The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-07-28
EASTERN CORREsPoNDENcE.
PHILADELPHIA, July 2sd, 1866.


to me to stand still. BY night have had
the Ginning sound of water lulling me to
sleep. and by day haved lounged upon its
shady banks, listening to the endless babbling
of one of the loveliest streams in this part
of the country. The romantic Brandywine
sacred to song, sacred to the hottest pages
of our country's history!
What quick changes these railroad times
make! What sudden shocks they sometimes
give our nature! One hour, we are remote
from men, worshipping God in the ST lence of
temples 'not made with hands," where
'''Neath cloisrered bOughs, each floral bell that
And tolls its perfumes on the passing air.
Makes Sabbaths in our souls, and ever nngetn
A call to prayer"
But the worship and the prayer pause
moment, and the great arms of the Steam
King catch us up and set us down astonished
amid the deasening noise, the rush and con-
tact, the dust and defilement, of profane thou
sands, sweltering in cages of brick and NOR
tar, unquiet, envious, ambitious and coVetous
of wealth. No sensitive mind can expert
ence the change referred to without de-
gree of pain-without feeling that cities are
mans work, the country is Gods work.
without wondering why SO many prefer town
life to country life, especially when there
are SO many millions of acres calling for
hands to subdue and Deautify and enjoy
them.
There is no use, however, of moralzing.
Man is gregarious; in cities the herd is larg-
est, and there will men flock. There the
rich exhibit their wealth to the envy ofshe
poor, and there the poor struggle, few sue
cessfully, to gain the same gild that they
may in turn exhibit it to stimulate envy and
ambition in others.
But each one to his preference. The
country for quiet, for peace fer health. And
now to matters of fact.
AS to crops, they are fine. found the
farmers in the midst of harvest, and, where
ever found them, every sweep the cradle,
every Gathering passage of "the Reaper"
seemed to say, not only to the golden grains
"come down!", but also to high prices, come
the specuIator, but of gladness to millions
of poor, who have been furnishing for bread.
may say summarily, the crops ofwheat
and rye are excellent. The oats, which are
now about to be cut, are "the tallest kind of
oats" The prospect for corn and potatoes
could not be better. As in the Vest, so here,
every grain of corn, every potato that the
farmer thought he could cultivate, has been
put in, and if no disaster occurs between this
and fall, the aggregate produce will be such
as has never before been seen in the country
Crops of potatoes have already been sold, in
anticipation, at fifty cents per bushel, which
think referred, in my last, to the gener-
al introduction of ma chinery in husbandry.
A word more. AS have extended my visit
in the country, have beeny more aston
ished. Stopping with one of the most ex-
tensive farmers in Chester county, / found
in one field "mower;" in another "reap-
err" The "horse rake" was also in service;
"and now" said to my farmer friend, "if
toss it from thence into your NOW, with
machinery, your furniture would be almost
complete" Said he, "Come to my barn."
And there, when the load came in, found
a patent lackling at work, grabbing as many
as two hundred weight OF hay at one clutch,
and transferring it to the remotest corner OF
the NOW, and that by horse power!
Horse power is now subsidized here for
already referred to, horses drill in the seed,
or, if preferred, they sow it broadcast. By
means of "spreaders," they distribute lime,
plaster, guano, ETC., in desired quantities 10
the acre. They cut feed, they thresh wheat,
they shell corn. they hack up fodder, they
crush roots, they churn butter and take it to
your customers and haul you back with money
in your pocket! Noble horse! More worthy
of marble and epitaphs than thousand mas.
tiers that have the greatest. Noble horse!-
What would the world do without thee!
find the weather is as really fckle here
as in the West. Last Friday morning, the
thermometer was up 10 ninty-eight; on Satur-
day it had fallen some 80 degrees. On the
afternoon of Friday, the city was visited by
tremendous rain, doing extensive damage.
Streets were flooded their entire widths with
rushing torrents, and many cellars and base
ments filled, causing great destruction of
property. | passed dry goods house on
Market street whore balaa upon sles of