Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-05
FROM BELLAIRE.

and pressure seekers, how many OF the
lovers of beautiful and romantic scenery,
how many Of the business men of Column
bus who ride East on the Central Ohio
Railroad, on their way to Wheeling. Balti-
more, Philadelphia, or other Eastern cities.
have allowed themselves to be whirled
along by the siron horse,n winding their
serpentine way through low and narrow
bottoms, shut in by hills abrupt and broken,
along the meandering streams formed by
the ten thousand springs that everywhere
gush forth through Guernsey and Belmont
counties, and are yet unconscious of the
fact that America, with all her grandeur
and sublimity, possesses no more lovely
scenery or more gorgeous panorama than
that which meets the eye and ravishes the
senses of the appreciating beholder, on the
line of the Nationa Road, through Bel
mont county? Ye, busy merchants, who
toll and think, and are always in. hurry
to make money; ye jurists and physicians
who are ever and anon buried in the pro-
found pages of Blackstone, or studying the
wonderful anatomy of the ''human form
divine; )" ye politicians and statesmen;
(demagogues, thieves, wire-pullers, and
vampires who hope to suck the life-blood
OF the nation through the pores of negro
pelt and bond monopoly, are not appealed
toy all ye lovers of the beautiful; all ye
of sentiment, purity and thought, whom
the great Jehovah has endowed with one
particle of taste, poetry or religion, when
you resolve to go East as far as
the Ohio river buy your tickets to
Cambridge only, there take one of the stage
coaches of the Cambridge and Wheeling
line, pass through Washington, Morris
town and ST. Clairsville to Bridgeport that
you may feed ON the feast of beauty which
Natures God and Creator has placed bcfore
you. 4. 80
Yet would recommend that you stop
not one moment in Cambridge longer than
you can possibly avoid. IT a good hotel,
an obliging landlord, well supplied table
or tidy and attentive walters are amongst
the things you expect to find, sadly indeed
will you be disappointed And, as for the
town and people generally Well, could five
iustpeople have been found in the cities of
Sodom and Gomorrah those cities would
have been spared for their sake; and, for the
sake of the gentlemanly Express agent, the
courteous and accommodating stage-dri-
yer, the Mitchners, Mathews and Talbot la
dies, 1 will let the dingy little village rest
in its seemingly sleepy laziness, promising
to present the inhabitants, whenever twelve
men can be found within its boundaries,
who are not too lazy to use them, dozen
paint or. white wash brushes. AS you ap-
proach ,Morristown, the scenery begins to
sual fertility, diversy and beauty of ap-
pearance. Arrived in Morristown ample
time for dinner, well furnished table and,
after being regaled and refreshed, marked
appearance eflife, animation, intelligence
and business are sure to present them
selves. When you enter St. Clairsville and
alight from the stage in front of the 'Lew-
is House," the proprietor, Mr.. Frasier, is
there to receive you, ready, not only to at
tend to your wants, but to contribute to
your comfort and enhance your pleas
sure. There is no county town" in Ohio
that affords a better or more extended view
of fine and fertile country than St. Clairs-
ville;- nor is there a town or city, in any
State or country, of equal populations that
can boast more intelligence, more courtesy,
sound sense or legal ability. There may,
indeed, be some men there who think the
Negro the superio race, but they are like
angels visits to the Fortieth Congress-
few and far between. The most casual OBJ
server cannot but notice the striking con-
trast between Cambridge and St. Clairs-
Vile. This may, however, be accounted
for in the fact that, Judging from the fam
lily names, the former town was settled
principally by people from the little mon
grel islands, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderny,
Sack and Man; the latter by the warm,
quick, i'm pulsiye, generous hearted sons of
Erin. Not that Ireland sent, in every in
stance, her best children to st. Clairsville
as the traditions of the District Court will
show.
Not many years since the case of Goodhue
VS.. Patton was up for hearing before the
District Court, the Hon. Rufus P. Ranney
presiding. The title to an excellent farm
was in issue, and, of course, the best legal
talent was employed, Mr.. o. ]. Sweeney
and Mr.. Kelly being the opposing
lawyers, while one Patrick O'Connor was
the principal witness as purely Celtic
names as ever graced a court of justice or
occupied witness stand. O'Connor was
one of those honest. truthful, conscientious
Trishmen that, when sworn to "tell the
truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth,'' felt bound to tell, in
his own way, all the sins and outs' ap-
to the case. He was Mr.. Sween-
ey's witness, and while giving bis testimo-
ny Mr.. Kelley became convinced that his
client had not the shadow of a chance to
gain the suit. and felt that, unless he could
confuse the mind of O'Connor and distract
his attention, all was lost; and with that,
not very honorable, mode of conducting a
case or treating witness, too often prac-
ticed by American as we'll as Irish law
yers, he says: Patrick, did you know
many of the O'Sweeneys in Ireland ?''
{" Faith, and 1 surely did, sir, and very
long-tailed family they were too. And, if
must tell the truth, the devil thing could
be said 'agin' the breed of 'em. They
were always considered of the good auld
stock, and had always full and plenty, and,
the O'Connors never disliked to
marry into the O'Sweeneys, for all the
family were purity good lookin." When
the answer was given Mr.. Sweeney con-
ceived the idea of testing Pats knowledge
of. the O'Kellys, and of course asked,-
g Patrick, did you know any of the O'Kel-
Tvs in Ireland ?'' "WhY, to be sure did,
.Well, what did you know that was good
of them2n "Devil a much" swell,
come now, let us hear it-ever SO little?'
{. Faith, an I'd rather not, it might hurt
the gintleman's feelins." Come, come,
Patrick, Mr.. Kelly is man of sense, and