Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-05-13
THE INTELLIGENCER.
SANDOvAL..


"Josh" has been making a trip from, his down.
east birth place 50 far West IS ST. louis. and
thence southward to New Orleans, where i,e
communicates through TIE P.esypnG Here
is his experience Of Saudoval, oae Of the en-
bryo cities called into being by the Illinois
Central:
Il took the cars one afternoon frUm St Louis
TO Cairo We reached SaRdUvai about dark
Al this interesting sppt We were compeiicd to
wait Uutil tao o'clock next morning for the
Cairo tram. | was thus UNEXPECTEDLY favored
with an opportunity Uf examining tiiiS CITY
found il consisted Of hsii a dozen long wooden
uyO-sioTy hotels, and an enormous pile Of wood
II seemed ~ THe that it IuuSt be a capital place
for business, il i were not for ihe tritiin ohicc
Iou tiat ttSfc Nns Ho business there to d.. -
At any rate, felt while waiting Tor nay train,
tliat bad no business there. You wouldn't
have thought il wasa city, To look n il. But
Was aSSuied tliat 1t was laid Out for OEe. And,
come 10 think oft, couldn'J help acknowle,l-
ging that It did seem like city ETii ogt, and
c1At at tiTat.
II was informed that the hotel business paid
finely at this point. dcl't know how that
may be, bus am sure Il must be pretty well
E'atr"nized here. AI any tate the passengers
don't tud Rny thing at any ut the GIuI.cr i.o,iss
through the w est bg!ore they got 10 this one,
that glutS tl'em 80 Iauch bnt what IhCr can
all previous tables were out done. Tails about
rare living! tell you the iare here MAS Of the
rareSt and scagceSt kind. Wny, even the bis
cult at supper was scarce. Ai,er ILey had
been ''once round Qhere were six Of us at the
iable,) ventured hike Oliver Twist, to ask for
moe. was told that there wasn't any. But
then you ought To have seen the pTompti.,ss
and complacency with which the proprietor
launched on 10 the table t.yO large cOncocIions
uT pastry rs much To say: you NAV have
me On biscuit, but I'll Ice d-d if You can
catch me on pie WIS satisfied. if my hun
ger wasn't, aEd rose from the table leaving
the pie unprobcd, calling to mind old story
had heard scmeWhcie Of person asking Tor
bread and getting n stone.
mot having slept for two or three nights,
my companion "a gentl -man Of six feet, thick in
proportion, ami fcTocious whisllcrs) and myself,
encouraged by unprecedented success at
the supper table, concluded, after conference
On 'he subject, To negotiate Tor lodging, /
have described she dimensions Uf my friend sim
ply To give you sample Of the style Of people
always travel with. never light though Of
ten quarrel. In case at a row cOntne myself
to the eiaWing, and assign the cutting and slash
ing TO my friends, just at dinner ] invariably
decline 10 carve, but prove myself pumpkins
at 'chawing.' therefore dislike TO travel with
any bat able-boGieG men. Encouraged by the
presence Of such companion, took INV candle
aud followed our conductor up cTeaky stair
case and along very narrow and dark passage.
way above, TO the apartments aS Dick SWiv-
rlier would say, set apart for our occnpatiOn-
Upon entering tie room the enterprise OF the
establishment was again thrust before our ewes.
We FELT quite confident on examining the sheets
that they had not been slept ia more dian two
or three nights, and that their occupants had
been gentlemen OF GeXtrcIne personal cleanliness
fact which was fully atteste,l bv the oil stains
which the pilnw-caSeS had absorbed from their
heads. We threw ourselves upon these 'dOwny'
beds $50 called irOUi iRdcScTibable sensation
we irlC, when we tried TO turn ia them of com
ing dOirh) ard sought for sleep. But We soon
iclt persuaded, hke the maE III the farce, that
when the feathers we're put into those beds they
forgot to leave the geese out Ii could have
got asleep, have 10 dOubt that the sleep would
have been druaniess- had not enjoyed that
urrit at the supper table usually deemed essen
iial To the nightmare. But unfortunately the
upper ball Of ti;e window at the head OF my bed
being Out, would sooner get into comfort
able dozy condition, just into the porch Of the
mansiun Of slvri', with my hand on the door
knob, Khan Some whizLng, horny, winged buE
Of the air would dash against my nose, prOduc-
ing the sensation Of being hit with chip, aud
walked mp. When finally ihe bugs got tired OF
the iun, aud yaNHvd myself iato the delicious
idea that they beating u retreat (their nd
vance beat the devil and by considerable tyisi-
ing and turning had cIow ded the geese in the
pcd To either side, ami isd possessed myself of
the comparatively comfortable bollovs between
them, and in short had actually opened tine door
Of the mansion OF sleep above alluded To- and had
thrown myself on 20 a softly yielding lounge in
the most luxurious srioea uf that magnificent
edilicc. ! was hastily kicked out Of doors, or
what was equivalent 10 u. The ears are COM
ing was yelled cut NJ the door Of my room. and
in less than minute was on my feet and
blindly feciing for nv clothes. W.. got down
stairs in to hHd that the train for Cairo
wasn't due TIL an hour alter this one; by " hieh
means had abundant time to walk o,t on the
platform and take vi=w uf Sandoval by mid
night. good fortune which wc had not vsntur-
ed 10 hope for. The indi~tincIne>s of the wood
pile. The ontline Of wi,ich could just be distin-
guished on the other side Of the track, added
immensely TO the picturesque character Of the
scene, as it left great ioom for the Imagination,
and might be regarded as the wood pile or any
other object, according TO the taste Of the ol<eT
yer. Indeed. Sandoval is one uf the places that
look quite well at midnight as any other time
particularly If there haDpe,S tn he no mnon"