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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-06-01
NEW YORK CITY.

NEW YORK, May S1.-James Gordon
Bennett Is reported To be growing worse.
The adjourned meeting of the master
bakers to raise the prices Of bread, ap.
pointed for last night was a failure, only
six or seven persons being present
The first trial under the new Jury law,
which allows jurors 10 set who had read
newspapers took place yesterday at Pul.
aski in this State.
II Is reported that Senator Trumbull,
ex-senator Doolittle, Chas. sedgewick
and Cassius N. Clay have promised to
speak at the Greeley ratification meeting
next Monday night,
At noon to-day James Gordon Bennett
was perfectly unconscious and sinking
rapidly. His son and daughter sailed
from Liverpool yesterday for this city.
The programme Tor decorating the
graves at Greenwood was carried into
effect to-day. The flags were at half
mast on all public buildings.
The Brooklyn District Attorney, Gar.
vim, has received from John McKeon,
counsel OF Edward stoks, copy OF the
lnterrogatories which he wishes Marcus
Cicero Stanley and Dorman B. Eaton,
who are now in Europe, to answer. It is
very difficult for outsiders to find any
connection between McKeon's questions
and the murder Of James Fisk, If. Judge
Garvin will allow the interrogations TO
pass unchallenged. They will be sent to
lawyer in London with authority to
examine Stanleya and Eaton and send their
replies, made under oath, to this city.
The great strike continues with every
prospect Of success The different organi-
cations held large and enthusiastic meet.
ings this morning. The picture frame
makers, who returned to work on the
eight hour system, have again struck,
with view Of compelling their employ
ers, one and oil, to adopt the movement.
The marble polishers arc still on strike,
and arc as determined as ever. A great
deal Of enthusiasm prevailed today among
the German cabinet makers, in conse.
quence oI the very satisfactory report oil
the delegation appointed TO interview
the Governor. The piano.forte makers met
this morning and the wormen of Haines 8
Bro. marched in body TO the mandatory
where they were received by the senior
partner, who said I'VE have concluded TO
yield to you for the present, reserying the
right TO make such changes as circum-
stances may from time 10 time suggest.
On Monday next our factories will open
with the eight.hour system for day men
aud twenty per cent increase for piece
work" The Messrs. Stenway are still
willing to give their workmen nine hours
or increase their wages ten per cent. I'm.
der the present system any further con.
cession, however, is regarded as impos.
sible, and the firm will hold out for any
length of time rather than yield to de.
mands they consider preposterouS.
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WASHINGTON.
No English Acceptance Yet OF the
Amendments TO the Supplemental

No English Acceptance Yet OF the
Amendments TO the Supplemental
Article.
WASHINGTON, May 31.-No official dis.
patches have been received up to noon to-
day, from London, as to the proposed new
article to the Treaty, though changed in
its phraseology by the Senate, preserves
its original intent. Gentlemen in high po.
sition being unable to otherwise account
for England's reluctance to accept it, ex-
press the opinion that her conduct is re-
marked by the insincerity that she is re-
vcrted to the position she occupied on the
25th of April, when Minister schenck in
formed Secretary Fish that it was proba.
bic that the government would take such
course as would put On end to arbi-
tratIon and to the Treaty. All hope Of
arrangement is not, however, abandoned.
Some of the earliest friends of the Treaty
now express indifference with regard to
considerating that concessions have been
made by the United States to the fullest
extent.
GEN. HOWARD MISSION AMONG THE
APACHEs.
The President nominated Lewis Seahm
as Assessor of the 9th District.
Gen. Howard, recently sent out to
pacific the hostile Apache Indians of
Arizona. On his arrival there he re-
Quested Gen. Crook to temporarily sus-
pend the hostile operations against these
Indians, until he had an opportunity to
test efficacy Of moral pursuasion. he
tailed 10 enter into any amicable arrange.
ment with the hostile portion Of the
Apaches, and in letter to Gen. Crook
withdraws his previous request for the
suspension OF the campaign and advises
him to take vigorous measures at once
topunish the hostile Apaches whom he
designates as robbers and mdrderers who
Twill not beconciliated.
The Cabinet met today, all the men,
bers in attendance excepting the Attorney
General. The session continued for more
than three hours, most Of the time being
devoted to conversation concerning our
relations with England, those present ex-
pressing their concurrence in the views
Of the President and Senate, embodied in
the amended additional article to the
treaty as an .ultimatum Of the British gov.
ernment. No dispatch had been received
up to the time ol adjournment showing
any change in the relations OF the two
governments. .-....... .
The public debt statement will be Is.
sued tomorrow. 1t will show reduc-
ton during May Of about $7,000,000. The
reduction Is less than last month, owing
to advanced payments on account Of pen
sions.
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The Signatures to the Call for op.
posiIlon Meeting.


