Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-05-25
NEWS I'FEAIS.

NEWS ITEMS.
RI. RRv DR.. CALLS, Roman Catholic Bishop
of Kingston, died in Montreal on the 9th inst,
from an affection under which he has suffered
severely during the last fourteen years The
departed PrcIate was the second Bishop of his
Church in the Province of Canada.
DEsPNscH from Augusta, received in Wash
ing, on the 10Th, says that, at the latest intelli-
gence from Senator Butler, he was rapidly i'm
proving.
FGON Washington we learn that two thousand
United States troops are now moving towards
Utah. They will be employed to enforce the
laws in that rebelious territory, and protect the
"Gentilesn from oppression. The two vacant
.Iudgeships aud the Office Of Marshal are to be
filed, and the incnmbents will be sustained in
their execution of the law. No governor for the
territory has yet been appointed, but the sche-
dale of operations connected with the entire
subject is tobe at once despatched.
4 cLgRg in the American Express Company
at Plymouth, Indiana, elopcd with $3s, 600 He
was arrested, and the money most fortunately
recovered
TnE Commissioners of Emigration in New
York City, had a meeting on Wednesday, aud
debated the propriety of erecting baggage house
at Castle Garden, for tue accommodation of em-
igrauts, whose goods are often stolen by runners
and others. 1t seems that there are n large
number of emigrants in the Garden. at present,
and their luggage has been exposed to the storm
for the last tSo days The Commissioners fear
that if they build baggage house they will be
responsible for the goods stored therein. The
matter was not finally decided.
TnE long pending suit of Fowles against Boz
wen, of the firm of Bowen & McNamee, New
York-an action for SANDER, which was tried
once before ard verdict of So, 900 rendered.
was resumed again on Wednesday, on the second
trial. The Court was density crowded by the
mercantile community, and the case seems to
excite general interest, as much from the wealthy
position of the defendant, as from the sympathy
entertained for the plaintiff:
THE General Synod of the Associate Reform
Cd Scotch Presbyterian Church commenced its
session in New York on Wednesday last
Abont ono hundred and twenty-five delegates
are in attendance, from all parts of the country.
TnE York PennsyIranian states that Rev. b.
Hutchins, formerly pastor of the Episcopal
church in that borough, but now residing at AL
bion, ILL.,, recently lost seven out of nine chill
dren in ten successive days from scarlet fever,
and at last accounts the other two were ill.
TuE Legislature OF Ohio has made an import.
ant change in the election law. Thirty days
residence in the county; and twenty days in the
township or ward, are now required to consti-
tute a legal voter.
UNITED STATES SENATOR ADAMS, of Mississ-
ippi, died of the small pox, contracted while
TRAVELLING in tha cnrC nj the couth
THE people of Iowa are to vote in August on
the question of allowing colored men to vote.
ruE American State Convention Of Ohio,
will be held in Cincinnati on the 2Tthins
FAMINE IN IowAs-IuG /, ,.t--.,no 6T,r,5,,,.,
of the 18th, says that hay was selling in that
market on Tuesday sat the enormous price of
$50 per ton. This is owing to the scarcity of
all descriptions of fodder throughout the coun-
try Rnmors are reaching us from all parts of
the State in regard to the starvation of cattle.
Feed cannot be obtained at any price. The
backward spring makes it impossible to pas
turo the cattle, and scores are dying off daily
from starvation; and our farmers arc suffering
great losses"
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