Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-06-02

~ LARGEST DAILY. rRI.wEEkly, AND WEEKLY
CIRCULATION. OF ANY PAPER IN wHEE1ING.
TnE questions and answers which we have
carefully colated and arranged on our first page
this morning are, well worth reading.
FuLr. particulars of the fire at Key West,
which occurred on the 10th ult., we find in our
exchanges 1t appears that the burnt district
embraces an area of about eighteen acres, upon
which were situated the principal business cs-
Adjustments of the town; and nearly all the
buildings within this area were either destroyed
by the conflagration or blown up BY gundowder
in attempts to stop the progress of the flames.
Tie loss of property is upwards of quarter OF
a million dollars, about oncthird Of which sum
is covered by insurance in New York
Tue Washington Constitution, the Official Or
gan. has denied the story that the Prcsidenth had
had an interview with Judge Douglas, with
view TO a reconciliation. The National Intettt-
qencer of Monday, now see, publishes
statement, the writer.of which says, tue Senator
authorizes him to deny to everybody that any
such conference took place. Moreover, we are
told, the Senator "repudiated and denounced all
propositions for compromise by which he
would have TO conccde an iota of the principles
he had all along avowed.
Tue trial of Captain Townsend, the master OF
the slave brig Echo or Putnam, which was
captured by Lieutenant Moffat off the coast Of
Cuba. with some three hundred Africans on
board, took place at Key West on the 10th ult
All the facts respecting the capture were clear.
ly proved, but the evidence presented as to the
ownership of the vessel was declared to be de-
fective, and without argument of counsel or
summing up the Judge directed thejury to find
the prisoner not guilty, on the ground that
there was no proof that the brig was owned, in
whole or in part, by citizen Of the United
States, or navigated in behalf Of a citizen Of the
United States, which was material 10 be proved
in order 10 maintain tie Indictment
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Our renders will remember that John Under
wood a magistrate of Prince William County,
Virginia, was indicted some months ago for
vemtnr;ng TO speak too freely on the subject of
Slavery lie was tried by the County Court,
and fined $3.50. An appeal -was taken to the
Circuit Court, and Judge Tyler has reversed the
decision of the County Court. Some of his
nerghbors at the late election insisted upon
voting for him for the Legislature, and the fol-
lowing is the vote in the town Of OocOQnon, of
which he is native, and where he has always
resided:
fa, Goreyaor. Far Horsoef De'.uetss.
Gosgi", Opposition lynn, Democrat ., AZ
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THE Washington correspondent of the Phia.
deiphia North american says of the President:
"The approaching Presidential visit to Chapel
Hill, North Carolina is intcnded to be prepara-
tory to the Charleston Convention. Mr. Bu.
chanan causes it TO be announced every few
days. that his health was never more rugged
and his appetite never more ravenous. When
he appears on the avenue after dinner he takes
special care to tread with 8 solid step and to
poiSe his form in the most erect manner His
speech few days ago to the knights Tcmplars
flom Boston, while on their way to Richmond,
was re[reshingy racy, particularly that portion
of it which battered the Southern people.
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VIZ arc informed by the Harrisburg (Pa.)
Telegraph that fifteen gentlemen, SAID TO repre-
sent the Counties of Philadelphia, Wcstmore-
land Armstrong, Washington, Greene, Craw-
ford, Fayette, Allegheny, AMI Dauphan, met in
the Hall of the House of Representative, and
appointed Mr.. j. j. Heron of Cumberland
County as President, and T. F. Wilson as Sec
rotary After an interchange of opinion. a
preamble was passed, deemins it mcxpedient,
under the present circumstances, to take any
definite action in regard to the approaching
State election, aud agreed to the following reso-
luton:
Resolved, That we still adhere with abiding
faith to the principles Of the American party, as
enacted in the platform adopted at the Amer-
can State Convention in the City of Lancaster
in June, 1857, and that we pledge to each other
our united efforts in Promuisating and sustain
ing these principles.
The Chairman was authorized to appoint
State Central Committee; whcreupon, the Con-
venlon adjourned die.
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Bennett, of the New York He1,tW, is exceed
ingly anxious that the Pope should take up his
residence IN this country, and thinks that 'every
Protestant sect would vie with the Catholics
and each other in giving him welcome to this
asylum of all the presented of the carth."-
In late number of the Herald, in answering
the query, which the editor himself propounds