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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-06
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AUGUSTUS P0LLACK
To CASH AND PROMPT BUYERS.

The stock b, as usual. very complete IN all
Prices governed by Eastern markets.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-06
COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.
sIAHksrs. ~ TELEGRAPH.
NEW YORK. September 5.
REPORT.

REGULAR REPORT.
CoTToN-Shade easier, sales $50 bales
at 261za27c for middliug uplands.
FLOUR-Receipts, l6, 500 barrels; me-
dunn grades new -four l0a20c loweri
other Kinds unchRnged; sales of 1880
barrels at 50 65a7 rs for supertine State
and western; So 4Oal2 60 for extra wes-
tern; IS S0all 35 for extra round hoop
Ohio; So 50aaI4 25 for new ST. Louis,
California heavy, 675 barrels at $40 80
ais % and SI3 so retail lots; sales of 400
barrels rye -four at SO 0OdS 90. go.
WHIsSY-Qulet and unchanged.
S-Wheat-Receipts 20, l79 bush
els; shade tirmer and more active;
sales OF So, 600 bushels new No. 1 Chi
cago Mt 81 OIL; amber State 81 S4a2 IS;
amber Michigan 81 So; white Michigan
81 4sa2 So; winter amber, Illinois, g S2}z;
white California 80 44a2 to. Rye
Heavy, sales of q, 500 bushels winter at
81 G0Hl 42H. Barley-Dun. Malt-Qui-
ct, sales of 1000 bushels at 81 IS. Corn
Receipts, 81, $40 bushels, common Izc
mixed western at 81 I61faI Is; and I'M
sound 81 Hal Is. Oats-Receipts p ia
bushels; steady; sales of IS, 900 bushels
at 63a65c for old western; 66aS7c for
new southern, and 66a69c for new Ohio
and Chicago.
Sugar-DulI; sales 700 hhds at llal2I<c
for Cuba, and I1<al3c for Porto Rico.
Enthusiastically; sales 100 bbls Cuba
at 5Oc.
PErRoLEuM-Firm at l4a141zc for
crude, and 321Ec for refined in bond.
HoPs-Quiet and unchanged,
NS-Pork-Eirmer; sales of
:, 600 bbls at S23 6Oa23 20 for new mess;
closing at S23 10 cash; So 20 for old
mess; $40 75a20 10 for prime, and 81 40
for prime mess. Beef hams-NOminal.
Cut Enthusiastically; sales $50 packages
at ll11a1l7<c for shoulders; l5al61zc for
hams. Bacon-Quiet and steady; sales
25 600 pounds, short ribbed l31zc.
LARD-Steady; sales 1850 barrels at
l2z<Hl4G.
BUTTER-Steady at lla24c for Ohio.
CHERsE-Quiet at 9al31zc.
Latest MARKErs-S p. N.
FLoUR-Closed Irregular and unset
tied with tendency TO favor buyers.
GRAIN-Wheat-Firm with fair mil
ling demand. Rye-Dul at 81 40 for
new western. Oats-Dull at 66a6Sc for
new Chicago and Ohio. Corn-Quiet
and firm at 81 l6al IL for new mixed
western afioat, and 81 I5al II in store.
PRoVIsIoNs-Pork-F active and
firmer; sales 1000 bbls mess at S24 90,
regular. Beef-Quiet and steady. Cut
Meats-Firm, with fair demand. Bacon
Firm and moderately active. Lard
Shade irmer at l3ssal3Ac for fair TO
prime steam, and l3J9al4c for kettle
rendered.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-06
KENWOOD,

KENWOOD.
CLASSICAL, AND ENGLISH BOARD
a ING SCHOOL FOR BOYS, New
BTfghton, Beaver county, Penn. the 18th
Annual Session will begin ON TUESDAY,
SEPT, 10Th. The highest references given
and catalogues sent on addressing
REV. JOS. 2. TAYLOR, Rector.
Iy2O-wAs2m ... .r..F TO-.
~ q SEA. N. D., A YEARS SUCCESS.
BALTIMORE oEsrErRIc RETIRAcr,
4Os MONUMENT ST.. NEAR BROADWAY
FREE CoMMUSIcATIoS CoSTrDESTrAL-
Apr9O-esIy.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

