Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-02-26
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New YoKK, Feb. 23d, 1859.
did no. expect to have occupied your col
umns with a second letter during my stay here,
and have only TO say in excuse, that the fact Of
nv having broken over this good resolution is
wholly owing to my having this morning very
sore toe-and my consequent aversion TO occu-
plying this present hour with attention to busi-
ness or making call at some place where Gu
rious eyes may rest upon some novelty. Sam
Weller says that when the Londoners get IN
trouble they take to eating oysters, and IN
the absence of both the bivaives, as well as an
appetite for any thing Of the kind, do not
know bat what am excrsable for attiicting you
aud your readers in this way nave some
times thought in running about So much over
streets and pavements, as have done since
left home that was in serious danger OF be-
coming web footed-Eor find that even the ex-
pansiye capacity of pair of your nelghoor
Mathews broad tires will not meet the demands
of such incessant locomotiOn, and at the same
time remain corn proof
Yesterday, like everybody else was on the
go almost all day. The 22d is one OF the New
York holidays, and yesterday was peculiarly
observed. There were civic and military de-
monstrations innumerable, and of the most at
tractive kind. | might fill my letter with the
details of the celebration, and thought once
or twice that would make copious notes, IN
case L should want to say anything about them
in n letter before returned. The 7th regiment
was the great attraction among the military
You and your readers have oil read and heard OF
this the pride and pet regiment OF New YORK
1t would take one far better versed IN military
parlance aud techncalities than am, to md
proper words through which to convey to you a
proper sketch OF the parade, drill, inyolutions
and evolutions through which the gallant 7th
passed Yesterday. Their movements were not
only beyond my criticism, but beyond my
appreciation. l am told by those qualified
to judge, who, like myself we're lockers
on, that their movements were in the high
est style of drill perfection. They march and
countermarch, form aud defe more like the
mathematical exactness and unvarying precision
of machinery, than anything else that can
compare them to- The personnel of the regi-
mcnt is most attractive. They reminded me OF
the descriptions of the carefully picked grena-
diers of all Prussia concentrated in Fredrick's
famed guard 1t was this famous 9Th regiment
that escorted the remains Of President Monroe
to Richmond some months ago-and the land
ing and parading Of whom at Richmond was the
subject of such graphic illustration in Hdr-
per's Weekly.
The Academy of Music was the great center
Of indoor attractions, for it was there that, ac-
cor6ing to the long announced programme, the
so. u. AS" (Order of United Americans) were
to celebr. &C the day. At one o'clock we went
to the Acauc'ny, and even at that time found 1t
one vast deep rack of humanity from its floor
away up to its tCt most gallery, where, from
the stage, the outlines the iaces fade away in
the distance. never bOr,a9 such concourse
of people under one roof before, 1t was truly,
as Daniel Webster said of one OF his audiences
in Fanuell Hall i'll Boston, "a sea of uptuI7ed
faces" Through the courtesy of Mr.. Bolts our
party had been furnished with tickets bStore
hand, which admitted us to seats on par with
the bretheren Of the regalia. We had seats with
in whispering distance of the speaker almost.
After some fine musical displays, the Chairman
announced the Hon. John al. Bolts, who was
received with tremendous cheering and waving
of hats and handkerchief. And here must
tell you, that on taking my seat had curious
feeling, knowing as did, the subject matter oil
Mr.. Bolts speech, and surveying, as was
doing, the looks of the audience, and inhaling,
MS did, the tone of feeling around me, that the
speech was not going to be a success. The feel
ing grew upon me all through the preliminaries,
Which, under the influence of such iorebodings,
grew wearisome to the lest degree. One or two
gentlemen about me expressed themselves IN
like manner. Mr.. Bolts had not got fairly into
his speech before We felt that we had rightly
surmised In the first place he read the speech,
and he could not begin 10 command such an
audience by reading. In the next place his
subject matter-its tone and partisan character,
were not in keeping with what all felt suited to
22Q OF rem. NOT yet COuSSlSuSS SiNhSA WIZ
the calibre, line of information, and general
expectations of the great mass of his audience.
You will not consider me unnppreciatiye of Mr..
Bolts courtcsies, when say in candor, that the
speech fell still born, and was not at all salts
factory. If it was Mr.. Bolts nope to direct
public attention to his availability as candi
date for the Presidency, think he has failed
utterly.
But enough about political matters. Per.
haps, might fill sentence more by telling
YOU that have noticed for the last few days,
ever since Mr. Bolts arrival, number of poll.
ticians, who were proposing and disposing of
Presidential tickets for "'60." These men
around Mr.. Bolts here, pretty much as they
we've around George Law a couple of years ago,
vainly imagining l suppose, that they can do
up slch matters to their own notions. And
speaking of George Law, l must tell you that
my curiosity has been gratiied with an even
ing's acquaintance with that ex.lion, since have
been here, this time. A day or two ago met
at our hotel here, Elk Lieut.-Gov. Tom Ford, of
Ohio, famous in the carly annals of Americanism,
especially for his speech in the preliminary
American Convention at Philadelphia, at the
time the slavery question broke out in secret
session and got reported in the papers. Ford
lad been one of George Laws confidential
friends when his Q.aw's) hour Of Presidential
availability was in its zenith, and is yet his
warm personal friend. Through his kindness
and invitation, had the pleasure of an evenings