Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-08-08

able results of prosperity and wealth, which
were to follow the construction of the great i'm
provement. But let not those who claim the
need of superior wisdom in this matter, because
of their quiet, inactive opposition, lay that fat
tering JUNCTION to their souls as yet, for
. far from being clearly satisfied in own minds
that they were right, holding, as we have said,
our own judgement in reserve.
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CITIES, like families, have peculiar marking
idiosyncrasy, specialize as the French call it.
Our little smoky town has her's:--a certain
spasmodic energy, which breaks forth at long
intervals in some galvanic effort to gain some
thing, it does not matter much what. We like
to waken up now and then, make desperate
clutch at some pet bauble, and then turn drowsi-
! ly over for another seven years nap. We fought
with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
for the terminus-guined it; spent thousands in
one day for grand Qualification, and then let
all the profits of the road slip away down to
Parkersburg and Belle Air. We became frantic
on the Bridge question: came TO a handto.hand
struggle with Pittsburgh cluched valiantly, and
never let so until we carried the fight through
courts of appeal and supreme courts into Con-
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blew the bridge down, were content for wears
to let it remain half finished, half useless
Where are our Union Line Of Boats, too9 We do
not instance these failures reproachfulIy, for we
yield to none in anxiety fo- the pride and inter
/ est Of our city, but only in order to suggest
that there many modes in which the public
spirit of our citizens might be shown in more
simple and less fitful manner, and by which
real and lasting benefit would be secured to
them. There is no town in our knowledge where
so little of public nature is done for the COM
fort and pleasure of its citizens, so little which
would give them the feeling of local attachment
to the place What city of this size is destitute of
public libraries, galleries, museums! But there
are two wants which we would especially aud
briefly, but energeticaiiy, suggest to the good
sense Of our readers. One is, park, or some space
which could be improved and beauttied enough
to relieve the eye wcaried with the glaring brick
walls and dust clouds. Human nature must be
amused and rested. If the laboring classes of
our population could find some place Of easy
access, where they could enjoy fresh air, shade
and music, our beer saloons and drinking shops
would be less crowded in the evenings. Aud
field derived from the bFdRH qJbt gGee . or green
Patriarchs left standing on Wheeling hilt! With
out fear of the accusation OF romance before
our eyes, we do earnestly contend that the
habitual view of objects of natural beauty is as
essential to the proper education OF people as
any public schools-iS absolutely necessary to
the softening, harmonizng development Of pub.
lie character. We have time to argue this
point We only suggest it for the consideration
iof those who should carry it into effect Land
may be purchased at but tritiing expense by
either the city or a stock company, upon the
Island, and in very few years be made not only
to pay Tor itself, but 10 redeem our town FROM
the stigma of not presenting an acre Of ground
on which the foot Of the poor man may tread
with pleasure. Will no one make the move
The second want, VIC will more briefly aludc
to, as it is more generally acknowledged
Hospital The need of public institution OF
this kind is disgracefully apparent. Those in
the city, though doubtless we'll conducted, arc
owned by corporate bodies, and by the prices of
admission, placed entirely beyond the reach of
the poor-evcn those Of moderate MEANS
Even if this were not the case the class of dis
c"S''s winch Ihey ADMIT are necessarily limited.
Many instances have come to our personal
knowledge where extreme suffering among the
poor and strangers lin one case deatb) was
s"periuduced by the want of shelter and care
All our citizens deplore the necd-can no one
do anything? Hoso nncd are they sorry: Is
there no possibility that the Hospital, unde, the
care of the Sisters of ST. Joseph, could be made
the property of the city at reasonable outlay !?
Ca" our ladies do nothing? They raise money
sometimes, we all know The poor and sick arc
always with them. Mount Vernon and Co,isco
mission are nearly as far away as Mrs. JelIvby's
BoriobOola Cha.
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THE Harrisburg Cuion has. an article COM
msndns the three styles Of short hair dis.
couTScd upon the other morning in our local