Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-10

age from the ice last week. She will soon
be repaired, and will again resume her
trips. The Express is the Parkeraburg
packet for this morning. The Saint Johns
did not leave on Saturday, as she expect
ed, owing to the heavy ice in the river.
tbs WANT OF SToRR RooMs AND
DWELLING HoUsEs.-Never in the history
of the city of Wheeling has there been
such great demand for store rooms and
dwelling houses az exists at present The
population has largely increased during
the past year and the business of the city
has increased in proportion. Rents are
fifty per cent higher than ever before and
it is almost impossible to obtain house
TO live in or room in which to do bust.
ness. Hardly day passes but we hear of
some person who has selected Wheeling as
his permanent place of abode, but after
long and industrious search has been UNI
able to find house in which to put his
family or a suitable place to store bis goods,
and has been compelled to go elsewhere.
This demand is of course occasioned by the
facilities which the city affords for the sus.
cessful carrying on of almost any kind of
we'll conducted business. This prosperi-
tyn though it is felt and acknowledged in
all departments of business has not been
met, on the part of our enterprising citi-
sens, with the accommodations and con-
Veniences which it demands. 1t is appa.
rent to every observer that spent up
Utica contracts our powers" and that we
are losing golden opportunity to become
a great city.
1t is true that building material COM
mands good price, and that lumber is
higher than ever before, but neither is out
of proportion to the increased rents that
are demanded aud freely paid. We ought
to have two or three hundred new iwel.
ing houses, and as many new store rnoms.
to accommodate the enterprise sioh ia
every day seeking this as point o EZRA.
tons. Some of the most desirable, ts in
the city are now occupied by old ST. mites
and huts, or frowniug old edi6ces re- to
topple and fall to the ground, and has
been a subject of wonder on the TT Of
strangers, that the industry and .blic
spirit which Predominates here, la no,
swept them away and supplied the pla
ces with new store rooms or dwell g.
There is no enterprise in which pita
could be more proftably invested, b,
which the prosperity of the town AMI
those who have interests here, cor / b.
more permanently established. 4 YER,
large number of dwellings and store GUS
es have been erected during the pas yea,
and twice as much money has bee en-
PlOyed in new improvements as wa ,ve
invested in the city during the san pc
riod of time, but instead OF accom-, da
ting the demand of which we spea tb
clamor for houses has been increase
We hope that some of our enter in
capitalists will take this matter into ri
Gus consideration that the city may "a
itself of the greatness which appears Dc
sire TO thrust itself upon us.
~DURIXG this chaDgeable ", be
the best of Grammsrians are unable 1.
cline cough. Under such circumss ,e
bodily comfort, if not their scholar il
will be greatly promoted by using D
ChGPRon'' HOurhOund BGEsGm For .al
with all the popular cough remedies, I
d. Logan q Co., and Logan, List 4 Oo