Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-03-03
NEWS ITEMS.

TnE novel treaty which our Minister, MF.
FORSYTH. has negotiated in Mexico, again at
tracts attention to the forlorn and disturbed
condition of that unhappy country, whose fate
itis,-whether we, or Mexico will it or motto
icrumble before the superior energy and unmix-
ed blood of tho Anglo-Saxon race in the United
States.
.TuE Cleveland (obio) Leader says:
at has been whispered in our eW since the
recent visit of Gov. Chase to our city, that ne
gotiations of tender and delicate nature are In
/ process between orr eminent and excellent Gov:
ernor; and certain charming and accomplished
widow lady, well known to our citizens.
A BILL to prevent the circulation of Abolition
documents aud newspapers has been introduced
into the Louisiana Legislature. The bill makes
it criminal offence to take an Abolition paper,
and the southern definition of "Abolition," is
any sort ofdiscussion not on the side of sla-
very. ,c5sl
TIN Indian Tribes, and what to do with
them, puzzle Congress. "A proposition is sgi-
tated in Washington, which has for its end the
policy of removing all the Indian tribes except
those located Immediately on the Arkansas and
Texas borders, to Western Minnesota, and there
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providing for them permanent homes.
THE illinois brings us an interesting budget
ofnews from California. though nothing much
to excite: The rumors we have been having
of meditated fillibuster descent upon the Mex,
/ lean State of Sonora wonid seem to be confirm.
ed in the departure from San Francisco, ofsome
fifty or sixty patriots, ''-ostensibly for the
purpose of settling in the Gadsden purchase, -
but in reality, to Halkerizc the Mexicans, with
view to ultimate annexation, (walker it will
be remembered, commenced his Manifest
Destiny" by killing or robbing the Mexicans in
this same Sonora
ST.. LOUIS saw the novelty of a regularly train
ed team" of prairie wolves driven through her
streets, the other day. The canine population,
it is said, were intensely indignant at the dis
play and barked right savagelS-
TnE critics ofthe New York Times and 1Ti-
6uns have thrust their lances fiercely into the
new translation of Goethe's Faust, brought out
at Laura Keene's Theatre. 1t is pronounced a
most unmitigatedly fat and feeble bore.
GEORGE KNIGHT is being tried for the murder
of his wife, in rural village of Maine. So great
is the excitement, that daily paper has been
started in the village, merely toreportit.
THE wife ola gentleman in Boston ha,iag
presented him With three sons at birth, he has
had then named Benjamin Franklin, Charles
Sumner and Henry Wilson.
~ rise for information" said member of
Congress 81 am very glad to hear it" cried
one sitting by, "for no one needs it more"
As an argument in favor of early marriages,
we are told of couple in Middleboro', Mass,
who are supposed to be the longest married of
any in the State. They have lived together rs
years, having been respectively 90 and II years
of age when married. The gentleman's name
is Moses Thompson, a merchant.
The Louisville Courier understands that the
Tnsuraned underwriters of that city, since the
recent heavy fire there, have advanced the rate
of insurance twenty-five per cent Some of the
best foreign agencies have also closed their off
ces in that city in consequence of the heavy
losses incurred.
A SAILOR fell from ships plank in Boston,
Saturday, struck on fender and was seriously
injured. While he was being carried away,
WIN. Chase, mate of the vessel, fell, struck
the same fender, and was killed.
TIE N. Y. Herald publishes n list of the rich
men of the metropolis. The list is long, but it
seems there are only five Simon pure million
aires in all-the greatest of whom is VIM. B..
Astor-about four millions. The others are
James Lenox, Alexander L. Stewart, Peter Lo-
rillard, Stephen Whitney.
AuGus DARIiSe is cripple, suffering from
numb palscy from infancy, living in Springfield,