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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-12-15
A S94OO0oLAIM BOUGHT UP.

A $94 600 CLAIM BOUGHT UP.
A claim OF $94,00 held by the Hobo
ken Savings Bank against Fisk & Hatcl
has been bought by different persons, VIII
are assured BY q deposit Of Ohio 6 Chesa
peake railroad stock for $l25, 900. Th'
buyers also guarantee the payment Of th'
depositors OF the bank. ri ~
THE CANAL BOATS.
The Produce Exchange received q tele
gram to-day that under the most favorable
circumstances It will take three or foul
days TO move to tide water tht
fifty boats lying within ten miles west o.
Schenectady. -
SENTENCED FOR RIGHTRRN MoNTHg&
Michael @. Broderick, who killed hii
son and was convicted oi manslaughter In
the third degree, has been sentenced tc
eighteen months In the State prison.
SENT UP FOR TWENTY YEARS.
William Dooman, Jointly indicted with
VIM. Carroll, already convicted on the
charge Of robbing Italians In the harbor
and gagging those on board and wound
ing the Captain by q pistol shot was
found guilty to-day and sentenced 10
twenty years in the States prison.
THE NEW YORK FRENCH PAPERS ON BA-
zAINK.
The papers published In the French
language In this city devote much space
to Bazaine's trial. Le Messenger approves
OF sparing the life OF Bazaine, but thinks
the ceremonial Of formal degradation
from rank should not have been omitted.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-12-15
NEW YORK CITY.

'' ''"" DAY NIGHT. '''' '''0
NEW York, Dec. 13.-All gambling
houses In this city were closed last night,
the proprietors fearing another raid by the
police, -, r
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-12-15

In its progress by the fatal conservatism
OF the j. 4. va, It's early settlers were
chiefly from the ranks ol, the aristocratic,
slaveSolding Yirgihians. They erected
housed and surrounded then. with high
walls. as II TO say, I'VE. wish 10 DO let
alone" They lived on the profits Of
slave labor-were opposed 10 schools
| TO the development Of manufacturing
resources-to any Of the innovations o.
progress bridges from the Ohio side
being landed on their sacred eoil-te
anything In TACT that would disturb their
dISnifed composure. But this aristocratic
ddeadness" could not last forever" Ine
immense beds Of coal, iron and
atone, entombed within the mighty
Hills, attracted capitalists from abroad.
| The sleepy conservatives fought them
hard; but the progressives won the VIC
tory, and manufactures sprung up as II Dy
magic. And when OF last the war eman'
cipated West Virginia from an enalaying
ID. aloVlam, this city started on . career
Of prosoerity unequalled by any advances
In ia past history. Immense iron Works
ioundries, glass works, paper muls, Oh
reflneries and numerous other manulac7
turing establishments line the base Of ths
hills the whole length or The city. Tne
result OF tho concentration Of 90 many I'M
portant industries 1t this point, has beer
10 build up Q city Of oyer 10000 inhabi--
tants, which, II dingy in appearance, =
founded upon immense wealth. As a.
evidence oI this, the recent financial dis
4 turbances have been almost untelt here
The mills have run on full time, nobody
has complained oi hard times, the mer.
chants have collected their bills withou
trouble and the banks have been arm 9
! rocks, deviating In no particular mon
: their usual way Of doing business; SPEAK
; ine az banks Tolninds mo Of 0 bu1inea
: letter recently received horn an Evans
vine gentleman, In which he says: "Ou
bankers think Wheeling q sort Of out
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-12-15
LETTER From WHEELING.

The origin Of the Name.-.Indian
Tlmes and charlottesville Ma
tional. Road-.Present Population
and Manufacturing IntereBts..PIc-
tureaque Surroundings.
Correspondence ofthe Evansville Daily Lour.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-12
Found Wanting.

