Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-09-26
CLARKsDURG, WEDNESDAY, SEP. se. 1855.
Home again.

"s Home aEA10s
We returned home last week. having
visited two or three other counties after
leaving Harrisville. Believing that
person who will use his eyes and ears in
travelling through the country, can pick
up good many items Of interest to the
general reader, we have acted upon that
belief.
We rode over from Harrisville to St.
Mary's, in an almost continuous rain, but
being provided for such emergencies we
were not materially Inconvenience by it,
St. Mary's presents many evidences of
improvement, more, we venture the as
sertion, than any other place in the coun-
try laboring under the same disadvanta-
ges, though there are almost two many
vacant houses to indicate very prosper
GUS condition. Since the opening of the
BaltimaFe and Ohio Railroad. Vaucluse
and St. Mary's have been deprived of the
thriving trade which it enjoyed with this
and the surrounding counties. and the
loss has had visible effect upon the two
places yet there is still considerable bu-
siness done at St. Mary's, which is des-
tined 10 improve, but Vaucluse is now
hardly ever heard Of
At St. Mary's we intended to put our
horse on board boat and 90 down the
river to Parkersburg, but as none came
along to suit our convenience, we started
by land, over the blindest road it was
ever our fortune to travel. With obtuse
curves and acute angles, we frequently
got off the right road, and finally found
ourselves benighted in the woods, on
long, high and dry ridge. the Lord only
knew how far from any place. After
riding and walking for miles, we might
say hours, of a dark, cloudy night, with
out being able to see the road or any
other signs Of civilization, and with the
prospect of losing the way and having to
camp out for the night staring US in the
face, we finally deserted in the distance
friendly light ahead. We that night
quartered with a Mr.. Smith, formerly of
Washington county Pennsylvania, and
had the satisfaction Of learning that we
were three miles from Parkersburg, and
were by no means the first stranger in
them diggins that had got caught in the
same scrape. Our host received and
treated us very Hospitality, and we started
the next morning for Parkersburg, as
bhthe as a bee.
Parkersburg, under the prospective in
fluence of being the terminating point Of
the Northwestern Virginia Railroad, has
made no little improvement during the
past few years. The railroad company
is erecting quite an extensive building for
their station, warehouse, &C., and quite
rivalry exists among the applicants. to
secure the most eligible sites for business,
in the vicinity. We are happy in being
able to inform our readers that Col. F. Y.
Horner of Lumberport. who has recently
moved to Parkersburg, has been so for>
tunate as to have purchased property
very favorably situated for the business
he contempIates entering into-the whole
sale grocery and commission business
and as soon as the railroad is opened he
will be able to supply our merchants and
citizens with all articles in that line.
In every place we visited, we found the
Democracy sound, healthy, vigorous and
| con6dant. Our dark lantern friends NAV
as we'll hang their harps upon the willows,
and come down like Capt, SCOTS coon.
In Parkersburg, we stopped with T. S.
Comfy, who is an excellent landlord, a
good fellow and keeps a fine house. 1t
is true that he is a rantankerous Know
Nothing, but as he gives Democrats Just
as good fare as he does the brethren, and
don't charge them any more for it, it is
no-body's business but his own. He keeps
the best public house in Parkersburg, and
that is good enough for any body.
Our ADVERTISING CoLUMNs.-Although
the idea is in opposition to the generally