Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-08-06
SUMMARY.

Tue lates, Intelligence from Mexico would
seem 10 plzce the election ofGeneral Comonfort
as President Of the Republic. beyond all Doubt.
The returns were not all iu.-and some time
must earse before the insult Is iefiiitivey known
but. with the figures before us from the nor
populons states, it is reasonable 10 conciud
that Comonfort Is chosen. The canvass az
pears TO have been conducted with coinmendabi
order, and if there Is room for any complain
AGAINST tie voters at all it is on the score Of thei
not n1nifesting as much interest as they ought,
on an ocasion vital to the prcsentand prosperity
interests Of the country.
THE Washington correspondent Of The PTeS,
Col. Forney's new rsper, says that there can
be little doubt that the erection Of new Presi-
dental mansion will be one of the measures
that will receive the favorable action of the nex'
Congress" The propriety OF the measure viii
not be questioned, we imagine, by any one, ex-
cept those who may have desire to make wny
with our Presidents soon after their election.
The present Presidential mansion IS conceded
to be an unhealthy residence in summer, and
Mr.. Buchanan has determined not to live in il
dnring the hot months
JoHx UxDEEwooD, justice Of TIE peace. re-
siding at Occoquan. Prince William county.
Va, was examined before two magistrates on
the 25th ult. on charge Of violating the law
Of the Commonwealth which provides for ,he
punishment Of thosc yy!.o maintain By speak
ing or writing that owners have not right Of
property in their slaves" The accused was
held for his appearance before tie county court
in August Another citizen Of Prince William
Is suspected of similar offence, bu, hss not
been arrested
THE Richmond Enquirer claims for Virginia
Northumberland position ofa conservative peace
maker, standing politically and geographically
midway between the extremists ofthe North and
the South. and serving as ! barrier to prevonta
hostile meeting ofthe two beligerent forces. We
are glad to see the leading organ of opinion lay.
ing claim to this distinction. as heretofore the
same paper has decidedly ranged itself in the
Thnks Of the extreme Sonth.
THE Hightstown. N. j. Excelsior says thst
a young man of twenty years, residing with his
mother, in lonely cabin. some fifteen miles
from that place, in ''thc Pines" died recently,
and that he was dressed in the Establishments Of
the crave. his coffin made, his grave dug. and
all the other labor incidental 70 depositing the
body in its last resting place, was performed by
his mother.
Tar Cincinnati Gazette says that the New
Workers have stopped fighting and gone to in
juncting. They get up every morning and
injunct each other all around. They then spend
the day in getting the irjunctions dissolved.
They then get ont fresh set Of injunctions the
next morning. and begin the dissoiTing process
where they left off the day before
CT WADE 4 nephew Of Senator Wade. Of
Ohio, who died in Audoyer, Ohio, on the ss,h
nit, aged %, was attended in his last illness by
his bctrothed, Miss Julia nartshorn, of Lcnox,
with a constancy worthy true woman, and a few
days since, when the hope of his recovery was
pasr, they were united in marriage.
TIT lay me down and dee, - in Annie Laurie,
was being sung by a workman in England, re-
Gently, when he threw his head back, as if suit
ing the action to the words. and after DE had
remained short time. his companions went to
him and found him actually dead.