A statement was made by one of the
speakers and the President OF the Lake
Erie meeting that some of the signatures
appended to the call for the opposition
railroad meeting was. obtained by misap.
prehension.
1t is needless. to say that the character
Of the gentlemen who obtained the sig.
natures to that paper utterly refutes any
such insinuation.
The case Of the young Main street mer.
chant who was referred to was simply
this: He told the gentlemen who request.
ed his signature that he did not know any
thing about the matter, and had taken no
interest in it; but as the proposed meeting
was for the purpose of obtaining light on
the subject and for the discussion of the
guarantee and security" he was willing
to sign the call.
The matter VIC apprehend is not Of
much importance in itself, but illustrates
the fact that, there are men, too many we
fear, who to-day will give their vote un,
der the mistaken idea oil building rail.
roads and bridges, when they are binding
the city in useless debt, merely because
"they don't know anything about it"
Citizens vote intelligently on this matter.
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/ THE closely packed columns OF figures
on the pages OF the reports which are be.
ing issued from the census Office from
time to time, as uninvlting as they look to
'the general reader" are full Of sugges-
tive and interesting matter, not only for
political economists and scientists, but
for every one who has intelligence enough
to appreciate the Importance of the facts
which may be educed from these statistics,
by analysis and comparison with previous
reports. Some wonderful results are
shown by comparison alone. In the year
1850 the national census gave as the en-.
tire products Of manufactures, mining, and
fisheries in the United States only 81 ,019,-
106,G16. In 1870 the single State of
Pennsylvania propuced in manufactures
alone, exclusive of mines and fisheries,
$725,590, ,424. If the aggregate of the
mining were included, the return would,
no doubt, equal the whole product Of the
entire country in 1850. Such growth
in twenty years is amazing. Should the
increase in the current decade be in the
same ratio as the last, the aggregate for
Pennsylvania in 1880 will be nearly $2,-
100000, or considerable more than the
entire product of the nation in 1860. We
merely make these statements as illustrat.
ing the importance of the census reports.
1t would take large volume to exhibit
their bearing on matters affecting the
health, the social condition, the political
status, and material prosperity OF the peo-
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VOTERS 8!

Unless you are thoroughly convinced
that the prospects Of the W. & L. E. road,
and the conditions of its contract with
Wilson, are all they should be, and that
100000 would be well invested In a
bridge that is never to have more than
one railroad and probably not that, don't
vote to vest any discretion in Council.
1t would be wrong under such circum.
stances to expose that Virtuous body to
the arguments Of eminent New York
flnanciers in the lobby. LEAD US moi
into temptationp
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WHEELING, W. VA. SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 1872
VOTERS

