Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-09-21
TaE Germans Of San Francisco have held a.

TaE Germans Of San francisco have held a
meetinglo take measures to stop the simporta-
ton of dancing girls from Germany. Large
numberssof German girls, from 123to 10 years
of age, IRE now employed in California at low
dancing houses, whichare open every evening
and free to all. These places are frequented by
men ofcoarse manners, who dance with the girls,
and at the end of each piece each man is requir-
ed, by custom, to take his partner to the bar
and treat her, the two drinks costing % cents
During the day time the girls go about the
streets, usually in couples, playing the tambou-
rine or ACCORDION, and singing at the doors Of
grog shops or inns, where they demand two
bits" cash payment of every bystander. Their
employers make contracts with the parents in
Germany to pay large price, varying from 81
to $5 per day, for the girls duringa period Of
several years, and to pay their passages to Cali
forniG and back. These contracts are usually
faithfully kept by the employers; and the. girls
rarely break their part of the bargain. Most of
the girls come from Hanover and the vicinity of
Bremen.
The French and English journals have re-
Gently announced that the celebrated composer,
Verdi, has resolved to write no more operas at
present. Apropos to this statement we quote
the following from letter of Verdi to his friend
and pupil, Signor Muzio :-"For the present
shall compose nothing. Ihave refused great
many engagements. am just now in receipt
ola telegraphic dispatch calling me to ST
Petersburg. should be very much delighted
to visit America, but have feared that there is
too much water between US. However, in spite
of all that, am so DESTROYS to view the beauties
of nature in America and especially Niagara,
that shall endeayor during the next year to
accomplish the voyage"
The New York Times prides itself on its ''ane
writing" and assumes to lead in eleyatinng the
style of newspaper composition. Here is
specimen of the perfection to which its financial
column has attained:
ut will check to some degree the phleeboto-
mic drainage Of yellow current that WHITES the
veins of our commerce and TO that extent delay
or modify any morbitic crisis likely to be in
duced by the febrile system of stimulation now
predominant"
The writer of this paragraph must have been
laboring under a temporary fit of the "pictur-
esque elntement,n that afflicted its namesake
here, not long SINCE
AN offer of marriage has been recently made
by the Duke of Rutland to the Princess Mary,
sister Of the Duke of Cambridge The Princess,
who no longer boasts Of the charm of premiere
jeunesse, and whose affability and good humor
are deemed her chief attractions, does not con.
ceal her wish to accept her only sutton. The
consent of the parties themselves is, under the
circumstances, not enough. By the provisions
of the Royal Marriage Act, passed some ninety
years ago, to crafty the tyrannic will of George
Ill, no member of the reigning family can le-
gally contract matrimony without the assent of
the sovereign personally declared, and Queen
Victoria objects to granting the requisite license.
-&sNDoS
TuE Home Journal learns from authentic
sources that the report of Washington Irvings
recentindisposition was very much exaggerated,
and that he is at present in his usual condition
at Sunnyside And Mr.. Willis observes of the
venerable author-"Hc is marvel, if only by
that difference from other men ofgenius-whose
destiny, it seems is to have their last days sad.
The setting of his sun is mellow, the clouds
around and behind him roster as he goes There
is another Summer day beauty, too, in his de-
cline-the fullmoon of renown, after death, seen
clearly, even before the setting of his sum-
---&seD,b--
THE N. Y. correspondent ofthe Philadelphia
Press writes-"ou literary club, the Athena.
um, u am sorry to say it is rapidly losing its
literary charocter) is about to inaagurate
novel experiment in the annals Of clubbery, viz:
weekly reunions of the members, enabling
them, on one evening of each week, from octo-
Der till June, to have modest, enjoyable time,
with any amount of weed, unlimited malt, and
good deal of billiard. And then on one even.
ing of each month they will let i'll the women"
ALLISON and Macaulay, tho great living histo-
rims of England, are severely criticising each
others works in the Blackwood and Frazier's
Magazines, respectively, each endeavorng to
show tho glnring narucrsinns Of lnis4or,, oc H.,