Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-04


local Correspondence Of the IntelIgencer.l
4 glimpse atdn out Of the tcay Village Orer the
Rirer-HoW our Correspondent didn't find
things TO his mind, and ,eared critical.
BEALIsvILLE, Monroe Co., o., Feb. 30
Editors Of the InteiLigeneer:-
On Saturday morning, the 10th,
left the vicinity of your smoky city on my
horse, for this village. l need not tell you that
it was one of the coolest days of tie season,
and that owing to the rain of the previous day,
and the severe ceZs, it was almost impossible
for man or beast to prevent collision between
old terra firma and his capital regions. But we
yentured along, skating forward and backward,
hithcr and thither, at a speed that would have
astonished a steam whistle, for we actually
made over two miles per hour. The annoyance
of being on both sides of the road at the same
time, and being almost at the top OF hill at
one moment and at the bottom the next, tOgeth-
er with the poor bleak hills and little, ugly,
dwarfsh men and women, with their score of
dirty faced pets all coOped up in ten or twenty
foot cabin, except when II stranger passes by,
ut which time all must come out to see the ways
of the world. say that all these things, with
many others, that | am too decent and good
natured to mention, to n man almost frozen,
were enough to try the patience of Job. But
reached this place with my head above
my shoulders the peasants had gone
to Snooze, and made my way to IL tavern.
And what will you think when | tell you that
the taYernS here only the mereSt names
Even my host, who is ia go>lin looking fellow
scarcely out of his teens, with here and there
downy looking hair over his chin, endeavoring
to follow the fashion of men, begins to look
dwarfed and dilapidatcd in the little eight or
ten feet square rooms OF his dwelling Sun
there is one advantage in these little cOops in
cold weather like this, you don't have to keep
so large space warm and this is an especial
advantage here, for the cCal is just As near no
coal as have met with in my travels. But let
us stop here and walk out to see the town.
Returned and here atn, fifteen miles from
the river, the same distance ftom the railroad,
and at least twelve and a half from anywhere
else What Il fool am to come out to such
place as this for the express purpose of gather
ing items for political paper, aud that too a
'Black Republican sheet" printed on slave ter
ritory! | have heard OF the place where mo
where jumped off into nothing" and if this is
not just as near it as ever place was, then take
my hat. In ride out into the country around
made the discovery that there was pretty
good looking meeting house, o. S. Presbyterian,
with tracks aroud it, and it looks as il it
were deserted. Taking stand on hill not far
from the town, I surveyed the surrounding
country, and after few visits to different local
tiles for short distance around, it is my settled
conviction that this is one of the last places to
learn anything or gather anything. There is
nothing TO make anything out of here, excepta
little tobacco. The farms are all small, the land
at first not of good quality, and it has been so
abused with this noxioms weed, that it actually
refuses to give to it its little remaining strength.
There are no colleges no academies, no high
schools, no nothing around to build up a place.
feel like leaving here just soon as old orion
opens his eye.
Before Ileave you ask me about the local
news. Well, there is just as near none as You
could imagine. y little talk about the trial of
Foreman, at Woodsfield, for the murder of the
young woman found near Sunlish, reported some
time since, engages some small circles. Tine
price of tobacco and wheat, &C., with little re-
ligous conversation, is about all in all here
And yet some of the people here seem to think
that they live somewhere, and that their locali-
ty is equal to many others that are putting con-
siderably, such, for instance Bellair, which
they think is the last place in creation for a
town. a.