Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-07-15


tution, exceeding yrieh. The States asserts
that all the clerks in the several Departments
at Washington have been required tocontribnte
six dollars apieceIto the support of that weak
abortion Off newspaper, the Presidents organ.
1t states that an emissary of Gen. Bowman goes
about and requires the clerks TO subscribeand
and pay. for the Constitution, whether they
want to .or.not. This is in brief the method Of
this levy of black mall according to the States
Yesterday in passing through the General
Post Office Department we found an emisSary
from the Office of Brigadier General Bowman,
seemingly clothed with all the authority Off
cial sanction, demanding, upon the highway
mans principle of Yourmoney Dry our-othce,
that each and every clerk employed should sub
scribe to q levy of six dollars, ostensibly as
years subscription to a weak, imbecile, and
Objectionable newspaper, butEfor no other pur-
pose thansto bolster up and sustain the fortunes
of one. engaged.in the publication ola paper. so
devoid ofinterest, ability and enterprise, that it
cannot command the appreciation and support
of the public; hence the efforts to sustaln5it by
q resort to a species ofdespotsm as CALLING and
as odious to any gentleman as anything youican
conceive OF.
eve understand that the State Department
was placed under seige yesterday by Brigadier
General George Washington Bowman, and a
dollars, as necessary supplies for his military
chest. One rebellious clerk refused to submit
to the decree of Gen. Bowman. The acting
lcommissary in behalf of the Brigadier, it is
stated, was the dsbursing clerk of the State
Department. We are informed the name of
each official was copied from the Blue Book on
a list fsubscrihers to the Constitution, the in.
tended victim was Significantly pointed to his
name, and then the purpose was suggested.
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HORACE GREELY writes FROM Denver, July
9th, "tho very mothers who bore them would
hardly recognize their sons now toiling across
the Plains, and struggling into this place, hide
ously hirsute, recklessly ragged, barefoot, sun
Drowned, dust-coyered, and with eyes shielded
(where they have them) by goggles from the
glare of the prairie SUM-. 4 true picture of gold
seekers setting out from home, trim and jolly,
sUUer JUICES ana ovm .v,..,5 t.s,1r >c,,a
weary oxen, dropping into Denver, would con-
Ivey a salutary lesson to many a sanguine soul
Nay; i have in my minds eye an individual who
rolled out of .Leayenworth, barely thirteen days
ago, in satisfactory rig aud spirit of adequate
selfcomplacency, but who-though his hard
ships have been nothing to theirs-came into
Denver this morning in sobered and thought
ful frame of mind, dust begrimcd and tattcred
habiliments, wish patch on his cheek, a ban
dage on his leg and limp in his gait, altogeth
or constituting spectacle most rueful 10 be-
hold. It's likely to be sometime get before our
fashionable American Spas and Summer resorts
for To- idlers will be located among the Rocky
Mountains.
TnE European Times says the numerous
steamers running from Liverpool to North
America are found inadequate for the traffic of
London5and Manchester, and large quantities
ofbale and other goods from those are forward.
eddy rail to be conveyed by the Hamburg and
Bremen screw steamers which touch at South-
ampton. tits highly probable that in another
year or so steamers will be running to and from
Liverpool, southampton, Glasgow, or Galway
and North America daily during a great part of
the year. The trade with South America is
also increasing. In less than two months the
five giant steamers ofthe Royal Mail Company
the Paramatta, Atrato, Parana, Shannon and
La Plata-will run every fortnight between
Southampton and the Eastern terminus of the
Panama Railway, to meet the increasing traffic
with Central America, the highway now to the
Pacific, and the Western Coast Of America
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Mr. DAVENPORT, North Carolina editor, shot
at DR.. Shaw, and the ball passed throug ii the
Doctors coat and vest, as the papers say
without doing him any harm This is an
evidence ofthe worldly prosperity that attends
upon those who sell pills Passed through his
coat and vest without doing him any har,nl-
How unlike the historical Gascon The Gascon
dropped his hat, and a friend not deigning 10
stoop, but wishing to be polite, stuck the point
of his sword into the hat aud handed it to the
Gaseon. "Parfandious,n said the Gascon, "I
would .rather you had stuck the point Of. your
sword into me- "whyP' said the King, who
stood within hearing. Because, said the
Gasc0n, II have credit with a physician, but
none with tailor But this is the United
States, and DIR. Shaw is not Gascon.
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We have before drawn on the writings of our
unknown friend Longdon, who odocsp the
Educational Department. for the Washington,
Pa, reporter. His style, we should judge, is
peculiar toZhimsclC For instance, in this
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