Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-01-15
ITENIS.


The new Post Office, at Cincinnati, opened
on the 18th inst, contains over twenty-seven
hundred boxes, at three, five and six dollars per
year.
NEGROES, FIVE in number. charged with the
recent horrible murder of Mr. George Greene,
near Gainesville, Prince William county, Va,
we're tried on Monday and Tuesday oflast week,
found guilty, and sentenced to be hung on the
18th of February next.
TuE repOrt of the Police Marshal of Philadel-
phia, for the year ending Dec. 3lst, 1856, shows
that the number of arrests in that city for all Of
fences, during that period, was 25,Ss5 Of this
number about 2 400 were cases of assault and
battery, of intoxicatiOn, breach Ofthe peace, and
vagrancy. leaving about four thousand cases to
be distributed among other offences. of the
whole number arrested, IL ,2T3 were Americans
Jess than half; 14,1l2 were foreigners, Of
which number Il 4S5 were Irish, l,52T Ger
man, 500 English, and the balance, 2Sl, IRON
nearly every part ofthe world.
TUE Cunard company have madeaTrnngements
under which, for the first time, they will extend
their operations to other waters than those of
the Atlantic They have formed combination
with the new Austrian Steam Company by which
with their vessels Etna, Jura and others, they
will undertake the Mediterranean portion of that
route, the portion between Suez and Melbourne
being carried out by the original promoters.
BAPrlsTs-There are nearly one million COM
mnnicants in the Baptist Church in this country,
including the British Provinces and the West
India Islands. In kentucky there are 1852
members. They nave 40 Colleges and TheOlog-
/ ica institutions besides lG0 other chartered in
/ stitutiOns of learning scattered through the
| Union.
| IT is remarkable that no female has ever been
good composer Of music. They have excelled
| in astronomy, chemistry, and other sciences,
| but no one can point out good original musl"
/ cal composer amongst them.
4 Tue INCONVENIENCE OF BEING To SANGrlNE.--
| \ good story is told ofthe Republicans OF Brook
lIvn, n Y. Before the election they hired
room in the Brooklyn Museum building, agree
ing to occupy it as their head quarters, at
stated rent, until Fremont ioas elected! The
I landlord being stiff Buchanan man, refuses to
! release them, and intends to make them suffer
| for their folly.
MAKING TMINGs CONFERENCE.-The Boston
! theatre is model Of cOmfort in every way. You
sit on the easiest of seats. have plenty of room
for your combinations" have everywhere
good sight and hearing of the stage, are never
offended by the lack of velGlation, have wide
Hobbies to lounge in, convenient retiring rooms
to sit in, and plenty Oflight to see by. A gong
is sounded when each new act is to commence,
and a time-keeper, showing the audience what
is the hour aud minute, Is placed over the pros
cenium, novel construction. In summer,
the house is SO comfortable that refreshing
draught is constantly kept up, all over it, and III
winter it is warmed throughout by furnaces
We see stated that, at this season OF the year,
it consumes nearly three tons OF coal day.
SssTnEnE were sixty-eight deaths by suicide in
New York last year, and sixty-eight the year
before There has been proposed as proven
tative Of that crime, the enactment ola las con-
signing 10 the schools Of anatomy the body of
every Individual, of whatever rank in life, whom
4 coroncr's jury should declare to have COM
mitted TsLo de Sc
TnE message of Mayor Yanx, of Philadel-
phia, shows that, while Philadelphia possesses
real estate assessed ut $l5o,O0O,OOO, the total
amount Of personal property is assessed at only
about 100000, 900. Boston, with taxable real
estate assessed at hundred and thirty-SiN
millions of dollars possesses personal property
assessed at one hundred and i've aud !. half mil
lions.
TmE steamship city of Washington, on her
last trip to Liverpool from Philadelphia, made
the passage III eleven days, nine hours and thirty
minutes, sailing two hundred and ninety-two
miles on the third day out, 292 the fourth, and
27S, $40, 3O2 and % miles the eighth, ninth,
tenth and eleventh days respectively. Such
log may compare favorable with any.
| NEWSPAPER CAHRIEtS AND PuBLlsHEIs.-ln
Albany a newspaper carrier sued publisher
for taking. away his routc hook. Justice Parsons
decided that the route belongs to the publisher
and not the carrier, aud the publisher has there
fore right to do as he plcases with the books