The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-29
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l horace greeley kaVOfS Governor
PeIFpoint,s, Re-sIeetIOn--The Crop
PrOSpeetS-ACOnTeFs Win one
OF StOneWRIrs Men-.-InterestInE
Items and Incidents.
A correspondent writing from Staun-
ton says that the Lunatic Asylum there
never had SO many patients within. its
walls as at present, fact painfully
suggestive of the mental ravages pro-
duced by the present state of affairs.
An influx of Northern visitors is ex-
pected at Staunton next month, as the
season Of the Sulphur Springs has
about eommenced.1 =smerg orgue
The war seldom forms a subject for
conversation in that town. It is tabooed
by general consent, as being the most
likely way Of forgetting past bitteFS
ness. ~ siIaE -I,'i' 80 - 81; ir y ~
Gen. EcholsJ who is President of the
banking concern in Staunton, may be
seen any day ina seedy, hat and rusty
suit ofclothes- passing along thestreets
to his business, greeting with a cordial
smile and friendly grasp of the hand
| ONSAy OAA aIHAhAALauGGs .r. -
q The weather has been moist OF late,
but even the quantity of rain that has
fallen is not sufficient to help along the
family sprouting corn. The pastures
look magnifcently green and flourish
lug. ieso4 81. slfI4, -ls4gls 20
The same correspondent says that
Horace Greeley, when at RIchm ond,
expressed his preference for Governor
PeIrpoint's reelection, and ayowed tie
belief that his election would tend in no
small degree 10 oonsummate the work
of reconstruction 80. .....- 80.
During ride from Richmond TO.
Gordonsville, the writer whom we are
quoting, made the following obserya-
tions in his diary; .rl. go
After passing the Chicahominy, fields
of wheat presented themselves stretch
ing away to the belts of timber at the
horizon. Human habitations were
widely removed; and those which
showed themselves either standing near
the railroad bolt upright and unshel-
tered or peeping through the green
foliage from a distance, wore an arr OF
neglect and poverty. Great struggling
patches of wheat were of frequent oc-
currence as far as Louisa Court House.,
in most instances very sparsely sown,
and sproutiug feebIy. In the heighbor-'
hood of Wfckhanl's Station the appear
ance of everything looked more cheer
ing, the soil llunderwent deeper sdepres-
sion and bolder elevation, and far as
the eye could Treaeh presented close
serried ridges Of green, but full cared
wheat interperseu with patches OF
woodland. The farm houses looked
more thrifty, and the footprints Of desO-
lating war were nowhere TO be seen.
Occasionally dismantled fort that had
done the StateaSoine service in Its time,
revealed its, quadrangular outlines.
Charred and ricketty wood sheds blased
by the ubiquitous federals, aud station
houses, leaving but mouldering me-
mentos of where they once stood,
marked almost the entire journey.
Wickham's station seemed the most
prosperous section of country on the
line, and the one which had suffered
least during the war. 81 -
Hanover Junction had a look OF ap-
pealing staVRtion! The daTkies work ed
listlesslY on wood piles, and the few
whites looked ruetul and indolent.
Occasionally alnegro woman might be
observed hOeing miserable patch Of
struggling wheat, and twice noticed a
white woman laboriously wedding
among the short sprouts of corn. Two
large fields of tobacco lay by the route,
slowly maturing in the warm SAN
blaze.
The general appearance of the coun-
try along the line was that of thinly
peopled, semi i-c1lt tivated, though vis-
IDLY recnperating section. p. GisT
at noon we came in sight of Gordons-
partly enclosed by railway embank-
mehts, from which there spread away
in successfully rising eminences the
greenest tofluxuriaIingpa pastures, dotted
wi trees and houses, and forming the
prettiest Of landscapes. iH5 90 =
AS the train drew up by the platform,
a swarm of male and female darkies,
the former cracking whips, ringing
bells and yelling for hotels, while the
latter, vending all sorts of cakes and
candy, surrounded the passenger cars.
er's shield In front of his hat, ratified
away to tthe delight of a crowd OF
picanninnies, enumerating the dishes
In the dining hall OF an adjacent hotel,
winding up Invariably with an ehphat-
ic ''crabs, frogs.Hi Hi5Approaching a SEN
sible looking darkey, i inquired II po-
litical matters had been engaging much
of the attention of the colored citizens
of GordonsvilIe so yas, p was the re-
ply, t'dsy've been doini right smart on
de p'litical Rquesun latelyw "How is
that2" oval, we been awganizin and
awganizin, and gittenz up s'cieieS, and
talkin' wild the fust men in dis yere
country. ~ t.Who are the first men37
"Wal, dar's Mistah HunnIcutt; he come
and did some right smart speechifica-
ton, right dar yon' %. ~, Did he give
you good advice 2'' "'De best, q de DER
~ best; tole US not to do a ting wrong,
and dat ourreWard would be something
nIg. "Yill you vote for him g.
YES . And will all the black men 2"
20 yesi dey all goes one way. ~ HsWhy
not vote for the man who employs
YOUR $50 1 WIN do dat, too. - 70 Bot
you said. before Mr. Hunnicutt. Z
'tDat,s trut, datia truf; yat, yah ~ aod
here he fell totaughing at his Incousist-
ency, concluding by saying, stNebat
mind. nebah mind; you see nc, one
tells how de nlggahs vote YETI The
foregoing Is ah1nstAnce Of general ap-
plicatiOn to the aB yet unsettled and
easily secured favor Of the black man
He may promise Mr.. Hunnicutt his
vote vote In the (morning andrgo witt
his employer In the evening, and from
what l observe upt0 this, such surmise
will In asfew instances be reversed
During the ride from Cord louisville tc
staunIon the correspondence made the
acquaintance of one of Stonewall Jack.
sons officers, with whom he had con,
ablecUuyersationa about the situa,
ton. We quote as follows from his re,
portof it; h4qgE 20 Y7TrA4g
"Well, Captain, how do you feel on
the turn things have taken 2n sS-a = Z
tsGan't say ffiseITejo but I'm sal,
isfied. I accept the conqueror,s terms,
mot as some do, against their grain, sas
il were, as II conscious Of being still
anwhfpped, butt with a hearty resigna.
| tion to the change which I cannot help,
and with determination to work
harder to restore than ever did 70 de-
stroy the Union" s5ap ts7as1
-fHoW; do YOU md the ,coioret paup-