Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-11-23
EDlroR1AL CoRKEsPoNDENcE.
STEAMER COURIER, Nov. 18th, 1850.


your editorial columns vacant, we have
thought that their space might as we'll
be occupied by letter occasionally as
may occur to write Of
course trip upon the Ohio, from Pom
eroy to Cincinnati, could hardly be ex-
pccted to furnish many incidents worth
relating.--And- the writer, not being
blessed with the genius necessary to in
vent them, this letter must be common
place enough.
We, left Pomeroy, or, rather, Mason
City. about eight o'clock last evening,
and some time in the night, the fog be-
coming too dense to permit the boat to
run, size was quietly moored to the bank
near the celebrated city of Ceredo-the
capital of New England, in Virginia.
This, as most Of our readers know, is
new town on the bank Of the Ohio, es-
tablished under the auspices Of Hon. Eli
Thayre of Massachusetts,, @
The idea Of its projectors vast Gin
vade' Virginia, not with implements of
warfare aud destruction for her hurt, but
with the plow, ard the loom, and the
aavil-with the enginry of persevering
industry, aud the enterprise of free Ia
ber, for her regeneration. The purpose
vas to prove to Virginia that Massachu-
sets men and women could, upon her
sunny soil, build up community where
high social and intellectual culture could
be seen in connection with daily labor
community which should at once ben
eft its own members, while preaching a
silent, but most powerful practical les
son to their new neighbors, winning men
to profit by their example. This colony,
although perhaps not realizing all that
sanguine minds light have hoped, has,
nevertheless, proved success, even be
yond the expectations of its more solid
friends. ! -rs ,s, ue.. ,e. r.a
Itwould strike any person who did
not know the character of Virginia S
"chivalry," that such an acquisition to
her population, and Of such a character,
would have been hailed as the dawn of
better day for the old commonwealth.
d. - O. .. - So e. asr,
But such was not the fact. True to
their instincts, the Shareholders thought
they saw in the prospect of a community
where thrift and refinement were ac-
companying free labor, an example dan
gerous to the perpetuity of their darling
system Of. slave labor, and especially of
slayer raising. And hence, instead of
welcome and encouragement, they were
met with threats and menace. But they
persevered, and have apparently over
come their greatest difficulties, And
while it is true that the slave interest of
the east still occasionally growls out a
theat of expulsion, we believe the col
ony has enlisted the sympathy and cor
dial good wall of their immediate neigh
bors.- -aE
The boatis crowded with passengers,
many of whom could not get berths, and
were compelled to sleep upon the cabin
floor The gentlemanly and obliging
officers, course. do all they can to make
their passengers comfortable, and by
special favor or particular good luck, We
found snug resting place, giving an
other proof that sit is better to be born
lucky than rich. If it would not look
too much like a'puff," we would say the
Courier is just the boat to travel on.
Among such crowd there will be
conversation, and out of the abundance
of the heart the mouth will still speak.
It follows, therefore, that the theme now
uppermost in all minds-the secession
movement in the South-was not omit
ted. A very few of the company, and
one of whom We expected better things,
seemed to think that nothing less<than
a dissolution of the Union, and civil
war in which the whole North were to
be fogged like truant slaves, could or
ought to wipe out the insult offered the
"chivalry" by the contumacious act of
electing Lincoln President of the United
States. To a calm listener the ranting
Of these fellows, sounds like absolute lu-
macy. And perhaps they are mad enough
to attempt some mischief But if the
proportion of calm, sane men through
out the country is.as great as tits among,
our passengers, therewiH be no very dis
astrous ''smash up" g sTa ',s SD 2
We see by the latest papers that among
the first effects of the treason" fever
of South Carolina, is such a run upon her
banks, that they cannot redeem their
notes, and the Legislature has author
lied a suspension of specie payments.
It is claimed by her .:'great statesmen
that as the North must have her cotton,
and as South Carolina bank bills won't
buy it, the specie must be shipped from
Boston, and New Y York, and Philadelphia,
to pay for it, and that that will break
the Northern banks-that the breaking
Of the banks will stop the manufactu-
riss,, and this will throw the operators
out Of employment, which will, in its
turn, arouse them to riot and insurrec-
ton. So South Carolina has settled it
to Der own satisfaction that she can make
the people of the North murder each