South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-08-08

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Ohio" So we may anticipate another
border controversy.
O. Two Horses were stolen from
the farm of MIR. BENJAMIN ToMLINsoN of
Allegheny CO. Nd, on the End inst.
o. A public meeting OF the citl-
zens of Pittsburg, was held in that city
on the Gath ult., in relation to the extern
sion of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road,
westward. and making that city its point
| of Termination.
o. The Cars on the Washington
end Baltimore Railroad travel at the rate
of 90 miles an hour and the Companys
receipts have been three hundred dollars
| per day since the opening.
u 1t is reported in some quarters
that the Office of chiefjustice has been
given by the President to PETER V. DAN
TEL of Richmond.
~ Noah of tbs N. Y. Star says,
! all the papers ask, "Who shall we make
Chief Justice 7" Who shall We make !?
Who is WE p General Jackson will
make whom he pleases, and whoever it
may be his sovereign will and pleasure to
make. He has enough to stand by him
and swear II is an excellent DEMOCRATIC
appointment!
% The following extract of letter
| from ST. Louis, Missouri, was handed TO
us some weeks ago for insertion in our
columns -but, owing 70 some mishap it
has weekly escaped our attention. We
hope this apology will suffice to the gen.
tleman who gave it to US for publication.
81 returned few days since from a
tour of q hundred miles in the interior
of the state, and cen affirm without fear
of successful contradiction, that ! trav-
elIed over country, which in point OF
soil, beauty, aud natural and local adj
vantages, has not perhaps successful
rival in the gu. S. Dominions. In
deed the prospect was TO me enchant-
ing. A beautiful champaign country =
boundess praries (Which to use the
language Of Cooper tower which the
sun never sels" relieving the eye at in.
tervals by gradual and beautifully un
dulatipg levels, and high mounds-the
living monuments of the years beyond
the flood are faint portraits ofthe scenes
which strike the eye of the stranger
with delight and amazemeDt. ] could
scarcely realize the fact, tina, thousands
OF acres Of the finest land in the world,
situated at the confluence Of two of the
noblest and most majestic rivers, com.
bining, health, ease, abundance, com.
fort and wealth, certain 10 perspective,
should be nevertheless an almost en-.
tire wilderness, rearing and nnrturing
its millions OF flowers, with the widest
wantonness, Switch are born to blush
unseen g. waste their sweetness On the
desert air.o Such is nevertheless the
fact, as passing strange as it may ap.
pear; but sir, it does not require the
prophetic pen of a "DanieF' to fore.
see, that ere quarter OF century,
this country will be the Eden of the
United States. This country holds
out more inducements at this time to
enterprising young men, than any state
in the Union, and to such as ever in.
tend to leave our beloved, but thread
bare Old Virginia, | would say now is
the time, tarry not moment longer
than you can help. 1t always requires
some time necessarily 10 become &C
quain,ed with the manners e. customs
Of country, its localities &c.-The
Pioneers Of every country are subjected
TO privations and Inconvenience, = bull
to those who have the nerve, these are
minor considerations. To the contrary,
would say, stay in Virginia. The
tide Of emigration is now immense to
this state and Illinois, from every state
in the U. States, as well as from eve
ry country in Europe. Lead and Fur
are at present the principal articles of
expectation from this country, particu.
ularly in the summer season. Beef,
Pork, and Corn, are commodities, in
the catalogue of autumn and winter
expectation. Merchants, and Farmers,
living any where on the Mississippi or
! Missouri rivers, are nearer TO mar
ket at Orleans, than the citizens OF
Frederick County are to Alexandria.
Flour is carried from here to Orleans
| for less than SO cents per barrel, and
the highest point of steam boat naviga'
lion which is ST. Peters, on the Mlss's-
sippi.-Council Bluff, on the Missouri,
the transportation does not exceed 70
cents per hundred. Then why is moi