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Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-10-22
WHEELING.
sPRING OF 1888.
g WIN. T. sELBY.s
WHOLESALE DEALER IN

Foreign g. DOmestic Dry Goods,
No. III Main ST., West side, bettveen Monroe ana
Union sts.
Wheeling, Va,
7 S NOW in receipt his Spring stock OF Dry Goods
u md Notions direct from Importers and ManuacIu.
sSS cOmpIsng as complete and desirable stock
IN any hou'e Eastor West, to which would respectfully
inVlte the attention OF retail dealers consisting
-. - ais DRESS GOODS. 'sft-
In black silks alpecas ropns, lawns, delaines, ginr.
hams, etc with very large stock ofprnts of the best
other trimmings in variety ANA of N
MEMS WEAR -i-.t-' g t|'H
In cloths, cassimeTs, sattinetts nerino cassin,eres
jeans, twees, and summer clOthst also Coonades De
MIS- blue drills, brown nens linen drills namkeens nmJ
other such goods very assisabe sssortment Also.
WOOL brash hats etc with full Of linen and cot
baggng seamless bags buraps, table diaper crash
drilings iickings Cheeks shiTting, strpes eic bro
and beached mHsllns; with good stock OF while eooIs
"'t-,,s Ill NOTION LINE. s4l,i f,1.d ,t.t
cambrcs jacouets Irish linens, laces Threads but
tons, hosiery, gloves, combs ETC., in all their variety
My whole will be found unsurpassed, as in
quality and style, as in prices. :s y. = .lIi5
maT25 W.T.. SELBY.a
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DAGUERREOTYPE GALLERY.

DAGUERREOTYPE GALLERY.
A. C.. PARTRID6sEein H invites
E5GIIX6 attention to his Daguerrean Rooms, and
SSzEH Apparatus now the result OF yoars OF
S$HAkSStN experience and close application to tho
eSEl&HI S8slP art. Confident that he now combines
~ in his establishment all OF the improve
ments which time ard proper have proven valuable,
promise to produce Llkenesses ait INC
beauty and perGsotion which has yet oeeh
Daguerrean process. -. l., ,,;., ~,
For the attractive and commodlous style IN WIch ms
are fitted up he invites public TO call and eXam
inc for themselves His Cabinet OF Specimens are always
open for inspection. - 3.
Lkenesses taken in all kinds OF weather, shsy, o III
prons: also most more taken at
5-A well stock tcrals-Chcmcals plates,
cases, IOckets, &C., always on hand and for SALE
Rooms. No. SO Monroe ST., near the POST oihee
nOvf9 -...
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-e-A7nIOND MONDAY, DECEMBER II. 1853. PRIC

In Offering this resolution, Mr.. SKINNER submit
ted few remarks upon the usefulness OF the insti
tution and the propriety disseminating information
with regard to IL
ny Mr.. kEMpER.-Into the expediency of pre-
scribing more rigorous and efficient measures to
prevent the circulation OF notes under the demon.
lnatlon OF 50; and also as to requiring commission
ers OF the revenue before issuing licenses to
chants 10 take the oath not to receive circulate
notes Of said denominations
by Mr. MINoR.-Into the expediency of authoris-
ing the payment out of the treasury of the July
1898 ana January 1854 interest on the bonds of the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal company.
Mr. WALLACE called up the resolution offered by
Mr. HANCOCK of Charlotte, relative to suspending
the rule OF the House which authorses the Speaker
70 appoint member to ill the chair in his absence
Tor only three days; and the same having been
amended on Mr.. WAELAcE's motion, 30 as to sus-
pend the rule tor the space of ten days, it was
adopted.
MIR. WHITE presented the petition of members
OF the bar OF Richmond for increase of the salary
OF the attorney for the tn the circuit
court of said city.
Otherpettions of local and private nature were
presented.
Mr.. MARTz, with an appropriate allusion to the
recent bereavement of Mr.. Speaker CRUTCHFIELD d,
In the death of his esmable wife, offered the fol.
lowing resolutions which were unanimously adopt
ed
ResoIued That having heard with the most pro-
found regret of the decease of Mrs. GRUTCHFIELD,
the consort of OSCAR NJ. CRUTcHFIELD, Esq, the
Speaker OF this House, we tender to him our most
serious and heartfelt coincidence for this sad be-
reavement
Resolved That the Clerk of this House commu-
nlcate the foregoing resolution to the Speaker.
ReSoIued, That a manifestation of our respect
and sympathy tor our presiding officer this House
DO now adjourn.
And therefose the House adjourned
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- 'l-s--
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS

