Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-15

put the first ball into him and Mr.. Lawrence
brought him down. Afterwards several shots
were fired into his hard head. The boys en-
Ijoyed itmuch. The quiet citizens of Leaven.
worth City have no idea of the excitement we
had. l, with Messrs. Jewett and De Gett, rode
slde-by-side with nine beautiful buffaloes, but
our ponies were not fast enough for them; but
| tair-going horse will outrun any buffalo, The
sight cannot be described. To enjoy it you
haveto see,it The buffalo all run in string
with lope, and their ponderous Dimensions
and regular movement are beyond description
We all had regular feast last night, and to-.
day we changed our bacon and beans for choic-
est cuts of the finest meats.
To-day we saw quite a number of buffalo,
but did not give them chase. We are told that
IN few days we will come up to where they
will be more plenty, and easier captured. We
also saw lot of antelopes, but they left us in
hurry.
Tua Literary Gazette pronounces Irving as
industrious as Scott. The same remark would
apply to Bryant, who hasreturned from Europe,
and is again at his post, as busy as n bee Poe
once said, that with the Americans poetry was
not a purpose, but q passion. The truth is, lit
erature, in this country, is little understood as
pursuit. Writers here procure their livelihood
as best they can-in trade, or otherwise-and
turn to authorship, not as profession, but as an
amusement. Thus, xceptinvery few instances,
the gifted spirits of the Gland of commercial
princes" pass all their days and nights in the
bureaus of journalism; because, the business
pays better than writing books; while others en-
gage in the calling oflawyers, physicians, bank
ers, brokers, or merchants, whom you will find
at their counting houses,
"Busy in the cotton trade,
And sugar lnep
This is all right and proper, and we like it
none the less because it obtains ON this side of
sen. distinguished English author recently
noticed this fact, and concluded an article on
the literary men of the United States in these
words: "Hhey are often employed in other
matters. In one case, when desired to and a
man of great comic humor, of whose quaint and
original papers had heard in Europe, l was
obliged to dive down into store where they
sold assorted pickles; and, in another instance,
found one of the noblest poets of our time in
the back office of Bank in Boston, (of which
he was the cashier,) discounting bills payable
at sixty days. Here you would seek such men
at the clubs; there you will find them either in
similar places to those have mentioned, or in
the printing offices of the daily and weekly
press"
THE Lowell (Mass) Courier, mentions case
in which man named Moriarty twenty years
since married a girl in Ireland, but after year
deserted her, and had not been heard of until
now. The woman ten years ago came to this
country and married man named Leary, and
now, after lapse of a score of years, Moriarty
has appeared and demands his wife, but she
clings to the last husband in preference to the
one who abandoned her. The Courier says:
This is most singular case. The law pre.
sumes after an absence of twenty years, if no
Intelligence be received from the party during
that time, that the party is dead, and the other
party is then inlawfree to act as though single:
consequently, period has elapsed sufficient for
the civil death of the husband, and now he
makes his appearance the presumption proves
false, and the law recognizes him her lawful
husband. Consequently, there is no remedy
Tor the woman except to obtain divorce from
him on the ground of desertion, and then be
child.
To make sure of 1T, the Cleveland Herald
suggests the woman had better go to Indiana,
where they have divorces ready made.
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The PMLosoPHY OF SUIcIDE.-A- cotempora-
ry takes the occasion of the late tragedy in Thr.
tieth street, N, Y, terminating inIthe ,selc-de-
struction of young Gouldy, to moralize on
suicide Speaking of the immortality of its
practice, andthe disputations to which it has
given rise, we are told rs
Socrates condemned it-So did his ilIustrious
pupil Plato, who furnished the figure so often quo.
ted of the soldier deserving his post-and Pytha.
goras, atm earlier period, denied its lawfuiness.
On the other hand, the Greek dramatists. rep
resenting more nearly than the philosophers the
popular opinion, contended that suicide was a
natural right. Both the Stoics and the Epicu.
reans argued Units defence, and Zeno and Clean
thes, the great masters of the former sect nut
an end to their own lives, as Demociritus had
done before them, from the mere tsdtuna piie.
Cicero gives the Epicurean arguments in his
1ascutqn DisPutations Virgil take the Pytha-
gorean view, and pictures the perpetrators OF
suicide as condemned to a long and shadow
existence, without torment, buttWithout enioy.
ment-on which they would gladly exchange
fer the bitterest poverty and labor in the cheer
ful light Of day"
SEVENTY THOUSAND GENrEE1 iPEoP1E IN .Lox.
Emerson gives US the first census we have
ever seen of English uppertendom. He says
"A multitudesof English educated at the Uni
yersties, bred into their society with manners.
ability, and the gifts offortune, are every day
confronting the peers on footing of equality,
and outstripping them US often in the race Of
honor and influence. That cultivated class is
large and ever enlarging, 70 Is computed that
a0tth titles aud toithout there are serenity tsoas-
and OF these people coming and going IN London.
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