Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-01-05
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TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5, 1853.
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We have foil details of the last revolution in
Mexico-the last for the time being--there will
probably be another IN the course of three
months. Comonfort suddenly and quietly seized
the Dictatorship. and annpIled the Constitution.
Everybody submitted, as everybody in Mexico
submits to the man who is bold enough to seize
power.
TaE London correspondent of the New York
Commercial writes that the general progress of
improvement IS steady. The position of the
bank was rapidly Strengthening, and it would
soon be5abIs to repay the two millions of over
issue, and reduce the rate Of interest to 9 or s
per cent.
THE Boston papers assert that the past year
has beenemoEe disastrous to. the Ommerc Of
Boston than any other within the present CEN
tury.
IA shipments OF nOur MON RlrnuvuI, to
South ApeFiea. during the month of December
amounted to sc, 24a barrels, the value of which
may be set down, in round numbers, Mt
&25o,ooo.
Tar importation of foreign goods to New
York is very light and nearly all are placed in
bond, and but little activity is expected for a
month or so.
The Richmond Despatch says, the bronze stat
ues of Patrick4Henry and jefferson are begin
ming to ssumea dark and weather beaten look.
They arelookipg more like gigantic Sepoys than
civilized white Americans.
The usual croaking about the cotton and SUI
gar crops has commenced. Not a season passes
that we do not hear doIcful accounts of Injuries,
actual or anticipated.
THE MEMORIAL OF 40 CITIZENS OF MARSHAL
CoUSTY.-It WILDE remembered, that some DAYS
ago we published n notice that ''Thomas Pol
lock, and 4S other citizens of Marshall county,
had, through Mr.. Clemens, demonstrated against
the employment of Chaplains by Congress. We
commented upon the memorial as being in bad
taste, and bad in every way. We therefore take
pleasure in citing attention to a communication
from a citizen of Marshall county, who protests
against this i'll advised action of these 40 per-
sons. What object these gentlemen could pos
sibly have in seeing our national halls of legis-
lation bereft of any evidence of religion, we
know not. Certainly, these gentlemen in their
philosophy or philosophical speculation, do not
ignore the idea that our whole country and its
rulers are in the hands Of an overruling Provi-
dence! All men almost not absolute hcathens,
recognize \ governing power, either by name,
Jehovah, Jove or Lord who, by special and
general proyidences, rules and overrules the
plans and purposes of individuals, as also of
''principalities and powers" a sense of ac-
countability TO such an all seeing ruler, is more
and ebovea all compromises and constitutions and
Sc or,r co,Sn hove 60, a. r,,oooe, oc o,, s,-1:t,,
tons. A true philosopher, supposing that sucha
person could, would not inculcate any other
idea in the minds OF his fellow men, whatever
his on n might be-knowing, as he must, that
men once freed from the discipline of con-
science, all human enactments would soon be
powerless. That country is easiest and best
governed where the Bible and the great Auth
or and finisher'' of IL, is most respected
France, in her blindness, once did away with
religion, and wOrshipped sReasonn-as it was
termed-and became a nation of %scoffers. To-
day she crouches a6jectly at the heel of the
despot.
Well may good men tremble for our fate
then, when they see such memorials seeking a
hearing in our halls of legislation, lest the
''bloody September" of France is not far of.
IHE SUSSEX. TRAsEDY.-A correspondent of
the Petersburg Express gives the following ad=
ditonal particulars of the revolving murder in
Sussex county Va, gathered from the confession
ofthe perpetrator:
On Christmas morning Josiah Freeman, the
husband Of the woman, threatened to kill her;
so after reflection, she thought she would get
the better of ii, and kill him. While he was
asleep, she seized a gun, and fearing the SPRING
ing of the hammer would arouse him, she OPEN
the pan, and applying a coal Of fire the powder
exploded, the whole charge grazing his forehead.
He raised up, and remarked, that she had done
wrong, when she instantly struck him over the
head with the gun, knocking him senseless-
barrel of the gun was badly bent. While in
this insensible condition, she seized a knife and
cut his throat Still fearing us she says shat
the wind might again blow breath in his body
she took IN axe and bntchered the body in a