Saturdays Whig condemns, in strong terms the
report ofthe Secretary OF the Treasury character.
izing it as the most stupid document that ever
enanated from the Treasury Department. We
observe also an editorial investigation into the
of the sudden failure of the crop of pres,
men in the Democratic party of Virginia" A few
years ago. 1t alleges, 1t would have been thought
an especial wonder some score or more of plain
country gentlemen, hitherto unknown to fame and
emulous only of representing the confiding con-
stituency who sent them to the Legislature did
not wake up some morning and find that the En-.
qairer had rendered them famous the night before
Neither is the decrease of great men confined alto.
sether TO the country members The gentlemen
Of the Spartan band have likewise suffered. The
Uh[g concludes:
Has the creative power of the Enquirer waned
or doesn't 1t mean TO give US our accustomed sun
ply of famous menl Has the raw material depre-
cIated, or did the magic power of transmutation
pass away when the Napoleon OF the press laid
down his penn
Weprotest against the thought Have not the
various ardent youths who stand ready to be
crowned as good right to expect the Enauirer's
bensen as that long file of Democratic worthless in
days gone by, whose fame was made known to the
world through thepotential notes OF the Enouirers
trumpet. Alas for the degeneracy OF the times!
fhe Mail has isome words to those Wings who re-
fused to vote for Gen. Scott and went bodily over
to the camp of the enemy and who, after all, did
not make much by the operations for the thing they
feared Scott might do, Pierce has done. The Mail
gives its hand to the honest among the boilers,
who have resumed their position in the Wing
ranks and then goes to prove that the course of
the Administration has given wide spread dissatis-
faction.
The Enquirer, under the head of "a Judicial
Precedent" administers pretty severe castigaton
to Judge Hudson, of the Greenbrer circuit, for
his charge to the jury relative to small notes 1t
would have been an instructive spectacle, it says
TO have seen the Judge pass sentence on crimi-
nal after such confession. 1t was most clearly
his duty to instruct the jury to arraign all offenders
of the law, himself not excepted. The statute is
clothed with all the dignity aud armed with all the
sanctions of the most solemn enactment; and pub
lie disposition to disregard the law uakest incum-
bent the judiciary to define it with more pre-
cision and enforce it with more vigor. No enact
ment will suppress the circulation of small notes.
if the Judge connive at the offence, and instruct
the jury to spit upon" the law.
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DISCOVERING IRON.-In Mr. Williams


lumber yard 9TH street. adjoining the foundry of
Messrs. Pae Il Sampson, fine bed of iron has been
discovered within few days past and by the remov-
al of the lumber been disemboweled from its place
of concealment. We do not mean to be understood
that the article in it's natural state has been brought
light but that several hundred pounds of almost
every description, stolen by Henry Jones, free me-
gro, employed at the foundry, concealed by two
Dicks and Tom, the servants of Mr.. Williams and
portion hauled off by John Hill, belonging to Mr.
Woodson, has been dragged forth and restored its
lawful owners These four negroes, from all that
be gathered, have been carrying this game of
steal and hide for twelve months during which time
it is at all improbable that ton after have been
trifed off by them. In the lumber yard on Satur-
day morning last, two barrels and hogshead of old
iron steel, TOOLS parts of machinery and brass
discovered stored away end another barrel found
in the street, not far from Mr. Williams gate The
proof being conclusive that Henry Jones stole the
iron and put it through the foundry window into Mr.
WIS yard, and that the two Dicks, Tom and John
Hill aided in concealing and disposing of it, the May
or ordered each of them thirty-nine stripes The
traffic in old iron is carried very extensively III
this city, and persons who have heretofore thought
essly been in the habit of buying it from negroes
supposing they came honestly by it. may save them
selves from disagreeable consequences in future by
bearing in mind the fact that they have no right to
purchase any thing from slaves who have not the
written consent of their masters to make sale.
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CASH TERMS or AnvFpTTsTr,
STEAMER AUeusr. r.-ap.y

