Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-05-07

1t is not probable that il the Convention be
held, it will bc under the name of n Republican
Convention, or with the design OF nominating
candidate strictly sectional platform, but
that an effort will be made to harnOnize, honor.
ably and easily, the conflicting elements North
and South, of the Opposition, into q compact
party. If this he done, it is very well
known that it must succeed, and so far as the
place of holding the meeting influence the
matter, there seems to DC Il great propriety i'll
the selection of Wheeling.
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"EuxKEn CuuGsrlAXs."--A Loud Blast from
Boston This is the appellation the Boston At-
las applies to such of the members Of the Amer
lean Tract Society, desire to keep it free from
the agitation of negro slavery. In view of the
annual meeting of the Society in New York next
week, the following racy specimen Of ''strong
writing" will he read and appreciated by those
whom it may CONCERN
ave think the attitude of the American Tract
Society about the most contemplate thing in
J human history, utterly indcfcnSiblc and dcserv-
ing of universal reprobation. 1t is cowardly,
| hypoCritcal and diSgraccfu to Chrlstianitv.-
! 4 Society which publishes its fulminatOnS
| against the enormous sins of dancing, smoking
aud drunkenness, which even has dared to re.
! buke living, Eornicatiun and Sabbath breaking,
and because some Of those who contributed To
/ its funds will take offence and threaten 10 mob
| IFS colpUrteurs, if it says word i'll rehukc of
| the sin of slavery, ncontncnuy grOvclS i'll the
dust, and plays the dumb dog in the presence
of this giant evil and aboninable sin, neither
merits the respect or the aid Of any decent man,
| not to say Christian. There is no room for fair
argument in this case in support of the Society.
| The case is too plain for doubt difference,
and the only wonder is, that the Society has not
been forced by the general Reproduction Of all
| the candid and intelligent, either to reform and
retreat from its shemeful attitude, or disband."
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TnE n. Y Commercial has Il leader upon the
. Union of the Opposition, in which it endorses
tie article which we copied from tho Tribune
/ the other day. We quote its introduction:
! UNION OF THE OPPosIrIoN.-Therc appears to
be growing disposition on the part of the two
main sections Of the Opposition to unite their
forces and their interests before the Presidential
campaign of 1860. This is perfectly in accord.
ance With the dictates of u wise patriotism. 1t
/ is the course recommended by Ex-Governor
! Hunt, in the statcsnanlike and patriotic address
delivered in Hope Chapel, dnring his late visit
to this city, and more recently urged in several
/ Influential Republican journals. When we speak
OF the two main sections Of the Opposition, we
! bv no means lose sight Of our Old Line Wing
| friends, but i, ude them, we think is fair,
with the Ana can$, with whom they wholly
60 operate Keeping thiS in view, the course to
| he pursued seems to as indiSputab!y clear. by
q uill IN we can accomplish what we all profess
to desire, the defeat OF the Democracy by the
elevation of n President who will restore the
! national government to the purity and economy
which distinguished its better days; and we
aeIlly do not see any impeachment to such union.
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Mr. BlGELow, of the n. Y. Post, does not
find Italy the agreeable place he had anticipated
before entering upon his travels. lie uses up
Rome summarily thus :-"Cgfe o liquori della
Rupc TdrpciH" over the door Of vulgar drink
ing shop, guides the stranger to the TarPcian
rock; blacl.smiths and charcoal vendors carry on
their dirty trades in the theatre of Marcellus;
"Plenary indulgences for the living and the
dead" are advertised and sold in the CollIseun
the temples of Juno aud Jupiter have been con.
verified into fish market, the temples Of Minerva
into a bakery; the troops Of Napoleon quar-
tered in the world.renowned Mausoleum of
Iadran; and what remains Of the Baths of Do
cletian is used tor government barn. Only a
day or two ago found Italian peasants hoeing
broccoli in the palaces of the Caesars; and from
the portico of OctaVia, whence its imperial in
mates used to witness the games of the Circus
Maxiuus, instead of chariot and wrestling
matches, | saw only the tall and Indigenous
chimney Of the new Roman gas house.
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A HUSBANDS idea of ian attempt to provoke
breach of the pace" was recently explained
in Cincinnati Police Court, by the statement
that his jealous wife struck him three times ON
the head with stool, knocking him down twice,
and threw pan full of dirty wuter in his fnce;
when he endeavored to explain she hit him with
IA skillet, and damaged his couutenace very Sc.
verc'y. ,