Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-10-01

run is made In four hours, including stoppa
ges, and the trains move smoothly that you
have no appreciation of the speed. until you
look out a, the earth flying under you The
country traversed from Cleveland TO Cincin
naii is among the finest agricultural regions
have ever seen. The traveller looks in vain
for barren spot or an inarable acre. Broad
meadows and boundless fields NJ corn, stand
ing as ihickly almost as If sown like wheat,
spread before him in endless verdure and
fertility The immense grain products OF Ohio
Cease to he matter for wonder with anv one
who has travelled through The State.
Another indication of abundance and mo,
perry is the number of neat and thriving
towns and villages that have sprung M along
the lines Of railway. Amos, every station has
become a village. of from a hundred 10 thou.
sand more inhabitants Nor is this result
peculiar 10 Ohio-all drought the North and
East the same thing may be seen !; md where
ever else railroads have been In existence for
any length Of time. The idea that works of
this description serve only to build up large
cities al their terminl Is demonstrated 10 be an
error They carry prosperity with hem where.
ever they go. They create markets every
where for the produces ofthe farm, the dairy.
the garden and the orchard and they bring
in return 10 the door OF The counrymau the
articles Of mef ehanJize and the household
supplies he may need.
Mos, fsvorably as had though, Of the ef
feels of railroads in developing o resources OF
country. and promoting the wealth aud hap.
plness oil a people, yet, in all Of new and
strange That have seen in my travels nolhng
has surprised me more than the evidences o
the prosperity they nj confer and enjoy
which have everywhere beheld The NUN
Der OF persons who trave on raroads is nj.
most incredible. On any considerable line
you will meet from half dozen TO dozer
trains a day, Of three, four. fve or six CATS
oil hIled with passengers; and, as often, you
viii encounter Long aud laborng line o
freight cars-bearing their rich burdens from
country 10 city and from city to country. nd
these things have beer the more surprised tc
see. mol in popuous and productive regions
only.-but,away up in -the bleak mountain dis
tricts New Hampshire and Vermont. and or
the borders Of Canada where the means O
supporting life would seem scarcely to exist
you behold The same prodigy. Tie spectacle
afording as It does an indication al he bower
enterprise and capabilities OF our common
country, Is one that may well excite the pride
oil an Amerlcan-but 10 me ii was pleasant
chiefly IN the confirmation Of that policy on
which We have entered in Virginia. and The
certain promise 1t gives of better aud a
brighter day for The Old Dominion.
Cincinnati, 1.-THE Queen city Of The West
as her people delight 10 call hers somethin.
less handsome and imposing in appearance,
than had been led to anticipate but, will
some advantages of site and, with tho exccp
ton oil marble, the finest building material
have ever seen Ia beautiful drob stone ,ha
that dresses like wood it " i'll no doubt become
IN the Course OF time. one of our handsomps
cities rapid growth is not favorable To fai,
and seemiy propositions in anything and wher
you remember that Cincinnati, though som,
twelve or fifteen times as la'ge,is younger thar
Lynchburg. you will excuse some little crude
ness and uncouihness in her figure and features
The city would he sufficient wonder itself
If 1t were wholly wanting (as it is far from be
ing) in the decorations OF taste, or the courte
sizes OF a refined and polished society. know
OF no instance IN history. where a city of a
hundred and fifty thousand souls has risen in
halfa century up the regular accrelion Of pop.
ulaion and business, unaided by some extrsor
binary circumstance-such as tue migration o
apeople, or the discovery OF some unknown
treasure. The Mormon city on the Salt Lake
rs an illustration of one, and San Francisco o.
another, of these modes by which cities arc
sometimes founded in accident and reared b,
unnatural stimnlanrs 1t is not so with Gin
c'nnati-shc is the healthy growth of life sus
tanning and reliable infuences-the honest re
suit oil real and regular causes The filling
up and development of the country arounC