Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-01-28


In 1852 we heard from Wiley what We consid-
cred one ofthe most stirring specimens Of oratory
that ever full upon our ears We are told that
his .'natural force has not abatedp and that the
natural wealth Of his fine mind has been made
richer by age and additional acquisitions. He
will have full house, of course.
Foa some time past the favors of our publish
ing friends. editorial and otherwise, have been
accommodating on our hands. Our table has
been piled with good things, the very gems and
creams ofperiodical literature; prominent among
which We notice "Od Kniek," the Atlantic,
Lfttelt, the .:Great Republic, and Runrs Her
chants Magazine From "Rniek," we quote
q beautiful poem on our fourth page. This
number of the Atlantic take it all in ail is, par
excellence, to our mind. 1t opens out with
singular piece-"ought women to learn the al
phabctf"
. Ought women to learn the Alphabet There
the whole question lies. CoIicede this little full
q crum, and Archimedea will move :he world be-
fore she has done with it /: 1t becomes merely
question of time. Resistance must be made
E here or nowhere. Obstd prineiPiis. Woman
must be a subject or an equal: there is mid
die ground. What il the Chinese proverb
should turn out to be, after all, the summit of
wisdom-"For men to cultivate virtue is knowl-
edge: for women to renounce knowledge IS yir-
.Otuc." aa ~ G3 IS
The Great Republic 5fagarine is but COM
.smenced, this February number being only the
second. It's motto is, "No North-no South.
no East mo West comprehensive enough,cer-
tainly, that creed. Its founders were of the
& opinion that the Northern bias of Putnam kill
ed it out, and they propose, we believe, TO steer
z clear of althe afinities-especiall those of old
2 Put. All this sort Of literary cautiousness and
polite presaging shows how keen has become
dthe popular sympatbies and antpathies on the
great test question of tie day. A few years
ago and there was no North. 1t was the taunt
of Southern men, very often, and the humiliat-
Ing confession of Northern ones that there was
no Northern feeling-distinct, watchful and
r., jealous like that Of the South. Mr.: CAL
houn, himself, congratulated the South on this
y their great advantage over the North. Nova
- DAYS the case Is different There is n watchful
and somewhat exactipg North. She has an eye
on not only her public men, but upon her news
papers and her periodicals of every kind True,
shc does not mob political meetings, nor gag
newspapers, nor exile men from her borders per
force-but then she does not send Northern
mer, with Southern principles any longer back
to Congress, or prefer "orthodox" papers, like
what she used to. This much by the way
The publishers Of the Great Republic are
= selling, therefore. sort Of between wind and
water, with the chances that they win so far
(, em.sculate their journal of all political indie
pendence as to suit neither sentiment of the
Is, country. The American people do love, above
NIL things, what the old Romans called .Vim"
in all their reading matter. They love indie,
pendent, forcible, above-breath expressions of
political sentiment They never rally round
anything else.
geographically the Great Republic is well
got up. The article on "Colege-lifo in Ameri-
ca" reads we'll The writer is down on the secret
society system prevalent in American Col
u leges.
.phey raise barriers in social intercourse. shut.
ting the gate upon all outside of their own little
world; they excite strife and jeaousies; they
present temptation In its most forcible and Sc.
ductive forms; they make man lose his indi-
= yiduality, for they are tyranical things-one
rules and the others are ruled"
Hunfs Merchant Magazine is famous peri
odcal. The opening article of this number is a
consideration Of the causes that produced the
8 crisis Of 1851"
--sig5,sThere are four great operating causes, or
controlling interests, that have undoubtedly ex-
1serted and that do exert, at all times, marked
influence upon the business and the prosperity
of the country, namely, our banks, banking, or
monetary system: the tariff; speculation or
oyer-tfading; and the credit system. Most of
the persons who have written ON the subject, SO
far rs we have been able to ascertain, have at
tributed the crisis of last year to some all
s. OF these causes
..whiie all these act reeiproeally upon one an.
~ other, and each and all have more or less infiu
enee in shaping and directing our business as a
whole, we think they have each. respectively, ex-
erted widely different influence in regard to the
= crisis of last year. This propose TO consider
briefly; and We shall take up these interests in
the order in which they referred to above"
!. From the consideration of Banks we quote
this ss5s, al !
"a bank is established FOR its dividends, and
+ 70 facilitate business. Its clothed With limited
= and well-detned powers, and is managed by, or
under the control of board Of directors. Il
:. has four sources of pro6t--its capital its depos
its, its circulation, and its exchanges. Its cir
erlation, that is, the amount in bills 1t have
out az any one time, is limited by law, and de-
pending upon ths anornt Of specie on baud. :