The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-06

LnehIefs s--W0lc1 Is Qu1t9 small. iIhe
spectators had something to do with
this. But the public did not appreciate
herr and when mere curiosity to see her
was satisfied. little more was required.
The truth is, the audiences. of New York
are neither critical nor appreciative, for
they are made mp largely OF. the stran-
gers In town, who go to places of famuse-
ment from sense OF duty they feel
toward themselves during their solourn
in the great city. Not a single excellent
crittque appeared in any one of the pa
pers during Ristori's engagement. The
1Tt6une'S notices were the best, and
they were written by a. New England
woman; but they were SO stilted and
enthusiastically extfayagant, that one
throughth them of what the consummate
Italian actress is, or in what her chief
merit and power consisted.
THE FRENCH BALhEr DANCERS
At sNiblo's bid fair to draw crowded
houses for months to come. The at
taclSs upon 1t by the Herald, in which
the theater does not advertise, have in
creased the receipts several hundred
'dollaFs q night. The spectacle, In which
the ballet appears, is very gorgeous in
some ofits scenes. But the attraction is
the French women, who wear less drape-
~ and assume more voluptuous. atti-
tudes, and appeal more to the sense than
any troupe We have ever had in the coun-
try. The famous Pas deS Demons is the
1 first grand innovation from Paris, and
the people, ,at least the masculine portion
seem to relish it highly. IknoW elder
| ly men, whose blood 1t might be
supposed had cooled and whose feel
ing should long ago have been chas-
tened by years, that go nightly to the
ballet, and enjoy it as schoolboys do
whatever Is solemnly interdicted. De
ploTe 1t as We may, gauze skirts and
4 f1esh-colored hose, with flashing ewes.
red lips and plump forms literally ex-
posed, will draw when Shakespeare Is
neglected and all the Elizabethan
dramatists ignored. 1t is said that the
French girls will be more modestly at
tired when they visit tthe provinces, .
as the managers fear that "the country''
cannot endure what the metropolis ap-
proves. We have been educated here
to high point of art, unqueslionably.
| We may have reached the altitude the
painter referred to when he told Isa-
bella, after she demonstrated with him
for his boldness in revealing her bust
too generously;-s
,,,, There is pure divinity in Beauty,
winch the true eye OF Art looks on with
Though, like the gels, it were all unclad. -
THE ELECTION TO-DAY.
Which takes place on Tuesday, has
long kept the town in a blaze of torches.
calcium lights and fireworks, and in
an even unusual uproar from bawlihg
professions, huzzatng crowds and bell
lowing candidates. Both parties are
sanguine OF, and large bets are pending
on, the result. The Democrats claim
that they will go out of the CITY with a
vote that the rest of the State cannot
overcome; but the Republicans are con-
fdent they shall re-e1ect Fenton by at
4 al n A
few days will settle the question, and
restore the city to merely its normal
confusion. al -
I'd THE NEWSPAPERS. FF5
The metropolitan press, as it delights
to term itself, was never more prosper
GUS than now. Every daily in town
we do not include the NeIRS-is making
money. Not one of the newspapers
has improved more than the Tribune,
for the very good reason that for six
months past it has been extremely lib
era1 in Its expenditures. Before that
period it was managed with an eye to
economy; while now the ASSOCIATION
seems anxious to spend as much as
possible. The concern will hardly de-
clare a dividend as usual in December.
but / understand the stock which sold
last spring for $1,000 share cannot be
purchased to-day for $1,000; and that
holders expect it will be worth $40, 600
before two years have passed. The
Tribune, doubtless has, and has had for
years, more ability upon it than any
journal in the country, 1t is the his
toric newspaper of the republic, and
has made first-class reputations3 for
more than a score of its writers
since its establishment. The Herald
boasts that 1t will do some won
derful things when 1t gets into the
Broadway building. 1t talks of reduce
ing its price, having sixteen pages,
largely increasing its force, originating
new features, withdrawing from the as
ISOLATED press, and 1 know not what
else. No doubt the Herald will make
some important changes, The concern
has SO much money that 1t can excel in
expensive enterprise any of Its cotem-
poraries; and, it Is said, It will still fur
ther carry out its tavorite policy Of
rendering journalism as expensive as
possible; because by such course It
can profit to the disadvantage ofothers.
Charles a.. Dana's daily, which has
been promised for months, is likely to
end in smoke, the sum necessary to its
Establishment not being obtained from
the sources that were depended upon,
i have no idea the journal will ever
become an accomplished fact. Two
more dailies are talked of, and the Cit
Iize1I, weekly, 1t has been announced, is
to be converted into diurnal. But
present indications are that they will
not see the light of day. Newspaper
Publishing has grown to be. SO expen-
istve aluxnry and SO hazardous an ex-
pertinent that few men of means care
70 embark in it, although there is little
doubt that half a dozen we'll managed
journals, with sufficient capital, would
flourish in the metropolis. as'L