Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-05-23

opE KIN L;s 81, nS% TIE 1Ii: ERIE RAIL ROAD.
TIE SECOND DAY-l not unll nuHf ii ..ia AZ ~.
light of The illumination in the windows vi i.i",la uieu
S i, lie, shot in TO the air and the last horn
blew. The next morning ut flSe we WIZ ht ~ , .
after good breakfast found OUT way nuc Wished 70 90
ryccnt in ,h, which carried the President hs lay little
ahead uon tic track With lis long Inc OF banners NV u'
the other stood cnpngy close 10 'e phsre hn ,,s
~ Franco and your correspondent after great deal OF dell
cate ncssng in tic way Of inquiry OF conductors ana oher
officials sucrc,drd in getting into The wrong tram, %hlca
wos ,ho Ing ahead on the track. We ancied however,
that we were ell right and smiled com pacentiy upon some
friends who seated themselves IN inc oe nu. inc @
ang wild oyei the broad hsrded plain upon which m-
n ns,nd nwav we ram up the valley OF the Chenung,
which 10 horterrd By fertile welcuiuvated arnlng lands,
and which bpg rapidly Melted with Railroads Inc bios
ed the massive gloom OF the hemocR mountain Sides
From the winding roads there were nea ueep WIS.,
rae ,hroncb the yacy-lookng which, we had full time 10
h ;us,icn IN such associations 1ucyrand Louis Phlppe,
and his Two younger brothers, could give TO Enlra where
they suid short lime, in 1873, while IN eSie:
i the various stations which We passed. the people were
;,;n sometimes able only that it was train,
swift was our speed sometimes able to waive handkerchief
and sometimes even seeing and hearing the prominent
n y 4, one placc We saw them stuffng the with
cover far waddng and another the match was red hot
noke kent the right heat in bra2ier Al one OF the sta
iona after Mr. Webster had spoken he sat in the car by the
open window upon tho side where the people stood uni
yersal introduction commenced Immediately ana the ladies'
insisted upon presentation Among others one more eager
hon the rest seized the hand of the Secretary OF State with
the greatest enthusiasm How do you do, Mr. Webster :?
The great cypounde looked the with constitution
al gravity for several moments and then said soemnly and
in his most cultural tones Madam II IS lovely day.
Mrs Wilkins also determined 10 see the PRESIDENT and
for that purpose pushed into the where he was and shook
his hand Violently and then turning round needless Of the
warning whistle she beckoned her husband Here wilkins,
comelere-ths is the President Mr. President this my
husband, Mr. Wilkins" But by this time the train was off,
band to leave the Presidential presence
AT Canseo pretty flag presented stating that tho
Eric Railroad thc plus ultra OF human cnterpr ses
4 w we here
the route extending l40 miles, and at length reached
Hornclsvile where the train stopped
Meanwhile the President and party, who had started in
the second tran had ingenionsy struggled into the
first and this station friends came running TO
join our train AT Hornelisye all Inc agnares saida lew
ed in solemn silence giving three measured huzzas At the
end but quite too much surprised at the occasion and its
guests indulge i'll any noisy enthusiasm.
Mr. Seward said ~ have always you promising
but now the work is done and my vocation is gone
only congratulate you. Good bye"
MIR. Douglas, Senator from Illinois, said "This is the
greatest work have seen-no alone OF New York. hut
OF the whole country. come from the West, from the Mis-
ssspp valley through which the continuation of this road
will soon extend arm proud and happy TO DC here" Mr..
Douglas is very fluent and pleasant speaker and has
great deal Of popular magnetism Mr. Hall! and Mr. Graham
and Mr. Crlendcn, all said the good things that The ee
graph instantly told you in New York. and the conductor
having divided the Cabinet by putting Mr. Webster and MIR.
Crttenden into the train, all went forward again
The valley of the Canseo s very sequestered and soa-
ry It's little towns have still air Of hardy thrift They
the sturdy seed which the fostering ste; influences
and for distance OF $50 miles pass the line of piles
of the early mistakes Of The building upon the road They
have been lain them for the road But plan
miserable that wonderful how il could have been
adopted revealed its fatal defects and the work
abandoned. Now, TO the touching words of the Erie
Railroad Guide they "strech mournully across the mea
dnws like the ruined arches of radct the Roman
Capagna" We pass Almond, Bakers Bridge, Andover and
Genesee and here enter the valley of the Geneee river
and 10 miles along its banks At Philpsbug
the river and circuIous is the line from Hornesvlc that
il proposed 10 construct tunnel through the
tuns But the road has neither tunnel inclined plane
draw bridge along its whole length.
