The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-06

ware. 60
The great American excursion to
''Paris, Italy, Greece, Crimea, Holy
land" de-, will leave this port on
Saturday next, according to advertise.
ment. Though the two names which
first gave it eclat (sherman and Beecher,
have been stricken from the list oi
passengers, 1t is still expected that the
affair will prove quite gay and festive.
Yet the disappointment among the ex.
cursionists because of the absence OF
Gen. Sherman, is hard to overcome. II
will be remembered that, when Secre-
tary Seward learned OF the intended
tour OF Gen. Sherman, he issued gen.
eral circular to all our diplomatic and
consular functionaries abroad, to re-
ceive the eminent soldier with all pos
sible hospitality and distinction. This
secured the excnrsionists an uneom-
monty good time in all the locali-
ties: they might visit, from Paris to
Jerusalem. They will now have to get
along in'the best way they can without
this assistance. 80 +3-| -----t 2 .
The Cumberland Presbyterian Gene
raj Assembly (Southern) decided at its
late meeting in Kentucky, that it was
the duty OF the Church to "leave all
civil and political questions to Cesar,
to whom, by Gods ordinance, they be-
long" The question involved here is
as old as Cesar himself, and in many
of its aspects quite as dead: in theo-
logical point of view, we have no pur-
pose OF disputing 1t. But in this case
the declaration would have had more
weight If so many of those who SUBJ
soribed to 1t had not upheld the pseudo
Cesar OF the South during the late re-
bellion.
AQuebec paper warns us that "as
surely as ever the sun shone, If Maxi
milan dies at the hands of or through
the order of Juarez, his blood will be
avenged, and If the Americans then be-
come his allies, they may be made to
feel the force of that retribution which
awaits them yet at the hands of the
spoliated Southerners." We greatly
fear that no European Government will
ever avenge the wrongs of Macmillan
in Mexico. II France failed to accom-
plish anything in Mexico with an army
fifty thousand strong, and after vast
ing two hundred millions of dollars and
burying eleven thousand French SOL
diers, there is no likelihood of any 9TH
er Government trying its hand at the
job. The difficulty Is, that foreigners
gain nothing by thrashing Mexico, and
seizing her seaports and hoisting a hos
tile flag in her capital. The people
keep on lighting just as they would do
II they had no enemies but themselves,
The only difference is that when they
have IA foreigner to fight, they spare
each other and all go at him. AS for
our becomiug allies of Juarez against
Europe, we shall say nothing about 1t
until Europe attacks him.
We observe indications of decline
in interest upon the part OF the public
in the game of baseball. This is doubt
less owing to the unwise enthusiasm of
the too ardent admirers of the pastime.
Complaints are general that to such a
degree do young men give their time to
sPortItha duties OF importancet to them
selves or their employers are seriously
and business is frequently
interfered with. A prudent moderation
in this enjoyment, as in any other,
ought TO be praoticed If the pastime is
TO retain the good name it has earned as
a healthy, manly game, which wisely
of leisure hours, 1t is now
urged that SO all-absorbing and fasci-
mating has baseball become, that many
excellent games which once were pop
ular are now almost entirely neglected.
This is in great measure true, and the
real friends of the now popular sport
would do well to remember that reac-
tion follows any kind of excess. If this
tendency to immoderation is not speed
tly checked the game will die out-con-
by the misplaced fervency and
zeal Of those who abuse its advantages.