The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-02-08
From New York.
7Orrespondenoe W7eelf'.0 Intelltgenoer

= Correspondence Wheeling Hstelligencer
NEW YORK, Feb. 8.
The political horizon is moderately
clearing in this city of Gotham. The
trouble between young DIR. Tying and
the authorities of his church is still the
topic of conversation in all religious
circles.
p DIR, Blanchard lectured last Sunday
afternoon to fine audience on Fifth
Avenue, and laid down a platform very
nearly the same as that on which
Thomas Paine stood. Mr.. Frothing-
ciety, speaks in very high terms of
that pioneer of free thought.
For about week the sleighing in
and around New York has been de-
lightful, and the skating all that could
be desired. The Kinks are doing a fair
business. On some of these, medals
gold ones, think Of that have been
given for first-class skating; N. Morris,
OF Jersey city, has actually carried the
prize business so far as to give a leath-
er medal to the worst skater on his
beautiful pond.
We are now blessed with a new let
ter carrier system by which our drop
letters are collected and delivered sew
eral times daylight up town and
nine down town.
The failures in this city for the week
ending last Saturday night were but
ten, of which two were wholesale
houses, whose liabilities were only
about 500, 1000.
Since the disclosures in the ship
LEIPZIG affair, and the publication of an
abstract of the German Society's re-
port, there has been much feeling eX-
pressed here among the Germans in
| regard to the treatment received by
emigrants on the Hamburg packets.
Philip Bissniger, fine, whole souled
gentleman, for some years President
of that society, has been again elected,
and is now preparing an important
emigrant bill to be presented to Con-
gress. This bill provides for the Sc
curing of certain privileges to passen-
gers, which they have never yet en-
joyed, and will tend, If passed, to pro-
tect that unfortunate class, emigrant
passengers, from the barbarous treat
ment of ship owners and ship officers.
Next in order will come movement to
change the existing order of things on
the railroads leading from New York
TO the West, whose emiRrant passen-
gers suffer almost as much as they do
on the ocean voyage.
The International Copyright Associa-
ton held a meeting a few nights ago to
consider the practicability of apply
llsh authors in the United States. The
passage of such ii law, they think, will
influence the action of the British par
Lament, and induce them to protect
American authors in Great Britain.
In opposition to this move comes a
carefully prepared pamphlet, by II. c..
Carey, of Philadelphia, in which the
veteran political economist argues
strongly in favor of the free trade in
literature. The bill now in Congress
will not cover the demands of the New
York publishers, who favor an inter-
national copyright law, but will prob
ably be amended this week.
The theatres are thriving. Niblo's
presents the White Fawn, nightly, to
crowded houses. Lolita is doing Little
Neel" at the Broadway; WalIack's is
nourlshlng as usual; the Minstrels
sing and dance and play bur-
lesques without any sign of giving
over; and the Siren, monopoly,
and Barnum's another monopoly, are
making fortunes for their proprietors.
we have much music this winter at
the Academy and at Steinway's, gene
rally of the very best. Several readers
are before the public since Dickens de-
parture, but have not drawn very well,
although Vandenhof, Eytlnges and
one or two others, are really superior
to the great Englishman as elocution-
lists.
The ladies are all ordering Celadon
dresses and coral jewelry. Celadon is
dull sea-green-a mixture of pea
green and orange color-something
like the tint of brown Kittens eye in
a coal cellar, or the lamps in Blocker
street car after twelve O'Clock. 1t is a
pretty color for those who like it, and
as Miss McFlimsy, of Madison square,
affects it, it must, therefore, become
popular.