Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-06-28
Editorial correspondence-No. 2.
THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAIL ROAD

From Falnnont towards The EAST the route Is the
most magnificent and grand we ever beheld. The
road skirts along the valley Of the Monongahela to
Fetlerman, and thence diyerging speeds ofrthrough
the mighty gorges OF the Aleghanies, presenting
some of the grandeSt scenery in the world. With
scarce human habitation to break the sublime
monotony of nature, (monotonous only as compa-
Ted with art) the great innovator ruShes head
lung over gorgeS and ravines, Skirting along the
banks of the streams, which have broken their
way through the mountain passes, and now as
cending to height which makes the traveller feel
dizzy as he looks down from his hazy flight, and
again gliding i'll the narrow valley. The portion
of the route winding along the Cheat river ismore
noted for its fine scenery than any other portion of
the road. The stupendouS hand of nature is
there, and for hundreds OF feet above the margin
of thu stream rise the vast monuments of nature
clothed in "living green," and uninvaded as yet by
the aggressive march of art her native forests still
as grand as in ages long past away, and nought
the car and its fiery steed to break the grand
solitude Of nature. Along the banks of the Cheat
the road passes through of the widest chasms
ever beheld. Crossing on truss work Ito be
made of solid iron soon) you look down into the
abyss beneath, hundreds of feet below, and have
nought to obstruct your vision; moi even proec-
ton of the truss work impedes the view below, so
close do the pass the outerlines of the work.
and YET deep as are the ravines still you have but
10 look aloft, and high above your head crags DER
crags successive rise'' giving more imposing ef-
feet to the awful grandeur of the scenery The
day which witnessed the passage of the cars
through the Alleghenies was mighty epoch in
TIE annals of art. History has commemorated the
great deeds and noted achievements of ages which
are past The retreat of the ''ten thousand' has
required volume for its commemoration, the pas
sage of the Alps by Hannibal in early days, and
more recently by Napoleon are ranked among the
achievements of mankind. Their mission was one
OF war, rapine, and violence, and even were it
not, in what is the world the better from their &C
com. lishment7 Egypt boasts of her arts, which
though lost as still spoken of are worthy of frequent
note, yet what were they? She embaimed her
dead, she raised the massive pyramid, containing
but the bones other sensual kings, her memnon,
''Tocal with the breath of NORM has long been the
subject OF anxious antiquarian enquiry. ThebeS
and her hundred gates live but in song, the Rhodian
Colossus, grand in its proportions, had no commend
able object in its construction. Compare them
all with this modern achievement, and how utterly
insignificant are they? Judge OF them by their
moral effects, look at them by comparing their ten
denotes TO build up, promote and perpetuate the
arts of peace, and the advancement of society," and
The names of those who projected and completed
the great work ofthe 18th century will be held in
remembrance by future generations, even after the
mighty piles of Egyptian bigotry shall have crum-
bIed. and The warrior deeds of Hannibal and Ma
POleon be remembered but to be condemned.
Arriving in Cumberland about 9 o,olool, ,o
found fine supper at the Revere, and leaving
Cumberland about nine again, mounted our fiery
s;eed For awhile we went in darkness, but ere
long from Ger the high and distant peaks of the
Alleg hanieS
The moon, rising at length in cOuded majesty
Unveiled her peerless light, and DER the dark
Her silvery mantle threw"
The scene was soft and beautiful in the ex-
IRENE, the mellow rays OF the moon, gently re-
fected from the surrounding hills and playing
over the ripples of the Potomac, all these tend
10 make the trip by night at this season most at
trac'ive 10 the traveller. Everything on the line
rs now going by clockwork. The cars reach thei
respective stations TO the minute, and the public
can safely calculate on making the schedule time
TO the minute, on the entire road. We arrived in
Baltimore at O'Clock ON Thursday morning, in
time for forming connections both north and south,
and took up quarters at the Eutaw House,
which, under the poprietorship of Mr.. Jackson,
IS giving universal satisfaction 10 the numbers OF
travellers who stop here. We were much sur
prised to Eote the improvements made in Balti-
more since our list visit, butGhaye worried you
enough for the present.
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