Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-08

Bill. Bill lsas bad an egg as his bill, and VIC
hope and trust and pray he will be put where
the dogs wont hurt him.
In Iowa the thing is "foregone conclusion"
inasmuch as the Republicans have standing
contract for from to 10 thousand out there
according to the nature of the election.
Minnesota has not shown her hand clear. We
believe her proclivities are to reckoned Demo-
cratic. She has been busy lately, since her ad-
mission State, getting her household and
kitchen furniture in order, and will speak out
more Enthusiastically this time perhaps.
So much for the signs of the times in the
line of politics.
RrsroR1, who was performing in Venice on
the 4th of September, attracted the notice of
an Austrian commissary of police by the de-
livery of the following (transIated) linesin Ju-
dith, the tragedy written by Giacommetti:-
"Among your children let my name be known,
And teach them all how holy is Tzs5=
Against the foreign foe that
The land that God has given US for our country.''
The audience was so muched pleased by her
energetic rendering of the passage that she was
obliged to repeat it, and us repetition on the
stage without permission from the police is an
offence, she was in danger Of an arrest from the
commissary, who saluted her upon her exit at the
wings. Some wordspassed between the actress
and the policeman, but her friends of the COM
pany prevented an arrest, although the play was
henceforth prohibited in Venice.
THERE is strong sentiment among the people
of the Society Islands in favor of annexing those
islands to the United States. At a council of
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this government for annexation, and paper to
that effect was drawn up and handed to the
American Minister, who forwarded the docu-
ument to Washington. The French and Eng
lish residents, however, are opposed to this
movement, and have already stirred up an
instruction to prevent its attainment.
In the business of exchanges and redemptions,
bag supposed to contain, the sum of ST, 900 in
gold, had been passing among the Boston Banks
for some time, unquestioned until its weight was
thought suspiciously light Instead of eighing
% pounds and IS pennyweights Troy-or IS
lbs. OF. avordupois it weighed but about IL
pounds, and was found full of coppers It
passed back down the line, until the Granite
Bank refused to take it, and was therefore sued
by the Market Bank.
A c1EReYMAN who was present few days
near the close of the session of the Minnesota
Legislature, was preaching Sabbath or two
after, on the subject of Total Depravity, when
he remarked that he fully believed the doctrine,
and if there was no other proof of it the doi1gs
of that body would be satisfactory, and as the
members had returned to their homes, he prayed
God that they might be kept there.
-SsOsS
PROFESSOR OLMsEEAD, of Yale College, writes
that no comet since that of 1S4s, has presented
SO many claims to admiration as the one now
visible. A telescope of small magnifying power,
like common spy-glass. he says, is useful for
viewing the head of the comet, but for the entire
body, the eye itself affords more interesting
view than any instrument
TnESO of Malta are very dangerous people.
Tho order had procession at Cincinnati one
evening last week, and it is said that several
ladies fainted at the sight of the Grand Com
mander and his procession of cowled and sur
pliced apprentices. These gallant Knights of
Malta ought to be cautious how they display
themselves, if such consequences are apt to fol-
low.
A son of Hon. A. G. Talbot, N. c., of Ken
lucky, has made his debut in the ring as a
clown. The family is one of the wealthiest in
Kentucky, and this eseapade of the young
gentleman must occasion them inexpressible
modification.
We believe the chap was once dismissed from
Bethany College for an ungainly feat.
D.
A CORRESPONDENT ofthe Philadelphia Bulletin.
writing from spezzia, says it is a place to stick
BY. The climate is an astonishingly well rcgu.
lated one, never hot, never cold, rains seldom
and always at night, and there is a great deal of
moonlight as we'll las a large quantity of crazy
people. :,
MR. cLxAEss is steadily improving. There
every prospect now oil saving the limb, but lis
more than probable that it will be short and
slightly deformed. 50 says the Richmond South
of yesterday.
REnOvED.-The Hempheld bridge piers, on
the Monongahela, at Monongahela City, have
been removed by the Slackwater Company as