The better way to build railroads is not
to put your bonds in the hands of Wall
street sharks in advance, but to deliver
them when the work Is done. II there Is
real merit in the projected enterprises
they can be organized on that basis. II
there Is not, we had better drop them
now. Buff yourrefuse to be made the
victims Of the confidence game to-day,
you will be in a position to contract with
more responsible pasties on terms that
will assure US against possible loss. The
best friends Of railroads will therefore
vote against subscriptions to-day.
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A GENTLEMAN from Wooster, author.
lied by few citizens Of that place to
pledge 100000 to whatever railroad com.
blnation here might give the best assur.
ances of success was here Thursday even.
ing. He fell among the Wheeling & Lake
Erie people, and was persuaded to leave
his pledge with the President of that
Company. Meeting well informed gen.
tleman afterwards, and learning the pros.
poets Of that enterprise and the condl.
tions Of its unfortunate engagement
with the New York sharpers-ol
which he had been ignorant-the Woos.
ter delegate was mortified over having
left the pledge with Mr.. WooD as he was
now satisfied the interests Of Wooster lay
In a connection with the L. s. g. T. V.
road The Register will probably print
'h's pledge this morning and claim that
with this 100000 from Wooster and
with the subscriptions Of smithyille
orrVille and Dalton ($l95,OOO) Wayne
county will give $325,OOO. 1t needs
to be explained, however, that the
exceptance Of fWoosteTs proposition would
require different route from that neces-
sary to secure the other three subscprip
tons and they would be lost to the Woos
ter route, while the Wooster subscription
could not be got Tor the Oryille route
The Wooster delegate further stated tha
the smitLville and Dalton subscription
$4,000 were good but the orville (5O,
OO0) were doubtful.
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Explosion of u Powder Magazines.
No Genuine Agreement abont In.
direct Claims.
LONDON, May 3l.-A powder magazine
exploded at oSwestry, In Shropshire, to.
day, and six persons were instantly killed.
Fleury, the abscondiug cashier Of the
Limerick Bank, who was supposed to have
fled to America, has surrendered himself
to the officers.
Justice Kellogg, the American prima
donna, sings at Buckingham Palace on
the Goth inst.
The Times OF to-day asserts that there
has never beeen any genuine agreement
between England and America touching
indirect claims. II cannot help thinking
that II the official kilograms on the sub.
ject had been communicated directly to
the foreign ministers of either government
instead Of being filtered through a ma
chine. The ehasm which separated them
would have been recognized long ago
with the correspondence before us con-
cludes the Times: We must consider the
failure Of the arbitration inevitable, and
we may thauk the American Senate for
this, had It accepted tho supplemental
article without amendment our position
would have been awkward.
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AS SHOWING how much the pledges and
guarantees Of rascally railroad contractor
are worth, Mr.. CRANAtRR mentioned in hi
speech last night that when NOAH VIII,
SON was laying the wires toswindle this
city out of the $95O,OOO Cincinnati & Ma
rietta subscription, he gave guarantee
that the money should be spent on this end
ofthe road. Ofcourse it was not done
but to make show men were set to work
on this end, and were never paid for,what
they did.
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A Bank swindle at Savannah, ga

AUGUSTA, May 31.-DIonday party
representing himself as George Holmes,
went TO Georgia from the New York Ma
tional Bank OF the Republic with certifi.
cate Of deposit from that bank for 50, 100,
which was cashed by bank here. To-day
q telegram from New York pronounced
the certificate u forgery. On the same day
another swindler representing himself
as Thos. @. Holmes presented certi6.
cate of deposit from the Bank of the Re.
public to the Merchants National Bank
OF Savannah, which was cashed for two
thousand dollars. The parties proceeded
from Savannah to Macon, where the same
game was practiced on the Central
Georgia Bank to the amount Of $4,000.
One Of the members Of the gang was ar.
rested in Macon for being drunk,
which led to the Developments OF
disclosing additional certificates OF de.
posit from the Bank Of the Republic
Parties. calling themselves Bennett and
Holmes are In Jail in Macon. The opera.
tions Of the gang, 1t is believed, extend
from Virginia to Alabama, arrests having
been made at Richmond, Macon and
Montgomery.
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Illinois Crop Prospects.

CHICAGO, May 3l.-The morning papers
published reports from . large number Of
points in Illinois and Iowa in regard to
the present prospect ofcrops, from which
1t appears that the crops generally are
backward, particularly corn, on account
oithe cold weather this spring, but O
large area is being planted, and with fine
weather hencetorth the prospects for at
least an average yield Is good. Wheat,
particularly fall wheat, is looking badly
in many localities, and in some counties
they are plowing up wheat fields and
planting them In corn. This, however,
occurs in some counties in northern iii.
nois every season. Oats and other small
grains generally are looking we'll, the
former promising an abundant yield.
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VOTERS (!