SAVING A MAN FROM FRS "A mad
wag played a pretty sharp game on ono
of our druggists recently. He went
into the drug store, dropped into a
chair, and began to exhibit certain
alarming symptoms that are known to
attend the variety of fits known rs
" whisky fits"
"what is the matter" inquired the
druggist. 81 feel-1 feel that l am
going to have IA fit" he fecbly stam-
mered. GA ftp "Yes, if l don't
have some-some brandy, l going to
have a ft."
The idea of q man having q whisky fit
in his store was perfectly horrifying to
the druggist, and he made haste to get
some of his best brandy, Of which the
ft-threatened individually drank liber-
ally, and Immediately said he felt bet
ter. "Don't you think you can go?'
inquired the druggist, anxious to have
him get as far rs the next drug store, at
least. "Yes-I think SOIL try any
how" and he started to so, but, as he
reached the door he dropped into the
chair and exclaimed: ooh, dear, l feel
it coming on again-brandy, | say
brandy !" -.
Again the druggist poured out a big
horn with trembling eagerness and gave
it to the man who visibly improved rs
o MS he had poured it down.
Thanks" said the joker, "you have
saved me this time. | will see you
again, soon." "Not if | can help it,"
muttered the druggist, as he saw him
disappear. The joke leaked out, and
tho druggist, as u consequence, don't
like any illusions to fts.-Cineinnati
Times.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29
snn Frnnnisco In 1S42.

Mr.. Stephen Masset, now in California,
whose nom de plume is Colonel Jecms
Pipes of Pipesville, writes to a San
Francisco journal a letter contrasting
San Francisco as it now is with what it
was twenty-five years since. OF this
city in ls49 he says:
"San Francisco was then, in the
month of April. ls49, a city Of tents,
including about two wooden houses
the Parker House and Sherman h Ruck-
els store. It reminded me very much
of the battle-ground of Bosworth field,
only more so. l had just six Mexican
dollars in my pocket when landed, and
being very hungry l turned into u res
taurant on Portsmouth Square, and
called for two eggs, coffee and bread,
and l think l turned livid with pnin and
horror when the man demanded exactly
six dollars for the meal. He had made
several thousand dollars out of one soli-
tary hen-and eggs-excellent invest
ment, rs he said but that had not much
to do with my penniless condition, but
ever since then l have had the highest
respect for q "good fat hen" The
Plaza at that time was the resort OF
everybody. Montgomery street was
only about one hundred feet long,
hemmed in by sand hills, and covered
all over with tents.
"Lumbcr was $500 o foot, and very
few people could afford to buy it or
build, although everybody seemed full
of money. The excitement that pre-
vailed was fearful to contemplate. II
you asked a man who he was, he would
answer: "a thousand dollars; , If you
said to another, 'How's your health p
and he began to tell you, you would
either think he was a maniac or imme-
diatcly cut, not having time to listen.
Tho waters of the bay came up to my
back window, and the city was SEEM
ingly composed of nothing but sand,
dust, rickety shanties, and o million
tents; and when the rain came, whew |
up to your middle in the water and
slush How anybody existed in those
days seems to me o mystery. But every
body was jolly, happy, and prosperous.
Everything cost about 500 apiece, g.
vara lots could be bought for about $40.
I bought a lot on Rincon Point for $50,
that sold six months after for $3.50, 900,
and everybody was satisfied with the
purchase. Everybody knew everybody.
You shook hands with anybody and
everybody every hour Of the day. You
asked q man what o'clock 1t was, and
he said, "a 50.vara lot or some other
equally unintelligible reply. Fires occur
red every other day, andthe whole city,
consisting of mud and dust llots, and
shanties, was burnt up. It was rebuilt
Immediately, and people rather seemed
to like the fun. Men never despaired.
They would lose every cent they had in
the world, and in two days be richer
than Rothschild. Auctioneers sprung
up like mushrooms, and everybody sold
everybody. How the red flags fluttered
in tho breczei Jones, Tyler, Kendig,
Wainwright, Tom Poultcrer, Backus,
Blocker, Van Dyke, and Belden; Spear
and the immortal ]. o. Eldridge | where
are ye all gone to, and what are you
going to do when you get there?"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

