The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-12-20


armed hostility to the United States.-I
Every government should contain in it
self the means of its own preservation,
and for that reason the regulation of
the right Of suffrage was reserved by
the States.
GENERAL NEWS sUMNIARY.
All Sorts CITIZENS Condensed from the
A monument to Gen. Mcpherson is
to be erected at West Point.
The post Office and mails at Pit Hole,
Pa, were recently robbed of SIS, 600. Z
1t is eighteen years since man with
middle name occupied the presiden-
tial chair.
The gold and silver mines of Montana
territory wtllthis year produce $16, 6,OOO,-
Crime is so high-handed at Indianap-
Oils that vigilance committee has been
organized.
They are making carpeting of MANILA
paper, and claim that it is better than
oil-cloth.
"Hotel de Horse,n is the modern
namefor livery stable on East Broad
way, New York. II
The effort for the removal of the Phil
adelphin mint to New York will be re-
newed this winter. fTIf0
The tenth financial statement of the
tenian Brotherhood shows that the
subscriptions to the war fund from
September IL to October 2S amounted
t. Sl20,650. The smallest subscription
was ten cents and the largest, which
came from California, was $72OO. Where
all the money goes to, perhaps the
chiefs who are quarrelIing over the
spoils can tell; we are sure none of the
rank and file can say. ]a
Comptroller Clark discountenances a
scheme of various national banks to
raise corruption fund of S25O,O to
get the currency act amended SO that
the banks will get the benefit of their
lost circulation. He is also down upon
the professions of some of the New
York banks that they have an influence
TO secureth carly printing of notes for
new banks, using this inducement to
get the new banks to keep their ac-
counts with them.
The last advices from Europe brought
advices of the negotiation of the seven
per cent mortgage bonds of the Atlantic
and Great Western Railway Company
to the amount OF R2,77l, 600 sterling out
OF consolidated general mortgage ON
the property of the company of G6. .OOO.-
GOO sterling. Thus a large amount of
money. will be remitted to the United
States by the creation of this new debt
abroad. The proceeds of the negotia-
ton, ut the rate of so per cent, are
equal to about S11, Joe, $40 in gold. The
installments, it is stated, run from the
25th of November to the 25th of March,
and will be drawn for, as wanted for
the road on this side, at an early day,
constituting an important supply OF
exchange on London.
The extensive sale of the materials
IN the warehouses and workshops at
Alexandria of the United States milf
tary railroad has been temporarily sus-
pended, to enable purchasers to remove
the articles already sold, when the
sales will recommence. At the sale on
Friday varnisheS sold at 81 rs toS2 so
per gallon; linseed oil 81 40; several
thousand gross of screws at 25 to So
cents per gross; axes (new) at S14 to SI4
so per dozen.
The newest thing" Is the sugar we'd
ding-thirty days after marriage. Is
such device necessary at SO early
period.
Louis Napoleon is forbidden by his
physician to smoke, and is giving away
a large collection of meerschaums.
The Round Table calls tin, wooden
and glass weddings benefit nights for
married beggars.
The wool-growers formed national
association at Syracuse, N. Y, on
Wednesday, conferred with the wooden
manufacturers on cordial terms, and
appointed committees to collect facts,
visit custom houses, and look after the
wool interest in Congress-.
The Salt Lake Vedette boasts of one
hundred couples, as stylish as the best
society of Gotham, as in attendance on
a late brilliant ball of the "Gentils" in
that city.
Horace F. Clark, a son-in-law of
Com. Vanderbilt, was substituted for
Erastus Corning, as director of the New
York Central Railroad, at the recent
election, and the railroad men find
food for reflection" in it.
The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and
Chicago road has declared Its usual
dividend of 21< per cent.
The Adams Express company Is re-
| ported to have loaned $500, 900 of its
accumulated capital to aid in the recon-
struction of some of the main lines of
Southern railroads.
The Canadians are very apprehensive
4 that their new capital, Ottawa. which il
only 81 miles from the border, viii be
attacked by the Fenians. A few thous-
and men could easily take the place,
but government is assembling troops
there, and will soon be prepared for
emergencies.
The Bowmoor, England from COM
| pany now regularly employs three large
omnibuses going around an out-district,
every morning, to collect their work
men, who are thus prevented from
tdropping in" at liquor shops on the
way, whereby they lost much time,
health and money.
webster's Spelling Book is in such
I great demaud for the reconstruction of
the South that American printers can
not supply the demand, and the pub
fishers have sent to Europe to get it
| printed. Over one million copies have
been sold since April, and orders are
now one hundred thousand in advance
Of the supply.
SALE OF COFFEE AND CoTToN.-Four
thousand four hundred bags of Java
coffee were sold at auction in New York,
Hast Friday, at 231< cents in gold, and
$500 bags Of Rio ON private tartns.-
! Three thousand bales Of cotton, captured
I by the government, were also sold al
auction 2, ,4O8 bales of Memphis brought
411<a53 cts; 65s bales Of New Orleans
| brought 421la53 cents, and III bales Of
4 Florida brought S5a49 cents.
.-Confributions are
are being made in the Catholic Churches
of Baltimore, to raise funds to supply
the wants ofthe freedmen Of the South,