Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-05-08
v II EETING.. Va. SATURDAY. MORNING, MAY s. 1855.
THE INTELLIGENCER.
NEWS SUMMARY.

WE noticed, few days a-o, tie Southern
Literary Messenger for Nay. Il Is proper tl,at
ve sh"uli add, that for the variety and excel
ienre cf It's articles it has not been surpassed
by any previous issue Of that m,;-zzine In
particular, the review of Parsons life Of Aaron
Burr deserves Ia be men io,.cd. lis one Of the
most interesting, most discriminating, aud best
written sketches of the character aud career If
Burr that we ever read The an.hor has faci,e
pen, aud uses It with marked abby.
SATCRDAY last the first Of May. WIS ..lnovin.'
dag in New York, usual, and it Is believed
that there was more change. oE residence in
that city and Brooklyn than haze occurred rar
many years. \ large PIo7ostion Of houses are
now standing empty, and reuts have fallen on
the East river side Of the city, about - per
cent Ia Brooklyn alone I;'eIc are some two
hundred houses without ,e,arts.
THE Boston delec cation uf city officials called
on the Turkish Admiral and presented hiui the
resolutions Of the city goverumes. inviting him
and his suite to sisit Boston. H.. accepted the
invitation. hut npon tine express condition that
he shall not receive the public Inequalities oi
thc city, or lave any DEMONSTRATORS on lis ar
N.tl
al, and 10 defay his own expenses.
Tne Washington correspondent, Tor, - his
last letter to the Baltimore Sun. remarks ~ FOL
lows respecting 'he reyeuue prospects Of tte
Government 1t may be remark at that there
is more money in tine country at this time than
at ary former day, and traic Is about to revive
in all its branches, when the revenue Is likely
to come Ia IL Hoods.
CoIoSEL Arago, brother of the latc-f1mel rs
roHouicr, who has been thirty years in the Mex
lean service. kas been conveyed to Vera Cruz
prisoner, aud thrown iata San Juan de Uiloa.
His offence '.as been d,at be was detected in
'oa=u, to deliver over the castle Uf Dc7o;e, Of
wheh he (Arago) has bsea the soyernur for ina
uy years.
Hos. Humphrey Marshall intends to intro
ducc resolution for the organization Of camel
battalion, ca the principal Of the camel batter
ries empioyed in the East II authorized, an
effort viii be made to haze the Iuen armed with
tho formidnbIe new gun Invented by Nr G.
I Lee, Of Cincinnati.
! TUE San JOS. Tribune estimates tie popula.
ZION Of C=IiGorr IA 1t 5e7,coo The estimate is
I based upon tie returns Of the local asscssnrs
/ OF this population, 8S2. $50 are Americans, 3s,-
500 Chinese, IS, 600 French. u. .OoO Mcxicans,
10, COG lrish. 1000 English, aud about 1000
CUiVTcd persons
| i dozen KeEtuckians arrived in Cincinnati
on Friday last, equipped with rifles ard other
Fighting materials ready, and Immediately took
passage for St. Louis, from whence they in,ead
proceeding TO the Utah country, with the ex-
! a. 4
| hosuhIies.
THE French Emperor has no clean and hun
gry lock-" but grows Stout upon tine fears and
anxities which 50 pIcntifuly attributed
to HIM. No "fat aud greasy citizen" thrivcs
better in the flesh than his Majesty Napoleon
III, whose f::'ire horseback has assumed
,otuudiiy Of proportions altogether ineunpati-
bic with any Fietension to the graceful or eie-
CANT
TnE lst society spoken o: in California is
tie PAY NothingS~ Il is s.iito be alarming.
Iy prosperous, The password Is ''lend me 4
dollar the Response, ''yroke-" It IS bu; Z
branch, however. The Original society has
long louiisled in the Atlantic States.
1t is stated that the free negroes OF Texas,
aIe availins themselves Of recent law Of that
State enabling them to choose masters and be-
come slaves.
TnE Ravels, during their recent engagement
Of nine weeks at the Boston Theatre, drew into
its treasury nearly Sf2,9c0.
IT is proposed, in Buffalo, New York, to eze-
cute the paving of tie streets by steam power.
-$-@.S--
THE PEiHLs OF PnoNoGEAPnY.-Thc art Of
phonoGraPhic reporting is Tie lest ever invent
cd, Lut fevertlle!cSs, sUmetiEie5 leads TO mis-
takes. Not Ioag since, member Of Congress
made a speech. quoting Latin. "-Imjr'W SOert-
ies, cllsie's Pinto es', sed major rerits fSac-
rates j. nay iieod, Plato i my ifiend hut tFs.th