Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-12-17
PhnadelphlaI corresponaence.
PnlLApELPntA. De. 13. 1s5e

PhfladelphiaI Correspondence.
pnItADELPnLA, Dec. 10, 1856.
Eaitors Wheeling Iatelligeneer =
After having been so favored By visit from
one of your editorial corps for some days past,
1t secmslonely now, since his departure for the
smoky city" No. 2. Such visits, though always
short, are sweet, especially when from one of
whom memory has many good things of bye
gone days stored up in her secret cells.
Everybody seems to be preparing for the Hol-
days and Spring Trade Holiday books in ey-
cry style and quality deck the Book Store show
windows, and surpass, in magnificent binding,
beautiful illustrations, paper, and press work,
,ny that have ever seen. The wholesale pub
fishers are as busy as bees shifting their custo-
Iners, and j. B. Lippincott & Co. and II Cow
perthwait Co, especially, are doing rushing
business. The merchants, generally, are prepa-
ring for an increased Spring Trade. 1t is the
general opinion that it viii exceed any of for
lner years. There is no reason why Philadel-
phia should not do twice or thrice the business
she now does, and it IS my conviction, from the
rapid increase in her business during the last
tive years, that the time is near ut hand when
her trade will be seconds no city in the Union,
Gotham not excepted. Her geographical loca-
;iop,-connection with the West and South
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ness men, and above ALL the increased enter
prise infused among the business men, and the
general desire to carry on an honorable rivalry
with her sister city, by obtaining the influence
of the press throughout the country by adver-
Using more literally. These, and many other
things, must eventually tend 10 the end ''nost
devoutiy to be wished for
The internal resources of Pennsylvania are
unsurpassed by those of any other State and in
them we have solid foundation very unlike the
visionary capital or bogus stock of unprincipled
capitalists, &c, that swarm Wall street Upon
Saturday last the proprietors of the Phonixyille
Iron Works, in Chester county, gave to their
wOrkmen, numbering over 600, grand festival,
in honor of extraordinary amount of labor,
that had been. accomplished by them in weeks
time. The total amount of Iron rolled was
1929 tons Pretty heavy lot of the gold
(alias iron,) robbed of old mother Earth, wasn't
1t?
News IrEHs.-Rev. Dudley 4. TyDg. who was
dismissed from the pastorship of the church of
the Epiphany, for preaching political sermon,
is for the present preaching to the People at
-'ee'OHtAi A-ail' A2sePS u@'S "SSA sHNen " "Is
friends to build him meeting house, and un-
derstand that $50 600 has already been subscri-
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ARREST OF CouNTERFErrEAs.-The has been
snumber of persons recently arrested for man.
ufacturiug bogus coin, and will doubtless receive
uhe'r JUST auss;I ihey surrey "eseF'e ~ AZ
though they We're disposed to do otherwise than
TO render 'jrst dues when they were at large
Ax Aryrcr1oS.Tr coI-ptr.-Tvr, members of
u, n
'''s human iaiiii's' Ano"I' As i.eeah anu Dar-
ney McGluster, bearing the relationship to each
other of father and son, last night amused them
selves nv getting up considerable excitement in
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ted and locked up in the same cell, where no
doubt the fratcFnal ancestor gave his son some
moral instruction
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" ms -HNios o.t.stf-F NJ MAJ ,pas' -
O'clock, this morning, .. me mayor once, inc
reserve force of the Police Department of fifty