Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-02-25
WHEEL
THE INTELLIGENCER.
Letter from the DIabanded volunteer.
SAINT NIcKALAs HorrEI, Feb. 10, 1859.

AeieF from tne Olabanded Volunteer.
! SAINT NIcKALAs HorrE1, Feb. 10. 1859.
ELdyturs otthe Sunday Times:
want to kno ef you don't think old Sulfur-
sides is hevin rayther a loud ginraI revival
about these days? Seems to me- the way his
dissipuls is rippin inter the ten commandments
is uncommon lively. I should persoom the old
feller feels encurridged wen he reeds the report is
OF thar proceedins in the parpers Seventeen
murders in New York in three munthsl Eff
that dooSent satisfy the old cuss he must be all.
fired greedy. Then thars the spirtyal entrancers.
adyertisin widders of extrornary muskilar pow.
er and sanSwlnary anteseedents, midnite tnaror-
ders as cuts up with glory-form, and no eend
OF seedoosirs, crimconnerS forgers and other
criminal soopernoOmarieS, all as buZzy ns bees
IN clover time. In fack, the owdashus wicked
ness OF the ongOdy is enutf to make a bishop
blasfeme. Tan't altogether the ministers foIt.
Don't they preech to the "hi-hi's' every Sunday
evenin at the Chatham, and to the Shanghai's
at the opery house, warnin them from the stage
and deScribin the horrors of the pit ontil the
very footlites burn bloc, and the intreSt is so in
tense that you mought hear peanut drap, or
a kid glove run throo fashinabnl sinners har?
In coarse they doc. Nuthin that the Lords
vineyard seems to rekwire, is left undun by the
la6orers; but the grapes is mir. | did hope, last
fall, wen the ginral smash brort so menny sin
ners to thar marrybones that the rain of the
saints on airth was coste at hand, but it was
OhcS spirit huuL HeS DeCuIn OIL all Ille bnOeS
OF Grace that was bornagen in that proitick sec
sin of failures? The oney wun as seems to lev
prohtted mutch by his new berth is 0iial Gard
ner. lie sartinly pitches inter sin without gluvs
and ef he winds up as well as he hes begun, he
needut mind bein nockt outer Time inter Etar-
nifty.
But wots here and thar brand snacht from
the burnin, when the ginral scnsus of villiany
increscs every kwarteig Mcbbee ef the clergy
would organizoas rclidius Derleece, armed with
bibles insted of lowcusseS, it mought do sum
good. Prehaps Mr.. Spurgn, the crate English
sln-slorterer, who is culn,nin out next summer,
would take the ofIiz of superintendent Ef
thousand clergymen was to patrol the streets
mite and day, visitin the "Ded Rabbit holes, and
overhaulin the cribs of the "BabeS" and "Blood
Tubs" and setch, it monght hev blesSid efteck
who knosc? Accordin to the last offishnl cat
alog, thars 7,779 rum shops and $50 brothcls in
full blast in this city. Old Snlfursides finds
the church return the visit at his numerous he'd
kwarters? Wen the mounting deklincd cum
ming to Mayhumit, he went to the mounting,
sensably reinarkin that SO they kun together,
it made no odds witch mooved fust Now, as
the mounting of IniCkwity won't cum to the
church, mebhee 1t would be as well for
the church to go to the mounting? SpUse the
spiritual shepherds hes never ta&in this vew of
the case. Possibly, efthcy was to go and torll
to the lions and tigers of the devils mcnadgery
tiAar sNosInhf nit IN OnI
ont thar teeth and shed thar claws, anu
and lay down with the latns. Seein that hun
derds of preachers is sent out to the eends OF
the airth, to convart the sayidges at thar own
doors, it wouldent be no no enrite, mcbbee,
to duo as mutch for the savidges to hum.
line in favor of tryin the experiment of u
church perleecc, with staShins all over the city.
Let EN- visit the dance-houses, groggeries,
houses of prostitooshin, gamln dens, marridge
and lottry pollisee offices, and try
to arrest the evil dooins of the propnriotors on
Bible warrants They may ketch good menny
stray sheep from thar own fox, too, mixed in
with the reglar Children of rath, in sum of the
recrutin stashins of Lucyfur. They mought
take the arm oftlesh along likewise, in the shape
of hale duzzin NJ. P.'s to every possy TOD.
D.'s, so as to be shure to make an impreshin
wun way or tuther-ether on the soles or the
beds the onrteyus.
Eff this plan won't wurk, go in for reGlar
desputism-a marc for life or good bchaver, and
power to appiut all his subs and keep the public
cash box whar noboddy ken get toit but hisselE
Inc dimmycrat, as ginral thing, to the
roots of my har; but when demockracy begins
to run emptyins, like to see things put to rite
Jacksun fashin.
Hopin that morril reform is impendin, tho
the sines is all in favor of total depravity,
| RENAME yours alluS,
A DIsBANDRR VOLUNTEER.