The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-09-07
LETTER FROM OHIO.
BELLEAIRE, Belmont Co., Ohio.

of our friends by dwelling upon our own
enioyments, as compared with their mea-
ger opportunities for the same, and this is
one motive that prompts us to let your
readers know, especially the married and
settled portion, that we are west of the
Alleghanies.
We left the Monumental city on the 8
o'clock train, on the morning of August
god, when every body was moving out to
Woodlawn and pitching their tents in the
bright green wood. In order to tell you
something new, original, and intensely
interesting, and also to exhibit my capacity
for saying smart things in smart way,
will state that the heat was overpower-
ing. On reference to my notes find that
everybody snored, and sweat, and swore,
until aroused from their lethargy by the
sublime beauties of Harper's Ferry, which
viewed myself as long as possible from
the platform of the rear car. At Martins
burg we stopped for dinner; at the signal
for starting there entered a picnic party.
Oh shades of Cupid! don't we know some
Cecil boys that would have lost their hearts
completely, could they have Toasted their
green eyes upon the Virginia beauties, res
plendent in clouds of white muslin and
flower gardens on their heads. No wond-
er the infatuated conductor stopped the
train at the wood when they entreated him
to do so; who wouldn't have been in his
shoes, or boots rather, and have stood upon
the track and received them (the ladies' in
his conductorial arms, and transferred
! them to their gallants. There we leave
them to wander and dream among the
Arcadian shadows after the manner of the
Youths and maidens from time immemori-
al, while we thunder on towards the set
ting sun, and soon are feasting our eyes
upon the beautiful scenery, only to be
found among these grand old mountains,
through beautiful Cumberland, romantic
Piedmont, and many smaller places
Once we were startled at the sight of
wreck by the wayside, engine and train all
lying in a confused heap, but we had no
time to molalize, and then mortal retiec-
lions are so horribly out of style that one
endangers his or her popularity by indu)g-
ing in them.
Our next note says: "Youth, beauty
and fashion copgregated on top of the
Allegheny mountains; pfomenaders in gay
attire, dimly revealed in the gathering
twilight at Oakland, whore we stopped
twenty-five minutes for refreshments. y and
that guess is sufficient. 1t doesn't need
any elaboration.
DO you know what the celebrated DR..
johnson said about sleep?' DR.. john
son, excuse me, never heard of him, you
must mean Dr. Smith, "No, don't
mean Smith, perceive you are not familiar
with the English classics, sir" No, I've
not been among the English classes;
never was in England. This DR.. johnson
was an Englishman, was hep
At this juncture we arouse, expecting
to find that we have shut1led off this mort
al coil and entered literary heaven, but
find on inquring, that we are just getting
awake, and listening to the conversation
of two gentlemen, one on seat in front
| of US, and the other behind. The engine
has been broken down and the train stand
| ing on the track for one hour. Atfthis news,
you may be very sure, we wakened very
WIDE and soon Joined in the conversation,
and gave the learned bachelor to under
stand that we knew who DR.. johnson was
and several other gentlemen. The bachel-
or was travelled as we'll as learned. He
knew from inquiry where all the pas SEN
gers were from and where they were going.
He told me of many railroad adventures
and f1irtations, but none of his railroad
flames had yet been able to induce him to
enter the state Of wedlock. He was
consequential affair, was that bachelor, and
the young merchant so woefully ignorant
of the English classics, sunk into silence
before the BACHELORS eloquence. An
engine came presently in answer to tele-
gram, and once more we started westward
Stupendous scenery we're passing
through now!'
| Grandr' Said the bachelor.
We flew to the window but soon decided
that viewing grand scenery from rail-
way train, in the dimness of starlight,
grand failure, and so returned to our old
seat and rest.o our weary head upon kind
! ly offered overcoat, and presently fall into
slumber from which we are shortly arous-
ed by the terrific snores of the bachelor, we
actually thought, at first, that young
earthquake had ovcrtaken us. Shall we
ever forget that photograph? The bachel
or's giant form reposing upon two seats
pushed close together, the colossal head
resting firmly against the window, and its
| Greeley hat reposing upon its innocent
bosom, thus we left him alone in his glory.
with an envious glance at his elegant watch,
and regret that we were not female pick
pocket, and stepped from the train at Bel
leaire.
Soon we were among kind friends, one
of whom we had not seen for years, not
since we played together as children among
the romantic hills oc the Octoraro.
Belleaire isl manufacturing town, con-
tanning six glass houses and two nail fac
tories. A splendid bridge here spans the
Ohio l take this method of informing
the angel Gabriel that he needn't come
here to blow on the last day. 1t won't be
bit of use, for if blowing could awaken
the dead they couldn't sleep within ten
mile of this place. I do SO want to tell
you about the washing which did here:
first, we had to pay fifteen cents for a
barrel of water, and when we got the
clothes upon the line down rained the SCOT,
l stood aghast and could have cried but
knew it would do no good, SO 1 concluded
to vent my notifications, like an old
Quaker in Cecil who long tried by the per-
versity of refractory OK, cried out at last
"damn thee-as the naughty people say
We expect to be asked in dozen letters,
how do you like the West? Oh, well, it
will do; but ever our thoughts 60 backward
toward the sunny slopes