Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-08-29

thisw way alone, could the questions represented
toIthe Appellate Courts Acting under the adj
vice Of counsel, and anticipating the refusal of
the court to make. the levy, the holders had for
malIy presented their bondswith thecoupons or
interest warrants, and demanded that proyis.
ion should be made for the5payment Of such of 4
the coupons as were;dne ortw would become Paya=
BILE during thesyear. Il these coupons are legal
and ualid, and therefore legal and OaLid char
ges upon the county the duty Of the court was
.yeryplain and.simples ln5the discharge
duty, they were not at liberty to look to the 4
convenience Of the people in the payment Of
the tax 70 be levied, or be governed BY any
consideration ,ofsmere policy, referring to the
probable purchase of this county debt. The
law defined their duty. and their oaths Of Office,
by the highest and holiese sanction, enjoned its
performance. Ear be it from us, to simpute to
the members of the court, any want of due and
proper consideration of the sponsibility impo-
Fsed upon them, by the laws and their oaths of of
fee. We all know enough of this county debt
readily, to understand that the Justices might
conscientionsly believe that it was and is inya-,
id, and without any any legal or moral obliga-
ton, Gf we may be permitted to make that
rather obscure and unfntelligible Distinction and
that, therefore, duty required them to reject the
petitions for the payment Of the interest upon
lat. Itcould mot have been expected that the
holders of the bonds should acquiesce in this
conclusion of the court. They insisted the
bonds were legal and valid. Some of them had
received the bonds for work and labor perform
ed for the Railroad Company, and others had
their market value years after their issue, and
before any doubt had been suggested touching
their validity or ultimate payment by the coun-
ty. Some of these holders had invested their
money in these bonds as reliable securities for
future maintenance and support. The issue
thus rendered by the court was accepted by
he bondholders, and ne shall now proceed
to enlighten our readers upon the mode pro-
vided by law, for correcting the mistakes of the
Justices of the Levy Court, and coercing them
if need be, in the discharge of the duties inn.
posed upon them by the laws enacted for their
government by the sovereign power of the
State ,..s
a letter writer at Saratoga bewails the loss of
the grand s'corps de ballet" the young beaux,
who in the latter. two weeks Of August have $50
to spend (only 500 as their foot investment in
a wife for life. Newport, he says, is the place
for such talents, not Saratoga, now,-for the
glory of the ballet there is departed. Mammas
and Papas are at Saratoga in all their glory,
but Lydia Languish signs by the sea side, and
i Neptune there lnves the crinoline. Balls, in
deed, at Saratoga, have become bores. "The
dashing, smashing, crashing German that be.
gins at a. NJ. and ends ata8 A. NJ, is all un-
known. Young people waltz little, but they
don't do the thing.in that dazzling, dizzying,
floating, flying, misty style, that makes them at
times really alarming to lockers on. Alasl the
!. corps de ballet has deserted saratogal No
whizz and whur of 3d."
They have a summary way of stopping a
'run" on the Western banks. Here is a case in
point: Some days ago a gentleman left Hauni.
bal with $11 900 of bark notes on the Branch
Bank of the State of Missouri, at Chicothe, for
redemption, presented them at the counter for
that purpose, and when $500 had been. paid in
silver, crowd of Fifty or seventy.fve persons
entered the bank and desired him to leave The
last proposition, to hang him, considerably ex.
Pedited his intention to depart. The st. Louis
Democrat says the next move of the Chilicothi-
ans will be to mob the grocers and other iobbers
who go to collect bills from Chilicothe merchant
debtors
TnE Harrsburgh Union gives the following
recipe for making cumcumber catsup: .Take
three dozen of full grown oueumbers, and eight
white onions. Peel the onions and cucumbers.
and. then chop them as ine as possible. sprin-
kle on three quarters ola pint Of fine table salt;
put the whole in sieve and let it drain twelve
hours; then take teacup full of mustard seed,
half a tsacup full of ground black pepper, and
mir them well with the cucumbers and onions.
Put the wholeinto a stone jar with the strongest
vinegar; close itup tightly for three days. and
tits fit for use. 1t will keep for years"
a Detroit paper says that just after the hard
shower in that city last week, gentleman on
walking about his premises, discovered large
number of striped or garter snakes averaging
about six inches in length. Some of them were
on the front porch, four feet from the ground.
and some on the kitchen door steps He com