The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-30
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offered $500 Egoldl a night and a fur
nished house, for years lectures at
London, one in a week.
Her Royal Highness, the Princess of
Wales has recovered from her rheu-
matte affection, and both herself and
the infant Princess are progressing IA
vorably. So says the British Medical
Journal
In the lecture course at JauesviIle,
Wisconsin, the following lecturer. did
not pay expenses: Rev. Mr.. AfiIburu,
the blind preacher, Horace Greeley, G.
W. Bungay, Theodore Tilton and Ralph
Waldo Emerson. The largest loss was
on Mr.. Tilton.
Washington dispatches show that
the total receipts of the Government
for 1866 were $50, ,s77. $50, near 81, ,OOO,-
600 more than those of any other year.
$500, ,0e0, COO were raised by internal tax
alton, and S1s0, ,o0o, 600 from imports.
The total expenditures in the year
were SS23, ,0S6, ,2l5. Add to this State,
County, Municipal, School and Road
lakes, one can pretty we'll understand
what hard times mean.
The proportion of bachelors dying
in Scotland isdouble that of married
men, according to statistical returns.
Marriage is favorable to health and
longevity everywhere.
a gossiptng newspaper correspon-
dent remarks that Dean Richmond had
Sl0o, coo insurance on his life, while
Daniel S. Dickinson had SI25, 200. These
insurance policies have several paral-
lels on the maturing list a. T. Stew
art has policies for SIOO, 600 in various
companies. A distin gufshed capitalist
and railroad king residing in Albany
has SI40, 900 OF similar insurance, which
is believed to be the largest amount on
record.
Some kind-hearted, sympathizing
body inEngland, the other day, sent to
the editor OF the New Orleans PieaVune.
the prospectus of company recently
formed in London to promote emigra-
ton to Africa. The present infelicit-
Gus condition of the e1-Confederates in
Louisiana, no doubt suggested to the
projectors that good many emigrants
might be counted upon from that quar-
ter, but here is the way the Pic. ac-
knowledges the corn:- TaE
ave have received, all the yyay from
England, a circular respecting emiRra-
ton to Natal, in South Africa. we do
not know but that this would suit us
as well as any other, II we were to emf
crate at all We will exchange places
with the Africans with pleasure, If we
can only have peace. But we bethink
Ourself that in Natal there is a pending
religious WAT, between Bishop Colenso
and his arehdeacon. with foreign in
teryention from Capetown. On the
whole, we VIII remain. We would
--rather bear the Ills we have,
thandy 10 Others we.know not orr
The searchers after truth now tell
us,-lst, the story of Pocahontas and
her baptism was the invention of the
artist and not at all matter of fact;;
ID, that the story of William Tell, both
as narrated and dramatizsd, is fiction;
Sd, that Nero and The Duke of Gloster
were, upon the whole, jolly good fell
lows, instead Of the monsters thew are
represented TO usj and, finally, that the
story OF the gathering of savages and
English Quakers under the big elm
tree at ShRckamaxon, Pa, in the far
famed VIM. Penn Treaty, is simply the
invention of Benjamin West, who first
gave it to the world on canvas. Amer
This, blessed are the unbelieyers-in the
truth of fiction. ~
, Mrs. Dali, in her very readable ar
ticle on Pioneering" in the April At
LGntic, an. article on the influences of
pioneer life in Illinois, especially as
sxampled in the lives of Lincoln and
his Springfield partner, Herndon-nIr-
rates the following incident, which all
who know President Ffnney, OF oberlin
College, says the Cleveland Leader,
will read with deep interest:
When I was at 0berlfn. President
F1nney spoke of the extreme sloWness
with which Lincoln seemed to take in
the Proyidential character of the war.
II would seem," he said, ssas II any
man living soberly through the first
two years must have felt the Divine
Presence very near. Lincoln did not,
and it troubled me so that, when he
gave notice that certain conditions
falling, he should publish on the lst of
January Proclamation OF Emancipa-
ton, wrote him a letter, and begged
him to treat the subject as if it was the
Lords business hewas about. don't
know whether my letter did any good,
or whether the Lord did it in HIS otr7t
Fdy; but when the paper was publish
ed, found the words wanted. That
was the first time"
AT one time duringthe war 4 large
number of officers were stopping al the
various hotels in Washington, at the
time perhaps when the seven Rriga-
dieIs were hit blythe stone that missed
the dog at which it was thrown in front
of willard,s- At that timeone of these
terrible youngsters was crying in front
of the National: Extra EreHiRO Star.
third edition, another great battle, - &c,
An officer coming out Just then "a Can
tRinl, the boy accoSts him with: Colo
mel, have a lHGrRp They always in
dulge in little flatteIy OF breyeting
when occasion offers. The officer
buys, and running his eye over the
paper eagerly calls out: Here, boy, I
don't see any battle ~ Getting beyond
the range of the officers boot, he re-
pines: No, nor you never will, loung-
ing around this ERE hotel ~
The Albany 4tEGs, in the course of
a sensible article on marriage. saws:
Look beneath the surface. examine
the heart, and strive to choose what
viii confer lasting happiness rather
than temporary qualification. Marrxs
heart and soul, not a form nor a mind
act for yourself, and not for others
consult reason, not passion; and thfnJs
marriage an affair OF years, not mo-
ments; q period whose FRESHNESS ana
E3ittering viii soon wear away and let
sincerity and worth form the founda-
ton upon which you are TO build YOUR
life and your happiness. Then viii
mzrrIage be a gin from heaven, bless.
ing Him who gives, who receives, and
those whosbaKei its obligations, its pains
and its joyst'
Marx Twain tells the following
funny incident in one of her late pa