Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-07-11
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| The number OF bodies from the WTech oi LhS
Montreal in the St Lawrence is now 2i2. The
wreck has been advertised for sale. Robbery of
the dead is practiccd to a dreadful degree by the
inhuman fellows who assist in recovering the
bodies. The Canadian authorities have not eitec-
tel the arrest of any of the parties engaged in
such proceedings.
slScE the LIST of January last therehaye arrived
in this country, by four different vessels up
wards of two thousands one hundred emisrants
who had cspoused the Mormon faith in the old
Country, and were e., route to Utah Ierritory,ln
the Great Salt Lake basin. These Mormous
were composed mostly of Welsh and English
with sprinkling Of Danes and Norweglans'
and few Germans
TuE largest chain in the world is that about
to be used in the operation of raising the ships
sunk Mt sebastopol 1t is two hundred yards
long, and each link weighs three hundred pounds.
Ii was manufactured at the Reading Forge,
Reading, Pa. The value of the material to be
furnished by the Russian government to be used
/ in raising the feet will be about million and
half of dollars
IaoS churches, seventy feet long, forty feet
wide, and twenty feet high, capable Of accom-
Emodating seven hundred persons, and costing
about So, 600 each, have been erected recently
in the neighborhood Of London. They are
lined with wood, which, is covered with cPn-
yass and and papered. They can be taken
down and moved to other locations if desired.
Tur Prcsbytery Of Beaver, is now in session
in Concord, Beaver county, Pa, trying the Rev
John Brown, pastor of the church in Freedom,
that county, charged with the crime of adultery
with the daughter of one of. the elders of the
church, thirty years of age Public opinion is
divided as to his criminality, many believing
him to be prosecuted man. He is married
and has family around him.
TnE Norfolk American, abiding to reports
prevailing at Richmond that the yellow fever
had appeared at Norfolk and Portsmouth, says
that the health of the city never was better.
TnE feeling in the South against the course
adopted by Gov. Walker in Kansas grows more
bitter. public meeting has been held in
| Montgomery, Alabama, at which violent reSolu-
tions, denunciatory of the Governor, were Hdop-
ted, and inaammatory speeches made. Law
renee NJ. Keitt, of South Carolina, late the
colleague of Prestons. Brooks, has published
letter in which Gov. Walker is abused without
stint
Amour 100000 worth of sponges were ex-
ported from Key West, Florida, last year, and
the exports this year, stimulated by the adVan-
ccd price, win probably reach 100000, or
about 100, 900 pounds of sponge. About forty
boats and two hundred men are engaged in
the business, who secure the sponge in the
shallow waters of South Florida, as FAR west as
Cedar Keys.
In the Minnesota Constitutional Convention,
the Republicans have two majority clear over
all the disputed seats.
ABAcmELoE correspondent sends the Boston
Post the following "Tell me, ye winged winds
that round my pathway roar, do ye not know
some spot where women fret no more? Some
lone and pleasant dell, some 'holler' in the
ground. where babies never yell, and cradles
are not foundy The loud wind blew the snow
into my face, aud snickered as it answered,
nary place
TuE Grand Jury of town in Ohio have pre-
4 scented the "Sewing Society" Of the place as
nuisance" Perhaps the jurors were all folks
who got the mitten from the girls, and were not
allowed to bear them home.
AN amorous scamp yclept William Henry
Broughton, was locked up in New York, on Fri
day. for having more wives than the law allows.
His last victim was Miss Maria Werner, who
through the connivance of pack Of spiritual
lists, was made believe that the marriage was
ordered by the spirits of her deceased relations.
C1yL suits for S76O,OGT T6 have been com
menccd against both Breslin and Gibson, late
Treasurers of Ohio, and their sureties- Oh
course this SUN can only be collected in the az
eregatc but separate suits arc necessary in Or
der to ascertain who are the real culpritS Cri
minnl proceedings are also to be instituted.
FANNY PERN, we are sorry to say, has become
stone blind. Our authority is a letter from hci
in the New York Ledger, which describing hc1
visit to Philadelphia, says she saw no hoops
Poor FANNY
BANK RoBBERY-Th Central Bank OF New
Brunswick, at Fredericton, n. B., was rob
bed Of a large sum in gold and five pound notes
The amount is not stated, but is supposed to b
from $I5, 900 to $4,000 in gold, and lnrg
sum in notes
oSE rogue in the street, recommended an
other not TO pick pockets, but to take them a
they come.
L,aur BaRAxrSo ~ KESrucKr.-on Tuesday
last a meeting was held at the Court House a
Newport, KY, to nominate Republican candi
dates for Congress and the State Senate. w
find an account of the proceedings in the Gin
cinnati gazette. Mr.. C. G. Payne presided; w
S. Stewart, Secretary. Messrs. Rice, SANFORD
and Williams, were appointed to draft resolu
tons, who reported the following, which wer
adopted:
Pesolred. That the prosperity and glorious
future of Kentucky is dear to our hearts, ant
that the developments of its immense agTiSS9qtl
81 -oth F highest regard
Resolcca, That it is to the paramount interes