Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-02-18
NEWS I1.EMS.

secret marriage of Ar. Burdell and Mrs. Gun
ningham, says: 1.-THE way people are coupled
together in New York is a sin and shame; and
the clergymen who make the bonds, are often
parties to enormous wrongs and outrages- No
Christian men, exceptin the most extraordinary
cases, should tie together for life parties, when
these parties are known to be acting against the
wills and wishes of their parents,-and yet Sc
cret marriages are often made by clergymen,
when they know they are in parental disobedi-
ence, and bring disorder or shame to families. ("
A NV YoRK exchange, speaking of the i'm
provement of the Ohio river, becomes funny aft
ter the following fashion: Sour friends out
West continue to puzzle their brains upon this
subject. The best advice We can give them, is
to make sewer of it, and run a railroad over
the top. This is all that can be done with riy-
ers dry all summer and frozen all winter"
How much they know in New York of the
geography of the West, may be inferred from
the fact that the New York Herald, of the 18th
inst, has, as a flaming head:
"FREsnEr on THE 81. LOUIS RIVER"
GARRoT1xG continues TO be practiced without
any abatement in New York. Despite the ter
rible punishment inflicted upon some of the of
tenders by Judge Russel-despite thepretended
vigilance of the police-despite the fact that a
large proportion of the citizens go armed both
night and day-despite the universal caution
and circumspection,- 'garrote" is brought
into requisition almost every night.
TnE first achievement of the British Expedi-
ton to the Gulf of Persia appears to have been
attended with unexpected success. 1t is re-
ported that the capture of Bushire is the be-
ginning and end of the Anglo-Persian war
that, after all his protestations, the Shah has
yielded without an effort, and win concede all
the demands put forth in the British wltin'atum.
PROTECTION TO MARRIED WONES.-The Legis-
lature of Missouri has just passed bill which
says:
If any man shall desert his wife, or thall from
worthlessness, drunkenness. or from any other
cause fail to provide for her maintenance, so
that she be compelled to labor for the support
eff herself and family the earnings of any such
wife and any property, real OF personal, pur-
chased by her with the proceeds of her labor,
shall belong to her in her own right, separate
and apart from said husband, and shall not be
liable for his debts, nor in any manner subject to
his control.
Few ESGLASD ExIGRAST AID CoMPANY.-Up
to the present time S1oG,666,66 have been paid
into the treasury of this Company. subscrip-
tons are rapidly increasing.
Mr.. BUCHANAN was here just one week. He
slipped off by the early train on Tuesday last
| Cincinnati Enquirer.
"Slipped Off" Why did he not go off like u
eentIemanP Was it worthy of the dignity of a
President elect to slip off as if he were skulk,
| ing from somebody or something 2-Louis0iAe
Journal
TnE California Senators just elected, Messrs.
Broderick and Gwin, are both Democrats, but
on opposite sides of the slave question. Mr..
Broderick is for the North, and Mr.. Gwin for the
South.
Tue London Times in highly laudatory re,
view of the report of our Secretary of the Ma
Wy, says: "As if under the influence of some
irresistible law of things, the Americans are
treading in our own footsteps, and advancing
gradually to the formation of a larger regular
navy"
WE see it stated that, in the Poor House Of
Franklin county, n. Y, there is a girl of twenty
years, complete idiot, who is the o6sDring of'a
father and daughter. The unnatural parents
were committed to prison, and the child sent to
the above institution.
IT is a matter of regret that the Senate, after
debate on the validity of the vote of the Wis
consin electors, adjourned without taking vote.
The question whether votes given on any other
day than the one designated by law, are valid,
is one which, in coming time, may be of vital
Importance.
TnE Christian ambassador, Universalist
paper published at Auburn, N. Y, says that the
Universalist Denomination have raised nearly
100000 for educational purposes during the
last five years.
THs N. Y. Journal Of, Commerce learns that a
Russian agent is on visit to this country, to
examine our most improved submarine diving
apparatus, with view toits employment in re-
building sebastopol and raising the hulls sunk
in the harbor.