DRg.np,tv . - A. BURSTING" OF A
consfaJns - sfoKY-on Friday afternoon. ouise
tbaf was created in our good cty Sy ssor1
way frer Augusta had burst her boiler on bsr
na9 ! ga orfoik to Port WalthaIf: and - .ha Al
fI arrive at her destination on Thur.Ssx w
sions Of ss.LIed down into aspect Ptruth. Vi
syrating ana arms smoke pipes and boiler plate..
s5rsL.s ~ sFafeagh the air, intermingled with tbe
dalgad ~ VI wounded and dying humanity. wers IN.
tur5 and ~ hose whose minds take an ina snstiys
to Accom-. newspaper reporters turned the matter
granb @ oy giving to their readers frat rate nars
fear. sons huroay. All approached the subject with
hat the ssorv induging hope and even belief
pleasure tb.l was qnfounded- Therefore il 10 with
nsrs.s 'eat we publish this morning the foIloving
s.Tbap pa front rom the Norfolk Argus Of Saturday.
Ricbnnae Steamboat Augusta did not make her trip tn
sora Sa Yesterday, being detained here 10 repair
nos;,;aa aaase to her rudder. She win resume her
Norfolk 0' aeA1 regular day tor leaving
anas endeth this fearful story. Happilv for N.
little steamer. happily for the isrs and arms
pTnce pipes and machinery, and happily for smith.
worse calamity A''e 70 record no
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A MAGICAL DUET ON THE GUITAR

Bonnet, in his Histoire de la Musique, gives the
following extraordinary account of mathemati-
clan, mechanician and musician, named Alrx, who
lived at AK, in Provence, about the middle of the
seventeenth century:
Alix, after many years study and labor, succeed
ed III constructing an automaton figure, having the
shape OF a human skeleton which, by means of
concealed mechanism, played, or had the appear
OF playing, on the guitar The artist after hav
ing tuned perfect unison the two guitars placed
one in the hands of the skeleton, i'll the proper posi-
tion for playing, and on a calm summer evening
having thrown open the window OF his apartment,
he fixed the skeleton with the guitar in its hands in
position where it could be seen from the street
He then taking the other instrument seated him
selti in an obscure corner of the ROOM and com
menced playing piece OF music, the passages of
which were faithfully repeated echoed by the
guitar held by the skeleton, at the time the
movement OF its wooden fingers, if really execu-
ting the music completed the allusion. This strange
musical feat drew crowds around the house of Alx
and created the greatest astonlshment But alas !
for the iliated artist this sentiment chang
ed in the minds the ignorant multitude into the
most superstitious dread. rumor arose that Alx
was sorcerer and in league with the devil. He
wOs arrested by order OF the parliament of Pro-
vince and sent before their criminal court La
Chambre de la Tournelle. to be tried on the capital
charge of magic or wtchcratt. In vain the ingeni-
Gus but unfortunate artist sought to convince his
judges the only means usedto i've apparent vitality
TO the fingers OF the skeleton were wheels, pueys,
and other equally unmagical contrivances, and
that the marvellous result produced was nothing
more criminal than the solution OF problem in
mechanics. His explanations and demonstrations
were either not understood or failed of convincing
his stupid and bigoted judges, and he was con-
demned as a sorcerer and magician. This iniqui.
tous judgment confirmed by the parliament of
Province which sentenced him to be burned alive
in the principal square of the city together with
the equally innocent automanton figure, the suppos-
ed accomplice in his magical practices. This in
famous sentence was carried into execution in the
year l664 the great satisfaction and edlheaon OF
al the faithful and devout inhabitanes of AK.
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SENATE.
iourned.
SATURDAY.

