Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-28

/ ters-si ,erchants, tea dealers. whole
sale irtugers, dry goods men. and gem
sral Quits, with all the hierarchy ofrising
fnancrs fortanG6. guor,sps Jam ns1dia
s,wgsk' I'm plain words, whose fortunes
we're hlfEsde--all these tarried behind,
moyeso5 the other end Of the table, sat
down I'D sigh Of relief and there-was .
| call "a adeira. No other drink than
water Appeared on the board during the
repast l1s wine, nuts, almonds, ETC.,
came " as dessert, Madeira was at
that tinhe American nectar. II rose TO
Acknowledgements prices-twelye dollars
at theat hotels. But at auctions wine
that haiwice or more sailed round the
! Cape va fetch even double that money.
The gu were apparently all friends, and
as eachttle was uneorked, the one who
called Il sent itround to his cronies near
and fand there was nodding and hob
nobbinll round. But there was no ex-
hilarator excitement. 1t was all quiet,
silent ding, without even the pretext OF
eonyiySy."
Fro5ew York Signor Gsllenga went to
BostonsviDg letters of introduction to
Edwariyerett, Josiah Quincy, and other
distiDghed men, and through whose in
fuence expected to obtain professor
ship at rvard. Failing in this, he was
forced ttoop to the more humble calling
Of privatetor and public lecturer, diyid-
ing his ID about equally between Boston,
Charlestn and Cambridge, and enjoying
acquaintc with and the friendship Of such
men as Igfellow, Holmes, Lowell Pres
colt, Bemin Peiree, James Walker,
AndrewsDrton. Judge Story, Henry Ware,
Jr., DanTicknor, FELTON,, Palfrey and
Sumner.
Of LoRllow he rays:
"LongfDw was then about thirty years
old, besutl as the god of day, with golden
hair, whic.e wore down to his shoulders,
clear bluees, fair, healthy complexion,
and well c features. He was somewhat
undersizedput there was both ease and
dignity in>i his movements, and the ex-
preston offs face was that of cheerful,
benevolent sposition. \ To see
Longfellow d not to like him-not to love
hin at FIRST int as Pico della Mirandola
or a Crichtl-is more than many men
could do"
Governor rerett introduced Signor Gal
lenga to JohBell, then Speaker of the Ma
tional House Representatives, and at the
close of the sBion of Congress he accom-
panied the lar gentleman and his wife to
their home NASHVILLE, Tennessee, max
ing the journe over the old National pike
and passing tough Wheeling. OF this
journey the auor says:
From Warrington, in the District OF
Columbia, to lshville, the capital of Ten
nesSee, the dishce was about seven humid
red and twenimiles. The weather was
hot, the roads isome parts very primitive,
and the horsesiowever valiant, could not
be expected travel at the rate of more
than twenty Cthirty miles day, SO that
the journey, inuding stoppages, would not
last much lesshan month.
at YVES Oh ne whole q most enjoyable
trip. Our nte lay across the mountain
region of the lleghanies, a succession Of
parallel chain which, under the various
names of 81, Ridge, Laurel Ridge, Allie
ghany Crest Cumberland Range, etc.,
stretch from ,rtheast to southwest for
length of one Aousand two hundred miles
across the counent, tracing in some parts
the political sd everywhere the natural
boundary between the Eastern or maritime
and the inlsn6r Western States.
For a man,ho had assembled the Valsis
and walked cross the Furca and st.
PasseIto the Lombard lakes, and
who had beside strolled round the northern
projections of the African Atlas, the ALE
ghanies had nc much to call forth enthus
isstic admiration on the score OF sublimity.
The country W crossed, through II ountain.
ous, had noting like the awful majesty Of
Alpine peaks omarsniers, nothing like the
wdness of the cliffs and
2rags Of the APnnines. The scenery was
tame and sober-a milder
lind Jef Arcadh. Though some Of the
Eliminating points of the Alleghanies are
aid TO rise to q height Of six thousand
get, the bills around us and the crest before
s never seemed to attain gigantic dimen-
ions, for the ascent was gradual, the
FOUNTAIN sides were mass Of green, all
,ooded up TO the summit smooth and
Dund-somethiug ike the banks of the
we Valley or of Windermere Lake, but
Iithout any Of the hanging rocks, yawning
hasms, abrupt precipices, and other strik,
Dg features diversifying and magnityiag a
rand Alpine landscape,
Everywhere the silence and solitude, the
olemuity and subI;.nity, of the primevaI
oress encompa1sed us. Everywhere the
all and Straight timbers of oak and ash
edsg and maple, hemlock and hickory,
! Lot u, sloft, here emerging from the tangle
f an impervious thicket, there clear of all
ndergrowth, like the columns Of some
reat temple, the shafts supporting q vault,
he canopy Of dense foliage. the abode OF
erpetual shade and GOODNESS in the summer
lonths.
Hour after hour and day after day we
1iled along the mere track or stretch of a
Osd hastily and clumSily cut between two
intsrminable forest walls
IL We drove, seeing little of man aud his
Crks, little Of the relentless war he was
sging against the stupepdous work of
allure; for the population was as yet
= nty and sparse, the settlements few and
II between, and we were often at no little
sias TO reckon our distance and to husband
ar horses strength SO as to make sure of a
81 ard supper at the close of q days
v ycb.
Our resting places for the night, how
7er, we're not as uncomfortable as the
.neral aspect Of the country would have
d us to anticipate. For this was the only
ack from east 10 west on this latitude. We
.me not unexpected, because the breakup
the house Of Congress set many OF the
estern Honorsbles on their homeward
ly. They all travelled on one anothers
otsteps, and brought with them tidings
one another's movements.
hatever life had hitherto developed itself
these still primitive districts clung to
is main artery of circulation. The
track ike court house, of each embryo
unity town, the barn-ike church of every
irish, the homestead of the land owner,
g ploughmans or herdsman's farm yard,
e blacksmith, wheelwrights s, or general
IN all clustered toCether at the ferry. ut