Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-08-11


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WE take it to be one oflthe encouraging signs
of the times, that the people of almost all our
cities and large towns, East and West, are rising
up and demanding of the authorities prompt
and vigorous enforcement Of the laws providing
for the observance of the sanctites Of the Sab
bath The Press, to the honor Of many Of its
members be it recorded has not been back
ward with its powerful influence. Indeed, to
them first beiongs'the creditof, having awaken
ed public attcntionlto the dangers.which was
coming lately totthyratenttheFe existence of,
the Christian Sabbath, asa day set apart for
rest from all our secular tolls and troubles
Without regard to party,-aRd apparently acting
upon motive beyond and above the loss or
gain Of party interest, they have pointed to the
infractions, which, one by one, were sinking the
Sabbath gradually into desuetudc. And they
have asked the people are they ready for such
state Of things9 Have they forgotten the
Sabbath with all its temporal and spiritual life
giving uses? The people, by their votes at the
polls, in ST. Louis and other cities, and by the
action Of their authorities, in others, have
answered that they have not forgotten and that
they will,not forget, but, that, on the contrary,
they arc determined that this country shall
never be Red. rcpublicanizcd as France was; that
no imaginary Goddess of Reason" shall rule
over us as it did over her Sons of Be!ial.
In Pittsburgh, as we, the other day, noticed,
they prohibited the running Of the city paSsen-
ger cars, and now they are turning their atten-
lion to putting in force the laws provid.
ing against selling liquor on Sunday. The
Gd=ette, of yesterday, Informs us that
Mr.. WIN. Franey made oath before Alderman
Lewis, on Yesterday morning against one Pat
rick Mclaughlin, who keeps Il whisky house at
SIX mile ferry, on the Mon9nsahGi ella Tor selling
iiauor on Sunday, July 24th. The casa was
clear n nd the Squire fined Patrick $50 and
COSTS Then he committed tine same Patrick
for ms,lemcanor on which charge trial is 10
unSue.
The Gazette, in commenting on the above ex'
a,uple set by Alderman Lewis, observes that
ot9tATe is never Sunday that passes over our
the nation, young mon " QS2&S stunned aud the
promise OF future manlincsS and use iiYY;ly! a
may De seen rceiing and StnggcrIng, tb,ou.t ~
streets o. tbs city or of the neIghboring vii
iases He'll Itself, as we have sometime
thought can present no picture more dcgradin,
IMAM that OF youth, just coming to manhood
staggering and curSing drunk ON the FIoIv SAT-,
bash day. 1t is sufficiently beaStly on n wccI
day; on the Sabbath il is an insult to heaven =
we'll as to man.
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'Rok W Use has accomplished another voyage
from St Louis to point near la Fayettc
Indinna as We have already noted It has no
been attended with the eeLtt that followed IN,
famous trip with La Mountain, from the sam,
place to Jefferson Co., New York Sail the in
detntigabie. Professor thinks it has not been al
together frnitcsS voyage He has made some
new discoveries concerning the graphing ar
Engagements suited to prairie balloonins and also
rs to the rain-proor coverings With which bal
looms should be fitted
The Professor intended, at the time he started
to land at Lafayette, but owing, as he Saws, to
Storm which prevailed during the voyage
was unable to gain that point He lays the
blame OF the non-succeSSful adventure partlv
on the balloon itself aad partly on the unfavora-
bic weather. Nov, whatever may have been
the cause of his entire success, one thing is sure
to folIow,-thc public will have less faith in
the science, in which Mr.. Wise so assiduousIv
lnborS.
The famous journey to Jefferson CO., n. Y,
was not a complete success, and for that reason
people begin to think that the science of bal
LOOMING is one that car never be brought into
Suchperfection as will make it of any practical
use. Yet, if this wasn't SUCH, fast age and we
were not so headlong in coming to conclusions,
we would at once admit, that it was SO near n
success as to warrantus III believing that gerial
navigation by balloons may yet become as per-
feet science MS oceanic navigation by ships
and.stenmers. The alleged defects in the bal
looms used on the two occasions to which we
refer may be real, and may yet be entirely cor
rcctCd. Something must also be allowed to
accident of i'll weather. With these allowances
and considering the merely partial successes
that have followed former attempts, there is no
reason to doubt that ballooning may not yet
come to be anoccurate, practical science.
IT appears from the footings up in the Louis
vile and Nashville papers, that the Democratic
candidates for Governors arc elected in Kentucky
and Tennessee, the former by upwards Of ~.
600, and the latter by about 5000.
The New Orleans papers Intimate that the