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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-05
TraveIerS' Guide.
DEPARTURE or TRAM
GheGateuiqerr
A Recent Trip Between GalIpoliS
and PaIkcrSbuTg.
Rdltors OF lhe.. IntellIneneer !:

Editors OF the. IntellIgencer: .r...,.
As member ofthe great class Of "com.
mercial tourists" which now inlest the
land, taking orders from the mercantile
fraternity and disseminating valuable in
formation and wisdom generally, where
ever auditors can DO found, / haYe oc-
casion while discharging my routine Of
duties to frequently visit the points on
the Ohio river between Pittsburgh and
Cincinnati. Since time Is money, rapid
transit Is highly desirable, and the enter
prising drummer will often sacratice com.
tort in selecting o steamboat Il he thereby
secures q compromising speed. When,
however, under the pretext OF fast time,
the confding traveller Is beguiled into
taking passage on o craft coniessedly
unpleasant, unreliable, and disagreeable
In all other respects, and then finds 10
his sorrow and disgust that its Wanted
speed is equally inferior with it's other
arrangements, 1t Is time, as it seems 10 me,
that protest should be made on behalf
Of the travelling public. Week before last
came from Gallipolis TO Parkersburg on
the steamer "Kstydid," having been in
duced by friend to prefer her TO the rival
packet, the chesapeake" on the ground
Of much quicker trip 10 my destination.
| was told that although for few hours
might have occasion to fancy myself a
Delaware criminal serving out sentence
ia the stocks, yet the rapid disappearance
OF the competing steamer in the rear, and
the extra time gained at Parkersburg,
would be an ample Offset 10 this dissd-
vantage. The "Katydid" has no regular
cabin, no staterooms, no accommodations
whatever, being constructed after the
classic and luxurious design Of country
csmpmeeting ambulance. To this let me
add, that, what with noisy creaking ma
Chincry, disputing possession with the
passengers for each square yard Of the
only deck che has, and her gentle, jolting
motion, 80 suggestive Of decayed cor
duroy roads in Mexico, and your readers
will see that the journey oil eighty-fye
miles could hardly be called q pleasure
trip. Had the promise OF speed been full.
filled, all this might have been endured,
but when the conditions were reversed
and the chesapeake" showed us q clean
pair Of heels, my cup Of indignation was
filled 10 the brin, and resolved
10 call the attention Of my iellow.drum,
mers TO the facts I have stated. Boats
Of this kind are doubtless very cheap, but
believe the experiment will soon sat.
isly those interested in the enterprise that
as an investment such cribs are not q
success. especially allude 10 tho char
acter Of such bostsfrom having heard in
timated during my present trip that Ger.
tain parties threaten to inllict similar
crafts upon unhappy travellers, by run
ming them either in the Portsmouth trade
or between Wheeling and Parkersburg,
and as frequent traveller between all
the points mentioned, beg leave TO pro.
test against any such uncomfortable ar
rangement.
A DIscoMMoDED DRUMMER.
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Cincinnati

CINCINNATI, August 4.-Cottou- Steady
at 1Otc. Flour-Dull and unchanged
Wheat-Dull at 81 GOAL 20. Cern-Dull
OF 04a6Gc. 0ats-Dull; No. ., 45a60c.
Rye-Dull al CSC. Pork-Quiet at $24 90
Lard-Dull; summer 13al34c; kettle 144a
16c, Bulk Meats ACTIVE; shoulders sold
early Of SIC, closing at SIC; clear rib go 70
all 90; clear 1ltc. Bacon-steady, with
moderate demand al 0ta12al2tc, Whisky
Demand fair and market firm at 07c.
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+ NEW York, August 4.-Cotton-Quie,
and hrmer; middliDgs 17c. Flour-Ac-
tive; superflne western and State 81 50l
8 90; common to good IS 25a5 so; good 10
choice IS S5A6 10; white wheat extra
So 15a0 30. Wheat-Active and 1a2C
better; No. Q Chicago and northwestern
81 2Sa1 %; No, . Milwaukee 81 9sa1 80
No. ! spring 81 S0a1 IS. Rye-Quiet, 95C
a$105. Bsrley-Nominal. Malt-Quiel
and unchanged. Corn-Fairly active and
lc better western mixed 70SS0c; yellow
SOaSlc. Oats-Lower and more active
old mixed western 75as5c; old white west
ern at sOaS5c. Hay and Hops-Steady
groceries = Quiet Whisky- Lower al
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BALTINoRR, August 4-Flour-Dull
and unchanged. WheAt-Active and q
shade frmeF at 81 2911 40. Corn
Nominal at 77ic. oats-Steady at 03a
Csc. Rye-Unchapged. ProviSions--
Excited. Pork-Nomlnal OF ga 00a25 90.
Bulk Meats-Firm; none offering. Bacon
Active; shoulders 0ss10c; clear ribs
12ic. Lard-Firm OF 14al43c. Butter
and Coifee-Qulet and unchanged.
WhiskY-Quiet at 81 03Al o..
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RattIesnakes this Season in the In,
terror Of West Virginia.


