Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-03-14

preme Court at Washington.
THE f,llowing from the official report Of the
House of Representatives, would be extraordi-
nary, as we'll as amusing, in any other country
than ours:
LEAVE 10 PRINT a SPEECH.
Ar TysOn-I have been cndcayoring for the
last three or four weeks to Obtain the floor for
the purpose of submitting some remarks to tho
House, but it has been utterly impossible; and 1
now ask the permission of the House to print
those remarks Giies Of "Agreedl''l
LEAVE TO PRINT a SPEECH
Mr Welch-t ask the unanimous consent of
the House for leave to publish some remarks on
the report of theisclect committee on my case,
which, from the lateness of the hour last cver-
ing, when obtained the floor, was unable to
deliver.
There was no objection.
A RESPECTABLE Virginia farmer, named Babb,
and his sop, were arrested in Petersburg, Va, on
Monday, for fraud practiced upon merchant in
selling him lard with stones embedded in the CEN
ire of tho firkins. 1t was in evidence that tho
wife Of the elder Babb, and step-lnother of the
young man, had placed them there in further
euce of the malicious threat to get her husband,
with whom she did not live happily, in trouble.
The money Was thereupon refunded and the
case dismissed.
ACCORDING to correspondent of the New
York Tines, it isproposed now to form union
between Southern Ntcsragna and Costa RIGA;
against the tilibpsterism. The Inhabitants of the
former State have consented to the plan. The
South Pacific States, it is said, give it every en-
cOuragement and if it proves successful, the
transit route viii then bealtogcther under Costa
Rican control.
CRAZY man caused some CONSERVATION
fcw days since, by entering passenger car on
the Central Railroad, near Rochester, primitive
" clothed in hat, cloak aud a pair of boots. A
sudden flush Of heat caused him to attempt to
hang up his cloak and ..cool off, /" which caused
some screaming, little fdinting, the stoppage
of the train, and the return of the lunatic to
the asylum where he belonged.
TuE yevay Qnd.) Resilte says that .'playing
marblesS has become an amusement in that place
which throws "kecrds" quite into the shade,
and isindulged nby .'all classes and grades,
from the bare-footed shaver to the gray. haired
sire" Only the other day, the editor witnessed
q game, 'in which the Judge of the Common
Pleas Court the ex-R Recorder, a steamboat mate,
and q fat-boat pilot, were the contestants.p
ELlnu BUKRrrr, the selemade man, scholar
and phianthropist, has met with the first repulse
in his life of usefulness, at the hands of the De-
troitcrs They shut their doors against him,
and refused him the use of the church he had
engaged.
TaE Forsyth Treaty, Tor series of Treaties,
for it seems We have ave Of them, all clinging
to one another,) is making somestir in the city:
of Mexico,- but public opiniou,--so far as the
press is an index, lis setting rather in its favor.
The opening Of tho Tehuantepec road to the
Pacific is great event for New Orleans
TUE Albany Eseaing. Journal gives the result
of the recent elections for Supervisors, that
have beeen heldtin thirty-ionr counties of the
State, as follows: Republican gain since last
year, l2O; Democratic loss, 2g; Know Nothing
loss SO; majority against Republicans, last year,
1913; Republican majority over both this year,
49,.
IN the United States Senate, Wednesday,
majority report was presented from the Judicia.
ry Committee, asking to be discharged from tho
further consideration Of the protest of tho De
mOcratic member of the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture against Mr.. Cameron's rightto u seat. Tho
first two points Of the protost-that there was
not concurrent majority OF each branch Of the
Legislature in favor of Mr.. Cameron, and that
the Senate did not comply with the requirement
of the State Law, by appointing a teller, Sc. one
day previous to the elCctiuu-the majority of
the COMMITTEES regarded as of no weight the
provisions Of the Law being merely directory;
and the third, that the election was procured bv
corrupt aud unlawful means, they pronounce to
be too vague and,fndefinite, there not being
single fact or Circumstance detailed as the basis
of such charge. A minority report was also
submittedby solitary member of the Com.
mittee
Is accordance with the provisions of the act
approved MarChS, 1857, grantinglands to var.
ious railroads in the Territory of Minnesota, the
Commissioner of the General Land Office has
withdrawn from sale and location, until further
notice, all the lands now in market west, togeth-
eF with a strip about thirty miles broad, east of
the Mississippi river, with the exception of sew
eral townships north of the half.breed Sioux
Indian made,
CUBA Is pretty we'll prepared for defence
against the 6llibusters. The Paris Patric in s
forms US that the army on the, island numbers
$4,000 infantry and 1900 cavalry, exclusive Of
q reserve oils, o0ointantry and 5000 cavalry,
making altogether force Of e, Omen. Then
the Publications are all in good condition, and
constant Improvements arc being made upon
them.
gAs Lypchburg Ifrginian, which has most
ably and sealously argued the question of the
Public Lands, says $50 There is no such Dues