The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-12-18
NEWS OF Tl,HlHEE;DAY. THE
Items Condensed from the Mail,

Items Condensed from the Mails.
Over 1,1oO EMPLOYEES have reeentlv
been discharged from the Quartermas-
ter's Department at Washington. a
/ Gen. Sheridan HAS ordered his chief
quartermaster to issue large quantity
Of wood to the poor of the city of New
Orleans. i,4EEiIlFeFsE 40 4
The original chess club of New Or
leans has-been reorganized, and Paul
Morphy chosen president.
az Rhiladelp lphia Is al badly taxed place.
The select council have concurred In the
bill fixing the tax rate for 1866 at four
dollars.
The foreign importation at Boston, this
year, will amount to nearly sixty mil
lions Of dollars.
DIRECT 1MPoRTATIoNs.-Wit the
past few days six cargoes of salt, of di-
rect importation from s Liverpool to,
Richmond merchants, have arrived at
! City. Point. Eaeh cargo embraced from
four to ten thousand sacks, the whole
saggregating upwards Of 25, 600 sacks.
New York's kid-gloved 7th regiment
has big ball on the tapis, and is count,
ing on $4,000 in receipts. 0'7zs
Louis Napoleon is5forbidden by his
| physician to smoke, and is giving
away fine collection of meerschaums
y The Mexicans have become accus-
toned TO a 'sdistrae etedY country, and
the capital was never so gay as now.'p y
Wreckers have raised large portion
of the famous rebel iron-clad, the Mer-
rinlac, which was sunk of Norfolk.
The Emperor and Prince Napoleon
are reconciled agan: and the latter will
bhes PRESIDENT of the great Paris exhibi-
tion in 1867.
Ia L.
has made a great excitement in Bonn
bay, India. The natives cannot under
stand why the posts don'tget hot.
Southern cotton bales have been
growing light of late. A vessel which
could not have carried 1000 bales be-
fore the war, recently took $500 to Liv-
erpool. mos ~. - sl3'if ,sls1Yi2
A Swede has invented gun which
fires ten shots a minute, and does not
| get foul after hundred shots. tits to
be introduced into the Swedish army, -
A lot of rebel money has been found
| at the South bearing the imprint OF the
National bank note company, and the
secretary of war wants to know about
Figeac, pretty and popular actress,
has started a dry goods store at Paris,
and at the opening had 4 religious cere.
mony, withpriests tosprinkle the goods
/ UAbA AO4J WSALG4s
The New York World is, compliment
tary beyond its intention when it calls
Senator Sumner s.the acting charge
4 dIafatrs of Divine Providencein this
4 country" ssily "a 5,iliJi Y
medical dent, boarding ina Chi
4 .cago lawyers family, became imnron-
1 Iierly familiar with his landlady, where
i upon her husband beat in his skull
\ with fat-lron.
| Freedom Of theipress is less allowed in
Prussia than any other country in the
world, and editors there expect to spend
half their time in prison. The crown
/ prosecuted 2T4 last year. GHaa
Brigands are getting exceedingly
bold In the papal states. Theyno longer
4 seek secluded passes, but roam in bands
4 where they choose, even saclSinp towns
almost unmolested.
\ aL.No.s1 spring wheat sold for 81, As in
Chicago, less than a month ago, and has
since fallen 'tis low us 81, 49, iThe decline
has caused a.good many failures siiloi1r
the wheat gamblers. III l5a,
4 Water charged with ten times its
weight of carbOnic acid is q complete
4 extinguisher of fire, and a man in Eng
land has patented an engine for SQUIRTING
II. The Invention is received with great
favor and promises to fevolutionize the
hrei department of London and other
cities. 5l .51-5-ifs
= Kansas men in Washington recently
had a lively hunt after the infamous
i kQuantrelle, said to have arrived there,
intending to shoot him. at sight but
licould mot find him, Rumors saws the
wretch died at Louisville Just before the
close of the war, from wounds received
IN q hghtlwith Union soldiers.
The proprietors of the Congressional
etope are IN mnddle with their re-
portefs are paid by Congress, vet the
Il Globe proprietors have been disch charging
i some OF the best of them. This whole
4 matter Of congressional reporting Is
i sadly inmeed of vital reconstruction.
What fs. is the use of the Globe, any way3
IA Kalamazoo (AIich. lady, who had
i been hopelessly insane for 30 years.
suddenly became ent lreIy sane,y q few
months since, on California steamer,
who was In San Francisco, had not seen
her Tor nine years, and instead of meet
ting her Eaving maniac was oVerjoyed
to find her as well asieVer and gladly
recognizing himi 5e -
Castle Thunder, at Richmond, has
been yacated and its ttcaeed bfrds''
turned over to Libby prison. .Y.ts
h 5..Hg Time works IWonders,'' as the lady
/ said when she got married after am
Eetght years, courtship. H9sfFs,
= ! The great Iel suit Of Judge Higgins.
\ against the Chicago Times has been
A priest in B6hemia, just afters esx-
clainlirlet 9ey, there Is he'll p fen dead
In his pulpit. q. "A III, ,,55
4 "A AIcorrespondent of the Providence
JotfGqL, with the, ,Agassiz expedition,
lsays TINT they have already obtained
specimens OF more than seven hundred