The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1860-01-12
The National Intciiiyencera Conserva- :
~ tive Office.


Tho National Intciliyencer Conserva-
tive Office.
The editor Of the Wheeling htelligen-
Ger thus describes visit TO the printing
office Of the most. ..gcnllcnanly newspaper
in America:
WASHINGTON, D. G., Dec. l3, 1859
A morning or two ago | paid visit 10
the old National Mtellgencer establish
ment here. on the corner Of D and TN
streets. ! do not recollcct whether in any
ol my former letters from here, ever
made mention Of this venerable concern.
If | did not,l ought to have done so, for it
was fiial duty, inasmuch as your own
lntelligenccr was named expressly in hon.
or OF its illustrious patronyme here. And
besides that, l owe it sort Of individual
duty, for, as near as can come at such
distant period, | believe the old Mtelhgen-
ger was one Of my swadding cloths -
Certainly, it is associated with my earli.
est notions Of types.
Asyou turn up to the building from the
Avenue, you would suppose that you
were coming TO an old mill, or nourish~
ing, gram or provision establishment of
some sort. The roof is like mill. 1t
has dormilories in i, and is moss cover
ed. The walls and the window sashes
and panes have that whilish, webby ap.
pearance peculiar 10 a mill building
This old building was put up in 1918 by
present owners and occupants, Gales e.
Scaton, the editors and proprctors Of the
HdeHyeRcer. AT the time it was put up,
it was considered formidable newspa
per building-for at that time there were
very few houses Of any kind in Washing
ton, and still fewer that could approach
to amy style now known as imposing. You
enter this building through rusty old
door, with little bcx recess about big
enough for couple ofpeople to pass each
other, and from thence through II still
rustier door you pass into the counting
room, dingy antique, orderly and high
ly conservative looking place. There is
an entire absence of anything like mod
ernism here. No gas fixtures, but sim
ply plain cid brass candlesticks. No up
right coal stove, such as they have every
place else in the city, but simply little,
delicate, spindle-legged wool stove, the
first ever cast, probably, and sent in,
presume, for editorial notice. The chairs
and the old, wood colored, ink stained
desks, and the shelving, together with The
rusty, faded and crumbliug looking old
ledgers and day books. heighten the an.
tque appearance. and give the tout enstns
We very ancient phase, indeed.
Behind one Of these desks, at the re-
ceipt of custom, stands little old gentle
man, sallow, shriveled and grey haired
yet, active and spry as boy. He looks
as il he might be an own brother to a ge-
NAL old mail contractor who lives up in
Brooke county. He is one Of the polit-
est men ever met, AMI his name is
| Thomas Donehoo He has been at the
post found him for precisely fifty years
and is now as well known to visitors te
the establishment. almost, as Gales &
Scaton themselves. lie does the agree.
able 10 visitors having subscription or ad
verlising business with the office, or tC
those who, like me, were on visit Of Gu
riosily, and who came 20 see and tall
with the VISITORS M, D. informs me that
he has not been up at the capitol but once
in forty years, and that was during the
Hayne and Webster debate. He gave me
most vivid sketch Of the scene on that
occasion. To show, as he said, how ab
sorbing was the attention which that gi-
gantic contest elected, he told me that his
side, which was pressed against the Iron
railing Of the gallery by the dense mass
Of people, trying to get view of the
champions of the debate, that it was
bruised and sore and black owe ra space
twice as large as his hand, for weeks af-
forwards. And yet all the while Of the
debate he was perfectly unconscious Of
the injury that was beng done to him, SO
excited was he and every one else around
bin on that great occasion.
How TO Know A HoRsE's AGE- The
Wool Gfoper SAYS, fter the horse is nine