Ask yourselves what is the secret Of
tina desperate zeal Of those who are
securing the city, urging men to vote their
money to New York broker whose
highest recommendation Is that he as.
sisted in the Cincinnati g Marietta"
operation for which you have been taxed
through tho last twenty years. Do these
men who tell you they want to have rail.
roads and bridges built for your benefit
impress you as animated by pure philan.
thropYp -------
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THOSE citizens who have studied the
plot Of the Wall street sharks to get
$7OOOOOof Wheeling bonds into their
hands, and who are thoroughly convinced
OF the impudent and scsndalous character
otthe scheme, should remember that there
are many ot their neighbors who are com.
paratively uninformed, and as conse-
quence~indiferent about the result to-day.
See them and explain the peril the city
is exposed to.
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.GtnGEtelkiq
Monsieur TOnSOn Come Again !
THE SAME OLD WILSON AFTER MORE
wHRRLINa BoNDsl

THE SAME OLD WILSON AFTER MORE
wHRRLING BoNDsl
We mentioned yesterday that the gen
tleman who swindled the people OF this
city out OF $s5O,Oo0 subscribed to the Gin.
clnnati s. Marietta Railroad was named
WILSON, And that the only apparent differ.
ence between that case and this was that
the present sharper who islaying his traps
to catch our subscriptions this time spells
his name with two Is instead Of one,
Now We learn that he was q party to
that Cincinnati & Marietta transac-
ton; thrt he helped Mr.. Moan
Wilson negotiate the bonds Of which
this city was then robbed. How far
the WILSON with the two LIS was q
confederate in the schemes OF the Wnson
with one L, and how far he shared the
profits Of the transaction, he does not
disclose. But that he really did assist
NOAH WnsoNin this operation, by which
this city was swindled out Of quarter Of
a million dollars, was affirmed last night
by THos. SWEENEY, Esq, in his speech
from the Court House steps. Mr.. swEE.
NEY's informant was a member of the
Second Branch Of Council who said Mr..
WILSON had conaded the fact to him.
This time the wary Wall street fowler
spreads his nets for larger game. It is a
pity-and will one day be cause Eor
shame-that some who ought to know
better are helping him in his nefarious
designs,
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We are happy in being able to say to
country readers and exchanges that the
railroad controversy, of whose monopoly
of our columns they have justly com.
planned, ends, we hope, with this issue.
The people Of the city will settle the ques,
tions at issue by their vote to-day.
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VOTERS I!

THERE'S no occasion why you should
cast to-day vote OF confidence in Coun,
Gil. If subscription is rejected to-day you
are sure Council will make no mistake.
II carried, it is doubtful at best. WILL.
SON evidently has full confidence in his
ability 10 carry his measures through
Council, Unless you are fully persuaded
WILSON and his contract are all right,
don't run the risk.
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PHILADELPHIA.

PHILADELPHIA, May 31.-The Baptist
National Educational Convention closed
Its session last evening. Papers were re-
ceived yesterday by Prot. Q. Il. Levy, Of
South Carolina, and Rev. T ]. Jones, OF
Tennessee. A permanent organization
was effected under the name OF the
American Baptist Educational Commits.
sion, and Alva Il. Hervey, D. D., Of
Mass, was elected President,
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MONSIEUR ToNsoN WILSON hos prom.
ised the people of sandusky that the
100000 he expects to get from this city
shall be spent on the endof the road next
that city. WIN We vote him the money
to-day to carry out that pledge2
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Government Contract for Bacon
, u, Awarded.

