Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-05-27
NEWS IpEMS.
.ON last Thnrsday evening DC Pbiladelphians

vi -ANSlCy 10 Dltl QlIl l1TGWcIl, Us he Is
about to depart for Europe Nothing was pre-
ssnted, however, but compliments, and to these
Mr.. Cough made an eloquent reply, in which he
repeated his apostrophe to Water, paul Dem
ton's) ana at the close of it, dashed the tumbler
to pieces ON the stage, making great sensation.
THE, Eaton, Preble county, Register gays that
in removing certain bodies from one place of
burial to another in that town, the body of Mrs
Railsback found to have been converted
into a state of solicited limestone, preserving
the form and features of the body in remar-
kable degree as when living. The solidified
body weighs 600 pounds.
OxE hundred and five slaves, emancipated un
der the last will and testament of Gen. j. j.
Mckay, so long representative from North
Carolina in Congress, have arrived Mt Nor
folk, to embark in the Mary Caroline Stevens,
for Liberia.
THE Dresden Telegraph announces the birth
of calf with eight legs, in that town. Calves
with two legs are quite common in this neigh
borhOod.
FauT.-Nearly all our exchanges in Ohio
speak fayOrably of the prospects of fine crop
this season.
THE one hundred anil seventeenth unniver-
saEy Of the birthday of Stephen Girard was
celebrated at Girard College, Philadelphia, on
Thursday last
The Conneaut Reporter says that Mr.. S.
Young, Assessor for the township of Monroe,
reports the amount of maple sugar made in that
township the present season to be 10, 300 pounds.
The township of Plymouth made this year 49,
600 pounds of sugar from something over q, 600
trees.
TIE barquc Prompt, from Mobile to Baltimore,
with cargo OF cotton, has been set on fire by
abOlt of lightning. She was put back into the
bay and scuttled. The amount of the loss is
not stated.
CHARLES S. FRAILEy, Esq, prominent citizen
of Washington, and formerly Grand Master of
the Masonic Order Of that District, died on Sun
day in that city
TnE Marshal of the District of Columbia has
given notice to Mr.. Blanchard, one of the print
crs of the National Era, and to David a. Hall,
of his intention to sell their property to pay the
bail forfeited by General Chaplin, who was
charged with the abduction of Slaves from this
District.
AN immense number of workmen are now
employed on the capitol extension, aud the work
Is progressing with great rapidly. The iron
galleries of the new Hall of Representatives arc
being set up. The clear extent of the hall, ex-
elusive of the Io6bies, viii be IIs feet in depth
by 81 in width and 81 feet in height.
TitE banking capital of Pennsylvania, which
before the late Legislature was $9s, 5T5, GOO,
will by the various additions authorized in the
bank bills, beincreased $O,51O,OOO, thus reach
ing an aggregate of $50, 0s5, 900. The banking
capital of Massachusetts, is sGO,OOO,OOO, and of
New York State of over $1OO, 100000.
ARRIVALS OF SUGAR AND MOLAssEs-On Sat.
urday l1,T56 hhds., al tierces and 1923 bbls.
of sugar and molasses arrived at New York.
The Louisville crop of this year promises to be
good one, and present high prices will take
from producing countries every available pound
for sale; so that upon disappearance of the new
crop, indeed so fast as il becomes certain that
the supply of sugar will be abundant prices
may be expected to recedc
TnE UrbaUA, (O.,) Citizen says tho people of
that fair town have been much interested during
the past week in discussion which has been
going on between the Rev, Mr. Stewart, Of the
New Church, and tho Rev. Mr.. Long, of the
Presbyterian Church, upon the questions of the
AAtuANy tuc <AlouSlHSIlt lUS OlLL IN winch
the discussion is carried on has been crowded
every night
TuE CAnmEE-The Journal Of Commerce,
speaking of President Buchanan's Cabinet says,
in worldly wealth, it is the richest American
Cabinet that ever convened since we became a
nation. Some count their means by hundreds
of thousands, some by millions. They are,
therefore beyond the reach of pOverty's temp
tatiOns.
BouNTY LAND WAReAwrs.-A bounty land
warrant for 100 acres was on Saturday issued
from the Pension Office to the Hon. Louis Nc
Lane, Secretary of the treasury under General
jackson, for his services in Capt. Geo Reads
company of light artillery, Delaware militia, in
the war of 1879.
HEALTH OF Rlo.-Letters from Rio JaneirO to
the 4th ult. state that the yellow fever was de.
Ginning in the harbOr, that about twenty persons
died each day in the city of tho disease.
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that Com Box.-Gen. James Shields, whose
advice was solicited with reference tothe most
equitable disposition of General Jackson's gold
box, has replied to tho chairman of the Special
Joint Committee, to the effect that If it were
left to him to decide from his own observations
and impressions as to who most deserved to re-
ceive the box, he would determine in favor of
Col. Burnett, of the New York regiment, which
was included in Gen. Shields Brigade In doing
this he does not mean to settle the question of
relative bravery between that gentleman and
others, whose conduct in battle did not fall un.
der his observation.
THE Ice TEADR-A New York paper abiding
to the Increased rates demanded for ice in that
In view of the immense croD of ice last win.