New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-05-23
NETWORK TRIBUNE.
Crossing the ALE shanies-Ohio.

CIxcrxxATI Tuesday, Nay u, ls4e
Revisiting Warrington Oh Friday, did not re-
gret the urgency which restricted my stay 70 the
busy hours of that day. The Federal MetropCi"
is not very attractive daring the sttiDgs Of Oon-
gress, when Legislation divides with Ohce-5seA-
ing the public attention bet 1t seems even more
wesrisome when Legislation has departed ana
Hice-Seeking alone remains was cary Z" VIC
cars that evening.
Arrived at the Relay House in Ondoooting e1-
psctation OF al immediate tram " es'"e'u ~ -A'
berI.nd. WA taken aback BY the Information tha'
mn train was sent West from Baltimore except IN
the morning. the Night Train having been discon-
tinned some time before, 80 that had 10 choice
bo. 10 stay where for some thirteen hours or
more. putting me behind M appointed time 'or
reaching Cincinnati. Bearing the disappointment
swell as could be expected, and seeing trains 20
By from everywhere for everywhere else before
that from Baltimore for Cumberland, J a. length
found myself moving Westward about z AN d
Saturday. At fair though not rspd rate, up the
winding valley Of the creek past Elhcotts Mills
and one or two other petty villages across the fer
tile plains Of Frederick County. and beside the
gentle Monocssy 70 the stately Potomac, thence
no the narrow and winding valley Of thstfsmoOs
river until il has dwindled 10 a modest rafting
stream at Cumberland, the present terminus Of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. bat trust not long
10 continue 90.
There are straws Of homely wisdom 20 be
picked up by the ruggedest wsyside II we viii
Passing over portion Of Frederick County which
10 naturally most fertile well as lovely, re-
marked 10 the citizen beside that the buildings
seemed uncommonIy shabby and worthless, even
for the South.
Eyes" he responded, they are so; and It Is
because the people rho ice here dent o'oH the laHd
This is a part Of the old Carroll Manor, and Is
owned in large tracts by non-residents, part OF 1t
IN England. The cultiyators feel little interest IN
it's Improvement, and let things go 10 ruin as you
see"
This man had probably never heard Of Anti
Rent or Land Reform except as terms Of opPro
brium. Happening 10 have eyer, however he
could not help seeing. With some 1t is otherwise
i think never passed over fifty or sixty miles
in one stretch which promised so little toward sus-
tanning a Railroad as the valley Of the Potomac
from Hsrpers Ferry TO Cumberland. True, the
valley 10 generally narrow and the hillsides abrupt
and rocky, but after ascending these there must
be something Ike land on one side if not both,
vet not a passenger nor bale Of freight is afford
ed 10 every ten miles and think there IS a rcsch
of twenty miles without a Post Office. Water
Station No. TO- No. II No. u, &c.-such names
of stopping places denote the general baTenness
A Yankee can hardly realize that he IS passing
through region which has been settled more than
ncentury, along a river easily made navigsble for
boats and afording an inexhaustibe proiuslon OF
cheap W ater-power In the most genial climate the
world can boast. In its natural advantages this
valley is fully equal to though unlike that of the
Menimac or Penobscot yet doubt whether 1t
contributed less 70 the comfort and sustenance OF
mai while its shores were inhabited by savages
alone. Genius OF ElwoOd Fisher tell us why
Cumberland is a large and busting village,
the center and depot OF the Maryland Coal and
Iron region The Iron business Is crippled at
present by the effect OF the Tariff Of 40 butthere
10 a good deal doing in Coal, and will be much
more upon the opening OF the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal from Washington to this place. which
IL expected to be consummsted this season. That
Canal is expected Of itself to take One Million
Tons next year Of bitumnous Coal from tins point
TO Underwater at a fair profit TO all concerned
There are important changes now making IN the
route and grade OF the Railroad, which W Ill largely
increase its efficiency, so that very large supply
Of this excellent Coal will after this year be sent
10 market. | understand that the Reading Rail
road Company OF Pennsylvania is among the par
ties now in treaty for supply OF this Coal where
with to run their locomotives, finding 1t cheaper,
more efficient and less perious than Wood while
the burning OF their own Anthracite is impracti-
cable Cumberland is destined to become one OF
the largest inland towns of America, rivai o.
Pittsburgh and Lowell. Even now, the contrast
between its substantial brick blocks and the gen.
erai worthlessness of the tumble down wooden
buildings alone met with for fifty miles on either
side IL striking
We left at 6 T. M. in Good Intent stage for
Wheeling. some SIX seven stages being filled ct
Cumberland with the passengers and mails brought
thither by our train, the greater portion destined
for Pittsburgh, which is the more agreeable but
less expeditions route to the Great West. BY
that route you stage only TO Brownsville, "a miles
taking there a ANAL steamboat down the Mo
nongaheia to the Iron City. Pursuing the direct
route TO Wheeling, Sc miles farther, you arrive
there about the same time that you would reach
Pittsburgh, and are now 90 miles farther down the
Ohio, or some ten to twelve hours advanced on
your Journey. The expense Of the two routes
respectively 10 very nearly equal; the choice
being betw cen comfort and speed.
The day had been fair and pleasant, but grew
cloudy toward its close, aud the premontory pat
tering as we left Cumberland gave promise OF
rain which tho night abundsntly justihed.-For
the first twelve miles 10 Frostburg) our road lthe
famed Na,ionaD ran by the side OF rude new
railway, constructed and used for coalcars only.
The way was devious and the ascent constant
though never steep-the road extensively and
rather well made. Ten miles from Cumberland
VIC passed the MarSlsn Mines, one OF the most
extensive oolheries in this region where we babe
sdiea TO our railway. Supper at Frostbare and al
aboard again but our stage, which had been fore
most, began to yield the precedence to others
The hum Of conversation gradually died away, rs
each prepared 10 make night Of it to the best adj
vantage. Soon the psttering OF the gentle rain
was only broken by an occasional counterfeit OF 3