The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-18
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"BEYoND THE MISSISSIPPI" from the
Great River to The Great Ocean, by Al
bert d. Richardson. This Is "A most en-
te1taining and valuable book, and its
popularity is attested by the sale OF
ever 10000 copies in a single month.
The authors long and varied expe-
Tience in the little known and interest
ing regions OF the Far West, furnishes
the valuable material for Its contents.
Mr.. Richardson is widely known as
one OF our most brilliant journalists
and writers. No other author has trav-
eled over so much of our vast western
can SO well describe what he has seen.
He is always interesting, generally
amusing, and, better still, invariably
truthful.
The volume before US is accompan anied
by an accurate and minute map of the
entire region beyond the Mississippi,
and is elegantly printed and proiusely
illustrated with over two hundred en-
Cravings from original photogI apis
and sketches from the pencils of Bier.
stadt, Mast. Hennessy, barley, Fem,
Stephens, Forbes, and other eminent
artists, which are really beautiful and
worthy of examination as specimens OF
art.
1t is credit to American authorship,
and not only the most valuable work
from Mr.. Richardson's pen, but by far
the best and most complete history OF
the great West ever issued. hose
who wish for authentic information of
the resources, condition and prospects
of the Western and greater half of the
continent, within a few years TO be sown
thick with civilized States, rich
in all the elements of greatness
should consult this most valua-
bic work. The writer has Il charming
rIyle, fund of humor, and
His experiences are OF thrilling intere.t t.
He blends Information, pathos, fun,
and legend with full practical and
minute accounts ofthe farming, mining,
trading, railroad building and other
great interests and resources of the
new States and Territories.
II is the product OF vast labor, in
travel and personal observation, and
is destined to have an unprecedented
sale. Sold only by subscription, and
published by the National Publishing
Ohio, st. Louis, Mo-, and Davenport,
Iowa.
THE BASE AND THE ASTIDoTE.-Mr.
G.. t. Curtis takes dozens OF columns in
the HfOr2d to establish mischievous
and fuilaCious doclr ne. Now see how
small space is occupied in complete
refutation of the dreary dogmas thus
defended. A writer in the Nation puts
in a paragraph all that need be said re-
gardiug "The Sources and Obligations
OF Fundamental law"
In two-thirds of what is written on
the snnciity OF the "fundamental law"
Including the long disquisitions of Mr..
&. It. Curtis in the World, there is
false bottom to the thinking. The reH-
soning is based on The assumption that
the Constitution is the ultimate fact OF
our system of government. This is
delusion. The ultimate fact OF this, as
of all governments, IS human nature;
and until human nature Is totally
changed, the majority OF great and
free country will not allow one man
calling him self an executive, or nine
men calling themselves court, to in
terpTet the fundamental law when, in
the opinion OF the minority, their in
depreciation wonld be dangerous to the
public safety.
DEATH OF \ WELL KEOwN NEWS
PAPER MAS.-Mr. Patrick Kean, of
Richmond, Va, died suddenly in that
city on Sunday afternoon last. Mr..
Kean was probably one of the best
known newspaper reporters in the
South, having connected himself with
the profession upwards oftwenty years
ago az local editor OF the Richmond
Wing. Subsequently, some years be-
fore the breaking ont of the war, he be-
came the Virginia correspondent of the
New York Herald, and continned.his
connection with that journal, with an
interval OF the four years OF the rebel
lion, till the day OF his death. As a
stenographic reporter he had but few
superiOrs, and obtained some celebrity
as the campaign reporter of John NJ.
Bolts, william c. Rives and other Vir-
ginia politicians. He was man of
great physical endurance, and during
the three weeks secret session of the
Virginia Convention of 1860, which
passed the ordinance of secession, he
accomplished the feat OF reporting the
whole proceedings, scarcely averaging
during the time an hours sleep in the
twenty four. Mr.. Kean was about
forty-two years of age at the time of his
death.
BASE BALL IN A NEW AsPEcT.-The
| has made a quarterly report, which Is
the items give few OF the unpleasant
! features of the noble pastime, in whose
| pursuit there are involved more or less
dangers to clothes and limbs. We give
these items rs they are printed in II
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