Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-29
t'ACE soUTHwARD.
Especial Correspondence Of the 1nteulgepcer.l
STEAMER BALTIMORE, PoroMAc RIVER,
Ill. o0I 5cEo

July 22d, 1853
"Face Southward"-That's what they used
to shy in 1910 times about the man from Kin
6erhook, as they painted him and sung him, with
his hands behind him reckoning on the North.
Whether this was true OF not, it is certain that
the face Of your correspondent is going rapidly
southwark at this present writing. might as
well state Just here, that this running scrawl is
being commenced about the time of night when
people on land and water generally seek their
beds. Ny excuse for SO doing, is a laudable
endeavor to save time, to take time right by the
forelock-inasmuch as midnight is just at hand.
Tho boat has only short run to make before
she touches at Aqua Creek-the moon is an
Ittbibus, the stars ditto, and the scenery Of this
classic river, therefore, rather befogged and
monotonous. have always found that small
snatch of sleep, of half an hour, done me more
harm than none at all; therefore, it is that I
draw up to the cabin table aud seek to entertain
both you your readers and myself, ina few notes
by the way. We put out from Washington at
z this evening, and were glad to get chance to
put out, for we found it painfully dull. The
Capitol empty, the city is generally ditto. The
lord of the White House, the next biggest at
traction to Congress, has transferred himself out
to the Soldiers Home. Gov. Floyd has left the
dogs of war" to such pickings as they can get
while he is west, seeming up some fresh Fort
Smelling operation, perhaps. Attorney General
Black has gone off to Bedford Springs. Post
@A09hSA
of the Interior, Thompson, to his home in Mis-
sissippi; Secretary Cobb has quit issuing ''rags"
and gone-of too; while Gen'l Cass-the super
animated venerable of the State Department
alone remains to swelter midst the heat and dust
and whatever "noise and confusion" dull city
can afford. Those two eye sOres-the unfin-
iShed dome of the Capitol and the Washington
Monument, still aflct the vision of the traveller.
AS John Phoenix says, l think if the American
people remember the Father of his country un-
til that monument creeps up to its projected
height, they will run considerable risk of re-
Numbering him forever.
Boarding in Washington can be had now at
human rates. Instead of $50 and $75 a month,
boarding house keepers are glad to 6llup at 500
am told. Congressman are the birds Of prey
off whom the pensioners of Washington expect
to make the triple and quadruple.
After we had been out about an hour this
evening, we came up with the steamer Thomas
Guy, with which we ran close race Of about
an hours duration. Both vessels kept along
side of each other until this good steamer took
a notion just to show her heels, which she did
in very few moments and after footing her
whistle in eXultation, resumed her wonted pace.
The first part of the evening was beautifully
moon-lit, and in passing Mt. Vernon we could
discern the clump of trees that surrounds the
ashes of him who was and is first in the hearts
of his countrymen. We also passed various
pleasure stations-summer resorts, where par
ties and pic MICS come to put in day and night
in festvity. The music, as it came to us over
the water from these places, lent feeling of en-
chantment to our ride down the Potomac. But
the steamer is ringing her bell and rounding to
so that must cut short for the present.