The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-09-14

and n drive to the station. But 1t is til
true life Tor people who would maintain
= selErcliance and bring up families respeC
tably. The East is lull OF women airail
10 live in the country, and oil men too dis
sipltcd 10 do so; and the first sign Of pros
perity in II suburban family is APT 10 b.
their moving 10 town. Perhaps there ex
lists no grayer mark Of our physical ant
moral deterioration than our want o
nerve, endurance, and resources, to maxi
the best life Of men and women engaging
as it was TO our parcnts-cOuntry lie
This mansion is filling up with children
at'law and grandchildren, and the beauti
iul country around affords neighbOrs anC
prOmcnades Tor them all. Amongst TIT
neighbOrs are Russell Smith and the vene
rablc Sully, artists; Lucretta Mott ant
Fanny Kemble have places around
Robert COllyGr, of Chicago, worked in ar
axe factory near by only ten years ago
Rev. Robert Buchanan, surviving brother
OF the ex.President, ministers at a rarC
old parish church in the vicinity; ant
Mrs. Il. NJ. Stanton is only three miles dis
tant; the celebrated stock farms of Steele
Sharplcss, and Lady Thorne, arc in this
section.
A RECOLLECTION,
Over Mt Germantown lives the ccCcn'
triC-Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Rail.
road, who goes To the Episcopal Church,
but is rather curt in the selection of his
AdjeCtives,-quitc q dammer, indeed. lie
paid his pastor liberal sum and went to
his pew with regularity, but one day il
occurred to him that the sermons were
too long,
"Mr. Nichodcmus," he said, "a halt an
hour is ,long enough Tor discourse in
these days; more than that Of didaCtic
Gospel strikes me MS too long a ride for
the fare. | wish you would take u rect in
your timetable"
Next Sabbath the Treasurer was in his
seat, the pastor in the pulpit Half an
hour had the discourse rumblea along.
The railway Treasurer looked at his rail,
way time.keeper and got up with his hat
and lett the church where h0 has never
been seen since.
The pastor says that il ho can catch
- in that pew another time, he will
treat him to an argument upon the i'm
possibility OF leaving u place somewhat
warmer than church at the expiration OF
short half hour. This, he thinks could
not be done by people whose adjectves
and verbs arc informal.
BANKING THEN AND NOW.
In n late letter to The Tribune rcctcd
parts of Jay Cookies opinions upon Ger.
tain monetary topics OF national consc.
quenCe Tho subject should be enter
tanning enough to stand still further re-
port, and later talk which he gave ire
with his usual irankness forms chapter
of our history.
All great banking houses have their
romance. The Earrings, Browns, Roths.
Childs, and Cookies were men of Opportu-
nifty, who COmprehGndGd II, and admitted
their relatives TO the extended partner.
ships they were able to form The father
of the Jewish ltothschilds obtained the
use of the treasure of the Duke OF Hcsse
Cassel during n period Of revolution, and
turned it over and over us times Of war
facilitated; then, despatching his sons TO
the money centres of Europe, they became
factors for each other, and swung imperi
nj exchanges to and fro rs peace, com.
mercc, or war permitted.
The Browns were ScOtch.Irish, who
apprchendcd the immense commercial re.
yival ut the close OF the NapolCOniC wars,
and, between cotton, linen, sugar, and the
products of many Cllmes, they took the
responsibility of translerals, assurances
and balances. In like way arose the
Earrings and the Cookies, each upon nm
episode.
EIeulhcros Cooke, the father Of Pitt,
Jay and Henry, was descended from n
Plymouth Rock pilgrim, and he was
reared in Granville, Saratoga county, N.
Y. Thence, youthlully married, he de.
parted with other families, bound for the
West during Monroe's administration,
Travelled by wagons to the site Of Oean,
New York, and descended the Allegheny |
and Ohio waters to the town Of Madison,
Indiana, where they settled. Having &C.
CasiOn to return on business, alter two or |
three years, Mr. Cooke resolved 10 choose |
the Lake Eric route, and traverslng the
wilderness on sleighs, among wolves and
sRvages, he saw the site OF Sandusky City, |
and was so charmed with II that on his
return he removed there with many of
his Madison nCighbOrs His house at
Madison is said TO be still standing, and
to 20 by the name ofthc "YOrk House."
At Sandusky ElcutherOs COOkc-whOse
Greek name hrs been the bother of his
life, and once defeated him for an office,
because only one voter out OF five could
spell it-nHmCd Ills children, with reno.
tiOnary brevity, Pitt, Jay and Fox, but
tho latter name impressed the Western
wife rs lerociously geological, and de-
rivalive from the Remarks Of that new
country. Thus Governor Cooke, of the
District OF Columbia, appears with merely
n mild family pren0m.
Sandusky Is one Of those tNestern
towns which has always been on the eve
Of an advantage II generally missed. A
better natural port than either Detroit
or Cleveland, II Is commercially eclipsed
by both. In the war'of 1919 Il was for.
titled and successfully defended, and II
was long the main ferry between the
Northwest and New York, even az late
rs Dickens American Notes tour. But
the German emigrants 10 Indiana and
Illinois brought the Asiatic cholera there,
and gave Sandusky black eye; Cleve-
land and Toledo got the State canals
away from III the main Lake Shore line
passed It to the south, but still It isa
Ilourishing town Of 10000 people, and the
present terminus Of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Here Eleutheros Cooke was
elected to Congress, and here he carried
on commercial pursuits with fair success
aud credit. lie died as late as 1864, at
The age Of IS, having beheld the prosper
lily Of his children, who piously laid him
away at the country seat they had named
for his pioneer home
Jay Cooke, the second son, lived awhile
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