The New York herald., 1844-09-12
Wilksbarre.
Correspondence Of the Herald


WLKsBARRE, Pa, Sept 2, 1912.
The Yale of Wysming-W Wilksbaue-As Scite, IT.
fractions, and Rssowces-M Markets, and the Value
OF Commodities, including Hickory and Clay
Poles.
From the lovely, romantic. and immortalized
valley Of Wyoming, your occasional contributor
halls you. Were all the romance Of fiction, and
volumes Of facts engendered by the fell massacre
Of Wyoming" bereft this beauteous valley, its real
enchantment. its tranquil beauties, its vast plains,
encircled round with stupendous, yet gently slopng
hills and mountains, like old Peon, would, indeed,
be Of matchless grandeur, and call forth from the
pen OF the stroller, eulogy more worthy the theme
than now traces these etchngs
Reserving for future period and purpose, the
gathered items Of the massacre in II, in this
lovely valley, where stands this thriving borough,
shall give you such statistics may be Of use to
the general reader. Wilksbarre is one Of the many
beautiful villages that our State boasts OF, and in
fact, none that have seen in my late peregrna-
tons equal it for ,the neatness OF it's buildings,
enterprise, morality, and intelligence OF its nhabi-
tants, and the scite whereon 1t stapds. Some six
or eight very fine hotels, churches, court houee,
fifteen or twenty stores some dozen stage lines
running to New York, Philadelphia, Harrisburg,
&c. The North Branch Of the Susquehannah on
the north side, and the canal encirclDg the south
eastern part OF the town, places the borough in the
position OF an island, surrounded by some oi the
most fertile land and splendid farms in the State,
make the market and arder an item OF no little IN
terest to the hotel boarder. ! notice a number oi
fine large stores and dwellings going up on Market
street, and many new buildings throughout the
town. railroad connects the Lehigh river at
Whites Haven, with this place; the distance is
twenty miles; the road very substantial one, will
be of great utility to lumber merchants, iron fac
tors, and the community in general, when tunnels
supercede the immense and many inclined planes
that now make the road precarious and tedious
one. Iron ore, and inexhaustible coal mines, with
its navgable facilities, will at distant day make
this place but little less in importance to Pittsburg
They only want the opening OF the water commu-
ncation with Western New York, to bring their
coal mines into great value. Nearly $4,000. 600
have been expended on the canal, up the Susque-
hannah to New York, and million more would
open the valley to Buffalo and the lakes.
Last evening | witnessed fine display oi mill
tary belonging here,) who had just returned from
the Lewsbmrg encampment Politics are fonent-
ing-many Hickory and Clay poles are stuck up
around town, and as far as can Judge, and Pye
had an excellent opportunity to do so, Lehigh,
Carbon, and Luzerne counties go for Polk and
Dallas; but Wilksbarre is good Clay town. -
Many visiters have been here from the cities
this season, as perceive by the hotel registers; in
Short the country hsreabouts is well worth the at
tention of those seeking few weeks pleasure in
the country. The ladies are lovely and agreeable,
the weather delightful, the people happy, and
times apparently very lively. So much Tor Wllks-
barre. One OF the best hotels is the PhGnix, kept
by Glchrlst. WILD OATS