Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-09-05

Tur GRrAT Eastern This great steamer
being announced to sail for Portland in septem.
Der, preparations have been made on board for
the accommodation of one thousand first class
passengers, and nossecond class will beitaken.
The price of passage will be about one hundred
dollars The crew aud of1cersswill number
about 800. There will be $50 seamen, $50
ffremen, $50 stewards, 10 engineers, 90 officers,
p surgeons, and chaplain: Ten. thousand
tons of coalswill be carried, and such nre the
mechanical appliances Of the ship, that this
immense quantity can be put on board in two
days. The London z Illustrated Meas, speaking.
of this mechanical wonl Ter. says:
"Great ships as well rs small ones are liable
TO accident; but those who know most of
ships and OF the perils ofsthe seas have the
greatest faith that this particular vessel will
be less liable to accident than smaller Ships
and that her speed will be such as to enable
her to leave the British Channel, discharge
her cargo in Calcutta, take in return cargo,
and be back again on our shores within the
almost incredibly short period of seventy days.
7 Will she pay as a trading specuation? Will
this floating city, able to carry population of
10000, be as great success commercially as
she is mechanically That, after all, is the ul.
innate consideration, vulgar although it may
appear, by which all truly useful projects must
be tested. In. these respects there is every rea-
son to believe that the commercial calculations
of her projectors as firmly based as the me-
chanical principles on which she was construc-
ted; and that, even without a subsidy for carry
ing the mails, she will be enabled to earn money
enought TO pay her present shareholders re-
muneratiye dividend.n
Mr.. John Levee, of the Galway line, has of.
fered TO charter the ship for her first voyage to
the United States, paying the owners 100000.
| If this is accepted at the next meeting of the
directors, the arrangements as to the sailing of
the vessel may be changed; but some time dur
ing the month of September we may expect to
see the Great Eastern in an American port six
days after leaving England.
ONsthe 9th inst, the marriage of Miss Mary
Mason, daughter o: the Minister Of the United
States at Paris, aud Mr.. Archer Anderson, Of
Virginia, was solemnized at tho residence of the
brides father, in the Rue Beaujon. The brides
maid was Miss Sarah Mason, a sister of the
bride; the groomsman was Mr.. Powhattan
Clark, Of Virginia. The Paris correspondent
ofthe New York Express says the toiettes of all
the ladies were remarkably tasteful and beauti-
full; the bride wore white muslin dress, with
seven founces edged with Valenciennes lace,
each houhcc trimmed with an cntre-deaux and
edge V6lencieunes. Her veil was white tulle,
falling to the feet, material which, the writer
says, has taken the place of lace on these occa.
sions Her head was encircIed by wreath Of
orange blossoms, and she wore at the ceinture
a boquet of the same flowers. The Misses Ma.
son were also dressed in white, as, indeed, were
nearly all the ladies' present. Immediately after
the ceremony, the newly welded pair left Paris
on bridal trip through Switzerland On the
same day, and within a few minutes of the same
hour as the above, another American lady as.
suned the irrevocable VOWS at the Church Of
list. ROch. Miss Annie Hepburne, of South Car
Iolina, was married to Mr.. Eustache Bounin, son
of the Chevaler Bounin, Vice Consul of Portu.
gal, ut Nice, Sardinia. Two American mar.
riages on the same day is something unprece-
dented in Paris.
AID. GuASDLEr j. Wells, who is about the
hardest hitter and the best billiard player in
Buffalo, was robbed ofhis gold watch and fob
chain by an adroit pick-pocket, while getting
out ofthe cars at the Central Railroad Station,
in that city, on last Thursday evening. NV,
however, missed his property Immediately, and
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