Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-10-22

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| DR.. j. l.. i Bledchu, of New Orleans, has
succeeded IN training the larger species of mos
quitoes, knownin New Orleans as .gallinippcrx,"
| toperform all the objects hitherto accomplished
by the eech or the cupper. A dozen of these
| insects ere equal to six leeches. and placed on
the desired spot, wIlist once commence TO suck
blood in the same way, and with far less trouble,
than the older institution. That's Munchau-
senisn, wen be sworn.
! Two weeks ago, water was sold at fifty cents
! per barrel III Mt Sterling Kentucky. Springs
! that never have been before known to fail went
perfectly dry
Some anxious individual sends to Ncah's
Times and Messenger the following query.
If in the course OF events, one of the south
crn states should be afflicted with plague, and
all the white population should die out with the
exception of two men, leaving only those two
white men and half million OF slaves, could
said white men act ms then. own senators, repre-
sentltlveS governor, Legislature, and as the peo-
pie make their own laws, or would the Union
have right to say. according t. the census of
of representation, that the United Statcs govern
meat should make the laws for them q ans.-Out
of respectfor our worthy correspondent, and as
q sample" of some of the questions very fire.
| quently put to US for solution, we publish the
foregoing, merely suggesting to 81. II. ~ and 9TH
eEs in like cases, that we only undertake to an
| swer interrogatories which come within the
| sphere of reasonable contingencies For such
extraordinary possibilities as that proposed IL
! bcve, we do not profess TO be able to provide;
nor are they, in ourjudgrnent profitable subjects
Of speculation. We may say specifically, for
the satisfaction Of IL NJ, that the constitution
of the United States does not in its various pro-
! visions, seem TO have contemplated the occur
renee of any such remarkable events as he sup
poses.
They have mammoth cotton gin in New
| Orleans. 1t has one hundred aud twenty saws,
with the main pulley in the centre, ard calculu-
; ted to gin fifteen bales OF cotton day. One ne
rowif able to feed it and there is no doubt it
will come into universal use. The gin has been
thoroughly tested at the factory and worked ad-
mrably
The London correspondent of an exchange
says:
{; We have got out new style here of visiting
cards, brought from Germany, where the idea
. is now common. 1t isnot very fashionable yet,
however, except in second and third rate circles
I On the card the portrait of the party is engraY-
ed. Some odd anecdotes have resulted from
this novel piece ofindustrv. One Of them was
found in the pocket OF the Baron de Roeback,
who drowned himself, the other day, in the LIZ
fey. The baron was related by marriage TO the
/ Duke OF Leinster and Lord Clon, Ut v, and had
been suffering from ill-health.
/ The Wytheville Telegraph states that great
many travellers are weekly passing through that
town bound for the FAR West" For the most
part they are from North Carolina and destined
for the various Western and Soutll-Western
States. But last week quite number passed
through from Roanoke, Va, on their way to
Missouri.
/ According to statement i'll the New York
Journal of Commerce, thirteen States that have
voted Tor members of the next House Of Repre-
sentativcs have chosen 40 democrats and 20 op-
position, being gain for the former of SO mem
! bcrS