To know one heart that could comprehend
One soul that would never read yours amiss;
In word TO possess perfect friend
Is there any wealth that can equal this
I whirl along in tho flying train,
The clouds Hit by In the windy skies;
The frozen rivers wide, white plain,
Whose glare and glitter affront my eyes.
For eyes and heart are sore with the sense
OF parting words that were less than kind,
From my friend so prompt to resent offence,
When never its shadow had crossed my mind.
When tho idle speech that was answered so
Was only n jest that was meant for cheer,
And to hide the feeling would not show.
The passionate pain, and the yearning fear.
He ought to have known, But that is the worst
That he didn't, and never will understand
This blow to-day it is not tho FIRST,
Nor will be. the last shall have at bis,hand.
I have had my dream of friend-alas,
That dreams like these should be false as fair !
But. indeed, IL it ever should come to pass,
1t would leave to little too do or to bear.
That dream fulfilled would suffice for me:
Hope and effort, and all desire
For the world that is, and the world to be,
Would seem as chaf to tongue of FIRE.
If ever my heart that has starved so long
Should find IL. mama, and take its fill
Better to suffer. perhaps. and be strong,
10 wait in patience, and miss it still.
For what is life but flying train,
That bears us on to our journeys end
And after its burden of loss and pain
1 may discover and win my friend
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-12

FAITH IN CHRIST A KEfINING POWER
Nothing so reines the character, or SO
tits US for what is best in all our relations,
as faith in rist,-that is, vital, prac-
tical faith in the divins ideas, the thoughts,
affections, acts, which find their purest
and fullest impression in him. Without
this, men become narrow, hard and selfish
as they advance in life. Side by side
with them are people of different sort.
They seem at first to be interested in the
same things. They are educated in the
schools and churches, and apparently have
the same ideas and principles. Bat they
live in different world. The ruling mo-
tive of their lives keeps them under the
influence and control Of different realm
Aud so, with advancing years and expe-
rience, they 60 on deepening and ripenin ,
in all the finer elements of character.
Their religion is one which goes down to
the fundamental principles of holy and
divine living. Their convictions, accom-
panied by a larger charity for others
grow frmer, and become more and more
vital and vitaliziug energies. Their af
fectious are strengthened, while they are
purified and mellowed by time They
gain influence aud honor by the progress
Of thought and life. You fear no failur
for them. Whatever else may fail, thei
characters cannot fail. They may chang
their occupation. places Of abode, asso
ciates. They may grow richer or poorer
But their principles Of religious faith
their habits Of moral rectitude, their Iii
OF love to God aud love to man, can ne,
er change.-ReligiOus Magazine.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-12

Several years ago, certain divine re-
siding on the Green Mountains, had an
appointment one Sabbath to preach in the
neighboring town Of Weston. While ab.
sent, his boys thought it would be good
time for them to visit place not far
from their residence, called the Devils
Den.
On return of tho father, he was in.
formed Of the violation Of the Sabbath by
his boys, and he called them to account
for it.
"Aud So" said he, "you have been to
the Devils Den to-day" They replied
that they had.
"And you found the old fellow at home
didn't you? ?"
"No," they replied, "he had gone to
Weston to preach"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-12

BRAVE JAMES MAxwELL.-JamesM Max.
we'll, of Glasgow, was pilot. He be-
longed to family of sturdy and energet-
lc men, aud Inherited their qualities. In
1927 he was employed to pilot a fine
steamship-the Clydesdale - from the
river Clyde to the west coast of Ireland.
Every one knows the terrors of this rock
girt coast. The weather was rough. but
no danger was apprehended. A foe more
dreadful even than tempest was destined
to attack the vessel. They had just
reached the most difficult part of the
Galway coast, when the vessel was dis.
covered to be on fire. The danes burst
through the paddle.box. The pilot, of
course, had charge of the vessel, and his
place was on the quarter gallery, where
the heat was most intense. He had to
put back, and the passengers were gath
cred to the bow, the rapid rush of the
vessel through the water keeping that
part cool, while it carried the flames aud
smoke backward to the quarter gallery.
There TODD the pilot, like martyr at
the stake-for the only chance of safety
to the passengers was his keeping to his
post. The master and crew did their
very best to keep the place on which be
stood as cool as possible, by deluging it
with water But soon the cabin under
him was on FIRE; still he never Ainched.
He certainly gave himself up, for he
breathed prayer, "Oh, God, provide for
my wife, my mother, and my child and
enable me to do nv duty.
His feet were actually roasted on the
deck; but he contrived to run tho ship
into q creek, alongside ledge of rock,
and there every creature got safe on
shore-all uninjured except the gallant
man to whom they all, under God, owed
their lives. He was terrible spectacle
of suffering; not only were his feet dis.
aoled, but his sturdy frame was reduced
to the utmost emaciation. His hair
turned gray. He looked ten years older
in that one night. 1t is not en- earth that
such deeds are rewarded.
Messrs. Chambers brought his case be.
fore the public, but the brave pilot did
not live to realize the full benefit of
that was raised for him.
His wife did not long survive him. His
were aided in their education by
the funds raised. But their best iuheri-
tance was their fathers example.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-12

