Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-12-09
TIM following letter, written from this city,
We find in the New York Express of Saturday

last:
s, WHEELING, Dec. I'd.
Pittsburgh estimates her loss of business by.
the low stage of water for this season alone at
81, 500, 000l If the chief city at the head of
navigation has lost so much, the business pub
lie will&now how to sympathize with the cities
and towns on the river. Wheeling so eminent
ly a manufacturing city, and as such, one that
the Old Dominion ought to be proud of, has two
millions of her own manufactured goods waiting
shipment, and had there been water in the
river the shipments from this point would have
been two or three fold what they can be. There
isjnow four feet of. water in the channel, just
enough to awaken asstrong hope that there will
be more, and just enough, too. to float the
smallest class of steamers with respectable bur-
densof freight. There has been nothing like it
since June last, and You may imagine the re
|joicing which such an event gives rise to along
the Ohio River AT Cincinnati, they are paving
fabulous prices for coal, sixty and sixty-fiye
cents q bushel in some cases, while here, for
domestic purposes, it is dear at five cents, so
full are the surrounding hills of the precious
commodity. The upper Ohio is the source of
supply for Cincinnati; and, if navigation will
permit, the river will be black with coal boats
in the course of few days. 1t lis pleasant for
q stranger to behold the signs of life seenln the
order of things incident to o pienteous rain
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad are reioic-
ing IN the open river also, though transacting a
most prosperous business even when it Is closed.
The citizens are also rejoicing to-day in scheme
Just consummnted, which in:ures consolida-
ton of three or four railroads, opening rail-
road connection with Philadelphia, via Pitts
burg, and ensuring it is thought, the compile
ton of the long contemplated road with Cincin-
natl via Marietta. The consolidation has Just
been finally concluded, and the Wheeling peo-
pie think the bargain will be of great benefit
fS,f Il an.
Thepeople of this part of the State are natu-
rally an anti-slavery people. They regard the
colored population as the source of great evil.
There IS no security upon slave property, and
no reliance upon colored labor. As conse-
quence there are not more than iorty-five slaves
in the whole county Of Ohio, and these few are
family servants, without the desire of escape.
In the border counties there is also the same re-
lative want of value for slaves
Wheeling is very much ola Northern town,
but very conservative, however, in its opinions,
as you might suppose from people thus placed
on the western border of slave State. The cit
liens arc a thinking, reading, business-like and
intelligent people. There is good deal of man
ufacturing done here, particularly in works Of
iron and glass. Some of the glass works are
splendid specimens Of art. The great vase
wrought here by the Messrs. Sweeny, father and
son, you will remember as on exhibition in New
York, at.the American Institute / have seen
wine glasses pressed out with about as much ia
cility as you could squeeze water from a sponge.
1t is marvellous with what quickness articles Of
use and ornament are wrought into shape, from
a huge vase to tiny toy. Tumblers and glsss-
.-..., -s.s1l p .s.a.r,
So ofworks ofiron, too.
Wheeling must always possess rare facilities
for manufacturing. Coal is about one cent and
half cheaper bushel than at Pittsburgh, and
Is delivered to manufacturers at three cents and
half per bushel, and sometimes for ninety-six
cents toni Think of that, We coal consumers
OF the East. Coarse cottons are made Mt pro-
fit, and eventually, for three reasons, coarse cot
tons for the Western market must be inanufac-
tured in the West and Northwest Cotton can
be landed here for q cent and half cheaper
than In New England. Provisions are cheaper.
and the distance to market not so far Ulti-
mately New England will be compelled to man
ntacture the finer hbrics-while the articles in
which the stock costs more than the labor must
be made elsewhere.
Among the signs of Improvement going on in
the town, was the inauguration of a course of
Lectures by some Of the public spirited young
men of the city. The first of the course was
delivered by Ernstns Brooks, Of your city, be-
fore numerous aud intelligent audience, upon
Things rs they were and are.n No regular.
course of lectures has before been delivered in
the town; and the large and attentive audience
at the first, augurs good public spiritwhich, it
Is hoped, the people Will sustain. ***
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SuaAR CULTuRE IN ILIrSo1s.-A communion
ton in the GRANVILLE, Ills, Herald, signed j. NJ
Grow, and dated McCleary''s Bluff, Wabash
county, His. makes the following interesting
statements respecting his success in the culture
Of the Chinese sugar cane: r
"on the 25th of May planted about half an
acre of ground, one year old. A portion of the
soil was low and wet in the spring; in fact
covered the seed with mud ; the other part was
high and sandy; the consequence was, when the
dry season set in the wet part baked hard, and
the high burnt up for want of rain ploughed
it when about ten inches high, and that was all
the working it got, with the exception of a
slight hoeing previous to ploughing; my object
was to ascertain the amount of saccharine mat
ter contained on the stalks, and supposed enough
would grow to make the experiment. Many of
the stocks grew from sixteen to twenty feet
high, lin the low ground it only grew twelve
feet) Having made mill on which to grind it,
commenced on the 24th of September The
cane then received two or three frosts, which
slightly injured the taste of the water I atil
convinced that the amount Of stalks fused can
be grown on less than quarter of an acre. The
amount of water obtained from the piece was
go gallons, from which Ifnade forty-iive gal
Ions, which. IN flavor and beautiful bright red
color, is far superior to any molasses obtained
from the South. / did not try to grain any of
it, as it will not grain after being frosted; but
am convinced there will be no difficulty in grain
ted by the middle of May, it viii ripen by the
end of August, and remain in good condition
until frost: and if cut up and put in shed, lin app
prehension of FROST twill keep well for month
or more
Gov. WISE, ina speech made at Richmond,
at the supper given to the State Electors, on last
Wednesday evening, ANNOUNCED that nothing
could tempt him to leave his present position in
which the Democracy of Virginia had placed
him." But he thought it was due Virginia,
that some one of her distinguished citizens
should be calledto aid the incoming administra-
ton in carrying out its policy