The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-29
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

his hole and diagnosing bag OF corn.
A correspondent of the New York
Tribune ut Gettysburg asked the hotel
keeper how he was affected by the!
great battle. The battle" replied
mine host, "turned out well for Gettys-
burg. Hack drivin' and hotel skeepIns
are a bit more enconragin. III was diff
fcult to see what Providence set US
atWeen two fires for, but in look
in into our cash accounts we understand
Il all.m $50 tllL4 20
An Addendum to the John Brown
song runs thus
''Well bail Jeh. Davis with a hundred thou.
sand dollar bond,
With the names Of SeTnt Smith and Horace
And Ven least the gallant traitor when the
As We go marching on
The eccentric Henry S. Foote Las re-
opened law office in Nashville, and is
the bestowment OF the
elective franchise upon women, with a
good deal of zeal 1t is hardly neces<
sary to say that the genial old gentle
mans views find no very ready recep-
AAGh LuAE
the recent pronunciamentO OF Admiral
Semmes.
The Mobile Advertiser is very hard
on Northern historians. It says: "Ev-
north of the Potomac has
written history of the Rebellion and
they have mostly written as II they
were engaged in great national lying
match for the championship, and were
each determined TO win or break bis
neck in the attempt" How about John
Esten Cooke and E. A. PollardH
Albert Pike has performed one great
achievement. In recent editorial he
produced a single sentence OF 30 words
mas. II is said that Henry A. Wise
tainted away on reading the sentence.
Governor Worth, of North Carolina,
donned suit of Confederate gray;to
receive Pr esident johnson, at Raleigh.
A Worthy reception, but not clear
enunciation Of the axiom that worth
makes the man,
VallandIgham declines to deliver the
address at the Oxford { Missy College
We
he "never missed n meal" before.
Says the Springfield Republicans:
"Ben. Butler used to bully the regular
ofcers and his unredeemed Democratic
friends at Washington, last winter, by
telling them that when his opportunity
came he shonld pick out "A smart black
boy ard send him to West Point. Bias he
huE tRfg NhFanN nnlU nnRna
Il for effect, for he has selected son Of
Rev. j. @. Fletcher, OF Neburyport,
the brazilian traveller and lecturer, for
his representatives. the military acade
my.r
Last summer n well-known lady Of
New York stopped at the same hotel m
Baden Baden where the Duchess Of
Sutherland, with her son and daughter
were stopping. Instead of Saratoga
trunks, the Duchess much to the aston
of her American locker. on,
used only large English carpet bags,
In which to pack her clothes. And
would you believe it is possible, laid
the young lady, "they only wore willie
muslin dresses How was it possible
Duchess remained but Few days at
Baden Baden, and when she LEFT IL look
sixteen carriages to carry her, her ser
wants and her carPet-bagsi
"olivian gives us this paragraph in
her New York correspondents to the
Press. She is talking
about the new diamonds at Tihhny's:
"Here is tall, stately woman. dark
and swarthy as Cleopatra, with hair
lifted entirely from her brow, and n
braid, Just the least frosted, but thick
and heavy as ships cable, coiled
around her head, with heavy golden
row boats suspended from her ears In
place ofear-rings; a sky-blue silk petit
coat, with black silk over skirt, and
bracelets heavy and strong enough to
have chained Andromeda to the rock
from the beginning of time to sthis
day. She has taken OF her dainty kids,
and the wonder is, how did she manage
to get them on over these magnificent
She looks at the ESTER
hazy's;" she glances at her own Hash
ing hands, audth says; why these
don't compare with mine"
Any American must exult with her.
This daring remark has summoned
man from some unseen quarter like
magic, who says, you remember,
Mrs Bennett, you bought your dia-
moIds when we could afford 10 sell a
good single stone for sixteen or eighteen
hundred dollars in gold. This most
MISUNDERSTANDING woman Is Mrs.
James Gordon Bennett, of the New
York Herald.
The New York World says: 1t cannot
have escaped the attention OF the read
ers oirelIgious, as well as secular jour
mails. thar there Is in this country. and