The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-08
Popularity OF sheridan.

All the ordinary rules of life were re-
versed for Sheridan. AT twenty years
of age debts began to overwheIm him;
he had drank too much and supped too
much; his cheeks grew purple and his
nose grew red. In this beautiful plight
he encounters within the Duke of Dew
onshire's walls a charming young girl,
and is smitten. At the first sight of him
she exclaims .'How ugly; what n mon
sterw He converses with her; she ad-
mits he is very ugly but very enter
tanning. He converseS with her a second
and n third time, and she finds him eX-
ceedingly amiablo. He converses with
her again, and she loves him, and de-
ternines at all hazards to marry him.
The father, n prudent man, desires to
forestall the project, and declares to his
future son-in-law that he must pro-
vide dowry of fifteen thous-
and pounds; the fifteen thousand
pounds appear as If by magic, and are
deposited in the hands of banker
The newly-married couple depart for
the country, and the father, meeting
his son, firm, obstinate man, and ill
disposed to the match, persundes him
that it is ono of tho most reasonablen
father could expect, and the happiest
circumstance n brother could rejoice
overt Let the man and the circum-
overcomes everything. There is no
such thing us resistance; all yield to the
charm. What could be more difficult
than for an ugly man 10 blind the eyes
of n young girl to his uglinessi One
thing more difficult there is. making Il
creditor insensible to indebtedness
There is something more difficult yet
to convert n creditors demand for
money into an offer to loan more
A friend of Sheridan is arrested
for debt. He summons Mr.. Hender-
son, the Grabbed financier. Sheridan
coaXes him, interests him, softens him.
inspires him; he overwhelmS him with
general considerations, ana so elo-
quently that Mr.. Henderson tenders
his purse, begging permission to lend
him two hundred pounds more, and
finally, to his great delight, prevails on
him 10 accept it. Never was such
amiability and such facility in the OBJ
tanning of contidenceI Rarely has such
natural, genial, absorbing sympathy
displayed itself more powerfully! 1t is
literally seductionl Creditors and Wis
itors thronged through his house daily.
Sheridan would enter the room smiling
and at ease, and demean himself SO
graciously, so cordially, that peo-
pie forgot their claims, their ne
cessities, and seemed to be there
for no other purpose than to call on
him. His inspiration was electric; his
wit dazZling; his fund of
bon mots, his invention, his fertility of
ideas, his sallIies were inexhaustible.
Lord Byron, who was n good judge,
says he never heard or imagined such
extraordinary power of conversation.
People passed entire nights listening to
him. Nobody equalled him as Al boon
companion. Even when intoxicated
his mind never failed him. Picked up
one day in the street by policeman,
the latter demanded his name. will
berforce,' he gravely replied. There
was no coldness or formality to strang-
ers or interiors. He had that rare frank
ness, that natural eXpansivenessw which,
in its generous self-abandonment for
bids. the slightest suspicion of reserve.
AZ. Idine.