Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-04-14

tue same Will tuS Lc8l' 1ney ndFS IluS A"dhSi'
ed" to the knowledge that the Gospel con-
sists of few propositions: that it is to be in
vestigated-pro and believed by and upon
the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, and
that that is just the long and short of the whole
matter.
The exceeding simplicity and brevity of the
'faith once delivered to the Saints has seemed
to strike the people enthusiastically, and they
have communed with one another on the subject
until the widening circle of an apparently new
found knowledge and consequent enthusiasm
has extended from the centre to the circumfer-
ence of the whole country.
We may, then, reasoning upon every day
principles, say that the present religious revival
has grown ont of the recent disastrous over
throw of the business world-in that it has
brought both the leisure and the inclination TO
thousands of people who have made themselves
acquainted with what they always took for
granted before, and in doing so, have found that
theology was one thing, and the gospel another;
that the understanding of the one was by no
means necessary TO appreciation of the other
The New York papers, for the thousandth
time, are quarreing about their respective cir
culations. Bennett says Greeley's circulation
has fallen off one half Greeley replies, and
AYERS his willingness to come forward, open his
books, and show that
l. The Weekly Tribune has this day more
circulation than any other political and general
newspaper i'll the world.
2. It's circulation exceeds bv at least Fifty
Thousand that of The Neao- York. Herald in its
three several editions, Daily, Weekly and Fam
lily, all together
8. The circulation of The Tribune, in its sew
eral editions, is at least One Hundred Thousand
greater than that of The Herald in ats several
editions.
4. 1t is greater than that of any other tho
newspapers in America.
If The Herald pretends to doubts the cor
rectness of the above statements we propose
that impartial aTbiters be chosen to verify the
circulation of our respective journals and report
it to the public-said report to be printed thrice
conspicuously under the Editorial head of each
journal.
Should The Herald see fit to skulk away from
the acceptance of this proffer, the public will
hold US excused from noticing its ridiculous gas
conade hereafter.
BEAUTIES OF "STRoNa" GovEpNMENT.,-Talk
about California Vigilance Committees, and the
like. They nothing to the "vigilance" of the
French detectives, under the NapOleonic system
of "repression," now in the full tide of success
full experiment. Paris correspondent Of nm
English Journal writes
at is well that it should be widely known
that there is no security accorded TO letters ell
Their received from or sent to persons residing in
France. A French gentleman, residing in Ply
moute told us the other day that he sent let
ter to his brother, who resides in Paris and that
although he first gummed. and sealeds it, it had
been opened, and was delivered open. Another
gentleman who lives in this neighborhQ0d in
after having been opened, and the letters that he
had received had been opened and sealed with
the official seal In one of these letters the wri-
ter stated that there was n feeling in Paris of
! great insecurity, and that the present dynasty
was not worth six months purchase. 1t is
strange that the authorities should have allowed
| such an opinion ms this to travel. On Saturday
last a resident of George street, Plymouth, re-
ceived a letter from France. 1t had been OPEN
ed and sealed with two seals, each as large
as halEpenny piece. The letter was sent to
us before it opened, for US to it, the gen
| tleman to whom it was addressed being very in
dignant at the evidence it gave of the system of
espionage that now rcigns throughout France
WAsuMGToN's ONLY MIsTAKE.-The Paris
correspondent of the New York Times relates
the following:
''The late Washington ball at the American
legation in this city was the subject ola BON mot
which was dropped by the F-cnch Minister of
War, which ought to have publicity. Marshal
Valiant demonstrated with Mr.. Mason previous
to the ball on the appropriateness of giving a
tete during Lent and asked if it We're not mis-
take. lift is mistake replied Mr.. Mason, it
was Washington who made it, for that is his
birthday, and the ball is in honor Of the event.
oh, that's it, replied the Marshal, 'Grn it's The
only mistake he ever made in his iifr!' The
Marshal was one of the first guests the ball,
concession he made to the name OF Washing
ton, for he is strict observer of tie require
ments of Lent.
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LEcOMPToN AGAN.-We notice by our Wash
ington and other eastern papers, yesterday that
Lccompton still disturbs the minds of friends
and foes. Both sides are still cycling and growl-
ing at each other, the one to get a chance to
pour little balm of GiIead into the ghnstly
wound which the swell beloved Brutus" (Bill
Montgomery made with his Damascus blade
the other day, and the other side are equally
anxious to prevent any such mucilaginous at
tentions