Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-05-25
Friday Morning, May 90. 1860.

the session OF tue ASePuS'
Convention there She accommodated inc
5nmense concourse of people in attend
ance. comfortably and we'll There was
no complaint from any quarter OF insult
fc;ent accommodations, and we should
not be at all surprised to see the next Ma
+;onal Conventions of all the parties held
there. The delegates to the Convention
were treated with the utmost degree oil
courtesy. The Board of Trade, and the
managers of the principal lines OF travel
mt themselves at every trouble and e1-
nense to make the members of the Con-
ventiop enjoy themselves, and to enable
them to see the country, and come nome
well apprized of all its beauties ana "u-
yantages.
After the Convention adjourned, some
of the delegates accepted the invitation oil
one line of travel, and some OF anotner'
inst as inclination or interest suggested
Some went across Lake Michigan, some
went to Galena, some down to Springheia'
and some like ourselves, out into Iowa,
via. the Rock Island Road. We never h"u
a pleasanter trip than that over TINS eXcel-
lent road. on Saturday last. Some OF the
finest country we ever set eyes on, is that ~
inc alongthis route, especially that between
Jo;,iet and Peru. But of all the country
that we saw while we were gone, there
was none in all the elemants OF fertllitI'
beauty and healthfulness, to compare win
that Immediately around the city OF DaVen-
mort Iowa. The city itself is perfect
gem, and it really was a question 70 US,
wbenlooking at it from the Rock Island
side. as to whether Davenport did not
lend a greater attraction than she borrow
ed from the majestic Mississippi river
We found good number of old Wheeling
residents there, some of whom are engaged
in trade, but most of them in farming anu
all of whom had done well since they
went to the country. The old man
Hetzell, who left Wheeling in 1851 met
us at the hotel where we were stopping
and nothing would do him but we should
take ride out to his beautiful farm IN Ills
carriape. And so we did. We went out
and took dinner with him, and afterwards
walked over a considerable portion OF hi:
handsome estate-nearly all OF when ut
had ACQUIRED within the last nine years
and which at the lowest valuation wa
twenty thousand dollars. y"
which he seems determined to take Iii
ease for the remainder of his days. Nj
H has experienced a good many of til
ups and downs of this life but seems t
have hit fat streak of good fortune a
last. He has stocked his farm, in part
with family of eleven children-all o
whom are with him-and in that way ha
done almost as much for the State of low,
as she has done for him.
One of the Oldest settlers around Da
Venport, from Wheeling, is Mr.. Zeke Stein.
holder, who went out there in 1912. He
used to keep coffee house up at Stewards
corner, in the upper end of Market Square,
where he made some little money-enough
to go West on. He now owns about one
thousand acres of choice land-eight hun
dred acres of which are prairie. Besides
this property he owns several city lots in
Davenport. He lost about ten thousand
dollars in the crash of 1851 by endorsing,
but has been able to stand up under it and
retain all his land.
One of the best men in Davenport is
August F. Mast, the Postmaster, who
went from here in l947 He used to be
clerk on the boats owned in Wheeling,
and plying between this and Pittsburgh
or Cincinnati. He was appointed Post
master in 1853, and has held the place
ever since, being scarcely, if any, the less
popular with the Republicans of Davan-
port than with his own party.
Henry Uchtorf, another Wheeling man,
went out in 1854. He used to 6e mil
Ter at Woods mill, ON Woods Run,
and afterwards at Bedillion's mills He
lives in Davenport, quite at his ease, hav-
ing several good "corner lots" and fine
farm of two hundred acres.
Mr.. Jas. G. Todd, we presume, is better
known to most of our readers than any
OF the older residents whom VIC have mem
toned, inasmuch as he only left here in
1857, and was quite prominent while here
in the boot and shoe trade. He went out,
as we have said, in Sin the spring
just preceding the great financial crisis
which came on that fall, and which like
to took Davenport and good many other
Western cities and towns clear off their
foundations. Notwithstanding, Mr.. T.
came ont seemingly just in season to en-
counter hard times, he has done and is
doing well, and despite all drawbacks, has
made money. He thinks the West, and
especially Davenport, is the only country
In ba for a 80 h.