Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-10

slNely as u utuI Ital ~ IN all loIIy 10 unS
derbid the Democracy on the niger question, it
now gives US its eleventh hour confession.
We are glad to see it, however; too glad, to
criticise any of the supposed procuring causes
oft We believe it to express not only the
sincere convictions of the Wing, but,of nine
tenths of the reading people south of Mason &
Dixon's line, and believing 50, We accept it as
nothing antagonistic to it had ever appeared in
the same columns. 1t comes as recruit to us
here in the Northwest who have had to bear the
burden and heat, as well as the odium of this
position for SO long. As we shall most likely
refer frequently to it, we think that it would
be as we'll for the Times, and Argus TO make a
note of the whole matter, and either commit it
TO memory, or put it in the crowns of their
hats.
"OccAsloNAL" writes to the Philadelphia
Press about the "hells" in Washington. He
says "faro in which the better encounters the
bank, is the prevailing game in these saloons,
and although tables. are set out, at which what
is called 'brqg,'' poker and other games are
played, the principal fascination is the platform,
covered with greenleathcr, behind which sits
the imperturable dealer, with his pale face,
black eye and monotonous CALI while, on three
sides, are gathered, sitting and standing, rank
after rank, anxious and excited spectators, who,
breathless with anxiety, watch the little cards
as they are dealt from the tin box, and pick up
their gains, or swallow their losses, with a si>
lence only interrupted now and then by an an
CRY exclamation or quiet chuckle of exulta>
ton. Night is turned into morning, and the
latter frequently surprises the contestants in
the struggle. 1t is surprising, in the height of
the season, how much money is lost and won in
single night a gentleman well acquainted
with the secrets of these resorts tells me that
he has known rs much as ten thousand dollars
to be risked on single game, and others have
seen two or three thousand dollars haznrded on
a single card and in single game"
An English paper-the Gateshead Obscrrer-
tells curious story of an inmate of one of the
warehouses; on'the Tyne, who on recent occa.
sion fell into such state that it was difficult to
say whether he was dead or "dcad drunk" and
the opinion of the doctors having been taken,
he was pronounced to be in the former condi.
ton. He was accordingly carried to the dead
house, and preparations were made for his bu.
rial. Sunday interyened-thcrc was divine ser.
vice in the workhouse-and the reverend gem
tleman who oficiuted, having heard of his re.
noVal, improved" the event; but by this time
the jovial pauper had recovered from his trance
had demonstrated his death to be ''fallacy
of the facuIty"--and was discovered to be lis.
tening with great sobricty to his own funeral
sermouI
We give tho Table of Contents and the list
of contributors for the October number of the
North american RspietO, published by Crosby,
Nichols & Company, of Boston:
ARzIcLE.
1Jsmss Pen!noEe Cooper Horny Tucksrnsn.
@ sasy a. &
s 1ss II FsSGT gSyt ooo,,dr.
g. Douglas ,IeFFoId 9. y Phllps.
American diplomacy In China William hi ssi g. Reed
~ B!oT 1 ~ Platareh' LiYes The Editor,
H. Critical Notices.
H. New Publications received.
The article in the RreietO on American Dia
plomacy in CHM, having been written without
anticipation of the Peiho disaster, is we'll di.
gested and full of seasonable information. The
other articles worthy of the character,of
this wellsnstained periodical.
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ANlCh Ouoans are III request IN New York
The demand for them has gone up since Senior
oviedO got into the newspapers. They are now
carrying off all the matrimonial prizes One Of
them-reputed nilionaire-has just PERSIA.
ded an uptown divinity TO share his lot-con>
sisting OffOne or two large sugar plantations,
and some excellent corner property in Havana.
The lady in question is Miss W., daughter of
princely merchant, and one of the star 6a5itues
Of the opera, ofwhicb her father is a most in
fueRtial patron.
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We presume most of our readers read the ar.
ticle which we published from the N. Y. conr.
fer, on Saturday morning. Its simultaneous
appearances with the one which we extract from
the Richmond Wig, to-day, is a somewhat
striking COINCIDENCE.
In.letter and spirit they seem as if one and
the same person. might be the author of both.
UP to last Saturday. the new oyster placer off
Norfolk had yielded.25 600 bushels Of oysters,
the average earnings of each man being tpsatv
GI6ILRTsy1 514, & .Thiss;S bott.,. 4I.0 nj, I, n