Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-30
FRoM WASHINGTON.

Especial correspondence OF the Wheeling Inteigencer)
Z1squiring into the disposition of Io,sa Lands
Vote to be taken on LecOmpton on Thursday
nert-Forty Speeches to be made get on the
subject Treasury Funds Costly Ornaments
for the Capitat-Lecture about the famous
''Aississippi bubble" as applicable to Bank
ing nolo.a-dags.
WAsAINeToS CRY, Sunday, March %, 1885,
The Senate was not in session yesterday
a In the House, the COMMITTEES Public Lands
ttas been instructed by resolution, to inquire
into the disposition made by the State of Iowa
of certain lands granted her for railroad
1t has been partially agreed to devote until
. one o'clock on Thursday next to general debate
on the Kansas question, while nominally dis
cussing the deficiency bill, and then to take the
vote on the Senate's Kansas BILL without fur
ther debates; and further, to close the general
debate on the deficiency bill, on the next day.
tEriday next) large, number of private bills
were yesterday reported and placed on the cal
endar. The Kansas question discussed by
Messrs Smith, of Va, Palmer, OF n. Y, and
i. Morris of Pa. A list of forty members desiring
yet to be heard on the Kansas question, has been
handed to the Chairman of the Commute of the
Whole House-thirty. lone desiring to speak
against the Lecompton constitution, and nine in
favor of it.
caucus, on the Lecompton question, was
held on Saturday evening, hy the Democratic
members of the House.
The Hon. Linn Boyd, of KY. and the Hon.
John w. Davis, of Ind, both Ex.Speakers of the
House of Representatives, are now in the city
The Hon. Mr. Caruthcrs, of No., Is expected to
arrive here from Cuba, in improved health, to.
day.
The increase offnnds. subject to draft, in the
U. S. Treasury, during the week ending on Mon
day last, was $S,2ls, $50, IA.
The long pilasters now arriving for the U. s.
Treasury building, weigh from forty to forty.
kft.ot ,py
and four stout horses, to draw them. tits sta
ted that the cost of each plaster, when in place
on the building, is S2,500-enough to buy
good farm.
The new Congressional Conservatory, attach
ed to the Executive Mansion, las Just been com
pletcd, and is said to nc the largest one in tue
United States 1t contains many rare plants
and flowers.
Steam navigation on the Chesapeake aud Ohio
Canal, was thoroughly tested last season, and is
to be extended by the addition of at least one
more boat during the current season.
Prof Scheln DeVere, of the University of Nir-
GINA, ecturcd here ON Friday evening, at the
Smithsonian Institute, on the subject of "Joha
Loto aud his celebrated Mississippi speculation y
lie narrated the published history of the case
and ntimated that its disastrous effects upon the
national prosperity of France should have been
historic warning to save our own country from
similar fate. But, he said, John Law Banks
had been allowed to spring up, dd libituR
btle anu, IlAnk Tue LORD,
had broken, and taught US a lesson by our own
experience, which we had failed to learn by the
experience of,otherS.
A row of eight frame dwelling houses, with
most OF their contents, was destroyed by fire
here on Friday morning VIRGISius.
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TnE Richmond Dispatch says :-.swe should
consider that the present Legislature had achiev-
ed a very great good for Virginia were it to re-
form the present land laws and put an end to
the sale of Treasury warrants at two cents and
half an acrc-warrants that warrant nothing,
give no location of any lands, and that are
issued without the positively ascertained fact
that the Commonwealth has any lands to SELL
1t is system which sells the right to anybody
10 set up claims anywhere, either to lands which
justly belong to individuals or are forfeited to
the Commonwealth, for about the cost of drink
of whisky per acre. 1t lisa system under which
in the past two years. according to Governor
Wise, have been practised the ''grossest frauds
(which ought to be exposed and punished"
It is as disagreeable to prOdigal to keep an
account of his expenses, as. it IS to sinner to
examine his conscience, the deeper they search
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