The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-01-30

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glyye q CITY a dubious name. Most
ttt ttsotons reelection of all Is the tliouphf
taaI OF lghter times cannot dawn uiifsiH
tie- Se1s s. september, when the crop, ifsanv
aSt t!Ile..s, LnlAae, ysili begin to move, "A prop
1 49," o"neE !l whose sugar or cotton ware.
ouse nS.I h empty now, knows that hal
cannot rent until next autnmfi. ;T6s1
notei cannot look for guests. nor tbe
tneatre Tor patrons, until the aafneraFI
Wea1th OF the fields makes red bloofi
Tor the arteries of trade.
The people here aimosk, upiverssii,, !,
attribute their business I1Iis HI Nm ,sss X
Congress and "Radical oppres sion. s.
They look feverishly for Dernoerat atit
ascendency, and yet show 4 strange
apathy when the newsnapers uFsse
them to fully identity themselves Win;
L.ls t1ht party. i observed, yesterday, an
editorial in the Conservative organ.
beseeching Southern men TO conauefsI
| their prejudtces against the Northern
democracy, and to trust &c now / "a skiiaI
or the tact that they had trusted il III
the past to find its golden. promises
turn to dross. The Southern Wllifei
hates the Republican devoutiy. vet ~
can't getrup the needed enthusiasm "a
call himself Democrat of the Nofths
| ernl pattern. ne .ff,ss go
This was the sentiment found iuS
~ Mlsslssi s. pRi. plsreYering iis
marked, i conclude that 1t is general
throughout the South. The Democrats
of the North can depend on the SoutIl
saying '..yes" to. their proposal, but
the marriagewillbe one of ofconvenience.
and If the happy husband, on occasion,
finds the bride coVertly holding her aris-
tocratic, but somewhat pinched nostrils.
ne Will remember that the Richmond
papers, in discussing the wedding SET
tlement, proposed to reserve privilege
ofthis nature.
MY experience in strange cities has
been that public sentiment can be stud
led with the greatest advantage in two
"tnstttutIons"-the newspaper and the
variety theater. While the more learn.
ed journal is examining the public
tongue the popular manager has his
finger ont publie pulse. visited
the leading variety theater of New Or
leans expressly to study the throb Of
opinion-or as Mr.. Lincoln once said Of
his open LeUee8, to take a public bath.
i found the negro and the Radical to
constitute all the course of burlesque
from potGge to the cigar. The negro
melodlst ELECTED great gusts of appro-
baton when satirizing the darkey in
his new sphere of"de bRllus box" and
!de conwenshun," and introducing the
Yankee ofice-seeke er and the doWn-east
schoolmarn. Among the banjo dog
geral was ditty EN- bracing hits at the
deprecated local currency. One stanza
"Repudiate de nashanuI debt
tell You dat's de way
Iguess I'm 2 little ahead Of the times
But you'n hnd my advice o. K"
This sentiment was not applauded,
though heartily laughed at. General
Hancock's name, however, in conneo-
ton with his having compelled negro Il
juries to "walk off on their earl was
noisily approved, and compliment to
Andrew johnson passed off not with
out hand or two. The performanceI
ended with an extravaganza entitled
"The Black and Tan ConVention,D - in
Which the Constitutional Convention.
of Louisiana, now in session in New
Orleans, is broadly parodIed. At the
Convention itself, a National flag is
testooned on the wall behind the Chair
man; portrait of Washington is sus-
pended on The wall, and near at hand
Is n1eaa muslin scroll, on which is
painted a patriotic sentiment.
In the burlesque The flag is Union
down and trimmed in black, the picture
OF Washington is replaced by the pre- |
sentiment of buck negro, and the sen. |
timent, 1.-THE Union one and inCliyisiai
blen has chalk mark across the thIrfliI
and fourth letters OF the las gofl HE
wit of the dialogue Is supposed TO IS |
embodied dn theten endency ofthe negroes
to. misprononnce word8-c0llee6S for
colleagues, dysentary for dissenting, |
and SO on. "A suppostitious Irish dele
gate, from Ascension Parish, is the dis. |
turbing element, and the denoument is
reached when Yankee school.teacher |
and strong-minded negro female en- |
gage In a jealous personal conflict, from |
which the African lady elegantly |
emerges in a naked hoop-skirt. The |
gallery of the theatre was thronged |
with negroes, and 1 looked at them |
often to see how they enjoyed the end. |
less sallies on their assumed IGNORANCE, |
imprudence, Ignorance, dishonesty and |
odor. The majority. looked quite
thouRhttul, and more than once missed |
the place where the laugh came in.
The distance from jackson, Missis-
sippi, to New Orleans is only 1s3 miles.
but the journey at this season affords
one of the most remarkable transitions
ofscenery in the countryside most
remarkable, perhaps, the trfiihe
change in latitude considered. We left /
jackson at daybreak in raw, chilly
rain, and sped across gloomy swamps.
alternating with desolate pine forests. |
Here we whisked by broad yellow
pools, there past field overspread with
tawny brown sage grass, Now and
then glimpse was caught off negro
cabin covered with bright new clap
boards, but we We're seldom out of a
primitive forest whose bourne the loco.
motive has been the first to cross. The
tall pines in their dark green plumaps
contrasted pleasantly with the infant /
shoots, the branches of which are ia
livery of the most vivid emerald. An
occasional sycamore, gray and majestic
by day, and ghostly by night, shot its
bIack trunk among its slenderer fal.
lows, as II 1t felt itself to be the patri.
arch of the forest family. BY the time
the journey was half over, the mapno.
liza began to enliven the vistas with its
wealth oftoliage and triple gloss, and
along with It appeared the cypress and
some leatless trees, hung here and there
with messy scratch wigs. Leaving ma
ture there in this dress, 1 fell asleep for
an hour. When aWoke In the
neighborhood Of Lake Ponchartrain.
was startled by the new world thai
had come on. It was like an instant
change of theatrical scenery from an
ordinary forest Wow, to It's glorious
tullness and ripeness of tropical vege-
tattons. The earth was ttlickly over
spread with tall matted grasses, the
waters OF the lake glanced In the sun
light with summer DluenesB and sere-
nifty. lsa
On It's borders stood the lofty forests,
hung profusely with the gray Spanish
moss that looks as If Il knows the
secrets of Primeval days, yet can only
whisper meaDinglessly about them.
Creepers of blazing scarlet peered be-
tween the leaves of dripping rhshes,
and once we caught sight of a swamp
vegetable garden. juicy with fat black
soil and gay with braids of tender (
green. That nap proved to me veri-
table Arabian night, and fancy that ]
might exhaust travel without securing
another such favor from natures gene
n GafaTaH kIEW no. l.,