Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-05-09

ed this disastrous suspension. N times compar-
atively prosperous we areat loss TO imagine.
Messrs. J. ID. * H.. Smih, of this State, is
sued the following notice:
ITO THE PUBLIC-A CARD.
5 "The undersigned havebsen compelled to
: stop payment Tor the present.. OF the causes
which have produced this result we are igno-
rant, as they are conneded with, and have
grown out OF another branci Of our business
at Cleveland, and the Bank # ST. Clair at De-
{ troit. We are yet unadvisd whether or not
the Bank has suspended. Owing to these cir
cumstances and our ignoraice of the extent
and nature of the causes of our difficulties we
have felt it our duty to clos our doors for the
present, with the assurance to the communi-
~ that every thing within cr means and pow
er shall be done, in good faith, TO do Justice to
our creditors. J. & Ii. SMITH"
|! MAY 3, 1915.
The following piece OF ribaldry from the
Pittsburgh Post, uttered low when the pas
slons of a violent canvass AVE subsiiad, can
not fail to shock every MAJ of whatever party
ne may be. Ii the shadesof private life can
not shelter the venerable statesman from Just
criticism upon his actual errors, at least some
recollection OF his forme' services, some GEN
erous reverence for his exalted fame, identified
as IL Is with the renown of our country, might
have forbidden the most reckless pen from
writing such coarse unmerited abuse as this:
CS-lt is truly edifying to witness the pious
feeling that now animates Mr.. Clay, and per-
haps there is room for hope that he no longer
INDUCES In those pleasant vices that but a
snort time since impellco the editor of the
Gazette to d%enounce him in such strong terms.
Mr.. Clay has been noted for his love of what
IN polite language is called sporting, but in
more common p~arlance is designated gam
ding. Indeed, he is set down BY an author
who has seen much of western life, as the in
ventor oil the celebrated gambling game called
poker, and from the skill with which he PLAYS
1t, all will admit that if he is not the author of
the game he is worthy to be. But we have
grounds to hope that Mr.. Clay will play poker
no more; he will no longer terrify his oPpo-
pocket the money by a graceful display of a
FLUSH" or a "full." If the letter which was
published in the Gazette of Saturday can be
relied on, Mr.. Clay has ''got religion and
will hereafter devote his leisure moments to
something more praiseworthy than "blufing"
his sporting companions.
From this letter we learn that the only thing
that disturbs Mr.. Clay's mind at present, and
that gives him ''much real concern and pain, :"
Is a "menaced separation of the church." He
speaks teelingly on the subject and if the pain
iui event should take place no one doubts but
Mr. Clay would deplore it deeply.
CT We extract the following true and ap-
posite remarks from the Marion Pinear.
THERA1L ROAD BILL-which was be-
lore the Legislature of Pennsylvania granting
to the Baltimore and Ohio Company the Right
oil way through that State. has been indefinite
ly postponed-which is equivalent TO a flat
refusal 10 accede TO the prayers of the petition
ers. We should have mentioned this i'm our
last.
This act induces us to believe that the Com.
pany can expect nothing from Pennsylvania
and that 1t will avail itself Of the provisions
oil the law passed i'll its favor, last winter, BY
o"r state Legislature, granting it the Right OF
way making Wheeling the terminus of the
route we congratulate our friends in this
section OF the Old Dominion, and also the
citizens of Wheeling, on the favorable prospect
before them to have the Railroad completed
through the Northwest, and to terminate at a
point so eligible and advantageous to them.
n sympathetic appeal Of Pittsburg, at q
hme when desolation had swept away its fair
est AMI best part, was calculated to accelerate
and incline the action of the Legislature i'm lis
favor; but the vote on the postponenent of the
Bill was prompt and decisive. Ii was not
and cannot be unknown TO Eastern Pennsyl-
vania ,~thatany other course would have brought
down on Philadelphia, and some other cities
a rum much greater and more durable than the
lamentable calamity which has happened Ia
Pittsburgh. In the very face of the liberal
} sympathy extended to the citizens of Pitts.
burgh By Philadelphia, their appeal to the
Legislature appeared to us to smack of selfish.
ness and illiberality; for, while sufrerings OF
the former are but temporary, and are bein,
relieved almost entirely, the permanent iniur,
may, ruin-of the latter would he conslm
mated in a few years. We, therefore. assur,
our frien Is, and the friends of the presen
Idgdtized route, that they have nothing to fea
from the action of PENNSYLVANIA and that the
Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company mus
either make Wheeling the terminus of theiI
road, or stop it at Cumberland.
ANTLRENTERS SENTENCED-We on
r gratiiied to learn through a letter from Delhi +,
the Editor Of the ALBANY Ryeninp Journal
that some OF the A~nti-rcnters are receiving In,
just reward of their outages in DelaVyar,
county. Knapp, Kelly, Burnett and Tompkin
four of the insurgents. have been fried an,
found guilty. On the 30th ult. the prisoner,
lall Dut Nelly were sentenced TO the State
Prison Tor two years, and the Sheriff immedi
atcly started with them for Sing Sing. Kell,
was simply fined two hundred and fifty dol
lars.
The Down-rentcrs Of Delaware are dispiritec
and sad over this misfortune in their business
and their unholy combination is probabl,
broken up entirely.
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