Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-04-07
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
[cOrresnOndenee OF the Intelllgeneer.l
PHILADELPHIA. April 9I. IS5
Editors q Me Wheelinq IateRiqeaeer


Editors Of tie Wheeling IateHigeacer
Yesterday was regular April fool day. Il
was, to speak vernacularly, regular "blower'
and decidedly "hgh falutin" Modest maidens
were put to the blush by the boisterous wind,
and everything seemed to go ono way. Good.
ness, gracious, what fuss it kicked up with
everybody. How it threw dust into the eyes oi
the most Sagacious How it tantaIized the erin.
uline. How it played the dickens with all sigas
forever hitherto held To be steady in their
Significance. How it mocked at gravity, laughed
at decency, clIinupel with the gay, played pitch
and toss with articles never suspected of such
levity aud laid upon the ground many never
before subjected to such an amusement. Boreas
mad his 'bow out" to be sure and thus April
fooled thousands who had calculated upon a
qaiet day and zephyry atmosphere.
There is but little "town talk" about anything
in particular. Everybody is wait g for some
thing TO turn up" to give something TO talk
about We hear something about Sckies every
day and are tired of it and want something new.
The Fry c1sc is being "played out" The case
Of Mrs. Pagan, after inuumerable postpone
ments, cane up to day and she was discharged.
The charge against DR.. Robert X Smith, Chief
Resident Physician Of the Aims House, has not
been sustained and so everything is now clear
for something novel, strange aud terribly cx.
citing
Business continues good, and our merchants
congratulate themselves on their successful Ope
rations, and tue healthy state of the money
market Throughout the entire country. Money
is finding its proper and legitimate level every
where, and with good 4 No. security, can be
easily borrowed here Mt six per cent. Unless
speculation runs rampant again, and every body
Tho has capital 10 spare, will invest in fancy
stocks purporting to pay seni-annull dividends
of to 10 per cent instead of investing it in a
legitimate business pnting it in real estate, we
may expect prosperity for some years to come
Young America, however, is not content with
working ten years for n fortune which he ina
giues can be made in Que; and so, as money
becomes plentier, he spccuates largely, and
finally, when pay day comes, he falls through
with tremendous crash.
Lecture season is hardly over yet with us;
DR.. j. j. Hays of the Arctic Expedition, re.
Gently delivered very interesting discourse on
the "lca Belt Of the Polar Seas" in which he
.tated that, ever since the ninth century, navi-
gators had been attempting TO penetrate this
belt in pursuit Of the whale and in the attempt
to accomplish Northwest passage, or to reach
the pole. There is every reason, he says to be.
levc that this belt is mere zone, encircling an
iceless sea. We might add and perhaps 'Symms'
Hole of which we heard so much many years
ago.
Prof II. S. Osborn, author of "PhiladclDhia
Past aud Present." has also been delivering
some intensely interesting lectures on "Syria
and the Turlsr,'' CuucvI Halt. Tu"Ha ah -lile
..-.,svri, the han was hIed with the ettte
ofthc city. Yours &c, PnLApELPHIA.