Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-29
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THE INTEIlI. lI(44.ENCEI5RI.

sep nolti commissioner of Patents in reportinp
in favor of xtendings Goodyear's India Rubber
patent, gives the following interesting particu-
lars of the poverty endured by GOODYEAR and
his family while prosecuting his experiments:
From the first moment that the concention
entered hismind, until his complete success
embracing period offrom sixteen to eighteen
years applied himself Increasingly aud
enthusiastically to its perfection and to ito in
production into use in every form that his faith-
/ iuls genius could DEVISE So intensely were his
faculties concentrated upon it that he seemsgto
have been incapable of thought or action upon
any other subject. He had noother occupation.
was inspired by no other hope, cherished no
other ambition. He carried continually ahont
his person apiece of India Rubber, and into, the
Iears OF all whotwould listen, he poured inces-
sanity the story of his experiments and the
,Igtowlng language of his prophecies He was.
according to the witnesses, completely absorb
ed by 1t, both by day and night pursuing it
with untiring energy and with almost super.
human perseverance.
Not only were. the powers of his mind and
body thus ardently devoted to the invention and
its introduction into use, but every dollar he
had or could command through the resources of
his credit or the influences Of friendship, was
overwhelmingly castinto that seethine caldron
ofexpcriment, which was allowed to know no
repose. The very bed on which his wife slept,
and the linen that conyered his table, were seiz-
ed and soldsto pay his ssboard, and we see him
with his stricken household following in the
funeral of his child on foot, because he had no
means with which to hire carriage, His fam
lily had to endure privations almost surprising
belief being frequently without an article Of
food in their house, or fuel in the coldest weath-
er=7and, indeed, it is said that they could not
have lived through the winter of 1889 bnt for
the kind Offices of few charitable friends.-
Ehey are represented as gathering sticks in the
woods and on the edgeways of the highways,
with which to cook their meals, and digging tho
potatoes of their little garden before they were
half grown, while one of his hungry children,
in spiritworthy of his father, is heard express
sing his thanks that this much had been spared
them.
1--WE often find him incarcerated intthe debt
or's prison, butevcn amid its gloom his vision
of the future never grew dim, his faith in his
ultimate triumph never faltered Undismayed
by discomhtures and sorrows which might well
have e broken the stoutest spirit, his language
everywhere and under all circumstances, was
thatfof encouragement and Of a profound convic-
viction of final success. Not only in the United
States did he thus exert himselfto establish aud
apply every possiblesuse ofhis invention, but
in England, France and other countries Of En-
rope, he zeaonsly pursued the same career
In 1856, he appeared at the Worlds Fair in
Paris, and the Golden Medal and the Grand
Cross of the Legion of Honor were awarded to
him as the representative of his country inven-
tive genius. Fortune, however, while thus Gu
ressing him with one hand, was ut the same
moment shifting him with the other; for we
learn from the testimony that these brilliant me-
mortal passed from the Emperor and reached (
their honored recipient, then the occupant OF
debtors prison, among strangers and in for
eign land-thus adding yet another to that long, I
sad catalogue ofpublic benefactors who have
stood neglected and impoverished in the
midst of the waving harvest of blessings that
| are bestowed upon their race.
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The GROWTH OF OUR CIT1Es, OH AND .NEw.---
Boston. was trying to grow nearly one hundred
sand. - s7ss
AlIbanv two h,iipflrasi7. vears.
New York bnnEr rs and thirty yoors
P6;IadeIn6io settle sixty or SEVENTY ysars
later crew much fastef than m the odercities and
arrived nt te atg thonsand in nnch
less lliJ in SSanttifty ,i Sssrs. 0e1
4 New orleans was abont 100 years old before
she bod.tfSf ,,,,SlSe
During @ the first loo wears .aftertbe settle-
nent of Rostor m san \ she Sst Tie largest ;tv
4 Of the co1lonies.
New Yorl; became rs ponnlous as Bostoniust