Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-02-07
NEWS In,EN1S

| The Old Line Wings OF New Hampshire nave
issueda call for State Convention.
The Kansas Territorial Convention is in full
blast, and chartering bank companies and road
companies at railroad speed. A bill has passed
the Council repeating the odious tests.
The Louisville Times says, the venerable
George D. Prentice has abandoned the Journal,
and gone off upon a lecturing tour.
A LARGE number of the Dental profession of
Cincinnati have taken preliminary measures
] to organize Cincinnati Association of Dental
Surgeons.
/ PREsToS KING, one of the ablest and purest
men in New York, is the q. S. Senator from that
State, for six years from the 4th of March next.
| THE Memphis Eagle and Enquirer says there
is negro in that city, who is reported to pos
sess an estate worth $4,000. This negro be-
longs to his wife, free colored woman, inwhose
name the property is held.
An Irish doctor advertses that the deaf may
hear of him at house in Lifey street, where
his blind patients may see him from ten till three
A FAIR average grape crop for a seriesOfyears
is found to be $50 to 800 gallons to the acre, in
well cultivated vineyards in the Ohio Valley
The cost of producing this crop will not exceed
$50 to $50 per acre-eyen less, with proper
economy.
AT rattle in ST Louis, DIR. Stickney, by in
vesting $40 for chance, won a pair of Nor
gan horses worth $4,000. Two hundred and
forty-nine other fellows were not quite so lucky.
The Message of the Governor of Minnesota
shows the population of the Territory to be
$780, 900. The taxable property amounts to be-
tween thirty and thirty-five million of dollars.
Is Americas, Ga, on the 1Othinst, about 100
negroes were sold A gang of twenty brought
S14, sos, being an average of $74s S5. A gang
of 10 were also sold at an average of $500 each.
A BILL to re-charter the State Bank, has pass
ed the North Carolina Senate.
THERE are 19OOsmen at work on the Mississip-
pi and Ohio railroad.
DANGEROUS GROUND FOR PRESIDENT AND a
SHlP,-It will be observed by the news brought
by the steamer Arago, that the ship James B.t-
chGnaD has been wrecked on the Irish coast
Philadelphia Eseaing Bulletin.
THE Chaplain of Congress took for his text
to the funeral discourse of Preston S. Brooks,
This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise
A PETITION has been presented to the Indiana
Legislature for the passage of a law to protect
the community against incompetency in the
practice of medicine and surgery.
The Presbyterians of Scotland are in an excl
ted controversy about the introduction of organs
into churches.
How much easier it is to preach than to prac.
ticcs The day after Mr.. Gloss discharged his
clerk for stealing, he sold hogshead of colored
alcohol for French brandy. Mr.. Gloss is down
on all immortality.
Observation-Disclosures Tiffany & Co., New
York, sold last week a single diamond, to be
worn in ring for SO, 500 cash! 1t VISA central
stone of 81, 900 necklace.
The Hon. James S. Green, one of the newly
elected Senators from Missouri, is said to be by
no means so ultra on the subject of slavery as
the party which elected him.
SENATOR SUMNER, it is said, will visit Europe in
the spring, and spend several months on the
continent.
AMERICAN FLOUR IN CuBA.-The Havana cor
papers, mention that memorial, signed by an
immense number of Spanish merchants and ba-
kers, has been presented to the Intendente,
praying for reduction of the duties on Ameri-
can flour; that the Captain General had given a
favorable reception to the document, and that
the duties would, probably, be reduced without
delay.
TnE Atlanta (Ga. Examiner advocates stump
speaking on all subjects, and considers that it
has ''done more for the instruction of the masses
of the people than any other plan that has been
resorted to for that purpose"
The GREATEST FEAT YET, IN THIS LATITUDE
company of Capt S. Parker, of this city, with
Mr. Thomas Gillian, left Plymouth, N. c., on
Tuesday, and crossed the Albemarle Sound to
EdentOn on the ice, distance "a miles.-Noyols|
Herald.
AN ED1roR IN HEAvEN--Under the above head,