Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-01-18
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EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
No. 3. A
sSTEAMER FANNY McRURNIE,l
Saturday, Jan. 5, 1861.
Dear 7sEegraph:-Our last letter left
us in the very Interesting employment
of scoitiag for boat. After two days
and nights most industriously spent in
this occupation, our ears were saluted,
at six o'clock this morning, by the well
4 come music of thesswhistlen OF the Fan-
ME McBuraie. With all convenient
dispatch, your correspondent and *suite'
fastened on board, and by the favor Of
the gentlemanly Clerk, found the very
best Of quartes& And, by the way, the
travelling and trading public scarcely
appreciate, at its truo value, the great
advantage resulting to them from having
careful and accommo odating officers in
charge of the steamers upon our rive,s
We feel it due to the. officers of this BOAT
as we'll as the public, to bear oar testi-
inony to the urbanity and attention with
which passengers gre tre,ted, and their
wants and conTeniencss provided for
a trip on. this boa.s will be found in all
respects pleasant, SO far as those in
charge can make it so. -
On leaving Pomeroy this morning,
the ice in the river was quite thick,
, making itadif6eults for boats to pass at
all. At the time we arelnow writing,
near sundown, and in the vicinity of
Ironton, the ice has mostly disappeared,
leaving the river comparatively free and
unobstrueted. AS it evidently had not
melted, the question occurred, and was
in fact asked, ,s,'what has become Of it?'
The only explanation presenting itself
to mind, was found in the weight of mud
adhering to the cakes, accumulated from
the sediment in the water. This sedi-
ment,s being heavier than the ice, causes
it to sink, whenever the weather is not
cold enough to make ice as fast as the
sediment increases, And this is proba-
bly, the reason of the difference between
the aaantitiesaof foatingice at the two
points named.
At Catlettsburg, the county seat Of
Boyd County, KY, .. number Of gentle
men came aboard, who are Delegates
from that County to the Convention
about to be held in louisville. We had
a long talk with them, and found them
intelligent, and quite reasonable and mod
crate. They are Union men "up to the
hub, and say they viii stand by the Union
to the last. And, as an evidence that they
were not alone in their sentiments, they
gave us a copy Of the resolutions passed
at the county meeting which appointed
them. These proceedings are too lengthy
to copy in full, but they have the ring
of the true mettle in them all. The
first one is as follows:
Resolved, That this is no time to re-
peat or griera'.ces or magnify orr ,orongs;;
Mat they hare been retearsed and erag-
geratea by aspiring politicians, until,
having bemefted> no one, they hare in
famed the minds ofoa people, destroyed
lie peace q oar country, and brought o9r /,
nation to the uerge Of ruin; that the masses
Of the peoph ,cho haze he'd no part in ,
condncttag the lf"trs of the gouc,au,ent,
are thoss ,c7so must suffer BY its destruction;
that It Is or 1aty as freenaen to speak for
ourselves, and as satch, WE DECLARE UN@
ceNDITIoNALLY AND THEORETICALLY |
OUR DEVOTION TO OUR BELOVED coUN-
TRY, oar 5ore for its past glory, oar hope
for its perpetaotio,a, and our discrimination
to-staad by 1t at aay hazard and ,ohateuer
cost.
That gives the spirit of the whole
proceeding. There is not single word
which any Republican,. Or any other
friend of the country could possibly OBJ
ject to. And these resolutions, adopted
as they we're, by a large county meeting
in Kentucky, and earnestly sustained
by the delegates appointed to carry them
out in the State Convention, will, We
trust, do great good. We notice the
same spirit in several other meetings
held in Kentucky and especially those
called and managed by the working
men" of the State. Buta few days ago,
a meeting of more than three thousand
,oorking men met in Louisville, and
adopted similar resolutions. Nothing
has SO much alarmed the disunionists of
the South and party demagegues ia the
North, as these meetings Of the working
men. If-the great mass of the people,
those who depend upon their labor for
their prosperity, would butrefect mo-
ment, they could not help seeing that
they will be the first to suffer in any
commotion or civil discord in the country.
The STAKEHOLDER, who drives his ne
groes to the cotton fields, and feeds them
on a. pittanee of corn that would starye
q mule to death, may not feel the effects
of commercial crisis, so long as he can