From the Weston Democrat
The crop oil rattlesnakes this year is
abundant. In every part Of the country
We hear reports Of the slaughter Of large
numbers Of poison snakes but more es-
pecially Of tho rattle variety. The reason
given tor this by those who profess to
know, is the great scarcity Of water, which
drives the snakes from their dens in the
mountains 10 the streams in the low. lands.
This appears 10 DO the case in this and all
the surrounding counties So far, but
few persons have been bitten by snakes,
although some almost miraculous escapes
have occurred. We heard Of one the other
day, for the truth Of which VIC can vouch.
It occurred a few miles from town, In a
house blessed with many children.
The only way to get up stairs was by a
ladder. One Of the children, on arriving
at the top Of the ladder, perceived huge
rattle'sn Of the top, Just preparing TO
strike. Scared almost TO death, the child
"let all holtsgo" and Tell, and down came
child, snake and all among several chill
dren who were playing at the foot Of the
ladder. Fortunately not one Of them
was bitten, and help being secured, his
snakeship was summariIy dispatched.
The building being of logs, it is supposed
that the snake had managed to attain the
high position from which he fell through
the creVices between the iimbers.
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Tho August lIaEazInes.


Hapers Magazine opens with o yer,
seaSonable article, 1.-THE Queen Of Aquid
neck" which Is a finely illustrated dcs'
cription Of Newport, as It was and as It lie
and another, almost equally Iimely,whict
10 an account Of lie along the boundary
line Of New England and Canada. Olhel
Illustrated articles are the third OF the
series upon "0ur Nearest Nelghbor,
Mexico; and q historical account OF "The
American Railroad" Prof. De Mille'I
story, "The Living Link" Is concluded
and Gen. Mcclellan has third paper up
on Army Organization" There arc
short stories, essays, two illustrated
poems, and . very Interesting article on
English Land and English Peasants, y
epropoS Of the agricultural disturbances
In that country. ED
EcRIBNRR.
A wealth Of illustration accompanies
Mr.. Kings "Great South" article, which
this month describes journeys in Georgia
and Alabama. Jules Vernes story also
progresses with characteristic pictures
and "A Lost Art" by W. 4. Goodyear,
being an account.of the architectural &C.
centriCities at Pisa, has number Of beau.
THU engraviDgs and carefully drawn plans.
Other continued articles are "Katherine
Bar" and Mr.. 5toddard's "Studies Of
Some British Authors" Miss Kate Field
describes the manuscript OF Dickens
"Our Mutual Friend" with iac.similes.
John G, SAKE writes about Martials' cpl
grams, with translAtionA and there are
poems and short stories in excellent var
iety.
PoAuLAR SCIENCE.
Tho Popular Sciences Monthly for Au,
gust has been received from the publish
ers, Messrs. D. Appleton & Co., New
York. The leading articles are "Priest-
ley'S Discoveries Of Oxygen Cas-" by DR..
Draper; 1.-THE Physics Of Ice" Gllustrated),
by Z. Lewis, Jr; development Of Psy.
chology," No. H.; "Distances Of the
Stars," by Camille Flammsrion; "Female
Suffrage" by Goodwin Smith; "a Baby
Fox" BY Dr.. Wilder (illustrated); "Rendu
and His Editors" by Prof. Tyndall; "Thc
Chain Of Species" by Hon. Lawrence
Johnson; "Color In AnimaIp;" IAN Estl..
mate Of Darwin" by Prot. Asa Gray;
Sketch and Portrait Of DR.. Priestley; Lit.
erary and Miscellaneous Notices; elc.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-05

