The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-08-03

Genefgl1 NeNtBs
Among those who are named in con-
nection with the next Governorship Of
Pennsylvania are Hons. j. k Moore
head, Morton Men Michael w. w. Ketch-.
um, John Covode, Francis Jordan,
Gen. Heron and Col. A. j. McClue. !
The steubenvflle Herald Is still COM
bative as regards railroads. 1t says:
Before the introduction of railroads,
this city, the President of the city coun-
Gil informs us the city received an in
come from wharfage annually, of from
| 81 500 to 1000. Now the city has be-
tween S15, 900 and $50, 600 railroad tax'to
pay, and no wharfage. The people are
no way of making up this deficit of
the railroads ?-if there is, it would be
n God-send to the people of Steuben-
vile, and certainly be doing railroads
no injustice. The railroad tax is one
EOf the "mill stones" which weighs
down the prosperity of this city.
The anticipations of spectators and
fears of prudent men, concerning the
effects of the protracted rains over a
wide extent of the country, have for
tunately not been realized. The sun
came out and prices which had in
ceased rs the clouds thiCkened, fell.
In the Chicago market wheat Went
down from 81 So to 81 y; rye from a
to "a cents: oats from 81 ~ tn As cents:
corn from 90 to "a CentS-With an evil
| dent tendency to fall still further. a
few speCulRtorS were losers; hut as
these unluclSy gamblers were betting
against the public interest, their pun
tshnent can lind hut little sympathy,
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad shares
are scarcS in the market al llS, Nir-
giuia skies are worth SSH u Sa9s IN the
London market.
4 The population of Cleveland, Accord
ing to Il late census, is tiilN-uine thaIS,
Scnd and five hundred and tiICN-SiN II,
1850, it was forty.thrVe thousand tlvS
hundred and titty,
, Mrs. Lincoln is living in perEeet So
clusion mt the Hyde Park hotel, ON the
shore of the lake, seven or eight miles
from Chicago. Both her sons reside
with her. Cnpt,5Robert Lincoln is study,
} ing law in Chicago, and goes there dai,
ly by the Illinois Central railroad to at
tend to his duties.
Hon. Judge Nye, of Marietta, Ohio
one of the Oldest lawyers of the State
. died at his residence in that city on the
morning of the 9th.
Ohio wOol-growers are holding on tC
tHSlA ShPoB ASGA4IllI4S ~ uCCSpL lIAe OAlSES
of eastern agents. -a.r.., t.
The ,Agmy, aud Navy Journal says
that friend fresh from his classics
suggests that Gen. Meade might have
been "crammed" so as to acknowledge
in classical terms the profusion of Com.
mencement Latin which was lnvished
on him mt Harvard. He could have
been instructed to quote from tho Blu
COLES, "ClqWc'ite jam y''iros, 4,..e,i: sat
prdtd biberlnt.'' "Thc NTeades have
drunk enough.n Eg q
The London Court Journal remarks :
The latest novelty in the way of matri-
mOnial advertisements is the precision
with which the details are entered into.
A lady of, Liverpool, for5instance, thus
puts forth her catalogue of require
lments. After stating that she is iortv,
and has two thousand three hundred
pounds, she says: The gentleman
must be forty, not beyond forty-five,
tall, of good carriage, have good teeth
and hair, and be most particular in his
personal habits, accustomed to daily
| immersion"