THE WISCONSIN ELEcrioS.-The Re-
publican majority for Governor Fair
child is variously estimated from 5000
to 6,Ooo at the recent election. The
Madison State Journal, Republican, says
it may be 5000, and cannot fall below
5000. A State Constitutional amend
ment, giving salaries to the members Of
the Legislature, has been adopted. The
new Wisconsin Legislature will be in
the Senate 3 Republican majority, and
in the House 20 Republican majority ;
or % Republican majority on joint ball
lot. Last year the Republican MAORI
ties were IL in the Senate, 4s in the
House, and 81 on joint ballot.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

OWNING A HoME.-Henry Ward Beech
err recently said if he was q Pope-no, n
King-he thought he should make q
better King than a Pope-no young man
should be a journeyman without having
q piece of land. There is nothing that
anchors a man like ground. A young
man that has got a plot in the city, or
an acre in the country, with q good
adviser on it, gives a mortgage to the
State that he will be thrifty, honest,
sober, Industrious. Such n man the
devil soon abandons. Where you have
a whole community of laborers, society
begins to approach the ideal Of Ameri-
can industry. He liked Philadelphia
more than New York or any other city
in the country, not because it has cleaner
streets or broader brims, but because
there is a larger percentage Of houses
owned by those who occupy them than
in any other city in the world. That is
the true idea of American industry. 1t
must be also virtuous and must be
deeply rooted in prosperity in the house,
hold.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

The New York Tribune states that
Representative Ashley, of Ohio, will
present a bill ut the present session Of
Congress, providing that no State shall
be re-districted for Congressman except
at the regular time Fixed by law, at the
period of the census. 1t is added that
bv this Mr.. Ashley intends to thwart the
efforts of the Democratic Legislature of
Ohio, who propose to fuse Republican
and Democratic counties, so as to re-
turn a majority of the nineteen Repre-
sentatives to Congress. The present
Congressional delegation from Ohio
consists of ls Republicans and 3 Demo-
Gratis.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

Uses OF THE FLY.-The fly has its
uses. He serves to keep bald-headed
sinners awake at church on q warm
Summers day, so that their unregen-
Grated hearts may be touched by the
spirit of the preached word. He also
encourages the spirit of invention, in
ducing the inventive to tax their brains
in contriving fly traps. (The flying
trapeze has no connection with fly traps.)
As it is through trials alone that a pa
tient spirit reaches its full and complete
development, the fly is q useful agent in
the good work; for the man who can
patiently endure the persistent efforts
of o fly to light upon the end of his nose
on a warm day, has very nearly reached
the perfection of patient beatitudc.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29
OVERLAND DISPATCHES
Tho Trial Of JEFF. Davis.

RICHMOND, November 24.-The trial
of Davis will commence at 2 o'clock
Monday. There is no intention of any
postponement. Government has sum-
moned General Lee as q witness.
RICHMOND, November 25.-Chief JUS
tice Chase did not arrive to-day, con-
sequently the trial Of Davis was not
commenced.
Elopemcnt Of n Californian with n Long
Islanders Wife.
New YORK, November 25.-Bartlctt
Corwin, lately returned from California,
has eloped with o Mrs. Davis, from
Riverhead, Long Island, and is supposed
to have gone to California.
The officers per steamer Sacramento
arrived all we'll.
Washington News.
WASHINGTON, November 25.-The Sem
ate proceedings were brief and Of little
interest, consisting of the mere intro.
duction of various measures. Morrill,
offered a resolution, which was adopted,
directing the Committee on Ways and
Means to inquire into the expediency Of
an immediate reduction Of the military
force.
The electrotype plates Of the recent
counterfeit notes and 7-30 bonds have
been secured by the secret service de-
partment. It has been definitely ascer-
tanned that only q hundred and eighty
thousand were issued. The spurious
bonds have oil been issued since August
last.
Testimony of General Grant Before tho
Judiciary Committee.
New YORK, November 25.-Thc Times
has the testimony Of General Grant
before the Judiciary Committee. Grant
ratified Johnson's policy creating Pro-
v~isional Governments in the Southern
States rs identical with the policy
decided upon by President Lincoln
before his murder. This was under
stood to be only temporary and last till
the meeting Of Congress. Grant was
anxious that some form Of civil govern
ment should be adopted, and thought
Johnson's plan good enough for tenn
porary operation. He never recon-.
| mended universal amnesty; but had
recommended the pardon Of Lee, Long
street, Johnston and other rebel Gen
erals. The President wanted to arrest
the rebel Generals for treason, but
Grant insisted that their parole pro-
tected them from all m~olestation till
they violated the terms Of their parole.
This does not apply to Davis, who did
| give his parole.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