SATURDAY, Dec. 10, 1853.
Mr.. SMITH, from the committee on banks, report
ed bill to incorporate the Commercial savings
bank of the city of Richmond.
Mr. THOMPSON from the committee agricul-
ture and commerce, reported bill to incorporate
ssthe Virginia State agricultural society"
The above bill was read the first and ordered
TO he read second time. On motion of Mr.. THoMP
SON. the rules were suspended-the Constitution
requires threehlths vote-and the bill passed to
its engrossment and third reading: ayes 80, noes o.
The capital is to be not less than five thousand
more than two hundred thousand dollars, with the
right to hold lands not exceeding one thousand
acres.
Resolutions of inquiry were proposed by
Mr. MARTIN, incorporating company TO con-
struct turnpike road from the Monument on the
Cumberland road, up the Valley OF Wheeling creek
to the PenGsylv lvania line.
Mr. HARRIS, inquiring IL any additional legisla-
ton is necessary the better to regulate the inspec-
ton Of -four.
Mr. CAMPBELL, constructing plank road from
some point on the Danville railroad near Scohelds,
to Moores Store in the county OF Lunenburg.
Mr. WARD constructing graded road from
Wyoming courthouse by way OF the Walnut Gap,
TO the Logan and kanawha road.
Mr. WARD, Incorporating the Ashton institute in
the county OF Jackson.
Mr.. FUSsrEN, TO amend the charter Of the medical
college OF the Valley.
| Mr. Thomas amending the act concerning births,
ma -riages and deaths, to impose q fine on
| ministers failing to comply with its provisions.
| Mr.. MARTIN, inquiring what legislation Is neces
sarv in regard to re assessment OF the lots and
lands Oft the Commonwealth.
| MIR. FUNsrEN, incorporating the Virginia explor
| ing and mining company.
| Mr.. SHACKELFoRD presented the memorial o.
| James w. Green
| Mr. BALDWIN, presented the memorial of Dunlop
Moncure & Co, to improve certain lands in Henri
| co for wharf purposes
| Mr. JONES presented the petition of James E
| Watson, attorney for the Commonwealth tor the
| city of Petersburg, asking for an increase of com
pensation.
On motion of Mr.. BARNETT, the Senate ad
jeurned.
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n INOIUN AND UHIU KAILROAD.-Propo-
sais viii be received st the Office of the Covingtou
ANA Ohio Railroad in Coviugton, until the 18th of
about seventy yve miles of the above road of which
the eastern portion, comprising fifty miles, lies next
west OF Coyinston; and the western portion, consist
ing of about twenty-five miles, lies between the
kanswha River and the mouth of the Big Sandy. A
large share OF the work TO be et-includng bridging
aud fuuneihng-ls heavy and desirable, and is wen
worthy the attention OF responsible contractors The
western sections Of the above work are now ready
fer examination and the eastern portion will be pre-
pared for inspection by the 9Th of December.
Further information may be obtaiued on applica-
lion at the companys offices at Coyington and Guy
sndoGte. By order of the Board
CHARLES B. FISK. Chief Engineer
n B.-The Board of Public Works of Virginia,
under whose direction the Covington and Ohio Rail-
Toad IS 10 be constructed, State account, will
st Covington the 18th of December, above named,
fer the pGrpose of receiving and acting the propo-
sa.s that may then be offered.
Nov 49, 1855 19 t15dec
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HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
PRAYER by the Rev. Mr.. DEFoRREsr.

Prayer by the Rev. Mr.. DEFoRREsr
Committees were called for reports and some
bills of private character were reported.
A number of resolutions were adopted and ap-
propriately referred: among them the following:
Ry Mr.. .koINER,-Into the expediency of ncorpo-
rating the bank of Augusta.
BY Mr.. WHITE.-Into the expediency Of report
ing bill for the Improvement OF the Pamunkey
river.
BY Mr.. RENIcK.-Into the expedieney of impro-
wing the navigation of the Greenbrier river from
the Greenbrier bridge on the Covngton and Ohio
railroad, to some point in pocahontas
BY Mr.. Ksox.-lnto the expediency OF increasing
the capital OF the Roanoke Valley railroad compa.
ny, by SUM not exceeding $4,000 upon the three
and two-fiiths principle.
By Mr. HAYmoND.-lnto the expediency of 60
amending the chapter OF the Code relative TO suits
for defamation, as to prescribe more particularly
what words are actionable.
By Mr. sKINsER.-For printing $500 copies ofthe
report of the board of visitors of the Institution for
the deaf and dumb, and the biiud.
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FIRE IN MAscHEsrER.-A few minutes

after o'clock last Saturday morning, the large two
story frame house the Western suburbs of Man
chester, occupied by Mr. Joseph H. Gibbs,
pl0yee IN the Cotton Factory, and owned by Wm. L.
Martin OF Chesterfield was discovered to be fire.
Mr. Meredith, gentleman working but short dis
tance, and some i've six other persons seeing the
dames hasened to the hsuse, aud by great exertion
though much of it was injured in the removal. The
building burned to the ground, there being but
few persons it, and they almost helpless for
want of water. The fire, Mr.. Gibbs thinks, must
have communicated from the Western chimney, o"-
ing possibly to some imperfecton. Mr. Martin. we
understand, was fully insured. Mr.. Gibbs had no IN
his property.
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RE-ssGAGEmEsr OF MRs. HowARp-We

