Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-07-06
a sPooNY ABOARD.

among the many excellent gentlemen
who accompanied the recent excursion
over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
was green horn from Russelville (Kv.l
who prcsides over the editorial columns NJ
" seml-occasionnl aud Improbable sheet,
called the Russelville Herald. From this
city he wrote letter home to his paper
and although the letter was dated on the
Sd of May last, it did not reach this CITY
till yesterday, having been exactly two
months going to and coming from Russell
vile. We make few extracts. The edi-
tor, after getting out of his native woods.
meets some brother editors on the steamer
Jacob Stadcr:
"On the Strader we met with another
company of Editors, with their wives. en-
route to join the Excursion. The Editors
were from the Northwest, Democrats and
Republicans in politics, but all alike in
tense h"tcrs of slavery and Southern in
stltutlonS. They appear to be intelligent;
but upon the whole we calculate" thew
are "cute Yankees" with very small souls
some so diminutive they might pcrhaps
rattle in mustard seeds. The ladies are
handsome and agreeable, but MS cold as
lce-hergs, and as passionlcss as statue
so frigid, i'll fact, both in form and feature.
that methinks
''ApPelles necr would have painted them
For the Queen of lOveliness and love"
l should judge that the "tender passion"
esteem" go
We submit to the candid and observant
reader, if prejudice, ignorance, boorish-
ness and sensuAlity, be not all displayed
in the above extract.
After speaking of his brother editors,
who were chiefly gentlemen from the
northwest, and among whom, to the best
Yankee, in most insulting and drsrt=-
spectful manner, this spoony proceeds in n
mnwkish and base-born manner, and at
last reaches Cincinnati. He arrived there
at night aud got up early in the morning.
cat this early hour the din of business
had not commenced; the city was wrnpt
in quiet rcpose, and the majority of its
citizens were enjoying their "morning
maps" and the "nymphs of the pave" and
the "fast young men" were seeking their
couches, after nights dchauchery; doubt
less feeling that although forbidden pleas
ures may be sweet, they bring with them
bitter and severe rewards"
In passing along the Central Ohio Rail-
road as a Dead Head this ungrateful
green horn was so blinded by prejudice
that he sew nothing good. 1t is we'll
known that the Central Road passes
through a beautiful section of country,
and that everywhere arc observable fine
farms, thriving villages, aud evidences of
thrift and wealth. Yet this fellow chooses
TO say:
Here and there were scattered the
abodes of poverty; poor white slaves, men,
women and children, scantily clothed, and
toiling wearily for bare subsistence
Occasionally, too, were seen log huts, oc-
cupied by idle, dirty, lazy, and miserable
looking negroes; but, socially, the equal of
the white slaves of Ohio.
At every station, he continues, editors
and their ladies got aboard the train,
"mostly cute-looking, sharp nosed Yam
kees," and at last the party arrived at the
McLure House in this city,
A large and excellent hotel, (which is to-
night filled to its utmost capacity. AS
soon as we reached the hotel, the Yankee
Editors, with few honorable exceptions,
displayed very conspicuously their ill
breeding and bad manners, by scrambling
for the Hotel Register, in order to secure
for themselves the best rooms for the
night, regardless of the comfort and ac-
commodution of the ladies, and would
have discommoded many of them, had it
not been for the determination of the
clerk-who persistently refused to accom-
modate any one else until the ladies were
provided for. There were but few South
ern Editors present, and they stood off in
" group, amused but disgusted with this
display of Ydnkeeism in its true collars =
But the Southerners lostnothing by taking
things easy, for at the close they were well
provided for.
Now that is not so-not n word of it
except that which relates to the excellence
of the hotel, and on behalf of the liberal
minded and intelligent editors who Joined
in that excursion, We deny and denounce
it, 1t is customary for travellers to Regis.
ter their names upon first coming into 4
hotel, and the rooms are afterwards selec,
ted, of course, by the hotel proprietors
w>>out regard to the position of thu
names on the book The Russellvillt
spooney didn't know this, and his igno'
rance and inexperience has heated hi
prejudice red hot. We can imagine hin
standing back upon upon his arrival at th
Mcclure, with both hands thrust into hi