PHILADELPHIA, August 4.-.Wool-
Quiet and firm, in fair demand, and stock
coarse; Ohio, Pennsylvania and Yves,
Virginia XX and above 52ta53c; extra
52a52ic; medium 5la59ic; coarse 45c;
New York, Michigan, Indiana and west
ern fine 45a50c; medium 40a50c; coarse
45c; combing washed G0a62c; do un.
washed 40a4lc; Canada combipg 0OaG9c;
fine unwashed S3a35c; coarse and medium
unwashed 30A3Sc; tub washed 52S57c,
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AND now the Hon. D. D. t. Farnsworth
d Upshlr county, IS an aspirant for Con,
greSslonal houors in This district.-Adr'
FinAOuTg Independent. r , r.
Tho only wonder is why this model OIL
Spartan purity and patriotism did NOT
offer to immediate himself for his great,
glorious little West Virginia. on,the Oon.
gresaional altar al $1,000 a year, long be.
forcthis, since his Buckhannon Capitsl
City lot speculation vanished into min
Laurel mountain air. -Rirknsbmg TmeS,
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New York Dry Goodp.

NEW York, August 4.-The package
trade was active In some departments, but
dull in others. Cotton goods held at firm
prices by manufactured agents. Corset
jeans and grain bags more active. Side
bands and prints in brisk demand by city
and country iobbers. Hosiery showed
some improvement, Fancy cassimeres,
worsted coatipgs, wool ilsnnels and blan.
kels in good demand. Foreign goods
quiet - g aIf ESTt
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You lave got into trouble procure at once
package OF the SRmAritan's Gut, use as directed
and you will be all right In three OF four daJs q,
Tho trouble when taken In time Is easily over.
come, but when neglected, or when the QuAck Is
visited and he gives his course OF BAlsam Co.
psibe, then very often serious complications
arise which prolong the disease for weeks, per.
hAps months.
Another fAllAcy Is, In persons trying 10 taye q
few cents, dRbble In cheap drugs, which 90 dis
order and sicken the stomach that almost death
Itself would be relief. SAmAritan's GIFT will
euro every time, WITH no more unpleasant results
than II the trouble had not existed at all.
Male packages, 50; Female. s.. Sent by mail
10 any address. DESMOND 4 CO., ProprIetorS,
BIS Race street, Philadelphia. ~
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TOLEDO, August 4-Flour-Demant
fair and market firm. Whcat-Demant
fair and prices advanced; No. Q white Wa
baah 81 90; No. 3 do 81 1G; No. white
Michigan 81 10; No, l red 81 10. Corn
Firm and held higher; high mixed seller
August &c; yellow Csc. Oats-Demand
fair and market firm at50a5lc; No. 9, 45s
45lc; Michigan 44a45ic. sr-sl#
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COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.
MARKETS BY TELKGRAPH.
New York Money and s.ocLs.

NEW YORK, August 4.-MoNEY-2a24
per cent. Prime mercantile paper 8! to
2 per cent. na
STERLING ExouANeE-s4 ST. for 60
days and "a 90 for sight. Exports Of
produce for the week 81. 1897; decrease
from last week $1,5OS,S71. Customs re.
ceipts $425.0OO.
GoID-Dull at 1O94s1O9E. Carrying
rates ia1 per cent and fat. The Assist
ant Treasurer to-day disbursed $28OOOO.
Cleariugs $17,OOO,0OO.
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RAILROAD BoNDs-Quiet,

sToCK-openeds dull and steady, but
later on became weak, the general list
going oit tat per cent and II in North.
western. AS the day advanced there was
recovery OF the decline with a more &C.
tive market, but at the close there was a
reaction Of I to ! per cent on realiza-
ton. The declinein Northwestern was
in anticipation OF decision unlavorable
to the Company in the Wisconsin suit.
Quicksilver to-day rose togo for common
and "a for preferred. Among the sales
were $1,000 shares Of Western Union,
$500 Pacific Mail, $4,000 Lake Shore,
$500 Northwestern and 5,4OO 81. Pam.
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Philadelphia.

PnILApELPHIA, August 4.-Flour-
Quiet and unchanged. Wheat-Quet;
red 81 2sa1 81. Rye 9Oa9ec. Corn
Dull at S0Aslc. Oats-flrmer; for old SOC;
more active for new; Refined petroleum
life; crude SIC. Butter and cheese IN.
changed. Bggs-Easieri western lSA19c.
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CleHeIand Markat.

