Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-11-20
Correspondence II the Times.
LOCisNiLLk. by.

had taken aboard several delegates to the Mem
plis Convention, and all this hubbub kept up
by the beat may possibly b. meant to stir up
their zeal for a canal exclusively owned by the
United States and much larger than the pres
ent one. There is mo- doubt that this project
will b. brought forward al Memphis, and pro-
bably will be recommended by the Conycn-
tion. We have now among our passengers
Mr.. Whitney, the gentleman who propose, to
construct a railroad from the Mississippi To
the Pacific. He ia bearing the project TO the
Memphis Convention, where he hopes To have
il sanctioned. How many other projectors
will be there with there plans. great and small
wise and foolish, it surpasses hunan skill TO
conjecture. | might perhaps interest YOU by
giving YOU the views ri the various persons |
meet, with regard 10 the probable design and
course Of the Memphis Convention, but as
these are all matters OF mere speculations as
yet. it nigh, be improper TO give them to the
public. The greater number. however. do not
entertain the opinion that there is any design
or wish, in any section, to give ii a political
complexion. The unusual interest NANTES
ted in a certain quarter is attributed merely TO
a desire aud hope of making this Convention
contribute TO the concentration of Southern
aud Western Trade upon d well -known South
ern City. How far this opinion is correct can
only be known when we see the proceedings
Of that body.
Among the passengers who have rome on
board at Louisville, is the Hon. C.. F.. Mercer,
who is on his way TO Texas. He will return
next year TO reside on his farm in Kentucky.
Mr.. Booth, the Tragedian, i also along with
us, besides some minor celebrities.
The latest news aloat in this quarter is that
Texas has declared war against the United
States because Mr.. Polk would not receive and
acknowledge the ambassador recently sent to
Washington from that amphibious country.
The rumor more distinctly runs that the Tex.
ans have surprised Gen. Taylor and put all his
troops TO the bowie-kniic. | think the Joke
worth repeating, in the dcarih of more au-
thentic intelligence.
You must not lie surprised if you should
read in some distant journal a marvellous ac-
count of the progress of glass manufacture in
Wheeling. My next ~neighbor at the dinner
table to-day had fairly entitled himself to an
extraordinary piece of information from our
party, and, for his benefit, a friend asked me
II it was true that the people Of Wheeling had
been making experiments la building glass
boats to snpercedc wooden and iron vessels.
Before we arose from the table my ncighbor
had received, with deep interest. a detailed
account OF a row-boat of glass which had been
built at your city and was found 20 stand huge
bumps against rocks and all that, and that the
experiment was SO successful that il was i'm
contemplation to build a glass boat three hun.
dred feet i'll length. MY neighbor was so
struck with this wonderful triumph of art that
he may possibly send all account of il to his
nearest newspaper, and | thought it but prop.
er that YOU should have the honor of announ.
cling IT TO the public before all others. So YOU
will please notice il at your earliest convent
ence when the press of advertisements will
not deprive you Of room for il. Our only OBJ
ject in speaking Of the subject was 10 interest
my neighbors to whom we owed one. But
we had at last TO retreat from the table TO es-
cape from the learned and scientific discus.
sion which Immediately sprung up among a
hall dozen passengers around us as to the best
mole OF building glass steamboats,!
l verify believe, however, that the discus
sion was not more absurd than some schemes
which are likely to be seriously proposed an
gravely supported in the Memphis Conven-
ton.
have been killing Time (who will kill us
all ono day or onother,) by CHANGING through
the notorious. volume of political and pri-
waite profligacy published by Mckenzie.
Without defending the act Of publishing these
private letters, | hope it is no treason to read
them when they are in every body's hands.
II II be, however, | am guilty of that treason.
! am not going TO inflict upon you or mysclfa
review OF them, but ! must say that the tx
cuse given by Mckenzie for the publication
that 1t was 10 unmask u reasonable conspi-
racy against the public willis scarcely sup
ported by fact. But little is brought to light
in this volume which all intelligent men did
not know bclorc-cxccpt the details and the
gossip. That Van Burcn and all the leading
men OF his party were selfish, corrupt, intrig-
uing hypocriles had been abundantly proved
by their public history. No man needed more
light to convince him of that unless it were a
light which could dispel the clouds Of prejudice
from his own mind. Ii was equally well
known before that, while they deludcd their
followers with foundations and phillipics
against banks, they were tn, most industrious
manufactures of rotten bluks, founded on DO.
litical and not monied capital. Yet 1t is Gu.
rious % see one Of these fellows sent from
New York to Albany to obtain the repeal Of
banking privileges aud few days afterwards
writing to Jesse Hoyt I'VE have got six chatcrs