Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-03-27

people Of this Stnte; and the only mode Of as
certaining this important fact is by full and free
discussion of the entire system.
NEWS ITEMS.
TAE English prime minister plays a bold
game; instead Of going cut of ONCE, he and his
colleagues declare their intention of dissOlying
Parliament, and demanding the judgment ofthe
country on Whist they have done. He believes
the people TO be more favorable to war with
China than their representatives,
Iris said that the shrewd and sagacious For
meg viii be content to remain near the person
Of the President, and aid him in the adnlinistra-
ton of the government In other words, For
ney has chosen to be virtually the President. in.
stead of being the Presidents servant in for
eign land-and the choice admirably illustrates
Forney's great sagRcity. Aud so Forney WILDE
chief cook and bottle-washer at the White
House for the next four years.
TuE London Tines says that war between
Spain and Mexico would appear. to he almost
certain The Spanish Ministry has addressed
note to the representatives, Of Spain at the Eu-
ropean Courts explaining the quarrel. Having
mentioned the murders and the robberics COM
united on the persons and goods of Spanish SUBJ
slSSA1 Ats @NS4NSS SAAG sFVtAAGA0 va -OCt4-
cral Alvarez, the note declares that the Spanish
Government does not desire to make the people
and the Government of Mexico responsible for
these atrociousact if the Mexican Government
would only take energetic steps to repair them.
Spain is fitting out an armament to be sent
against Mexico.
THERE is nothing SO grateful to the heart of
Society as a neWly-caught lion with a long
name. Such one has just appeared in New York
inthe person Of John Dean, ecoachman, who
has suddenly become the most famous whip
master since the time of Pnat0n.
IT has been decided that one of the agencies
by which the poisonous lniasma of the Natio-
nal Hotel at Washington was ditfused among
the boa ders at that house, was themeat, which
being hung up in the harder became impregna-
ted with the poison, and, as a natural conse-
Quence, affected those who partook of it
WAsHrSeroN adviees state that Governor
GeAry would consent to resume his post in Kan
sas, II he could carry with him assurances Of
proper support from the Government in Wash
iugton.
o.: the 23d of February, 1852 tho French
Government offered the reward of $4,000 francs
to the man who, before the ssd of February,
1851, should make the electric battery industri
ally useful and economical. A Committee was
appointed last month to decide upon the subject.
Several Agricultural Societies have offered re.
wards for pillow to make particular kind Of
furrow, for the purpose Of draining wheat lands
in Virginia and Maryland. We read that the
whole amount offered is $50, but we think it 4
misprint for $500. This would not pay for more
than one experiment
THE beautiful statue Of America, now being
executed by Powers, the great American sculp-
tor, has been purchased by John n. GeniR, Esq,
the wealthy and enterPrising halter, and pro-
Prietor of the Bazaar, St Nicholas Hotel, New
York. 1t was generally supposed that Congress
would make an appropriation for the purchase
Of this masterpiece Of the great sculptor; but it
seems they have not done so.
HoN. n. r. BANKS workeain the mill at Ma.
shua when IL years Of age, tWo years, board.
ing with his uncle, Capt. 4, G. Banks Hethcn
went back to NYaltban andlearned the u,achin.
isttrade. BE was spoken Of as an intense rea:
der of history, sitting uphill after midnight,
and wasting no hours in dissipation.
TuE large and extensive drug establishment
of Norris Aguew, Of Independence, Mo-, was
burnt on the 9Th with all its contents Mr. Ag-
new went to Independence from Philadelphia
As an evidence OF the decided anti.slayery
sentiment in ST Louis and other portions Of
Missouri, it viii be remembered that even the
foreign born German voters, there being no Re-
publican electoral ticket in that State voted for
tho Fillmore electors last IAN We now. find by
the ST Louis Neas', that the Americans Of the
State, IN return for this viii support the eman.