Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-05-23
ITEMS OF NEWS.

Capt. Peter tlowery, OF the schooner Spit
fire, has been indicted at Boston for being en-
gagged in the slave trade.
Dixon III. Lewis, not the big Alabama Sena-
ator, but full blood Choctaw, is preaching at
Natchez.
The German Reformed Congregation of
Frederick, Md, are about to build new and
elegant church.
Hon. John Gilmore, of Butler, Pennsylva.
MIA, formerly member of Congress, died on
the IL tn instant.
The crops of wheat and rye i'm Adams coun-
ty, Pa, never presented fairer prospect than
they do at present.
Immense quantities of herring are now ia
keu in the Delaware: three hundred Thousand
Theodore Pennoyer and William Dean, ar
rested on suspicion of being implicated in the
Hoboken murder, have been examined and dis.
charged, nothing having been found against
them.
The Marine Hospital at Cleveland, is al
length about being commenced. Major H. S.
Webb, formerly of the U. s. Army, has been
appointed agent TO superintend the erection.
Forty-fivc thousand dollars, old Spanish
coin, have recently heen dug from the earth, at
a place on the East bank of the Altamaha riv-
er, about five miles below the junction of the
Ocmulgee and 0conee, in Tatnall county, Ga,
and divided between the discoverer and his
relative, poor widow who owned the land
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE-ASOTHER CITY
IN RUlNS.-Alligator City, situated on Bayou
Catfish, not far from the beautiful bay of
crosse Tete, Louisiana, wss'entirely consul
med by fire few days since, The Plaquemine
Gazette states, that the city contained one
dwelling, made OF picket slabs, ten by twelve,
the roof fallen in, and the family consisting
OF man, hound and jug of whisky had
lett the premises one year before the disaster
None OF the furniture was saved except pick
ct stool that stood under tree some distance
OIL. Supposed to be the work of an incen-
diary"
ACCIDENT TO THESTEAMER lola
In coming out of the Iowa river on Friday last
the steamer lola ran upon sunken log, which
broke between thirty and forty of her hull tim
bers and caused her to spring leak i'm sever
al places. She had on board at the time a
large lot OF wheat belonging to a Mr.. Holt, of
Iowa city; six or eight hundred bushels Of it
were badly damaged, and the boat was only
saved by being run upon sand bar. where
she put out her cargo, stopped the water i'm her
hold then started down, and arrived here YES
terday morning. st. Louis Ne,o Era.
~''O%N OCtIllo W ulSCOultendnCe the
idea that any special minister will be sent TO
England to negotiation on the Oregon ques-
ton. In allusion to remark of the Charles
ton Mercury, which we quoted the other day,
1t declares itself quite willing TO leave the
trouble and honour of the negotiation to MIR.
BUcHANAN, and adds:-"We presume that the
negotiation is really resumed, and will be pro-
secuted in this city, and not in London. to
some definite cOnclusion-peaccably we
should hope; but we wish for no peace but am
honorable peace"
In another paragraph the Union refers to the
suggestion which has been made of leaving
the decision of the question to arbitration,
and says:
We understand that Mr.. Calhoun declined
TINS proposition when made by the British
minister-and declined it, it is said, upon
grounds OF the strongest character. We are
content TO wait for the publication of the doc.
ument with the general remark, that il is
seldom, II ever, that the umpifage ola third
power has been able tosettle satisfactorily the
controversy between two States i'm relation to
disputed territory"