COLORADO AND SwfTzERLAND.-A cor.
respondent who has just taken trip over
the Kansas Pacific Railway-from Kan.
sas city to Denver--aftor giving n glow
ing description of the Grand Plains of
hansas--the buffalo, antelope, &c.,-in-
stItutes the following comparison between
the mountain heights and the climate Of
Colorado and Switzerland:
A comparison of heights between the
towns of this neighborhood and some
points in Switzerland may perhaps be in-
teresting. The highest part of the Splu.
gen Pass is six thousand nine hundred
feet above the sea; the Right is five
thousand nine hundred st. Gothard Pass,
six thousand eight hundred and eight
La Flegire, six thousand three hundred
and fifty; the Hospice of St. Bernard
the highest point of Switzerland inhabit.
cd all the year rounds eight thousand
two hundred feet, t,oo hundred feet lar.
er than Central Georgetown. four hun.
dred feet lower than the town of Empire,
and at least five thousand feet lower than
the winter quarters Of miners in the como
ro lode, on Mount Lincoln. When
reached Central at New ears. there was
no snow on the ground nor any to he seen
in the cauon--and as for glaciers and
avalanches. you might as well look for
them in New York and yet the latitude
OF the central part of Switzerland is only
seven degrees north OF that of our noun.
tain towns. The air there in winter is at
intervals go soft and balmy that furs are
lusupportable, and only one moderate
stove is needed in the great parlor of the
Teller House. The received idea here is
that the immense bulk of the Rocky Noun
talns radiates more heat than would be
received by larger proportion of isolat.
ed peaks, or single range, and thus mod
crates the general temperature.--Quien
Sabe?
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-12

What delightful, wel.ordered, home.
like place was the house Where had his
wits been that hitherto all these things
had never seemed to claim from him more
than listless, half.weary interest ? lie
had not talked SO much before in years,
and he made a good supper and then fed
bits off his fork to the cat, which she,
much coudcscending, took daintily.
He felt like man who has dreamed
of wandering long, heavily burdened,
through waste places, and who wakes to
fiud himself safe in the familiar room,
with the visionary load left behind in the
laud Of visions.
Before he went away, he had promis.
ed to think about an oft-repeated proposal
to make his home with his brother.in.
law. He thought to such good purpose,
that before the week had come to an end
he was established under his sisters roof,
to that lady's great contentment.
He saw Mrs. Armer two or three times
before she ended her visit; indeed, she
came to him to consult him about law.
suit in which she was engaged with her
husbands's relatives. but Mr.. Devine in-
formed her that the matter was out Of
his line of practice. Once and again he
encountered his old love, but with no
more dangerous emotions than ever-in.
creasing disgust. The once sweet, uncon.
ventional ariIessness was vulgarity ths
grace, affectation the silvery laugh,
sounding brass.
With delight, he felt himself q free
man, and he threw himself into his pro.
fession with renewed ardor, and each new
day seemed revelation of life.
Mrs. Armer did not prolong her visit,
aud in few days fitted away, to the un.
disguised relief of Mrs. Vale.
AS for Mr.. Deviue's ong.cherished
love, the angel Of resurrection might have
called for it in vain. The craven image,
after reiguiug for years in a temple meant
for hoier worship, crumbled into dust
at tho first sunbeam of reality that shone
into the shrine-From the Aldine for
august.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-12

