Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-10-03
An EXCURSION.

Thursday last being the closing day oil the
Washington county Fair, and the openlng day
4 of the Eenpfield Railroad clear through 10
Washington. VIC despatched one OF our corps
over the rail TO make note oil sncn things rs
might be of interest 10 our subscribers IN me
city and along the lire Of the road. Our re-
portcr has suhioined the fplloSing somewhat
detailed account rs IL notice OF some Of the oc-
eurrences of the day.
All the available cars at the disposal of the
IConpany were pretty well filled before they ieit
the city The two military companies-tencl-
bles and German Ri.eIncn, ltesi,lcS large nun
her Of civilians, were on board. Yet, as tram
of cars is near akin to an omnibus. which always,
when chuck full, is said TO hold couple more,
we were not at all surprised to see immense DO.
ldies Of natives at Elm Grove. TTiadelpha, west
Alexander, Clay5ville and other places, Offering
themselves for admission But we were some
what surprised TO learn that they were ali-cacl
and every one of thcm-,towed away. an
early hour in the journey we had extracted our
feeble frame from the pressure and planted our
self upon one of the ofticst peaks o! the noble
old Engine, Pennsylvania. From this engine
we looked about us upon the heuutitu! farms OF
Ohio and Washington counties, through which
/ we passed, and also noted down the state of the
recently constructed portions of the rnilroad.--
The trestle work and bridging, If it had never
been well tried before, WINS that day, and we
twerc pleased to note that every portion OF
IG STOOD the test most creGlLaDiy, not "a VuNeT
being visible. lhe c5st end of the road was all
together as smooth as n new road could be ex-
pected to be- and admits of fast time being made
uponit. We arrived Mt Washington Mt half past
/ 10, and such crowd as met dir bewildered Wis
vision we had not seen since the Wheeling fair.
The natives, far an near from the country round
about, had gathered down upon and on each
side of the track, to see the sporting Bulgine"
/ come il, and to sec how the ching was did. y
So they did see, and we noted old nntetleuyian
/ aybacks, who had doubts about the thing,
come up very cautiously and eye the great pull
ing monster. The old linsey- woOlsey fcniinines
stood with their liegies wondering at the things
! which had fallen upon the close of their life
journey, and some Of them, one wonld think,
I were ready to say with the pious Simeon: Now
! letteSt thy servant depart in peace.
! When the iron animal, in an nnsuSpeGt-
| ing moment, gave vent to two or three i'Ide
Gus snorts and squeels, IL was enough to
| make n horse laugh TO see the Peasantry fall
back. But enough about the pcasantry' Inc
military companies were received and escort
ed in glorious style, mp street 10 the Fulton
Honsc, by the Washington Blues, the popu-
lace tlamping behind in perfect iegions. Little
or nothing was done by the visitors until alter
dinner Our military companies and the city
press were made the guests of the Washington
Blues, who had prepared and served up at the
Fulton House, one of the most SYMPTOMS dln-
ners it has fallen to us to discuss for long time
Il was worthy of the Blues, worthy Of the fame
of the Fulton House, and, as some writer sail
about a certain lady, ito have properly aPprecl-
ated il was liberal education.
After dinner the officers of our companies
called. together with the Wheeling knights oil
the 0ui upon the editorial brethren OF the
town, who just at present comprise a large Por-
ton of the population. Our friends OF tue
Tribune and Commonwealth were the only ones
known to us, and to them we are greatly inde6t-
E,,.= of fIa DlnaEltrn nT tho. day. W
next repaired to the Fair grounds, where we de-
sired to get the particulars of the trotting that
was reputed to be the order of the evening"
For some reason or other the managers there
had notion that such Information was not at
all indispensable TO the people aud did not eN-
tend the usual privileges d sne:i occas'omS.,-|
The press were, however, allowed access 30 the
vegetable, floral and manufacturing stalls, all of
whichwcrc very fine. We do not pretendto be
able TO speak critically about the diiferentspecI-
mcns and ranihcations,o of the conuttess VARIETY
ly well, which is saving Just as mich as if WE
reviewed them specifically. There %as "a pump
kin there, which for "some pumpkins was pc
culiar, weighing l72 pounds Ii WAS raised by
DANES Gordon of that county. The fair, take
it all in all, was most crcdita5ic enc. There
were plenty of animals and articles on cNhibi'E
ton, in the first and most important place, aud
in the second place, there were plenty of people
| there to SEQ and examine. II was the largest
thing of the kind, in every respect, ever got up
| in the county.
Here, again. we must leave the general thread
| of our story, and resume the personal. We
Werc ncuer satisfied until just on tins occaSiul'
! that it was equally as Instantaneous TO be
popular rs to be unpopular While some of
our editorial contemporaries were allowed to
depart from town at their own option, in the
early trains, VIC were so be$et by the fond at
tcntions Of tile popnlace, that VIC were debarred
4 the hlisSfu pleasure of presenting one day car
licT these way-si1e notes to the eyes of our
readers So we remained, for what %asi;i the
early part Of the night called the Eleven o'clock
train" for Wheeling. We did not get of, how
Lever, in the eleven o'clock train, neither did
any one 6 ss sy shat we wss cbong 10 "a
piece of christening, MS little to the point as the
former. No farther qualifying terms were pre-.
scribed for the train it was simply spoken
Of MS the train that WIS to leave for w heel.
ing. This much talked Of train, arrived from
Wheeling at precisely half past twelve O'clock
The military We're drumed and bnGled out OF
their beds, and up off the lounges of the Fulton
4 llauSc, in about the space of ten minutes. In
about twenty minutes more they were keeping
step down the street to the dismal patterIng oil
the rain and the tap of the drum. In Il few
minutes more they and we, civilians, were or
board crowded in and curled up in the seats
of the cars. We sat there and waited one long
precious hour for the engine; the engine did.not
appear, for it was undergoing surgical opera
ton Sumo distance ahead In the mean time
one or two of the civilians and like number Of
the citizen soldiery interested themselves in an
earnest and somewhat matter of fact case, in.
ivolving the question of the vested contingent
and shifting remainder which man NAV have
iinsa-seat which he has picked out, squntted up
on and 'then left in trust for himself or his
heirs or assignees, the case may turn out
dust the distinguished lndgr ynoi, ,,-a, .,,l-
iJuSttnS his erlnlne for hearing of the issue,
tonc Of the parties became non suited (Seated)
and the whole matter was guaShcd
Atler this interesting subject when tho whole
cargo was cndeavoring TO go off into an intro.
duetory nod and nap, there came n voice deep.
sonorous aud ominous, requesting in plain and