Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-07-25
GEN. FRANkLIN's ESCAPE
ITEms or NEWS.

The customs revenue of the government
in coin, for the last fiscal year, was over
$IO3 900, 900 or about twice the interest of
the gold bearing debt Of the nation, to
meet which this revenue is strictly pledged.
A resident OF California thus sets forth
the wants OF his state: What California
needs most to day is rain. What she wants
to morrow is seventy Eve thousand females,
which would equal the male population, +,
according to the last census.
Real estate speculation at New York is
quieting down, and houses on Fifth avenue
are selling at less than their real worth
Last spring everybody wanted houses and
laads and now everybody dosen't and the
sellers are more numerous than buyers.
The hay crop this year is going to be
light, but dairymen say it will be really
worth more than the crop last year, and
that two loads of the present crop will be
worth as much for feeding purposes as
three loads of the last crop when the stalks
we're unusually coarse, heavy and hollow.
The Chinese have lately tried to smuggle
opium into San Francisco, by putting it
into thin metallic cans 10 the shape of eggs,
covering each With thin coat of varnish
on the plea that it was to preserve the eggs.
Each egg contained about $500 worth Of
the precious stuff.
The British government has ordered the
concentration of all the regular troops in
Canada at Quebec and Montreal, Whereat
the Canadians are alarmed again lest the
Yankees shall take this oportunity to in
wade their sacred territory.
An Alderman at Buffalo, N. Y, who was
drafted lately, got a convict PardOned out
of the peniteutiary on condition that he
to- fh inf
father" But the convict changed his
mind after be got his freedom and is now
waiting for something in his professional
line, as he considers Law breaking safer
than fighting.
The whole number of sheep in Ohio is
800 900, and this years wool product
will be nineteen million pounds, worth
| Sis 600 900. Michigan has 500, 900 sheep,
aud the estimated wool product is twelve
or fifteen million pounds. Throughout the
get tor their wool and investing it in more
sheep, as wool growing is very profitable
just now.
The Erie railroad pays 81 per cent. to
its common aud 4 per cent. dividend to its
preferred stockholders. While this and
other roads are going up in profits and
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opportunity is best OF all, goes dowu-the
effects of extravsgant and corrupt man
agement Its usual semi annual dividend
is bat per cent. against for the last
year.
Some copperhead paper wittily says that
since the appearance of the fast prOclama-
ton, and the call for half million men
the offense of Howard, the author Of the
bogus proclamation, proves to be the same
with that Of Fremont. He merely antici
pated the Presidents action. Perhaps
they will nominate Howard for something,
He is clearly one of the martyrs.
Two men at San Francisco have an apple
wager pending upon the capture of Rich
mond. The wager was made teu months
ago on these conditions If the Union for
ces did not capture Richmond within
thirty days from that date. one was TO give
the other a sound eatable apple. If Rich
mond held out sixty days be was 20 give
him two apples, and so on, doubling the
number for each mouth until Richmond
was taken-to the end of time if that event
did not occur before. The last payment
was 5I2 apples aud $40 gold piece was
spoilt in obtaining them, apples being 20
cents a pound aud a ffty pound box being
] required. Should Richmond be taken the
present month, be would get back all the
apples be has lost and one more, which, as
the price will then be at the very highest
notch, would make him more than even
but, shouId it hold out year longer, and
be continue to pay his losses, bis last pay
ment would cost him $40 SEQ, and be
would be Ssl 800 out; in three months
more he would be cut $685., $40 and
should the war last from this date as much
longer az it has already lasted since ita
commencement, no nation on earth eOald