Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-01-28


The whole delinquent list viii be At Al che Peils on the day
Of election property list a. well as tiahabIe-
The City Collector his assistant may be found at NJ
AFthrs Office No 80 Main street. time between
o'clock A. 81 and o'clock p N, untl the election and one
theu be al die ts through the city so that all per
FINLEY j. BURKE, city Collector.
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LADIES' SUPPER.
The Ladies' Of St Matthews Protestant Episcopal Church
purpose having Supper, Washington Hall, the
ming Thursy January S1s The proceeds to be appro
priated object connected with the Church.
The public are solleitedto attend. in2i
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Dr. c. NJ. RutIer of Cincinnati, viii delveta Lee
tare6eSore the @FOg Mems Christian Association" in the
Washington Hal, Wednesday evening. the SOths
sUBJECT-.Ths Romance Of CHGrdeter.'
Lecture commence at ~, P n Admission s5 cent?
Tickets to be obtained at the bookstores of the city and at
the door. jnes'Ss
e Tue crY PapTiso.-4y very large portion of
the Times of Saturday is devoted to the benefit
of the Iatslliyeneer, the theme being the City
Printing. AS we have some knowledge of this
subject, we will briefly state what it is that a
numerous class of voters have complained Of,
and now complain Of in the action of the coun-
Gil, with which the Intelhgencer office was Incl
dentally connected
Some ten months ago, the Council ayowed a
determination to reduce the expenses of print
ing. The InteIigenccr office, in the course Gifts
communications with the Council, proposed TODD
the printing for 5000 per annum. That propo-
sition was based upon our previous bills, and
upon the fact setforth in the proposition, that for
this sum we would publish all the ordinances,
orders, &c. of Council one time, instead of three
times, as had, very needessly, been done for
some years Our bill, when we Unpublished
the matter three times, had never amounted to
quite S300per annum, and in the estimation of
practical printers and publishers it was safe
proposition, TODD the same work for 5000, when
we inserted it only once. Our proposition was
not accepted because Mr.. j. E. WHARTON, then
member of Council, chairman of the commit
tee on ordinances and the editor of the Times,
drafted and procured the passage of an ordi-
nance, excluding all bids and providing for the
Immediate election of printer-in otherwords,
providing for the election Of the Times Office at
a!lcosts and all hazards.
The Times now, according to its own show
ing, has received 1851. e4 for nine months print
ing, besides s2as, 90 for the republication of the
ordinances At the rate Of its nine months
printing it viii receive (exclusiveof alljob work.
$384T2 per annum. We proposed to do the
same work for 5000 only difference of$134,-
T2l
This is the whole matter in nutshell These
facts have long since been given to the public.
They have been revived at this election, not at
the instance of the Intelhgencer, but as this
office in the midst of the excitement has been
made target for its innocent connection with
these facts, they are here stated in no spirit of
malice, butin simple justice to ourselves.
It is utterly useless to attempt to disguise the
fact that the Times was made the organ Of Goun-
Gil, without proper regard to the expense This
is smatter for onelparty to justify, if they can,
on the principle that ITO the vietors belong the
spOils or for the people to condemn. Either re-
suit does not particularly concern us. Nor do
VIC think our neighbor of the Times in his en-
thusiastie efforts to endorse and justify the edi-
torial and Legislative acts Of his illustrous pre-
decessor, Mr.. WHAEToN, is pursuing course
which particularly concerns us at the present
time. ~
80 There israther a ford array of words and cpl
thsts the Times of Saturday, which, perhaps,
does not call for.our especial attention, for the
writer's in their most jealous and aspiring mo-
meuts, probably, did not fully weigh the signifi-
cation Of their words. 1t is not customary for
gentlemen, unless excited to degree which they
afterwards regret, touse language which can be
construed into an insult unless theinsult is clear
" intended. We hope that our ncighbors do
not thus early IN their revolutionary career, in
tend to ignore the good old rules of gentility.
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