Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-04-26
INTELLIGENCER.
NEWS SUMMARY.


SEvERAL men of wealth IN New York, Buffa-
10, and Chicago (says the Movement, a new pa
per Just started in New Yori1) have II IN eonteln-
platiOn to establish, somewhere in the West, a
eviathan farm Of from 100000 to 200, 900 acres.
Their object is to do for agriculture, by the use
ofc5mbined wealth and the power OF machinery,
what has been done in the past half ccntury by
the railroad and fnc;ary 70 supercede the old
stage coach and the spinning wheel. They will
organize the vast tract into two rital establish
ments, with a military organization of labOr, gi-
ganiic machinery plough. plant, reap and rem
der harvests, vast herds of hoi>es, sheep and
cattle Of he most select stock, aud the culture
Of fruit and grnins grand scale.
BELLE BiuTrAlN," writing from Richmond.
says of G. p. R. James, thc novelist: lie has
realized a fortune from his Copyrights, and is
enjoying the combined Injuries Of city and coun-
try hfe-the latter at the Slash Cottage'-the
birth place of Henry Clay-somc sixteen miles
from Richmond on the railroad 10 Washington.
He has several sons, one an engineer in the
West; and zone fair daughter, whom he loveth
passing we'll" He las written all his works
through the medium OF an aInanucnsis. His
habit has been 10 rise at O'Clock in the morn.
ing, read until c, and then walk the room and
dictate until o'ciocl,. lie reads his compost.
ton for the first time in the printer proof"
TnE Richmond Souti, knows Of the Defcier-
cy Bill that it is Objectionable in some of it's
details, so much 50 perhaps ''to justify reSis
tance to its passage under ordinary circumstan-
ces." But this is critical cmergency.'-
Precisely. The ADMINISTRATION has n way of
getting into critical emergencies" Several
Administrations have been in that habit
There is an incesSant '.crisis." There is for
ever a desperate case. ''Criiical emergencies''
are made to order. a few OF these heart-rend-
ing occasions should be allowed to work out
their own salvation. Suppose We permit this
crisis to cry aloud, this emergency to emerge in
its own way.
\ man who sold popcorn, in the hall of the
Chicago puSt-oliice, not agreeing with Mr. Blu
channn on the grea: National Democratic Ques-
lions Of the day, has received notice to quit
The popcorn individual must be a Buchan4n-
Lccompton-D Democrat. Il is exceedingly prop
er that lie should he of this faith and the saga
cious servant Of the President who discovered
the detection of the popcorn man aforesaid, is
worthy of all commendation.
Tue people of Minnesota are in n fair way to
set up an Independent government. The Chi
cago Press says that, at the same time that they
voted on the proposition for S5,0o0,OOO loan
to the railroads. they also voted on putting a
State Government into operation the LIST Of
May, whether Congress does or does not admit
Minnesota into. the Union before that time. The
returns, so far as received. indicate that this
proposition was adopted by large rnyority.-
Minnesota, then, may soon be state out Of
the Union.
Tue Second Presby yterian Church, Of Pitts
burgli, Pa, have sold their Church building and
lot 10 The Allegheny Bank, for $S5,o 900 They
have three now locations in view-onSe, corner
of Hancock st,eet aud Duquesene Way, for
$l3, 900; one, corner of Penn and Irwin streets,
$1,000; and on the eorRer Of Penn aad
Hand streets, fol Sl2. 900.
PooR Bostoni Inc poor, dear city of Boston
was dreadfully shocked few days ago by a
runior that Vice President Breckenb'idge was
dead. The Courier says great relief was ex-
periencedp when the glad tidings spread that
Breck was still alive. The Courier sincerely
hopes that the life of Mr. Breckenridge may be
spared for many years
Tue Missouri Democrat says that the docu-
ments. packages of seeds, &c, &c, sent by Hon.
F. P. Blair to his constituents, are at the St
Louis Postoflice, dumped away in pile, and
no effort made to distribute them.D The {
people Of Missouri are, however being quick
ened by the truth in spite Ofthe Postnasters.
PASSAGES FROM Pusou.-Z1ree things a man
NErer Gets Tired 0f LOokihGi af.-The Sky
The Sea--and Woman's Faces-7[ Our !Sp0o,,-
eyt Contributor. SO -lf71 -5f
And why!-Decanse they never are for two
days together alike--L0 iSafirieai COntriGu-
tor
Tanify-Let beauty in an opera box but
raise her glass To her eyes, and instantly you
will see fity brainless young fellows in the pit
all planting their glasses upon her, every one
of them imagining, in the supremacy or his con-
ceit that he is the favored Of her heightened in
specti' n : tjeHkims.
"Tde Laitiqis"-wc haven't the least
thought Of calling such a statesman as Disraeli
gouse; but It is fact that sincchis recent spar
with Bernal Osborne, It you want 10 raise his
dander, you have only to say b. o.! TO linn.
Tie 2r@tA ''Io Let Every lodging in Lon