Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-05-09
NEWS In.ltn1S

l'ANiu unuEueIeu Ut. ouINletti was cOIllIuueu OH
"wednesday ia the Cour tot Oyer and Terminer
Much additional testimony was taken relative to
the position and character of the wounds found
in the body, and, from the course pursued by
the defence, the opinion obtnins that they will
endeavor to shift the responsibility of the deed
upon some person having more than common
knowledge of the anatomy of the human body.
Such was the opinion of Dr.. Francis, when upon
the stand.
PREsDRxT BccuAHAx tendered'to Col. George
P Kane, prominent old line Wing of Balti-
moro, Maryland an important position in con-
nection with the collector of customs, which,
after some consideration, he declined Col
Kane was collector of the port of Baltimore
under President Fillmore.
LATER intelligence has been received from
China. There have been some frightful mas,
isacres of foreigners BY the natives, In one in-
stance, however, these murders were terribly
lavenged,-Sir James Brooke, at the head of a
body of Malays, putting some two thousand Chi.
namen to the sword This bloody work, naturally
enough, creates a great sensation in London.
TuE depression in business in New York is
loudly complained of by the shipping interests.
1t is estimated that vessels to the value TWEEN
ty-iive millions Of dollars are lying in New
York harbOr, most oEthem without employment,
and those that have found something to do,
have accepted it at rates ruinously low.
THE rejection Of the amendments to the Dali
las and Clarendon treaty is absolute and final.
The objection is, to transferring absolute SOW
ereignty over Bay Islands to Honduras, and to
striking ont the slavery restriction.
TuE Cambridge Dorchester county, Nd }
Democrat, states that the recent rains have had
a wonderful effect upon the crops of wheat in
that county, and notwithstanding the general
complaint of its injury, by the severe winter,
that journal would not be surprised if large
crops should be made. The farmers are busy,
throughout the country, planting corn.
IT is announced that President Buchanan and
several of his Cabinet will go to Boston on the
approaching 18th of June, to participate in tho
Inauguration of the statue of General Warren
on Bunker Hill Gen. Scott will be there, too
THE Portsmouth (Va.) Transcript states that
the guns of the new steam frigate Minnesota,
which were ordered from Pittsburg, Pennsyl-
vania, failed to stand the navy test, and conse-
quently the Minnesota is obliged to go to tho
Gosport Navy Yard to take the battery prepared
for the Colorado, made at Richmond, Virginia.
IN a recent trial at Chicago, it was establish
ed that firm largely cngagaged in the wood
trade in that city, prOtited largely by false
measurement Eight cords of wood were pur-
chased of them, and the purchaser, on its deltv.
cry, had the curiosity to measure it, when it
was found that they actually delivered only five
and one-cghth cords. The price was eight dol
lars per cord, and they made about $40 by the
swindle
Ma. HALE, late teller of the Washington OIl.)
Bank, was committed tojAil last week, in Peo-
ria, Illinois, on charge of embezzling $1,000.
He committed suicide the following night by
taking opium.
Missouri-CoI. Stewart National Democrat;
Maj. Rollins, Know Nothing Black Republican,
and John Wilson, Old Line Wing.
THE Louisville Journal states that Gen Sam
Houston is the American candidate for Govern
or of Texas, and that all the enthusiasm of the
oldcn time is awakening in his behalf
THE jackson Mississippian contradicts the re-
port so widely circulated, ''thut the laws of Mis-
sissippi have been sent to Boston to Reprinted. =
TuE Collector of the Customs at New Orleans,
has ordered the seizure at Baltze, off the schoon-
er Louis McLa;;e, on the suspicion Of being a
SLAYER.
A GREAT frcshct has occurred in the James
river, Virginia, submcrgfng the lower section Of
Richmond city. Some damage has been done
on the South Side Railroad. AT Lynchburg the
water rose II feet.
OSE hundred aud ninety of Col. Lockridge's
flibusters, from Nicaragua. have arrived at
New Orleans on board the rBitish frigate Tar
tar, sick aud destitute.
TnR St, Paul Pioneer states that tho new
Governor, san. Medary, arrived in that city on
the 22d of April, aud was qualified on the fol-
lowing day, and has accordingly entered upon
the duties of his Office. There was no in.
augural address, only some half dozen igen.
tlenen being present TO witness the ceremony
TUE Court of Claims opened in Washington
on Monday. A great deal of important bust
ness was transacted, and large numberof dc
cisiOns were delivered In nearly every ono of
these cases, certainly in erery considerable one,
the decision was adverse to the claimant
The Court continued Tuesday in the delivery
of decisions, of which good many remain to
be made.
EFFEcr OF THE wEATHER : The New York
Journal Of Commerce discOursingOf the wealth
err says the foundation has been laid in that city
within the last two months, for as many con
sumptions and other fatal diseases of the lungs,
as would equal the Favages of moderate vista
ton Of yellow fever OF cholera.
Is IT ANY woxDER THAr MONEY IS TroR7i-
The Indebtedness Of the different Railroads Of
the United States now reaches the enormous
sum Of four hundred and seventy millions Of
dollars; and the report of the late Secretary of