Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-01-06
Death of Hon. Lemuel j. BONvden, u.
). senator from Virginia.
WASHINGTON. Jan. !, 1863.

WASHINGTON. Jan. !, 1868.
The death of Hon. Lemuel J. Bowden,
Senator from Virginia. has taken the COM
| nuuily by surprise. lie died OF small pox,
Yesterday morning at I o'clock, at his
rooms At Mrs. + S. Smiths, No. 4O2 Thir-
Ieenth street, and his funeral took place
this afternoon, under the direction of the
Sergeant. at. Arms OF the Senate. The pail.
bearers selected tor the UccnsiOu were
Senators Foot. ID wis, Howard, Lane, Hen
derson and Wiley, and his rem .ius were
! borne to the Congressional Cemetery, at
tended by number of Senators and Rep
rcseutnulves, Ju Iges Of the Courts, members
OF the Cabinet, officers OF the two houses OF
! Congress, nud others connected with the
government, besides a considerable number
OF citizens OF Virginia, who first assembled
| at the kirkwOOd House. under tue auspices
of IA committee of the Union League.
MIR. BOwden's illness had been of only
about one weeks duration He LETT here
eight or ten days before tue adjournment
OF Congress for Norfolk, on business, nud
returned on tue Tuesday before Christmas,
| apparently in good health. The next morn
| ing he was taken suddenly i'll, and WAS not
able to leave his apartments. AT first he
was pronounced to be suffering from Vari-
oloid, but in few dAys tine disease broke
out upon him in its full force. After this
be was thought to have safely passed the
climax, and on Friday was considered out
OF danger. About 6 o'clock yesterday
morning sudden change for the worse
| took place, and in an hours time he
breathed his last. The Senator has three
children living, two sons aud a daughter,
the latter of whom is receiving her educa-
ton ut Ellicotrs Mills, Md. His two sous,
aged respectively nineteen and twenty two
years, were in constant attendance upon
him during the last hours of his existence,
and throughout the week he WAS visited
twice daily by DR.. Stone, his Physician
MIR. Bowden was IA native of Williamsburg.
Va, aud had formerly been upon the bench
in Virginia. He had never been in Con
gress until coming here now as Senator
from Old Virginia, his colleague being Mr..
Garlic, while for the new State of West
Virginia Messrs. Wiley and Van Wrinkle
are the Senators.
THE Richmond Sentinel of the 25th of
December, has a market report made up
by Martin L Cardoso, commission mer-
chants. Apples are quoted at SEQ to $40
per bushel bacon So per pound; butter
81 TO 81 IS per pound corn meal SI2 so
to SIS per busheIi coffee So 90 to So per
pound; -four, extra. $llO per barrel !;
potatoes, Irish, 81 so to Ss per bushel;
sweet potatoes $40 to Sl2 SO; salt IS to
a73 cents per pound tobacco, according
to quality common leaf, % to 40; good
and fine, GO to IS; manufacturing, 60 to
100 per 100 pounds; wool sells at 81 so
per pound for unwashed, and Sc for wash.
ed. Wheat, SIS to sic per bushel; in
demand. Wood, oak, $780, and pine S24
per cord. Whiskey. corn, $50 to $50; rye
sos to sos.
FINANCIAL.
Reported by R. II. MAury Co.
RIcHNoSD, Dec. 81.
Gold 10 to $50 tor one, weak; Bank
notes, 200 to $50 for one; sterling, LIST
class, 20 for one, tendency downward.