Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-11-19

RrpoRr OF rHE Gas CoMrANY-We publish
to-day, an answer from the Gas Company to the
report of the Committee an Accounts. 1t will
be read with no little interest, We presume, in
asmuch as it traverses the entire substance OF
the report made in behalf of the city. How
such discrepancy should occur is quite Puz-
gle to us. as we are sure it must be 10 every
one. The draughtsman Of the Company, goes
out Of his way TO administer to us few of his
ideas, touching the duties and prophecies of
iournalism-as to when and how comments
ought TO be made. As no charge has been
made for this harmless freak Of his versatility,
we shan't put ourselves to the trouble Of saying
anything in reply
We do not claim to stand either for or against
either party, but merely TO write as we are i'm
pressed by appearances. In our comments up
on Ifr. Paxtons report, we intimated that the
Gas Company was doubtless acting under an
understood contract-but as there was no evil
dence in possession of city, of the ratification
of any such contract, there did not seem to
have been anything more than an unfinished
understanding.
The preface of this report to-day, reflects
upon the apprehension of the City Council,
when it afiirms that the fallacies ofMr Paxton's
report were obvious-both from the face of
the document aud from the "facts fully devel-
oped'' before the council. Despite those fully
developed facts the council discontinued the
contract. The council sustained the report of
their committee III the face not only of those
facts. but after speech from representative
of the Gas Company.
We say them we have no fault to find with
any CT the figures of the Company--but only
with the verbiage of the preface,
DIsruRBANCs AMONG THE EcCLEsIAsTIcs.-We
publish to-day an extract, somewhat fuller than
the telegraph sketches, going to show how our
friends-the Methodist Ministers-are puzzled
and put to, like every body else, about the
inevitable and interminable Niger question: -
There they all were, down in the Queen City
where they could talk or fisti-cufF, If need be,
without outside interference They want to
meet in some such place again-some place
where they can speak, pray, sing, cxpostulate,
exhort, expound or speechify without any one
to make them afraid Well, some OF the breth-
rem thought "Lynchburg town" the place where
old Johnny Booker ''brokc dc stecPle ring,
would be central and otherwise convenient
place-but others said nay; for, as it seems,
they had no idea of going down to any place
where they could not talk ont in meeting, v
whether that talk be about niggers or anything
else. The Lynchburgcrs we had almost writ
ten 6uggerS-had, it appears, been warning
them that if they came down there to debate,
they must do so inside Of chalk linc-which
they (thc Lynchburgcrs) would make around
the boards of the Sanctuary.
For our part, we admire the pluck of the
church militant cyinced on this occasion, in
refusing to go near them. If men can't pro-
pose a meeting anywhere in these United
States, without being notified by the people
of the proposed place. that they must talk to
suit their notions, why we had better sell out to
the Car of Russia just let him foreclose a
mortgage on whatever of free speech remainins
to us.
Because they own few niggers in Lynch
burg, it is no adequate or justiiable reason why
they should make niggers out of their visitors.
FEGNKIvG PKIvLEGE.-rhe Union says that
neither political party would suffer by prohibit
ing the ranking privilege altogether, and espe
cially all printer matter; and it would relieve
the members of Congress from vast labor aud
very heavy expense, while it would exempt
the Post Office Department from many of its
present embarrassments. It would make the
establishment self sustaining, and probably in a
short time enable it to submit to further re-
duction of the rates Of postage.
REMEDY FOX BRONCHITIs.-Take honey i'll the
comb, squeeze it out and dilute with little wa
ter aud wet the lips and mouth occasionally
with it. 1t has never been known to fail, in
cases where children had threats so swollen as to
be unable to swallow. 1t is certainly simple
remedy and may be q very elficacious one
A WrrrY BAxgm-The Baker was genuine
when he advertised: The subscriber, knowing
that men need bread, wishes the public to know
that he also kncads it. He is DESTROYS of feed
ing all who are hungry, and hopes his good tcorks
may be in the mouth of every one. He is well
disposed to all men; and the best bred people
among US viii find him, he hopes, one of the best
bread men in the city.
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In some books of devotion this hypocritical
PRAYER is to he found, Lord gre us grace not to