Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-25


Il Will robably run n good deal after this man
1er, at first, till Mr.. Everett gets his hand in.
1t was dreary night in July, 1850. To u
day of unusual heat had succeeded an evening
of silent but deadly cold, on which the!slightest
yielding to. the slumberous torpor, breathing
abroad, was fatal. The amber moon rose noise.
lessly and punctually in the right quarter and
hts reflected silver danced in the magnificent
panes OF glass of the lordly mansion of Park
street AT the bay window of No. ~ honea
single taper A lovely girl. on whose auburn
locks some sixteen springs had breathed the last
winds breath, sat, or rather reclinedin patent
chair of exquisite Device covered With yellow
brocatelle, reading listlessly the Rhine of Miles
Standish. Her interest was profound She had
Just turned two pages at once, when a low.whis-
tie started her attentive and beautifully mod
dellcd ear. Her name, Anaconda I was aud
IDLE on the wind She threw up the case.
ment and stood upon the balcony. Black liz
relief against the snow, dazzling in the moon
light, rose a coaked figure, while the pre-
1nde from a barcarole tinkled from a guitar
'"Iis lie! lis my own Birmingham" she cried,
slipping on a pink velvet mantle and a blue
crepe with marabout feathers. At that instant,
figure moved rapidly from behind the huge
trunk of a massive oak, unseen of Birmingham.
A sudden ring out of wild bells into the wild
night, the signal of contagratlon, drowned the
melodlous tinkle of his guitar. a sharp cry, a
scream and the rapid retreat of nailed heels were
all heard at once. The guardian of the night
heard them, and (his name was Swallow APP
preached the scene. Two figures were-pros-
trate, half buried by the drifting snow. Birm.
lngham in his inky cloak of'cotton velvet Ana
couda in her roseate cymar of satin sheen. One
was knocked over, the other fell over. The
how OF blood was but limited, and continued to
the antique cut nose of Birmingham, whose
returning consciousness betrayed itself by
little improvisation upon his guitar. The
lovely Anaconda groaned, and the mingled
glare OF the moon, and of the large fire in the
vicinity, betrayed the ashley paeness of her
cheek. Birmingham threw in the arpeggio
otthe trio in Lucia. The watchman, too,
was musical, ss4uo6'So, sono 7oittore," he cried:
and the concerted harmony,of that unequalled
trio went up upon the night fromthe little group,
till the pillow of every listener was drenched in
the happy tears of a delicious melancholy
FINALLY, the noise woke up her stern old father.
He could stand tho longer, but rose to find a
match, which never never could obtain his
sanction. He stroked his silver beard, as he
girded on long knife, kept for Contingencies"
he said, and surely, if ever, here was one
Slowly he descended, and let himself out by
postern gate. The last strophe was being re-
| peated-of the glorious trio; dwelt on, long and
fondly, by the enamored singers, as the aged
Bank president emerged into the moonlight
Cerberus would have melted. Not he GYou!"
he cried, "you Anaconda, here and thus"
Cfo be continued in our next)
received Two Hundred Dollars.
FIGHT BETWEEN AN EDrroK AND A CoNGREssxAN
The editor of the Coshocton, o., Age RepO
and Gen. Joe Burns, the defeated Lecompton
Congressman and candidate for reelection, have
had fight. The editor tells the story thus:
We met Burns on the pavement with our
usual morning salutation, aud he walked as if
| going to pass us-which put us off our guard
| When opposite he pitched into US, and strange
to say, considering that he weighs about sixty
Ipounds more than we, he bore us to the ground
he falling underneath; but the ground being n
little in his favor, our smallness of size enabled
him to turn us under, when he aimed fifteen or
twenty blows atus, while NC warded them off
to the best advantage, as Wentworth would
say, with our face" We placed ourself in q
posi- afa'a. nd tlra.s-
when 1t suddenly became necessary to separate
us-Burns was in danger of being Slightly hurt.
| We are not aware that there was a Republican
within a. hundred yards of the scene of tho
melee at the time it occurred, so that we were
entirely in their power and at their mercy.
We presume the immediate reason for orr
being attacked last week was, that Lit. VIM.
Burns, q son5of the General, had just received
an appointment from the President out of.
which large fortunes are sometimes made, and.
i ne was fearful that we might connect this APP
polntment with the charge which had been
5itoS diul6T the Sfen-
eral himself, of bribary and corruption, and.
that this was in part pay for the price of his
vote, and he hoped thereby to frighten us from
making that charge.
WHEN one Democrat gets "riled aginp anoth-.
er, and blows on him, here's what he says. It
is clip from the Hon. Dan sickles' speech to
his New York city constituents, after his cleo.
4 ton:
.sMr: Wood stated, falsely, of course, at the
First Ward meeting, that among the things 4
did last December, to defeat him, was to get
somebody or other pardoned from the Peniten-
tary to oppose him. This statement was not.
only untrue, but absurd. No one, / believe. has
yet suspected me of being an; idiot, and none
but simpleton would expect man who had
ever been sentenced to the Penitentiary to op.s
pose Wood. 1.-THE cells had been full7iast De-
Ecember, Woods vote would not have been SO
large" S9N'- -
Rev. HENRY WARD BEEcnEk on the QuA11rr-
CATIONS FOR CONFUSION. Thee New York corr
respondent oflthe Boston Journal writes:
Mr.. Beecher held communion in his church
on the first Sabbath in November. He cited
nearly the same words he used on a. former oc.f
Il casion, and exactly the same sentiments. The
words were taken down from his lips as he spoke
i them, by one competent to do so2and their no