Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-12-17

nY-DAY-PARAGRApus- the correspond.
encc column of N0qh'S Times and Messenger
for this week, we find the following questions
and answers:
Query.-What is meant by those two finan-
ciai terms, Bears" and Bulls?"
Ans1cer.-In stocks, a"Bear" is a dealer who con-
tracts to deliver stocks at specified future times
"Bull" is one who contracts to take them-in
the intervening time it being the interest ofthe for
mer to dePrcss stocks, or pull them down: of
the latter to raise them, or push them up
When the time for delivery arrives, the losing
party pays the difference between the price of
the stock then and at the time when the con-
tract was made.
2Uery.-A bets B that the Bank of England
will suspend. The news arrives of the suspen-
sion of the bank act, and 4 claims the bet on
the ground that the authorizing of an unlimited
sion of specie payment or confession of ina
bility to continue such payment B disputes
the ground. Which is right?
AHSDer.--In the strict senEe, the bank has
suspended, according to received financial laws
and usages-thc effect, or appearance of sus-
pension, however, having been qualified by the
authorization, &c. 1t is a suspension de .fdctO,
although it avoids the formal act by availing it
self of government privilege.
Query.-Are the cent and three-cent coins is
sued by the government mint legal lender p
If SO, can PostmaSters refuse to take them in
payment for postage!
Ansoer.-Three-cent pieces have been held
to be legal tender up to SO cents
/ Query.-Suppose man and woman live to-
gether in the city; and, among some parties, they
pass for man and wife, and, under certain cir
cumstances he allows her to take his name; but,
in reality, they are not married, and their most
intimate friends know they not, and it is mu-
tually agreed between them that they are not
and shall not be considered legally married.
Now, under such circumstances, can that man
legally deed away property without hersignature
to the deed? If lie cannot, and she was willing,
could she sign paper admitting that she was
not his wife, and never intended to be legally
considered so? Would that obviate the diff
Guilty?
Ans,cer.-The law, as understood and adjudi-
Gated in this state, would decide that, in such
cases as you cite, the woman is your wife; and
should you attempt to convey real estate with
out her release, she would have it in her power
to disturb the title. Your denial, or waiver, as
between yourselves, or among certain OF your
friends, that yOu are not married, would not OPP
crate against the fact that among some parties,
as you state, you pass for man and wife.
/ 2UeTy.-l find the following sentences in the
! Presidents message: "Our relations with Russia
remain, rs they have ever been, on the most
friendly footing. The present emperor, as well
as his predecessors. have never failed, when the
occasion offered, to manifest their goodwill to
our country; and their friendship has always
been highly appreciated by the government and
people of the United States" Is the language
/ grammatical.
AnsWer.-The Presidential language youq quote
may be taxed with ineIegance; but the probable
violation of grammatical rule to which you refer
THE present emperor, as we'll as his prede
cessors, haze never failed" &c.-is an allowable
mode of expression, employed for the sake o.
dircCtness and brevity.
Qne,y-A man and wife being of opposite
religious faith, protestant and Catholic,) is il
customary for the wife to Adopt the religion Of
the husband, or tie husband that of the wife
! nswer.-Thcre is no absolute custom in the
case Sometimes there is an ante-nuPtial un
derstanding, or agreement by which the service!
are alternately attended at either church by
husband aud wife; also, as to the education o
children, SC. It is purely an individual matter
to be disposed of according to the inclinations
tastes, and disposition to differ or conciliatc o
the parties Immediately concerned.