Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-04-07
NEWSnsEMS.

facilities forreaching Minnesota. We are now
enabled 70 state, on the authority Of the Chica-
80 Tribune, that navigation is about being open
ed with feet Of ninteen boats, most of which
are as fine steamers as arc to be seen in any of
the Western waters. Two boats a day-one
from Galena md another from Dunleith-will
leave the Illinois Central Railroad for St Paul
and the intermediate landings In addition to
these, one boat day viii leave Prairie du Chen
for the same place, and one eaeh day viii leave
Galena for Rock Island.
TME State Of Massachusetts pays for upwards
of eight thousand copies Of newspapers and
periodicals, for the use of the members of the
Legislature, the Governor, Council and the pub
lie Offices The Boston Journal, the largest, has
the largest list, 1907 copies being subscribed
for: BQll0u's Pictorial has s44 subscribers; the
infidei inrestigator Q; the Spiritualist q; and
quantities of the fash papers arc taken. Thirty
eight officials find consolation in the Youths
Companion; 90 others have comfort in zfon's
Herald The Flag of our GAlioN has SO rea-
dcrs; Littells Lieing Age 2sl; the PrrIor Cas-
let l0s; the Medical and Surgical Journal, 48,
and the Olite branch 81 The members of the
General Court seem tn aPpreciate newspapers
particularly the "fancy" class Of that literature.
A MONUMENT TO Henry Clay is to be erected
at Lexington, KY, on the l2tho April, and an
address is to DC delivered by Edward Everett
The height Of the column will be one hundred
and nineteenteet, capped by colossal statue
The Henry Clay association of Texas will ccle-
bratethe anniversary of Mr.. Clay's BIRTH on the
same day.
Tar sDr;ng 4rodA.e,la NJ t(o ol,SolIo,s .,,l
publishers of the various large cities has COM
tnenced in New York, and attracts goodly at
tendance of dealers. The catalogues extend
over i've or six hundred pages, and embrace
nearly one hundred and fifty thousand volumes,
including large proportion of valuable stan-
dard works.
WElearn by the last accounts from Europe,
that Russia is about to make great effort to
put an end, at once and forever, to the warfare
in Circassia, which has now been raging with
outany appreciable result for fifty years, and
consumes annually third of theimperial army.
The Circassians, on their side, seem prepared
oabidc the issue, have procured supplies Of
arms and ammunition from England, and have
placed the command of the United Tribesint the
hands of renegade Hungarian, who, if not
y resolute soldier.
ANoNo the items of intelligence received from
Europe, is that of the final adjustment of the
Danish difficulty, and of definite arrangement
by which that anomalous inheritance from the
Viking period-thc levy Of tax on all vessels
entering the Baldc--has disappeared from among
s''. s'sAr4'GS. SeC International s.t,,avs rI,S s,,-
tire credit Of having procured the abrogation Of
this unjust custom, relic as it has boon of mid
dle-age piracy, is due to the perseverance and
energy with which the United States Government
has continued, for twenty-five years, to protest
against it.
5TnE camels in Texas have been heard from
up to the 18th March. They arc doing we'll,
and those first brought over are in use for the
transportation of supplies between San Antonio
and Camp Verde. Three little ones were born
in March and are thriving, and five or six moro
births are expected. From the reports of tho
condition Of the animals, atprCsent, and throngh
the eleven months that the first importation
have been onthe continent, we may regard all
doubts as to their accIimation dissipated
NJ. SALES, arqueGusier to the Emperor Ma
pOleou, has invented post.otfioc automaton,
which takes up every letter us it is thrown into
the box, places it under the stamp, where it re-
"eives the nost-mark and date, and throws itout
again for delivery to Its destination. The pro-
cess indicates The number of letters thus
stamped.
InE Catholics, it is understood, are to build
an immense and splendid cathedral in the Fifth
avenue Of New York city. This new edifice, it
is expected, will be the finest on this continent,
and only be surpassed in the world by st Paul's
at London, and St Peters. at Rme Tho tow
eFs WILDE one hundred feet higher than the
spire of Trinity Church.
II has transpircd that Russia has taken more
active steps than England to establish telegraphic
Communication with India According to pri-
waite advices she made contract previously to
the termination of the late war, for line from
Nieolaief ria the Caspian sea to Herat It has
since been in progress, and although, under the
secrecy enforced in that country, no conjecture
can be formed Of the probable period Of Its COM
pletiOn, the contingency is not impossible, it is
thought Of her being in regular receipt OF news
from tho British Possessions weeks previously {
TO It's arrival in London
THE Newport Netcs contains advertisements
"lO let and lease. in that famous yvatcringplaco
70 tne NUMBER OF EAFee hNadred and .JsfEaesereR.
The owners arc mostly New Yarkers, who are
taking in sail to make all snug, preparatory to
the financial reyulsiOn, which they anticipate at
an early day.
Az engine and tonderran off the Illinois Cen
tral Road, near La Sale, the other day, and roI.
led down an embarkment some 20 feet, killing
four Irishmen who were on the tender. A slide
had taken place during the night which caused
tho accident
TnE binding out of orphans from Girprd Col
lese, Philadelphia, is progressing, tho number
70 be apprenentieed being "a There have
beea already bound out from the College ono
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