Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-23
oy0nr ,able. By yestefday 'smaiIs, we fnd the


ONour table, by yesterday s mails, we find the
December number of the atlantic Monthly, and
the November numbero of the Southern Literary
Messenger. In the former, the Autocrat of the
Breakfast Table still holds sway; in the latter,
tMozis Addums" still continues his letters to
"Billy Twins, giving Billy the gossip ofWash-
ington. "MOzis'" capacity to amuse seams to
be nearing an exhausted point and we think that
he had better quit. This last number of the
Messenger is more generally insipid than any of
its predecessors, for great while. Itspublica-
ton somehow seems to drag dreadfully. On
our table we also notice copy of "Johnsons
and Walkers royal octave dictionary Just
issued by Jas. B, Smith & Co., Philadelphia
1t was DR.. Plummer, we believe, who congratu.
ted the people ofthis State that they still taught
their children the photography of the former and
the orthepy of the latter of these two distin.
guished philologists, instead drumming after the
spelling and pronunciative systems since origin.
ated. It was this, the DIR. averred, which en-
abled the people of Virginia to speak better
English than was spoken in any other State.
Be the Doctors opinion right or wrong, we
incline to the belief that the work before us has
no equatas n guide in pronunciation.
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THE next door Organ is anxious to know
whether We intend supporting Seward for the
Presidency in 1860. If We had the loan of
few of the Organs .'hundred eyes, }. perhaps we
should be ableto discern some two wears in nd
Vancewho we will support But being as we have
bot an ordinary capacity for looking ahead, we
shall 'bide the time" and when the time comes
make pick and choice of whom we will support.
For an Organ, that will in all probability, be
obliged to swallow the "muIattop Douglas. AZ.
ter reading him out Of the party, such a query
betokens an entire absence of a sense of the
ridiculous
Being as you have been in such a hurry to
change the subject that We were talking about,
will you have the goodness to come back to it
again, and explain to your readers why and
how it yon are opposed to Sherrard Clemens?
Come now, make a clean breast of that.
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SoNR six weeks ago Mr. Gustave Speyer..
banker in New York, purchased about 1880
worth of hundred guilder notes on the National
Bank of Austria, from person who was appa!
rently foreigner. The notes were sent to Eu.
rope for redemption; but few days ago they
were returned to him as forgeries, by the steam
er Vanderbilt Immediate steps were taken to
ferretlout the perpetfator of the fraud, the mat
ter was placed in the hands of the detectives,
and upon inquiry, it was found that that sever.
al thousand dollars worth of the spurious money
had been palmed off upon brokers in Wall
street; so good was the counterfeit, that even
the most expert judges of European bank bills
were among the victims. Three Germans have
been arrested and examined upon suspicion, but
their answers revealed nothing. 1t is believed
the notes were manufactured in Austria.
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Editors Of the InteIIigencer:a The communi-
cationein your paper yesterday morning, signed
Sunday School Teacher is as the text ex-
presses it, but not with capital g, which al
ways and only precedes the appellation of the
Great jehovah, whereas gods had reference to
klngly, Princely or Priestly powers in ancient
national governments. Inmany portions of the
Scripture where god or gods occur, it is clear
that inall cases reference is made to idols and
dignitaries in Church OF State governments, as
IN lSsth Psalm, 1stayerse. -
viii praise thee with my whole heart be-
fore the gods will j sing praise unto thee"
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PRYeR takesleave of the readers of the South
in his last issue, and tells them if they want to
read him further, to subscribe to the new paper,
the Washington States, into which, his paper has
been merged, While we do not expect to gee
with many.of Mr. Pryor's notions, we Expect a
great deal'of pleasure in still looking through
the productions of his able pen.
TuR Ceredo grsseeSt states tbst n. Geo.,
Chamberlin,s of.Amesbury, Massachusetts,, has
purchased tract of land in Ceredo, Eli Thay.
ers settlement down below, on which. he intends
toerectsa large wooden cloth manufactory.-
There'fs . growing disposition in. our State to
encourage Mr.. Thayer's plan.
5PAY.oE MAeAzrSE WRIrRRs,-The Saturday
Pres, in an article on Literary Pay, says that
HarPsr's 1fqgazi inc pays its writers from 81 so
to $40 per page; the atlantic 1ontlls, from Sc