The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-22
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the renewal Of cold families" such flowers as that
girl should be transplanted
must record for history, before leaving this in
terestg spot bit of Presidential foresight on the
part OF ex-SecretaTy Kennedy. A collection had
been make, by Judge Warren from, orr Tar;oa
pockets, to constitute prize for the smartast bor
and the distinguished statesman having contrihnt6
his loose change like the rest, the fund was danosit
ed on the top of the rusty stove in the centre Of tho
schoOlrOOm. Our party then took leave and were
mostly on their way to the cars; myself alone re-
naming on the log doorstep, to bring up the rear
when the ex-Secretary should pass out; but he
fingered looked back once more, and thus chanced
to see him steal up to the stove and quietly denost
another popular dollar the democratic fund |!
Future Presidents, you see like to make sure of be-
ing the fhim for infant minds %
Weregained the cars and pursued our path of
astonishment to Wheeling, coming in sight of the
3road 3road ONO early IN the afternoon Of our fourth
aay. An, the peeps into Paradises in passipu
Whlch thus pass over undescribed-like the stars
that we know we have lived whole lives in. bnt
can tell nothing about
Wheeling, as town, coniesses to the one little
drawback of too codpd atmosphere for the lovers
OF clean llnen-the idlest inhabtant being under
lhe necessity OF two clean shirts day-(toOk much
: coke upon littletown'' but its suburban cana
6iltles are unequalled. Close behind the town.
divided from it only by the high hills which form,
the bank of the Ohio. is deep-down mountain
grit welwooded valley, inaid with a most bean
tiul tributary stream, and giving hundreds of sucb
sites FOR gentemen's villas no landscape artist
could better cOntrive. 1t quite made NV blood fin
gle to stand the hilltop, overlooking the town
on one side and this glorious vale on the other and
imagine what it woud be when Wheeling shall be
surburbanized like Boston-the original Wheeling
a a Thousand tunes more picturesquely beautiful than
the original Boston
After two or three hours of the kindest bosnitoIi
Ties shown up by courteous gentleman of Wheeling
seeing all we could, by the aid of his fast horses
anu good pllotlng-we retook the cars for our re-
hNh h,,,,I Il. e
SO lesurely, were now to be re-travelled at the
press speed; and in the allotted time we were dnIy
dellVered landing our friend Kennedy at his beanti
iul residence OF PatapscO, and Maury at the Wash
ing ton junction, on the way. At Baltimore, Pres
cott Smith, the admired and beloved magician of
our week OF enchantment loosed us from his SMELLS
Sthe spell OF good weather particularly which only
lasted while he had US under his charge on the trim
Westward and with my northern companion, the
Judge, took the cars again for home
So ended an excursiOn-one of the most daIirbt
iu may well say, that it has ever been NV ba6pi
ness to share. In the many-threaded web of its
tangled remembrances for my gifted companions
may the memory of him no has thus imnerfsctIy
chronicled its befallngs be woven into their hearts,
should not close my letter without repeating
mere the most authentic testimony THAT of tho one
OF our party who was himself a Railroad Presi
dent to the admirable system and completeness
with which the whole route from Baltimore to Ohio
Is managed. 1t was thought by the brother-Pr
dent, that it might well he called the "model Rail
way in its details and punctualites while its
large policy OF sightedness and iberality showed
Sach 2 knowledge OF mankind and of public interest
President Garret may well be honored for an adj
of his Office which is both so dilirnrt
and so literally ample
And now, my dear Morris, having given YOU and
our readers look at the Central West through its
big Baltimore door-down the Railway broad aisle
from the Chesapeake to the Ohio-I will nnlatcb
my sandals for awhile.
Yours, at Idlewild, Mp w