Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-03-25

from fires. ibEee borses. beins stationed at eact
engine house. one always harneSsed and ready 10
duty. As the Insurance Companies have agree
to pay the expense Of establishing Fire rTele
graph all over the city, the number of alarms ar
expected 10 be diminisheds and the companie
may not be called to 60 to Tires out OF thelt OWL
, districts.
Chief engineer, having sole command at hres
! $1,000; term of office one year, and 10 pc choSe
by the CT y Council, in March OF each year. III
assistants are likewise appointed by the Counci
and receive an annual salary of $500. Captain
are appointed by board OF supervisors, whle
consists of the Engineers and the committee
: Council on Fire Department, and receive an al
nual salary of $3.50. Lieutenants similarly al
pointed. receive 500 per annum. The Chi
andAssistant Engineers form Board OF Englnee
: who appoint Secretary, whose salary per annn
e is fixed at $500. . 80. Z. 49,
. The driver and pipenan being in constant e
ploy, are paid each 1855 per annums sssee 81,
e'lhe members the several companies are pa
/ So per month, DISCO, per annum. II mas 66d
}. found that in Boston young mechanics &cau
men who can take work home and hayYfffil In lis
y Of their time seek these situations M The an
III leave their business at an alarm sbeTty WHEN
e extinguishment, and not having Of alarms will
r, parat1s to the engine many young men
y belessened, it is sup23es. % 40 - ~
At will be willing to 80 --- gh CIV
is sum OF their yes16rRAoE.-A few days ago, as
te s1r,...a kelly, % the NJ. Z. Church, in
is a.. Ras< Mo-, was concluding Tie morning
X MAJ oman rushed up into the pulpit, with
lie IN hand, and seized him, charged him with
kealing horse, and notwithstanding the remon-
Ssrances of those present, his hands tied and
his legs chained. In this condition he was placed
on horse, and taken 10 the State OF Iowa, whe.e
aman named Chas. H. Kellyhad escaped from the
penltentary. The keeper, however, Immediately
pronounced him not to be the man. as he bore no re-
semblanee to him whatever, when he was Instant
ly discharged. The man. who seized him thus
sqmnarily, pretended to be the Marshal of Mis-,
souri,. go .s - ! 'assa lv ~ il llis.. = ...s
OHIo STATE CAPiToL.-A comparison OF fourteen
different State Capitols is given, showing that the
Ohio State House will far surpass any other in the
Country In round numbers the ground covered by
the Cspitol at Washington is $1,000 square feet
ofOhio, $4,000; Of Tennessee, $4,000 of North
Carolina, Pennsylvania aud Indianna ,each Id 900;
of Massachusetts, and Newyork, 10, 600; of Mich.
gan, 800, etc. The legislative halls and library
will be larger than at Washington. No estimate
is given of the probable totaco of the structure,
but 1t will approach million, and be finished in
three or fourycars. Etf 30 ~ 40
The New York Express commends all apparatus
recently invented by professor Kidder of thatci,y
which controls the; flow of gas at the point of its
most economical combustion, and checks the waste
caused by the pressure from the Gas Works equal TO
thirty per cent. beyond the amount required by the
consumer like per centage." The apparatus is
selfreguatng and acts equally on one or one thou
sand burners. 1T is in use at The express Office
where its operation has been equal 10 the anticpa-
tions of its inventor, and equally satisfactory and
economical to The editors = saldHd
.'- slst+a 4 Z
DlpptED.-Mr. B. NJ. Johnson, of Shreveport,
La was recently swindled out of $3.50 by a chap
named Dr. Carter, who drew a spurious draft ON
New Orleans for that amount, which Mr.. cashed
ASMr. Swipk was nlso swindied out of $500 by the
purchase OF negro man from chap who hadjust
arrived there on a steamboat, A day or two after
the man who had sold the negro had gone, the NE
gro also disappeared The Gazette says such oc-
currences are becoming quite frequent in that
city. a4 fa .l,9.- SID. ~
uHEMP.-fhe st. Louis News Of the 18Th gives
the total receipts of hemp that port since anu
airy LIST, 1858, TO be ,159 bales being an increase
70: the same period last yearo 400 bales. The
sales have been at prices ranging from S95 to s0sI
per ton; Ss)to ss5 buys inferior to common, sssI
10 SOB fair to good, and sl04 10 s1Os prime and
chiice The stock in store on the It'll lust was
---.. MO-. II
i. How TO Cousr THE ESAcr NUlfBzR AT A Mass
MEETING. Norton has invented machine, which
he calls an Indicator of Numbers and Distances,
and which is approved by the London Society Of
Arts 1t twill Tell the number of persons passing
through a door, or travelling in an omnibus, and in
THIS case, the distance passed over also. Ii is
easily adjusted, and is pronounced 10 be nfalli-
Lle. -'ii' sa2sil g. ,yhi.sF q,aiAtIsl II
..-.z,-.E .-e..zsL .as s.5.' ,LlisisR@,f Il
=, i. MARION, YA.-5The Grand Jury seem 10 have
stirred up gang of counterfeiters, who have for
some time past infested this region Man
nington theiI head quarters Bills ef indictment
were found against some twelve OF fifteen, and
variants placed in the hands of.the Sheriff for
their arrest; but they got wind OF what was going
on, and sloped. is,t s.i,.gcl,
.DEcLINE IN THE VALUE OF GoLD.-Thomas de |
Quincy has written an article for Hogg's Instruct
or, which is copied in No. 462i of LiuLes Lipine
Age, arguing that the utter depreciation of gold is
near at hand and inevitable, unless the solitary
hope he realized that the gold quatries may soon
be exhausted. XII 7sa .r-i s = sNfA9 fms, |
Piano AN 5EMPREss.-The Paris correspond |
emit of the Republic says: "The Emperor has |
bought for the Empress the plano exhibited by
EYard, at the London Exhibition, for 600 francs
A private indiSildai could have purchrsed,it for |
half the money. Three quarters of this sum were
Tor the case and the ornaments, as allof Eyarfl's
instruments are equally we'll finished in The mus
cal department.
GTon Monday last, the County Court Of Wythe /