Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-02-25
NEWS ITEMS.

few DAYS since rather suddenly. He was man
Iofmarked abilities.
WE sec it stated that in..the poor house of Fran
kiln county, N Y. there is girl of twenty
years, a complete idiot, who is the offspring of
a father and daughter. The unnatural parents
were committed to prison, and the child sent to
the above institution.
II came out on recent trial in New York
] that the business of the Manhattan Gas Com
pany has now Is, 900 consumers, and 200 street
burners.
No less than thirty companies ofmillitary are
announced to be present at the Presidential in
auguration in Washington, from abroad.
THR Porter family of Hadley, Massachusetts,
may well be calleda judicial family, peacejus-
ticeship of the county of Hampshire having
Ibeenufilled by some member ofthat family since
1859. when Samuel Porter was appointed a
Kinks justice.
GEORGE SUMNER says in n recent lecture
stThe excessive use of saleratussis cardinal
cause ofthe American i'll health lisa dead
Ily poison, the use of which should be Stunned,
as the slaugherer of the infant, and the destroy
er of the strong man.
TnE Washington correspondent of the Bal
timore American, thinks that the Collins line
Eof Steamers is nearly or quite prostrate--lnd
that the Adriatic will not again be pnt-on the
line. The freight aud passenger lists have late
" shown great reduction.
Tue New York Times, whose reporters are
among the most penetrating and ubiquitous of
the tribe, AYERS that the Grand Jury are making
decided progress toward unrayeling the mystery
CT the Burdell murder.
A "grass widder' of about fifty, in Philadcl :
phia, was lately Joined in wedlock to green
half-developed lout of twenty, the first husband
of the lady aiding in the ceremonies, and pre-
sentlng the new groom with S. and the "good
will af the establishment Before this, the
lady has had two other husbands, who died.
ACCORDING to well authenticated certificates
it is established that among men one in every
twenty-five stammer, while among women only
one in every twenty thousand are troubled with
it Hero is fine field for the investigation of
anatomists and Psychologists
HuNrlNeToS the forger, issuch good boy"
that he has been promoted from making bed
steads to keeping books, in the contractors of
fee in the prison.
u
that Yeh, the Governor of Canton, China, has,
during the short time he has held Office, behead-
ed no fewer than 10000 persons
| The thermometer in Norfolk, Virginia, on
Thursday, stood at IS, and mint juleps were in
demand.
Two men at Brownsville, Minnesota, killed
sixty deer in one month this winter. Several
have been killed in that neighborhood by tray-
elers on the road side with clubs.
TuG East Teunesseean of the 18th inst, (pub-
lished at Marysville, Tenn.,) quotes corn at Z
pound.
LETTERS from Liberia to the 9th of january,
have been received, which contain the pleasing
| information that the general health of the resi-
| dents was good, and the prospect of things pro-
J missing.
Mr.. BoIEAu, the French Secretary of Lesa-
ton at Washington, has been ordered to Calcut-
ia. He is a son-in-law of Col. Benton.
WE learn from the Publishers Circular that
Mr. Emerson has nearly completed volume, to
be issued by Phillips, Sampson & Co., which is
to be entitled "The Conduct of Life" 1t is
based upon series of lectures delivered several
years since. The same author is engaged upon
another work, the magnqtm opus of his literary
life, entitled 'The Natural History of Intellect"
Ii the United States Senate last week, bill
was introduced prescribing the time and manner
of electing Senators to Congress, and the form
of their credentials This movement is proba-
bly, caused by the difficulty in the case of
Messrs. Bright and Fitch, of Indiana, in ref
ercncc to which additional papers were presen-
ted.
TnE Newark Times of last week, informs US
that a decision adverse to the S. & /. r. r. was
made by Judge Humphrey on Tuesday morn
! ing last sustaining the injunction against said
Road from laying down its track through that
lcity. The City Council had before refuse to
grant them any license to do so.
NoRruwEsrERN VIRGINIA RAlIRoAD.-The
Petersburg News of Wednesday has the FOL
lowing in relation to this road and the transfer
of its management to the Baltimore and Ohio
Company:
The lease of the Northwestern Virginia Rail-
road is now complete, and the road under the
entire control of the Baltimore and Ohio Com
pany, which company is making every arrange
ment to place the road in full working condi-
ton, capable OF doing all the immense business
which viii naturally accrue toit In the course
of one month from this date, at the farthest, as
VIC are reliably informed, theentre work ofbal-
lasting will have been completed (which timeall
through freights that can't shipped to or from
Baltimore ria the Ohio river will be sent o.er
this road; the postponement of the date for com
mencing such shipments have been rendered eX- |
pedient by the experience of the company in
opening the Baltimore road to Wheeling before
the road bed was in condition to allow sending !
over it the vast amount of freight which offered
itself, by which actthe company received draw
back from which it did not recover for a long
time