Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-01-14
TIIE NEWS.


THE. NEWS.
The steamship Starof the West was 10 leave
ew York for San Juan Nicarasua) on Wee
,sdny. The town Was full of rumors respecting
new attemptto ship tiiIlibusters by her on Ger;
rsTker's account but whether they are true or
lse would not be known probably till the day
sailing.
1t i. significant circumstance, however, that
o.. French has come back again to New York
ON Washington, ''Ablebodiel men," for
gricultural purposes, were never in such good
emand. All they have to do is to go to Nj
aras,ia and tote themselves a farm"
C;ov. Moorhead of Kentucky communicates
nth the Legislature of that State in long and
isnified message. He shows the State to be
a prosperous condition and expresses an I'M
wing love for the Union of the States, and ac-
Iuiesces in the Nebraska Bill doctrine and re-
yrets that fsnaticism has severed the american
party.
The venerable John sneed, of Boyle county,
zv, del on the 21at of December, at the great
age of 1871 years.
The Manchester Examiner, one Of the ablest
Of the English provincial papers, says that the
increase Of pauperism in Manchester has been
nearly 90 per cent in 1855 above the numbers
in 1854. The fact is mentioned to illustrate the
influence of the war upon theindustrial interests
Of Great Britain.
An Irishman was found frozen to death, on the
Washington and Alexandria Turnpike on Thurs
day morning. 1t is supposed that he was under
the effects of liquor, fell in the snow, and thus
persisted.
white man was frozen to death in Ports
mouth, Va, on Saturday night, and colored
person on Lambert's Point Road.
Gov. Wells, of Maine, in his Message express
ca no opinion on the policy of the Nebraska bill,
out acquiesces in it. He takes strong ground
against the Liquor Law, and recommends IL
cense system. He also recommends the estab-
lishment ofa Court of Common Pleas, condemns
the Alien and Naturalization Laws, and the Per-
aonal Liberty Act. The educational system Of
the State il alluded to, and some suggestions
made as to fl rthsr Legislation on the subject
He opposes the sale of timber lands, unless the
money isvery much needed, praises the reform
schools, and advocates the improvement of the
militia system.
The Belfast (Ne.) Journslh has come out strong
" for Hon. James Buchanan for next President
The democratic national committee, which fig
ed upon the first Monday of June for the assem-
bling of the Democratic National Convention at
Cincinnati, adopted the following resolution:
Resolred, That, in constituting future nation
u conventions of the democratic party, in order
to secure tho respective rights of the States to
their relative representation in such conventions,
each State sllall be entitled to twice the number
ofCeegates that it has votes in the electoral col
lege, and no more; aud that the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, in making arrangements for
the next National Convention, provide Suchnunl-
Der ofseats therein for each State, and secure
the same to the delegates elect
They also request, with a view to the proper
arrangements OF seats of members, that the del
eyates from the several States or districts of the
United States to the next National Convention
forward to Hon A. T. Edgerton, Hicksville o.,
chairman of the committee of arrangements,
their respective names and post-offices.
During the past year there were 1864 deaths
in Cleveland, Ohio; 90 were from consumption
and la9 from summer complaint.
The Know Nothing or American members of
the Maryland Legislature held a meeting last
week, st Annapolis, and unanimously adopted Il
resolution endorsing the course of their political
friends in tho House of Representatives at
Washington City, in voting against a sectional
organization OF the House, and also for so siren
uously sustaining the Philadelphia Platform.
Col L. R. Doyle, the L. 5. Marshal for the
Territory Of Nebraska, was almost instantly
killed on the 2sth ult,, bv falling from the stairs
at the City Hotel, in Omaha city.
Jackson's Farewell Address was read, accord
ing to custom, before boil, branches of the Penn
sylvanis Legislature on the 9Th, and 900 copies
ordered to be printed for tho use of the mem,
bers.
Tho sum Of $4,000 has been subscribed in
Maine to build colonization ship to run to Lii
IBERIA. Two gentlemen subscribed 81 900 each,
aud another $500.
1t in estimated that the dividends due in jan
uary and paid out by the various companies in
the United States, amounted to over eight mil
liOussf dollars
SoLprRas OF rns WAR OF 1sl2.-The Con-
vention of Veterans which adjourned in January
1856, to reasonable on the 9Th of January 1855,