Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-08-11

Resolued, That the stand pipes used on high
pressure boilerS on beats navigating rivers IA"
ling into the Gulfof Mexico and their tributaries
shall be male of the same matellal as ste i pipes
connecting the boilers" required ny me loth sec
ton of the Act of Congress apprOVeu august oO,
1852"
ResolDed, That the committee appointed oysthe
Board on the Sd of November, 1907. consisting OF
the members ofthe 4th, 9th, 9Th ana I'm alstr.cts
upon the subject of Rules IN regard 10 tne number
of deck passengers steamers may carry on voyages
of more than 500 miles, be continued, unavlew oil
the absence Of member OF SAID commtteel lor
report at the next meeting oil the hoaIu' on the
first Thursday in November next, at Cincinnati,
| Ohio.
.rnr HAnyEsr-F.ouR AND GRAM NARKET.-
The London correspondent OF the New York
Commercial, under date Of July 18th, notices the
favorable effect Produced III the stock marketsln
London and Paris by the peaceable news fiom
Russig and Turkey, says that it would have been
manifested in still stronger degree but for the
weather, especially i'll the South ofEngland, where
i, has been of character 10 excite considerable
nueasiness for the crops. The letter says:
| In some dist lets rain has fallen in quantities
Greater linn on any occasion recorded Tor more
than century, producing heavy floods That nave
not only swept off large quantities ofoutstandlng
crops, bit also inflicted great genera damage on
pronerty and been attended IN several instances
with loss of lie.
| In YORKSHIRE and Scotland, however, there mas
been no excess Of moisture, and the accounts nom
those paris ofthe kingdom are perfectly
Still the fact of the supply of whea; tbs year De-
ing certain to be much below an average seems 10
! be disputed by no one, and the consequence has
been a further state of excitement IN the gram
market, and another rapid advance in prices; the
wheat having Yesterday been freely sold at tlse OIL
Is. to IS. per quarter, upon the quotatlo!S 0ut
renLa VT elk ago. Whether this Improvement VIII
be iullyInantained may be doubted, butlt must
of course depend upon the reports oil the wsatner
! from day to dry, and the accounts received ton'
other counties. ~.
been still more rapid, but for the opinion generally
entertained that the stock OF old wheat in farmer
hands, throughout the country, are larger than at
any period during the preceding ~ yeaGs, the re-
cent prosperity of the largest anu most enletpH-
sing agrcultutSts having ehao'eu t"eii " t''N va
| for better prices. A.,
| From the continent the statements dIring the
mast week are less unfavorabe, the weather IRON
which England has suffered within the last lew
days having apparently VISITED france anu hustLa
n little earligI Nevertheless much anxiety IS evil
IDENTIFY maintained, and the hope seems 10 be not
that an abundant harvest cln be realized IN either
ofthose countries but that 1T may he sufficient tc
prevent actual famine or distress.
An imnor ant announcement has been received
also the prospects are far from encouraging. Ma
ples and Sicily usually produce not only enough
for their own wants, but likewise TO enable theIi
10 exporto large quantity, and in the most abun-
dant wears even 60 600 or 10000 quarters have
been from these countries by England alone: a
decree, however, has now been issued by the KING
of Naples, dated the 18th instant, prohibiting The
exnort of wheat, oats ano barley from that day
The export of Indian corn, beans anu other pulse
had been previously prohibited.
THE RECENT DUEL IN SouTn CAnoLINA.-Iht
Charleston papers maintain profound silence il
regard to the cause that led to The duel which tool
place near that CITY, last week. The Washing
ton Star, however, supplies the following particu
lars:-
awe learn from source in which we place
confidence that the very recent duel between
NTessrs. Dunovant and Davidson Legare, occur
ring in the vicinity of Charleston, grew out o
some difficulty about lady 10 whom the former |!
said to be engaged. Degare challenged, and Dun
ovant accepted the challenge, choosing pistols
distance three PAGES; the first fire to be determn
ed by toss up. Dunovant won it, and, OF course
shot his antagonist through the heart his pistol be
ing within five or six feet of LIS breast. TWAS
cold -blouded murder; the murdered man, howev
err deserving as little sy npahy as his executioner
for asserting to the terms which placed him, prac
lticaly ,slsarned, in such position. The ONLY
reason for regret connected wIththe affair 49, tina
Dunovant will go scot free of punishment so
such murder under the pretence OF fighting
due.'