The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-01

i Htchardson. SWlntOf, SnhW, Browne,
| Cook, DR.. Ray, Nichols, Whitley, DIR.
Randolph, Kiene, are only IA few among
1.-The scores who have made themselves
known to fame, Applause. The
most active Bohemians atloat are the
4 shorthand reporters OF Parliament;
these are the gentlemen who actually
make the speeches. Our Washington
correspondents who fill the gallery
tcould all make better speeches than
many OF the NJ. C.'s Baitlett, Perley
| Poore, Warden, Mccullough, Reid,
| Young, Adams, Fitch, Elliot, Peck,
Andrewst are alitrumps in that line,
\ and good fellows in the social field.
| I[Applause.
There is power in condensation
taking out the grain from bushel OF
chatf, and sending over the wires the
| idea instead of the words, is high art.
and commends admiration. England
| still insists upon having three long and
stupid leaders in every London daily.
/ Editors should never pen more than
half a column-sOmething short, sharp,
surprising. The telegraph will soon
become the model letter-writer. Gen.
! Stager, ten minutes ago, just put his ear
1 10 the California wire and picked of the
1 New York stock prices of thirty min
! utes since, as they were speeding to San
| francisco. (Cheers). No ancient mira
Gle like thisl No such marvel; no such
1 inspiration was known in the. olden
Itiine. It's almost divinity. I Applause).
4 To this day 1 look on and wonder, open
ing every dispatch with trembling
hand, as though it came from another
world. (Applause)..1 .srr5. O. izl.- ~
The grandest event of our day Is tel
| egraphiDg from Japan to Jerusalem
ola San Francisco, New York and Lon
don, twenty days later news. cloud
cheers). Shakspeare's gifdle will soon
be round fine earth in forty minutes.
I 1aF N1NE EfniP
Bohemian writer. (Applause).
MIR. Seymour, of the New 1or k Times
l-Who. Originated the word Bohemian,
as applied to the press?
| Mr.. Train-Young Whitty (son of NJ.
/ J.. Witty, of the Liverpool Journal and
Daily POSt), a brilliant writer whom l
metSin Australia in 1858, on the Mel
I bourne Argus. He published '"Fwo
Years in Bohemia" giving graphic
account of newspaper life, and the Saw
| age Club of London prides itself on its
| Bohemian reputation. Ny acquuint-
ance with the London Savage Club is
/ among the .pleasantest of my English
tlife. Without the live boys that COM
| poseit never could have got down my
| street railway. Every Sunday morn
ling at IL O'Clock my Round Table
! Breakfast became feature of London
literary society. Sixteen was the num-
| ber-aIl stars. Geo. Augustus Sala
| would sit opposite Dion Boucicault;
] Millais. the artist, with Tom Hood; the
poet; Horace Mayhem, of Punch, hob
| uobbing with my old friend George
/ Cruikshank; Edmund Yates, the bril-
liant novelist, whose prolific books are
on all our tables, chatting with the au-
/ thor of William Tell, that grind old
Irishman, James Sheridan Knowles.
! (Iipud cheers.) There was Paul Du
] Chaillon, taking off the gorillas; and
Burton, the great African traveller; DR..
Hayes, of franklin expedition tnme;
land Walter Thornbury, Blanchard Jer-
old and John Hollingshead. Verify,
twas brilliant acquaintance.
4 Imagine my surprise, the other day,
| to have IA sun-burnt, rough h-lookingc GUS
toner slap me on the shoulder in Farm
ham street, Omaha, with asalutation-
Train don't you know me?" Who
would have thought of meeting the
accomplished editor of the London
\ Atheneum, VIM. Hepworth Dixon,
| way out in this region. He had hrs
4 Mormon notes, with hitn, and again i
made my ack acknowledgements Tor six
column review of the first book OF
travels, sYouDg America Abroa d. !"
| [Applause.l ..7.-.........
Some time, gentlemen, If you will
| drop into my home in Madison avenue,
| New York, in the winter; my cottage at
| Newport, some summer day, or my
1 Nebraska residence mt Omaha, L will
| SNOW. You u lnOuSduu peLsOuul 1elleES
| from the leading literary men of Eu-
| rope Tapplause,l written to me during
| the rebellion. What a book of Bohe-
mian "reminiscences they would make!
! l believe I have as many yacquaintances
/ among the English journalists, as We'll
as the French, as L have in America;
| and take to myself the credit at my
| English banQueIs OF putting the Press
| toasIs next to the Queen, instead of tack
4 ing it on at the end, when everybody
/ is gone, and the lamps are getting him.
| loud applause.]
| - First in power the Press should be
4 first on the lists OF toasts. Hence Isay,
| maintain your rank-elevate your
| profession-put a high price upon
| yourselVes-write short, pithy editor
| ials, and remember that "whRtever is, !"
is wrong. (Laughter.) My first ex-
perience was II euology on the death OF
4 Webster, which Epes Sargent publish
ed in the Transcript. Then Colonel
| Greene, off the Boston Post, in 1883, used
to publish my letters from Australia;
i and in 1855 commenced the series OF
4 letters under young America, "Ior the
/ New YorklHerdLd, which were so wide
| ly copied. One day had sixteen col
i umns from the Indias, China, the Holy
\ Land, and the Crimea-which, L be-
lieve, is longer space than ever was
4 occupied by even a war correspondent
4 (Applause.) { Bennett WAS the first TO
4 bring me out and ma Ike me bohemian.
i The last time 1 saw him, was at,Wash-
ington Heights, week before the Chi
cago Convention, when L tried to have
him throw Mcclellan and go in for Dix
j and FaFraguL-the Army and the Navy
,l-drive France out of Mexico, and Eng
land off the sea. This was my platform
Il We pledge our lives, our fortunes and
.l.our sacred hOnors to maintain the
il Union, the Constitution and the Laws.
i cloud applAuse.) When in Paris, / was
correspondent otthe illustrated London
i NeiUS, and the Spectator; when In Rome
\ and Vienna, of Hunts Merchants
the London Times, Applause.1 So you
i see, gentlemen, am no chicken
among the Bohemians. loud cheers
The most ioyial. .cusses in Bohemia are
what we style the laughter creating Bo-
hemiails. >, oliver Wendell Holmes is
the autocrat among them-as well az
our American Tom Hood, Major Jack
Downing, belongs to our cIub2and
| George D.. Prentice still lives. lHear. ]
That Bigelow and. Sallie Ward pun
about a Wing pole and Democratic
t Ward, ism Bohemian gem. daughter. l
John Phpnix-poor Derby you remem
ber-dtscovered that Tom Bigbee run
down, [laughter,l and Arteuins Ward
asking his regiment .'f they ever had
| the measles-it so, how many" and
| his willingness to give all his relations
to his country. baughter.l These Boz
heniians were princes OF the blood. See
how the Savage clubtoOk him by the
hand and enibaIined this young Amer
| ican Bohemian. l5jH .A
| Then Mr.. Smith, there is your Fat
Il ConLributor-on the Cincinnati Times
the author of "Hunkidori,'' and who