Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-02-08
THE INTELLIG.EIINCER
MORNING. rEpRuARYs, 1854.


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LETTERS concerning s scripton. al vertising or 9TH
financial basless q The ltesecer, should be adj.
Letters concerning editorial department. of IN. N.
per- should be addressed TO the editors jointly or
Correspondents writing for publication will please
write only side of The paper. s.1l '.tillT
IN the above will greatly oblige u.s.
and prompt attention 10 correspondents
than they might otherwise some times reeicve =
DRowSxD.-The Cincinnati Gazette of Satur-
day SAYS nborer fiat boat lying near the foot
OF Elm street, while stepping flom he beat 10
another Thursday morning, made m,s-step ant,
fell into the river. and being carried under the
boats was drowned. His name is William Mar
kle, and his family reside in Wheeling. Up to
dark last evening, his body had net been reco-
yered. -..isr s--.r.E
We Love TO record such incidents as the follow =.
ing. 1t makes us think better of our race. II
shows that amid nll the wickedness of The world.
there are some natures which temptation NAV
lead astray, but misfortune cannot crush ont the
immediate jewel of their souls:,, ls's -
HIGHLT HoNoRABLE.-We learn that Mr. &. e.;
mon OF our city, TO failed in business few veo,s
since, and was compelled to COMPROMISE with, Lis
cTe!lotS at seVenty.hve cents on The dollar. has
within lew weeks past, voluntarily rendered III
his creditors from his earnings since his iif;cnl1
ties The balance of h'S old Indebtedness oltbonob
he has befure received full release, and the nar.
ties had no legal claims upon him.
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"HoT CoSN" AN IMMORAL WoRk.-We stated q
lew days ago That we had received from the pub.
fishers, volume entitled'sHOt Corn; Life Scenes
!" Nel' Yor6-tlat we lad not read ii, / ut stated
what II P"rPorted to lie. We have since examined
Sufficiently to be convinced that il properly be-
longs TO verY bad sty!eof the '.yellow coyered,,
htsratu Of the day, [though neatly, bound anil
emb0ssed) and under the assumed garb OF morality
and PhIlanthrophY, is eminentIy calcu lnted 10 min
ISter 10 depraved taste. Weshould have discoy
cred this much had we but read one or two chan
tiers in ii. But as we lad not, and as we had re-
ceived several sanctimonicus circulars asking us
10 speak "good word'' for ii, and as it bore
sanctlmenlous title, and was dedicated in sancti.
inonlous manner TO Horace GREELEY (without his
CONSENT we hope we did not hesitate 10 DO as we
do with most books sent us-merely state that
such book, purporilng to contain SO and so, has
heen issued, and take our leisure 10 read it.
This eliot Conn.,. without even the literary
merit of toerably written, ephemeral novelette, is
but series of stories of The ram lead and bloody
lone order,done up in The most tawdry and bung.
ling manner, abounding in obscenety and disgust
ing detaiis-a catch-renny concern designed TO
humbug the ell meaning and benevolent, and re.
lying for rapid sale on the depraved tastes of the
readers of obscene publications.. We have never
knowingly contributed to the circulation of such
publications, and we desire publishers TO know
that we are not t.phitunthropist enough to recon-
mend book TO gu. readers which no moral, intel
ligent person acquainted with its contents, would
admit into his family.