Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-01-10
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THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 10, 1856.
THE NEWS.
Jack Frost has laid violent hands on the mail
blgs,, east, west, north and south, and at every
r-ilroad, river and slow coach station wecan hear
from, Uncle Sans baggage has been unlawfully
obstrueted by saucy Jack, and is lying in pro
1niscuous heaps, half frozen travellers, condue-
tors and drivers keeping it company. gene
ral thaw out, some of these days, will bring US
the wrecks Of matter if not the crush Of worlds.
Amid the general freeze up, Congress is still
baRling away consuming time in pointless wrang-
ling and unsuccessful caucusing, creating nothing
but the earnest wish throughout the country that
the members viii either dry up, to use
hOmsly phrase, or go home. The telegraph tells
us that it is hOpttt the Speaker will be chosen
before the close of the present week;;-consola-
-tory-very.
Mr. TRsckeray s lectures on the Georges, of
England, are creating considerable sensation in
the eastern cities, have already given rise to va
rious conflicting eritiqaes. We publish to-day
an able, and as we think a just review from the
The Convention of the Soldiers of the war Of
1872 was. an interesting feature. of the memora-
= BILE 9Th, in Washington City It is to be hoped
that-thi assembIage of war-worn vetrans was
successful in removing some of the unjust and
impolitc provisions of the last Bounty Land Act
1t il stated that private letters received in
Washington from New Orleans report that Col
Grant has over one thousand men enlisted, all
fully armed, for an expedition to Nicaragua, to
join Col. Walker E
The New York Herald thinks that Mr.. Buc-
hanan canuuite the two long divided Democratic
.f.:tions ofthe State of New York, in the Presi-
Dental contest of 1856
The Mercury in the thermometer at 0glens-
burgh, on Saturday morning at sunrise, is re-
ported at 90 degrees below zero. The St Law
rsncois frozen over between Oglensburgh and
Norristown.
The Washington correspondent ofthe Boston
Post writes that Gov Shannonis shortly expected
ct Washington, and that he is also expected to
resign
In table published in the National Intelli-
gencer, it is stated that there were PSI new hou-
sss erected in Washington during the year 1866,
making the total number 1920. The number of
inabitants is estimated at 5s,201 The assessed
value Of all kinds ofreal and personal property,
including bank AMI other STOCKS, is $5 SOS, To9-
The rate of the assessments is sixty cents per
one hundrod dollars, and will YIELD when col
lectGd, after detlucting the discount for prompt
payment, the sum of $I42, Az.
= The Legislature of Maine on Friday last elect
ed Samuel Wells, Democrat, Governor of that
State, by lo7 votes against o. for Isaac Reed,
Straight Wing GO for Morrill,, Republican,
Gov. Wells sent in his Message, which acQuies-
ces in the Nebraska Kansas bill, and goes for
the rcpeal of the Prohibitory law.
Vim. Wells who was several years since SEN
fenced to death in the District of Columbia for
murder, hal his sentence commuted to impris-
oament for life by President Fillmore. The case
was brought up before the U. S. Court last week
on the ground that the President hadno right to
commute, and could only grant an unconditional
pardon. The Court on Friday decided for the
prisoner and he was set at liberty.
A LIBRARY OF "PRRrRcr BMcks."-Col. Raw
linson has just discovered among the ruins of
ancient Babylon an extensive library-not in
deed, printed on paper, but impressed on baked
bricks-containing many voIumnious treatises
on astronomy, mathematics, ethnoIOgy, and
several other most important branches of know
ledge. These treatises contains facts and argu-
ments, which, in his opinion, will have no small
operation on the study of sciences to which
they relate, and which throw great light upon
biblical history and criticism, and the history of
Ourrace,
soXErHNe OF a SAowER,-By rain guage
kept at the Lunatic Asylum, Columbus, it ap-
.pears-aswe see in the Journal that there have
fallen this year 40 IL inches of water. The
statement says:
By calculation it will be found that moro than
$4,000 bbls have fallen on single acre, and
surprising each and every acre in Ohio to have
received the like quantity, (the area being 200
miles Square) water has descended on this State
alone in single year sufficient to fill a canal
$4,000 miles long, (the entire circuit. of our
globe 500 feet wiie and nearly 30 feet deep.
The late DR.. Ray of Cincinnati, a very, careful
observer of meteorological phenomena, commu-
nicatAd to the public some seven years since,
thStthe mean annual rain, for thirteen conseeu-
tive yeSrs hal been 81 inches Others have
put it down for longer term of years at 81 10
inches.
Use or THE ORGAS.-A meeting of the Lam
cSasire PTeehstery was held at Manchester on
Thursday, when it was resolved to consider the
prOpristy Of admitting organs into the places of
worship connected with the United Presbyterian
Church. After long discussion the following
motiou was carried by majority of 10 to o.
'IThe Presbytery are of opinion that the use of
instrumental music for the purpose simply of
trary 70 any principle or law, either of the sG-
preneor subordinate standards of this Church,
and that such use has already been practically
sanctioned by various Presbyteries thereof and;
therefore, while they refrain from giving any
Recommendation to the Congregations of the