Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-20

THE INTELbIG ENCBi}
NEWS SUNtAINItY.


Tur CoIambnS Ohio. correspondent cf the
Sandusky register writes: al can now state
frou. reliable authority, that proposition las
been submitted 10 tie Finance Committees of
both lIo,,ses, that if the State viii accept $3.50,
900, in fill of the amount los; iv! BreslinS de-
fication, aS State Treasurer, aI&I release the
s,wciies on the official bond, as syell as discon-
liuuc the civil suits against Mr. Gibson a..ti Mr.
BresIin, that amount will at on9e be secured to
the State
Tng New Orleans tI.a) True Delta says there
is a movement going on hTt'rt city having for
its object the introduction nr the custom of fire
arms small pistols, such As are known IS vest
pocket pistols, and which can be slowed without
incumb!ancc, in the pocket of the fair shooters
dress, in order to protect themselves isom rut-
sad state in New Orleans, if this statement be
true.
TIM New York 7ri6.ae of the I5tIi, says ex-
pemSiye houses are depressed, bnt these Of mod
crate ccst are in good demand at prices not
much below those current last spring. The
costly stores of broadway and thclatcral streets
recently bailt up are in many eases empty, ard
rents show decline Of 81 COO 10 5000 per
year. The business of chunsiu.s warehouses la
I the ncgl,borhood OF Wall street into offices has
been ovcrdoue, and occupants cannot be found
/ in sufficient numbers. There arr many well 1T
uatcd offices vacant for which high rents arc
demanded.
\ T.a,lics' Association has h.cn established in
/ Ing of young girls, and for tie diffusion of
itary knowledge aud promotion Of physical ccln-
cation" one la,iy has given house at Bright
on 10 tc Institution, and senilclnar tic cX-
elusive ola room in Caveudish Sqearr, ioT
the meetings of: London aSsociaIion.
THE Washington STIR SAYS the ladies t,erc
have been Iccturel SO pcFsisientiy by their lords
and masters in general, and tc rae,iicai lrater-
nifty in particular, in the suicidal practice Of
wearing butterfly soles in sloppy weather, that
they have taken to the opposite extreme and to
wearing the treble soled Scotch boots we see in
the shop windows.
Tar Chiaese New Year, which begins the
3th Of February, was celebrated in the city of
san Francisco, in becoming style Sy the Celcs-
tial@. Any quantity OF fire crackers were cx-
n!oded, young pigs eaten, and stIcng tea drank
from baby-curs, John MAS out in holiday
apparel, and rather astoniSle the "oufsi,Ie bar
barians' by the width of his bine gown and the
length of the new silken addition to Lis tail.
TnE orange crop of California PROMISES to he
Il source Of wealth 10 that STATE. 1t Los An
gcloa alone the crop amounts to about l1G, 900,
and is sold on the ground at $l2 per thousand.
The trees commence hearing when eight years
old aud viii produce a crop worth S25 per tree,
or 81, 900 to an acre containing forty irces.
\ Till has passed the Iowa Legislature pro-
hihitng marriage within certain degrees OF CON
sapguinity Heretofore there has been no
Ian in that State that would prevent mar
rage between brother and sister, others
Of kin.
TnEKE a,c now two daily papers printed in
I.eavenworth City, Kansas. The Herald claims
population of 1000 People Cor tia; place.
The New York Express says that only about
one in ten of the passengers on the under ground
railroad, reported by the abulitioni,t PAPERS.
are in reality fugitive slaves. Cunning negroes,
under this prctence. now thus travel about
with free rides, free board" aud without
work.
FoHrY nine cattle from sos:I Branch, Va,
arc or their way - Ney Yrli,, weighing rS rol-
.sNs: i.- 'at4'- So elElIs = feat't-; .f-1
lns th.a'a lweigh o.er ll4t aI,a!fs.
-id u - =. s.a .t,l ,.i-,
being au average Of I,s67 pounds, an average Of
1890 cent per head.
Mn CrAFrs, SASsony of Sheffield VI has
potato in his cellar, raised by hi,u the past
season, which weighs fortv-live ounces. ltis
e; alif6rnisn' About twenty such win make
Ia bu>hel
\ Wiscons:on correspondent Of the Roci,e.-
ter t',ios states ,hat in going from Prairie du-
CHEN to Ia Crosse. . 'cT day ago, singular
scene was presented tie stea'uhoat. ST oIe
end Of the long saloo'.a clergy man WAS preach
ing to a small crowd gathered around him; il,
;hetniliIc sa'nbling was ia busy progress, aud
at the other extremity q the saloon ti,ere Was
music ard dsrcing-
! patent has been awarded Mr. G;ey &C
North Caroiina, for RI improved Piough, in
which the >ubsniI, the turning. aud coulter
plough aii combined, as I, wors ioiut;s-
or sspeIate'y.