The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-20
A wesl virginia " oman Inthe White
Mountains.
y Readable Letter
FRANC1sTowN. N. H.,
Aug, 10Th, 1865.

.FRANCLsTowS. n. d.,
Aug. 10Th, 1865.
Dear I,ltelligenceT
have wanted to write you for some
time, but mind ard body have both
played laggard, and sickness has had
This alone kept me from telling how
thoroughly my heart is with you In
your brave struggle, and how it rouses
ms loyal hearts to hear OF the enthust-
asm that is spreading In our little
State.
meeting in wellsburg; ofthe speeches
lof our next Governor, Stevenson, anu
| of Mr.. Campbell. We have good tick
ct. 1 saw a grand endorsement OF 1t In
the Boston JON nal. And we are bound
| TO carry 1t through.
| or mere in New Hampshire, with
mountains circling and eibowiDg us
darkening the landscapes; with lakes
flos ting water lUiess and brookS tum-
bling head long over rocks and with
the clear, bright air, it seems strange
to think of the whirl of political excite
ment that lies before US.
One here meets civilization in Its
travelling rig, and it seems more human
where Nature knocks the nonsense"
out of conVentionality, and makes 1t
bearnble. This Francistown IS an old
New England town-Puritan to the
very heart: one reads that in every
thing.
tains are within four miles, and further
of, fourteen miles distant, big blue
wave on the horizon, is old Monadnoc.
Many people are here for health, and
daily teams from cities pass through
| seeking the wilder scenery OF Mount
| Washington and his bald comPeers-
4 LpFNEN Inn III q =
| through Manchester go miles OF are
crowded. pouring the world into these
grand, wild scenes,
And who can wonder? AS write
this August day, the air Is that OF
bright October day with u.s. and the ma
tives wear summer clothing and think
it fine weather. And SO It is-but a
strange summer.
| No better proof can be given of the
| health of q country than in its old peo-
pie. One would think the world had
called an Exposition" of old men and
women here.
the other day, who remembered when
my grandmother used to ride these
1 very roads, then younger than 1 am
i now, and dead years since.
There's an old black woman living in
Derry, little beyond, aged III years
who takes in washing still, and is very
>
"boy,, is IS and her "girw yet older.
The drives around are numberless
! and remarkable for beauty. ElmE
droop and sway wherever the eye car
command view. Pines shaft upward
and the surging among their depths Is
rocks-great bonlders hurled and
tossed over field and pasture, through
out the woods, cleaning out every.
where.
i I saw stone walls around farms four
feet thick, looking like rows OF double
teeth all around. They build them SC
to get rid of the stones on the land.
But it is mighty work.
/ 1t is no wonder these Yankee men,
and the grand New England character
should be strong aud aggressive. For
they have first to wrestle with nature
TO tight their way against hard odds
But SO muscle, moral and physical, Is
developed.
l Iwould tell of them and their life
and old customs, oftheir New England
1 Sabbath, but il would make too long n
letter now. Bull will, if am able and
interest your readers sufficiently.
II or politics, the Republicans are en-
thusias.ic-or rather compliment. OF
Democrats, although L know New
Hampshire has enough to disgrace her,
yet I've not been able to dnd one. 1ps
said that before the New York ConVen-
ton they were plentiful; since, they
are invisible-may have turned into
f grasshoppers, of which there are a sur
felt, and which see kiI any field they
stump,
And Thaddeus Stevens is dead. The
grand, true liberal and statesman. We
ought scarcely to call his death "a loss,
when his life was SO great gain to
liberty and equal rights.
About the thirst of Septem Der the cam
paign will open among the rural dis
Iricts of this State. In the cities and
towns they are aroused. But here-the
hayipg done-the strong hands of the
New Hampshire farmers will work Tor
the great political harvest TO be reaped
this fall. All are confident of this State
for Grant. SeymOur's nomination set.
tied that. But of these things hope to
be able to write rs they come out next
month.
God bless our little State, and make
all our men to work heartily for the
cause that Is the cause OF the whole
world. g l.. G. p.