The Secretary of the Company, Mr.. Marsh perfect
Sir Walter Raleigh in the matter of cigars and his
sy in dispensing the winning weed to al! smokers But
the cigars of great generosity may be exhaustess
and it with satisfaction that knew ap-
preaching Cuba The rough fences of pine roots scrawng
and scragsy might have well passed in the moonlight for
tropical aocs and the day had moist rich atmosphere
that-wh our lightning speed-was il not probably the yer
liable mother OF genuine avanas When the train stop
ped however, President Fillmore smiled and said: Seen
tlemen-Anoiher Cuba has recently given good deal Of
trouble. know where, however, than here
would wish go escape troubles but believe that this
is entirely peaceful invasion and the roared and
! the flags waved, and off rolled again.
We upon the mountain ridge that separates the
Allegheny Valley from that of the Genesec and desccn
ding toward the that flow by Pittsburgh and belong
TO the Wes'-and at length, mile from the road we see the
little village of Clean. This the point through which,
before the construction of the Erie Canal passed the great
Of Southern and Western emigration Twenty years
ago assembled The Allegheny far Clean In
ISIS there was no white nhabant upon the Allegheny be-
low Clean.
These facts show that far away from the mctropo
lis The mountain sides with the blackened and
smoking trunks Of noble 1t the way they clear the
land here if timber only rubbish to be made
with rapidly possible. Lumber first taken down
the Allegheny in 1903.
Tie river here flows through The spacious and finely forest
cd valley, with graceful reaches Of rppng CLASSY waters
under that grow along margin. There
some few shanes here-a few houses; bat at Nine Mile
Creek into the Indian Resevaon-a region of pure
wilderness which there 900 Indians OF the Seneca
tribn Nyhl and pnn daunC
thought they had secured 30 miles square OF territory bu
discovered upon arriving there that they had 40 square miles
physician named Dolittlc, who among the indians
here was OF so great service to them that they persuaded nm
10 remain, and he WINS always aftcrward called DolttE
Good" The Indians this point call the Allegheny the
Ohio
With that pleasant fact making the whole region the
neghborood OF the Rocky mounainswe sped along by the
Aeehany while Senator Douglas unfolded SPLENDID plans
Of Pacific Railways by which, within twelve years should
ply from the Atlantic shore to San Francisco upon the Pac
ic in five daysand all this he would build by the
that the great Chicago road building after lying
mohund for several years Proposals large stated with
the arthmatical precision of mathematician and states
proper subjects for the incredible speed which WENT
sometimes at the rate OF 43 miles hour 1t entirely
impossible and mai aproos speak Of any railroad under
eight hundred miles in length Of any company except
that Of Presidents, Senators and Governors But
rous 10 sec in Senator Doug the genuine American
man. We Eastern more or less monrrel We have
English education and French manners Our models and
types are usually from the other side OF the II mpos
slbe not to remark that Webster remembers Burke and
allow speech 10 be unganishcd with poetca quotations.
even Latin and Greek mainly, fancy because the model
speeches have such ornaments But Western man is as
original as the Indian He is especially American and a
Senator of great ability and fame curled up on seat
smoking his friendly cigar chatting with every one about
everyhing-ha no separate atmosphere Of dignity and
wishing 10 be among The first intellectually by no other
right than he would claim the place. physcaly-hat is by
actual superiority. Asa gentleman very happily said, Mr..
Douglas has plenty Of loose change, Mr. Webster has moth
ing but ESQ notes"
| In the Indian Reservation came suddenly in one Of
the broadcast and most characteristic points of the valley
upon several groups of Indians clustered together wrapped
in their brilliant native costume red aud yellow blankets and
elaborate mocasins and large lustrous metal
One particular group stood little back upon wood pile
and close To the shore of the river sunptuous strain
savagery among the natural and artistic splendors of this
great way. These genuine Indians the women with
shining but soft black and straight black hair with
papoose stretched upon board and bound TO her
The still and stern They stood entirely impassi-
bic. There something almost defiant in the rigid erect
and solemnity of their men, but the women looked
with pasoness curiosity upon the eager sharp featured
wrinked paeaces that dashed with such sh sheks
and eafening rattle through the aboriginal and majestic sol
tudes of these mountain vallcs.