Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-09-30
mr.. Ruchanan's system OF secret servipe-
His Spies.
cerrespondence q &c Pre...
WAsuMGTVoN. Sept %

whilst a member of the Senate and Cabinet inI
this city, the idea never entered his head to
sshackle these, inequalities byparty rules And, i
although it is asserted that no singh menabersOf
the opposition party seds limited to dine at the
White House since the RGnSaR- sonersGult, / am
still in hopes of seeing satisfactory e3plana-
ton of that affair. But What do you think Of
the courseiof the Star newspaper here, edited
by w allach, attacking certain. Democratsln New
York, on account of an entertainment of which
you were with them participants Readingt
the article of Wnlach The other day, wasl
tempted to ask, what is be, the next step inI
this mad career of. un6ounded despotsm2 IsitI
possible that spies are to hide in the shadYsyo of
our houses, cluster at our tables in horrible
shape like the skeleton at the Egyptian feastS7-
spies upon our steps like Fouches mipions-is
it possible that inahuman ,depravity there are
those fallen so low in the social scale as to even
pattern the spy at the hearthstone, whom Bull
wer has immortalized as an object of inefable
contempt, and the very creature of the deepest
hell Is it really possible that no man holding
office or expecting office shall be tolerated who
looks an independent Democrat in the face, Wis
its has family OF returns the ordinary ciyilites
life? The Spanish officials of Cuba are compell-
ed to this sort of espionage; so are those of all
despotisms that, like Nero, intoxicated with his
own power, would wheim whole people in ut
ter destruction, and laugh at it as a joke
These are the characteristics of deSpotisms, but
are lucy governments
lnformers thrive by this infamy, as did those Of
Ireland within the memory ofseyen our young
men. The most degraded wretches character
less knaves-men who are expelled from decent
society, and are tolerated by parties simply be-
cause they cannot be got rid of-see, in the en-
couragement which has been extended to this
tyranny over the social circle, the convenient
passport to official favor. Now, surely Mr.. Blu
chanan cannot approve the disgraceful attempt
to intimidate and lniure every independent man
who refuses TO allow the friendships of years to
be severed by political differences. And yet,
precisely such state of things must result from
the course pursued by the accepted organs of
citizens like Reverdy johnson, StephenA Dou-
glas, Henry A. Wise, and Robert j. Walker,
draws line which cannot be oVerstepped, and
makes every personal enemy of power,
whether he will or no. And the parties to this
Scandalous practice are the men who charge
you with revealing private conversations, when
in self defence you came forward to vindi-
cate your position before the country, against
as merciess crusade as the annals Of politics
can show.
WnAT CAUSED THE DUEL BETWEEN Cray AND
| RAEDoLPH.-The cause of the duel between
these distinguished men, was the foowingin-
sulting languagslused by Mr.. Randolph towards
Mr.. Clay, in secret session of the Senate in
1926 ll5lt
''Ths man-(mankind crave your pardon)
this worm Qittle insects forgive the insulD
was spit out of the womb of weakness-was
raised to higher life than he was born to, for
he was raised to the society of blackguards.-
Some fortune, kind to him, cruel to us, has
tossed him to the Secretary of State. Contempt
has the property of descending, but she stoops
far short of him. She would die before she
would reach him; he dwells below her fall
would hate him if did not despise him. It is
l nj h0t 10 yE-i1a fhaf
thoughts insaction. his alphabet, which writes
the Or Theresitcs, of black guard, of squat.
idity, refuses her letters to him. That mind
thinks on what it cannot express, can scarcely
think on him. "A mperbole for meanness would
be an ellipss for Clay"
Posterity is sure to award justice. Glorious
Henry Clay is now reyerenced by millions who
look upon John Randolph for what he was, a
conceited, disagreeable and affected old egotist.
BENEFlc1An EFTRcTs OF ADyEKT1s1NG.-The
Boston IrdrelEer says:
We understand through the agent of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, that the receipts ofthat
| Company at the agency in New York, have in
creased eEgLtty-Sip PEI, cent. since the Company
Icommenced advertising in the New England pa
pers in April, 1857. The advantages of advcr-
Using can never be appreciated in theory; the
practical results are the convincing arguments
.
unparalleled success, in great measure, to the
liberality of her merchants, not only in adverti-
sing, but in circulating New York papers con-
tanning their advertising all over the country.
When we consider the fact that there is scarcely
town in the United States in which there are
notm more or less New York apapers taken, it is
not to. be wondered at that New York possesses
such influence, and we ought to have some char
ity for the ignorance of foreigners, when they
inquire what part of New York the United
States is in.
.TuE OLD STORY AGA1N.-If Figures don't
lie,p we beg pardon beforehand of those of our
readers whom the following fightens to death
."Some or.the Adventistss are again predicting
tho speedy end of all things terrestrial The
present year, too, is to be the last, and they ar
rive at this by a mathematical process thus -
1.-The square root -of the cost of Ezekiel's cha
riot was 8,569. From this take the exact pro
iphetic value of the scarlet lady of Babyion;'
1889, and VIC have q, 2sl. Take from this the
cube of the ram mentioned by the prophet US
pushing westward, 4 ,75T, and we have for re-
mainder, 2,525. Deduct from this "the remain
der.of beasts, mentioned in the Apocalypse, 666,
and we get the result, 1855 the year in which
the end of the world isto take place.
Low-NEcKED DREssEs-In the early days of