The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-17

total number of vessels carrying other
than cabin passengers which arrived al
the port of New York during the month
OF May, 1867, was 70, of which 40 were
steamers, and 80 sailing vessels. The
total number of passengers brought by
them was 37,ee8, of which 2l Ola were
males, and 18,484 were females. Sew
eral of the vessels examined brought
more passengers than the law allows,
and were reported to the Collector lof
the Port for prosecution. The largest
number of passengers brought IN any
one vessel, was the American steamer
Atlantic, which brought 1,037.
Mr.. Octave Feuillet says that the ar
tificial atmosphere of high Partisan
civilization takes away from women the
feeling and the taste Of duty, leaving
them only the sentiment and the taste
OF pleasure. Like the fairy of u thea
tire, they lose in this brilliant. and false
atmosphere, the true notion of life In
general, and OF Christian life In par
ticular. They are pagans like the
beautiful but profane Catholics of the
sixteenth century, thirsting after lux
ury, rich dresses, costly furniture, liter
ature, arts, themselves and love; they
are charming pagans on the model sOi
Mary Stuart, ,'and capable, like her, Eof
finding themselves Christians under
the axe.
Jerusalem, in 1866; contained popu-
lation of $4,000, of whom 5000 were
Mohommedans, 5000 Jews, and 1900
Christians of various denominations.
Two llnesof telegraph connect J erusa-
lem with Europe, and the chief busi-
ness of the peopleqs the manufacture
of soap and what is called Jerusalem
ware, consisting of chaplets, cruciti1esr
beads, crosses, and the like. made prln-
wood, and sold TO the pilgrims who an.
nually repair to the Holy City to the
number or from 5000 to 5000.
Three Texas lawyers, who have
emerged from the Confederate armies,
having nothing else to do, spent week
in vain endeavors to construe Attorney
General Stanbery's opinion OF the Mil
itary Bill. At last one of them, the
fartest of the trio, gave 1t up, and was
heard to exclaim: "It was intended TO
be muddle w
The little Prince Imperial of France
is reported to be a victim to scrofula OF
the most determined character, and
part Of the bone has already been re-
moved and replaced by plates of gold
in recent operation. 1t is stated pos
itively as the opinion of an eminent
surgeon that he cannut survive sec
ond, and that his living to succeed to
the throne is highly improbable.
Mr.. VIM. Swinton, now engaged in
visiting the battlefields of Virginia. in
the course of a narrative of an inter-
view with Gen. Lee, writes as follows /:
Imay say that with lis friends he
never recurs to the subject of the war
nor did he TO me express any opinion on
political matters. L understand, how
ever, from those who are in intimate
daily converse with him, that he is
strongly in favor of the people of bis
State, and of the South, coming right
up, frankly accepting the situation, and
earnestly pursuing the work OF recon-
struction.
The general poverty of gas comPa-
MES is shown by the following para
graph, copied from Boston paper:
The present capital Of the Boston
Gas Light Company Is 3, $50 600 Its
capital from 1896 to 1866 has been 1925,
OO3. The surplus earnings of the Com
pany for thirty years have been S3 ,000,
0OO.1 This is over and above the yearly
dividends of ten per cent. divided
quarterly among its stockholders. A
yearly dividend of ten per cent. on
$625, 900 is S62, 500. This sum, invested
wear by year for twenty-nine years,
yields the princely amount of "a ,S22,
9s4 IS. Add the interest to the surplus
earnings for eleven years Of the thirty
| the corporation has been in existence,
and the principal and interest amount
to S5,372, ,541-making grand total,
paid by the citizens OF Boston proper,
of $685., ,4S5 s5. ..g=.., .l..1.t.. '.'
Mr.. Ross Winans, of Baltimore, now
oyer seventy years Of age, purchased in
1861, farm OF about seven hundred
acres, along the banks OF the Patapsco
River, and about six miles from Balti.
more. His, land cost him $50,00O; he
added buildings at a cost OF $40, 900; his
| fencing Cost him s., 900, and he manured
at an outlay OF. HI, ,O00-making the to
! tai cost of his estate S120, 200. During
the year ending on ihe first of May las
his sales of milk amounted to S37,6S0 u
| of COWS and calves, in the same period
| he sold SI1, ,9S8 worth, and had fifteen ol
twenty more animals on hand than a
the commencement of the year. Ht
however purchased $9,098 worth o
| COWS and heifers during the year. a
/ the close Of the year he had on hanc
| two hundred and twenty tons OF hay
and his total product OF hay Tor tn!
year was estimated at eighteen hundrec
tons-:,i great average per acre: Hi
4 system OF manuring tends to build VI
and nuurish! his land, and not to i'm
poyerish 1t. His milk Is sold to thu
small grocers in Baltimore, at thirty
cents u gallon. .=,.rgsl 10 . .- an
An old-fashioned steamboat rae
took place few evenings since on th'
! Hudson River, between the st. Johi
and Connecticut, which left New Yorl
together, and got headed up the strean
at the. same time, with the Connection
1 a little behind Much talk had beef
had as to the relative speed Of thes
two boats, and the st. John SOUNDED
the whistle of challenge, and both boat
were Immediately putt to their work
By the Palisades, through the old Tap
pan Zee and Highlands, and into New
| burg Bav the two boats were side b.,
side. neither being able to take q lea(
and maintain 1t. Going through New
burg Bay, the Connecticut began Il
gain little,t and before the Bay wa
crossed was quite length ahead. Blu
this advantage was not TO last long, a
having TO make sheer for schooner
3. the st. John took her advantage, ant
when her antagonist was brought {.
her course, she was some ways ahead
But it is long lane that never turns
and the st. John soon had to cross tn
river to avoid q tow, and when she hat
again come to her bearings, the Con
necticut was about length ahead
which distance she maintained and in
creased, and when they passed up tn