Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-12

received by the steamship Kangaroo, which ar.
rived at Now York on Tuesday, contains the
following proposition from Mr.. Whitehouse to
the Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Com
pany:
To the Directors Of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company:
GeatLsmen:-Intens interest in the success
of a work with which from the first have been
so largely identi1ed-an interest which neither
the sense of recent injury can extinguish, nor
undeserved continually destroy, leads me, in the
present critical, and almost desperate. state of
the Atlantic Cable. to come forward and of
| fer my services again to the undertaking.
All the opinions which the board have pub
lished, as well as their acts founded upon those
opinions concur leading irresistibly to the in
ference that the present condition of the cable
is considered to be almost, if not absolutely,
hopeless.
As one of the projectors, upon the faith of
whose representations large portion of the orig
inal capital was subscribed, as late officer,
whose position afforded him the very best op.
portunities of gaining experience, which may
now be of value to the interests of the company,
and as one whose opinion may thus have some
weight, even though Numerically opposite to
that adopted and published by the board, feel
that l am entitled, nay called upon, to offer my
service at the present juncture.
have not tested nor in any way examined
the state of the cable since my return to Vaen-
tia, nor shall ofcourse do so after all that has
passed, until receive definite permission from
the directors for such examination to be made
by me.
1t is therefore from previous observations and
from a careful review of all that has occurred
since my departure from Valentia, that now
state my strong conviction that our cable is
recoverable-readily recoverable-and if such
opinion be correct: the reopening of commune
cation with America must at once follow the
adoption of the proper measures.
A few days testing, guided by the experience
gained during the manufacture and subsequent
of the cable, will, in all probability, enable
me to ascertain this beyond doubt.
If the result of this examination be such as
to satisfy my own iuegment, Ishall then he pre-
pared to make to the Company the following
offer:
will undertake, at my own cost and at my
own risk, to reopen communication with Ne1-
foundland, and, further, to maintain it for
given number of years, at moderate percent
age upon the gross receipts of the Company,
this being payable so long only as the line
shall be kept by me in good working order.
now, therefore, request the directors per-
mission for such examination of the cable as
shall be necessary to enable me to make an offer
in the terms above stated. Lam, &c.
G. 0. WLD8AN WHITEHoUsE,
Late Electrician to the Atlantic Telegraph Co.
The ILLINOIS APpoRT1oNNENr-Ho,o Douglas
tOas Ezected.-Ihe following facts and figures
from Saturdays Chicago Press and Tribune
verify the statement that, but for the unjust
apportionment Lincoln, instead of Douglas,
would have carried the State of Illinois:
'The thirty-fve Lincoln members of the
House represent larger population than the
forty Douglas members; and the eleven Lincoln
n lor
the fourteen Douglas and Buchanan senator's
In other words, if the state had bee apportioned
according to population, the districts carried by
the Republicans would have returned torty-one
Lincoln representatives and fourteen Lincoln
senators, which, of course, would have elected
him. In the Republican districts it requires
on an average apopulation of 10, 635inhabitapts
to elect representative, and $500 for a SEN
ator, while in the democratic districts II, 675afor
a representative and 47,1OO for a senator
sufhces. On fair 0pportionment, Douglas
would have been beaten seven in the House
and three in the Senate. He was elected for the
reason that $50 voters in Egypt are an offset to
| 1000 in Canaan"
TuE annexed cold comfort for the bondholders
of Allegheny County, is from the Commercial
Journal, of Pittsburgh:
eve would much rather not sayin the Jour.
nat what our candid opinion is on this subject,
but our decided convictions are that all the
Courts in Christendom will never enforce the
collection ofthis entire railroad debt of our tax
payers We do not believe that any considera-
Bile number of our people will ever resort to
musket and bayonet to protect their property.
But we think long before final judgment can
be procured, the temper of an overwhelming
majority of our citizens will be such that the
officers to assess and collect this tax will all re-.
sign before compliance caube enforced. Others,
with similar views, will be elected, again to
resign, if need be. Five years fighting in our
Courts will not probably bring them any nearer
the payment of their bonds than they INV are.
The Journal never before gave utterancc to
these sentiments, but we believe this is the
remedy that quiet, determined men look to,
whose voice have never been heard in any anti
tax meeting. Our ultra men look to more vio-
lent remedies.
DouoLAs AND HIS MEN,-The editor of an
Iowa paper crossed the Father of Floods during
the late Illinois canvass, to see the Little Giant.
He reports as follows:
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