and settlement :" Demand for New
steamers.
The following letter was written by a
storskeepsr on the Colorado river to
Capt. Rogers without any expectation
of its publication, but contains some
facts and statements which are of pub
lie interest:
CALLvILLE, November IL, 1857.
Capt. R. 7. Rogors-Sir: l will try
to give you a few items in regard to this
section of country. / will commence
at Hardyville-which place is dead and
never will be resurrected, unless the
mines are worked, and that will never
DO unless provisions car be had cheaper
than the present prices. 81 Dorado
Canyon is in the same condition, only
worse, as it is a few miles above the
present head Of navigation. Callville-
where is it? Echo answers, gone! 1t
is no more Callville-it is now Terrys-
burg, and when Jim leaves here, Ut is
Jerry that is writing), Terrysburg will
20 with him. I am driving a little trade
with the people Of this settlement, and
furnish them with o few groceries, cal
leo, sheeting, etc., at such ~high..priees
that they can afford to buy but little. |
got my Il stuff" from Hardy at unright-
eous big prices, and pay a duced big
price to get it to Callyille, and, OF
course, have to sell at o more UPRIGHT
eous and moro duced big price to make
q cussedly small profit.
As for the settlements on the Muddy,
(the nearest Mormon settlement on the
Muddy river) they are improving.
There ore IS families ordered to the
Muddy this winter, and learned from
the mail carrier last night that thirty
wagons would arrive at st. Thomas to-
morrow. They will form some new set
Elements this winter. 1.-THE Mormons
talk of buying Vegas rancho, and plac.
ing fifty families there; Beaver Dam will
have about thirty st. Georges is rap
idly growing. Capt. Melbourne who is
navigating this so called unnavigable
river with q sailing barge) has made
several trips for me with his barge since
YOU and the steamer E,meralda were
here, aud is on his way up again now.
l shall load him with potatoes, butter,
eggs, cheese, onions, lime and salt,
which I shall sell to the Government
fort on the lower river.
Now, Capt. Rogers, l want you to
write and lot me know what the pros
pcct is of getting a new line of steamers
on tho river. Are the merchants nil
dead? Or have they got rich enough
out of California and Oregon? could
sell 100 tons OF goods here this winter,
at a good profit. If you doubt it, send
them along. No, bring them yourself;
for you can do it. You can get over the
roaring rapids. If the people Of Utah
were sure that the steamers would be
sent up the river to this place, they
would settle up all southern Utah in two
years. l received q letter q few days
ago from - Of New York, saying
he wanted to ship some machinery to
| Callville to work some mines near that
place. He wanted to know what line he
should ship them on. Shall / tell him
to ship by old Colorado Navigation Com
many line or the air line? There's not
much Difference which he sends them to.
Yours, respectfully, JAMES Ii. TERRY.
S. +. Bulletin.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

THE NEW YoKx ELEUrioS.-Tho Tri-
6une states that the Democratic majority
in New York will be As, 900. The Alba
ny Evening Journal Republican, esti-
mates it at 49,o42. The Buffalo Courier
(Democratic) estimates it at 1889. In
New York city the politicians are pre-
pairing for the charter election in De-
cember. The Tammany Hall Democrats
have renominated Mayor Hoffman, and
Mozart Hall has nominated Fernando
Wood. The New York Times recon-
mends the Republicans not to nominate
a candidate, but by their casting vote
decide in favor of one or other Of the
Democrats.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

Mrs. LAWRENCE LIGHTER, while help
ing her husband to thresh some wheat,
at Eden, Lancaster county, Pa, on
Wednesday, accidentally missed her
footing, and fell into the teeth Of the
thresher, one arm and n knee being
thrust against a revolving cylinder its
motion, although at the rate of n
thousand five hundred revolutions u
minute, being driven by five horses, was
Immediately stopped by her body.
When taken out, her arm was literally
ground to pieces, and the cap Of her
knee was ground of. Her recovery.is
doubtful.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

