The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-06-07
MUSIC BY THE BANDS.
THE POLITICAL SQUADRON

They Weigh Anchor for the Scene
or .Actfon-The - Emma Graham
slfps Her Moortngs Precisely At 8
&, O'Ciock, Makes . Beantifui Spurs
Past the Wsarf, and Rounds to at
the Riverside Landing 30 Beer
Hin n-The "Courier" Sounds Her
Last Bell at 20 Minutes After g.
MAX en- q Graceful Turn this Side Of
the Bar, Blows q DEFIANT foot as She
.tPasses the EMMA 6rahRm." and
Keeps the Lead Down 10 Mounds
= vile, Picking up ALI the Passengers
Some time before eight o'clock yester-
day morning the crowds of citizens began
to gather on the wharf and all along
Water street in front Of the landing. to
see for themselves the interesting and
unusual spectacle of the two wings of the
Democratic party Of Ohio county taking
their departure on two different steamers
for Charleston, where the State
Convention is to assemble to-mor-
row,-wheu ons--boat could have
comfortably held double the number if
unity and harmony had prevailed. The
multitude OF lockers ON manifested great
curiosity over the condition of affairs
and as a joke was perpetrated by some
member Of group at the expense ofthis,
that or the other prominent passenger
who was bent on boarding either craft,
the rest would hugely enjoy it.
Shortly before eight o'clock Was fine
Wheeling City Band announced the
near departure of the steamers, as it
turned the corner of Twelfth and Mar
ket streets, playing lively march,
as they proceeded on board the
"Emma Graham" which had, contrary
to the expectation of the knowing ones
arrived at the wharf in good time to full
fiji her contract. The Ohio county dele
gates, two from Hancock and four from
Brooke-which were all the delegates
that went from those counties-were soon
on board, and with few friends the
Graham" slipped her moorings, steamed
up near the bridge got her bow
pointed in the right direction, and
glided past the wharf as gracefully as
swan. The chief bugleman mustered all
hands, including the passengers and
band, on the hurricane deck, probably to
make as good showing as possible, while
the people on shore brought their vision
and mathematical powers into prompt
and useful requisition to.ascertain how
much money would be lost on the
trip. Tue Emma g." rounded to at
the Riverside landing to take on cargo
of beer, for ballast, we suppose, as that
party wouldn' have much other use tor it.
The good ship "Courier' did not weigh
anchor until fully twenty minutes later,
the detention being occasioned by one of
the candidates for Congressional honors
forgetting his watch, and being compelled
to send after it. This, with some other
minor incidents occasioning detention
until the valiant Capt. W. w. Miller
swore big oath, which indicated his
annoyance TO some slight degree, and
in stentorian tones issued orders through
his speaking trumpet, ITO take reef in
the jack staff, unship the rudder, mae
the helm, pull in the gang plank and
back her." all of which dithcIlt COM
mands were promptly and well executed,
while Joe Kramer's excellent band played
lively air as the Courier turned her
nose down stream. She passed the Emma
Graham at the Riverside landing, with a
defiant toot Of her whistle, and continued
ahead all the way down to Moundsville,
picking up passengers and delegates rs
she went, and usually backing out as the
"Emm4 Graham" was about TO land, only
to discover that the passengers had all
stepped on board the Courier
The "Courier" lett the wharf with the
Marion and Monongahela county del
egations, along with some thirty
passengers from Wheeling and vicinity,
and Mr.. Henry Schmulbach informs us
that when she departed from Mounds
VILE she had sixty odd passengers on
board
The "Emma Graham had very near
thirty passengers when she departed
from the wharf, but had succeeded in
getting very few thereafter.
Thus in all the splendor and elan which
accompanies a start, did the political
squadron weigh anchor and depart for
the battle ground, each defiant, each
sangune of success, and possibly each
wishing with that truly christian
spirit, that comes out on polti-
clans so conspicuously in such
emergencies, that some mishsp nothing
serious, of course,) might happen to the
other boat By Saturday next they all
will have returned with long faces, tales
OF depleted pockets and either victory or
defeat according to whose OK was gored.
Since writing the foregoing telegram
from Parkers6urg, which may be found
in another column, has been received,
which says the "Courier" bad it all her
ewn way to that port. This will make
the folks of the evening paper feel like
knawing a file, and wish they hadn't
written up the pecuniary success of the
Emma Graham's" trip SO prematurly.
SERIOUS Yssterday morn
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