The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-07-07
N0N.POLTTiCAL EVENTS IN TIL
sst4l NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Chances for EnierprlsIng Young Men
The Mexican OutIOOk- writers. and
IIoW They write. tftI

WAsHlSGToS, July |.
cOrespondsuceOI Of ths Cincinnati GSrette
Quite party Of enterpriSing gentlemen
are looking toward Mexico az a possible
field to make new fortunes or retrieve old
ones. The balance OF trade is at present
carried on with Mexico by European rner'
chants, who arc oxtortionate beyond be-
lief in their prices for the veriest triaes
and are active in spreading unfriend'
ly sentiments against the United
States among the lower class Of Mlexi.
cans. tEs&I- saI
In q printed interview with the Hon.
Saturnino Ayon, q member OF tho Mcxi-
can Congress, now in Washington, he
said these grasping merchants asked
twenty-five cents for one OF tho white
lawn ties for which we pay n quarter a
dozen. Snttsranging from Sl6 To so here
could not be purchased under $40 or $50
there. Tho Mexicaus arc weary OF such
rapacity, and tho better classes are anxious
to open trade with the United States. lie
says: "What Is needed Is a reciprocal treaty
that will admit our products at a low rate
OF duty, or let both countries exchange
products without duty. We could buy
from tho United States almost everything
We need In the line OF imported goods
We are nation OF 100000 OF people,
and 1t would be grand thing for the man.
utacturers aud merchants OF your country
to come In direct communication with rs.
We could supply you with the best coffee
in the world, as our coffee took the first
and second premiums at the Centennial.
We could supply you with sugar at lower
rates than Havana. The duty tax now
shuts out our sugars. Then there
are our tropical fruits; We could
furnish them at half the price
yon are now paying for them
and make money. We have thousands OF
varieties Of the finest woods and other
productions, which we would gladly ex.
change for articles Of American growth
and manufacture. We have no market
for these things now, ahd commercial re-
lations with this country would stimulate
our people to develop our country. Our
land Is stored with uutold wealth, yet are
We poor, because our riches arc undevel.
oped. Wcneed machinery. cotton, wooden
goods, cutlery, guns, pistols, Crockery ,trink.
cts, everything which now we can
get from Europe, at the highest prices and
cheapest grades We have shown our
kindly disposition toward the United
States, we have given subsidies to every
steamship line, granted subsidy Of S., 500
per kilometer to an American railroad
company, the railroad to be constructed
across tue lsthmus OF TehuantepeC, the
President thereof hailing from New York
City. In spite OF all disadvantages, our
trade with the United States is increasing,
Last last year being s7,5oOOO0, against S5,OOO,-
600 ot the year previous"
A.. r ANECDOTES OF AUTHORS, o.
Speaking Of authors moods and meth.
ods OF writing, my informant said, q great
deal OF brilliant work has BEEN done at |
dash and is still done. Dumas, the elder,
was wont TO take up his pen without
knowing what he was going 10 write, but
the contact with paper aroused him, as
other people are excited by music or the
clash Of arms. Alfred dc Musset never
felt the divine aillatus until he had cover.
ed Ave or six sheets with fanci.
tul designs, and drank absinlhe
enough TO get any brain on
fire. Byron wrote "The Corsair" in |
ten days, ut the rate OF 200 lines day, and |
sent 1t to press without correction. Dick.
ems, when he wished to write story, shut
himself up for weeks, and lived the life OF
a csmit, emerging from his confinement
a haggard shadow OF himself. Tom Moore, |
with all his volatile wit and sparkle,
thought himself fortunate to add seventy
lines week to "Lalla Rookh," although |
absenting himself from society for the pur-
pose OF composing in quietudc. Lope de
Vega wrote three hundred dramas
for the stage in as many days,
Just as the modern athlete walks as
many miles in SO many hours. It is
estimated his average work was nine hun
dred lines a day. Elizabeth Barrett Brown.
ing wrote "Lady Geraldine's Courtship"
in twelve hours. Albany Fonblanque
often rewrote his articles in the Examiner
six, nay sometimes ten times before he
deemed them worthy OF seeing print 1t
is said Hepworth Dixon rewrote his 1.-TWO |
Queens" eight times, and Kinglake's ex.
quisite "Eothen" was rewritten six times |
and then kept In his desk almost as long
as Wordsworth kept 1.-THE White Dove
OF Rylstone." which was taken out
for revision and correction every
day for months. Prosper Merimee |
usually commenced his stories ut
the end, and after having collected suffi-
Cient denouements he sketched in the |
beginning. Victor Hugo composed his
works while rambling about Guernsey or
Paris, and after allowing the material 10
be thought ont and polished to maturity
for year, more or less, he would sudden
ly seize a pen and finish the perfected
thoughts at a sitting. His dramas have
all been written nin'less than fortnight,
and sometimes ne would write an entire
act in verse in single day, but the ideas
had been through seasoning OF months.
THE ENGLISH POET LAUREATE,
Tennyson Is tircless toier over his
MSS, spending days, 1t Is said, over sin
gle line, sometimes. Many OF his poems
have been entirely rewritten; his first
copy hardly related to the one sent finally
to the printer. His apparently easy, natli.
raj flow of language has been purchased
with the utmost pains. He Coniesses that
sometimes 1t is agony for him to write,
and yet he takes pleasure in the agony
which adds fresh laurels to his fame. Like
all the irritable kind, he is variable and
moody, especially in composition, one
day doing FIVE times as much as
another, aud sometimes finding it
impossible TO write. His method p, OF
compositionis extremely slow, being built
word by word as mason rears a house,
except that the poet takes infinite more
pains Of the two. His song, "Come into
tho Garden, Maud" ] have been told was
written fifty times before It pleased him,
and cost him more thought and labor than
any other Of the same length he has ever
written. "Locksley Hall" he wrote in two
days, and then occupied eight hours for
nearly six weeks in altering and polishing
it. He regards "Idyls OF the King" his
best production, and 'The Princess" next.
tsu&SRa AND TESSysoN.
Speaking Of "The Princess" reminds me
of q story told by Mr.. Tennyson OF the
late Senator Sumner. The last time Sum-
ner was abroad he visited Farring'ord,
Tennyson's home on the Isle OF Wight,
both men being acquaintanees Of long
1 4 ~