Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-04-13
NEwsnEMS


THR land officers in Minnesota have been di!!
rected TO continue the Withdrawal Of lands fall
ing within the probable lines Of the railroad
routes established under grants Of Congress.
Presumption claims based npon actual settlement
and not for speculation, made up to the time
when the lines or routes were definitely fixed
on any Of the lands Withdrawn, will be allowed,
provided the testimony is clear and explicit The
officers of the Refrigerated Land Districts will
be established at brownsville, at Dakotah and
Nebraska cities
FRoN the reports of the fffty-two Savings
Banks in the State Of New York, itappears that
the deposits IN 1850 were S22, s65, s5o-being
an increase of nearly 81, 100000 oyer ls55.-
There were 2O4.s7 depositogs. In New York
and Brooklyn the yer'as deposits foot up Sl6,-
30s,299. The entire sum held by Savings
Banks is nearly So, OOO, 00O-an increase of five
and half million for the year.
Ar a meeting of commun Council of Trenton
one of the members presented an ordinance to
prevent distractions on sidewalks by children
aud ladies with hoops He stated that he had
petition signed" by two hundred ladies, on
this subject, which he had nislaid, but which
he would present at the next meeting. The or
dinance was referred to the appropriate CONT
tee
OxE of the best pieces OF news received BY
the Canadian was the indication that Great Bri-
tain, despite her tardineSs, has not utterly lust
sight of the fearful inhumanities Practised by
the fiendiSh government of Naples, on thou
sands of innocent beings, under the pretence
that they are disatected! Previous TO the l.te
dissolution of Parliament, Lord Palmerston, in
reply toquestions, stated that no direct over
lures for the return of the embassies had been
made from Napier, but that it had been indi-
rectly asked Whether sending the political pri-
soners to La Plata would be considered suiIi-
cient?" The British government, it was added,
would not be satisfied with Naples merely emp
tying its prisons to fill them again.
a PARIS correspondent of Goaeg's Lady's
Book, mentions the new hydrogen balloons as
the most singular feature Of the gift reason this
year. They are made of India Rubber paper,
coiored red, distended with hydrogen gas, and
c.osei perfectly. Held by string round the
c'rild's finger, they soar upward as far as per-
mitted, and float about gracefully il. the air The
Juvenile people are delighted with them. When
laid aside within doors they ascend to the ceiling
Of the Parlor or nursery, and there remain safe
and ont of the way. 1t is said their explosion,
by accidental contact with blaze, is not dan
gcrous, and their cost is from one to two francs.
Tue State Engineer of Louisiana has made
special report to the Legislature of that State
ia which he says that the levesing the Mississp-
pi and its branches above Louisiana, is by thus
IF &c
prccipitating at once on Louisiana immense
amounts of water which formerly were detained
for weeks. For this surplus, vents muStbc found.
The bayous must be deepened and strnitened'
He recommends Congress be petitioned to de-
clare the Mississippi an finland sea" of which
the improvements belong to the General Govern.
uent
PTRRnoNIsM seems to be the order of the day.
This incresinlous spirit of the 18th century
seeks to destroy everything which the course
Of ages has confirmed. Firstwe are told Shaks.
Peare did not write his pIays-thcn that Scott
did not write the Waverly novels; and now we
are told that Milton did not write Paradise Lost
Fitshardown, in England, has advanced an alb
surd hypothesis, tending to show that Oliver
Cromwell might have written the poem; aud
taking that for granted, he gives Cromweiis
reasons for concealing it and Milton's reasons
for publishing it.
An unfortunate bard complains that the print
ers do him injustice. He says, for instance. he
employed French quotation =
La IeaH,e 11as rsrtu est u" aeur suns parfrEl."
1t was reported for =. New Jersey paper
Laboratory sause vfrtae S stone EFosr PaSaBn.''