Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-01-28

on demand; and 1t is in the hands OF the publi
who, as it, regards the bank, are jealous, ~
friendly, and unchaIitable."
yIsIr TO the HoME OF CHARLOTTE BRosrE--
Henry J. Raymond, editor Of the New York
Times, writes an account of his visit wien re-
Gently in Europe, to the home Of Charlotte
Bronte. On the day that he arrived at Raworth,
when night came on, he ate his chops ond drank
his ale in the plain little parlor of Black Bull
Inn. He says: aa
As took my candle go TO my chamber. L
stepped for moment into the kitchen, where
the landlord and landlady were having q COM
Portable chat, over pipes and ale, with COM
panionable rustic of the place, who proved to
be nephew of the old servant Tdbby, who
lived so long, and at last died in the service Of
the Bronte family. Joined the circle, and sat
there till long after midnight. Branwell was
clearly the hero of the village worship.
little red headed fellow, the landlord said,
quick, bright, Astounding in stories, in jokes,
and in pleasant talk Of every kind he was
der Of the Black Bull circles. Small rs he was,
1t was impossible TO brighten him; they had
seen him volunteer during mill-riot, to go in
and thrash dozen fellows, any one of whom
could have put him in his pocket and carried
him off Mt minutes notice. Indeed, char
acteristic of the whole family seems to have
been nn utter insensibility to danger and to fear.
Emily and Charlotte, these people told me, were
one day walking through the street, when their
great dog, Keeper, engaged in a fight with ano;
Their dog Of equal size. While every body else
stood nloof and shouted, these girls went in,
caught Keeper by the neck, and by dintTof tpg-
ging and beating him over the head, succeeded
in dragging him away. The kindred anecdote
of Emily and this dog, told in Mrs. Gaskell's
book, will be remembered. The story OF Bran
well and the lady in whose family he was en-
ployed as tutor, which Mrs. Gaskell was COM
PEELED to Withdraw from the subsequent editions
OF her book, was well known in town, and was
told to me in detail, with names, dates. and all
particulars The version however, was clearly
that of Branwel himself from whom his family
and Mrs Gaskell's informants had derived it. :
Mr. Raymond discovered that Mr.. Bronte,
oharlotte's father. and Mr.. Nichols, her hus-
band, were glad to see people from America. In
the conversation with them, shut little was said
of Charlotte and her sister, as that little caused
very evident and painful emotions in their
minds" :,
Mr.. pnosTE.
Mr. Bronte's personal appearance is striking
and peculiar. He is tall, thin and rather mus
cular,-has quick, energetic manner, retiec-
ti.e and by no mems unpleasant conntenance,
and a resolute promptness of movement which
indicates marked decision and 6rmness of char-
acter. He wears q very wide white neckcloth,
into which he usually sinks his chin so that his
mouth is barely visible over it This gives him
rather singular expression, which is rendered
still more SO by spectacles with large round
glasses enclosed in broad metallic rims. Though
over eighty years old, aud somewhat infirm, he
breaches once every Sunday in his church.
Mr.. NICHOLS. Ff
Mr.. Nichols, his curate, reading the service
a tto 0tt hall hr io
stout, dark complexioned Englishman-shy, but
kind and cordial, in Misunderstanding but little,
but evidently capable of more feeling and
thought than at first appearance. He spoke of
his wife with pride and emotion, and rs rose
10 take my leave asked me to step into the par
lor and look at her portrait.
cnARLorTR's PoRTRAIr-HER SOFT EYES.
II is the one from which the engraving in the
Life is made but the latter does no justice to
the picture which, Mr.. n. said, was perfect
likeness of tho original. I remarked that the
engravings gives to the face, and especially to
the eyes, a weird, sinister, and unpleasant ex-
preston, which did not appear in the portrait.
BE said he had observed it, and that nothing
could be more unjust for Charlotte's eyes were
rs soft and affectionate in their expression as
could possibly be conceived This was the par.
Tor in which, it will be remembered, those three
little mothcrless children used TO spend their
| winter evenings alone,---walking backward and
IOrWnro, nano IN naOu, recitinS 10 cacn otner
the romances they had made out" during tho
day, and nursing those high thoughts ard pro-.
found feelings which gave them their strength
and their sorrow in after years.
A good deal of excitement prevails among the
farmers of Carroll, Stephenson nndJo Davis coun-
tics. in Illinois, who have mortgaged their lands
and homesteads, for the benefit of the Racine &
Mississippi Railroad, and whose mortgages are
about to bcforeclosed. The aggregate amount
of securities of this class, given in Carroll coun.
ty, is six hundred thousand dollars, and thu
mortgages cover a tract twelve miles in width
on the line ofthe proposed road. The mortga-
ges given by farmers in other cnunties, will swell
the total amount to more than million of dol
lars For these securities, there has been no
sort of equivalent given-the work on the road
having ceased As a means of protection, the
farmers are about filing bill in chancery, to
have the mortgages set aside on the ground Of
fraud used in obtaining them.
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