Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-08-26

LIFE AND DEATH IL NEw ORLEANs-InaDai-
grants Coming theoretically on ths Ye7Ios
FsUer-Nature and Art it seems combine to
make New Orleans an almost perfect Golgotha.
Que of the late New Orleans papers has chap
ter of incidents, from which we take the follow
ing:
The different benevolent societies are making
every preparation to attend to the fever ii it gets
within their ranks. One of them, the Spanish
Benevolent Society, has lost several members
by the fever, and others by other diseases; they
having had no less than twenty two burialS
since the sicSly season set in. The Howard AS
ISOLATION have gone bravely to work; whether
their calls have been heavy or not we are una
bic to say. They havessecured portion of the
Nuremberg Hospital for their use in the Third
District, where the fever is worst.
SHOOTING on THE STREET.
A great excitement dispersed the lazy drowsi-
ness of st. Charles street, on Saturday forenoon.
Mr.. Arthur McQuirk, clerk in the house of r.
w. Estiin & Co., shot at Patrick O'Brien, the
| big cotton picker of the Third District The
bullet missed its mark, but unfortunately went
into the back of Mr.. David Willis, ofthe Fourth
District, who happened to be passing along the
street at the time. Mr.. Willis was put into a
cab and taken to his home on Sixth street; Mr..
McQuirk was arrested and taken to the lock-up;
and Mr.. 0'Brien went along to make an affida-
Wit. The affair created a prodigious excitement
and was the premium topic of the streets for
the remainder of the day. The shooting, it app
Peared, was the sequel to collision which oc-
Cured between the parties the day before, at
the corner of Canal and Royal streets; in which
McQuirk, being the smaller man, was worsted.
We have been favored by the friends Of both
parties with the history and particulars of their
difficulty from its beginning; but from the ma
ture of it must content ourselves with merely
noticing the public and demonstratiVe parts of
the affair." Mr.. Willis, we learn, though serious.
| ly and very painfully wounded, is not supposed
to be in danger ofdying
| DA4PER.
| AFrench ship was towed up the river and
landed at one of the Third District wharves on
Saturday night She had quite number of
French immigrants on board, who in their ioV
| Mt nearing land offreedom Joined heart and
soul in singing the nti-Napoleonic hymn known
as the "Marseilaise" They kept on singing
after the ship was made fast. A police officer,
lgoing on board, stepped up to them, and said
Ia them, IN their own language, Gentlemen,
don't sing SO loud; there are great many sick
lPeoPle about here, for the yellow fever is very
bad" This was the first the immigrants knew
ofthe fever being in the city; and they at once
1 stopped singing-incontinently wted-with
feelings which may better be imagined than de-
scrloed Among the passengers were eleven
ICathollc priests and four nuns who expressed
I
over by invitation of the Archbishop, they felt
lit would be his duty to send them back or to
some other place of safety as soon as possible
This is certainly bad time of the year for for
eign Immigrants to land in New Orleans.
TELEaRArH1c.-The following account of the
way the London and Constantinople telegraph
operators talk, We take from the N. Y Tribune:
| Merely as a specimen of the facility of tele-
1
| versatlon carried on between the chief operators
in the London and ConStantinople offices re-
4 spectively of "The Electric and International
Telegraph Company" soon after the opening of
/ the line to the Moslem metropolis last spring
| This conversation, it will be noted was br0se.
cuted across the continent of Europe, over lines
OF telegraph which cross the British Channel
and portion of the Mediterranean, and can
hardly be less than two thousand miles long.
though direct line between the two capitals is
rather less than fifteen hundred. Here is the
talk:
SUNDAY, May $3.50 p. m. (London4
| neutrality-suspicious., Constantinople!
| London-Here, London, how are you?
1 Con.-Admirably well; and yous
LonG.-Very well. What time are you ut
COnStantinople?
Con.-11:45 Q1ondon S:5T)-p. m. The wea.
| Their is superb here. How is it with your
LOnd.-It is tirStrate weather here. i nm
delighted with the honorof talking with you.
Gon,-Ihis is the first time that the Ottoman
| telegraph has succeeded in passing beyond the
LBritishl Channel. Tomorrow the Minister
will be gratitied with this good communication.
If you have any dispatches, am at your SER
vice, SIR.
Lond.-I am London via the Hague, and
see nothing at present for you. will pon please
to give me your name?
Comfy name is Vivet chief of the station
at ConstanttinoPle: What is your time, sir?
Iond.-It is 9:11 in the evening.
Con.-A thousand thanks for this valuable
experiment for both nations.
I,ond.-I hope to have the honor of speaking
with you very often in future. Good night,
Al. Yivet
Con- am much asttered, NJ. Fischer
THeRE is trouble already about the manage.
ment of the Atlantic Telegraph Company. 1t
is not likely. that Cyrus w Field would have
resigned his position as Director Of that Com.
pany in consequence of his ill.health, If there
had not been something Objectionable in the
style of managing the business. The Boston
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