The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-13
1 have the honor to be, most respect
fully. Is "a y JAMES SPEED,S Z
"a Ell Attorney General.
Letter From New York.
- NEW YORK, Jan. 9th, 1865.

= sN. NEW YORK, Jan. 9th, 1866.
Editors I,ltekkileneer: ..-s--....g,sz.a.z.=u--
Shall / again dose you with Fenian-
| ism2 have an excuse In the ifact that
it is the most interesting and generally
DISCUSSED topio.ina our city. The House
of Delegates of the brotherhood has
been in session for a week and more,
and, as prognosticated in former let
| ter, has, upon careful enquiry into his
administration, sustained OIMahony.
| A, committee of one delegate from
each State and Territory in the Union
was appointed to examine into Mr.
Killian's financial management, and,
after gan investigation which lasted
some days, made an entirely sattstacto-
Fry report. The system of records IN
Mr.. K. IS departments substantially the
same as in the Treasury Department at
Washington, and under the, personal
supervision of that gentlemen are not
only handsomely but accurately Kept r.
The Congress Is composed of an intelli-
gent. earnest body OF Irishmen, and as
It's decisions are final 1t is hoped that
chickering's are at an end and that the
organization will, work honestly, uni
tedly and heartily towards the accom-
plishment of its great object. A new
weekly journal of eight pages IS about
to be issued. 1t will be called the ITiSh
People, and will be the mouth piece OF
Fenianism in America. @ hal b.
The re-entree of Edwin Booth upon
the stage has been the theRtr1cal event
OF the week. This gentleman, while
sharing in the common grief into winch
a terribly tragic occurrence plunged
the entire nation, suffered unutterable
woe from private grief, which should
call ont our warmest sympathies. After
nine months absence from the stage, he
commenced, on the Sd inst. an engage
ment at Winter Garden playing Hamlet.
The commodious theatre was damned
on the first night of his appearance,
and when the brilliant actor was dis
covered in the second scene, seated in
the Danish Court, the enthusiasm of
the audiencet was intense. Boquets
rained upon him, handkerchiefs waved
in every part oftthe house, and cheer
upon cheer told him of the appreciation
and sympathy felt for him by the Large
assemblage. he received the applause
meekly.HLAs Hamlet, Mr. Booth has no
equal upon the American stage!' Per-
haps that excellent tragedian and ar
dent patriot, Jas. E. Murdoch, can read
this subtle character as we'll, if not bet
ter than Mr. Booth, but his acting, the
physical rendition, the expression OF
the face, the flashing of the eye, is much
inferior to that of his younger competi-
tor. Miss Batemany the charming and
able American tragedienne, has sailed
winpint q golden opinions. from all
Ilsorts'of people" and is announced TO
appear as Leah, the Forsaken, at Nib
los, on the 18th inst. She Will be
warmly welcomed on her return.
The chipping and eager air" which
quickened the blood Of the :" melan7
choly Dance" as he watched upon. the
| battlements of Elsinor for the pertur-
bered spirit" of his respected parent,
was as the temperature of balmy il ne
when compared with the cutting blasts
of mir that now are freezing the very
| marrow in our bones. 1t is our humble
opinion, though we have had dSyet Gas
Is perhaps Unnecessary to remark)
no taste of the Sultry place, that
any spirit who leaves its comfortable
Quarters in purgatory for midnight
ramble in our frosty atmosphere never,
III life, personated the Soldest RESIDENT
ofa respectable village, and, in unusual
weather, ventured sage opinions based
upon his recollections. as such; and
that any spirit SO fool hardy twnits not
the growing of the cock, but betalSes
itself ''like n guilty (and a 1foolish)
thing" to its pleasantly heated apart
ments below, long before that noisy,
though seldom heard herald of the
morn, announces its approach! Quick
silver is as far below zero as the prec-
ious coin Is below par In the streets,
ladies' faces are entirely hidden behind
enviable furs and Chances nre ike
angels visits The contents of milk
pitchers, wash bowls and ink stands is
formed into miniature skating ponds
The cold even pierces to the parlors of
the af1Iuent. Oh misery, misery, what
wretchedness does it not carry TO the
novels of the poor. Fl- lli .Ug-L
A most excellent and well beloved
gentleman, the Rev. Mr.. Cummings of
st. Stephens (Catholic) has been taken
from his flock and his spirit is gone
s'where the wicked cease from troubl-
ing and the weary are at rest.n a man
of education, refinement and piety, re-
spected by all religious denominations,
he can be but illyaspared. His OBJ
!,.ii ~ sa99a tias pi,g 80 ToX.