Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-01-23

posing it was foiled in the purpose for which he
came-to rend the air with plaudits upon the
reception of the expected verdict
SENATORS DoueLAs AND DAv1s.-A chatty fe-
male correspondent of the London Post has the
following lively description of Messrs. Douglas
and Davis, of the Senate:
Judge Douglas is man one cannot avoid
noticing on such occasions. When not in de-
bate he looks, as it soons IN me. fairer and nlum
per than before his marriage. Perhaps he lives
more mcthodcally. did not recognize him
without my lorgnette. But in the excitement
of controversy, shaking his heavy head for en-
phasis, with large plume of bushy hair waving
and nodding over his forehead, rapidly cutting
and twisting with his hand, working himself to
lperspration, and his eyes flashing, theold Doug
| las of the Nebraska bill reappears. He is very
restless man. He comes in, drops into his seat,
pulls paper out of his pocket, reads three lines
| forces his last cigar on Gwin, who is going out
to smoke, crosses over to Benjamin and gets an
/ other from him, which he twists in his mouth
and chews, offers his right hand to Hale and his
left to Pugh, leans familiarly on Jones' shoulder
and strokes that sexagenerian Senator's beard,
with gentle witticis,n, drops into the lobby
moment, and then into his seat, to read three
more lines of another newspaper.
Jefferson Davis has strange fascination in
his tone He is a slender man, somewhatstoop-
ing, and;not personally prepossessing. Yet eve
i rybody listens to him. If sweet voice is a
IOeauG1tul Ill a woman, KNOW InaI 10 US
there are few charms like mild, firm, gegtlx
@oaPlatss SSdf i pointedly, and with that pre-
/ cision pronunciation which marks scholar
With nothing in his mien of Mandy PANTY or
affected, you see that he is refined gentleman.
They say he is fire-cater If so. know he
eats it a la mode, with a fork and na kin."
DIR. WHEELER, OF THIS CRY, a CAND1DArE
FOR THE U. S. MARsuALsulr-Hop. let. Mar-
tin in Danger.-The Wellsburg Her.tld Of yes
terday, says:
DIR. A. P. Wheeler, formerly of this place,
now of Wheeling, Is m applicant for the Office
| of Marshal of the Western District of Yirginia,
\ now held by Jefferson Il. Martin, and a paper
asking his appointment was in circulation here
during the week, numcrously signed by men of
lallipolitics. We should very much like to see
the Doctor succeed, for he is not only very
Fcompetent and clever man. but the present in
fcumbent has held the office quite long enough
| for the good of the service or his own credit.
! he has been an office-holder from his youth up
and not always the most scrupulous in regard
to the just discharge of his duties, being charge
i able with many serious pecadiloes, if not with
actual misconduct in office.
/ A STEPNBoAT ON RUSNERs-A Mr.. Weard,
of GAINESVILLE, Wis, has the credit of inventing
a machine to be propelled over ice by steam. It
| is thus described:
AhS uihSLluS - W uC uuitL like Iu6 deck OF
q steamboat, with chains, pilot house, &c, and
fixed upon trucks or runners of sufficient height
that the deck and machinery may clear the
body of snow that may be upon the ice; the
trucks or runners being made of iron to have
sufficient strength and yet oppose but little sur
face resistance in passing through the snow
The deck is caulked and has bulwarks of suf-
ficient height to make it self supporting boat
if in the water, and ON the deck is a cabin, say
OF sufficient capacity to carry one hundred pas
sengers, with berths, If for long journeys, of
fees, pilot house, and at the stern an engine
room, containing engine, boiler, and most of the
machinery. II is propelled by two belts of
over pulleys, driven by the engine, aud to the
belts, which run parallel to and near each other,
there are connected dogs or poles, inclining up
ward from the ice to belts at an angle towards
the bow, aud while one is passing from front to
rear the other is drnggingt the front and so act
alternately, making tracks once in forty feet, or
more than the length of the belts.