" .
delighted inform the friends of the drama that
the Richmond pet, Mrs Howard, has been re-engag-
ed and that she appears tonight in the admirable
Lind" As Lady Teazle," we shall expect some
thing of superior order, for the character is one
most admirably adapted to the mind and talent of
strength OF the company, who fully able to do
the most ample justice to the author. AS Jenny
Leatherlungs," in Jenny Lind,' Mrs. Howard
cannot be approached. Every word, thought and
GESTURE is in perfect keeping with the character she
personates, and the audience may easily lose sight
OF the ideal before them, and imagine tor the time
that the real Jenny Leatherungs" is within their
view. Let the house be crowded, them by those who
appreciate good acting and fine comedy.
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THE CLA1RvoYANcE CASE IN NEW YoRK.-It is
needless for to repeat any OF the particulars OF
the arrest of Dr. John K. Seymour, In New
York, for fraudulently obtaining deed OF house
and lot from Mr.. John r. Stuyvesant. Ut appears
that Mr.. Stuyvesant who was member of the
wealthy family of that has LETT wife and two
children residing in PoushkeepsieQ On Thursday
last the examination of the was to have come
of. Counsel on both sides Were in attendance, but
Mr.. stuyvesant did nos make his appearance. Sub
sequently ulesseger arrived, stating that Nh atuy
vesant was dead; that he expired that morning at
six O'Clock of Asiatic cholera At first the counsel
could not believe the story and thought 1t joke,
until informed of It's truth by relative OF the de-
ceased, A rumor was put in circulation that the
death Of Mr. S. was the result OF suicide; and the
coroner forthwith prohibited the burial until ali in
yestigation could be made.
The counsel for the prisoner of course moved a
discharge, when the judge, being satisfied OF the
death ofthe complainant, and there being no other
witness, ordered Seymour to be set at liberty 1t
Is certainly strange affair throughout
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Foul PLAY--An organ grinder, who was recent
" in scottsville is supposed to have been murder
ed. He was last seen gambling with party of men
in Buckingham subsequently, his hat and organ
were found on the bank OF the river the music Of
the organ was hushed, and the grinder was gone
Whether he became disgusted with playing foul
mu sic, and threw away his hurdy-gurdy, or wheth
er foul play has been practiced uron him. is nnys-
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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS That -
-, the undersigned, do appoint --, -
IN - name , to vote on all questions that may be
brought before the meeting of the Stockholders of
the Redmond and Danville Railroad Company to
be held at Richmond on Wednesday, the 14th day
of December, 1883, at any adjourned meeting
thereof hereby ratifying all the acts OF - said at
torney III the premises. as fully as If - were pre-
sent and voting in person.
In testimony whereof, - have heTeunto affixed
- hand i, this - day of -.
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C1ruvEs ON RA1LRoADs-lNvEHTEoN ADAPTED
Tn r4EM.-We learn from the Leesburg Hashtng-
toniau. that Col. TIMOTHY TAYLOR, OF Loudoun,
noenber of the present House OF Delegates, has in
vented plan by which the safety and facility of
cars in passing short curves on railroads. are great
ly promoted. The invention, we learn is pronoun-
ced valuable one by scientific men The plan is
TO give each wheel separate axle and 1t is claim
ed by the inventor that it is cheaper and better eve
~ way than the present plan.
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lRoTTING-One of the most nros+ah1o

n the city to her treasury is that of tyott;no
,; OF aa cray horses through the Streets in viola
3Ie os ene teamsters are brought to the bar and
M ta1su Gu Ior this agreeable amusement so hearth
enlopee sy snelr employees and yet these draughts
effect intended; Last Saturday Messrs. McCiar 4
Snaw were nlulcted in the sum of 81 and commits
Marshall street the day before 'e"A-. 1ions
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-. WE REoIIEsI TaE CITIzENs az RICu.

- WE REQUEST THE CITIZENS OF RICH
MOND generally to attend the meeting to be held
toni ght at the METROPOLITAN HALL, to take
into consideration the proprety of sending
to the Convention at King and Queen Court House,
the 18th December, upon the subject of the Rich
mond' and York River Railroad.
Richmond, 18th December, 1858.
Kent, Paine l. Kent, Wordsworth, Turner Co,
w & g Donnan, Aug Anderson t. Co,
N Barton, A Morris,
D II London, Biniord, Mayo Blair
w Butler, Fleming James,
Putney, Watts Putney Word, Ferguson Co,
Henry 2 Irving Mitchell Tyler
Beers Poindexter w Randolph,
Keen, Chiles Baldwin, John Womble & Co,
John Gordon 4 Son, Purcell Ladd Co.
Richardson & Co, Christian & Laihrop,
I'll T Pairo l. Co, Robert Rankin
Winghan, Elicit Co, Quarles & Brooke,
Brooks, Bell & Co, WS Triplett,
j FL Gordon, Parker, Bayly K Emmo.
Bennett& Beers, de 12-lt
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PRICE ONE CENT.

s fr th ~ tae street longer time than was nsees
tais o III IA 70 load and unload and make up their
oeofe hln' as now proof had been adduced 10 sto,s
thai on the night in question the cars had been Ief
in the stxeet unnecessarily long A'A 'e'h 1ei'
1.-THE above article was intsn5aa fn- s..-.,-
paper, but was unavoidably crowded ouf j