The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-24
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Fair Weather. and Excessive TrayeI..-
Contrasts In New Obstacles in
stlie Way OF . DistfnEuished TraEc-
dian's tlrrInEe.-TFeddin ofa Wen
known Etlitor-EnOrinOus business
r. Rreflts and Family ExtFnHagnnGe..-i
II Divorces and. their Capses---NeF
lboOlka-frA Club OF JOurnaIlsts to be
FQrmesl1=Sis isnilcant Incident at the
Theater-POIitieaI. iia5it' it5 ~
| y C0rTe 1l6ntEene6 10 tie CHtcinnd6 Gasette.
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The weather, is delightful, neither too
warm nor too cold but balmy, bracing
and beautiful; especially adapted to
Walking, or driving, amusement seek,
ing or delicious sleeping. leu lad !,
In this vicinity, September and the
i'greater part of October, are among the
nost pleasant portions of the years and
| we would Judge that travellers Thought
! soJ trom the immense throng Mt the
various hotels, where IL is regarded MS
i,mueh of a favor to obtain Il dying plnce,
hs5 Is 70 procure a seat atthe. packed to
suhocation theaters. %! 'i1inf 'tr.l T
Broadwiy was never more crowded
or gay .thnn it is nj present; and am
reminded every day of that astute nEfal
rtan, Mike WhlsE's remark, tliht 1t re-
tquires moro tnlent to cross the great
thoruuEhtnre ut the corner of Fulton
street, than IL docs to run for Congress
4 from u Metropolitan" district. 3
1sls. "A CITY OF CONTRASTS.
No city in the world affords more
contrasts than New York. One is
hourly reminded Ofthem.
liii While you sit In the splendid drawing
rooms ofithe fashionable hotels, talk
lng4with women nradientwith Jewels and
brilliant In otters, whose voices are
music, and whose presence is perfume,
y0u are approached by some wretched
mendtcant from tho street, who sOlicts
aims with palid lips and broken voice.
! AS you walk up Broadway, you nre
1 1oStled on one Sido by satin and beauty
| and on the other by rigs and misery.
4 Tho brilliant carriage, with emhlazo-
ned crest and liYeried footmen, cOllidcs
with the butchers cart and the hucks-
ter unwholesome wagon. II
On the Avenue, too, the elegant and
| fashionable womnn--a handsome and
hearless wife, who is uncharitable to
her unfortunate sisters because inCapa-
Die of temptatiOn,s and refuses to sin
because too pasSionleSS and calculating
TO err-gathers aside her rich robes, lest
she contaminated by the touch of the
4 poor girl whom society has ostracised,
since she wnS less geld and selfish than
the hne lady, thnt would kill her If
scorn could slay. F-a
am hero reminded of some ofithe
lines. ofWillis' poem-one of the few
| good, because true and natural, things
no has written-dnd reproduce them for.
their pertinency. fsfs . III
She kept with care her beauties rare D.
1 From lovers warm and true, ed ~
For her heart was cold 10 nll but gold,
anu inc rich came not TO WOO H
But hOnored well nre charms to sell
Ifprests the selling do.
| Now walking there was one moro fair.
A Aslight girl, lily pale,
AND she had unseen company
:, 10 make the spirit quail -
| d fEWl&t Want and scorn she walked fOrlOrn,
And nothing could avail.
r., No Mercy now can clearher brow u
For this worlds peace to pray,
For rs loves wild prayer dissolved in MR.
81 Her womnn's heart gave Way = 1
| But the sin forgiven by Christ In heaven
by nnn Is cursed nlwnyI
EDWIN BooTiI's srABRIAaE. \.
A report of Edwin BoOth's marriage
70 Miss Hermione Hauel, has recently
been printed in the newspapers with
out foundation. Shcishis finnncee, and
the circumstances oftlleir racouaintnnce
and wootng are substantially as have
given them in n former letter to the
Gazette but IT seems her uncle, the we'll
known fhhadelphia perIumer, has
raised some objections to the match.
rendering the publication OF their union
Just Mt present quite awkward and em-
barrnsing. 4l--ti 81 =
am unaware how far tho avuncular
relative will push his opposition to the
marriage; but If he grows particularly
energetic in the matter, his niece.
women-like, will wed her dramatic
lover Mt once, If for no other reason for
the one that there is disposition to
prevent her from so doing.
What tremendous mistake careful
n fEl nd lsNNVts
controlling or attempting to control, the
affections of their daughters and dwartlsl
They frequently drive them info fhe
arms of most Unworthy men by emDloy-
ing coercion and harshness: when. iFI
they were to reason with and camlv
advise them, they would be spared a |
miserable misallinnce. fIsfl Il
ltone OF our gender were dcsirous to
awake nm interestin one ofthe opposite
sex, he could not take a better course |
than to employ n dozen busy-bodies to |
caution and counsel her against any
and all assocfation with him; giving
very good reasons why such nm acGuain1
tance would prove imprudent If not
hazardous. BY such management will !
lny a wager Ofa dozen of Venuye Cli-
quot TO glass of Brown Stout that the
woman. fat ll'romantic,-and what
woman is not ?-would be in love with
the abused and dangerous fellow before
month was over. n
~ LITERARY WEDDING.
Speaking of marriages, Mr.. George
Ripley, the well known literary editor
Of the Tribune, and joint editor with
Mr.. Charles A.. Dana of the Nep Alneri-
can CYet0pedfQ, was welded this even
Ing, in Rev. o. b. Frothipgham's s Church
Unitarian, } to Madame Augusta Louisa
Schlossberger, the edifice being filled
with journalists, Eitterdteurs and artists,
most of whom are known to fame, and