The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-03-31
CHARLESTON.

The Stormy Seasons.The Railroads
Prospects Of the KanRWha Valley
s.The Legislation Of the Session.
Over 100000 Spent DC.
Especial Correspondence Of the IntellIgeneer.)
CHARLESTON, March 20.
or all the squally spells l ever saw, the
last few days have been the worst. First
rain, next snow, and then rain, and then
all together. The river is booming, and
is still rising. Steamboats, have to dodge
the storms by laying over every lew
hours, which throws them all behind time.
Nothing Is on time, and | do not wonder
att can't tell how it Is in other sec
tions, but presume that the wind storms
have been general all over the country.
The ground hog 10 truthful fowl" He
saw his shadow and tbs six weeks"
have been trueto his word. Col, Smith
is still looking out for his notorious "per-
cnnial summer" and finds 1t not. For the
last month or more he has promised each
cold spell the last one, and still they come.
1t is 10 be hoped, however, that the begin.
ing OF April will bring with it gentle
showers and warm sunshine. Altogether
the last winter has been unusually cold,
severe and protracted, the country over.
In the Southland nothing has been known
10 equal 1t 10 tho last half century. In
the West the mercury went down lower
than probably 1t ever did before. While
in tho North, there has been almost per-
petual ice Tor four or five months. In its
rigid qualities, the Permanent Seat has
not been alone This Is the argument
used by the Colonel, and he Is not far
wrong. l earnestly hope that we will
never have such winter again.
The managers Of the Chesapeake &
Ohio railroad are buSily engaged in ar
ranging freight und passenger schedule
to DO put In operation early in April.
They are now running QUO through ac-
COmmodation train each day, carrying
both freight and passengers. But there
is nothing sure or regular. Passengers
for Richmond have to lie over all night
at Kanawha Falls and sleep on the floor,
which Is by no means pleasant or profita-
BILE. They lose, not only one nights
time, but their rest also, which Is very
much in the way OF the road. This i'm
pediment, however, will be entirely over
come as soon as they place regular
through trains on the road, When this Is
done, there will large amount oil travel
and freight also, pass over the road. It
will bring new lie TO tho entire KsnRwha
Valley country. It has already awakened
the people from the slumber oil centuries.
1t is truly new country, and It's inhabit.
ants are new people. They have shaken
the moss oil Of their backs and are open
ing their eyes 10 behold tho progress Of
civilization. They now SEQ the Rdvanta-
ges Of a railroad. Where Thousands Of
people did their marketing inan OK wagon
formerly, they now go &c and rom tho
stores and towns on railroad. Instead
Of twenty miles a day In q wagon, now 1t
is twenty miles an hour In railroad car.
Truly the world moves, and the people
are moving with 1t. And yet the clvili-
2ation Of the present Is not what the
civilization OF the future will be. Though
the present is glowing and glorious, still
it is only the presage Of the coming lu-
iure. II tells what may be done, butltOSD
TO do ii is left for those who follow after
the present generation. 81. .r-re5 !
We have not get reached the standard
in civilization, In few particulars,
achieved by our progenitors in the orien.
tai country. In architecture, sculpture,
painting and philosophy VIC have still
models In Egypt, Greece and Italy. How
the seven wonders OF tho world were ac-
cOmpllShed Is not yet clear TO the modern
mind. They will, however, DO unraveled
by Cnquiring minds in coming time.
What has been accomplished in the past
con be done In the future.
hear considerable talk Of the rolling
mill and blast furnace being built in the
vicinity Of Charleston, the coming Sum
mer. These kind of establishments arc
The hope of this valley. The people must
look to manufacturing enterprise to I'M
lock the wealth OF this country. At this
time they are very lew In number; outside
OF the salt furnaces. you rarely see the
black smoke curling from the top Of large
biCk chimneys, which In Wheeling and
Pittsburgh 6lACken the armament for
miles around them. There Is timber in
almost iuGxhaustablC quantities In this
valley; there is coal d nearly everG quality
"uu hluu VII Uulu bluSb VI tuC LlNCL uuu
railroad for 30 or 40 miles; there are large
beds Of iron ore in sight Of the river, and
IN four or five miles Of Charleston, and
here Is transportation East and West by
si and West by water nearly all seasons
Of the year; and all Of these classes Of
minerals and timber can be bought low.
Why Is ii then that there Is not Pitts
Ourgh or Wheeling going up somewhere
along this newly opened road2 am Of
opinion that before tho coming summer
ends, several iron furnaces will DO In pro.
cess OF construction at or near Charleston,
anu in very few years the Kanawha
valley will be the manufacturing center oil
'nG several States around us.
Ihe Legislature is pursuing the even
WnoF OF its way. And now, that Il is
HooOl to adjourn for u time, It is well to
'cT,rospect and see what they have done
they assembled under favorable aus
P.ees' They met all flushed with victory
a1u In having charge Of oil oil tho offices
, ~ tAe State; having created new Consti
W wuTn ior the sole purposC Of removing all
Me Republicans from office, some Of them
jsl entering upon their duties They had
TIuSStGeOt the executive, legislative and
1TT,alel3I branches of the government
.aey had nearly five to one In the Legis
azure MuFe, and, Of course, had everything theil
O"n way The first thing they did AlteI