Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-01-26
lrrom the National 1ntellisencer.

/ InS IseSaS 1hiNSAf NAA6At
,aIn Harper,s ,agazine for December there is
very interest;g article on the subject Of the
seenervIof rs ryer.A The sketches are by first
rate artist, and sthe description, il by the same
hand, he fields the pen;with as much skill as the
mcneil. Iew imagined that we had near us so
great ,onder of nature as the Falls Of the Black
Fork osCheat River, which descends five OF six
L hund,d feet in number of successive ieaps,and
are great curiosity as the Falls OF Tequendama,
| in Suth America. The whole OF the Allegheny
roge to Georgia, contains remarkable scenery,
Il I'D no monntains afford finer subjects Tor the
Tourist and artist. Cortea de Sierra, called the
Cherokee country, the Tuscany America! There
is ayery remarkable fall in Harbersham county
which believe has never been described.
The country on the Cheatiriver, which contains
the Falls of Black Fork is almost a-widerntss.-.
There is district of at least ioIty miles by twenty
in Randolph County, inhabitedonly by beaIs, deer
and other wild animals. Il am inforned 1t belongs
TO the Ra ndolpi,t and may shortly be Brought
into market by sale for taxes. A part OF It is a
fbeautiful country, formed by the streams which
descend rhe slopes of the Allegheny mountains TO
the river. The magnificent timber. chiefly white
cak, SO important in western steamboat building,
comes directly from the Cheat river. II abounds
in coal and iron ore. The Monongahela at Nor
gantown, divide the river which retains the name,
coming from the South; the other, the Cheat,
which is the main STEM retains the general course,
passing through singularly picturesque mountain
region, yet with much fertile land Well adapted 10
cultivation. The character OF its picturesque Is
well Known mere. Two oil our uallNe dEuSiS, MS1
Ciurg and Wall, made an excursion there last
summer, for the purpose of sketching. The first
is nn historical painter, who has the best opportu-
mites for study in Europe, in culliyatng his emf
llent talents. Mr.. Wall is exclusively devoted to
Landscape painting, and will say without hesita-
ton, that III representing American scenery he has
no superior, If he has an equal, III the United
States. From sketches taken by him last summer
1 he has executed several exquisite views on the
| Cheat.fiver and neiglborng streams. cannot
but feel Ieprettlat he not 0elter KNOW n out
| oil his ownavillagu. One of his own pictures, II
| exhibited IN New York md Philadelphia, would
! produce sensation. He las taken high rank
among American artists, and all that is wanting 70
cause his talents to be everywhere appreciated, as
they are here, is 10 see his pictures and compare
them with those. of, other artists. ~, 10 l,rl
lam of course partlul to my own country; YET
after seeing many other lands, think this region
round the head of the Ohio one OF the most dtSir-
able and beautiful on the globe. In picturesque
beauty it cannot be surpassed; and where is there
one superior 10 il in health, minerals agricultural
advantages, and in lis cllmatea Its valleys and
hilltops equally fertile, and wnteied every
where by rivulels and streams. believe 1t IS the
best wnterett country in the world; and ~ state
/ of nature, hen covered with its magnihceht fot-
ests of oak, walnut, hickory, sugar tree, covering
| the whole understanding with every species
OF game and fSll--it must have beepsa delightful
abode for The hunter remember when;a boy,
| that deer and wild turkeys werc SO abundant that
| they were hardly ranked among articles OF food,
| and were eaten on account of the comparative
scarcity of pork and beef. But things are Won
derfully changed. AT this time wild turkey Is a
curiosity; and we have veniSon brought 10 us hve
hundred miles by railway from Illinois and Alichi-
| gan-wIth fresh fish every day from the lakes and
| oysters in The she'll rom Baltimore. And yet like
the memory of the old times better than our pres
| ent advantages, which others will regard as an
| ,6is'3' H. S. BRECKENRIDGE