CLEVELAND. August 4s-Wheat-Flrm.
or, 81 12a1 10. 0orn-Better, 74c. Oats
Dull and lower; new No. ! State 45r;;
No. 2 do 44c. Petroleum-Qulet, weak
and unchanged. 'a2'ii
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KENTUCKY IMMERSION.

ASHLAND the HoME OF HEERr CLAY, and ola
1r1Rsylvanid UniuerSiiy, the sites Of The several
Colleges. Blk CoLLEOEs In operation, with their
separate Faculties. 30 Professors and InstTuc.
tors, with an average Of more than 600 Students
each session since the war. Fees very low
Good boarding from 81 to IS POT week, SsssIolB
begin Second Monday In September. For c4ta.
loRues or other information address enclosing
stamp, FE j. 3. BOWMAN.
LIZ Regent Ky. o Lexington, Ky.
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PETTsBUReH, August 4.--Petroleum-
Crude 70A76c at the wells; 90s95c on the
cars; refined firm, 115c; September 12c.
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FLOUR is selling at see so per barrel in
Helena, Montana, and but little to be had,
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-26
THE LEVEE CONVENTION.

The adjourned meeting of this body as
But few members were present, in fact, with
the exception of Col. F. L. Claiborne, OF
Pointe Coupee, and Mr.. Etfngham Lawrence,
from Plaquemines, the Convention was COM
who derive their authority from no one to
represent New Orleans After indulging in a
little display of gassy oratory, the Convention
adjourned to some time III October.
The planters in the country have very SEN
sibly concluded that they could better advance
their interests by staying at home. They
wisely concluded that the Convention was
tizzle and it was useless to dance upon it any
longer Amen!
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Communicated
-" TE-uPORA HU7ANTUR."

And that accounts for the CHANGES of the
Times. But the temporal tattler on Camp
street would have us believe that it is sei6pel
idem, unchanging, and was lever thus from
its chlldhoOds hour" 1t is still under the
same able management as when it electrified
the whole country by its exposure of the in
famous midnight order: and it is under the
same able management as when in 1868, the
Democratic party marshaling its forces-black
and white-passed in procession the office Of
the Times and We're greeted by this flaming
motto, displayed in the largest possible
letters:
''This is a white mans Government
| And thereby hangs tale In 1856 Sthe white
people of Louisiana We're still hopeful of being
able to convince the colored bOnu-fde resi-
| dents that their interests We're identical with
| those Of the whites. Democratic clubs. com
posed exclusively of colored men, were or
Sanized. How many Of these Democratic
negroes after seeing that motto displayed by
the journal ck inning to represent the people
OF Louisiana, could conscientiously vote with
the Democratic party at that election? How
many votes did that motto, displayed at that
time, cost the Democratic party in the North
ern States, considering the then state of the
public mind Did not the people of the
North then want the Southern people to make
the experiment Of conciliating the colored
citizens?
Again, on the eve Of election in 1868 the
same Journal under the same able manage
ment, you know, published an account from
source which it acknowledged to be unrelia-
bic, Of some great outrage, said to have been
committed in Texas by whites against blacks !
How many votes was that worth for U. S. :
Grant?
Again. after the white people have humii-
ated themselves into the very dust before the
colored citizens, begging them for unifcation,
after their offers have been spurned by the
after the white people have begun to
organize themselves into leagues for self-pro-
lection, distinctly avowing that they will not
only not wage war against the negro, but that,
on the contrary, they will protect them in
their constitutional rights, does the Times still
hold out as its motto
This is white mans Government" Does
It not rather insinuate that the bloodthi,sty
whites have banded themselves together for
The purpose Of discriminating the poor inno-
cent blacks? Does it not know better? Are
We not entitled to have a white mans Govern
nent in 1874 MS much as we were in 1868
And if not. why not RIGS.
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BY some curious accident an editorial
which must have been intended for the New
Orleans Republican, was inserted as the lead.
ing editorial in the Times yesterday morning.
We have noticed several mistakes Of this
kind recently, and if they occur again it would
seem matter Of economy for the two papers
to be merged into one indeed, we have heard
1t said that the purchase Of the Times by its
present proprietors, Messrs Stoutemeyer &
Hudson, would necessitate some such action
or would result in the suspension of one or the
other mpey.
We do nsat vouch for the truth of this state
iment, but We do say that if we had never
Iheard It We should have inferred Il from the
radical change which has taken place in its
editorials
An unpr,jndced reader would naturally in
ier' after prusing the very remarkable enan-
ATOMS from the brain of one of its proprietors,
shat the M ssion of the Times is not so much
70 openly sdvocate the cause of the negro, or
the cause ct Kellogg, as it is to divide the
wmte eIefnent and subtract Just enough
Radicals T., carry the election.
That tbs theory is correct, the course
which the Times has marked ont for itself |
gives amplo evidence, and is shown by the fur |
Their fact that Mr.. Stoutmeyer is not only the |
hrother-in-aw Of Auditor Clinton he of rebel |
skunk no'oriety-but was until recently if /
ne be not siow, stipendiary of the Kellogg |
uovernmesat receiving salary of $500 per
annum rs collector to the Auditor
Inc Tires has considerably informed us
shas whatever is published in its columns is
+" fair game for friends or enemies, and taking
OF this permission to criticise we
must say that its enemies have said nothing
again it that is not entirely borne out bv
The editorials in the very columns to which !,
points with confidence and pride /,
II the Times desires reversal of popular
Judgment. il must change front and deserve
4"
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In the account of the fire Friday night, owing
to the lateness OF the hour it was stated that
the residence of Mr.. j. NJ Walsh was also
occupied by Moran, colorad. 1t should read
that the adjoining house was occupied by
the negro. The residence Of Mr. Walsh, for
tunately, was not cor sumed, as the fremen
succeeded in stopping the flames before the
house caught
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Depot for Disisuecta,sts.

