Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-12-16

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I.sSoTsaI, shall bldun on the brow of the bravet
SKRaRST MOORE.
ALETTRRsTHAT WILL DO.
The PeninsuIa Counties OF VirginiHJ
The ExperIenee OF = Wide ASvakl
Hooster durtng the teeent EHpea'E
! & tc6rrespondenee Of .he Cincinnati Commercially
BkIrIliaR Mdu Dec Z, 1861.
The 21st Indians has returned from thI
Eastern Shore e1pedition, covered witi
liaurels and lies ring passed through thl
many hangers - DC ytrtssitudes OF tina
bloody campaiRr vithont the loss OF a SIM
q man. We 4etts iEaarviiIeT on Monda
morning last, MARCHED l6emiles on III
lPongoteague road, aud encanped with ont
red brethrenof the yolpminous breeches,i
g. pine wood. Fuel was plenty, and b
scrapiug together the fallen pine leaypst
we made beds; which, foe convenience
were as good as any feathers that ever grew
upon geese. A light snow fell during thS
night, and things began to wear winterisll
appearance. After luxurious breilkfhSA
Of Impossible crackers and some variety
hog product, to say nothing of coffee, an
allpding but slightly to heinevitabte sWeel
potRtoe, we struck tents, and by mnrcil
| of eight or ten miles reached PonGoteAgn
inlet. The Star was lying ready, but
We had taste of her Accommodation
coming out. and very generously let OUT
lZouave brethren march aboard of her, cone
| Guiding to wait for the balloon, expectelt
1.-THE next day. The day was coldand higif
wind blowing, and we encamPed on thu
| bare beach, where we passed a miserable
night. About Pongoteague there are a feWt
lhouses, an old-fashioned Windmill, Sc!
/ ceshs battery, and plenty of oysters at low
i tide, Part of the cahnon and small arms
captured by the expedition were taken here.
| Alter waiting two days and nights we golt
labdard the HWils0nf Smalr ind LEFT fol-
Baltimore. We had been out but short
time when the disgusting fact became ap-
parent, that the Small was worse than the
i Star. sIdon't know anything from nctuul
i experience of the s'horrors of the middle
passage, 'sbut shall never forget the long
/ agony of thu voyage from POngotengue on
fths Wilson Small' There was nothing To
eat, aud neither room 10 lie down nor stand
tuu. with tobacco spit an inch and a half
deep all over the decks. To add to the
tconiEorts of the trip, about one.third Of
iboys got sea sick and were "heOving JOnah"
| right and left, without SO much us taking
1time ia cry "st0nd from under" -
Having thus carried the 2lst safely
i
tlou, i must go back aud iOt down n few
Items which just now Game to mind, the
lI6rst of which shall be something about
- vtRoNI1 ftaDE.
The Inhabitants Of the Peninsula pos
sess, in an uncommon degree, that foolish.
4 lbigoted, senseless, exRsperating pride
which, time out of mind, has been the dis
| tinguishing characteristic Of the Virginian.
They foully hug the delnsiou that their
| miserable God-forsaken neck of barren
sand isRFp part OF "the great State of Vir-
| gins, ,nand, in their eyes, Italy, nor Uto-
Din, nor the Garden of Eden are fIirer or
4 more desirable as places of residence
| They fancy that because few leprnns NJ
ricans are scattered here and there through
! the land, ,gthat they have constitutions" for
\ which they must bleed and die. They
4 cherish even their iguJrance and poverty
as a portion of Virginia character. They
use corn hnsk collars, wooden truck wheels,
zicut their lumber with Whip'snw, work
ltheir apologies for oxen in shafts, with y
bit in the mouth, and reckon their children
MS SO many Hhead," as il they were cattle
and yet look with pity aud contempt on
5lall who, through misfortune, carelessDess
or otherwise, happened to be horn out of
Virginia, The educated sclasses-the F. +.
'iV,,sf of the PeninsulaAare, If possible,
more seuseless than the ''pOor white
thrush" AS fair specimen of the esti-
: mate which theT place upon Virginia
ltcentility, let me relate the following =
Il lWnlkiug from camp to Rastville, one
Il lay. we were overtaken by "A miserably di-
iIlapidated top-buggy, containing an elderly
lesntlemen dressed in the style of a minis
tier of.the Church of England, in bad CIR
lcustances, pecuniArtiy. He addressed US
4 very blandty, and opened q conversation
with Adjutant Latham, in the course OF
which he alluded to the proposition to an
ipex the Peninsulato Maryland He dwelt
forcibly on the pride his people felt in be-
llonging to Hthe great state Of-VirEinia =
l'tYirginia, the mother of statesmen and he
roes3 etc. Latham, who is n Tude soldier,
and talks good, sound horse sense, with
ont oiIfng his sentences, told the minister
4 he had been through the length and breadth
Z tof the Peninsula, aud for tile life of him he
could not see what they had to be proud
i Of. He then alluded to the prevailing. ig-
tnorance and primitive habits of the people.
ttAh !" said theparson, .you spenk OF the
common PEOPLE but among us Z. r. VS.
4 the geHfLkme1 of Virginia eve are al
gentlemen in the Vest interposed Lath-
am. The Parson thought that by the term
t4gentleman, something. more was meant
in Virginia than in the West, and as an
evidence ofthe greatnmount OF geutility
10 the Penius6la, said that of'a public day
10 Eastyille, more top blggiss could be seea
than in any other town of the same size in
: the West or North. Indeed the streets On
such occasions were literally blocked up
with top bpggies, The top buggy argn-
ment nearly settled the ,Adiutaiit, but he
finally wanted 10 know II that was spe.
cimen in which the minister was airing
himself, remarking at the same time that
s'Ithere was not shoemakerin the West but
D that could ford 70 ride in a better one
The Parson gave him a look of mingled
seorn and pity, put on the string and
trotted or 3 -,