.
ing celestial commission and its all one to
him pretty much, what sort of a scene he mixes
in For instance, in his last letter, written from
Memphis, he says:
"At7 o'clock last night repaired to the
Methodist Church, to hear sermon by the
Rev. DIR. Meanes, of Oxford, Ga. His text was
Fuith and Works, and he occupied one hour
and twenty minutes in the delivery of a SER
mon, which, for ability, eloquence originality
of thought, and aptness of illustration, have
seldom ever heard equaled, and never excelled..
It was an intellectual and religious treat"
From grave" the Parson goes to ''gay:"-
from church he goes to the ballroom, and thus
dilates upon the witchery of dresses aud hoops;
''RetuTning from church Mt 10 o'clock,
tered the ball room, and occupied the music
stand for two hours, where could scrutinize
all that was passing, learn something of human
nature, and gaze upon the fair daughters Of the
South robbed in costly attire, with firms and
faces, making even married man forget that
| he had family, and SO fascinating him to
make him "wiSh were boy again" They
were all Indies of the first class, whose splendid
dresses, ease and grace OF manners, made them
| "the observed OF all observers" The style of
dress is new, Indicating pure and cultivated
taste, greatly admired, and producing bewitch-
ing effect upon gentlemen!
Full and. flowing robes are the 90 now-daz.
cling cOlurS, suck as pink, pure white, velvet
ijets, blue and dove-coorcd satins, striped and
plaid silks, with numerous heavy flowers, each
supporting figured lace fiouncc, with Scotch
plaid velvet, ribbon bows in the back and
front; and up the sides of some, velvet and rib
bon lozenges rose in pyramids, while the
sleeves were orGamented with puffs, frills, and
fringes; costly and beautiful necklaces, brace
lets, earnings brcast-pins, and wreaths upon
the brow, and other descriptions of ornaments
turned all eyes to the ladies'
Now, | wish to say that | believe in hoops.
and for two hours, from the most favorable
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ted their beauty and advantages, with the aid
Of eight brilliant chandeliers. Observe, ladies',
/ say hooPs using the plural number Shame
on your clumsy, single hoop, made of Il hickory
pole, or an oak split, which many Of our ladies
in our small towns use, wearing them opposite
the kDee showing its entire and rough shape
through tiimSy skirt, dragging the dress down
by its weight to the shape ola cone while the
twelve or fourteen inches of dress below the
hoop, tucks under, and flaps in and out, as the
weight of mud, the force of the wind may
require.
The h0ops used on this great occasion, are the
hoops for me- They arc made of rattan, whale
bone and brass, extending from the waist to the
feet only two OF three inches apart gradually
increasing in size, MS they fall downward, with
that graceful swell that gives to the dress the
airy contour of the handsomely inflated balloon,
preserving that lovely mien, touching cirettm-
ference, that never fails to captivate gentleman
of modest and good taste, such as claim to be"
The Parson writes with a relish about these
little vanities-but one part of the performance,
was rather too much for lin:
conc feature of the Waiting got me. 1t was
to see young fellow, dressed and perfnned
within an inch Of his life, squeezing lady tight
around the waist with arm, and with the
other, as they mingled with aud cross other in
pairs in the dance, gently lifting her dress, and
she occasionly raising 1t higher, ALL however, to
him like sick kitten to a hot brickbat! In
these squeezing quadrilles l noticed the hoops
were rather in the way"
-&s&esO.--
1RELANp,-It is hardly to be wondered at
that-the emigration from Ireland amounts to
100000 annually, when We read the accounts
Substitution which recent Investigations have
brought TO light in the county Donegal Here
is picture Of wretchedness which makes one
shudder
81 entered one of the dwellings on MI .fours,
through hole in the wall, aud 1 there found
an aged matron. She was seated beiorea fire
on the hearth the turf of which had cen dug
by the male members of the family. There was
no window or aperture to admit tn, light of
day, the hole by which enter-.t. The
head of the bed was in the corner; fc sods of
turf at head and foot to support it; n board for
the side, with few sticks thrown across, one
end inserted in the wall, and the other end sup
ported by stones and turf There was 10 bed
tick, no clothing, with the exception of wooden
rag, nor was it sufficient in size for single
grown adult"
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