Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-10-09
Iforgot. ',until l -was.s some miles from Nash

ering in the chilly night air.
When reached,the depot and went to
the office to get my ticket pressed through
a room where, all huddled together, were
these Irish! One of them was much as
toaished at seeing me as / was Mortified at
seeing them, and lifting up her head cried
lout- @ iEf
''You, look herep
As my business lay in an opposite direc-
tion, aud supposed they called me from
lcuriosity, did not Iook here" but
went. on.
i After the cars had fairly started, and
was very comfortably seated, with my eyes
closed, u slight cdmmotion attracted my
attention. looked np-nt the other end
of the car stood Il small groqP, picturesque
ly lighted up by lantern. 1 felt as if
had awakened in France or Russia, so
different WAS this from anything / had
seen in America before.
The front figure was that Of boy, who
held the lantern; back of him the conduc-
tor, examining tickets, and behind him two
soldiers, who reminded me of gems darmes,
asking for passports aud questioning the
passengers. I had abundant opportunity
of watching them as they came slowly up
the long, narrow, and half lighted car
The gentlemen, who seemed to regard it q
llOllSt WGlS NAO5Cly
ing if they had letters, which they were re-
quired to give up; how much money they
had-for they were not allowed to carry
supply into the "euemy's" country. Sew
eral unfortunate fellows without passports,
or from other reasons suspicious, were
carried back when they reached the line.
| One lady, who had carelessly passed
through Nashville without making the pro-
per Inquiries, was sent back to get pass
port. Finally, they came to me, asked me
for my letters. l referred them 10 the one
in my trunk. They asked few questions,
and satisfied pussed on. ,.-....
When we reached the State line, of course
we were obliged to change cars, as the
Tennessee cars could not very well pass
into Kentucky. Our baggage was carried
into a depot, and opened in the midst of ii
gazing crowd of men. a gentleman, who
| had a lady under his charge, very kindly
offered to attend to my baggage with hers,
and spare me the trouble of going OUT
The examiners pulled the things out of the
trunks with no care at all, until this gem
tleman called TO them that that was no
way to treat ladyis clothes. mo" ex-
claimed one, "it is a shame, for they are
mighty nicely packed
The compliment was poor remuneration
for the annoyance. They then came to
number of Southern newspapers had been
saving for some time, and was very anx-
ious of preserving. One of the men called
out, "Look here, boys, here are some Rich
mond papers; let's take them to read.n--
The gentleman called to an officer, who
commanded them to put them back; but
when reached home and came to look for
them they were gone. The scamps had
taken them. Worse than this, they took
Il dollar and half from another trunk.
| IF jeff. Davis thinks it necessary to exam
iue all baggage, it would be us well for
him to have honest men to conduct it
This examination was superficial. They
tumbled out the contents. saw there were
no large contraband articles, and put them
| in again. 1 had a number of private pa
pers did not wnntthem to seize. so IlHid
them smoothly in the bottom of my trunk,
and packed my music tightly and closely
over them. As hoped, they thought
there was nothing there but music, and
did not take it out. The letter they also
failed to find. When they get better used
to the business, they may do it better. One
unfortunate lady had her trunks packed SO
tightly that they could not repack theE',
so they sent some of the articles in for her
to carry. do not think any baggage was
stopped, but, At any time, it would have
been very easy to carry almost anything
through. AlHdy, some time since, going
| South, was searched in Louisville, yet, III
4 in each plait of the very full and abundant
trimming on her dress and mantle, she
carried percussion cap; they were not
even suspected. And it is n notorious fac1
THAT very large number of the small arms
lin Virginia were carried through Kentucky
by ladies.
/ assure you was glad wheu my checks
and keys were handed me, and was fairly
on my way into Kentucky, with nothing to
fear but such trivial accidents as the pull
ing up of rails or the burning of bridges,
circumstances, Iwas assured, very posi-
BILE, and the rate Mt which we whizzed along
would have rendered an accident very ter
rible. Our hotel, for breakfast, was very
different in its appearance from any of the
previous ones on the route. 1t was little
log house, with two rooms, apparently in
each table was spread for dozen, per-
haps. Close by the table, in the one Twas
in, was u bed, and, from the tossed and
tumbled bed-clothes, a sleepy little child
peeped out at the travellers. Instead of
coIorcd walters, young, fresh looking girls,
in the shortest wasted dresses, waited on
us, and served US to good, hot country
breakfast of coffee, biscuit, fried chicken,
ham and eggs. think it was at Bowl
ling Green 1 saw the first United States
flag had seen since left Philadelphia
lit looked like an old friend. When /
last saw it, it waved over larger terrific
~, and the Confederates bad not even
planned theirs. felt sense of protec-
ton as passed under its shadow, and
looked up to its waving in the sunlight.
The conversation now was wonderfully
i changed. heard no moro of the invinci-
bility ofthe South, but all of the complete
success of the North. True, there were
strong opponents of the present Admins
tration, but they were still Union men;
probably many were secessionists, but they
were quiet. We proved the croakers false
prophets by reaching Louisville that after
noon without meeting any accident from
either Secessionists or Union men. We
! fonnd the rity mite excited Gen Ander-