The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-22

cient to the training ofa comparatively
small class ofYoung men, who, graduA-
ting every year, went into the field as
officers of the army. But West Point
cannot supply Il sufficient number now.
There are some young volunteer officers
whose experience has been of the most
valuable kind, who are perfectly COM
petent, and who may desire TO go Into
the regular service. But the proportion
of these, to all those who have the pro-
per qualifications. is quite small. What
keep up the supply or military grad
yates? The plan suggested Is to COM
bine military instruction with the gen.
eral literary course OF tuition in our
principal colleges, and from the grad
uating classes OF each year select suf-
ticient number of the most accomplish
ed matriculants for army commissions.
The Bridge which is to span the Ohio
at Louisville, will be grand structure.
Its entire length will be about three
thousand six hundred and fifty feet,
with pivot bridge across the canal
of two hundred and eighty feet. The
exact location is not yet established,
but it will be between what is called
the Elm Tree Garden and Rock Island.
1t will be reached by grade of about
seventy.eight feet to the mile on each
side, for the distance of nearly three
hundred and fifty yards. There will
be twelve spans OF two hundred and
fifty feet each, with one large span of
four hundred feet across Che Indiana
chute. The bridge will have an eleva-
ton of ninety feet above low water
mark, and forty-nine feet above high
which will be entirely OF iron, will be
one hundred and fifty-two feet above
the foundation, and thirty-two above
the floor. The cost of the bridge will
be but little over half as much as that
of the suspension bridge at Cincinnati.
The Louisville and Nashville and JEFF
fersonville railroads have each $500, 900
stock in it, and private parties have
| S4OO, 600. Hands are now at work quar-
rying the stone for the bridge. and il
is purposed to have it completed by the
year 1870. The progress of the enter
prise has, perhaps, been somewhat re-
! tarded by the opposition of certain par
ties who claim it will be an injury to
Louisville, because freight and passen-
gers will pass through the city without
paying :heir reshipping duties to COM
mission merchants, hotel keepers, &c.
Iessrs. Sharkey and Walker having
threatened to bring in new bills regard
ing the Mississippi injunction, SO
alarmed the Supreme Judges that they
rather unexpectedly adjourned until
December. If We may judge of cause
from effect, we are entitled to assume
that this action was caused by fear
that the celebrated counsel for Georgia
aud Mississippi had an intention to
keep the Judges at Washington all
Summer, by presenting new bills us
fast as the old ones were disposed of.
These gentlemen had loudly proclaim
ed that they intended to be pertinaciOus,
and to keep on trying. There are GER
tain sorts Of men who "cannot take no
for an answer" and who, after being
rebuffed, will return to the assault,
only to be houted worse than before.
The United States Consul at Nassau
writes to the Secretary of State, that
there is danger that the yellow fever
will be introduced into the United
States, unless quarantine regulations
shall be enforced against vessels COM
ing from the West Indies. The disease
appears to have been taken to that
island in vessels from Jamaica and st.
Thomas. The sanitary regulations at
Nassau are not impartially enforced.
In the last eight months only two ves-
sells have been quarantined, and they
were from the United States, having
persons on board afflicted with the
''swamp fever" which is not contagi-
Gus. The advice thus given US should
not be neglected. The yellow fever is
too great misfortune, wherever intro
duced, to be allowed to slip in upon US
without taking due precautions to
avoid the danger. We are by no means
certain that we shall escape another
| visitation from the cholera; and two
pestilential diseases raging at the same
time would be great calamity.