CINCINNATI, May 31.-Dispatches re-
ceived by the Chamber OF Commerce from
New York states that the government
clear bacon contracts were awarded for
the lower agencies to Mr.. Med Donald, oil
Leayenworth, at $11 81 to $13 25 per
hundred, and for the upper agencies to
Mr.. Cochrane, OF Dea Moines, at IS 10 to
I'll Us. srf- t3.
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"MAR1ErrA I& CNhINsn,ArIn Nv

"MARIETTA s. CM6rNNATI" Wn1sog,
when he was plotting to deceive and be;
tray President WooD, OF the Wheeling =
Lake Erie, said he must "let him down
easy" That is, he must not let him know
all at once how he was being cheated.
II he got his clutches on our money his
tactics would be the same. The better
way is to "let him down easy" to-day at
the polls. ~
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THE eagerness Of the TammanY rail.
road contractor to have authority voted
to Council shows that he has no doubt Of
his ability to furnish majority of each
branch with satisfactory reasons for
subscribing the money. E
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VOTERS

Before yoy give 100000 for railroad
and bridge you should demand better
conditions and safer guarantees than any
yet offered you. You ought to and can
have them, even from these same men if
you resist their present demand.
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Beware Of "eminent tinancers" who
have been prowling about the city the
past few days. They seek to take your
hard earnings from the support of your
families. Tell lthemby your votes to-day,
that you do not desire another "Cincin-
natl s. Marietta" swindlc imposed upon
yon.
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No rational man wants to play at any
game where nineteen out Of twenty
chances are against him. Yet that is just
what we would be doing to vote this
$7O0,s0O into the hands Of the parties
asking them.
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VOTERS I

You will find the city placarded oil over
this morning by those in the pay of the
New York sharpers, advising you to vote
for the subscriptions. They.are simply
advising you to vote the money into their
pockets. Don't do it.
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Weather Report.
WAR DKPARTNKNT,
UYFIcE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFYCEn,
WARRINGTON, D. c., May 3l-7:S0 r. 4,
PROBABILITIES.

A falling barometer and easterly to
southerly winds with cloudy weather and
very probably ruin will prevail Saturday
from the Ohio valley northward to west.
ward. Cloudy and threatening weather
will prevail over the South Atlantic and
Gull Estates, with clear and pleasant wealth
er over the New England and Middle
States, the wind backing southerly and
easterly with increased cloudines8 over
the lower lake region. Dangerous winds
are not anticipated.
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SPAIN.

MADRID, May 31.-serrano has resign.
ed the generallsimo Of the troops operat-
ing against the Carists in the Basque pro.
vinces, Lieut.. General Eichque has been
appointed his successor.
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VOTERS

Are you willing to place yourselves in
the, power Of Wall street sharpers? II
NOT, tell them by your votes. to-day that
you are fully competent to manage your
own affairs. A. Il *
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Barnum at Plttsburgh.-The Biggest
Crowd Ever Seen at a show.
(Special IN the IntallioeneerN . ..t # .,
PITTsBURGH, PA, \

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 81.
Barnum showed tonight to fifteen thou.
sand people, said t6sbe the largest audi.
ence ever gathered in America. At the
morning entertainment one thousand or.
phans attended at his invitation.
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Lot your motto be to-day, million for
railroads ifyou build the railroads first,
but not one cent for tribute to Wall street.
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AGooD TWO STORY BRICK DWELLING
HOUSE, with Z rooms, In Q good location on
gsmpden street. viii be sold eheAp.
mon I. IRWIN, Agent.
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River News.

EVANSVILLE, May S1.-Weather clear
and warm. River fallen 0 inches. Bust.
ness dull.
PITTsBuRGH, May 3l.-weather clear
and pleasant. Monongahela 8 feet, s
inches and stationary.
CMcISNATE, May S1.-River 9 feet and
falling.
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GALE OF FOUNDRY FIXTURES

IoNer at private sale the Patterns, FlaSks and
Fixtures In Union Foundry, belonging 10 the late
TIM Of W. ". Miller & Co.
The purchaser can secure q reasonable lease OF
lhe Foundry and grounds. The building Is IS
ieetby IS feet, centrally located with good lipht
which cannot be DISTRACTED, and contains all the
necessary appliances Of drstClGss JobbIng
Foundry IN.
For further particulars apply on the premises
TO II. B. MILLER,
iAn9 Receiver.
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VorERs, look out for Tammany tactics
today. a, B. W. will show you how
the Tammany ring fixes things in New
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