Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-24


L iefon. who took, 4 seat near onramess; plac'
ling his body In one seat and his, feetin
another, puiIipg his hetdpWp 9yerhi eyes
putting, his gold headed cana 70 his lipi
\ and, seemingly relapslpg into q eonditioI
TOT profound medltatIpp over the attAirs oi
i the Middletown bank, and his late right
/ eous defeat for the u, 81 Senate. The Ex-
| Secretary of War aud Ex7 Minister 70 Rus
sfa seems to be Just now out of q vocation.
He has nothing pOwito exercise his pecu-
tliAr talents upon unless Il be the running
jafranRements of the Northern Central
! Railroad of which be is chief owner, il
being probably the, meauest road to travel
over in the United States, unless 1t Is the
Gettysburg branch, The Hon. Simon had
l.the credit, when he was Secretary Of War,
OF bringing the Eastern troops round by
I Harrisburg in order 70 have them pass over
| this Northern Central and SO enlarge its
diyidends. Whether he did pr did not. It
Isl his misfortune to have had such life
I long reputation d, to Inc line people easily
to believe such report Viii The dis tine
iikkriished, s6ntleman Is not exactly IN tdt-
nary looking person he Is tar from s1tta-
ordinary. His eyes are small, the lids
closely blinked togethes, especially when
he taiksor smiles, the face Is narrow and
the nose long aud sharp the whole tndiea-
tioubeing speculativeisupe perheiai and crafty.
/ The tfain5as Itold you, was 20 start Of
one p, M It started some minutes atter
thfee.s GAntl such b stittt as it did make.
We stopped for nearly half an hour after
crossing the river. Then we stopped OF
and on for several moments three or four
times within twenty miles until We got TO
to station called Goidsboro, where we
stopped upwards OF an hour. The reason
assigned was the bursting OF ONE Of the
water supply pipes of the engine. Our
was the good fortune ofall those
who sold cakes aud apples at Goldsboro,
They never did snch d trade before l Ven-
iture. "Fairchild's brigade band" which
was on board with us, here got oR and
-discourseds some very rare and very sweet
music, playing among other things one of
the aitges that had been composed for the
dedication ceremonies. t5,,
Il was nearly six O'Clock, and almost
dark, when we. left Goldsboro, and as yet
we were only twenty miles on our way.
The air commenced 't0igrbW very cool and
everybody began to wish for FIRE. But
there was no FIRE and nothing to make one
with. Then, as ii grew darker, everybody
asked why there were no lamps lit. But
there were no lamps in order, neither were
there any. candles. y Then everybody be-
gan TO wish for supper, especially for some
oticoffee, but there was prospect for
supper that night. Thensthere was q gen-
erai buttoning up Of overcoatS and drawing
up Of shawls aud much disparaging ami.
matyersion on the arrangements for get.
ting to Gettysburg. However, there were
no ladies ON board andias general ciFculas
tiou of cigars and black bottles began to
Develop itself. Governor BOreman being
0VaH . ha tRaa
been chosen for their eminent s0bFiety,
contd not, of course fna either
rSsgugs or CUtupsusUuon IN this last
named movement. l am mot prepared
TO say,ia however, that their rigid
virtue did not relax little under the in-
creasing ohilliness of the night. About
eight o'clock some enteFpFising member Of
the Indiana delegation went ont at one Of
the places where we were all the time
stopping aud got a tallow dip and stuck Il
in the lamp at the back end of the car,
Where 1t burned greasy and ghRstly, barely
sufipiug to make the darkness visible.
In this way we journeyed ON 70 Hanover
junction, which We.EeaGhed about nine o.
clock, After waiting for some moments a
large train came up from Baltimore, and
on its tslstopping q grand pell-
NELL rush Of women and men was made
intolour cars, despite of the fact that Il
was a specially chartered train, filled with
dead Heads. The salntatton of one lady
on coming into the door, as shepushed and
struggled through the crowd, was, That
a nasty, dirty place ~ allpdtng Perhaps to
the smell OF tobacco smoke, which by this
time was about as-dense as q heavy fog
Several of the ladies, however, yentured to
take seats beside the smokers, including
the one alluded to, but they were not .des-
tided to keep them long, Colonel Joseph
Wright, one Of .Govefnor Curtin's aids,
came through the cars. ocl9imfug % hel
came agehefal eject ment of an new comers.
The lady before to alluded rose mp
in quite q resentful mood and denounced !
the deetee Of ahishtl emit as ss'rsal shabby,a
aud saying soawenta out. By audsby our
train started again and went, ii possible,
slSSyer;; thar ever, The. taIloW dip Pdhad
bntnsd out and We had only the moon and
4he cigaFsste light Us on our way. Had ii
not been for the music that was In chap
with Governor Petrpoint, from Ale1hndria;
everybody would have subsidized into q sort
ofsnlien dbze, Sometimes he talked Irish,
other times Eng glish, audgnOt untFequehtly,
Dutch, and was full of AneCdote and clown
ish Wit, aIFof which together Kept the car
awake and compelled people 70 laugh, In
this Way We lidgered out the balance OF
the Journey, and finally, TO the relief Of
everybody reached GettyssaFg Al mid
= y BsfGSs @ Coming q j iat6 the town, and bhiis
the whistle wasibloWiug nearly every yb6dy
had been pserihg through the Yindows, ont
into the mobHlig hit and The midnight, as
If to see aomsthinE made memorable by
the great battles But there was nothing
SAVE y rolling count 20 be seen. As soon
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