Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-12-24
"a ssstement having recently been made that
-gfeCoL AoIon Bur died unbelieverfn the Chris. /

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s1g.,A ststement having recently been made that
-RsCoA- Aor0n Burr died un6elieverfn the Chris
tim religion, The Rev. DR.. vanpelt, venerable
Episegpeb clergyman, u New Yosk, in reply to a
lsttss f.Um S. G.. Rie, E states that he vas fire.
- quently with him OF hotel Staten Island dur.
ing his protaeted Illness, and AT the moment of his
81 death. The time spent with him vas chiefly em-
ploYediu religious conversation concluding with
prayer. Being asked as TO his views of the Holy
Scriptures, Cobb. responded 'TLey were the most
'a perfect sy TEN OF truth the world had SEEM
Two hours before his DEATH the.Rev. MIR. Vunpelt
az informed him that he could uqt survive much long
He replieds .Eamaware Of it," Mr,VanpeIt
thus describes his Iast nemenls:
:. With his usual cordial concurrence and man
desire. kHeeel in prayer before the
throne Of heavenly graee-implorng GODS mercy
and le tpFned in his bed aud put him;
~ 81 b. humble devotional posture, aud seemed
deeply engagei in the religious service, thanking
~ ~, usual for the prayer made for HIM
744 =, s'0alm and composed, recommended hint
r,sg sthe marcy OF God and to the w0rlo his grace,
ss with last farewell. at about O'Clock, P. ~,
without grOan or struggle, he breathed his last.
His heath was easy aud gentle the taper in the
--socket, and asa summers wave that dies upon the
shote. sdied Coli Aaron Barr
sdn The Governor Of New York has granted a re.
spi;s to Michael German, sentenced to be execut-
ed on F iIax last in BtookIyh, until the 18th of
1anuaTytln order that application rEay be;male
for anew trial. II is represented that the Jury
would not hare convicted him If they had not sup
posed commutaton Of the punishment would Ge
granted by the Governor sst.'I svz
The Supreme Court Of Indiana has Just been
passing upon The constutionality of the liquor
otstbqt State. Two Judges think it all wrong, one
s.Anhs part Of it uncons,itutiona md one thinks
it is all right. The majority thus agreeing that
Tssst6s manufacturing, search, seizure. confscalion
aud ageucy clauses, are unconstitutional. So
muchofii falls to the ground. =
Madamoisslle Rachel and her suite smiled from
Charleston on Tuesday evening IN the steamship
Isabel, Captain Rollins, for Havana. She bad an
overlooking house al her performance in Charles
1s4stcn on Monday evening, ami created deep I'M
preston.
The printing Offices Of the Memphis Appeal
and the .EagEe and Epqprer,' entirely de-
,sstroyed by fire on Saturday, together with all the
E:ock. The office of the 'Wklg' was considerably
damaged. %
The Artesan well al New Orleans is now five
hundred and eighty feetin depth, nnd still no wa
teE has been obtained. The Stockholders have
resolved to bore one bundled and fifty feet further
if necessary,
pe5z The Rochester Tribune says the cost of wheat
now held by millers in that city, lin store aud in
transttI 81, Ooo, OOO and that the profits of
the milling business for the past seasonaIreudy ex-
ceeds 100000. r.
The city of Burlington. Iowa. is 10 be lighted BY
eas,and the Davenport Gazette printed q steam
. press, the FIRST Introduced into Iowa. The land
Offices in the States crowded with applicants,
rianliu Dubuvue, in one day, there were recently
fled with the register applications for 100000,
acres
The Secretary of the Interior has received in.
Ao;l;,,anoa Frcro Ija,f n ,vLo hnI tbe
work in his charge, that the boundary line be-
tweentEe United States and Mexico has been es-
tablisheL, and that Lieut. Micher had reached N.
Orleans. q EaS9 Af5 q e
The Louisville Courier learns from private New
Orleans dispatches, that Dion Bourcic ,ut is dead.
He was nanageTof the "Gaiey THEATRE in that
city, and was eminent as dramatic author and
an, actor. Mr. Bourcicault the author of Lon
a don Assurance. AMI many other popular pays,and
zacame. TO New York from London little more than
year ago. Helecturrd for time upon the Eng
lish DIANA and, then went upon the stage, where
s.hePlayed genteel comedy with the happiest effect.
His wife wosi formerly Miss Agnes Robertson, an
actress of popularity.
The report that the original copy Of the Dec
Iaration Of Independence had been stolen from the
Patent Office, is not true. 1t h. been there for
fourteen years.
EHere some hard hits al the times from the
NY Young America. ~ sa
y 2 The Struggle for the speakershIp.
- NJ SAM HORSE EXPRESS.
OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
From the Correspondent Associated Prsss.J
W1sHINcroS, Dec.-th, Midnight.
= Two membets Of Congress have arrived. They
don't knUw whOthey'l vote for One is from Pike
ScOuntys Missouri, anil drinks Bourbon whiskey.-
EVeFYthlNR confusion Regards the