The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-26

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OS SATURDAY NIGHT, BETWEEN o.
" J Crawf1rd's and e. w. Pumphrey's
meat store. John street, a MIMI Fur Collar.
The nnder Viii be literally rewarded by
leaving 1t a. this once feb25
Mr. CALEB blake, of Turner Vii
lage. State OF Maine, is in the city,
looking into our facilities for trade and
manufacture. He comes az the agent
or pioneer of a number of mechanics,
manufacturers, farmers, and small cap
italists, who contemplate seeking homes
in this direction somewhere. Their at
teution has been first directed 10 this
city as the principal point in the State,
and II the report carried back to them
shall suit theI- ideas OF an eligible To-
cation, we may expect quite a colony
OF Eastern immigrants among Us in a
short time. Aud these are the people
We want They are the kind who have
already, more perhaps than any others
made our city one of;bs principal man
uf4cturing points in the West. Wewant
tHei- sktiI, their industry, economy and
capital, and N return We promise
them remuneration, neighborly regard
and esteem, q good climate aud a desi-
rab-s country in every respect. We
feel persuaded thaE when Mr.. Blake
looks into the steady growth of this
c-tyin wealth and population, owing to
Is abundant and superior resources
FOR she prosecution OF almost every
kind ofindustry, he will conclude that
Ihis IS the place for his colony. He will
md any number of men from the
East now wealthy or fiourishing, who
came here poor mechanics, and have
worked their way up. Their expert
ences attest the desirability of this re-
gion as home for enterprising men
who have the determination to get
ahead in the world. To such persons
we refer him in all the inquiries he may
desire 10 make as to the extent and
character OF our resources. And we
take pleasure in posting him up and
showing him every attention.
y NEW feature, and one which speaks
well for the progressing influence OF
the Young Mems Christian Associu-
ton, is the proposed free reading room,
which they expect in short time to
throw open for the use OF the Young
men ofthe city. The young men who
heard the anniversary address OF the
Rev. Mr.. CulIis at the Presbyterian
Church on Sunday evening, especially
that portion of them whom he styles
the homeless young men-those who
eat at one place and sleep in another, and
spend their evenings wherever they
can lind plnce open TO them-must
have felt their hearts warm up with
pleasant thoughts OF home and its low
ing associations. when he described the
home-like character of the rooms of the
Association in Philadelphia. 1t is lust
such "a one, or rather as near such n one,
Hs they can raise the means to fit up
that the Young Mems Christian Assoc
citation OF Wheeling proposes to estnb-
lish. We think that in the past the
Association, ii 1t has erred a all, has
erred in that the objects and intentions
of the Association have not been more
fully laid open TO the public. We know
that 1t has been generally supposed
that none but members of churches
could belong to 1t, aud that the exer-
ciseS Were purely religious. Young
men out Of the pale of the church did
not know that It had for one of its
chief objects the bringing of young
men together in order TO form acquaint-
ances and contract sociul habits and
cultivate friendship with each other,
aud with established business men OF
worth and moral integrity, whom to
know is to desire the esteem Of i
II. as we have said, there has been
any error on the part of the Association
in the past, they are determined to put
the matter in its broadcast light before
the public in the future. As they in
crease in numbers, they will spread
their committees out, until they be-
come network all over the city. And
their reading rooms, through these
committees, will be brought TO the at
tention OF svery young man in the city,
in counting-room or workshop, aud
all will be invited to come and employ
their leisure hours in way that will
cultivate their self respect and enlarge
their capacity for usefulness, and where
they, ut the same time, will experience
more of the real enjoyment OF leisure
than they can in n life time OF evenings
spent in ioafing on the street corners,
or in the drinking saloons, where their
associations are only evil, and that
continually
We are among those who believe
that the free reading rooms of the as
ISOLATION will prove a club of Hercules
more powerful in breaking down the
baleful influence of the sixty odd
drinking houses which infest this CITY.
than any or all other associations. or
even the strong arm of the law itself.
The proposed measure should meet the
hearty approval of, and receive the
material aid and active cooperation of
every employer in the city, especially
that portion of them who rely in IL great
measure on the honesty and Intelligence
oftheir employees for the successful
carrying on oftheir business. Good hab-
its in the employee are essential TO the
unreserved confidence of the EMPLOYER,
II a clerk, receiving only the mod
crate salary which the business OF the
city affords, lives fast and is dissolute,
In his habits, the employer is safe in
one of two conclusions, either that the
employee tndulHSs these pernicious
habits Mt his (the employer'S) expense
or that he does not pay his wash bills
and other Legitimate expenses; and
mark our words, he will never find
himself mistaken. Either ofthese con-
illusions convicis the party of dishon-
esty. We repeat, therefore, that a
measure which tends to afford young
men the means OF social, intellectual
and moral enjoyment ut the smallest
expense, that tends to draw them away
from Immoral influences and to Guilt
vate their better natures, becomes a So
curity TO their employers which they
can we'll afford to foster, from motives
OF self interest, If nothing else.
RUFFIANIsM.-On Saturday night a