The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-18
RATE OF SUBSCRIPTIONS.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Miscellaneous Matters.

Ine TaElS correspondent OI tue LOu-
don Telegraph gives n dolorous account
of the enormity of the prices now ex-
acted in Paris. Formerly, he says, life
in the gay metropolis of France was d
cheap pleasure; now every sort OF
pleasure is excessively dear. The ad.
vance inthe price ofeve, ything--lodging
bathing, drinking, eating-is at the very
least hfty per cent. Even the price OF
funerals has advanced to such u figure
that no poor man, who wants to be
buried respectfully, can afford to die
This Is very serious business for those
who are Sojourning in Paris. Our own
correspondent, who observes closely
and perhaps with less prejudices, gives
quite different report Of these mat
ters.
England has sent two things to Paris
which have not usually been classed
among "objects for exhibition"-theo OBJ
servance OF Sunday and whole regi-
ment of pickpockets. The Parasians
are intensely amused with the one-aud
very much disgusted with the other.
French pickpockets are "nowhere" by
the side Of the light-tingered gentry
from over the channel.
General Massey, one of the Fenians
recently convicted and sentenced in
Ireland, seems to. have turned pretty
squarely upon his old associates, and
disclosed all he knew of their plans and
purposes. He alleges that Stephens
protested against any movement be-
cause only One-SeVe1lth of the arms and
other aid required had been provided;
but he was overruled and it was de-
cided, mainly by the men who stayed
at home, that the movement must go
on. The whole Fenian business seems
to have been in the hands ola gang of
unscIupulous and incompetent scamps
from the beginning. They have accom-
plished nothing but to plunge their
countrymen into still deeper trouble
and distress than ever, and to draw
some millions of dollars from laboring
men and women, which would have
been much better employed in bring
ing their parents and brothers to this
country. w .a~ -zzri
DR.. Franklin remarks that a man as
often gets two dollars for one he spends
in forming his mind, as he does for a
dollar he lays out in any other way.
A man eats a pound of sugar and it is
gone, and the pleasure he has enjoyed
is ended, but the information he gets
from a newspaper is not the wisdom of
one or two men; it is the wisdom ofthe
age, and the wisdom of past ages, too.
\ family without newspaper is al
ways year behind the times in gene
raj information; besides they can never
ITl En1 70 til
about. And then there are the little
ones growing up without any taste for
reading. Who, then, would be with
out a newspaper? And who would
read one regularly without paying for
it?
Under the title of "The Antecedents
of the Question" the Paris Liberte pub
fishes an account of the manner In
which the negotiations in regard to
Luxemburg were opened. Toward the
middle oflast October, the Government
of the Grand Duchy addressed dis
patch to Prussia, in which it was po-
litely intimated that the right of that
Power to maintain garrison in the
Fortress of Luxembourg had expired
through the dissolution of the German-
ic Confederation. The expediency of a
new settlement of the question was
pointed out, on the supposition that
Prussia should continue to occupy the
fortress. Count Bismarck, acknowl-
edged the receipt of the dispatch, but
took no further notice of it. Piqued by
this slight, the King of Holland COM
municated on the subject with the
French Government. The negotiations
came to light, and hence the uproar in
Europe.
The London Daily Ne,os has a cor
respondent in Crete, who writes from u
romantic spot on the slope of Mount
Ida. His surroundings are, however,
the reverse of romantic. The whole
mountain, he writes, is covered with
the dead bodies OF women and children
who there sought refuge from the raw
ages of civil war, only to perish from
exposure and starvation. He goes on
to say that it would be hard 10 exag-
gerate the cruelties of the Turks. They
were guilty of acts which it would be
an outrage upon decency to mention,
AS the Great Powers decline to inter.
fere for the protection of the Christian
population, they have only to look for
ward to a continued struggle, marked
by the worst atrocities of barbarian
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