The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-15

We are indebted ossenator Wiley
for public documents. 90
Congressman Polsley gives notice
that there is vacancy In his 1.-THE sd)
district for the o. s. Naval Academy.
He invites competition among candi-
dates.
Messrs. james Sparks and E. C.
Bright have beeuawarded the mail con-
tract between Morgantown and Fair
mont. 49, 5az
The completion of the Atlantic and
Pacific Telegraph, between Morgan
town and Fairmont, was the occasion
for an exchange of hearty congratula-
lions between the respective Mayors.
Col. Henry Dering. of Morgantown,
lies dangerously i'll from an attack OF
appoplexy.
Benz. Ryan agrees to take care of the
Monongalla poor at 81 50 per week per
head.
The Post says that since the orgauiza-
tiOn Of the Good Templars in Morgan
town, there is no drunkenness in the
streets and nobody In jail. every
thing is lovely"
The farmers In the interior are plow-
ing up their ground preparatory tocorn
planting, and the wheat never looked
better.
1t is said that the stealey family In
West Virginia have Inherited fortune
of $75, 900, 900, by the death of somebody
in Germany. We nppreEend this will
turn out to be merely German-silver
report, not the genuine article.
The expenses of Preston county, ex-
plusive OF bounty tax, was 5000 for
last year, of which 5000 was for the
poor. The Kingwood Journal COM
plains that only s. 5Owas for the item OF
printing, which, for county of Is, 600
people, the editor thinks rather shabby.
The Hingwood Journal says that at
their recent magnificent Ladies' Fair
in that place an old batChelor was auc-
toned of at a thousand dollars. The
old ;eUSS went lou, didn't he?-
Union Vanguard.
The returns to the Clerk Of the Board
of Supervisors of Preston county, show
that for the year 1865 there was killed
in the county 12l red foxes, 1O2 grey
foxes, aud IL wild cats. The price of
poultry ought to come down.
The Parkersburg Times and the
Clarksburg Telegraph are discussing
the pay of Congressman. The former
thinks that Mr.. Hubbard should not
knr,o -ntu.no5 6f.n .ro.,o.. -. A.
United States Treasury. The latter re-
peats the argument made at the time oil
the extra-pay vote that it was altogether
out OF character to make it not only
operative at that session, instead of at a
future ssession, but still more SO to
make 1t retroactive. 1t also adds this
remark:
eve remember well when the COM
pensation was only eight dollars per
day and our impression is that we had
men OF as much ability in Congress as
we have now. We then had Henry
Clay and a Daniel Webster in that body,
and we never heard of either complaint
ing of the insuficiency of his salary"
To this, the Times replies as follows
eve remember, also, that both these
shining lights OF the last generation
were frequently dimmed by the pecu-
mary difficulties under which they
labOred. Their friends were obliged to
come 10 their rescue, in order to keep
them from actual bankruptcy. It is
quite certain, moreover, that if they had
not received positions more lucrative
than that of Congressman of their day,
the poverty of their lives and deaths
ID khEanW ri L.
country"
We agree with the Times that s., 900,
of itself. to each Congressman, is not
excessive pay, but their extra allow
ance was only part, and very small
part at that, of the appropriation thai
accompanied it. If all Congressman
were honest and economical, instead O
SO fearfully dishonest and prodiga
as many ofthem are, the country coult
afford to pay them 5000 salary. Thei
salary is but an intinitessimal droI
in the great bucket of wastage ant
taxation. The people believed tina
the time, and especially the i'm
mediate connection in which anc
with which their extra pay was voted
was very malapropos.5 In our opinion
Mr.. Hubbard did exactly what was be
coming in setting an example to hi.
fellow Congressmen-ope that we ar,
sorry to say none of them followed
by reimbursing, SO far as he could
the large appropriation that was passed
along with the extra pay. i-.1