A SPANISH PRrsoN.-A correspondent
writing from Madrid gives vivid de
scription of the city prison of the Spanish
capital. He goes on to say that, having
traversed well lighted passages, we STUN.
bled down dark, break.neck and filthy
staircase, and making our way through
groups of ill-favored, ragged deuizens Of
the place. stop before an iron. bound door
at which my conductors knocked loudly
1t is opened. We enter another passage
and halt for few seconds. A man with
forbidding countenance, himself prison.
er, shouts loudly, announcing the Cover.
uor's visit, and cr,wd Of filthy, miser.
able objects in human form hurry past.
The Governor oeckons me to fellow, and
we find ourselves 10 a long, dismal, vaul.
ted chamber. The offensive stencil for
an instant makes me recoil with disgust.
Throughout the whole length of this hor.
rible abode is slopiug wood. work, similar
to that in guard.houses, which serves for
the prisoners bedsteads. Standing on
these sleeping places, the wretches, about
ninety in number, had taken their posi-.
tion. No bedding of any kind is provid.
ed for them, and unless they have friends
outside who charitably supply them with
a mattress, the scum of society crouch for
the night on the blackened. filthy boards,
huddled together like wild beasts in their
lars. The authorities have not a sufi !.
cient quantity Of blankets to provide one
for each prisoner. And now, although
the weather was mild, within this vaulted
den the pestilential atmosphere was damp
and chill. The inmates who had blankets
kept them tightly drawn around their
shoulders for warmth, and for fear of
their being stolen by their associates. On
the walls are long lines of wooden pegs,
to which are suspended the extra rags of
the prisoners entitled to consider the Dor.
tion Of the plank beneath his sleeping
place.
High on the wall. to the left hand, are
q few small uoglazed apertures with iron
grating, which dimly light the den, and
afford the only and far from sufficient
VI NSutiotiOus lOWaIu tut CeutTe
Of the wall is recess, the state of which
is indescribable. And in this den, unfit
for wild beasts, human flesh and blood
must pine and rot until tardy Spanish
justice either releases the wretched tenant,
or send him for trial or to the Bagne
which is, BY comparison, Paradise. The
brawls and fights which sometimes occur
are terrible. Imagination refuses to pic.
ture to itself the horrible and depraved
scenes enacted when the sun has set, and
those two poor little lanterns, swinging
by cords from the roof, shed their faint,
aickering light on the man of human
wretchedness shut in from the outer world?
A sojourn in the Saladero would demora.
lie the strongest mind. Therein the in.
nocent become criminal, aud depravity
doubly depraved. The abuse of power,
the total disregard of humanity, and the
disgraced administration of law, which
my visit to this helish place has revealed,
would also justify the overthrow of the
government that has tolerated them.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-12

INFLUENCE OF BooKs.-At a school fes.
tival 10 Boston, NJ. Ralph Waldo Emer.
son said that the advantages afforded to
the scholar in that city are not surpassed
by those in any other city, in the
world. In the same connection, he
expressed the hope that the school
children might read the right books.
There are. he thought, too many story.
books, too many newspapers, and he was
little afraid that people did not read
quite as gool books as their fathers read.
They should read he said, Scott, Plutarch
Miss Edgeworth's stories, the story of SIR
Philip Sidney, the hero Of Europe. He
hoped they would read end accept such
other influences as would fit them to bs
] the men and women that society needed
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-12

