Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-12-30
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The Petersburg (ya.) Democrat says, that ON
Thursday "a colored individual" handsome,
tall, aristocratic, military-looking, and dressed
to kill, passed through that city from the South.
He was such darkey as any gentleman would
give about 81 600 for as a carriage driver or
body servant On inquiry, lest he should be a
runaway" coming it strong, he proved to be a
no less parsonage than the Duke of St Thora,
of Hayti, particular friend and confidential conn
scllor of His Serene Euinence Emperor Faustin
the First. The Duke is on his way to New
York.
Some of our readers, says the National Intel
tigeaeer, may recollect decision during the
May term of 1855. by the Circuit Court of the
United States for The Western District of Penn
sylvania, by which a retired member of the Rap
pite Association at Economy, in Pennsylvania
was declared entitled to his share of the proper
ty and effects of said association. The case was
carried up to the Supreme Court of the United
States, and was decided on the 10th of Decem-
Der, reversing the decree of the said Circuit
Court, with costs, and remanded the case, with
directions to dismiss the bill, with costs
The bill entitled an act relating to evidence,
and repeating part of the Code excluding nc
groes, mulattoes, Indians and black persons
from being witnesses, has passed the Wisconsin
Senate During the debnte on the bill the fol-
lowing amendments to the title were ntfered:-
"a bill to equalizc the white, black and mongrei
races, y Not agreed to- AN act to repeal q ty-
rannical provision of the Code, placed there by.
the Democratic party in 1851" Not agreed to.
| "a bill to carry out the policy of the Black Re-
| pubficans." Not agreed to.
! The Thibodaux lLa) Minerva learns that all
! of the planters without exception, are making,
a most excellent article OF sugar, though the
I yield from the cane per is quite small. The
sacciarine properties ofthc cane are said to have
never been better, weighing in many instances
j as high as nine degrees. The crop, as previously
stated, will be unusually small.
| A party hunting in Angelina county, Texas,
found in cave two human bodies entirely pet
| rifed, dressed in style neither Indian nor Eu-
ropean. The features and dress were admira-
bly, preserved A garment which must have re-
sembled a hunting shirt, seemed to have been
worn by each, and partly preserved by petri-
faction, was distinctly visible, especially at its
seams and folds On the waist of one was a
buckle of pure gold, almost three inches in d.
ameter, securely imbedded in the body The
features We're not much shrunken, the eyeswere
partly closed; and even traces of eyebrows
could be seen plainly.
The Knoxville Wing says that from the per-
sonal observation of its editor and others, it is
thought that from the amount of wheat sown,
and its present fine appearance, that there will
be more than three millions Of bushels produced
i'll the thirty counties of East Tennessee the next
season, should it continue favorable.
/ 1t is said that during storm in Troy, New
York, last week, flock of wild ducks flying
over that city, became loaded with slect, and
several of them fell to the ground and were
Taught, their wings being SO frozen that they
The New York Central Railroad Company
manufactures its own railroad iron at a less cost
than one.half its market value. The average
| cost to railroad companies is now $50 to $50
per ton, while the cost to the manufactures is
about $50 per ton. The cost of the Central
Railroad Company S iron works, all complete,
Including 1000 acres of land containing their
ore, was S145,600 This sum the company
saved in one year by making for itself the iron
necessary to supply the annual wear and tear of
the road.
A Tennessee paper says that Senator Bell
will lose about 100000 by the insurrection panic
Four of his negroes, in his absence, We're hung
by one of the local courts, and five more after
wards by the mob, without judge or jury. Yet
there seems to be little or no evidence to incul-
pate them. l-5ssli
In the House of Representatives on Wcdnes-
day, Dec. oath, the Post Office, Mail Steamers.
and Deficiency Appropriationbills were reported
and referred. A bill providing for the with
drawal from circulation of all deprecated foreign
coin, by fixing the value of all Spanish quarters.
shillings and sixpences at twenty, ten and five
cents respectively, also authorizing the issue of
new cent pieces, was reported, and after some
discussion laid aside for two weeks A bill pro-.
yidiDg for the admission of Minnesota into the
Union was introduced by the delegate for that
Territory.
The Pittsfield (Mass) Eagle, reports the fol-
lovingly few weeks since two children of one
of our physicians were attacked with scarlatina.
and during their illness had forpets a couple of
kittens. Both the kittens subsequently had all
the symptoms of scar1atina, one of them dying
the other narrowly escaping. A canary bird,
whose cage hung in the room also died with all
the symptoms fthe same disease
Andrew Sims died in the Western (Pa) Peni-
fnNti nm ~ofta
sonment. he was young man who had i.for
fun" tired about twenty stables, factories, &c,
in Pittsburgh, causing an immense loss of pro-
perty, and on three indictments for arson had
been sentenced to hiety gears imprisonment
The average length of Trademarks life is
twenty years: the average number of
deaths by accident" in America, is over five
hundred per month; the average number of
break downs on our railroads, is four to every
locomotive every year; the average number of
wrecks on the lakes, is two hundred per annnm;
and the average number of disasters at sea. is
one every day in the year.
ANOTHER CONFEDERATION IN ST. LouIs.-Sodf
and Candle Factory in Ruins Probable loss
100000. From the St Louis Democrat of
Tuesday last, we take the following.
On Friday night last, Riggs & Leyering's es-
tablishment burned down, within a few days of
the time fixed for its transfer to Scheffer & Co.
Last night, Scheffer's own establishment on
Chisty avenue, near Twenty first street, shared
a similar fate. This was the more extensive
concern ofthc two, and the loss will probably be
at least twice as great rs in the other case, in
which it was set down at 800, 600.
The factory, with its onttbuildings, occupied
an entire square, with the exception of n narrow
strip on the front, occupied by small tenements
These were saved, owing to the high wind
which blew the flames away from them Some
of the stock was saved, but little in comparison
with the amount on hand. The PRINCIPAL build
ing was Of brick, but large building of frame
stood in the rear, and we understand that it was
in this that the fire first made its appearance
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