Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-11-21

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FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER q. 1856.
PEEsaSAlIrIEs o. 7IsE Pass, Some time ago
NC r9tissd n ; resiew BY an exchange,
OF some forthcoming works. comment upon
the extr1yaganee Of speech made US Of by
: great many modern newspapers and book
writers. Ii HIS seemed 70 Is that the same
comment might DC made upon the growing
inclinafirns Of the Press 70 nse personalities
Oar Kbel laws have been -djussed 70 = seE5 lib
eral standard N : supposed harmony with the
spf-it Of The Consultation Under cover Of this
favorable construction. eneou-agei b. the ser-
diets rendered from time 70 time IN favor Of ed
itors against prosecutors. the Press in nlAny
parts Of the country. have waxed insolent and
siaRdeso,is N = ISel siegree Rational liberty
Is one thing. and wantoness and extrayaganee
quite another Soneyears aga. when the Chart
ist agitation was at It's Insight. aSseTnbages we're
nightly held Throughout the Islands Of Great
Britain 70 deliberate upln grievances All
kinds Of redresses were proposed. In Que, an.
Irish assembly. the question OF tariff upon tea
came up, and the next day -.chape tay" Vas to
be seen inscribed upon the door posts Of AL
Ulster The peasant women went screaming
alchape t.y,- at the top of their voices. Is an
exponent OF their idea Of liberty.
Just 80 1t Is now The notions of many per-
sons who pretendsaly write for the ediieatiOn
OF the public, seem 10 have no more rational
idea Of their duty or their privileges Another
thing There his grown from this kind OF wri-
ting morbid taste among people TO read arti-
eles strongiy impEegnated with personal abuse
and biTlingsgate matter Its influence can be
seen at work every day. There is in many per
sons strong inclination 10 retail and 10 hear
neighbOrhood gossip, and this sane desire leads
them TO relish any kind of abusive writing
They read . paper with a sort of sietiy relish
that has iaits leading article taken up the names
Of some acqn.iutanee and made them the sub
jeets fo- some vulgar witiciSns. or some extrav-
agant denuDeiatioas. Public men and pnbtc
uaeasg-es are Fit themes FOR editorials It Is the
duty and privilege alike Of the Press to animad-
vert upoa both when criticism IS neeessary.-
But how IS It: As a general thing partisans
most unblushingiy and fulsOrely laIsi their adj
herents. and dennoniaely denounee their oppo-
sasnts- Saeh r,zpe-s do not eiify; they may
Amuse just IS = Kings fool or the circus
clown, bat they leave no traee Of their inllu-
enee. adolf filing their columns with sound,
instructive m1ttsr. they gorge It With trashy
Enaudiins and the Inyectiyes of partisan bigotry.
They. instead of the current news, retain ont per-
souaI balderiash about private, ptaceable citi-
1enss trash, that has no foundation other than
IN the Inscriptions brain of the writer. Ea-
tional enlightened conceptions Of liberty do not
more efeespally protest the citizen IN his life
and property, than in the peace and security of
his name and reputation Theman who moleSts
him IN that. or iatrudes upon it. Is as much q
ro5beE as he, who. At midnight, takes his prop
ety
Shakespeare did not Oyer-estimate the value OF
a security to good name, when he represents the
enlnrif IS less criminal who steals his rlrrrse.
than he who fiiehes from him his good name. for
that the latter does not en-ich the thief, vet
makes the victim poor indeed Just 50 1t IS
with those papers. that TO amuse scandal-mon-
gers. I'M their columns with Kbe!lOus pessonaH-
ties Such papers unsy flourish awhile in their
lnIid displays. but they bear the mark of pri-
yate eCntemps even among prOfsssed friends
SEsrLAR Commemorative have already
mentioned the singular coincidence that Mr. al
bert Sumner. Just Wrecked IN the Inflated French
steamer Lyonnais had brother who was lost
by shipwreciS few years since, With the Conn
tess oSsoi. Ii appears, from the Bcsto., Trans
eript. that Mrs Sumner, his wife, also had a sis
ter, GI-x Ball, who, with her husband, was lost
In the packet ship Home, bound from New York
70 charieStop, sryesal years ago. This disaster
led to sn amirable lawsuit She was wealthy,
being daughter Of Walter Charming, ! mc--
chant Of Se.s York. BY the Code Napoleon, it
IS provided that in any sneh catastrophe youn:,
child shall be presumed to die before It's parents,
and wife before the husband; but twas in
evidence that Mrs. Bal had been heard to call
Wildly upon her husband. who made no reply
thus creating probability that he persisted first
RoF4r BtBrns-The New York Observer re
ports dat John Tappan, Esq, OF Boston, has
ordered Of the American Bible Society num-
her OF imperial qliarto bibles, bound il Turkey.
morocco, with panel covers, each 10 be enclosed
IN rosewood case. and presented TO each Of the
crowned heasis OF tho World The books win
cost about $50 a copy. and are sid to be mag
nifeeat specimens OF work.
CoSygcyloS or A MuKpERER--Hayt.th the heary
sscuntrel who murdered , little girl Of thirteen
years, soms dime since IA Esse county, Pa, be-
cause she would not marry him, has been con-
<icted Of murder IN the second degree and sen
fenced % the penitenfisry for ten years
had perSeeuted her iii undeSiFed ana un-
weleone attentions for year or more Hegaye
her many tznd some xaluablel presents and as
SISTED her father, who 1sss poor. IN various ways
BE constantly threw his presence and assstiui-
ties upon her, ard importnned her to MARI, him.
On the nth Of July he presented himself II her
fsthers house With revolver concealed ia his