Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-02-29


man habitation, when you dart by a settle
meut, over river, through mountain
and out into daylight again, and you can
not help admiring the genius that project
ed and the enterprise that has brought this
great thoroughfare to its present perfection.
In passing by the Cheat river, and behold
ing the rough but contented inhabitants,
we were reminded of the "Disbanded's"
Ode to Lake Ontario:
Once the red Injuns, here
FIshed, iii aud bled.
Now most Of the inhabitants Is whites
With mary red"
That last line certainly represents one
condition of the people, but if they can
find trout to angle for, deer to shoot, and
rattle snakes to kill, they have contentment,
which, if the old spelling books tell she
truth, is much better than wealth.
Going down, we stopped at the Relay
House, where we laid and re-laid for
length of time which we thought about
two months in duration, but which turned
out to be only one day. This extraordina-
~ delusion Us to time, was owing to the
lonesomeness and quictude Of the place,
aud to our limited acquaintance, which
was confined TO one individual, a per-
son of excellent character, whom we
have known intimately for twenty
four years, and in whom we have the
utmost and most implicit confidence
That individual was the subscribers self.
We went to mountain spring together
and drank water and things from never
failing fountain, and while lying there
"musing on the mutnbility of human
greatness" shrill whistle from a locomo-
tive and the familiar face of fat conduc-
tor, warned US that the two months were
up.
On the return trip, with the train in
charge of Conductor Phelps, we had two
objects of interest One was o beautiful
roung married woman, who kept constant
ly Nesting her fair head in her husbands
bosom, kissing him nffectionNtely and re-
pcatedly, and curling herself up in the
seat in the most fascinating manner, with
out seeming to care for the estimate the
other prudish passengers might form Of
tho prorriety or delicacy of her conduct.
The other was a young man, in another
part of the car, who carried onin an equally
abandoned style, being influenced by diff
fercnt causes, and accomplishing different
results. He was drunk. He woke up in
the night, and said thuthe had had dream
that was not all dream He thought he
had been standing with his head in the
bosom of a clear lake, drinking like fish.
He went to sleep again, but in the course
of an hour was aroused by the noise of a
waterfall at the place where the train
stopped, and being still very dry, wanted
to go out aud drink up Raccoon Greek.
At Washington we saw scene of de-
lightful confusion in the House of Repre-
sentatives, heard twenty men yelling
Speaker at the same time, Us if in one
voice, with gavel accompanimcnts-heard
Toombs make speech in the Senate, saw
the Vice President giggIiug aud laughing
at the funny points of the same.
In Baltimore we saw "Oliver Twist" as
dramatized by Jefferson, performed at the
Holiday Street Theatre. Matilda Heron
appeared as Nancy Sykes and j. W.
Wallack as Pagan, the::Jew. Wallack was
positively terrible in his representation of
the willy and death fearing Jew, while
Miss Heron rendered Nancy as nearly
alike the conception of the author as could
ne The scenery was grand and imposing,
"a'ch together with the worldwide repu-
ta''on of the leading actors, aud great
popularity of Dickens and his work, drew
together large, intelligent and fashion,
able audience. The adaptation of Oliver
Twist, TO stage representation, it is said,
mas been trump card and pecuniary
success not unequal to the .Foctaroon."