Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-04-01

ETA REALL, Esq, Edito: of the Cumberland
Telegraph, is out "taking an airing" us appears
Fl nj the last number of that paper. We extract
~ following notice of our city, from a letter
Written home from this place, nd published in Tie
Telegraph .-.-....s.......-r
"Seyerul years since. Wheeling was place OF
very moderate pretentions. Her trade was limited
from the fact that the only avenue to the eastern
msrket which she possessed was The national road,
and her facilities of transportation consisted in
wagons, those huge, slow-paced, numbering ma
cnnes which the progress of the age un,i the de-
mands Of the times have discarded. The compile
ton of The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to thi
place has, however, impaired new impulse 10 bu-
siuesS, and al q single bound she has not only dis
tanced competition for tie trade and commerce Of
vast reach of country, stretching far 10 the south
and west, and fruitful in various products but she
has fairly won the name of city. We are ha. ply
10 make this acknowledgement, and we would re
ioce 10 see her prosperity increased au hundred
fold and perpetuated through all time. She has
had uuch 10 contend against. PittSburg has pro-
ven herself mercileSS and unIelenting enemy,
Lut, like ambition, in her endeavors she has over
reached herself. Her course in reference to the
beautiful structure which the capital and energy
of Wheeling has stretched across the Ohio, aId
which can now lie seen hanging like a vast cob
web above the placid surface of the water Las dis
gusted every body, save the negro LOVING, negro
hugging aboliiioniSts that infest that city.
''TLe wharf and indeed the whole city may be
included, presents scene of busting energy and
activity rarely equalled. Ten steamers were tied
up here 10 day. with all hands busily engaged in
discharging and receiving freight. The wharf is
literally bauacaded with barrels hogsheads, boxes,
disc. Whele it is TO be slowed away a stranger
cannot imagine. The railroad is tasked 10 its uI-
most capacity, but nothing short Of double track
will enable tito accommodate the vast amount OF
trade which is daily concentrating here for ship
men: 10 the east. Some days as much US e'even
hundred tons have been sent eastward, and YET the
amount left by the steamers has frequently exceed
ed that nifty. Much of this trade is from the
Southern States, the contracted policy of the free
States in reference 10 the slavery question, and
their UNIV arrantable interference with that insti-
tuition, has greatly prejudiced mere hants against
them, and when an opportunity occurs they avail
themselves of it, even though they thereby suStalr
apecuniu1y loss, 10 send their goods by southern
routes. --
"superionr inducer ents are now being offered 10
the travelling public, 10 go by way of the Balt-
more and Ohm Railroad tot the East. The fare, via
Wheeling, from Cleveland To Baltimore, has lately
been reduced 10 So. Many are SAID to be availing
themselves of tins nducement.
"The railroad direct from here TO Columbus will
be completed, it is said, by the first of August
This will be of decided advantage to the Baltimore
anu Ohio Railroad, as Columbus forms the initial
point of an extensive system OF railways which
have their ermini oil the lakas and at many points
of note Throughout the great West.