Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-06-27
Editorial Correspondence.
BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD.
EurAw HoUsE, Baltimore, June %.

EUTAw HOUSE., DutIlLuUISb JuuC Eos
We had the pleasure of passing over the entire
length of this road from Wheeling to Baltimore,
on Yesterday, for the first time, and can truly say
that the scenery alone will more than repay the
traveller for the time and expense of his trip.
Leaving the valley of the Ohio, with which you
are all familiar, from MoundSville, 1--WE might say
station were it not for fear of our friend of the
Adyocate) the road winds along the valley of
Grave Creek for many miles, presenting wild
and broken country, alter leaving Moundsville,
which we hardly expected TO find in Marshall
county. After passing several tunnels, among
them the 'Pettibone Tunnel $500 feet in length,
you approach the town of Farmont, in the county
of Marion, situated both sides of the North
branch of Monongahela, ami connected by very
symmetrical and well ordered wire suspension
bridge, much after The model of our own celebra-
led structure. The country around Fairmont ap-
pears 10 be of inferior quality to that in the vcin-
itY of our city, though the opinion formed from so
hasty view as that presented from the cars, can
not do justice to the most interesting features of
this region. From Fairmont the grade begins 10
ascend, and after passing for miles alJng the
river the road bears off TO the Eastward, and then
the scenery becomes grand in the extreme. sri
sing, still rising, we are dragged onward by the
hand of art over the very summit of the Alleghe-
MES, amdimpenetrable forests, almost untraverS.
ed by the feet CT the white man. and long silent
10 the wild yell the savage. Now and then APP
pears on a slope in the side Of the mountain sign
of human habitation, in tho wild and unthatched
cottage, presenting itself 10 the eye, and the deep
tones ofthe woodlands axe, sounding from afar,
making by its melancholy music the associations
ofthe past striking than they otherwise would
be, 1t is impossible TO pass through the wilds of
the AlIeghanieS and to look upon the mountain
Businesses, almost rude as when the red man
of the woods roamed unfettered through his
mountains free, and the wild beasts of the forest
feared nought save the rude arrow of the savage;
without having feeling of melancholy and sad
ness to pass over US. We look back but four hun
dred years and find the savage roaming unrestrain
ed and free, monarch of all he surveyed roam-
ing unconcerned during life through the hunting
grounds Of his fathers and at his death taking with
him to The earth's embrace, the grandest outfit for
the chase, ne passed fearless and hopeful to the
vast hunting grounds of the Great Spirit. Now
they have passed away, most OF them to the splr-
it land, few only 10 the hunting grounds beyond
the "gre5t rivers.'' A few more years and they
100 will be gathered to their fathers and, as the
pigmieS and giants of old, will long live only
in tradition. Still when we look at the mighty and
craggy mountains, when wesee them unproluctive
and tenanted only by the beasts of the forests, we
cannot but feel that they, at least, might have
been left to the red man, aud that the broad
surface of Gods creation there was room enough
for US and them. But thus it is-"one generation
passeth away, another cometh.' The rudeness OF
the savage state gives way to the march of civili
cation, and improvement itself has once sunk be-
fore the onward march of vandalism. Itmay be
thus again, and it becomes the duty Of every MEM
Der of society TO guard lest this event comes upon
him, to strive to discharge his every duty to soci-
ETY., as by its purity alone can he hope 10 pre-
serve ii.