THE London Lloyds have issued a
table showing the number of wrecks
throughout the world for the first half of
1867. 1t appears that disasters hap
pened to 5,525 ships and 500 steamers,
of which 1912 ships and 81 steamers
were totally lost, whilst the number of
lives lost, so far as reported, was 6s7.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

SANTA ANNA is true to himself. Being
exiled from Mexico, he has turned up at
Havana, where he has become involved
in q lawsuit. An indignant Cuban cap
tured him, and is trying to accomplish
the difficult task of making him pay his
1aht
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

THE OIL TUBES, it is stated, have been
laid across the Allegheny river from Oil
City to the track of the Allegheny Val.
ley Railroad. In order to prevent these
tubes from being carried away by ice or
driftwood they have been embedded in
the bottom of the river. They greatly
facilitate the shipment of oil.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

AMAS recently broke OF o marriage
because the lady did not possess good
conversational powers. A wicked edi-
tor, in commenting on the fact, says 4:
CHE should have married her, and then
refused her a new bonnet to have
developed her powers Of talk"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

A HUGS EEL is told of by the London
Times as having been shown at London,
after being caught in the Ouze river, in
Yorkshire, England. 1t measured 5 feet
8 incecs long, and III inches in girth,
and weighed sc pounds. A good deal
of money is being made by exhibiting it.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

GONE EAsr.-Among the passengers
on the steamship o~regouian, for New
York, which sailed on Monday last,
were Mr.. R. NJ. Rowland and wife, who
were recently married near Carson City.
They will be back in the Spring.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

TuR Iowa ELECTION. The official
count Of the votes at the election ir
Iowa in October gives General Merrill,
the Republican candidate for Governor,
a majority Of 27,496. In 1866 the Re-
publican majority was 35,4l2.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

A CENSUS of the District of Columbia
was recently taken on the British plan,
by which the entire enumeration is
made in q single day. Blank returns
were distributed by the police, and
householders had them filed up and in
readiness when they were called for.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

The st. Louis Republican says: "Ev-
erybody ZONES to St. Louis to get
married. Every day we are called on
to chronicle the marriage of 'ruuaways'
from Illinois, Kentucky, or some other
n%eighboring State"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

AMERICA, it seems, is not the only
place where the precious metals are at
a premium. The turmoil caused by
G~aribaldi's recent movements in Italy
has raised gold to llol and silver to
1919, at Naples.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

A SKELETON, supposed to be that Of a
girl, who disappeared thirty years ago,
was discovered recently under the floor
of a school-room, in England. The
schoolmaster had died with the secret
if il was his secret.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

PETROLEUM V. Massey and Brick Pom
roy were employed together on the
Corning New York; Journal in 1850,
the former as foreman, and the latter
"a devil
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

"DoS'r you know me2" said a Ken
lucky soldier to his former commander.
ono, my friend, / DON'T" "Wby, sir,
you once saved my life." "Ah, how
was that?" "Why, my dear sir, / serv-
cd under you at the battle Of Fort Dom
elson, and when you ran away mt the
beginning Of the fight, I IA after you
else l might have been killed. God
bless You, my preserver, my benefactorl'
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

DURING the late political canvass in
Massachusetts,, the Democrats rallying
cry was Adams and Liberty; " that of
the Republicans, Bullock and Roast
Beef"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

IT is stated that a cataract is now
forming on Senator Reverdy Johnson's
right eye. 1t will be recollected that
the Senator lost the sight Of his left
eve, some time since.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

DAILY CRIrIc.-This sprightly little
theatrical paper of San Francisco, has
been enlarged, and otherwise improved
and is as lively as a cricket" Sue
cess TO the little beauty.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

The MARYLAND ELEcrIoS.-The Balti-
more Sun estimates the majority for
Oden Bowie, Democrat, for Governor,
at 40, 522, with one county to hear from.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

An editor who married a Miss Church
says, he has enjoyed more happiness
since joining the church than he ever
did in his life before.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

In America over three hundred mil
lions of matches are made and used
daily, or ABOUT nine to each of the popu-
lat;on.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-29

JuDaE BULLOCK, of Kentucky, has de-
cided that coin is the only legal tender
in that State.