The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-24

There are not halfas many titled people
in all Europe as at the South. A mar
must be a common individual indeed
who cannot boast of a handle of some
sort to his name. Our host was having
good run of trade, and think he
must have been having it for sometime
for evidently he Lad not had leisure O.
late to shave or to change his shirt, OIL
even to wash himself and do full justice
to his hair. AS we came in with Oul
carpet bags and sat them down near his
big wood fire, he turned his large owly
leyes upon us, and for a few seconds
seemed to be quietly estimating our
probable cash value to his bar. There
was big barrel OF whisky where we
| deposited our traps, and there were sew
eral kegs more in the rear of the coun-
ter, and l don't know how many new
decanters there were on his shelf
| The names on their gilt labels
exhausted the entire nomenclature ot
the business. and ran from whisky to
Port and Madeira. Thinks to myself as
/ warmed by the fire and scanned the
cataloge oftheir labels 1T would be nice
old drink of Madeira that man would
get in this shanty, sure. Perceiving that
we were not dry as yet the Judge
withdrew his attention from US and
concentrated it upon several others who
were showing more signs of taking
something. And it was a sight to be-
| hold how some of those old veterans,
and some not so old, including several
specimens of our African brethren,
| could toss off a full glass of raw and
unmixed whisky and never blink an
eye or gag the slightest triLle. The thirs-
ty sons of Japheth and Canaan drank
| promiscuously from the same glasses
as they came up, and did not notice
| that the venerable Bascomb pretended
to rinse the tumblers. think 1t likely
. LIT, HHNf@ nfN fnH
exclusively to purposes OF navigation.
| Going out the door OF the bar room
| to see about the prospects for dinner
noticed thin speciemen of short
man with a revolver sticking out OF
one of his brceches pockets, and an
| other one out from his vest like large
breastpin. He was very war-like in
deed in his appearances. As several
rather hard looking men were grouped
| in his vicinity I thought ut first that
we were at length to be gratit1ed with
speciemen OF fine old southern
shooting scrape. in which pistols, with
| out coffee, for several, were 10 figure.
But in this first flush of expection l
was disappointed for nobody said a
word to this promenndiug arsenal and
he himself looked very chilly and
doubled up like as he moved slow
ly around on the edge OF the crowd.
| AS came up to him veutured to ask
with a rather reserved and magisterial
sort of an air, he remarked "We'll have
| q trial id soon."
1 saw that he had darkey under ar
rest, and 1 ventured TO inquire
what the fellow had been arrested for.
| Preserving his solemn and awe inspirr
| ing manner he sententiously observed,
| 1.-The warrant says enticiu away mig
gers" Thinking that ] had perhaps
sounded the depths of his profound ma
ture as tar as was discreet on an ab.s
rupt acquaintance, passed on 10 re-
connoitre the dining room of the rick
etv old ark in which we were stopping.
on returning to the bar room ] noticed
this solemn man in tho act OF putting
himself outside of IL glass Of raw ''ROb-
inson county" whisky. lie had left
the darkey in charge of an aid de-
camp in order to come in and tOrtify
himself against the cold, for the wealth
er WAS quite chilly. Presuming on our
former conversation, 1 observed to him
that he seemed to be seeking little
comfort in the discharge of his duties.
"Yes, /" said he, "n feller can't live with
out it mornin like this" Then swal-
lowing the contents of his glass he pro-
ceeded to pull out of his pocket, not
one of his revolvers, but stump-tail-
ed black Pipe, and III his deliberate and
solemn manner, began to knead
some tobacco in his hand to fill tho
said pipe. When filled and lighted he
stuck it between his broken and black
ened teeth and began to pull for the
smoke with great vigor. AS he passed
out, 1 could not help thinking that II
he were only to go home now and add
an onion or two TO his breath, what Il
nice sweet scented bed fcllow he would
be.
Tho people in our country here don't
know how to chew tobacco, or smoke
FINf.. nI,~ SNO GNNIff h
and take Il few lessons. once heard
fellow sitting in the seat before me in
the cars. in speaking of somO person to
a companion who sat beside him, re-
mark that it was "}nt1in to hear him
talk" should say that it Is just tho
reverse of "fatnin" to see some OfthOse
people chew and chew. and squirt aud
squirt, through hours of cOnversa-
ton, When they are not chewing,
| or taking their meals, or sleeping, they
are most likely taking seige at a
pipe, and it is enough to dry up {"
mans gartric juices, and destroy the
tone of his stomach. and make him
grow thin from sheer sympathy, 10
| witness this excessive use or the weed.
When night comes 1 wonder that there
is ANYTHING left inside some OF those
people, and how they go on .digestlng
their food for years is a mystery ln-
| deed. Perhaps this over-induIgence
in tobacco is the reason why you DO
not meet with so many clear ana
reddy compilations In the South as IN
this country, and why the hair in SO
MANY instances appears limpy, cars
rotv and dead like. When the great
reforms that are agitating and evange-
liZing some portions OF the country
reach the South, things will be dl1er-
ent, hyeienicallY speking. 1t is fair to
presume that the looming man" Will
not spend so much of his val
liable time, money and health, in
the use OF any one NARCOTIC
And speaking of that "coming man.
in the South, let me tell you that as rode
along on my mule the other day
through thousands of acres and
millions of tons of iron ore, 1 could not
| help thinking that the looming man.
in that country would not be a lawyer
nor q doctor, nor a preacher, but
more likely man after the pattern
of our friend, the Major, who rode with
us for several days, and who has been
directing the attention of capitalists at
the North to the untold wealth thai
was waiting to be developed under oul
feet, Having seen all phases OF me-
been rich and poor, travelled extensive
ly, mixed and collided with all sorts ol
men, and finally having added an e1'
perience of four years of war TO this col
lection. he had naturally become 8
philosopher and cosmopolitan, liberia
lied and desectionalized, and prepared
to appreciate men wherever he found
them for whatever he found in them
that is the schooling to make the rtgh
sort of a man lose all the prejudlces o.
i birth. education and association, nnC
i ft him with q stock OF ideas for doing