The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-17


notes" payable twoiyo months after
date. aud tho fret liyc thousand put out
foil TO him, and no rem ehborB that tho
president and cashier (Archio Woods
and John Lis sat up nil Of ono night
signing thom and gottinu them ready
for issue. With these aud subsequent
iasuoa he bought -four all tho way from
tho Ohio river to Illinois, md, MI told,
no circulated thrcO hundred thousand
dollnra OF these post notes" They
passed. current, and had preference over
other money, because It got to DO gou-
orally known that tho bank had not
suspended.
A CORRECT ESTIMATE.
Speaking about this kind Of money
led tho old gentleman into M expires.
sion oil opinion In regard to tho foolish
moss going on ut Washington In those
days In respect to our finances. "Dom.
ocrat that am, and always have been.
and always expect to be-" said ho, ~
eau, stand that crowd Mt Washington.
think tho Republicans have more
financial and business sense"
Captain Mitchell told OF being on tho
steamer City OF Wheeling (oi tho
old Union linc) with Captain Mcclure,
when abe sunk oil hor way I'm from
Louisville, and Of his buying tho bal.
timorc,' OF tho snme limo, when It faiIod,
Tor $4,000 (sho cost $50 ,0o0), and putting
her In tho ST. Louis and Alton TRADE in
connection with the Chicago & Alton
railroad, just opened, and OF his also
putting on line between st. Louis and
New Orleans, in all Of which, as in
everything elsc no touched, no made n
great doal OF money. Even tho loss OF
his original investment in the stock Of
the Chicago & Alton railroad made him
money, no sad. for he bought tho third
mortgage bonds at fifteen cents on tho
dollar aud exchanged them at par for
tho reorganizcd stock OF tho company,
worth now l5i aud paying per cont
dividends.
CAPTAIN MtrcIIrLL's BEREAVEMENT.
Captain Mitchell married daughter
OF Col. John Bayllss. an old Mary.
lander, who was prominent in his day
up Mt Portland, and thoy walked the
long path together until her death two
years ago. Ho spoke OF her death in q
deep, strong and sad way. His brother,
William. who was his partner in bust.
ness for many years, married for his
second wife Mi.s Barnes, OF Wells
burg, n sister OF Mr.. Ephraim Barnes,
OF St. Louis. OF whom | made mention
in my last letter. 4 Son OF his is now
president. OF that famous institution in
Chicago (the Illinois Trust and Savings
bankl that stood tho all day aud all
nightrun during the panic OF '03, and
remained as mistaken rs Gibraltar a,
the close.
CHANGES Is METHODS OF TRANSPORTATION.
Shortly after the WAR;" said Capt.
MITCHELL, in discussing tho great
changes that had taken place since the
war, II thought | saw very distinctly
that the end Of profitable steamDoatiug
was near ut hand, and / concluded to
get out OF boats aud into railroads, and
that is what have done. The mos, in
credible thing Of my experience is this
change from natural highways to arti.
fetal ones, and now is coming the
change from steam TO electricity. and
who can SEQ the revolution in trans.
portation that Is ahead OF us? The
man who is around hero few years
from now will look upon all OF us rs q
back number sure enough
| could lengthen out this letter in
definitely with interesting things said
hy III, ,,,,oio o,I E,1 H., T 49,.
omitted much that he said OF his early
contemporaries on the river; such men,
for instance. rs those old Brooke county
argonauts represented by such names
as James Palmer, Peter Curran, BAIL
Beall. william White, Lewis Apologize,
and know not how many others, but
uust con,on, myself with wha, have
thus lar jottcd down, in rospec, to our
conversation. may reler 10 it again a,
another time.
ANOTHER MAN WORTH LOOMING UP.
Twas probably Indebted mainlyto our
old friend Dul,y Thompson here for my
talk with the captain. Ho remarked to
mo, knowing my propensity to delve in
Ohio Valley "reminiscences aud tradi-
tons, that tho captain was a man well
worth my looking up, and so indeed he
is. And by the way, Dulty Thompson
Is also. himself, a man well worth look
Ting up, rs found at the close Of long
talk with him at his office at the Laclede
Gas Company, OF which he Is treasurer.
He Is graduate OF the old Merchants
and Mechanics bank at Wheeling, and
as far back as 1856 was sent down to
Point Pleasant to take charge OF tho
branch there. He had lively times
during the war. when jenkins
WA raiding tho country, and he and hi,
directors wero kept bhsy burying the
funds OF the bank in secluded places.
1t rot to be too cxhlira,ing for matter
OF fact man like our old friend, aud 80
no accepted the cashiership OF the
Second National at Cincinnati, and after
the war embarked, disastrously, in sugar
and cotton planting in the south. lie
went In on tho flood tide, when tho
boom was on in those two great staples,
and came out on the cbb, whom nothing
was high but expenses. However, he
ia all right now. and has been for years
past, and holds congsn,al position in
the great twenty million gas company
OF St. Louis. \. W G.