Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-07-16

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JACOB, Of the Wellsburg Rera7d, anxious to
.widen the base of his knowledge Of geogras
ply and human nature, went on 4th Of July
excursion TO Niagara Falls. He "nursed the
project some time" in his. own mind, but finally
"borrowed carpet sack, and started. He
seems to have spent dismal time in Wellsyille
waiting for the cars, as we should judge from
hisremark that
While some other towns that we know ofmay
be said to be completed, this is SO miserably
botched that it never cansbe finished. It isin-z
possible to make goodjob of it.
He stopped long enough at Alliance to observe
thatit was
a considerable village, though the principal
business of the place appears to be in the pea
nut and refreshment line.
Hcwas Immensely delighted with the Vest
erns Metropolis, the boat which he went to
Buffalo. We are glad to know that the fate Of
Jonah did not overtake brother Jacob on the
voyage. Rather pleased are we, bad as twas, to
know that
Nothing of=interest occurred during the night,
except that the weather grew rapidly cold, and
by morning, it was extremely chilly, with a
strong head wind blowing, and the lake quite
rough.
Jacob arrived in Buffalo early on the Sabbath,
andinsteal Of going to church, as he ought to
have done, and as we would have done, he pro-
ceeded TO "observe the Sunday fashions Of the
Buffalonians." In fact, he spent the day saun-
tering around the city," He thought he had
.'never seen as many pretty faces" in his life
[Jacob is a bachelor. He also observed ga de-
cided falling off in the amplitude OF skirts - from
the Wellsburg circumference. lIe also took
care TO observe
The fashion of feminine boots, when ever the :
dear. creatures had occasion to take any extra
ordinary STEP
Fourth of July saw Jacob still in Buffalo, and
he notes also among The other Esl{8Es b3Ee
ing the whole day to Buffalo, In order to dis
tribute hisnselfas much as lie could he conlbin.
ed with picnic party to the extent Of dol
lar and went on voyage to Dunkirk. lie
found Dunkirk sto be hnrd place With thu. in-=
habitants mostly periodically drunk - Ourad-
miration for Dnnkirk, as place for a picnic
excursion, issti further increased when we find
that the principal attributes were "whiskcy
drinking and various old country sports" Among
these sports Jrcob dwes particularly upon
The efforts Of the natives to climb a
soaped pole Of 15zor 20 feet high, for. u So
gold piece, which was placed on top.
We presume that in clipping the foregoing
extracts we have aroused a laudable curiosity
to know how "the thing is done Jacob tells
us that
The feat appeared to be easy enough. but
lightning could not be quicker than the velocity
with which the half-tight Sawney would de-
seend alter q desperate leap ofPerhaps couple
OF leet Tor the golden Prlze,-very often aIisht=
ing on his beam ends, to the yociferous merri-
ment of the bystanders.
From the foregoing ne infer that the thing
was not done, and that that which appeared
to be easy enough" was found dcInsivc. Jacob
was just on the point of going to work on an 4
other OF these merry sports, viz: "hurdlc-rac.
ing, . when, he tells us, the
Boat rang her bell to start, and ne had to
leave Withtears in our eyes.
Imagine man leaving the cattle Yards and q
hog pens of Dunkirk with tears in his eyes!
We have our suspicious that Jacob had been
battled in an attempt to climb the pole aud that
an intense feeling of modification had set in.
producing tears. By the next morning, howey-
or, Jacob had forgotten all his troubles. and
sinbad like, was again on the wnter en- route ]
for the Falls visit to which he had forgone on
the 18th, in order to go to Dunkirk. Grand !
Island" was the first thing that impressed BROTH
erJacob, which he considers
Particularly fine, not Wild and savage. nor
even romantic, as may be seen shortly after.
t!6nt;placid, extensive, beautiful and picturesque
1.-The extreme.
The Falls themselves, the majestic Falls. over
which and about which Irving so spread him
self, did notexstatify brother Jacob, just all
sudden. In the first place when he got within
100 yards of the cataract the noise did not i'm
press him more than as being about that
Made BY first class milI-dam, in pouring
over asdistance of say ten feet
AN this feeling, however, about the Falls at
first sight, brother Jacob is candid enough TO
say, was mot the fault Of the cataract but
was wholly
Owing to the exaggerated accounts Of the
falls, in school books and elsewhere
The longer Jacob stood ho,vevor5 .,l a.