THE RAILROAD OVER THE ANDEs.-The
present age is mighty in stupendous work.
al. Years hence, with the history of civ.
iization before them, our posterity will
believe that the coming of the nineteenth
century was the beginning of the practi.
cal age. The steamboat, the railroad, the
telegraph, the opening Of the Sucz Canal
the tunneiing Of Mount Gents, are all fol-
lowed with work so gigantic, so astound.
ing, that it is hardly to be believed, even
by this inventive and determined age
The project to glrd the Andes with the
iron band of a railway track, is not new
subject for discussion, Its feasibility has
been in contemplation for years, but the
surprising and successful results that have
followed the attempt, is glorious and
magnificent if it is silent eulogium on
the indomitable persistence and ingenuity
of the day.
The contract for the building of the
road between Callao and Oroya. was
signed between the government Of Peru
aud Henry Meiggs, late of the United
States, but now the great railroad king of
South America, in the year 1869, and
the first earth was turned in Lima on the
6rst of January, 1870.
The price agreed on for the completion
Of the work was 27,6000,000 soils "a sol
being about "a cents of an American gold
dollar) payments were stipulated to be
made as the work proceeded, and the
road was to be completed and equipped 10
the Government within six years from
the date of contract. This Mr.. Meiggs in
confident will be completed, and his trust
seems to be well founded, as only about
two hundred moro miles have to be fn-
ished. A short time since an excursion
was made over the road, from Lima to
point within sixty miles of Callao, the
terminus of the work then accomplished
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-12
IT'S but n little Faded Flower.

Tis but little faded flower,
But oh, how fondly dear;
Twill bring me back one golden hour
Through many a weary year;
may to the world impart
The secret of its power,
But treasured in my inmost heart,
keep my faded flower.
Where is the heart that doth not keep
Within its Utmost core,
Some fond remembrance, hidden deep,
OF days that are no more;
Who hath not saved some trifling thing,
More priced than jewels are,
A faded flower, a broken ling,
A tess of golden hair.
Tis but little faded flower,
But oh, how fondly dear;
Twill bring me back n golden hour,
Through many a weary year.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-12

There is an Irish woman Of gigantic
strength in st. Paul. One morning she
lifted barrel of sugar from the ground
into cart. The next evening she pre-.
sented her husband with twins. Two
days after she did the washing for fam.
lily Of ten persons. Not SO fortunate was
a Missouri girl. She washed all day,
made a supper on twelve hardboiled eggs,
and then danced al, night. 1t is men.
toned that her funeral procession was
nearly mile long.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-12

A Danbury man nearly lost his wife
the other night. She was taken violently
i'll, and he was aroused to go for the
doctor, but it was full an hour before he
could find his sleeve buttons, and the delay
well nigh proved fatal to the unfortunate
lady.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-12

LAnOCSl AND DESi AN AhL "OHHD'
Cheapest because expenses far lower than
any other company, and dividends, which are
paid annually in cash, are much larger than any
other company. Experience is the best test. In
sure your lives while in health in this grand old
company, the largest and strongest monied cor
poration in the United States.
Tho Mutual Life Insurance Company of Now
York is the best possible kind of Savings Institu-
ton for those in health. If the insured dies soon
after paying few dollars in premiums, thousands
of dollars are at once secured. If he lives many
years, it is good investment in this Company.
such are its large dividends, as will be seen by
the following illustration; Policy No. l4,47O, for
ss,0OO, dated April ~, 1855, on the life of the
late Hon. HORACE GREELEY.
Eighteen annual premiums of S29304
were paid making in all s5.274 70
The dividend additions to this policy a.
mount to 6,lOs 81
Which is 1888 65 more than all the premiums paid
The original amount insured $4,000 90
Has been increased by diyid'ds {, l0s 81
Present amount of policy, Sl4, l0s 81
Which is IS, ,s33 65 more than all premiums paid.
The premiums on this policy, at
per cent.compound interest,
amount to only $500 80
Leaving profit over and above
premiums and compound in
terest thereon, of 81 ,40S 3S
Another dividend, from April IL, 1872, to date of
Mr.. Greeley's death will be paid.
T-Ofice with Judge of Probate, in the Brick
Block, near the Court House.
Mddebury, March /, 1873. 50;u
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-12

A veteran observer declares that the
people who spend the most money at the
watering places are the old men with
yoang wives