Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-29
HIDING AND WHITING on A RA,L.
PETERSBURG & WELDON RAILROAD,
Inst ncrnss the y G Linz .InlW %


Crossing the line, as they say in nautical par
lance, when nearing the equator. / am happy,
however, to experience none of those painful
sensations which sailors are said to undergo du-
ring the time that no breath of air scarcely stirs
theft sails. We have a nice breeze, and had it
not been for an inquiry of rather lank, wilted
specimen, addressed to the conductor at this
(Garratt's) station, / should not have known
we were out of the Old Dominion into the "Old
North State" have been sitting at the window
looking outside awhile, then inside, until I have
got pretty familiar with the face of the earth
without and the face of my very few compa-
Mons inside. i have amused myself these few
last moments in watching the why's of an Irish
mother towards four children-all of size, Qike
John Rogers and the ways of the four chill
dren towards her. I've just deliberately conclu-
ded that she or one, don't know much about
raising children. When she speaks the children
jump. She's all the time getting them nick
nacks to eat out of a big calico pouch she car
ries; indeed, she seems bountiful proyidcr, but
still, for all that, she's sadly deficient in man
agement here just stopped my note taking,
to read a letter which she has turned round and
asked me to look at. It turns out to be an af.
fectionate call from her spouse, who is located
at Tunnel Hill, Georgia, written when in Virgil
MIA, bidding her to make haste-pull up stakes
| bring the "childer," and come on down to
Tunnel Hill-giving statistical information as
to the route and cost of the journey. Her hus-
band writes her that 'every moment seems an
age" since he left hcr-an endearing expression,
which considered highly promising in man
who was the father OF four children. 1t was no
doubt IN indstinct remembrance he lad of the
phraseology which he employed in-thc days Of
his love-sick swaiuShP.
This is, would have you to know, the "Great
Southern Mail Route"-being part of the great
chain from New York to New Orleans. Weleft
| Richmond at daylight this morning-passedo over
l tho pAfarShurur R0ilrOa6 90 1nilpa l0Do-fOnlg
breakfast at Petersburg. Having IN hour or
more at the last named place, l dropped
| in on the Superintendent of the Petersburg 4
Weldon road, who found to be about as COM
mandIng and us fine a looking specimen of a
man as / ever met with. He gave me much
valuable information as to the running of cars
on his own and other roads-and upon railroad
management in general. The Petersburg &
| Weldon road is SO miles long, and is as well
built and rs well equipped road as have yet
seen. Over this Southern mail route two trains
are run daily-morning and evening. You
leave New York at A. NJ, Philadelphia at 1
P. NJ, Baltimore at p ~, Washington City
att P. NJ, Richmond ut a. NJ, Petersburg at
! { A. n. Weldon at P. NJ, where you can take
either the road via Raleigh, N. O., and Column
bia, S. C., or the Wilmington road to New Or
leans. On the three cars on which we are now
running-the Petersburg & Wilmington-we
have about % through MISUNDERSTANDING
tendent whom have mentioned, told me that
he would compl omise on this number all through
this season of the year. OF course such mea-
gre patronage is losing game, and only
wonder that the railroad men take so much
pains and go to apparently so much expense to
accommodate their travel. A new feature 1
observe on this road, different from what I ever
saw before, aud that is, that a negro stewardess
travels with each train to wait on the lady pas
sengers-serYe ice water TO them-hold their
babies and other baggage occasionally. Every
konce and awhile we make a stop, not always at
l-anyw here. just now we have stopped and
let of man, his trunk and jug. Way travel,
should think, in this country, costs more than
it yields. A sparseIy settled country like this
can never build up fat revenues for any road.
II takes population such as these dense