Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-01-11

him. Il can answer tnat queSuon oil yours,
| Douglas. was in the Democratic party long
enough to know that while its members are al
lowed the largest liberty on everything else,
yet if you don't toe the mark on niggers, you
are not regular and orthodox, and have TO be
turned over with the goats on the left hand. ~
4 l noticed frown on the face Of a Democratic
Senator near by, as the little group Douglas in
cluded, took a hearty laugh over Mr.. Hale's
comical statement of what is really 'tf1xed
fact
LEGAL TENDRn.-The law regulating the pay
ment of debts with coin, provides the follow
ing coin to be legal tender:
1. ALI gold coin at their respective values,
for debts of any amount
2 The half dollar, quarter dollar, dime and
half dime, at their respective values, for debts
of any amount under five dollars
3. Three-cent pieces for debts of amount I'M
der thirty cents; and
4. BY the law passed at the last session of
Congress, wemay add one cent pieces for debts
OF amount under ten cents.
By the law of congress passed some four or
five years ago, gold was made che legal tender
for large amounts Those vino, to get rid of
large quantities OF cents and small coin, some
times pay their bills with it TO- the annoyance Of
The creditor, will perceive that there is a stop
page put to that antic by law.
THE New SaSAToRs FROM M1NNEsoTA.-Rice
and Shields are said to be friends of Douglas,
and 10 sympathise xith him in his views Of the
Kansas question. The State, however, has not
yet been admitted into the Union, and from all
appearance is nos likely to be in lime 70: these
gentlemen vo,e on the subject. Everything
is Al stand in Minnesota. waving for the action
of Congress. The State Legislatures in session,
bet caF'iios acf until Congress gives validity TO
its existence. All The machinery of State gov
crnment is IL The same awkward az. Some of
the achcmers at Washington propose to couple
the admission of Kansas and Minnesota together,
and should dis be done, the admission Of either
would de mater of doubt.
Worse AND WoEsE.-Some OF The ultra south
ern Journals nre getting more and more excited
about the conduct of Senator Douglas. We
have before quoted the denunciations OF the
Charleston Mercury, and subjoin a still more
acrid specimen, of later date:
at is sheer audaciEy -reckless, nnprincipled,
selfseeking dare-tlevilhy on the part OF Douglas,
The case needs no more than plain exhibition
| of facts, such as we have given. We forbear
argument But the course of Douglas deserves
the brand of reprobation from the South; and
scathlng; contumclio1s invectiYc is the proper
| logic for the occasion. Who, then, of Southern.
Senators will rake npon himselfthis task of ben
eft to the great cause of The South? Which Of
them will undertake to fay this redoubtablc
giant and make n spectacle of him for the good
of after times3. Who will satisfy the demands
for retributve justice against the rem
egade from political principle? Ills task that
would be grateful to the people of the South.p
----&sosS---
MANsF1ElD-THe Postatasterstii5. The con
test for the Postmastersllip of Mansfield, Ohio
(not party one, as in Wheeling, )-was so
warm, and the representations OF candidates so
conflicting, that it was agreed among the Dem
ocrats that a popular vote should be taken.
The election was held Saturday week, when it
appeared that jacob Reisimger received 4L5
votes, and his opponent. Charles Morrow. 1913.
Majority for Reisipger, 252.
The diSSension betweel the Catltoli. clergy
and lalty IN Illinois, has become quito sharp
Three hundred COMMITMENTS of the i,arist of
st. Ann have addressed a letter to Two priests
in the interests of The Canadian bishops, ceiling
them that the money used TO promote discussions
among the churches, had better be USED 10 Civ
ing food and raiment to the poor
IL Philadelphia, on Saturday. tho first trial of
the new steam tirc engine for the Philadelphia
Hose Company was had, both in the neighbor.
hood of the foundry where it was built and at
the corner ofWood and Fourth street. The ex.
pertinent was perfectly successful, water having
been thrown nearly two hundred feet
A lottery enterprise has been started by the
citizens of New Orleans, for the purpose of plac-l
ing the opera on Arm footing, The manager,
Mr. Bo9don, fnds his inances Strengthened, the
season having been failure in consequence of
the illness of the artists.
CHANBERs' journal says that the best.way to
get rid of mice is to remove every particle of
food, everyscrap or crumb that a mouse can. eat!
In this way they will soon be driven off purely
out of disgust. s3s.,. s 49,.
a man cannot nlaketa long speech in English
House of Commons unless he has something to
say in it The other members cheer him, and
cough him down and finally themselves go down
The waters fthe Bay of Volcano, in the Island
of Santorain, twenty six leagues north of Gambia
have the singular property of cleansing the keel
lofships.
z JoHN o BRIAN SE ENApoRE, halEbreed Indian
! l06 years Of age, came near dying Of starvation
in Albany, last week. he fought with Wash.
ington in the Revolutionary war.
kroasloat' whose liver is out Of order, says,
Il tfNot