Depot for DiSiMfect02ts.
X E l. l. US l. RATORY
Corner Common and Claiborne streets.
The undersigned having contracted wit the
City Of New Orleans to furnish Disinfectants for
use OF the Board OF Health, will sell crude zinc
iron, Coo per gallon; Calverts pure carbolic acid
No.. at $50 per pound; copperas, roll sulphur,
and chloride lime at low rates. Special quota
tons to the trade.
VIM. j. KELLY,
46, 4S Il so Claiborne street, cor. Common.
fe28lm*
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The Western papers publish the Beecher
scandal in all its disgusting details, and COM
ment on it at length edtorially. Is it an evil
dence of higher morality among our people
that they do not care to read such sickening
ais as well as in many other things in which
the North and West boast superlority?
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IMPORTANT DECISION. Drummond,
of the United States Circuit Court, has settled
long mooted question by declaring in de-
cision, that railroads are not military and post
roads i'll the sense which will authorize tele-
graph companies rnder the act OF Congress Of
July "a, 1856, to erect their lines Oh the pr
vate property Of railway corporations without
compensation
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We have received, from the plantation of
Mr.. r. f. Spangenberg, about four miles
above Carrollton, a sample of this years cane
which is decidedly ahead Of any we have seen.
Its length is ten feet nine inches, and there
are eight full joints on each stalk Mr.
Spangenbers has about one hundred and
seventy-fve acres of this cane under cultiva-
ton.
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DR.. J. r. Walker, of Napoleon Avenue goes
this evening to attend the Southern Dental
Association, at St Louis, July %; the Ameri-
can Dental Association, at Detroit, August
4 also the American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, at Hartford, August II.
Will be back about September 81
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House Furnishing Store.

W. c. SHEP ARD L CO..
s. Camp street,
Will remove September next to those fine Stores,
% Camp and 116-Common street.
Will sell their present LARGE STOCK Of
CROCKERY, GLASS and CHINA WARE a
VERY REDUCED PRICES, to save the expense
of moving.
Also-HOUsE FURNISHING GOODS, in large
variety. iy5 2dpSutf
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Staub sends US from his magical cheap
news stand, No 60 Canal street, at Gold
thwait's book store, an avalanche of the latest
Northern and Western papers, besides the
Illustrated London News, CIR phic, New York
Clipper, etc. Almost everything Staub has,
in the way Of papers, he sells for cents.
Give him q trial
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-26

A correspondent asks "Why don't you
pitch into Henry Ward Beecher?" Because,
"when the Almighty lays His hand upon q
man We take ours of.
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A Canada judge has decided that an action
for libel against priest is not admissible in a
civil tribunal, priest being responsible only
to his ecclesiastical superiors.