The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-11-06

PENNSYLVANIA ELEcTIoN.-The Harrisburg
papers publish the official returns of the cleo
ton in their State
For Governor.
William Bgler, Dem. 1S6,499
William F. Johnston, Wing 178,034
Kimber Cleaver, Abolition 1,7l3
ALONG THE LINE NORTHWEST
Washington 10 Baltimore Beauty of town sites and
wisdom of "City Fathers"-Prophetic Parlance-
Baltimore Cattle Show-Fine sheep-A wooiIy
zCew--Geod Stock frep near washington-Far af
the 81 nd fnfufhie MIR. Kennedys Address
General scoits Visit, &c.
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To the Editor of the National Era:
am again on the line Of travel to the great
Northwest And as no one can move in this
direction, with his eyes and ears open, without
seeing or hearing something every day worth
talking or writing about | shall drop you
rapid letter now and then, in the hope of inter-
esting that numerous class of persons who de-
light in being readers of the heretical columns
of the National Era.
do not undertake to say that this discovery
is a new one; but will aver most positively
and if necessary insist most pertinaciously that
the country along the railroad for about half
the distance between Washington and Balti-
more, is among the most beautiful districts of
farming and wooded land to be found anywhere
on this Atlantic slope The neighborhood of
the Relay Station, indeed both up and down
the Patapsco Valley, is as picturesque as any
country can be which has not the boldness Of
mountain scenery. And the lag of the land in
the vicinity of Laurel, for any description of
agricultural use, is as fine rs that in any of the
fertile valleys of Virginia or Maryland. Iname
these only as well-known spots: but there are
others, especially a short distance off the imme-
date track of the road in every way their
equals
All this being granted as think it readily
will be, the problem next to be solved is why
Eastern thrift or speculation, in default of
Southern, does not catch up this beautiful dis
trict Of country and make a garden of what is
now little more than desert! That such an
enterprise would "poy" and thus answer the
great commercial test, no man can doubt who
has two eyes in his head and a single ounce Of
brains With the Baltimore that Is nop anC
the Washington City that is TO be few years
hence it would appear to be one of the eases
things in the world to see and understand wha
must eventually be the condition and value o
the forty miles of highly improbable country
that lies between. Why if the whole of il
were divided and laid off into little grape
patches and vegetable gardens alone, such rs
surround Philadelphia in tie East and Cincin-
matt in the West, it would prove twice or three
times as productive as any description of manu-
featuring stock that you can name But, then,
if there should be only single improvement of
this kind scattered here and there along the
line of the road, and next 10 that a substantial
New England or Pennsylvania farm house, and
adjoining the grounds Of that the handsome
country residence of some tasty employee ut
Washington or some PROSPEROUS business man
of Baltimore, and interpossd among these, two
or three rural settlements of small manufac-
turers, who could procure their raw materials
cheap in the latter of these two cities and dis
pose of their fabrics well in the former how
mnch more productive still would it not become
Depend upon it, sir it is in the order of hui
man events, If not in that of nature that such
is to be the condition of things in the beautiful
section have just passed over, for the fiftieth
time And many years will not elapsc, before
we shall begin to see the shaping of this des-
tiny And you, sir, have little doubt, will live
to see nearly the full realisation Of this PROMISE
the few first faint streaks of the morn
ing of another life, tof which Mr.. Longfellow 80
beautifully writes in Evangeline, and of which
Thomas H. Shrevc had quite as beautifully
written long before,) are even now beginning to
whiten about your head into the hue of the
feecy clouds Of the evening. For my part, one
of these days, when come back to Washington
to see the Minister Plenipotentiary of the Re-
public Of Liberia received in state by the Pres
ident and his Cabinet and 10 look upon Weir
JUNIORS picture in the RoturMa of the Embark
alton Of the last slaues Of Maryland for the State
Of Monrovia, ! shall expect to pass from the
waters of the Chesapeake Bay to those of the
Potomac, along continuous street!
II were a citizen of Washington, and espc-
cially il | were a member of your Town Coun-
Gil, would move incontinently that the getty
Fathers havel leave to visit Baltimore and Bos-
ton that they might zee what egregious -
mules they are making Of themselves in de-
stroying the natural beauty Of one Of the hand
soonest sites in the world for a great Metropolis.
Why. the elevations which they are 40 indus
triously and pertinaciously cutting down, form
the very features that add 20 much TO the charm
Of Boston, and make the new portions of Balti-
more more beautiful than any other city in the
United States This species of vandalism ought
to be stopped at once; and If the Council cannot
be made TO see and believe this, the people Of the
City and the whole District ought to rise en-
masse, and protest against it
The Annual Show of the Maryland Agricul-
tural Society is well supplied this year, and
well attended by the people Of this and neigh
boring States. A very good exhibition is made
of horses, cattle hogs, sheep and poultry. The
show of agricultural implements is neither no
various nor 90 good as have seen elsewhere
The best of the neat cattle, it seems to me, are
those sent from the fine farm Of Mr.. Calvert
near Washington city Some Durhams and
half Deyons, among these, struck me as being
very superior stock. have seen better exhibit
tons of horses and hogs in the Northwest but
never 30 fine q show of sheep, and nothing like
the display of poultry that is here. Among the
sheen II a new importation Of French MeriDos-
the largest wool-growers have ever seen, and
the best They number but three head yet
YOU will consider them well worthy of special
mention. when | tell YOU that the largest and
oldest of them. IA four year old buck isreputed TO
weigh two hundred and forty pounds and yields
a fleece of twenty.four pounds Of the longest and
finest wool that have ever seen-and have
seen and handled good deal at one time and
another. Among the curiosities OF the exhibit
ton, is a ,pooily eo,o, IA heiisr about eighteen
months old,) said TO have been sent from Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania. This animal Is nearly a.
large as the average of the cows you will 500
feeding on Washington commons and has
natural coat, ths color, texture, and length OF
fibre of q white, coarse-wool sheep! SO the
great woody horse from the Rocky Mount
aims might not have been NO tremendous