Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-04-13
THE INTELLIGENCER.
NEWS SUMMARY.

NEWS SUMMARY.
letter from New York says:-"The gospel
influences have not yet penetrated the sinks of
iniqutty here. New York is moral lazaretto,
in which is eongregated all the elements of hu-
man depravity. The public mind has become
so accustomed to enormites that nothing start
les it. Surely it would be cheaper and better to
enlarge the means of prevention than to spend
thousands and tens of Thousands in fruitless at
tempts to catch and punish offenders"
THE religious movement has at length reach
ed Now Orleans. 1t had been previously mani
tested in all the cities of the South. The New
Orleans Picayupe says: The movement, how
ever, in this city, consists, ss yet, only in the
opening of places of worship, daily, in all parts
of the city, and in an unusual attendance on re-
ligious services"
THE Philadelphia Ledger notes the fact that
the newspapers furnish the best evidence that
business has revived. month ago the col
umns of the principal business newspapers in
PHILADELPHIA Baltimore, New York and Bos-
ton were filled with news paragraphs, editorial
comments, correspondence, and miscellaneous
selections. Now they arc almost entirely filed
are condensed to the smallest space, and busi-
ness excludes laborcd editorial essays to more
propitiOus season.
The Baltimore Sun says :-"From informa-
ton which reached uE, there would seem to
have been a considerable stampede Of slaves from
the border Valley counties of Virginia during
the Easter holidays. We have heard of seven
having made their escape from the plantation of
Mr.. Mason, in Loudon county, near the point of
Rocks, and two from Berkely county. 1t is
supposed others have also gone"
NEGOTIATIONS are now going on between the
United States aud England for the abrogatiOn of
the Clayton Bulwer treaty. The Senate and
House COMMITTEES on Foreign Affairs will
immediate abrogatiOn. The English govern
ment, through their Minister, processes to have
no objection, provided our government will make
certain concessions in Central America.
THERE is stated to be an extensive orgauiza-
ton in the Southern States to aid the liberal
party in Mexico, and important Developments
are expected in a few days Santa Anna is re-
ported to have party of any strength in that
country, and his return to power Is cOnsIuereu
very doubtful.
IT is stated that James L. Pettigrew, one of
the most eminent lawyers and distinguished cit
izens of the South, has written to Mr. Crirten
den, from Charleston, that the masses of the
Southern people cordially adopt his proposition
on the Kansas question.
TuE Grafton Bank, situated in Grafton, Mas
sachusetts, was robbed ON Thursday, during
the temporary absence of the cashier and teller,
offunds to the amount of twelve thousand dol
lars. No trace of the robbers has since been
discovered.
Tue present stock of -four in New York is es-
timated to be about 592, 500 barrels.
contract was formally entered into, on the
9th instant, by the Ladies Ofthe Mount Vernon
Association and John a. Washington, esq, for
the purchase of the Washington estate at Mount
Vernon.
TnE New YorIs Herald denies that it is the
organ ofthe administration, but affirHs that 'the
administration is the organ of tue Herald. =
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